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    Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

    Game » consists of 23 releases. Released Nov 05, 2007

    The fourth main Call of Duty game ditches the World War II setting of the past games to tell a story set in contemporary times, and backs it up with a breakthrough multiplayer mode.

    CoD4 > WAW

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    #1  Edited By SimpsonFan

    This game is still fun after well over a year and WAW is just meh.

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    #2  Edited By Alexander

    Agreed.

    And if you happen to be someone who hasn't played either and is looking to, go with 4.

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    #3  Edited By Snail

    Old news are old.

    but oh so true.

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    #4  Edited By Sticky_Pennies

    I'd have to agree with Jeff in his video review of WaW in that it "feels like a mod for Call of Duty 4."

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    #5  Edited By JamesF

    Absolutely.

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    #6  Edited By Karmum

    I agree totally, while I'm not a big fan of COD4, at least I'm playing something fun. Being spawned within seconds of the enemy is not cool.

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    #7  Edited By Captain_Fookup

    I can't agree more, rented the fucking game just to beat the campaign on Veteran. I wouldn't even call it a mod for Call of Duty 4, it's just a half ass attempt to cash in on the Call of Duty franchise by a company with no talent. 

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    #8  Edited By c1337us

    I cant see many people saying otherwise. WaW was quite a disapointment for me after MW.

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    #9  Edited By ParanoidFreak

     I COMPLETELY agree, that worst part is that most of my friends don't.

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    #10  Edited By ZombieHunterOG

    the only thing i licked about WaW was nazi zombies


    so lets hope that in Modern warfare 2 theres a terrorist zombie mode :P 
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    I don`t like either but if I had to choose it wouuld be WAW.

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    #12  Edited By Captain_Fookup
    ZombieHunter said:
    "the only thing i licked about WaW was nazi zombies

    so lets hope that in Modern warfare 2 theres a terrorist zombie mode :P 
    "
    That won't happen, Infinity Ward is a leader not a follower.
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    #13  Edited By clarke0

    I'm not a huge fan of either, but I will agree that COD4 is far, far better than WAW could ever hope to be. Sadly most of my friends are idiots and can't see this.

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    #14  Edited By SimpsonFan

    My close friends know CoD4 is better but everyone else plays WAW!

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    #15  Edited By Karmum
    Captain_Fookup said:
    "ZombieHunter said:
    "the only thing i licked about WaW was nazi zombies

    so lets hope that in Modern warfare 2 theres a terrorist zombie mode :P 
    "
    That won't happen, Infinity Ward is a leader not a follower.
    "
    Your right: Insurgent Robot Invasion.
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    #16  Edited By kmdrkul

    I got tired of CoD4 after months upon months of constant playing.  WaW has managed to retain it's freshness so far, but I am getting tired of CoD's in general...

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    #17  Edited By Diamond

    Would anyone ever disagree?  People play WaW because it's new, and a lot of people played COD4 until they were bored of it.

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    #18  Edited By Wolverine

    Yeah but WoW has a longer story mode.

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    #19  Edited By Captain_Fookup
    Wolverine said:
    "Yeah but WoW has a longer story mode."
    So what? it's fucking ass. The only saving grace of that game is Kiefer Sutherland yelling at you again and again and again as the Enemy AI continuously bullshits you while the friendly AI does fuck all.
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    #20  Edited By kmdrkul
    Captain_Fookup said:
    "Wolverine said:
    "Yeah but WoW has a longer story mode."
    So what? it's fucking ass. The only saving grace of that game is Kiefer Sutherland yelling at you again and again and again as the Enemy AI continuously bullshits you while the friendly AI does fuck all.
    "
    Sutherland was by far the worst part of the campaign.  His voice pisses me off.  The American campaign as a whole stunk.  Reznov is a badass.
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    #21  Edited By LackLuster
    SimpsonFan said:
    "This game is still fun after well over a year and WAW is just meh."
    That is because everyone would way rather play with modern guns then the shitty WW2 guns
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    #22  Edited By Osaladin

    I didn't play WaW, but I watched it being played, and I have to say I wasn't impressed at all. I knew that it was going to be a mediocre game when it first announced though. I'm just happy that Treyarch wasn't given the opportunity to mess up the Modern Warfare universe, because honestly, only IW can do it right.

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    #23  Edited By Death_Unicorn

    There's a competition? I just thought everyone knew WaW isn't even near the standards of CoD 4/

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    #24  Edited By SimpsonFan

    WAW is a cheap and fast way to make money out of CoD name, IW actually made that great multiplayer that it ripped off and aded a new skin.

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    #25  Edited By SimpsonFan

    WAW is a cheap and fast way to make money out of CoD name, IW actually made that great multiplayer that it ripped off and aded a new skin.

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    #26  Edited By crunchUK
    SimpsonFan said:
    "WAW is a cheap and fast way to make money out of CoD name, IW actually made that great multiplayer that it ripped off and aded a new skin."
    yet cod4 is a new skin of cod2.....
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    #27  Edited By fillmoejoe

    playing the single player in waw was thinking to myself, hey this was in cod4. multiplayer was unplayable except for hardcore modes, the only other fun mode was the nazi zombie mode.

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    #28  Edited By Retrogimp

    I am probably committing the cardinal sin here in admitting that I haven't actually played CoD4, and instead have been playing WaW non-stop for the past month. However, I do realise that CoD4 is probably better and thus will be purchasing it once I'm done with uni stuff in May. But for someone new to the whole series, WaW is fun.

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    #29  Edited By jakob187

    Both are great games, but they also use vastly different tactics.


    CoD4 = spray 'n' pray 'nade spams
    W@W = accuracy means the world and vehicles suck balls

    So, you gotta take your pick.  Neither of them stand up to the amazingness of CoD2, though...so it doesn't matter that much.
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    #30  Edited By aaox

    I liked what they both did. The both did very different things, to be sure, and some of the stuff in CoD W@W blew me away *Spoilers in case you havn't played them* (The flare ambush, the japanese 'surrenders', the grenade traps, the really nice 'All Ghillied Up' clone, 'Vendetta', the overall feeling of desperation that the game had etc.), but CoD 4 did the same stuff, only a bit more- probably because it was out first- things like when the nuke went off, the part at the end when Gaz and Griggs are done in, the AC 130 gunship 'Death From Above' part, and the AMAZING 'All Ghillied Up' sequence of  levels happened */Spoilers*. That aside, I definitley prefer CoD 4 becasue of the guns. After playing Call of Duty 4, I began to feel that World War II era guns just didn't do it for me anymore. And I guess I was right, because I've prestiged five times in CoD 4 and have yet to reach prestige 1, rank 30 in CoD: W@W. Not to say W@W's bad, just not quite as good, in my personal opinion. Also, I prefer CoD 4's story mode overall.

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    #31  Edited By SimpsonFan

    But, Inifinity Ward made CoD2.

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    #32  Edited By SimpsonFan

    But, Inifinity Ward made CoD2.

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    #33  Edited By MadExponent

    WAW was by no means bad.  It just wasn't as good as COD4.  I applaud Treyarch for trying their hardest to come out of Infinity Ward's shadow.  It probably wasn't their idea to do WW2 again either.  Thats probably an Activision idea.  I think Treyarch is quite talented.  I see WAW as a good alternate to COD4 when it comes to multiplayer anyways.

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    #34  Edited By crunchUK
    MadExponent said:
    "WAW was by no means bad.  It just wasn't as good as COD4.  I applaud Treyarch for trying their hardest to come out of Infinity Ward's shadow.  It probably wasn't their idea to do WW2 again either.  Thats probably an Activision idea.  I think Treyarch is quite talented.  I see WAW as a good alternate to COD4 when it comes to multiplayer anyways."
    Yeah at least treyarch proved they are more than spiderman the movie the game
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    #35  Edited By Khrome83

    There is truthiness in what you say sir.

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    #36  Edited By DaBigDawg

    Everyone knows that Treyarch is just a sellout developer that cashes in on everything IW builds up.  All they did with WaW was throw a quick, badly done coat of paint over the game, and send it out for profit.

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    #37  Edited By The_Dude

    I never bought WAW, I knew it was not going to bring the satisfaction of COD4. And still I am playing COD4 like a mad man, I think the only game that will dethrone it for me is MW2.

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    #38  Edited By RHCPfan24

    Nothing new here, but, yes, you are right.

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    #39  Edited By Wolverine
    SimpsonFan said:
    "This game is still fun after well over a year and WAW is just meh."
    I think the games are practically the same.
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    #40  Edited By AnTiPRO

    I said that I would never buy another WW2 game and I stuck to it with WAW. I can't wait on the next MW when it comes out.

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    #41  Edited By Whiplash
    SimpsonFan said:
    This game is still fun after well over a year and WAW is just meh.
    True.
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    #42  Edited By natetodamax

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