When comparing Call of Duty: Ghosts vs Crashlands, the Slant community recommends Crashlands for most people. In the question“What are the best singleplayer games on Steam?” Crashlands is ranked 71st while Call of Duty: Ghosts is ranked 129th. The most important reason people chose Crashlands is:
For just the medium difficulty setting there is hours upon hours of content, and that's even if you skip all the side quests and just focus on the main story. Plus there are two harder difficulties to try and in the near future a tool will come out which will let you build your own adventures as well as play other people's.
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Pros
Pro Variety of environments
Pro Neat campaign
This heavily story-driven Call of Duty campaign features a cool cast of characters, a villain who is basically what Batman would be if he were evil, and a bunch of great set pieces, like an escape from a prison inside an abandoned casino, a tank assault on an enemy base, two missions on a space station in Earth orbit, and a fight on a monorail.
Pro Awesome co-op mode
Players are sent to abandoned towns to fight hordes of aliens, kinda like the Zombies modes in previous Call of Duty games, but with randomized objectives that they have to complete in order to progress. It has some of the most fun gameplay in the entire Call of Duty series.
Pro Runs at 1080p and 60fps
Like all Call of Duty games, it focuses heavily on running smoothly, creating gameplay that feels way more fun than its 30fps counterparts.
Pro Hours of content just in the main quest alone gives the player plenty to do
For just the medium difficulty setting there is hours upon hours of content, and that's even if you skip all the side quests and just focus on the main story. Plus there are two harder difficulties to try and in the near future a tool will come out which will let you build your own adventures as well as play other people's.
Pro Pleasing graphics that show off a well designed and polished game
The graphics look nice and you can tell time has been put into designing them. While not the most flashy, there is a certain style to the whole game that makes for a very cohesive experience.
Pro Pick up from your last save, no matter the device you are using, thanks to the built in cloud saving
Playable on Android, iOS and PC you're able to transfer the one game between multiple devices (on same or different operating systems) and take it with you anywhere you go. with a Butterscotch ID (the devs self implemented cloud save system).
Pro Excellent progression system where you never feel like you are grinding too much
Progression never feels sluggish or rushed, everything has a good pace to it from the farming of materials and grinding out the various components for the tons of items, to the incredibly unique combat/interaction system, it all blends well into a long gaming experience.
Pro Hundreds items to craft in a deep and varied crafting system that will keep the user busy for hours and hours
There are over 500 items that can be crafted in the game, giving the player quite a lot to experiment with and explore when it comes to crafting items.
Pro Great soundtrack that suits the humor and setting of the game quite well
A great mix of chill and energized music, that fits the setting of the game at all times. A pleasure to listen to on its own as well.
Pro Multiple game modes
Once you've finished the basic mode there's also a challenging and insane mode for replayability.
Pro Good writing
You don't need to read everything to enjoy the game but the writing is very good and really adds to the enjoyment.
Pro Lots of entertaining pop-culture references
Cons
Con Height
If you played the other Call of Duty games, then you would know that this game always feels like it's always crouching. It is really annoying with your character feeling like they are 4 feet tall all the time.
Con Dead multiplayer
The multiplayer has almost no players, many gamemodes are completely dead and only traditional ones, like free-for-all and team deathmatch have a few players.
Con Fish AI
Fish AI was claimed pre-release as part of the new engine, something that is not even new tech in the slightest and has been around in games for over 20 years. Of course to no ones surprise, post release the fish do not behave in the manner that was claimed. Once this was found out when the game released the studio then claimed it was "just a joke".
Con The competitive multiplayer isn't great
The map design and gameplay is some of the worst that Call of Duty has ever seen. There are better Call of Duty games to play if you want to play competitively.
Con Cloud saves not through Google services
An extra account will need to be used in order to take advantage of the cloud saving as it does not work with Googles solution to cloud saves. While this does allow for the cloud saves to work cross platform, people may not want to take the extra step to make a new account with Butterscotch Shenanigans.