"The Art of Video Games"

[Alpha Six]

Black Ops is objectively better than MW2. COD4 is better than both of them combined.

they're both objectively incredibly mediocre (at best) games

but no, modern warfare 2 has better level design. black ops' level design is shit. considering that aside from this fact the two games are nearly identical, that kind of puts mw2 ahead.

or do you mean art-wise, because then we kind of have to go back to 'the two games are nearly identical'

Black Ops's gameplay is overall better than MW2-- there are only a few small alterations but playing it feels a lot more fun and less generic than Black Ops. BO also has a much more fundamentally balanced multiplayer, without cheese weapons like the double Ranger/Model 1887 combo and the tactical nuke, which practically
encourages in-game boosting (although the RC-XD is the most ass thing ever).
I can't comment on "level design" in the BO campaign, but multiplayer BO also has much better maps than MW2-- ignoring the existence of Havana, which is the worst map I've ever played on in any single video game.

That being said-- I know they're "mediocre" games, I was speaking about which one was generally better out of the two because of what he mentioned.