Call of Duty: Vanguard launched this past Friday to once again transport players to the dramatic theatres of war set across WWII. Such an event gave video editors Liam and Aaron a good excuse to duke it out in another edition of Franchise Wars, in which both video editors battle it out to debate their favourite Call of Duty entry from the series. The scenes were bloody, the shots taken brutal – and that’s all before either person had settled on which game to pick.
It's up to you to decide which host made the best case for their game, judging by the three chosen categories: story, setting, and multiplayer. Odds are, though, you have your own personal preferred Call of Duty game from over the years, so we’re also encouraging you to have your say via the poll below. Aaron is bitter after losing out last time to Liam’s choice for the best Far Cry game, so the fight is on to decide which person came out on top.
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World At War is my top favorite CoD of all time, I jus have too many good memories with that game.
@danzoEX sorry bro i feel theres only 1 correct answer and its black ops 2, its the best complete game in the series.
Modern Warfare 2 or World at War. When they were good games.
No Call of Duty: Big Red One on the list? For shame 😅
Modern Warfare 3 for me. I loved the Survival Mode and it’s the only Call of Duty I spent extensive time with and got full trophies for.
@alexbolton2 what CoD was your first CoD ever? Mine was COD 4 MW
Black ops 1 for me. Loved the campaign, multiplayer, and Dr Richthofen was the best zombies character ever!
@DeepSpace5D loved MW and MW2 but for some reason I skipped MW3 idk why
Objectively speaking, I think the series may have peaked CoD 4: MW or MW2, but subjectivy, I had the most fun probably with Black Ops 4. Really enjoyed playing loads of Blackout. Sure, yeah, yeah, Warzone is the better BR, but Warzone sacrificed some of the fun of Blackout for its seriousness as a competitive shooter.
@danzoEX my first cod game was also cod 4 i love almost all the treyarch games with only cold war being a true outlier but black ops 2 had a very good campaign, the best multiplayer and, the best zombies experience overall.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare the 2019 release ws it i guess i just loved the campaing. The multiplayer was great fun i liked it way more then COD 4 MW.
@alexbolton2 Black Ops 2 multiplayer was so ugly that i thought my PS3 was broken. 🤪
@somnambulance Blackout was awesome, and I think of it often. I miss popping a sensor dart on a chopper, or a trophy on a vehicle. Good times
Cod4 changed the game but its hurts when people insist on putting it as the best
@pushsquareaaron why aren’t COD1 finest hour and COD2 the big red one on this list?
I can understand not listing declassified, ps2 word at war and the psp games but FH and TBRO are main entries.
I don’t remember which but I actually queued for one of those MW. At midnight. Testament to the hype around them back then
None of them. Full of predatory tactics like MTX and selling in-game currency - and the player base are largely toxic man-children. Not saying everyone, but toxicity is a huge problem in ‘dude-bro’ games.
I played part of the campaign in Modern Warfare Remastered because it was free on PSPlus but found it bland.
Multiplayer was filled with awful people.
World At War ... is the best ... 👍
C'mon OG Modern Warfare is the best.
In all honesty, I have never touched a CoD game before. I'm sure they're fun for people to play, but I guess I don't understand. I don't see the appeal of waiting in lobbies, shooting nameless characters with your somewhat nameless character, and doing the same thing over and over. I mean, it's one of the most successful video game franchises out there, but I have no desire to play any of these games. I would much rather play something story-driven and makes you really feel something. I'm sure there are a couple of CoD games that do that, but I still think it's a pass for me.
Modern Warfare 2 is my favorite but Modern Warfare ('19) is a VERY close second. In general I prefer any of the games w/ Spec Ops as opposed to zombies though.
@B_Lindz I’ve always felt the same way. I’ve played most of the COD games but I’ve never played COD online MP - I only play the SP campaigns.
I think I’d probably enjoy the online MP more now because I do quite like playing Fortnite with my Nephews. Never (ever) thought I’d hear myself say that.
But yeah, 5 years ago I wouldn’t even acknowledge online MP. I’d still still take SP over MP though any day of the week.
Of course it's CoD4MW. It shook the fps scene massively almost like GoldenEye64 did. It was so good my friends at the time stole it off me. Never lent them no game again ever. After MW2 I felt they couldn't beat that no matter what, they just had to stop there and then. I was a boss in online MP, never out of the top 3 players in any team. So I stopped buying CoD, MW2 was my last. And just like I predicted its importance and respect started going downhill because of the yearly churning out by Activision.
World at War is my overall favorite, mainly for the way they introduced zombies, leading into it after the campaign credits. Best multiplayer has to go to black ops 2, and best campaign for me is infinite warfare's, that campaign is legit awesome from start to finish.
@danzoEX Also wondering people's first CoD... comments seeming like most were kids at the time and didn't experience that CoD4MW rave. CoD3 was my first though.
CoD 4 is definitely my favorite. Played it the most years back, but I do have a soft spot for the first and second games. Probably nostalgia.
Nothing quite like sitting in a Modern Warfare 2 lobby back in the day, that's for sure.
MW2 undeniably. I was so addicted to that game at the time.
The old ones that were based around solo offline campaigns and not multiplayer nonsense
@alexbolton2 sorry bro, I don't think so.
In my opinion, it should be a combination of campaign and Multiplayer.
And the campaign wasn't that good in Black Ops 2. Multiplayer was pretty good.
From the older CoDs, I'd say it's Modern Warfare 2.
I think people shouldn't count too much on their memories, memories don't make the modern entries worse.
I played more of Cold War's Multiplayer than in Modern Warfare 2 back then and it's fantastic.
Vanguard is also splendid.
It's really hard to choose for me, which one is the best.
I chose Ghosts, because it was very underrated. Campaign was one of the best of the series and Multiplayer, if not the best in the series, was entertaining too.
@somnambulance I think blackout was a better BR then war zone. Half the fun of BR is getting your equipment and loot.
Modern Warfare 2019 was my favorite. Infinity Ward makes by far the highest quality COD games, something that I think Activision is begging to realize as they base Warzone on the MW engine and even the new Vanguard runs on it.
I had soooo much fun with MW2 Spec Ops. If they brought back a proper spec ops and not the garbage given in MW I would definitely buy
@danzoEX I definitely agree with you, World at War is easily my favorite.
The best Call of Duty is Titanfall 2! Tell me I’m wrong.
@Boxcar182 @B3TTS I think gunplay is better in Warzone and the whole experience is more refined, but I got so tired of Warzone that when I was permanently banned from it due to a hacker stealing my account, I sort of felt like it was divine intervention to take a break from the staleness of it.
Looting in Blackout was so fun. I don’t understand why they removed that aspect from Warzone. It was different from Fortnite and PUBG at the time. It felt more personalized. Every Blackout game felt unique and survivalist… except that someone would always be a turd in level 3 armor. It didn’t guarantee that person a win though because they might not have gotten the weapons and attachments to turn into a worthy opponent. Warzone turned into “acquire meta-based load out, fight others with the same meta-based load out” over and over. I love the unpredictability in Blackout. I tried it again when it was on PS+ not too long ago, and it was still fun, even though it definitely feels dated now. On one hand, it’s a real shame Blackout 2 got cancelled. I would’ve loved to see what it could’ve done. On the other hand, it would’ve been linked to Cold War, and I don’t have much positive to say about that entry.
No contest. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
Although I voted Modern Warfare (it really was a game changer), I’m surprised World at War was so lowly rated. It was also fantastic
@DeepSpace5D tied for me with BO1. I loved survival and played it to death while I also had many MOAB in mw3’ online with many different weapons… but I also got over 100 kills in every game in bo1 multiplayer and it has zombies.
I stopped playing both games on ps3 because the more cods that were released the more hackers came into mw3 and bo1
Best fps games I have ever played. After that comes bo3. I hated the new Modern Warfare (2019?) to many campers, weak maps and somehow on ps4 I could not play that game for a long time due to bugs. First Cod I sold and never looked back (after the platinum).
I would love a mw3 remaster with online play and survival or maybe I should just buy it on steam.
World at War.
Best multiplayer maps, most recognisable visuals, felt like it represented the context well, most fun weapons to use (apart from MP40 being OP), solid SP campaign, well done DLC, and the awesome intro to Nazi Zombies that can never be replicated.
Closest thing to a perfect COD, I wish they’d try to make a successor.
I started with COD2, and absolutely loved LANning it.
Moved on to COD4: MW and since then it's been my favourite of all time. World at War was also very good.
I pretty much stopped caring after Black Ops 2.
COD 4 obvs.
Also was there no call of duty 2?!
World at War is a personal favourite because I prefer WWI & WWII shooters but it was MW2 which got me hooked on online gaming and I pretty much played it non stop for 12 months so that got my vote. I can still here the lobby music as the map loads - good times!
There are many stand out moments in the series but as a whole game nothing pushed the series forward like Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
From the opening coup d'état scenes in the middle east, to the legendary "All Ghillied Up" sniper mission and all the twists, turns and surprises this game had it all... and then some.
Subsequent games built on this, Modern Warfare 2 was also a standout, but the series also got overly convoluted, self important and less surprising. CoD 4:MW still the King!
I literally played parts of the campaign and offline mp of MW, MW2, MW3, WaW, BO and BO2 on XboxSeriesX to see how they looked. Im a MW2 guy but afterwards MW3 looks, sounds and plays better. But they all still have their own appeal.
@somnambulance BX feels like playing old CoD games after playing Warzone.
@PushButtons The engine swap in MW2019 certainly makes Blackout feel like a relic with character movement and gunplay. Just imagine Blackout with the current engine though.
MW1 or MW2. I voted MW2 because I felt the multiplayer was better, after the akimbo model shotguns were nerfed of course
MW2>MW1>BO1>MW'19>COD1>COD2
@somnambulance I honestly thought the BX map wouldve been remade for WZ by now.
@NeThZOR CoD3 (2006) is the only one to do 4 player split per screen with LAN for up to 6 TV's/consoles. And BO3 is the last to do 4 player split-screen mp but 2 per screen on LAN.
MW2 is the absolute pinnacle for me. Getting the nuke and ending the match was epic.
The first one is obviously the best. Play the ***** out of it on PC back in '03
You have missed absolutely loads of games from this list. Finest Hour for example was a good blast. But the best one has got to be Cod 4. It redefined gaming
@F1at8mot0 You are wrong.
@darkswabber Because they launched on Gamecube so obviously they dont exist. Finest Hour waa Brilliant and Big Red One was pretty good too. In an era where the main games like Cod 2 only came out on the newest consoles and PC, as a 15 year old in 2005 i did not have the money for an Xbox 360 so until 2008 my Gamecube made do.
@PushButtons on PC
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