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Which is the best COD series: Modern Warfare VS Black Ops ?

Modern warfare had 1 good game, genre changing but still one.

Black ops had 2 good games plus World at War.

Black Ops wins
 
Blops. Even Blops 2 was successful on PC because it was actually good. I hated all the dumb things Mw2 added and 3 was the worst.
 
You could have named this thread Modern warfare 1 vs every call of duty ever and MW1 would still win.

I may have revisionist history but mw1 was the last one i remember without crippling lag so it wins by a landslide.

I seem to remember bops1 was like so so as well .
 
Black Ops. I feel like their perk/killstreak/map design balancing is way better in general, and Black Ops III hopped aboard the high-mobility trend pretty nicely, and I really like that trend in FPS games. I think Black Ops II is probably the most interesting campaign in the entire franchise as well, although I do still think it falls short of the incredibly impression the first 2 COD games and COD4 left on me as a game player.

Modern Warfare 2 certainly got a lot of hype from me but the final product felt a bit too bombastic and imbalanced for my liking. I gave it up after about a month of play. I wouldn't call it a massive disappointment, as I mostly did have fun the first couple of weeks, but at some point it just kind of felt like the multiplayer was style over substance, and Black Ops later corrected the course in my eyes.
 
I'm glad as time goes by more people recognize BLOPS 1 as one of the best CODs. I remember people hated it back at launch.

Everyone knew BO1 was one of the best at launch, they just didn't want to admit it because of the underserved hype MW2 had before and after release. They didn't want to say on record and get shit from other people. But they knew.

That trippy plot was great and the actual levels in the campaign were way more interested than anything in modern cookie cutter futuristic COD, the modern COD could be exchanged entirely and i would never tell whether it was AW, IW or BO3
 
MW4>Blops
Blops 2=MW2. Can't pick, Blops2 was more balanced but MW2 was so much fun.
Blops 3>MW3

If your including WAW then Blops wins, WAW is my favorite cod.
 
COD4 and Modern Warfare 2 are two of the best games ever made, so yeah, no comparison. World at War and the Black Ops series were always "me too" and so derivative.
 
Treyarch was always the b-team. They only became the "a-team" by default after IW died. MW1 and 2 are still two of the biggest games ever made.
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Definitely love Treyarch and the Black Ops series more than the Modern Warfare series. You add World at War into that, and it's no contest.

BO1 > MW1 > BO2 > BO3 > MW2 >>>> MW3
 
+MW1 and 2 are amazing games.
+MW2 had the best gimmicks in the entire cod series (OMA, Riot shield, Other combos)
-MW3 was supposedly awful. I never bothered.
-MW1 Martydom

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+Black Ops 1 is an amazing game.
+Zombies in BL1 is amazing and BL2 zombs is mostly good.
+Theater playback/movie maker mode.
-Black Ops 2 is meh competitive
-Black Ops 3 is meh overall

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Secret challenger: W@W
+W@W had the best guns and maps
+Best zombies. Great zombie online community.
+Coop story.
+At the time, best value per price. There was tons of stuff in this game compared to its predecessor. Sad it gets lambasted as a 'reskin' since it was the first of the series clones.
+Mortars and Dogs are way better/stronger/more fair than MW killstreaks.

Overall the highs are close and the lows are too. All 3 have respectable moments. Keeping strict to the thread, I'd have to go with Black ops only because it has zombies. I've spend more time in zombies than competitive at this point, but I like MW competitive more.
 
I'm only speaking for campaign here, but I just played through all the current-gen COD games for the first time. I still think the MW games have the best campaigns.

The key difference is that, in my opinion, Infinity Ward puts more variety into its campaigns. Each mission always has something new or novel going on to slightly switch up the gameplay and keep the pace going. It's not often that you're only shooting guys from behind cover. Black Ops on the other hand (I didn't play BOII) I feel rests on its gameplay base a lot more, with longer stretches of just normal gunfights, though BOIII's cyborg gimmicks keep this somewhat more interesting. Advanced Warfare felt a lot more like an IW campaign, and I guess Sledgehammer learned from IW when working on MW3.

My personal list of COD campaigns (which I played):

MW1
>
MW3
>
MW2
>
COD2
>
Ghosts
>
AW
>
BO3
>
BO1
 
Overall, I like the BO series more a bit. I've only played BO3 a handful of times(multiplayer) and I've never played MW2, so I won't count those.

COD4 stands out a lot for the Modern warfare series as among the best, but I think part of that reason was because for many--it was their first series into the franchise. The weapons and perks in this game are really not that great, mostly due to imbalancing. Claymores, M16, ak47u/mp5, m40A3 Stopping Power/Juggernaut. Everyone used those, particularly M16 and SP.

I will say that this game IMO had the best map out of the entire franchise by a wide margin, followed closely by WaW.

MW3 was fun, but a bit of a mess at launch. Ridiculously imbalanced weapons(machine pistols with crazy fire rates, accuracy, and ammo replacing handguns and being better than most of the weapons in the game in most situation), but better at the end via patches. Story was awful though.

Black Ops series overall has the better weapon and perk balance, as they took out juggernaut and SP and after some patches they got some pretty good weapon balances.
Also, better campaign overall.
 
Blops 2 > Blops 3 > MW 2 > MW = Blops

Didn't play enough of the other two, but if I had to rank them, I'd put WaW equal to MW and Blops and put MW3 below them. Blops 3 might've been top but for it's lackluster campaign and bad supply drop policies.

Never was crazy about MW or the first Black Ops. They're good but don't have much variety when it comes to gameplay styles. Some weapons just plain sucked too. Later games had better balance and variety. Earlier games did have the better maps though. I nearly puked when I heard "classic three-lane design" in the infinite warfare in-depth trailer.
 
Single player wise, BLOPS2 and MW2 have the only real entertaining campaigns. OG MW1 plays like dogshit these days and doesn't really offer anything outside of the initial setpieces and the less said about BLOPS 1/3, the better.

Multiplayer wise, my heart is still with MW2, but all of the BLOPS games are way more consistent in terms of quality than either of the MW games.

There's pretty much nothing redeemable about MW3 outside of the final level.
 
MW3 has a better campaign than any of the Black Ops games... and it's not even that good.

Black Ops MP is great in all three games, while MW3 MP sucks IMO.

SP - MW easily
MP- MW for COD4

Modern Warfare wins, but Black Ops is more consistent.

Advanced Warfare is my favourite COD if anyone is wondering.
 
MWs easily.


Never understand the love fest for BO. At launch BO 1 & 2 had terrible net code, at least on the X360. The guns sound like tin can pee shooters. And, the "narrative" gets high rating, but unlike MWs, I have never finish anyone of them.
 
Black ops 1 and 2 had superb campaigns and very fun multiplayer modes.
BO1: 9.5/10
BO2: 9/10
Black Ops 3 was shit. Multiplayerwas decent but eventually it got really boring and campaign was a joke.
BO3: 6/10
Modern Warfare 1 was a masterpiece, both SP and MP. MW2 wasn't as good as MW1 but still awesome.
MW1:10/10
MW2:9/10
MW3:8/10
MW3 was a step down from previous games but campaign did a good job ending the tilogy and multplayer was very fun back then.
Black Ops 1 and 2 had MUCH better campaigns and multiplayer modes than MW2 and Mw3.
So i guess MW is better as a trilogy.
 
Hands down Black ops. Multiplayer was always far superior IMO and even the little things like actually having a region filter (like seriously IW how fucking hard was it to implement one). I was super hyped for MW2 after having a great time with W@W only to give up withing weeks because of always being matched with overseas hosts.

I loved the Campaign for BO1 and IMO its the best in the series. The moon zombie map is also the only true great zombie map. Everything else after that has been very very average.
 
Is this in terms of multiplayer? Or the whole package?


multiplayer only

BO2>MW>MW2>BO3>MW3>BO. <--- admittedly, I had it on PS3...and almost all of my friends played on the 360, so i played very little of BO multiplayer

campaign only

MW>BO>MW2>BO2>MW3>>>>>>>>>>>>>BO3

If we are looking at the game as a whole package

MW>BO2>MW2>BO>MW3>BO3

I REALLY liked the campaign of the original Black Ops...and Black Ops 2 was my favorite of the multiplayer games...but Black Ops 3's campaign is something nightmares are made out of its so god awful...

As a trilogy, Modern Warfare is the better series...when it's good (MW) there is nothing better...and even at its worst, there is nothing even approaching as bad as Black Ops 3's campaign...
 
Black Ops 1 and 2 are great even in Singleplayer and Multiplayer...only Blops 3 has good MP but the story sucks so much.
 
Modern Warfare because the first two were amazing and only MW3 was trash.

Black Ops 1 was amazing, BO2 was the most overrated CoD game in history, and BO3 is no better.

If we count W@W as part of the Black Ops series then it is a tie, because W@W was also amazing.
 
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