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Call Of Duty: Finest Hour

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: January 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's an exciting game, but difficult at times. Lots of surprises!

Nothing Special

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was extremely dissappointed with Call of Duty. I was drawn in with its claims of realism. Thats a huge overstatement. The game is exactly like MOH. And for anyone who's ever played MOH, you know what that means: stupid enemies and basically unlimited ammo.

The only thing we haven't seen before in this game is riding around in a tank. I know what your thinking: OOHH, that sounds like fun. Forget it. Its bland and boring. You drive down a pre-determined path and shoot enemies that "happen" across your path.

Even if you like WWII shooters, you probably won't like this one. Its basically every bad WWII shooter packed into one. Use at your own risk.

A Good WWII Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great World War II game and very challenging. The first level is nothin, but the second took me forever. You play as Russians in the Russian Front, the British in Africa for a couple levels, and then the Americans in the capture of Germany. The graphics are decent, the AI could be better but its much better than Medal of Honor. There's a lot of weapons compared to some other games, and a good story line. You command tanks, anti aircraft guns and squads of men. You have to give the game some time to beat it, its not easy at all. But thats what video games r supposed to be, hard. This is a great game.

Quite difficult, can turn repetitive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I really like Call of Duty Finest Hour, but there's a couple of things that could have been better.

1. DIFFICULTY:
Even though I'm playing the game in easy mode, there are some missions that are extremely difficult to finish.
For example, the last mission as a british soldier, which takes place in some ruins is quite hard.
Then, even harder is the first mission with the americans, escorting the tanks and M12 in Aachen. This mission requires some very precise choreography. One must learn very well when and where the enemies will appear, so as not to get killed.

2. SAVE GAME
The game can be frustrating because you can't save whenever you like and instead only when you finish the mission. This means that if you have advanced a lot and you get killed, you have to start all over again.
Some long missions have checkpoints, but if you shut the console off and then resume the game, you start from the very beginning of the mission.
The saved game information, as far as I recall, doesn't record your ammo or weapons. So, even if you have saved a lot of ammo and got the best weapons from previous missions, you get to start with the standard ammo for the mission when you resume the game.

3. REPETITIVENES
The game is very entertaining and the music score is excellent to ambient. You really get into the game. Most of the time, if you play slowly, you can manage to finish the mission unharmed.
But then there are some missions that do not allow for this, and you get killed very often.
Because you have to learn this choreography to pass the mission, the game turned tedious and quite repetitive. I had to let it rest for a couple of days before having the guts to resume the same mission.
I found the Aachen mission particularly frustrating because it does not present multiple ways to accomplish the objective. Gameplay is very linear throughout the game.

4. AI INTELLIGENCE... OR LACK OF.
Teamwork is crucial to finishing your mission. You have to take care of your fellow AI soldiers, by providing them with med-packs when their health is low (their name turns red), providing cover fire for them or just killing the enemy before the enemy kills them.
But the AI teammates keep taking the wrong decisions and heading straight in front of the enemy's gunfire. Or blocking my way. There is no control over them whatsoever.
I wish there was more control over them. For instance, other games allow you to command the others to attack a certain objective that you have selected (the objective on your sight, for example), or you can order them to provide cover fire of back off. I have not found a way for my AI soldiers to do that.

5. INSTRUCTION MANUAL
The final thing is that the manual of the PS2 version is poorly designed. Much space is dedicated to the descriptions of the weapons that can be found in the game, but almost none to the controls. There is very little graphical support to the explanaition of the controls.
Almost none is said about interactions with AI soldiers.

Aside from this, I find it a very good game. It's still very easy to get killed, but I guess this is also true in a real battle.
Then again, I guess in a real battle my fellow soldiers would have to be more clever than these AI (or rather AD... Artificially Dumb) soldiers.

You will not beat it in 5 minutes

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I really like this game because it is challenging, dramatic and just really fun. You start out as an extremely ticked off russian. Advice on the game, immediately get an mp40 and a kar98. They are great German guns. The mp40 is a great gun for room clearing and in general. The 98 is basically a sniper rifle without a scope. The levels are really good. You have some sniper levels which I really like. Levels where you go through squares, pretty much everything. However, if you want call of duty I would recommend Big Red One over this because the firefights are just simply better. Advice, don't use the BAR you always reload. With the thompson, it just doesn't hit or take out what you aim at.

Bob

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You start out as a Russian first then British and finally a American. You also get to drive a tank. It is a real long game to finish for you it mite take 3-5 days to finish, but for me took about 1-2 weeks to finish.but sometimes you can't find a medkit for a long time. The hardest level is when you try to take a bridge full of gemans. but it is really worth it to buy

One of the Finest First Person Shooters Available!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Reviewed for Big Boss Games by: L.E.G.

As a lover and avid player of FPS (First Person Shooter) type games, I am probably one of the toughest critics and a game must satisfy all my criteria for me to give it a 5/5 rating. Without any doubts, Call of Duty Finest Hour has successfully accomplished this lofty goal.

To start with, Call of Duty Finest Hour is entirely based on events that happened during World War II. But, ActiVision took on a bigger role than just making a video game and actually tries and succeeds in teaching us a brief history lesson. Granted it's very short and concise, but it helps to setup the game and it's many diverse and challenging levels.

You start out playing as a member of the Russian Army fighting with your comrades on the Eastern Front, from the Volga to Stalingrad. The missions can be somewhat difficult to finish, but the squad leader does give you instructions (just as if you were in the army) on what you need to do or where you need to go. "Blow up that building" and "Take out those machine guns" are typical fare. And most of the time you are a member of a "squad", so don't try to be all "Rambo" and try to defeat the Germans all by yourself. You will get slaughtered!

After you complete your mission(s) as one person, you are then placed in someone else's shoes and get to fight the war from their perspective. Which also opens you up to using different weapons and driving around in tanks. But, this is not Grand Theft Auto. You can't go around and jump in vehicles and take off. Your tour of duty on the Eastern Front with the Russians takes a total of 8 sometimes-grueling missions. At least the game is very forgiving and lets you restart the mission at the last checkpoint.

After the Eastern Front, you are whisked off to North Africa to serve with the British Army in Tunisia. All of the buildings and backgrounds used in this game are simply amazing. There is a lot of rich and articulate detail to keep your attention. You will serve a total of 4 missions with the bulldogs. More neat weapons used by the Brits and a lot of blowing stuff up in these levels. G-D Save the Queen!

And last, but not least, you go to the Western Front to fight with the American Army. As in previous levels, you get more awesome weapons to shoot and tanks to drive. Some of the toughest battles will be fought with the Americans. A total of 7 missions await your shooting skills.

Call of Duty Finest Hour by ActiVision is available for the Playstation 2, Xbox and Gamecube. It is rated "T" for Teen and contains a ton of blood and a whole lot of violence. Since this game is based on World War II, blood and violence is to be expected. Total missions are 19 and 23 different weapons.

This game is Single Player only, but does offer multiplayer online broadband only and 2-16 players. Online gametypes are: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and Search & Destroy.
Overall, this game was as close to perfect as they can get with very few technical glitches. Like one time I was crawling around on the floor and trying to climb a flight of stairs and my character just fell through some empty space to his terrible death.

This game was just so well balanced between missions, story, music and action that I had to give it a 5/5.

It's really an awesome game, so go ahead and get a copy.

BEST GAME EVER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am a big shooter game fan. This game has very good graphics! the good: good graphics, great music, a great secletion of wepons, relisistic gameplay. Now even though this game rocks, all games must have a downside
the bad: The Ai are not very good, I truly expeted more from the tank missions. all in all I rate this game 5 stars. If you want a good WWII game get this one

what a drag!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 19
Date: December 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When Call Of Duty was released last year, it redefined how intense combat could get in a video game. Now, spark studios has released finest hour for the systems. Good right? not entirely. Something was lost in the switching process, oh I don't know, like the whole frickin intensity and action!!!! Now all I feel is my character running around shooting stuff he can barely see because of the fuzzy graphics. The only good thing about this game is that it has an intresting story line and historical backround. Otherwise, stay the heak away from this budget title.

Good effects, very challenging, could be longer

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

After playing a game like San Andreas, everything else seems short by comparison. Call of Duty feels really short. Which lessens the value of an otherwise solid game.

The special effects in Call of Duty are simply outstanding, you literally feel like you're in the middle of the battle. The opening scene in particular feels much like the opening scene from "Saving Private Ryan", bullets flying everywhere, people dying all around, total chaos. You don't know whether you're coming or going, to make matters worse, you're unarmed.

In Call of Duty you play a series of missions as various characters from the allies side of WW 2. You start with Russian missions, then move on to British mission, and finally American missions. Each with their own nuances and varying levels of difficulty. The American missions are the most difficult. I found that it was necessary to replay the American missions constantly before they could finally be beaten.

As great as the graphics and gameplay are, the individual missions are linear and somewhat short, though challenging just the same. It is however the relative 'shortness' of Call of Duty that is its downfall. If there were say, 5 - 10 more missions the game would be more worthwhile.

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