I recently got Call of Duty: World at War as an early birthday gift (my birthday's tomorrow). I've been dabbling in both co-op modes and multiplayer. Today, on a snow day, where my class had been canceled, I decided to take a break from getting my ass kicked in Crackdown...

...to play Call of Duty 3. See, COD3 was the sole COD game I had for the 360 until I got WAW. Both made by the same developers (Treyarch), and both made with different development times and circumstances. COD3 had to be released on five platforms, two of them launch systems, be made and finished in nine months, and had to be out for the holiday season (and to satisfy Activision and their fat cat shareholders). World at War was made in two years, had familiarity with the technology since it was modified COD4 tech, and again, out for the holiday season.

World at War has more features, game modes, gameplay, players, everything. But I decided to play COD3. Considered to be the "worst in the whole series" and the sole reason loads of people were skeptical about WAW (besides the whole "going back to WWII" thing). It's not that bad, really. It was only $13, perhaps if I had paid $60 back in 2006 I'd be telling a different tale, but I kinda like it. Perhaps it's a guilty pleasure. Or maybe it's those "Kusoges" I hear about on them internets.

Or it's because there was one remaining achievement that I knew I could get ("Supply Officer") that didn't result in grinding (the remaining rank achievements) or frustration ("Grizzled Veteran"). Either way. I'd say it's worth a look. And hey, easy achievements! For the most part.

I recently got Call of Duty: World at War as an early birthday gift (my birthday's tomorrow). I've been dabbling in both co-op modes and multiplayer. Today, on a snow day, where my class had been canceled, I decided to take a break from getting my ass kicked in Crackdown...

...to play Call of Duty 3. See, COD3 was the sole COD game I had for the 360 until I got WAW. Both made by the same developers (Treyarch), and both made with different development times and circumstances. COD3 had to be released on five platforms, two of them launch systems, be made and finished in nine months, and had to be out for the holiday season (and to satisfy Activision and their fat cat shareholders). World at War was made in two years, had familiarity with the technology since it was modified COD4 tech, and again, out for the holiday season.

World at War has more features, game modes, gameplay, players, everything. But I decided to play COD3. Considered to be the "worst in the whole series" and the sole reason loads of people were skeptical about WAW (besides the whole "going back to WWII" thing). It's not that bad, really. It was only $13, perhaps if I had paid $60 back in 2006 I'd be telling a different tale, but I kinda like it. Perhaps it's a guilty pleasure. Or maybe it's those "Kusoges" I hear about on them internets.

Or it's because there was one remaining achievement that I knew I could get ("Supply Officer") that didn't result in grinding (the remaining rank achievements) or frustration ("Grizzled Veteran"). Either way. I'd say it's worth a look. And hey, easy achievements! For the most part.

I liked it at the time, but I couldn't get multiplayer to work even after they tried patching that crap.   I'd rather play it over WAW though.

Big Red One is easily worse than COD3. I enjoyed COD3 quite a bit too... Not the single player so much, but WAR mode in multiplayer was a blast... But I'm a sucker for the battlefield style controlpoint multiplayer.

Good gameplay never gets old.  Don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise.

You should get CoD 2. It's easily better than 3 and WaW.

I didn't like COD3. I think I wrote a short review here about it (check my profile), and its short development time showed. A lot of glitches and bugs reared their ugly heads. The multiplayer aspect was okay, but COD4 improved upon it in every way possible that I can't look back. The one benefit I got from it was the easy achievements. I will never complain about that.

haha how can you get you arse kicked in crackdown?????

and cod3 isn't as bad a speople make out. The classes and large and reliativley non laggy battles are a lot of fun. Sure it's no halo or team fortressut it's fun to play once in a while b

Playing older games usually means reduced prices.  I love it when sequels come out.  Now I can buy Gears of War and Skate for like $20 each.  Win freaking win baby.

A good game will always be a good game, regardless of how old it is.

"Good gameplay never gets old.  Don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise."

Ashuku: I liked Big Red One's idea, it's just... buggy, and COD3 is the same thing. See, both of these games were pushed out the door by Activision to hit the Christmas season and they weren't refined enough. Six more months for BOTH games would've made them better.

MattyFTM: I'm a fan of the whole franchise. I already have COD2 on the PC. :P

CrunchUK: How can I get killed in Crackdown? Real easy. :P

Hexpane: Um, the "infinite respawning enemies," invisible walls and small linear paths also appear in COD2 and COD4. It was better masked in those games, though (some stages had minefields that pretty much were visible walls you could pass through but you'd die if you tried to go beyond map boundaries). I can remember two distinct locations in COD2 that had those infinite respawns, such as that one point where you had to assault and clear a house in the British campaign. So if you're gonna put the blame on Treyarch, you must be fair and blame Infinity Ward as well.

CoD2:BRO is my favorite CoD game of all time.  That games online (for the PS2) was tons of fun.  Lots of memorable levels.  Loved the BAR in that game.

CoD2:BRO is my favorite CoD game of all time.  That games online (for the PS2) was tons of fun.  Lots of memorable levels.  Loved the BAR in that game.

whenever I get a new system I'm usually a year or two behind so I buy all the best old games used, and then I can catch up eventually.

" I'm thinking about getting either Call of Duty 2 or Call of Duty 3 because I want good online multiplayer without having to play Modern Warfare. Anyone share my thoughts? "

" I'm thinking about getting either Call of Duty 2 or Call of Duty 3 because I want good online multiplayer without having to play Modern Warfare. Anyone share my thoughts? "

CoD2. Preferably the PC version since there are plenty of modded servers to take advantage of.

Snow day... What the... OH!

I like COD3 a lot, maybe even more than any COD which to some I guess is weird. I love the maps in that game and I also love the in match ranking. Ranking up all the way and calling in air strikes as sniper was awesome. Medic was also a whore haha. The map packs were really good too. I need to pick this up again to complete my COD collection. My last copy got destroyed.