Well, they made a mistake in setting the whole game in France, but it had an actual storyline with actual characters, and it had an awesome multiplayer which worked right out of the box, as opposed to the four months of clusterfuck and denial from Activision and IW (seriously, everyone needs to quit sucking IW's dick) regarding the completely broken COD2 multiplayer.
Plus, there is a line in COD3 where the French dude tells the British guy he hopes he gets syphilis. COD3>COD2