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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Review (continued)
More User Submitted Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Reviews
Date: 2008-05-18
overrated
By no means is Call of Duty 4 a bad game, but there are large numbers of small and medium things that can ruin the experience.
Call of Duty 4's feel of realism is quickly lost when you first notice that the helicopters used to ferry in the copious number of enemies are invincible- in several plot related sections you are forced to shoot them down with RPGs, but outside of those areas, they take no damage from being shot with high powered weapons.
The same is true with certain enemies in other sequences- in particular, there is a section of the game where you ride on the back of a truck and shoot other trucks full of enemies, but the truck and the driver are both invulnerable, ruining the sequence for someone who is used to GTA San Andreas' style of being able to shoot drivers, as well as the wheels of their cars.
Another complaint is the number of enemies that will infinitely spawn until you force your way forwards- your teammates will be happy to sit in one place, killing a single enemy every couple minutes, while they pour out of the woodwork until you step past a specific point, or go to the point that they are spawning at. The game relies entirely on just spamming an infinite number of enemies at you until you force your way through.
Which brings up the Team AI- there essentially is none. Your people will sit in one place forever until you move forward, killing about 1 in the time period it takes 5 to spawn. AI allies are completely useless, and you instantly fail if you accidentally shoot anyone related to the plot.
The last real issue is that there are some guns that are essentially useless- in particular the belt-fed machine guns, which take more time to reload than it takes to root around for another one to pick up.
To this day I have not been able to get multiplayer functioning due to the finicky Punkbuster anti-cheating system, which has a habit of kicking you from a game at the drop of a hat, and can cause serious issues with your computer.
All in all, despite it's flaws, Call of Duty 4 is a fun game- there is a fairly realistic sniper mission where you creep around in a ghillie suit, the graphics are quite good, and you can feel yourself getting attached to some of other members of your team. It certainly isn't the second coming, but it's a good game if you have nothing else to play.
Date: 2008-05-15
Amazing...
I just got this game. The second i got on i was enjoying it. The singleplayer is very short, it should take you about 7-8 hours to complete the whole campaign. Although it is short it is intresting and suprisingly realistic. In the Campaign you will play as a british soldier and a american marine.
The multiplayer is the best part of the game. It is fun, exciting and very addictive, and just to make it that much better they put in ranks for your character. After every match you play online you shall earn expierience points. These points are recorded and once you get to a certain point of points you advance a rank... in other words: very fun.
Now to where we lose that star...if you are playing online and have a bad connection it shall keep you going and it can get very frustrating if you're on the middle of a hot battlescene. If i could i would rate it 4 and a 1/2 but that is not allowed, because half of the fault goes to you... you're the one with the bad connection.
Great Game
Date: 2008-05-15
COD 4
Game has good audio special effects and graphics. Would highly recommend it if you like "shooter" games.
Date: 2008-05-15
OMG IT ROCKS
Seriously this is the best FPS ever made! I like lots of them Halo, Half Life, Doom, Tom Clancy ones, etc. This one is the most amazing and immersive. I have one (and only one) complaint, I would like to turn the music OFF. If you like FPS, play this game...
Date: 2008-05-14
Great game - get it now
Some games are guaranteed to be great. At one point, I believed this about anything with the Tom Clancy logo on it, until Ubisoft bought that franchise and turned them into arcade shooters wit ridiculous graphic requirements. Call of Duty however is a pc franchise which delivers and remembers what makes this kind of game fun in the first place - brutal, immersive combat, realistic graphics, explosive sound effects and an interesting storyline.
The last COD for the pc was the brilliant COD 2 in 2005. COD 2 changed the rules somewhat from its predecessor, as it had no health kits and limited saves. COD 4 follows this pattern but deviates from the previous games in one very important way - you are now a modern soldier of the US Marine Corps or British SAS instead of a World War 2 infantry grunt. Obviously, returning to the modern day gives you many more weapons options which did not exist in the 1940s, such as rpgs and AK47s. You even get, a few times, the Javelin, a great anti-tank weapon.
COD 4 switches back and forth, at least early on, between the perspective of a US Marine (whose platoon is trying to find an atomic bomb) and a British SAS operative (whose team is tracking down those who financed and arranged the bomb delivery). In one important deviation, your character flashes back to the early 90s on a covert assassination mission in Chernobyl, shortly after the nuclear meltdown there.
The gameplay is pretty tight, and there are few dull or slow moments. COD is all all business shooter, and you won't waste a lot of time looking for keys or solving puzzles. The one stealth mission is engrossing and very well presented.
One important contribution which the COD series has made to the shooter genre is the concept of swapping weapons. In the COD series, you can carry just two weapons at any time (not counting grenades of course), but you can swap any of these weapons for those which you find from friend or foe along the way. This makes for interesting gameplay. You might want to grab say a powerul machine gun to hose down a lot of enemies at once, or you can find a sniper rifle and pick them off from a distance. Or you can find an RPG and blast the whole lot of them. COD usually allows you a few different paths through the most difficult sections but they take time to figure out.
There are a some annoying logjams. In a few tough places, enemies will respawn endlessly until you reach a certain invisible checkpoint after which they will quickly all run away or refuse to follow. In one such area, I kept sitting there picking off enemies until I was almost out of ammo, at which point I realized that I had to move. But, this feature also keeps you moving forward. You cannot camp out in the game, ever.
I guess my favorite level of the game was the stealth mission in Chernobyl. You are a young SAS sniper in a ghillie suit, avoiding Russian soldiers on the way to snipe a rogue arms dealer who is sellling a stolen nuclear device. Your commander is with you to give you advice. The end of the mission is a fantastic set piece battle in an abandoned amusement park. Another great mission lets you call in airstrikes as you and your men race to the extraction zone after a failed mission later in the game.
This is a game which alls shooter fans will love. I recommend it highly.
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