PS3 Game: COD4, or Rainbow 6 Vegas 1

[tiki]

I'm looking to get a new game for my PS3 and have narrowed it down to two. I'm looking for a good single player experience, which I have heard that the one in COD is short (about 7 hours). A multiplayer experience is a plus, I hear that COD has the best on the PS3, and that Rainbow Six Vegas online game has some problems. Is the online experience in COD4 enough to overcome the short single player or would I be better off Going with the longer single player in Rainbow 6 Vegas?

Note: In thinking the first R6V because I have heard that the first and second are pretty the same and the first is only $40 compared to $60 for the second.

[zoomtechtv]

RB6 1 you can not run in that game only walk. COD4 and RB6 2 you can run, and it adds a lot to the game play.

If It was up to me I get COD4. As more people are still playing it. I do not know how many people are playing RB6 1 but RB6 2 is out and I bet most RB6 fans have moved on.

You may also want to pick up the Orange Box for PS3.

[dolson]

I have not yet played R6V, but I bought COD4 as my first non-Wii this-gen game, and it blew me away. Big time.. Single player takes a lot longer than 7 hours if you play on the harder modes from the beginning.. Seriously, the levels are varied and did a few things I've never seen in a game before, and in the end, I still count it as my favorite first-person shooter of all time, single-player wise. I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end, and have even considered tackling Veteran mode.. But I don't usually re-play my games once I finish them. COD4 I still put in from time to time to play multiplayer, because it's rewarding and has come the closest to an RPG in a war game that I've ever played. You unlock stuff and gain ranks, lots of different challenges you can work on.. I can't recommend it enough. R6V I've seen for $25, so it's cheap enough that you could always get it too if you find COD4 isn't your thing.. But I think COD4 is the safer bet.

[damnedeyez]

I've never liked FPS games on consoles...but CoD4 is the exception. (Mind, I played it through via rental on the PS3, but bought it for the PC afterwards.)



Of course, I'm biased on Ubisoft and Rainbow6 in particular.

[jaylaf]

I pretty much did the same thing that you seem to be doing. I weighed potential options. I went with COD4, and love it for all the same reasons that dolson mentioned. Except, I haven't finished the single-player mode, so I'm excited to still have that in front of me. I haven't finished it because starting the MP was actually my first online multi experience, and I'm loving it! It's also probably the first FPS I've really gotten into since...(wait for it)...DOOM!!! I mostly played Tony Hawk, Spiderman 2, Ico, Shadows of the Colossus (stuff like that) on my PS2.

Personally, I've never understood having more than one game in any given genre, not if the one I have is great. Unless another title had some significant variance from one I already own, I wouldn't usually bother. I know that I'm probably in the minority there.

Anyways, COD4's great. And the new map pack is pretty sweet. HUGE LEVELS! And, you can find a Radling or two on there, usually.

[dolson]

Personally, I've never understood having more than one game in any given genre, not if the one I have is great. Unless another title had some significant variance from one I already own, I wouldn't usually bother. I know that I'm probably in the minority there.

That's an interesting thought, but aren't Ico and SOTC similar in many ways? Either way, I have lots of shooters because I prefer single-player, and yet I don't play through the story more than once (usually) so I need multiple games in each genre. For multiplayer though, the argument could be made easier, but people move on to the latest and greatest, as you're going to see me do with Resistance 2 if not with Haze. :)

[darknessgp]

COD4. It has a decent singleplayer, but an awesome multiplayer. It is one of the games to get. Rainbow six, not so much. It's fun and if you liked the previous Rainbow Six games, you will probably like it.

[lonefox]

CoD4 by a mile.

Vegas is ok. The game is far from polished, and the online just isn't nearly as good as Duty's.

/shrug

I say go with CoD4. It has both a better single and multiplayer experience.

[inertianinja]

get COD4.

RSV's graphics aren't as good, and the multiplayer community won't be as strong.

AND, you can play COD4 just the same way that you play RSV - slow, stealthy, careful, etc.



btw you can also probably find RSV1 on ebay/half for peanuts at this point.

[jaylaf]

That's an interesting thought, but aren't Ico and SOTC similar in many ways? Either way, I have lots of shooters because I prefer single-player, and yet I don't play through the story more than once (usually) so I need multiple games in each genre. For multiplayer though, the argument could be made easier, but people move on to the latest and greatest, as you're going to see me do with Resistance 2 if not with Haze. :)


You know, now you've got me questioning myself! Here's my stream-of-consciousness:

Ico and Shadows were both beautiful games. Even though Shadows wasn't "officially" a sequel, I bought it, because it was more of what I loved, by the same people. And then I remembered that I had 5 different Tony Hawk games (just traded 3 of them in recently, along with some other PS2 games, to get my Dualshock 3). With them though, there were new abilities, places, etc with each sequel. But, I was never playing Tony Hawk Underground and American Wasteland at the same time. I understand following a franchise, buying the newest sequel (in most cases).

I guess it's just that I've never been a huge FPS person (as I mentioned). I can't imagine saying to myself, "Gee, which of these 4 FPS games that I own, do I feel like playing?" Do people really switch back and forth between FPS's? Do people have 2 or 3 RPG's going at the same time? Of course, all of that would STILL make more sense to me than buying the new Madden every year, where only the rosters change! :)

[dolson]

Heheh. Well, right now, I have several games that I haven't finished yet, and I started playing all of them, just to see how they were, see which one I get sucked into the most... I started with Folklore, but got bored and then popped in Oblivion. That sucked out 18 hours from me so far, but I'm taking it slowly. I am also in about level 4 of Dark Sector, and I have two levels left in Portal (avoiding it because it's short, and I don't want it to be over yet!). I didn't start The Darkness or Viking yet, but I did also start Ratchet & Clank Future, but I was more interested in Dark Sector after the TRS review.. So most of these are on the go, but some I just deleted the save so I'll start over later. Right now though, I'm focusing on Dark Sector, and Oblivion as a relaxing immersive game, and COD4/Burnout Paradise for multiplayer.. But Burnout I'm not touching until custom soundtracks, because I never want to hear Avril Lavigne again.

I love shooters though, man, and I beat F.E.A.R., COD4, MOH Airborne, RFOM.

[damnedeyez]

Burnout I'm not touching until custom soundtracks, because I never want to hear Avril Lavigne again.

You do realize you can remove that song from rotation, right? (I have it set so artist songs I like play during the freeburn...the old Burnout music plays during events, and songs I don't like never play.) Granted, it's not your own music, but it's like a bug fix (except I happen to like that song.)

[dolson]

Yeah, I know. :p But I'd rather be racing to Megadeth or MDM or God Module... In fact, I already have my music picked out and copied to my PS3 in anticipation for June. :)