How Treyarch evolved its own brand of Call of Duty multiplayer

Multiplayer combat in Call of Duty changes with every new release in the first-person shooter series. Sometimes, it seems the changes aren’t that big, but viewed over time, you can see some significant updates and improvements. These decisions helped turn Call of Duty into a multibillion-dollar annual franchise.

[masterfox]

Damn COD has evolve so many times that I think Pokemons would be jealous as funk!!!

[micx]

You are yet to see my final form!

[Tankbusta40]

So much evolution... It boggles my mind

[Agent_hitman]

AW's graphics was much better than this honestly speaking.

[Elit3Nick]

Yes because we should hold a single compressed video as final /s

[Der_Kommandant]

More like degradation.

[700p]

AGREEEED

[Anorexorcist]

The Zombies Multiplayer is something Treyarch can strongly hold over Infinity Ward's head. It's totally cliche now, but Zombies was an amazing thing back when World at War first came out. I still go back to WAW, Black Ops, and Black Ops 2 every now and then just to get in on some Zombie killin'

I think Advanced Warfare completely changed COD online multiplayer...for the worse. All the Exo Suit hyper jumping and dashing made AW even more of a Run-And-Gun, Spray-And-Pray experience (like if that was even possible for COD, right???). Hopefully Treyarch will totally revert back from that direction IW took with Advanced Warfare's multiplayer.

[keegamer80]

Sledgehammer made the last call of duty.

[wakeNbake]

Infinity Ward didnt make Adavanced Warfare.

[DragoonsScaleLegends]

I don't think Treyarchs games were any better than the other CODs except for introducing another game mode. But still I think gameplay wise Ghosts and AW were the worst CODs of all time.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

After Ghosts and BLOPS 2, I feel I've had my fill of the series.
I'm looking more towards shooters with unique mechanics or storylines now.

Best ones I've played recently were Vanquish, the original Borderlands, and Bioshock 1 and 2.
Yeah, I know they're all old, but damn if they all didn't each offer some nice unique gimmicks that kept gameplay interesting.
I'm now looking forward to the unique mix of sword and gunplay in Devil's Third, and Splatoon as a whole. (though friend matches need voice chat)

[Kingdomcome247]

You liked borderlands 1 better than 2? Bioshock 1 is my all time favorite game.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

Yeah, I prefer the first game in the Borderlands series.
Borderlands 2 did a lot right in terms of deepening the skill trees and making the story more entertaining.
But to do that, it sacrificed game balance by over-buffing enemy health, and trivializing player health and shields.
The order of the day, in high-end play, became a contest of which broken builds and gears with cheap gimmicks worked best in tandem.
Two of the characters were able to breeze through thanks to skills that took actual advantage of being damaged or in fight for your life mode.
The rest spent half their time dead and respawning, or dying and praying their ammo would hold out long enough for something to die for a second wind, without the cheapest of cheap gears/builds.

With the first game, things were a bit easier, it's true, but it was a much more fair kind of easy, and you could still die if you acted stupid, and it rewarded your good gear and builds by making you feel like a badass, not a mook that falls into ffyl often unless they play cheap.

[PhoenixUp]

Finally they added co-op in the campaign

[BattleAxe]

World at War was their best game, so I would argue that Treyarch has devolved their brand of CoD multiplayer ever since.

[Horny]

Black ops 1 was by far my favorite. Amazing map design and weapons.