Call of duty 4: MF overrated?

[Bocca]

Am i the only one who think that Cod4 is damn overrated. I didn't see anything new and shocking in singleplayer or multiplayer. What the shit in Cod4 makes it one of the best games 2007? The Multiplayer was the same DM shiat what iv'e seen in previous cods and the singleplayer too. Friendly soldiers were idiots and so on. What do you think? Is it overrated?
(I dont know if theres a thread about this already.)

 

[outsiderjc]

no. this game was amazing in the storyline and the mulitplayer, because there is more than just deathmatch. and the ability to make your own custom classes with different abilities for what role you want to play.

 

[ratix2]

no. this game was amazing in the storyline and the mulitplayer, because there is more than just deathmatch. and the ability to make your own custom classes with different abilities for what role you want to play.

yeah, and all the "other" modes are, AT BEST, crappy knockoffs of battlefield and css modes but with no more depth than the average ctf. sp was criminally short with little replay value, linear corridors 5-6 feet wide and it holds you hand so much the damn thing might as well be a rail shooter, seriously,halo 3 deserves more praise than cod4.

oh, and custom classes arent anywhere NEAR anything new, battlefield has had them for years and that series wasant even the first to do it either. same is true with the bullet penetration, anyone that thinks its such a big deal is stupid. first off, that features not even new, and second since when the hell does a 9mm handgun have the capability to fire through a foot of solid concrete, yet it cant pierce a 2mm thick barrell? the bullet penetration is buggered up the arse to say the least.

and finally the storyline is the same thing we've seen before, middle east, nuclear missles stolen, communists, etc.. its been done before.

EXTREMELY over rated.

 

[Bocca]

no. this game was amazing in the storyline and the mulitplayer, because there is more than just deathmatch. and the ability to make your own custom classes with different abilities for what role you want to play.

The custom classes are fine, but then servers are full of mega-customedcybergun owners and they are impossible to beat. The story wasn't any special. If you think that so i think that you haven't seen a game with a good story. Its true that theres more than just a deathmatch, but if you want any XP so you have to go on dm servers cause in HQ and other gamemodes you just get pwnt if you arent good. This game isn't a piece of shit but it's not good either. There's a li'l propaganda and some fight's are annoying cause you have to play it all over again, and again.
Role's, right. There arent enough big maps for sniping for example. IMO.

 

[DownOnTheUpside]

It's a little overrated to me. I still think Halo 3 is wayyy better.

Oh but wait yayyyyyy I customize the look and features of my gun! Oh wait... I can only have one add-on at a time? Explain to me why can't a gun have a red dot sight and a silencer?
One thing I do like though is the different camo looks for guns... that's it.

And yes the Single Player was amazing but INCREDIBLY short. Not much depth in there at all... just some rushed storyline. But for some credit to the game, the story was good... for what it was. The only thing that saved its ass was the multiplayer and they even fucked that up. Constant party closings, host ended game situation, and the laggy shit also.

The multiplayer gameplay gets repetitive and boring. The only playlist I play on now is Search and Destroy and that's the only thing keeping me playing the game.

In the Campaign, there's only one level worth replaying and that's the "All Ghillied Up" one.

Oh and least I forget the thing I hate most of all about the multiplayer. The queers who overuse the "Juggernaught" perk and "Martyrdom" perk. If you use it, die.

My verdict: OVERRATED

COD4 is just holding me over till Battlefield: Bad Company comes out in March!

 

[shadow skill]

Yes it is overratted , the perks system is not balanced, the weapon customization is lacking. But I do think it is orders of magnitude better than anything currently out in terms of fun save perhaps UT3.

 

[Count_de_Monet]

Sure it's overrated but it's great. The storyline wasn't terrible and some of the missions were quite good and moderately unique such as the Chernobyl one where you are sneaking around at foot level or gunning the big airplane whichamacallity. I wish they had invested in an AI that was worth shooting instead of more infinitely respawning buildings, squad commands, real bullet penetration instead of the gimmicky PoS it has, and realistic add-on configurations so, as OP pointed out, you could have a sight and a silencer on a gun but that is quite a wish list for a series which has almost no imagination. Of course, once you get through all my requests what you are left with is R6: Ravenshield but playing a character who has better aim so...whatever, I agree it's overrated.

The only thing that kept me playing the multiplayer was levelling up and since I put it down to play Psychonauts I have only picked it up once. I had a similar reaction to BF2142 and BF2 where I would get a few upgrades, put it down for one reason or another, then come back and realize how boring the game was without that draw...

 

[Mr. Bubbles]

I think it's over-rated, but it's still a damn good game. The multiplayer can be frustrating as hell sometimes, but it's still one of the best out there and the singleplayer, while short and occasionally aggravating, is still fun. I think it deserves all the perfect scores it gets, but it is by no means as good as people are saying it is.

 

[REDPill357]

same here, there's something about extremely linear levels that doesn't make a game revoluntionary. at least SOME multiple paths would be nice.

Holy cow, have you people even played the game?

Explain to me why can't a gun have a red dot sight and a silencer?

Balance.

All-in-all, I would say that this game is overrated. Even the hardcore complainers like Yahtzee skip over such glaring flaws as the checkpoint system or the dogs. Overall, though, it still is a great game. Just not as good as other games that AREN'T getting game of the year awards, like the Orange Box.

 

[Count_de_Monet]

All-in-all, I would say that this game is overrated. Even the hardcore complainers like Yahtzee skip over such glaring flaws as the checkpoint system or the dogs. Overall, though, it still is a great game. Just not as good as other games that AREN'T getting game of the year awards, like the Orange Box.

They released the Orange Box as a whole package for a reason: no one in their right mind would pay $50 for any single part of the whole package. Portal and TF2 are great games but they aren't well rounded (Portal is low on content and all offline while TF2 is all online without a campaign), Ep. 1 sucked patootie and should even have been part of the package, and Ep. 2 is, once again, short, all offline, and nothing special.

The whole box, taken as a single achievement, is better than CoD4. Portal is more innovative than CoD4, Ep. 2 is more polished, TF2's online play is as good or better than CoD4's but as a single game mediocrity with the minimal amount of innovation to keep a series alive wins this year...

Oh, and I'm not trying to be an ass just venting.

 

[ghost568]

How can you call a game overrated for being linear? A game should be judged on the quality of the levels, not whether you can open a door or not.

People have been critisizing the online mose aswell. I didn't find anything wrong with it, the match types are extensive, the maps are decent, the class system is a nice touch and it's all relatively lag free. If you are pissed off that hosts frequently disconnect and parties end unexpectedly then you are probably playing with americans and so it's your fault for doing so.

all these things are minor nitpicks and do not determine whether a game's good or bad.

If you asked me to name a game which I think is overrated then I would choose halo 3.
All it is is an average first person shooter with the brightness scaled up to 1001.
Alot of xbox 360 gamers would disagree with me they can just explain what's so good about it,

 

[shadow skill]

If the level design is linear it might end up boring the player, I do not consider that a minor complaint. It has everything to do with whether the game is good or not.

 

[Maxpayne5th]

CoD4 is the best FPS out atm. I've played Halo 3 and thought, meh. But I played CoD4 and fell in love with it and play it constantly. Over-rated? Nah. You see all of the other shooters out there right now and think "Hmm... this is really good". Its like being a fat person in a room full of obese tanks. At least you can say that you're the skinniest in the room, even though your not thin.

If another shooter came out that was of high quality, then CoD4 may not have gotten so many accolades, but there was nothing out there to challenge it. CoD4 is great, it may have what alot of people call "CSS gameplay" but thats how the CoD series has always been, just that there weren't that many automatic weapons. (Also, CoD4 doesn't have the uber-1-hit weapon that CSS does.)

CoD4 is amazing. Over-rated? I dont think so. The game is still being the top sold game for the PC and Xbox 360 here in Australia, so for it to still be popular after about a month really tells me something.

Yes there are a few bugs (Even Yahtzee complained about some clunky controls in his Phsyconauts review) but that doesn't stop the game being fun. CoD4 is great, and alot of us love it.

 

[Copter400]

Hey, Yahtzee liked it. If Yahtzee, hard-arse that he is, thinks a game is good, then that must mean that a game is great.

 

[Knight Templar]

Am i the only one who think that Cod4 is damn overrated. I didn't see anything new and shocking in singleplayer or multiplayer. What the shit in Cod4 makes it one of the best games 2007? The Multiplayer was the same DM shiat what iv'e seen in previous cods and the singleplayer too. Friendly soldiers were idiots and so on. What do you think? Is it overrated?
(I dont know if theres a thread about this already.)

No.
CoD4 is one of the best games of 2007. If i can play the game and never shoot anybody, the AI is doing pretty well. (i do die over and over to be fair, and its only the first fev parts)

 

[Whisperkill47]

I have some things to say about COD4...

the online is great but the real thing i dont like about COD (and this is purely opinionated) is the feel of the game; the way you run, jump and shoot just feels wrong.

Another thing is the fact that you die and kill others too fast. While this is fine in the Campaign, this can get a little frustrating in multiplayer, you get shot in the back and have no time to react. Also, personally i feel when you kill someone it isn't as satisfying as lets say, TF2.

I realize they try to make this game feel realistic as possible, but that can only go too far, i mean playing this game, you still realize that you are playing a videogame... its not as immersive as i think the developers wanted it to be.

There are some things wrong with the online servers... that can be overlooked, i guess

I do not dislike COD4, the campaign was great but i think one thing about this game is the fact that it is part of an extremely long series and in two years from now there will be another Call of Duty and nobody will remember this one.

 

[ScottyGEE]

I did not find myself getting into Cod 4 much at all...In a similar sense to Yahtzee, I'm just not a fan of these kind of war games. Sure it mixes things up, adds nice touches. But its still not my kind of game.

I've found myself being more immersed in Halo 3's multiplayer and singleplayer over Cod4's...However I've been a long time fan of the game as opposed to cod4 being the first cod in the series I've played.

*Unfortunately* I don't see what people rant and rave about with this game. If only I could because the way people describe it it should be a really really compelling game.

 

[jaisimar_chelsea]

i just play cod4 till i buy tf2.
one more point , there was this level in cod4 in some farm. theres a fence and the screenj flashes press spacebar to climb over , so i press it ....... then another fence comes but i cant climb it ITS A FENCE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.IW if u want to make a game linear make some sensible blockages and not some stones and pebbles OR FENCES. learn sumthing from valve or crytek or even id