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How do you like the new CoD?
DJ Orwell
From what I've played the campaign is really fucking cool, much better than the past few, but I haven't finished it and I feel guilty about that.
It's seamless throughout; no loading screens, no perspective switches away from your protagonist (although it does occasionally have third-person cutscenes orbiting him) so you can trace every footstep taken throughout, and even the mission briefings are integrated in the scene.(edited)
It also has lots of unique optional side-missions where you take out mercenaries in a chain of command (depicted on the wall of your room on the ship) towards the big bad
DJ Orwell
Treyarch's campaigns have really bad flow compared to Infinity Ward and steal control from you so that your protagonist can do something stupid for narrative contrivance, like botch a point-blank kill on the big bad when you've been stealthily dispatching everyone to that point.
I still like Black Ops 1 because the plot is insane and it has a fun framing device where the protagonist is being interrogated and is recalling the events that you play, but at points his interrogator corrects the record and alters the scene that you're in accordingly.
Anyway the multiplayer, which is what I mainly play...
Infinite Warfare is a slightly worse Black Ops III and that is harsh because I played BOIII for hundreds of hours and I think it has the best MP in the series.
Mainly because everything about it emanates style and the maps are incredibly colorful and exotic. IW's are more generic monotone space outpost type stuff.
IW also has the most disgusting iteration of loot crates in any game yet, as I brought up in here before.
To rank the series:
Campaign: MW1 = MW2 > IW (tentative) > BO1 > AW (tentative) > Ghosts > MW3 > BO3 > BO2
I haven't played the WW2 CoDs sufficiently to rank them.
Multiplayer is harder to consider because the games play much more differently from each other in MP, and each studio has a different style. Generally the best one to play is whatever the current year is, though, for the most variety in modes and maps (old CoDs have dead playlists and not enough DLC owners remaining). (edited)
CoD is also dead on PC. Infinite Warfare has 640 players -total- online right now, including campaign and zombies players. On PS4 it's thriving in every playlist, of course. (edited)
The best thing about BOIII and IW is using a shotgun in MP and just sliding into people and blasting them away one after another within seconds.
They both have a delicious assortment of shotguns with unique cadences. BOIII has the classic pump-action, the semi-auto two-hitter, the weaker automatic for scrubs, and the long-range single slug option.
Oh, yeah, Activision's also mentioned that CoD's going "back to its roots" in this year's installment, so probably another historical war.
jeffrobot494
That campaign stuff does sound really cool.
DJ Orwell
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I would highly recommend a Redbox rental to anyone with a console.
jeffrobot494
I might have to check it out. I wish I had waited to play through the BLOPS3 campaign in coop.
DJ Orwell
I tried playing BO3 in co-op but it's jarring that it's only written for one protagonist, so everyone teleports inside of him when someone crosses the script tripwire and then split up into four entities after the cutscene. (edited)
They're not really taking the co-op aspect seriously. There's also the hilarious "Realistic" mode where everyone is one-shot downed so it becomes a relay race of people rapidly reviving each other one after the other at the same chokepoint.
World at War is the other CoD campaign that has co-op and I would like to try that sometime.