I'm a bit of a stalemate between Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty 4 for Christm

So Christmas is approaching ever so closely and I'm done with all my finals so finally I can focus on video gaming! But I a problem....I have a 360 and my mom asked the usual question "what games do you like this year" basically implying

"Tell me the game you want and I will buy it". So I told her I liked a game called "Mass Effect" because I been waiting for it for some time and it looked like a interesting rpg she asked for 1 more game and I couldn't decide between Assassin's Creed and

COD4 I don't know what to pick I love multiplayer games but I really love stealth games, what to choose plz help me out! tell me what you would choose and why thanks community of gamespot!

COD4's Multiplayer Longevity sounds really appealing but, Assassin's Creed looks so gorgeous but so does COD4.....

Get COD 4 if you have Live. If not the single player isnt that great after one play through and it is 10 hours or less.

So Christmas is approaching ever so closely and I'm done with all my finals so finally I can focus on video gaming! But I a problem....I have a 360 and my mom asked the usual question "what games do you like this year" basically implying

"Tell me the game you want and I will buy it". So I told her I liked a game called "Mass Effect" because I been waiting for it for some time and it looked like a interesting rpg she asked for 1 more game and I couldn't decide between Assassin's Creed and

COD4 I don't know what to pick I love multiplayer games but I really love stealth games, what to choose plz help me out! tell me what you would choose and why thanks community of gamespot!

Gameaddict2424

Okay bro. I won't lie to you. I am rank 55 in Call of Duty 4, I have all the perks and have unlocked every attachment for every weapon. I gave the game around a month to appease me. It's a complete waste of your money. I've repeated this a number of times, but I don't mind repeating it again if it will prevent one person from buying Infinity Ward's piece of crap.

First of all, I come from Call of Duty 1 where the game actually requires a little bit of skill if you want to win. Call of Duty 2 was a waste of time. Call of Duty 4...is just basically CoD 2 with better graphics and suckier weapons. There's a bunch of weapons to choose from, but they basically all shoot paper (unless you equip the "Stopping Power" perk).

I have compiled a small list of reasons why this game was created for complete noobs to the FPS genre:

1. Requires absolutely no skill to kill someone. Equip stopping power/steady aim perk, pick your favorite automatic weapon (any automatic weapon), fire in the general direction your enemy approaches you from -- you win!
2. Since it's extremely easy to achieve a kill in this game, once you achieve 3 kills (in a row) you may call in a UAV scan, revealing every enemy on the map for 36 seconds. When you achieve 2 more kills, you get the ability to call down an air strike which, unless you're handicapped when it comes to this feature, you will get 3-5 kills easily. 2 more kills, and you get the ability to call in a helicopter (computer controlled) to kill anyone it sees in an instant with it's machine gun / dual missile launchers.
3. There's a gameplay called Sabotage where the player must grab a bomb and bring it to the enemy's bombing point and destroy the cache. While you have the bomb, every enemy player can see where you are indicated by a big >KILL THIS GUY< icon, which is in fact, right above your head. Stupid.
4. The sniper rifles are absolutely the worst design of any gun I have ever seen in any game. They are completely broken and therefore should not be used (and even if they weren't broken...the maps are not sniper friendly at all).
5. Shooting through walls. Yes, I believe in prior shooters this was refered to as a type of wall hack. But no, Infinity Ward decided..."Aw shucks - let's give every player the ability to shoot through a wall!" Stupid.
6. Did I mention how easy it is to kill someone with a grenade? Pull the pin, count to 3, throw the grenade, you get a kill. Not only that, but later in the game you get a perk which allows for you to hold three frag grenades.
7. One of the main reasons I can think of why this game is so awful is the map design. The horrid, terrible map design. It's just something you have to actually see to take in why the maps are so bad (not all of them. A couple of them I like...but the map "Shipment" is absolutely the dumbest thing I have ever seen in any game. Halo doesn't even create maps that idiotically).

Well there you go. 7 good reasons not to buy Call of Duty 4. You will have a much better time with Halo 3 or Assassin's Creed. Trust me. I am a veteran of the Call of Duty series and have been playing it competitively since the beginning, when it arrived on the PC in 2003. It is a terribly overrated game and the majority of the time you spend online will be a frustrating experience.

Really, it would be okay if the single player was actually longer than 3 minutes. The single player experience was ridiculously short compared to it's prior titles. I enjoyed the single player like I always do with the CoD series. But it's multilpayer has sucked ever since Call of Duty 2 arrived. Don't buy it.

Hey there.

I own both Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty 4.

First off Assassin's Creed.
> You start the game thinking, yea man this is awesome.
> You climb some walls kill some peeps and think yea man this is awesome.
> You then get to the middle of the game and think, hmm this is the same as what i did yesterday.
> You play through it thinking it'll get better, only to keep doing the same thing in the end.

As the fustration of being stealthy wore off, I was running around the level, doing side missions which are just the same but 5 or more places on the level. Basically it feels as if you're doing the same things over and over again.

Call of Duty 4.
> Single player = Short. Not gonna lie, everyone knows this already. Despite its shortness, there is a great deal crammed in to make it better than most FPS single player modes.
> I saw someone moaned about the game being an FPS for noobs. Thing is, this is more of a tactical shooter, not so much as the ways of Rainbow Six. But you need to kinda think, should I run in there or not, as it only takes a few bullets to die. So the veterans of Halo just won't get on with this game. You can't stand in the open and take lots of hits and then walk away to tell the tale.
> The multiplayer offers an endless amount of fun especially if you are playing in a party with your mates.

My recommendation would be to get CoD4 for Christmas.

If you are familiar with other FPS games, you can pick this one up and be away in minutes. The perks you have to unlock in the game don't offer massive advantages so you aren't gonna be at a huge disadvantage from the start. You just have to use your head rather than a run and gun technique. Spray and pray does work sometimes and yes you can shoot through thin walls. So why he's moaning about a gun that can shoot through thin wood or corigated iron I don't know.

FiveR

all the noobs here will tell you cod4. get assassins creed. (i love making people mad)haven79

I'll take the other side from this guy. Assassins creed offers nothing new to the table besides its climbing and that gets old after a couple of hours. It is repetitive and you literally do the same thing over and over again. I honestly did not think much of it at all when I rented it and beat it in 3 days. I won't go as far as to say it sucks because the gameplay was kinda fun and the story was above average, but if I were you I would steer clear of assassins creed. COD4 is great. It's 360 game of the year in my opinion. It has the best campaign I have played in a long time and the multiplayer is the most addictive thing I have played in a long time. Everything the guy says in his page long diatribe against COD4 a page back is wrong. Get COD4 and don't look back.

My vote is definitely for Call of Duty 4 as it has a ton more replay value than Assassin's Creed. Don't get me wrong I loved AC but once I got all the achievements in the first run through, there was very little drive for me to play again.

CoD 4 multiplayer is so awesome that I think about it practically all the time.

if you like shooters, get halo 3. it you like stealth, get assassins creedhaven79

If you like Halo1 and 2 get Halo 3. If you like shooters get CoD4.

COD4 ALL THE WAY MAN IS THE BEST THING EVR

If you want a game that will last you a long time. I'd go for Call of Duty 4 as the multiplayer will keep you busy.

call of duty 4 is the easy choice

yes, assassins creed is a beautiful game that controls well and the platforming is awesome....but its not worth the purchase just because it gets very repetitive and tiresome quickly.