Multiplayer Modes That Ended up More Popular Than the Main Game
Call of Duty: World at War
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare had both an excellent single-player campaign and online multiplayer mode, but it wasn’t until World at War that the multiplayer all but devoured the campaign mode. Not only did Treyarch build on the excellent groundwork built by Infinity Ward for the game’s competitive multiplayer, they also introduced the popular Nazi Zombies mode. Co-op survival modes were fairly new for shooter games at the time, and Treyarch seemed to nail it on their first attempt. It didn’t take long for the tension to build in that mode, and lasting just 15 minutes felt like a triumph.
Unlike Modern Warfare, however, World at War’s campaign was nothing to write home about. Being able to play it in co-op was nice, but overall, it was a fairly standard World War II story that had been seen several times before.
