Post: Call of Duty 4 vs. Call of Duty World at War
01-02-2009, 04:23 PM #1
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All of these are my personal opinions. I’ve spent much more time on Modern Warfare then World at War so I have some bias and I’m not as knowledgeable about WaW but I’ll write this to the best of my abilities. Please thank the thread it took me about an hour and a half to write this.

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Call of Duty 4 gets my vote
Call of Duty World at War gets my vote

Maps
The maps in both each have their pros and cons, but COD4 has my vote for this. They are smaller and more manageable that let you have good sightlines for sniping, good close encounters, and also hold that medium range as well. COD4 maps just seem more memorable too. Everything in WaW looks to similar while no 2 maps in Modern Warfare look alike. Lastly COD4 was easier to glitch :p

Guns

Snipers/ Bolt Action Rifles
No question about it, COD4 offers more variety and no-scoping is much better. COD4 sniping by far.

Assault Rifles/ Rifles
Easy pick again, COD4 has better variations of guns again. The M4, M16, and the G36C were all great guns compared to what, the STG?

Sub-Machine Guns
COD4 all the way. P90, MP5, and AK74-U are some of my favorites in the game, and WaW only has 4 which aren’t bad, but not amazing. Yes the PPSh-41 is pretty cool and shoots very fast with virtually no recoil, but it doesn’t match the number of good COD4 Subs.

Light Machine Guns
I’m not a big LMG guy, I think most people use them for spray and pray, but I gotta go with WaW on this one. Don’t know much about either but the fact you can mount on WaW is appealing.

Shotguns
COD4 due to the fact that the semi-auto on that has 4 shots unlike the double-barrel on World at War.

Perks
Mostly the same perks but World at War threw in some cool new ones, even though I’m still bummed that climbing trees was taken out, but flamethrower makes up for it.

Grenades
Call of Duty WaW includes a sticky grenade which throws me over the edge, also a moltav cocktail which is somewhat pointless but cool.

Special Grenades
Yes they are essentially the same in both games but stun overpowers Tabun Gas and Signal Flare is a little worse than a flashbang.

Competition
In Call of Duty 4, clans were more present and were more dominant. Clan battles were more present and these clans gave the game a more difficult edge requiring more strategy.

Game Modes
COSad Awesome WaW includes a couple more game modes than 4, but when you don’t put in Team Tactical it makes me mad. That was probably the most fun game mode and they took it out. However, they added Capture the Flag in WaW. But I like Team Tactical better than Capture the Flag so COD4 once again gets my vote.

Campaign
I don’t care much about campaign but I do think that WaW did a nice job on it. Modern Warfare was better however in my opinion. The plane mission was much better and the guns on 4 were the best in the series.

Extra
While COD4 only has Mile High Club, World at War comes with many extras. WaW comes with CoOp, vehicles, and Nazi Zombies possibly the best part of the game.

Overall
COD4 would get my overall vote, but the COSad Awesome WaW extras are just so much fun. Most of my votes in here go to COD4 but it’s closer than it appears.

Thanks for reading and please thank the thread and/or rep. If you have any suggestions on another category I will do that and put it up here. Please also no fanboyism or flamming saying that competition on PS3 is so much harder or vice versa, mods will handle that and you will be punished!!
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01-02-2009, 04:43 PM #2
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Opec
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Great . Personally I agree with everything you said except the perks. The perks are generally the same but Claymores were much better than Betties, and they had 3 primary nades as opposed to 2. And Fireworks, Flak Jacket, Gas Mask and Shades are all useless.
01-02-2009, 04:49 PM #3
1ST off the shotguns are way better in W@W they are way more effective and have better range. As for guns only noobs use the guns you listed for both games. The first guns you can get MP5 and MP40 are what almost all good players use the rest are for ppl who dont rush or cant handle recoil. ANd the grenades is W@W suck so bad its pathetic. Molotov useless unless enemy is in a small space and u hit them directly. Im halfway on snipers. i dont snipe untill i get overkill sometimes but the springfield(another 1st gun u get) is what i hear all my sniping buddies say is every snipers dreams...the person dont even have to be all the way in your scope...no scoping is alot easier in COD4 but cn how i dont use aim assist its d same for me either way(another noob notion). either way u gotta learn to adjust to the new gameplay and stop living in the past....if u was good in 4 and suck at 5 mayb u should learn not to relie on weapons or maps or glitches but skills instead. ill give maps and grenades to cod4 though...the maps are so much more "campable" in W@W its so sad
01-02-2009, 05:43 PM #4
AgentJon
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finnaly a good thread about this..you just can compare these games, one modern and one in WW2, its very hard to see whats better.
01-02-2009, 05:49 PM #5
Originally posted by OfficerLeach View Post
1ST off the shotguns are way better in W@W they are way more effective and have better range. As for guns only noobs use the guns you listed for both games. The first guns you can get MP5 and MP40 are what almost all good players use the rest are for ppl who dont rush or cant handle recoil. ANd the grenades is W@W suck so bad its pathetic. Molotov useless unless enemy is in a small space and u hit them directly. Im halfway on snipers. i dont snipe untill i get overkill sometimes but the springfield(another 1st gun u get) is what i hear all my sniping buddies say is every snipers dreams...the person dont even have to be all the way in your scope...no scoping is alot easier in COD4 but cn how i dont use aim assist its d same for me either way(another noob notion). either way u gotta learn to adjust to the new gameplay and stop living in the past....if u was good in 4 and suck at 5 mayb u should learn not to relie on weapons or maps or glitches but skills instead. ill give maps and grenades to cod4 though...the maps are so much more "campable" in W@W its so sad


Well I didn't really think this would lead to people calling me a n00b.
1) I said they were my opinons and I think 4 shotguns are better. Especially M1014
2) If all those guns are "n00b" please tell me what aren't. If it's a good gun I use it. I don't care if they are "n00b" guns. Tell me who determines that.
3) You're saying that all good players only use one gun and that's the MP5? Ok sure.
4) In WaW you get three options for primary grenade, tell me how that's better than 1 option in 4. And that option is essentially the same as one of the options in WaW.
5) You call me n00b but you don't snipe until you get overkill? Overkill is a n00b perk in my opinion. You need to learn to use your pistol.
6) Actually I'm good at both. I don't play WaW seriously and i still have a 1.75 kill death ratio. And when I tried in COD4 I had a 2.3 kill death ratio so don't talk to me about skill.
There's a response to all your "opinions"
01-02-2009, 05:55 PM #6
i prefer w@w but i miss cod4
01-02-2009, 07:04 PM #7
yeah i agree with ^ i prefer world at war. yet miss cod4 still i guess cod4 was like the biggest game ever for 2 years or whatever and now this games come and knocked it off. we have to get used to change.
01-02-2009, 07:10 PM #8
RICHIE209
March 6, 2011.
idk, this was very biased imo, i mean perks should have won for waw, and submachine guns....writing a comparison is hard to do though because its your own opinion...goodjob.
01-02-2009, 07:50 PM #9
Perks did win for WaW. However in no way should sub-machineguns win.
01-02-2009, 08:42 PM #10
Sexiie
Big Sister
Nice guide. I personally think WaW is better.

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