Thoughts about the multiplayer in Call of Duty 4 on X360.

First of all, perfect controls. There is perfectly fitting sensitivity setting available for me and every actions are mapped out on the controller perfectly. When it comes to all games I've played so far on X360, CoD4 has best controls.

Secondly, sweet smooth gameplay. Form shooting guns, reloading them to kill and movement animations. As long as there is no lag Call of Duty 4 is highly enjoyable game, graphical lag exists due to smoke grenades and when a lot starts to happen right next to you, but that is manageable.

So sounds pretty much like perfect game. Then there are some small problems, the party system isn't working like it should. The spawning system was better before the last patch. Also unfortunately for some reason you are usually forced to play with hosts at United States. I don't mid at all to play with people at US, it's just that I don't like the lag. The game is kind of unplayable when it lags even just a little bit. There definitely should have been a continent filter for matchmaking. For example in Halo 3 you can prefer good connection for your games, and it seems to be working though not perfectly sometimes you still end up playing like with Canadians.

I'm really tired of air strike and heli support. There should have been a Team Deathmach mode without air strike and helicopter support available. No three nades of the three, grenades, flash and stunt. Only one flash or stunt nade should be allowed with single grenade. So Special Grenades x 3 and Frag x 3 perks must go. No martyrdom and melee should be allowed, melee is incredibly cheap because of the way it's implemented now. Basically I love the intense fight with guns only in CoD 4 and I would love mode like that.


I don't know what kind of multiplayer will World at War have, but I'm quite skeptical about it. I expect improvements over CoD4, but I was sold with beta so demo or something like that should be available. When it comes to Call of Duty 3 the developer has a lot to improve. The gameplay in CoD3 feels quite laggy. Overall I'm skeptical, I think that World at War will make money, but people will still be playing CoD4 a lot more than World at War.