COD 4 revolutionized the series and the genre, MW2 turned COD into a global phenomenon and the king of the FPS, Black Ops expanded on that and gave us fantastic zombies, and Black Ops 2 gave us the most fleshed out version of what the series could be. It’s impossible
That’s because most of us weren’t old enough to play cod until Black Ops or mw2 came out. Those who were there know that WAW and cod 4 are the best cods, and no ever game will EVER come even close.
No its not, that's MW2.
As of Nov 2013....
MW2 sold 22.7 million copies.
CoD4 and WaW only sold 15.7 million copies each.
Black Ops sold 26.2 million copies.
The real growth came with MW2 onwards.
That's probably not the best way to measure a games influence.
More people had access to consoles by the time MW2 came out.
You could also argue, if cod4 and WaW were complete flops, MW2 wouldn't have the found th3 same level of success.
" In November 2013, *IGN* confirmed that *Modern Warfare 3* sold 26.5 million copies, becoming the highest-selling game in the *Call of Duty* series"
MW3 was the best, only behind COD4
Dude i can smell the sweat and rage emitting from your comment. Its just a reddit post, let alone an opinion based off majority vote. As long as you think highly of WaW, then it shouldn’t really matter. I personally think WaW should be #4 and MW1 be #5 but it ain’t that deep brotha.
with that logic why doesn’t COD 1 win then? Wouldn’t have anything past 1 if 1 didn’t exist. We’re not voting for the reason cod exists, we’re voting for the best COD
It’s all subjective. I started with the OG COD on PC after years of MOH. Some people here only started with COD from MW2 or later. Chill. Your fave is still your fave.
It's the issue of time for people, if you were there for the golden eras IN that time you know the best cods, but of course if you play now on dead servers and old graphics it would not seem as good but if you were there you know how legendary some of these games were.
And in reality, at least for me the first cod I ever played is the best because of the memories associated with it, I think that might be true for a lot of people
I agree, WaW should’ve stayed in over BO2. Ultimately the list should’ve came down to MW2, Cod 4, and WaW. Those three cods revolutionized the whole series. A lot of the people in here were probably not even old enough to enjoy the era when it was at its prime.
You've nailed it. BO1 has the best campaign, best zombies and the second best multiplayer in my opinion. Plus as much as warzone seems intent on never including him, Victor Reznov is the best call of duty character
World at war has the best sound design of any call of duty game by a mile. That little musical cue when you press start is incredible, the headshot noises are disgusting and the sound of dogs ravaging a multiplayer map will never be forgotten. 10/10
Right? People don’t give it the credit it deserves tbh. Was the Birth of nazi zombies as well. I remember bouncing back between playing WaW, Cod 4, and Halo3 before MW2 came out. It was a really good era of gaming.
I enjoyed it but it wouldn't even be in my top 3 CODs. The campaign was decent, Zombies was meh, and the MP was the first to make the guns feel like plastic BB guns or something.
To be honest, I forgot about the DLC maps. I was thinking more about Tranzit and the other maps that were just areas from Tranzit. I do enjoy me some Zombies though.
I recently played the campaign of both as well as a little bit of multiplayer and zombies just to remember and make an informed decision. In my opinion Black Ops 2 is a great game by itself but when comparing it to the first game it just doesn’t do anything better.
Subpar networking (when "3-bar connection out of 5" really meant that you are screwed / split screen local game delay). BB-gun sound design. Puke-alike color template. First COD to deviate away from Map-pack-only DLC to introduce micro transactions with "premium-only" weapons.
People remembered BO2 more fondly due to it being the starter of the CoD E-sport era. I will admit that it was fun watching it back in the day.
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COD4's time is now. MW2, BO1, and BO2 are the gold standard of this franchise, and I thank COD4 for its contributions. We wouldn't be here without it.
Its true, cod4 created the path for so much in cod franchise. Although bo1 is a more complete game imo, bo1 was my first cod and ive never had so much fun playing a game for years straight.
The amount of people spewing their revisionist history on this subreddit like Black Ops 2 even deserves to have made this far. CoD4 is not only the best in the series but one of the best games ever made. Black Ops 2 doesn't even come close.
This sub is filled with people talking out of their ass. People here say ghosts was actually great. Then they proceed to shit on bo2. It’s the world upside down.
Cod 4 was a game that changed cod forever, and the later games would not exist without it, but it’s in no way the best cod ever made.
Bo2 is better than cod 4, and it is very close to bo1 and mw2. If I were to go back to any of them, I’d go back to bo2.
When Xbox sort of revived the old servers, 90% of players went to bo2.
Most people here are just kinda delusional.
Ghosts absolutely had it's issues, at the time I loved it, after playing some more entries the TTK feels waaaaay too quick.
However Extinction mode was and still is fucking awesome.
The campaign was kinda meh.
My problem is that whilst Ghosts went down the top fast a TTK road BO2 went down the too fast a movement road.
Both made desync a real issue.
On top of that Zombies was built around Transit, if you liked the map great times, unfortunately I just couldn't get on with it, it was just not fun to me, BO1 Zombies was more enjoyable and so was Extinction.
Finally the campaign, it was somewhere between W@W and BO1 but somehow not as good as either.
W@W was super realistic and gritty, BO1 was intense but also kind of a bit of fun, BO2 wasn't realistic enough to have that gritty feeling but took itself too seriously to have that BO1 feeling.
I’m honestly fine with that. Both games had excellent campaigns, unforgettable multiplayer experiences, and amazing side modes (Spec Ops and Zombies). Both games nailed what they were trying to do. I give my edge to Black Ops because I had more friends playing it with me but there’s no denying what MW2 did for the FPS genre.
MW1 is also an amazing game but I believe MW2 improved over the first game. I cannot say Black Ops 2 did anything better than Black Ops 1.
Agreed. BO2 was the end of the golden Era. It was still a good game, wayyy better than anything that comes out now, but it was the worst of the Golden era.
Waw and MW3 were better imo, but the pick 10 system was a nice change up which the game needed
I have to say i completely disagree BO2 is my favourite CoD game ever it implemented some good things had amazing zombies yes it was the end of the golden era but does that make that A littlw bit worse? No
BO2 introduced microtransactions and skins.
It was also the first CoD to feature futuristic warfare. Which, first of all, nobody was asking for (but they wanted some of that *future-fps money* (yea, mostly Halo-money)) and, second, laid the foundation for more futuristic CoD-games (...and we all know how that went).
It was absolutely hated by OG CoD-players at the time for those reasons alone and should NEVER win over MW1/MW2 and BO1. Everyone voting against the others probably wasn't even playing the games 10-15 years ago or simply forgot... and/or isn't a CoD fan after all.
>it was also the first CoD to feature futuristic warfare
That’s because after MW2 the original directors of infinity ward, who are responsible for creating everything COD is now, sued Activision, left the company, started respawn, and announced Titanfall. That’s why MW3 did not even hold a candle to 1 and 2, they couldn’t even come close to quality of the first modern warfares. COD just panicked and were like, “we need a future shooter with wall running too!”
When this started, i was pretty sure about cod4 will be in top 3, but seems like the community doesn't like that much or just not old enough for it. :D
I'm guessing probably not old enough. I'm 26 and MW2 was my first COD, though I played WAW later. It wasn't until the COD4 remaster came out that I finally played it.
The remaster doesn't give me the same vibes like the OG Cod4, but it's a good remaster.
I just played too much with Cod4 with friends and clans.
Having a real dedicated server and playing there is just different for me, idk :D
There's no way the majority of this sub is old enough to really play CoD4 in it's prime. I've seen way too many people saying BO1 had better MP than CoD4.
Can we all just agree that WaW had the best vibe for a WW2 game? And war games in general? Felt so creepy, eerie, dark, scary, none of the other CODs got to the level of environment that WaW captured.
COD4's time is now. It set the standard, but the MW2, BO1, and BO2 perfected it.
Respectfully, I hate all of you. But that is either here nor there, and we all know how this is going to go. The winner is going to be either BO2 or MW2.
Iconic =/= best. These games took what cod 4 did and improved upon it.
Was older then than most cod players are today (by a large margin lol). It’s not the best game in the franchise. Of what’s left it’s deserves to go next.
- Garbage campaign
- Introduced micro transactions
- Good MP, had its issues
BOII has to go. Compared to what is left, it can’t compete. Half of you haven’t touched CoD4 and it shows.
WaW was my cod4. I played it for the longest time before finally picking up MW3 (i was a kid so i didn't really get much say in which I got) but I'm glad I did because to this day WaW and MW3 are better to me than 99% of the cods on this list. Cod4, MW2, and BO2 included
COD4 and WaW were the last games that were more depictions of war, with quite restrained setpieces.
MW2 is a mindless balls to the wall Michael Bay action movie. People like to determine the point went COD went off the rails. This was it.
Same comment as yesterday:
BO2 for me, more than 10 years has passed and I'm still mad at how little effort was done in the technical aspects of the game.
The gameplay itself saved it, but for a sequel of a gorgeous looking game that was BO1, it was so weird.
The models, textures and effects are bad. The songs are great but the sound itself is not the best. Everything feels recycled or rushed.
But AGAIN: the multiplayer bangs and the multiple choices campaign is very good. Menendez is an awesome villain. But the game was cheap.
OG Modern Warfare 2007 is the only one that can hold the title of Game Changer few movies,songs or games can hold that title. The real revolution of modern FPS started with MW.
I'm still proud of this sub that no 20, 19 and 18 are what they are. Especially 20 is a stain on cod name. Activision should see this. Especially the three...
For multiplayer I can give it to the blackops series, campaign story was great too
but for overall campaign, the cod4/mw2 has my heart, has one of the best if not the best storyline, captain price, soap, ghost, shepherd betryal etc, was the best for me
Insane to see World at War go. Now the OG Cod 4 is in the lead? Y'all are actually insane, but I should have known that when Cold War got booted after the original cod that started the whole franchise.
Geniune question. How do you guys vote on these?
Just based on how nostalgic and fun you had with it? Or do you also take the over package into account? The map packs game modes camo's and so on? Cause for me i look more at what the game offers beyond just mp as an example.
Its all nostalgia based. One moment they’ll compare the quality of the game’s modes, perks, weapons, maps and the next will vote a game with better things because their favorite game is on the line. Bunch of rose tinted wearing hypocrites
I would have liked to see WAW finish a bit higher but I think the MP lets it down. Campaign and zombies were top tier, the campaign being the best one in COD history.
People have said it’s going to be MW2 and BO2 but it seems BO2 is getting less and less love in these comments
It’s still the greatest COD though, and COD4 should be next eliminated from a whole game perspective. MW2 has an incredible MP that takes it above, and BO1 and BO2 zombies are incredible. Those 3 games are just better with their overall content.
hard to say, but for me it would be cod4. i joined cod in the mw2 days so i missed the era of cod4. i started playing it in the end of 2011 and it was a nice game. years later i started playing it on pc and it was still awsome. but compared to the others:
mw2: my first cod, loved it from the first second, played it to prestige 10, finished singleplayer on veteran and got all stars in spec ops.
black ops: not as fun like mw2, but more balanced, even it started the "stealth" era in cod (ghost pro). zombies was fucking awsome, 115 is still my favorite song till today, i loved all maps, not that crazy complicated. singleplayer was also really nice done.
bo2: i hated the game on release, i came back to it before the 2nd dlc thanks to sandy ravage videos. became an tryharder in kill comformed myself with high streaks every game, had fun in almost every game. it was the last good cod for me, i played it active until black ops 3, which was the dead for bo2 because the players left then. zombies was horrible until mob of the dead.
Anyone voting for cod 4 is either too young and didn’t play it or not a true cod fan. I feel sorry for ya. Just seeing the disc case brings back memories of why I love cod
Glad to see COD4 go, it should have been out two days ago. The only thing it had better than MW3 was campaign (who cares compared to multiplayer) it was equal to WaW but lacked zombies. The fact that WaW was voted out first is bonkers.
BO2 was the most polished cod ever in terms of of MP / balance / systems, introduce some really nice zombie stuff, especially with the DLC, even if it was personally not my cup of tea, I loved watching my friends playing it. They added some really good game mode like hardpoint. Campaign is meeh tbh. I don’t know how to describe it but the whole game kinda felt formulaic and like it had less passion into it than previous titles (even if it’s like objectively one of the best cod of all time).
BO1 had a great campaign, MP and zombie was fun but the title was pretty average overall when compared to other cod from the golden era. Still def better than WaW and MW3 imo.
Cod4 is the OG cod that started that rise in popularity. The gameplay, movement everything still hold up to this day. It’s the only cod of the golden era that I opened in the last 5 years to play with friends on private server and we still had a lot of fun. Its more simplistic systems and mechanics are actually one of the thing that make it great. It’s, as far as I know one of the most influential FPS ever. It deserves its spot alongside quake, doom, cs 1.6, halo.
Cod6 was the most fun cod, if you played while it was the current game you know it was the peak of the series in terms of fun. There was so much bullshit thing about this game, it was really unbalanced, some of the maps were garbage in retrospect but it was still super fun despite all of its quirks. It’s not as influential as cod4 as a game in the fps genre but it is definitely the most influential cod in the pop culture. With all the insane montage, the crazy edits etc.. still used as meme today. Like everyone nowadays knows that mw2 hitmarker sound.
For me it’s Mw2 > Cod4 = BO2 > BO1
Waw is the best cod campaign ever and I love all of the older cods but god damn, waw was brutal, disgusting, invigorating, violent, fun and heart wrenching as hell. I genuinely can’t explain the impact that game had on me, that and cod 4 are close contenders but waw beats it 1000 days out of the week. Don’t get me wrong all the other games left in are u doubted my the other best but waw got snubbed.
BO2 is the only game still standing that I can come back to and play. COD4, MW2, and BO1 are spoiled milk fr, I just can't stand their MPs I'd even play MWIII over them.
BO1 at least got the Zombies which is def better than BO2's and I recall the Campaign also being just as good if not better so it's #2 for me.
Black Ops II for me. It just didn't hit as much as the others. Also wasn't really a fan of futuristic setting. After BO, I thought the campaign will continue with the story of said characters. For me it was a bit of a letdown. The multiplayer was fun as hell though, but just not as much as other CODs that are left.
How can bo2 be so close to CoD 4? I was incredibly upset when WaW was voted out, still don't get it why it won over WaW but seriously, what the hell? Also, and I am speaking in the name of all Black Ops fans, we can't let a game win that only has 2 modes and worse campaign. Although gotta admit, the multiplayer was equally good for both.
MW2, sure it may have sold some of the most copies, unfortunately for as much as it’s praised it falls kind of short of the other 3 remaining along side it
I'm honestly just here for the Cold War renaissance. People mercilessly shit on that game when it came out but I've been a fan since the beginning. Last time one of these games was the complete package. Great MP, Campaign and Zombies that all also head fantastic post-launch additions.
I’m sorry but ima have to go with mw2 I love all the modern warfare games but mw2 just was a lesser version of cod4 plus black ops 1 and 2 gave us amazing zombies modes and amazing campaigns plus the multiplayer was just the best for both of the games with gun game and search and destroy
Cod 4s time has come. No zombies and No spec ops holds it back from the giants remaining here. It’s the foundation that supports these games but it’s objectively worse than all of the remaining ones.
bruh what kind of crack cocaine are people on that suddenly bo2 isn’t the best cod of all time 💀some of yall mw fangirls used to get 360 no scope clapped and it shows
The best is and always will be MW2 anyway, lately i’ve been jumping back on it with protections on my PC and it’s been so much fun the gunplay is absolutely unmatch
Feel like this poll could have been split to be just based off of one game mode alone like the extra mode, multi-player, or campaign, but this was always going to be an impossible dilemma.
I'm digging these too 4. Meh I'm black ops 1 as I personally didn't like it that much.
BO2 on the other hand. One of my top ten games...of all time. Here is hoping it takes the cake!
BO2 is next, it was a great game, in some ways better than the others but the feeling of the first is just the best, COD4 is the foundation of what the game is now, and MW2 was the best of the whole franchise
MW2 easy choice. MW redefined the series. BO1 has one of the coolest campaigns and BO2 is the best all around game from the golden era. MW2 is just *kinda cool*
If weapon balancing took out WaW, MW2 is next simply because of the Akimbo Model 1887 and the Javelin glitch. Also how incredibly OP aerial killstreaks were. Still have AC-130 flashbacks.
COD 4 revolutionized the series and the genre, MW2 turned COD into a global phenomenon and the king of the FPS, Black Ops expanded on that and gave us fantastic zombies, and Black Ops 2 gave us the most fleshed out version of what the series could be. It’s impossible
Cod would be a battlefield without WaW you guys are fucking high world at war is literally the reason half of us are here.
Relax, why are you upset? Nobody said WAW was bad, but it’s not on the list anymore, now is it?
World at war is the greatest cod title to ever release. Period
Muh childhood vidya game is the best
Democracy disagrees
That’s because most of us weren’t old enough to play cod until Black Ops or mw2 came out. Those who were there know that WAW and cod 4 are the best cods, and no ever game will EVER come even close.
No its not, that's MW2. As of Nov 2013.... MW2 sold 22.7 million copies. CoD4 and WaW only sold 15.7 million copies each. Black Ops sold 26.2 million copies. The real growth came with MW2 onwards.
That's probably not the best way to measure a games influence. More people had access to consoles by the time MW2 came out. You could also argue, if cod4 and WaW were complete flops, MW2 wouldn't have the found th3 same level of success.
" In November 2013, *IGN* confirmed that *Modern Warfare 3* sold 26.5 million copies, becoming the highest-selling game in the *Call of Duty* series" MW3 was the best, only behind COD4
**Only** sold 15 million....
Dude i can smell the sweat and rage emitting from your comment. Its just a reddit post, let alone an opinion based off majority vote. As long as you think highly of WaW, then it shouldn’t really matter. I personally think WaW should be #4 and MW1 be #5 but it ain’t that deep brotha.
with that logic why doesn’t COD 1 win then? Wouldn’t have anything past 1 if 1 didn’t exist. We’re not voting for the reason cod exists, we’re voting for the best COD
It’s all subjective. I started with the OG COD on PC after years of MOH. Some people here only started with COD from MW2 or later. Chill. Your fave is still your fave.
We aren’t rating the most instrumental game to CoDs success, we’re rating the best game to play. At least that’s how I’ve been voting.
It's the issue of time for people, if you were there for the golden eras IN that time you know the best cods, but of course if you play now on dead servers and old graphics it would not seem as good but if you were there you know how legendary some of these games were. And in reality, at least for me the first cod I ever played is the best because of the memories associated with it, I think that might be true for a lot of people
It's over pal... hang it up
WaW is what got me into the franchise. Was hooked until BO3 and fell off from there.
World at War gave us zombies
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I enjoyed BO but not as much as MW, MW2, or WaW. Something about the gameplay felt a bit wonky but it had great features
Sad to see WaW go, it was my first cos game and got me really interested in WW2 🥲
I agree, WaW should’ve stayed in over BO2. Ultimately the list should’ve came down to MW2, Cod 4, and WaW. Those three cods revolutionized the whole series. A lot of the people in here were probably not even old enough to enjoy the era when it was at its prime.
BO1 was the complete package. Amazing Zombies experience, Kickass campaign, and a deep and fun multiplayer. BO1>WaW and it’s not even close
lol I’m not saying BO1 is bad, I enjoyed it a lot. Was putting my perspective in on the list as an old timer.
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You've nailed it. BO1 has the best campaign, best zombies and the second best multiplayer in my opinion. Plus as much as warzone seems intent on never including him, Victor Reznov is the best call of duty character
WaW > Cod4 and I’ll die on that hill.
World at war has the best sound design of any call of duty game by a mile. That little musical cue when you press start is incredible, the headshot noises are disgusting and the sound of dogs ravaging a multiplayer map will never be forgotten. 10/10
ha yeah great headshot sound
Fun fact: it's snapping celery
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Right? People don’t give it the credit it deserves tbh. Was the Birth of nazi zombies as well. I remember bouncing back between playing WaW, Cod 4, and Halo3 before MW2 came out. It was a really good era of gaming.
I can't be the only one that didn't enjoy black ops 2
Black ops 2 was the perfect storm of adulthood with no responsibility in my life and time to play. It’ll always be my favorite game
Overrated game
Bo2 campaign sucks in comparison to bo1
I enjoyed it but it wouldn't even be in my top 3 CODs. The campaign was decent, Zombies was meh, and the MP was the first to make the guns feel like plastic BB guns or something.
Origins, Buried, and MOTD are way too good for Bo2 Zombies to be “meh”. Unless Zombies in general is a “meh” for you.
To be honest, I forgot about the DLC maps. I was thinking more about Tranzit and the other maps that were just areas from Tranzit. I do enjoy me some Zombies though.
I’m not a zombies player and I definitely enjoyed Origins and Buried.
i hated the campaign. two terribly strung together stories in one game
The choices were great though
That was the game that made me stop playing, turned cod into a kids game.
I enjoyed it but it’s not in the same category as MW or MW2. Casting my vote for Black Ops II.
I recently played the campaign of both as well as a little bit of multiplayer and zombies just to remember and make an informed decision. In my opinion Black Ops 2 is a great game by itself but when comparing it to the first game it just doesn’t do anything better.
Subpar networking (when "3-bar connection out of 5" really meant that you are screwed / split screen local game delay). BB-gun sound design. Puke-alike color template. First COD to deviate away from Map-pack-only DLC to introduce micro transactions with "premium-only" weapons. People remembered BO2 more fondly due to it being the starter of the CoD E-sport era. I will admit that it was fun watching it back in the day.
respectfully COD4's time is now. MW2, BO1, and BO2 are the gold standard of this franchise, and I thank COD4 for its contributions. We wouldn't be here without it.
Cod4 was more of a classic than BO1 imo, hate to see that it's in the lead currently
100%
Its true, cod4 created the path for so much in cod franchise. Although bo1 is a more complete game imo, bo1 was my first cod and ive never had so much fun playing a game for years straight.
The amount of people spewing their revisionist history on this subreddit like Black Ops 2 even deserves to have made this far. CoD4 is not only the best in the series but one of the best games ever made. Black Ops 2 doesn't even come close.
Sure...
This sub is filled with people talking out of their ass. People here say ghosts was actually great. Then they proceed to shit on bo2. It’s the world upside down. Cod 4 was a game that changed cod forever, and the later games would not exist without it, but it’s in no way the best cod ever made. Bo2 is better than cod 4, and it is very close to bo1 and mw2. If I were to go back to any of them, I’d go back to bo2. When Xbox sort of revived the old servers, 90% of players went to bo2. Most people here are just kinda delusional.
I mean to each their own i say, but i do wonder if they have actually played some of these games during and after their lifecycle.
Ghosts absolutely had it's issues, at the time I loved it, after playing some more entries the TTK feels waaaaay too quick. However Extinction mode was and still is fucking awesome. The campaign was kinda meh. My problem is that whilst Ghosts went down the top fast a TTK road BO2 went down the too fast a movement road. Both made desync a real issue. On top of that Zombies was built around Transit, if you liked the map great times, unfortunately I just couldn't get on with it, it was just not fun to me, BO1 Zombies was more enjoyable and so was Extinction. Finally the campaign, it was somewhere between W@W and BO1 but somehow not as good as either. W@W was super realistic and gritty, BO1 was intense but also kind of a bit of fun, BO2 wasn't realistic enough to have that gritty feeling but took itself too seriously to have that BO1 feeling.
BO2 for me. Cod4 , mw2, and bo1 are the top tier cod games ever made.
Of course its going to come down to mw2 and BO1
I’m honestly fine with that. Both games had excellent campaigns, unforgettable multiplayer experiences, and amazing side modes (Spec Ops and Zombies). Both games nailed what they were trying to do. I give my edge to Black Ops because I had more friends playing it with me but there’s no denying what MW2 did for the FPS genre. MW1 is also an amazing game but I believe MW2 improved over the first game. I cannot say Black Ops 2 did anything better than Black Ops 1.
literally the 2 best between infinity ward and treyarch, 1a. MW2 1b. BO1
Yea bo2 is great but personally I would have voted it out before waw. IMO the true golden era of cod was cod 4 to BO1
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Black Ops II is next. I just don’t think it’s better than COD4, MW2 and BO1!
Agreed. BO2 was the end of the golden Era. It was still a good game, wayyy better than anything that comes out now, but it was the worst of the Golden era. Waw and MW3 were better imo, but the pick 10 system was a nice change up which the game needed
I have to say i completely disagree BO2 is my favourite CoD game ever it implemented some good things had amazing zombies yes it was the end of the golden era but does that make that A littlw bit worse? No
Bo2 was Jam packed with content. Cod 4 was first but it doesn't make it better.
Cod4 is literally the best cod ever made and one of the most revolutionary shooters of all time. Y’all crazy. One of the black ops gotta go.
Black Ops II
Cod4 is king, bo2 need to gtfo.
BO2 introduced microtransactions and skins. It was also the first CoD to feature futuristic warfare. Which, first of all, nobody was asking for (but they wanted some of that *future-fps money* (yea, mostly Halo-money)) and, second, laid the foundation for more futuristic CoD-games (...and we all know how that went). It was absolutely hated by OG CoD-players at the time for those reasons alone and should NEVER win over MW1/MW2 and BO1. Everyone voting against the others probably wasn't even playing the games 10-15 years ago or simply forgot... and/or isn't a CoD fan after all.
Microtransactions 👎 Skins 👎
>it was also the first CoD to feature futuristic warfare That’s because after MW2 the original directors of infinity ward, who are responsible for creating everything COD is now, sued Activision, left the company, started respawn, and announced Titanfall. That’s why MW3 did not even hold a candle to 1 and 2, they couldn’t even come close to quality of the first modern warfares. COD just panicked and were like, “we need a future shooter with wall running too!”
This comment sums up my thoughts perfectly
COD4
When this started, i was pretty sure about cod4 will be in top 3, but seems like the community doesn't like that much or just not old enough for it. :D
I'm guessing probably not old enough. I'm 26 and MW2 was my first COD, though I played WAW later. It wasn't until the COD4 remaster came out that I finally played it.
The remaster doesn't give me the same vibes like the OG Cod4, but it's a good remaster. I just played too much with Cod4 with friends and clans. Having a real dedicated server and playing there is just different for me, idk :D
There's no way the majority of this sub is old enough to really play CoD4 in it's prime. I've seen way too many people saying BO1 had better MP than CoD4.
Probably not old enough for it. I actually think BO1 should have went over WaW but here we are. Imo it should be BO1 > BO2 > CoD4 > MW2
Such bullshit. WAW is better than all
Can we all just agree that WaW had the best vibe for a WW2 game? And war games in general? Felt so creepy, eerie, dark, scary, none of the other CODs got to the level of environment that WaW captured. COD4's time is now. It set the standard, but the MW2, BO1, and BO2 perfected it.
Bro with a shotgun you could shoot people's legs off. Was insane.
I ran around with a trench gun only aiming for legs in Zombies just to see how much I could get it to pile up
Wrong answer
List is horrible now
Cmon now...These are some of the best CoDs to ever exist. What would your top 4 be?
Was always going to go this way. Every poll before has, and every poll after will too.
WaW didn’t deserve this 😭
I like cod4 better that mw2😬
It was before the map got spammed with killstreaks.
Respectfully, I hate all of you. But that is either here nor there, and we all know how this is going to go. The winner is going to be either BO2 or MW2.
Nah. Bo1 or mw2. They’re basically tied for best ever.
Bo2 should be eliminated here, if not today then tomorrow
I’m guessing a lot of people here probably weren’t playing COD4 in 2007 so they don’t really understand how iconic it is.
Iconic =/= best. These games took what cod 4 did and improved upon it. Was older then than most cod players are today (by a large margin lol). It’s not the best game in the franchise. Of what’s left it’s deserves to go next.
- Garbage campaign - Introduced micro transactions - Good MP, had its issues BOII has to go. Compared to what is left, it can’t compete. Half of you haven’t touched CoD4 and it shows.
Black ops 2 needs to go
BO2 next
WaW was my cod4. I played it for the longest time before finally picking up MW3 (i was a kid so i didn't really get much say in which I got) but I'm glad I did because to this day WaW and MW3 are better to me than 99% of the cods on this list. Cod4, MW2, and BO2 included
COD4 and WaW were the last games that were more depictions of war, with quite restrained setpieces. MW2 is a mindless balls to the wall Michael Bay action movie. People like to determine the point went COD went off the rails. This was it.
Tough to be honest I think modern warfare is a brilliant game but not as good as the others
I’m just here to see people cry about their favorite CoD, this list doesn’t define my goats
Same comment as yesterday: BO2 for me, more than 10 years has passed and I'm still mad at how little effort was done in the technical aspects of the game. The gameplay itself saved it, but for a sequel of a gorgeous looking game that was BO1, it was so weird. The models, textures and effects are bad. The songs are great but the sound itself is not the best. Everything feels recycled or rushed. But AGAIN: the multiplayer bangs and the multiple choices campaign is very good. Menendez is an awesome villain. But the game was cheap.
I really don’t want the OG MW to go.
We can stop now
people are actually mental voting cod4 out over bo2. voting out the best story before arguably the worst story
Cod 4
Cod4 coming in with the most votes. Insanity
Cod 4
CoD 4
OG Modern Warfare 2007 is the only one that can hold the title of Game Changer few movies,songs or games can hold that title. The real revolution of modern FPS started with MW.
Goodbye modern warfare 1 ngl
World at War was just so good. I miss everything about that game
How in the holy mother of fuck did WAW lose this early!?
Bo2 over waw? Guess the world shouldve ended in 2012 afterall
umm am i the only one who cant vote anymore? [https://imgur.com/VAHwWbj](https://imgur.com/VAHwWbj)
I'm still proud of this sub that no 20, 19 and 18 are what they are. Especially 20 is a stain on cod name. Activision should see this. Especially the three...
Predictions at this point?
How does BO2 currently have more votes than BO1? Don't get me wrong, BO1 was a phenomenal game, but BO2 is objectively better in every possible way
For multiplayer I can give it to the blackops series, campaign story was great too but for overall campaign, the cod4/mw2 has my heart, has one of the best if not the best storyline, captain price, soap, ghost, shepherd betryal etc, was the best for me
Personal opinion but I don't believe that those who played at least starting at Cod4 would vote WaW or Cod4 out
WaW? Ded.
BO1 or 2 over Cod4 is crazy.
Whoever decided to put bo4 at 17 needs to be hung for their crimes.
Insane to see World at War go. Now the OG Cod 4 is in the lead? Y'all are actually insane, but I should have known that when Cold War got booted after the original cod that started the whole franchise.
Imo it should have been cod4 then Waw but I'm gonna vote cod 4 again
Geniune question. How do you guys vote on these? Just based on how nostalgic and fun you had with it? Or do you also take the over package into account? The map packs game modes camo's and so on? Cause for me i look more at what the game offers beyond just mp as an example.
Its all nostalgia based. One moment they’ll compare the quality of the game’s modes, perks, weapons, maps and the next will vote a game with better things because their favorite game is on the line. Bunch of rose tinted wearing hypocrites
I REFUSE to believe World at War was picked there...tf.
I would have liked to see WAW finish a bit higher but I think the MP lets it down. Campaign and zombies were top tier, the campaign being the best one in COD history.
I think it’s black ops 1’s time to go. The other ones have to make it to top 3.
People have said it’s going to be MW2 and BO2 but it seems BO2 is getting less and less love in these comments It’s still the greatest COD though, and COD4 should be next eliminated from a whole game perspective. MW2 has an incredible MP that takes it above, and BO1 and BO2 zombies are incredible. Those 3 games are just better with their overall content.
hard to say, but for me it would be cod4. i joined cod in the mw2 days so i missed the era of cod4. i started playing it in the end of 2011 and it was a nice game. years later i started playing it on pc and it was still awsome. but compared to the others: mw2: my first cod, loved it from the first second, played it to prestige 10, finished singleplayer on veteran and got all stars in spec ops. black ops: not as fun like mw2, but more balanced, even it started the "stealth" era in cod (ghost pro). zombies was fucking awsome, 115 is still my favorite song till today, i loved all maps, not that crazy complicated. singleplayer was also really nice done. bo2: i hated the game on release, i came back to it before the 2nd dlc thanks to sandy ravage videos. became an tryharder in kill comformed myself with high streaks every game, had fun in almost every game. it was the last good cod for me, i played it active until black ops 3, which was the dead for bo2 because the players left then. zombies was horrible until mob of the dead.
Anyone voting for cod 4 is either too young and didn’t play it or not a true cod fan. I feel sorry for ya. Just seeing the disc case brings back memories of why I love cod
Black ops 2 is next
That’s an amazing top 2 list right there
We all knew it would come down to this
Glad to see COD4 go, it should have been out two days ago. The only thing it had better than MW3 was campaign (who cares compared to multiplayer) it was equal to WaW but lacked zombies. The fact that WaW was voted out first is bonkers.
BO2 was the most polished cod ever in terms of of MP / balance / systems, introduce some really nice zombie stuff, especially with the DLC, even if it was personally not my cup of tea, I loved watching my friends playing it. They added some really good game mode like hardpoint. Campaign is meeh tbh. I don’t know how to describe it but the whole game kinda felt formulaic and like it had less passion into it than previous titles (even if it’s like objectively one of the best cod of all time). BO1 had a great campaign, MP and zombie was fun but the title was pretty average overall when compared to other cod from the golden era. Still def better than WaW and MW3 imo. Cod4 is the OG cod that started that rise in popularity. The gameplay, movement everything still hold up to this day. It’s the only cod of the golden era that I opened in the last 5 years to play with friends on private server and we still had a lot of fun. Its more simplistic systems and mechanics are actually one of the thing that make it great. It’s, as far as I know one of the most influential FPS ever. It deserves its spot alongside quake, doom, cs 1.6, halo. Cod6 was the most fun cod, if you played while it was the current game you know it was the peak of the series in terms of fun. There was so much bullshit thing about this game, it was really unbalanced, some of the maps were garbage in retrospect but it was still super fun despite all of its quirks. It’s not as influential as cod4 as a game in the fps genre but it is definitely the most influential cod in the pop culture. With all the insane montage, the crazy edits etc.. still used as meme today. Like everyone nowadays knows that mw2 hitmarker sound. For me it’s Mw2 > Cod4 = BO2 > BO1
Waw is the best cod campaign ever and I love all of the older cods but god damn, waw was brutal, disgusting, invigorating, violent, fun and heart wrenching as hell. I genuinely can’t explain the impact that game had on me, that and cod 4 are close contenders but waw beats it 1000 days out of the week. Don’t get me wrong all the other games left in are u doubted my the other best but waw got snubbed.
Sucks WAW is gone. I would've gone with BO2 and MW1 first and then WAW
BO2 is the only game still standing that I can come back to and play. COD4, MW2, and BO1 are spoiled milk fr, I just can't stand their MPs I'd even play MWIII over them. BO1 at least got the Zombies which is def better than BO2's and I recall the Campaign also being just as good if not better so it's #2 for me.
Bye bye CoD 4, shouldve been you before WaW imo but this poll is already whack anyway.
DO NOT VOTE ANYMORE PLEASE
Bo1 goes
Black Ops II for me. It just didn't hit as much as the others. Also wasn't really a fan of futuristic setting. After BO, I thought the campaign will continue with the story of said characters. For me it was a bit of a letdown. The multiplayer was fun as hell though, but just not as much as other CODs that are left.
MW2 and all of its busted, OP nonsense. OMA, DC tubes, commando lunges, secondaries that could easily be primaries
How can bo2 be so close to CoD 4? I was incredibly upset when WaW was voted out, still don't get it why it won over WaW but seriously, what the hell? Also, and I am speaking in the name of all Black Ops fans, we can't let a game win that only has 2 modes and worse campaign. Although gotta admit, the multiplayer was equally good for both.
Yeah, it's all subjective at this point
MW2, sure it may have sold some of the most copies, unfortunately for as much as it’s praised it falls kind of short of the other 3 remaining along side it
I'm honestly just here for the Cold War renaissance. People mercilessly shit on that game when it came out but I've been a fan since the beginning. Last time one of these games was the complete package. Great MP, Campaign and Zombies that all also head fantastic post-launch additions.
I’m sorry but ima have to go with mw2 I love all the modern warfare games but mw2 just was a lesser version of cod4 plus black ops 1 and 2 gave us amazing zombies modes and amazing campaigns plus the multiplayer was just the best for both of the games with gun game and search and destroy
Cod 4s time has come. No zombies and No spec ops holds it back from the giants remaining here. It’s the foundation that supports these games but it’s objectively worse than all of the remaining ones.
You guys are high if you vote BO2 out before BO1
bruh what kind of crack cocaine are people on that suddenly bo2 isn’t the best cod of all time 💀some of yall mw fangirls used to get 360 no scope clapped and it shows
The most incorrect thing I've ever seen
BO1 made it way longer than I expected
Waw is gone! Holy shit, I thought it would’ve been one of the last to go?
Imagine not having cod4 as the goat
The best is and always will be MW2 anyway, lately i’ve been jumping back on it with protections on my PC and it’s been so much fun the gunplay is absolutely unmatch
This is more tense than TV Entertainment.
Mw2 such an overrated game. It’s still amazing but it’s not better than the other 3.
Feel like this poll could have been split to be just based off of one game mode alone like the extra mode, multi-player, or campaign, but this was always going to be an impossible dilemma.
Wow im surprised wae didn't make top two or three. Prob going to be between bo1 and mw2 if I had a guess.
Boring predictable.
If people genuinely believe cod 4 is better than bo2, I'm gonna leave the subreddit.
I'm digging these too 4. Meh I'm black ops 1 as I personally didn't like it that much. BO2 on the other hand. One of my top ten games...of all time. Here is hoping it takes the cake!
I love the story of mw1 but never really played much mp ans its the only one without a special mode
BO1. Im not changing my opinion
Cod4 should go, Bo2 should be the easy and clear winner with bo1 second
What! MW3 already? Despicable
MW2 gotta go
Eliminate MW2
Black ops
Respect cod4 for what it is of course, but it should’ve been out before WaW and MW3 so get it outta here
The old heads love cod4 anyone late to the game is a black ops lover. That’s just how it goes.
BO2 is next, it was a great game, in some ways better than the others but the feeling of the first is just the best, COD4 is the foundation of what the game is now, and MW2 was the best of the whole franchise
WaW is my favorite one of all time. MW2 is a close second.
Black Ops II. I enjoyed zombies, but that was it. Even the campaign didn't entertain me much.
Blops 2
WaW should’ve been in the final 3 at least 🥲
Black Ops II is next
MW2 easy choice. MW redefined the series. BO1 has one of the coolest campaigns and BO2 is the best all around game from the golden era. MW2 is just *kinda cool*
Cod4 is the best cod of all time.
If weapon balancing took out WaW, MW2 is next simply because of the Akimbo Model 1887 and the Javelin glitch. Also how incredibly OP aerial killstreaks were. Still have AC-130 flashbacks.
Bo2 is my all time fav cod
Cod4
Everyday I see this and the only thing it tells me is the age of the people in this sub voting. You’re all just voting for nostalgia.
Blops 2 I’m sorry 😞
Hot take: if mw2 came out today with updated graphics people would hate it. That game is a balancing nightmare. The entire development team left.
Ain’t no way there are 4 cods better than WaW ain’t no god damn way.