A Predicament in Shooters

I had this post all nice and tidy, but then GS wouldn't let me post it due to a censorship error... Regardless, I might buy a game Wednesday afternoon and, because I only own singleplayer games, I want to get an online one: either CoD4, The Orange Box, or UT3. I have some problems with each of them though, and yes I have read reviews. I would just like some opinion, feedback, and recommendation to help me in my decision.

Call of Duty 4 is a great game, but I've already beaten the campaign on hard and probably won't be too motivated to play it again on Veteran. The community is supposedly great though and the levelling system is pretty cool, another bad thing though is I've seen a friend play online countless hours so it may get old.

The Orange Box is a game I've wanted to get for a while now, though it does suffer from graphical glitches on the PS3. Nothing that makes it unplayable and soon a patch will probably be out. I've also beaten Half-Life 2 on the original Xbox and Portal on the 360, but those games both warrant for another replay. And Team Fortress 2 looks fun, but a bit limited in what it offers for gameplay modes.

Unreal Tournament 3 looks very fast-paced and I have never played an UT game before. The graphics are amazing and the user-created content is beginning to be released, offering what may be limitless replay value. The campaign supposedly sucks though, and I have never played an UT3 game before so I may not like it.

Thanks for the help from anyone!

I'd say CoD4, ive put a couple days worth of hours and it's still fun

I bought Ut3, having never played one, but heard good things about it. I was optimistic, luckily I bought it used so I could return it. It is a very different style, just not for me.

Never considered the Orange Box

Not only is it boring, but it puts you to sleep. haha

Call of Duty 4 is super fun, I still have fun playing it after ranking up again. Always new people to play with and you make some good friends on that game aswell.

Never played Orange Box, but I want to get it myself.

As for Unreal Tournament 3, I really enjoy this game aswell. It's very fast and easy to find a game, I mean all you do is click it and bam. You go into battle just in matter of seconds, so if you never played one before, I believe this might be your call.

Story mode sucks just facing bots, but UT games aren't meant for story...it's all about the online gameplay.

the orange box also has episodes 1 and 2 that is adding to the value and TF2 is great fun but u may stuggle to find people to play with.(seriously refreshing to look at!)

UT3 dosen't really have a [proper campaign mode, and those games never have they are more like bot matches on the different maps with different modes and there maybe some cut scenes or text in between missions to make it seem more like a story, it be abit like a battlefield game single player

Thanks for the help guys; of course I'm still conflicted but it is a lot of help hearing what these games are like.

And about Warhawk, yeah I have tried it. I would like to buy it for the headset, and who knows maybe it would grow on me but I just didn't like it from what I had played of it. Someday it will get another chance, but for now I think I'll pass on Warhawk.

CoD4 for sure