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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Review (continued)
More User Submitted Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Reviews
Date: 2008-09-17
This has single-player?? Multi rules!
My son got this and couldn't put it down for a week. I finally watched decided it looked like fun, tried it when he wasn't around, then got hooked.
I played just the first two sections of the single-player campaign. While it is created very well, the multi-player is so good that I can't go back to single.
The multi has 11 different ways to play. There's different was to play team deathmatches, a capture the flag game (Domination), setting a bomb & preventing the other team from defusing it, etc.
Plus as you get experience points and get promoted up the ranks, you'll get more choices in weapons, add-ons, and perks.
Also, there's about 15 different maps. They're all done amazingly well, with what's obscured, where the hiding places are, the size, etc. Also, they put in the effect your eyes have in the daylight of when you're in a building and walk towards a window, at first you just see white glare, but as you get closer, you can see the things outside.
If you've never played multi-player, it's not like single that requires a start to finish, specific order type thing. Multi is pretty free-form. That's the awesomeness of it. By the way, there are still thousands of players throughout the day playing all the types on Xbox Live.
The only drawback is that you'll need to subscribe to Xbox Live for multi-player. Obviously I think it's worth it. Do it!
This is easily my favorite Xbox game. I love it. There's just so much you can do, & b/c it's live & multi-player, there's not that much redundancy.
Date: 2008-09-17
excellent duty 4
i really like it is one of the best games i ever played before!the next one i hope is even better.
Date: 2008-09-13
Go Deep & Go Hard
Call of Duty 4 does a lot of things right with it's jump to modern warfare, but a part of me felt like they brought some of World War II with them.
The single player campaign is fairly short, but it's your average modern FPS fare in terms of length. The gameplay is fantastic! If you thought the previous Call of Duty games were chaotic, imagine a modern day console launch in the U.S. Plenty of people, plenty of violence, and plenty of guns. The intensity only lets up for short breathers (generally at the beginning of the game, cause in the second half it's all guns blazing). The pacing of the game is superb. I played through the entire game in one sitting and never once felt things were getting a little too repetitive. In the beginning of the game when you're switching between the two soldiers it kind of feels like two different games, but before you get too much of a good thing, you switch to the other and it helps keep the game fresh. One of the best parts of the game is the presentation. Unlike previous games in the franchise you don't play x amount of levels as a British soldier, x amount as an American, etc. etc. Instead you find yourself switching back and forth between an American and Brit in a seemingly unrelated, but in fact congruent storyline. There's plenty of razzle-dazzle during the loading screens and in between missions, as a satellite tracks your character's location around the globe, or a 3D schematic shows off one of the games vehicles giving you all kinds of technical data. Definitely more modern than the old war journals of the previous incarnations. The enemy AI is good; they'll find cover and blind fire, they'll throw a cacophony of grenades, and just generally do their best to kill you.
Like yin and yang, in all light there is darkness, and there is some not so bright spots to be found. They did a great job of making the combat modern, but parts of the game play aren't, at least to me. You're not just one soldier, you're part of a squad and you're squad can do some cool stuff. They can take cover, they can breach doors, they can take a seemingly unlimited amount of bullets without dying, they can survive explosions that would normally kill you (unless you were the cause of the explosion, in that case - "Friendly fire will not be tolerated"). Why can't I take cover? Enemies can. Why can't I blind fire? Enemies can. Maybe Rainbow Six: Vegas and the GRAW series have spoiled me, but this game kind of plays like a tactical squad based shooter. It's just not very tactical or squad based. It is a more intense and fast-paced shooter than those, but it just seems a little lacking after having played those. You're not the leader, but you do have to lead the squad everywhere. As I said, you're not a solitary soldier, but it's like my Friday nights - a little lonely. The worst escort mission ever. Escort missions suck, everybody knows it. Now imagine an escort mission where you have to carry the guy and put him down to shoot, he can still shoot, but it's probably the worst part of the game. This is kind of funny considering it follows probably the best part of the game ("Ghillies in the Mist"). I didn't enjoy playing through the timed levels, to me they were more frustrating than fun and were the only times I wanted to quit playing.
The multiplayer is also done well. There's no fancy video save features or level editors, just some solid kill people action. You earn points for kills, capturing bases, and what-not, and those points increase your XP kind of like an RPG leveling you up. As you level up you gain access to more modes and weapons and perks. You can earn attachments to your guns by completing challenges with a particular gun. The challenges are things like getting so many kills or headshots with a certain gun. There's some other challenges I'm not far enough yet to unlock.
I went into this game expect a great game and that's what I got. It's got some flaws, but nothing that breaks the game. It doesn't break new ground it just digs the same ground better and more efficiently, like an excavator. Infinity Ward took the tried and trued Call of Duty formula and brought it into the modern age and it works. I could've avoided all this typing by simply saying this - It's fantastic.
Date: 2008-09-13
Great Multiplayer Game
As mentioned in other reviews the single player campaign is a bit short and uninspired, but, seriously, who buys these games to play them single-player? The multiplayer is great and with so much to unlock, achieve and do you'll more than get your money out of this game.
Date: 2008-09-07
***COD 4***
I give this game 5 out of 5 stars. The campaign mode is a little short, but still an extremely fun and amazing game experience. If you're in to multiplayer games then this is the best one out for xbox 360. This game is a must have!
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