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Yay! If only it were longer...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When i got this game for Christmas, i immediatly started to play this game. This was the first game in the call of duty series i had played, so i'm not aa expert on call of duty but by the looks of it, this was a real good game
The Good:
the graphics are awsome.it gets sorta fuzzy, but it won't effect any of your skills
the aiming sytem is straight down the barrel, unless you choose not to aim. (i prefer this system. it's more realistic) where in meadal of honor (moh)it's just the a side view of a gun and a cross aiming thingy in the center screen.
your comrades actually help you fight the enemies, unlike in moh, where it's basically you fighting the war alone.
a variety of weapons from the germans, russian, english and the american. to get every weapon, you have to kill certain people. In moh, they give you away every weapon (on different levels), which is more unrealistic and sorta cheesy.
you get to change to different people in different missions, instead of staying as only one person the whole game. (i don't really care if you stay as one character the whole game though).

The darkside of the game:
if some of you gamers (i'm not exactly a hard gamer) care about every single detail, in will include it.
a flaw in the graphics makes some of the weapons appear to be floating on the ground, but i don't think it will be much problems, and you might not even notice.
the british campaign is way too short (only 4 missions) and two of the missions are tiny.
i personally don't like the tank missions and 50% of the russian campaign (which is the longest campaign) are tank battles.
in the american/british arsenal, there is weapon known as the 1903 springfield rifle (scoped) and it is impossible to get. one comrade had one and i threw literally all my "sticky bombs" at him, and he dropped no springfield. so that was bad. but it didn't really bother me.
the multi player is only on line! it's not fair that you can only go online for multiplayer. after you beat the game, it gets sorta **boring**.

overall review

this game was real intense (it won't give you a heart attack). sometimes when i was secretly killed from behind, i screamed (a little silly right?). the only thing thats keeping this game from a 5 star rating is the shortness of the game. It's not that short though. it's just that you want more.

crazy game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: November 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is awsome. I was playing it for 3 hours last night and it is non stop action. I love it. Every time you turn some one is shooting at you. I love the guns and the way that you can just pick them up on the ground from dead soldiers. I also think snipin is very fun it is cool scoping in on people and just shooting them down. If you like first person shooters buy this game. Even if you have never played a war game you will still love the action. Get this game.

Good, but not good enough...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: January 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The original Call of Duty game was really something to marvel. The AI was good, the graphics were awesome, and the gameplay was very smooth. Not only that, but it kept it's historical inaccuracies to a minimum. But my favourite part was that your enemies didn't require 15 rounds to the chest to kill. 2 to 3 pistol shots were sufficient, which is closer to real life. You to play as a very vulnerable soldier, who can only withstand a few rifle shots.

However, many of these things change in Call of Duty: FInest Hour. Not only must you fight on the corpse-cluttered shores of Stalingrad again, but you have to complete ridiculous machines that had little or no effect on the war, or simply did not exist at all. The AI is horrifying. There is a mission in the British Campaign where you must rescue a few captured British soldiers trapped in a building. An endless amount of German Soldiers attack (I shot at the group of them for 30 minutes, with no end in sight. After I saved them, . Other problems include:

- Cheesy graphics, in terms of fire and ecplosions (terrain is fairly well done)

- Damage. I never knew a Nazi required so many BAR rifle rounds to die. The soldiers in this game are far too difficult to kill.

- That bloody reticule guide. Every time you shoot an enemy with your gun, a red circle encompasses your reticule, showing you shot him. I doubt real soldiers had this luxury during the war.

- When you pilot the tank and fire, a giant black round can be seen flying at the target. Not only is this unrealistic, but the shell fires ridiculously slow.

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It is cool that you can heal your comrades, but most of the time they're too stupid and run right back out into the line of fire. Being a WWII fanatic, I won't fail this game. It's disappointing, as the awesome commercials really hyped us up for the game. But trust me. The game IS NOTHING LIKE THAT. I recommend every rent this, but only true COD fans and WWII fanatics should dare purchase it. The original is much better, so you'd be better off playing it.

Another average WWII game...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: May 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Call of Duty: Finest Hour is simply just another WWII game. It has decent graphics (although faces look horrible and animations aren't great) and sound, with a good framerate, but gameplay is standard fare. Of course it has its "epic" moments (Stalingrad in this game), but even they are getting stale. Also, there is too long of a gap between checkpoints, causing a headache-inducing amount of backtracking everytime you die.

I'm a big fan of first-person shooters, and I loved the original Medal of Honor: Allied Asault. This game, however, is just another console FPS based on WW2. Rent it first, see if you like it. The actor who plays President Palmer on "24" does some narration, which is probably the best part of the game.

Good, But not as good as comp

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: November 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Call of Duty is a very good game. I can play it for hours at a time on the comp. The problem is, is that it takes a long time to load on the comp if you have an o.k. computer. I recommend that if you do not have a good internet connection or a good computer to get this.
The reason I rate the game a 4 is because the controls are hard to get used to, and you can not play multiplayer with 2 controllers. After playing C.O.D on the comp for 4 months it is hard to get used to using the analog controls and you can not customize your own controls. To play multiplayer you have to go online to play( I don't have a connection to the internet on my PS2). If you want a game that has a good multiplayer play Medal of Honor: The Rising Sun
All in all it is a good game but I recommend you rent it.

Lost in translation...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 22
Date: November 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ironically, I had preordered the console version of Call of Duty long before I had played the PC version. Yet with the release date oh so far away, I decided to take advantage of the recent price drop of the Call of Duty PC game hoping that it would tide me over. However, after playing countless hours of the game on my PC, I'd have to say that Call of Duty: Finest Hour is a bit of a disappointment. I understand that a console has nowhere near the processing power of a PC, yet I couldn't help but feel underwhelmed by FH's graphics which were simple and bland at best. However, I was mostly disappointed in the lack of save points throughout a level. That meant after spending ten minutes or so blasting your way through a difficult level, you would have to start the campaign all over again from start to finish if your player is killed. I always appreciate a challenge, yet not when the odds are overwhelmingly stacked against me. The one aspect that the console version did translate well was the "war is hell" theme. The beginning level featuring you as a Russian soldier taking back Stalingrad from the "steeking Germans" was intense with gunfire raining all around you and enemy soldiers around every corner. The death animations are overly exaggerated which made in difficult to distinguish whether or not an enemy was either wounded or dead only to have them shoot you in the back. I played this game for only an hour before I filed it away with my other games. I imagine that I will someday go back, but in the meantime, I'm having too much fun with the PC version.

Great FX, but short

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If I could, I'd rate the fun of this game a 6 out of 5. This game is incredible. The graphics are great and the sound is astonishing because of how real it is. The only drawbacks are how short the game is, and lack of multiplayer. The game still takes a while because of the difficulty, but it is not as long as I'd like. I also wish that it had multiplayer other than online, but if you have online capability, than it isn't a problem. Is this game worth $40.00? Definitly. It is the best money I have spent on a game since San Andreas.

A lot of fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: November 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Call of Duty: Finest Hour is a really good game exept for a few things like You cant play multiplayer without being online, during a mission you cant save and the checkpoints are very hard to get to, too many of the missions wants you to guard something that is almost impossible to and your "comrades" are very bad at fighting and usally dont help you in a mission. The good things are the grafics are really good, you can fight as American, British and Russian soldiers, you can pick up weapons from dead soldiers, its a lot of fun, theres a lot of weapons and in some missions you can drive a tank. If you like Medal of Honor you should buy this game.

so far so good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: December 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I picked up this game the other day and so far its pretty good. The begining of the game is a scene right out of "Enemy at the Gate"
storming the western shore of the volga river to take Stalingrad back from the Germans. I didn't like not having a weapon at the begining. I like to start blasting from the first go. However, the game has some pretty good action as is historically accurate so far.Bottom line, get the game just as a reminder of the greatist conflict of all time

Difficult but still fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Call of Duty Finest Hour is a pretty good game. It can be difficult at times and really confusing. I was lucky because I bought the Strategy Guide which had maps but I still often got lost. This was especially true in the sewer levels, you're under ground walking around in circles and almost all the tunnels look the same. Also you really don't need your teamates all that much and don't bother giving them med packs. They don't draw any fire away from you and they are not very good at killing anyone. It is true that this game is more realistic Than most shooters because your not winning the whole war by yourself like in the Medal of Honor games but the soldiers you are fighting with are not even close to the level of the Germans. Another reason you shouldn't worry about keeping your soldiers safe is all the important ones that give you instructions can not even get killed. Another problem with this game is repetiveness, how many times do you have to protect your tanks in a mission? Also, this game can get pretty difficult and in order to beat some missions you have to know where most enemies, health packs, machine guns, etc. are (another bonus of buying the strategy guide). To be able to know where these things are you have to die a couple of times and keep starting the mission over which can take some of the enjoyment away. Also this game lacks a multiplayer mode so anyone that does not have online, like me, will end up not pickng this game up again after beating the campaigns. This game is a great as any shooter game in all aspects besides the ones I have mentioned.
I hope I have helped you in your decision on whether or not to buy this game. :)

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