Which Call Of Duty had the best campaign?

[chuckman1]

Forget the multiplayer and zombies.
In your opinion, out of those that you have played, which Call of Duty had the best campaign?

Mine would have to be World at War. Never did the stakes feel so high, and it wasn't some stupid made up premise that would never happen. I also really enjoyed the gameplay. There was a great sniper level, but lots of the close range combat was fun as well. And the set pieces felt very memorable.

Also no war criminal is as badass as Reznov.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Call Of Duty.

It's the only one I ever felt like finishing, so I guess it wins by default.

 

[vledleR]

One thing I hated about WAW was the bloody sniper section, specifically the part where you had to draw the snipers fire. I usually play on vet, and that part took me a good half hour before I just lowered the difficulty.

Personally, I'd go with 2 as the most memorable, and longest. 25+ missions iirc

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

It's either the first CoD or CoD 4. Both are very memorable experiences and very unique for their time. I'm leaning towards CoD 4 a bit because of "All Ghillied Up". It was really something special back in the day.

 

[Aerosteam]

Black Ops 2 based on the fact that it handles choice and consequence better than the Mass Effect Trilogy.

 

[Evonisia]

Hard one, but I think World at War's campaign is the best. It has such a finely crafted hopeless atmosphere for all involved parties. What I love most about it is that even though your group is constantly oppressed with traps and ambushes, it genuinely feels like the enemy are desperately trying to keep hold of what they have left. Heart of the Reich is a fantastic example of the Germans just desperately trying to hold you back that I love it so much, right down to the final half where you slowly claw your way through the area in front of the Reichstag. Blowtorch and Corkscrew really comes off as these Japanese soldiers trying to at least control each and every cave, nook and cranny they can.

That's of course leaving aside the gameplay which I find very entertaining and solid, or the set pieces and what not which are mostly wonderful. Even if some like the tank and plane missions take away from the atmosphere.

Black Ops II is a really close second, though.

 

[baddude1337]

I'd say Call of Duty 2, followed by 4 and then 1 and it's expansion. (Talking about the PC games, that is. Not the odd console ones).

2 is IMHO the best one, really made you feel like just a nobody soldier in World War 2. It surpassed 1 to me with it's more unique theatres like Stalingrad in Winter and the Africa campaign. That and it's missions were well designed and simply fun.

4 is great for being a modern take on the series, and it was before the series went too crazy with it's Michael Bay-inspired campaigns where you are the chosen one who must do and destroy all the things (A direction I really dislike it took).

 

[MysticSlayer]

Of the ones I've played:

CoD = CoD4 > WaW = MW2 > CoD3 > CoD2 = MW3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BO

All that to say that I like most of the CoD campaigns I've played, but I do prefer CoD and CoD4 over all of them. Hard to determine the absolute best since both were near flawless campaigns as far as I'm concerned. Even played through the first one on Veteran enough that I could get through the whole campaign without dying. Can't remember if I ever did that with CoD4.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

So I've played 1, MW1-3, WaW, BlOps 1&2, and Ghosts (didn't buy that one, borrowed it from my sister. dodged a bullet there)

I'd say the best one, from my memory, was either CoD4 or WaW. Hard to pin down exactly why, but those were the ones I felt most involved in, the ones where I actually gave a shit as to what was going on. MW2 made me lose interest in the actual story the moment you jumped that ravine on the snowmobile.

I think with WaW, it was just how fucking grim that game was. It wasn't about heroics, about being the good guy, it was about getting the job done, and staying alive. CoD4 gave me something of a Tom Clancy vibe. It felt plausible, helped that the characters and VAs were good as well.

Lately CoD's been running headfirst into Hollywood action movie territory, and I just don't like that. Back to the more down to earth stuff plz n thx

 

[Sniper Team 4]

One thing I hated about WAW was the bloody sniper section, specifically the part where you had to draw the snipers fire. I usually play on vet, and that part took me a good half hour before I just lowered the difficulty.

"You only wounded him! It was just a decoy! You only grazed him!" Ah...good times, good times.


Anyway, this is kind of hard for me. I play Call of Duty solely for the campaign--until Nazi zombies started, and then I played the daylights out of that mode too. Anyway, let me think about this...

Ghosts sucked. Hated it. Boring, and what happened at the end was total crap. Purged from my memory.

Advanced Warfare was...slightly better. Missing the action set pieces though.

Modern Warfare 3 was fun, but the shine of the Modern Warfare appeal was starting to fade. Still had a blast, but that ending--where Frost just up and vanishes among other things--is a huge blow against it.

Modern Warfare and MW2 are tied for me. MW had that amazing sniper level, but 2 dialed the action up all across the board. I really felt like I was defending the U.S. from invasion and slowly losing. Loved both games.

But Treyarch? Treyarch just blows all of the other games out of the water. They make their campaigns fun, story focused, and they find the right balance between the solo mission and part of a huge army every single time. Between their three games (so far), think World at War just barely manages to squeak out ahead. Both Black Ops were also amazing for me, but World at War just seems to have that extra little kick.

 

[Dalisclock]

CoD and CoD4:MW are tied for first(Both had campaigns that held together so well).
United Offensive(Short but intense)
Black Ops 2(Branching story lines and a villian I empathized with to some extent. I'll give credit to strike Ops for trying, even if they weren't that good).
Advanced Warfare(though I just finished it this morning so I may fell differently in a week or so. Hit a lot of the right notes and so far the best villain in the series).
MW2(Great set pieces and feeling that everything is spiraling out of control despite your best efforts, but a lot of plot holes).
World at War(The Russian campaign was awesome. The Japanese campaign was just good).
CoD2(Feels a bit too long in places and some of the missions feel very samey. CoD did a lot of the same things with better pacing)
Black Ops(Great spectacle but really silly at times).
MW3(Some of the missions are awesome, but the plot that holds them together feels really patchy at times and there's a ton of plot holes and things that make no sense at all, some of them carried over from MW2 and just never answered).

Damn, there are a lot of games in this series.

 

[Ambient_Malice]

Black Ops. Fantastically woven story, fantastic everything.

Runners Up:
Black Ops II - a brilliant CoD game marred by the Strike Force missions that turn the game into a middling MP-with-bots-slash-RTS thingie at certain points.

CoD: Ghosts. CoD taken to the extreme. Fight in space. Fight under the ocean. Fight in a collapsing Skyscraper. Fight on a moving train that gets hit by an orbital weapon from space. Also, "Operation Clockwork" is possibly the best CoD mission ever created in terms of atmosphere. It makes the fabled "All Ghillied Up" from CoD4 look pretty weak, IMO.

 

[Lightspeaker]

Call Of Duty.

First reply in the thread gets it.

The entire series has NEVER been able to match up to the first game. United Offensive gets an honourable mention but personally I can't classify it as the best because it was so horribly buggy.

Edit: I'm surprised at all the love for the Treyarch games actually. I've always found them very boring and pedestrian, badly designed and somehow they always seem to manage to make the actual gameplay itself feel awkward.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Vote goes to World At War, because it's the only one I ever played.
Anybody play Black on the PS2? Great shooter.

 

[Hero of Lime]

I would say Modern Warfare 2. I know it sort of started the trend in campaigns many people hate now, but it was awesome back then. It felt like a globetrotting adventure. You go from the Middle East, to the suburbs of the US, Brazil, an icy area, heavy forest, and gulag in Russia, and many other places. Plus it had Sergeant Foley, better known as the "Ramirez! Do EVERYTHING!!!" guy. XD

Though Black Ops 2 was really good, especially the future levels. The guns were futuristic, but still grounded in reality. The story was interesting enough. I disliked the multiple endings, but I loved how your choices effected the story in many ways.

 

[Gospelnut]

https://youtu.be/0Q8CmmoNPvo?t=2m19s

This

 

[Tsun Tzu]

Call of Duty 1: Stalingrad. Just fucking Stalingrad.

Call of Duty 2: Normandy. Just fucking Normandy.

Man I miss the WW2 games.

 

[Sarge034]

I've always been a CoD 4 fan so yeah... They all bring up something interesting though if you're willing to get past the derp. XD

 

[RedRockRun]

The first one was so cool, given it put you in setpieces which normally couldn't be experienced outside of movies.

I'm not a fan of the Modern Warfare series in general. The plot line is too convoluted.

World at War had a great story as well, and there were some scenes that were truly epic.

Black Ops though had the most original story of them all that felt the most natural. It was nice to do the historical thing while also playing through a story that wasn't just, "Place fictional character A into famous battle B." Sure, there was the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Tet Offensive, but how many times have we gotten to play through either of those? Besides, you weren't playing a rank and file soldier either. Black Ops brought in the Bourne Identity/Manchurian Candidate thing into the mix too, and the writing was superb in my opinion.

That being said, Black Ops 2 was a let down. It all felt horribly contrived and melodramatic. Hopefully, Black Ops 3 will improve things. Even if it doesn't, Zombies is sure to kick ass in the storytelling department. I imagine you've all seen the trailer.