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To answer your question, any of the newer Call of Duty's from 2019 onwards will have a large playerbase for all modes at any time of day, because these games had crossplay and therefore you can always find somebody else still on it somewhere.
Among the older ones, Modern Warfare 3 (2011), Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007, NOT the 2016 Remaster), Black Ops 1 (2010) and Black Ops 2 (2012) remain quite popular. Although you might need to download a third party client to play online safely, but this is easy and legal.
The PS4-era games, sadly, are mostly dead.
I don't think you can really go wrong no matter what you pick. Any Call of Duty is going to be a AAA experience. I have MW 2019, and its maps are fantastic, but it has the problems of no map select/filter/voting and way too many recycled old maps. If you've played CoD 4 previously this might annoy you, but if not, they will still seem inconsistent compared to the newer maps which work better. It also has fewer modes. One thing it does have that I really like is a 2v2 elimination mode called "Gunfight" where everyone has the same loadouts and it's a test of skill. There's also a large mode called "Ground War" but this is a weak Battlefield-knockoff and not that good imo. I would just get Battlefield 3 or 4 instead if you're interested in large maps.
By the way, you can try out Modern Warfare III (2023) and Black Ops 6 the newest one on GamePass. You get a 14-day trial for $1. Test the multiplayer and see if you like them.
Modern Warfare III has an amazing campaign, but the multiplayer is just remakes of the original Modern Warfare 2 (2009) maps. So again if you've played those already, it's boring. But it does have actual map voting and better selection of game modes (e.g. CTF) which were missing in the previous ones.
I would go for Black Ops 6 in a year's time when it comes down in price on sale. It has all original maps, and a new "Omni-movement" system which lets you dive and sprint in any direction. Not a monumental change, but it is a neat innovation to the multiplayer movement system.
Sometimes it's just unbearable.
I am so afraid of being accused woke or not pretty enough that I generally avoid male characters in game, not even because I often fail to understand male logic or male actions (Witcher 3, Kingdom Come Deliverence) but because I am tired of being accused of being queer.
In general, even without modern male gamers around, I noticed that male characters have different traits and mindset than me, and sometimes it's okay and even funny (Witcher 3) but sometimes it's a huge facepalm (Kingdom Come, Red Dead Redemption 2). So it's 50-50% chance of having to play as cringe boyboss.
I really enjoyed female characters though, because sometimes I can really say "Lol, that's almost me" (Lara Croft in Shadow of Tomb Raider, Forspoken) and so on.
So I don't play male mostly because of wokeradarguys but also because males have different mindset and behavior in general.
It depends, however. Alloy from Horizon Zero Dawn barely has quite queer traits, so I would say any gender would understand her actions. But Ellie from TLOU is absolutely different and thus many male gamers struggle with her, while I struggled with Joel a lot.
It's first time I dive into multiplayer. MW3 is more expensive.
I play not for gameplay or kills, k/d, whatever, I play to live through the story.
Note that many female actors are willing to play male roles in theater sometimes, but not often.
So even those actors who play male role in act - they still mostly play female roles normally because it's easier to understand, live through and output to audience.
Same in videogames, I don't care if Arthur Morgan is boyboss, I just struggle with his act because I can't live through it and it feels wrong, unnatural and odd. I just keep waiting for main character to show up. Replace it with girlboss, however, like you can do in RDO, and it makes more sense to me, because now It makes sense and it's me. They have not voiced chars in RDO though.
Also I think not all female actors play male roles. Some do exclusively female. Does it make us sexist? I don't know. Maybe.
But does it matter? Most of boys I play with daily are homophobic, queerphobic, racist, chauvinistic and so on?
By the way COD isn't a ''war like'' game, it's just about people running around in silly bunny costumes and shooting each other.
I would stay away from MW3, because it's made by the Sledgehammer games developers and they create the worst netcode/bad multiplayer connection.
MW1 is nothing special, because the maps have a lot of camping spots and at this point it doesn't have many players.
It's best to just stick to the newest COD so Black ops 6, or if you want to save money try MW2 and Cold war.