COD noob. What game has better single-player: COD2 or COD3?

Hey played the COD2 demo on the 360 & thought it was awesome.  So i was wondering if COD2 or COD3 has the better SINGLE-PLAYER game for someone who's never played a COD game before or that many WWII shooters for that matter.  

COD3 seemed to get worse reviews, but some of that seems because it really didn't change much from COD2...which doesn't matter to me.  COD2 seems like it has cooler missions(though i like the idea of playing as a Canadian in COD3), but are COD3's graphics a big upgrade?

To answer your general question, COD 2's single player is longer, more exciting, and overall much better than COD 3's (although COD 3's is definitely not bad).

Overall as a game, COD 2 definitely takes the cake. Many people were very disappointed with COD 3 so they decided to stick with COD 2, which still has a very large and balanced online community. Multiplayer wise, Call of Duty 2 is awesome, offering many balanced and varied maps. With COD 3, they implemented vehicles, classes, and 24 players online. In my opinion, this definitely improved over COD 2. But, weapon imbalanced, terrible map balance, mostly useless classes and vehicles, and terrible online connectivity ruined all of these cool new things. Also, seeing the direction Infinity Ward moved in with COD 3, and the recent showing of COD 4, it looks like the are definitely striving to become the next Battlefield...which is not necessarily a good thing.

In my opinion I would definitely get COD 2. It is much cheaper, still has a good online community, and is a really great buy. Maybe get COD 3 afterwards, but I would just wait for COD 4. Hope this helps!

Graphics are way better in COD3 and I had alot more fun with 3 than I did 2. I say you should buy 3 because In my opinion I think its alot betterunknown-phenom

This is the best way I can put it.  Call of Duty 2 makes you feel like you're in a war.  Call of Duty 3 makes you feel like you're in a war movie (with a cheesy attempt at a plot).MajorSport

agreed

I own both and CoD2 has a far better SP.  I've only played on Veteran but I found that they weren't really taking the shortcuts to increase difficulty as much as they did in CoD3 (if they did I didn't notice it near as much).  I really enjoyed the locations that you fought in in CoD2 more, but it is personal preference.  The MP is debatable, though.

The graphics and textures are sharper in CoD3 but not good enough to make up for the rest of the minor glitches and faults.