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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.

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.

frantic ww2 trademark combat

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 18
Date: November 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this games rox! you can bne the british, russian, and american soldiers and drive tanks and stuf

Congratulations Activision and Team Spark on an amazing game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 105 / 113
Date: November 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After being totaly immersed in Call of Duty and United Offensive on the PC I knew from Finest Hour's anouncment that I had to have it. First let me tell you that this is a completley new game. It's not a PC port but it does manage to incorporate familiar gameplay and levels into this jaw droping experience. In the first level you play as Alexander Solkovo, who is throw into the battle of Stalingrad with only a handful of ammo. Like the PC game, you eventualy get a rifle to use that ammo but in the begining of the level you have all that you can do to follow your sargent up the hill into machine gun fire. I would like to compare this to the D-Day scene in Medal of Honor Frontline, but that just wouldn't be fair. This game crushes Frontline and although I'll still play Frontline (an incredibly awesome game)This is what is owning my PS2 right now. After Stalingrad you will shift through roles, playing as a Russia female sniper, a Russian tank commander, a British PPA commando, a sargent with the Big Red 1, and a tank sargent in Belgium. The whole storyline is very cool and Finest Hour truely does capture the gritty cinimatic feel of WWII that most games don't. Some might need to remember that this game isn't trying to recreate the feel of the PC game. It's trying to recreate the feel of war and although I've never been in war, I'd say this game does a darn good job. Some people complain the controls are hard to get use to but I'm guessing thats because they are a bunch of hardcore PC gamers (nothing wrong with that) who aren't as good at adapting to a controller layout. Now like I said before, I own Frontline and many other FPS for PS2 and I caught on to these controls in no time. In fact, this game might have some of the best First Person Shooting controls I've ever used (well, next to Halo) With controls aside, lets move on to graphics. Thats always a fun part. They are simply amazing! Each character has around 1500 different animations thay can perform and trust me, they do perform. Really, graphics aren't an issue. The framerate in the game will make FPS fans happy. You can be mowing down twenty enemies and the frame rate doesn't drop at all. Which brings me to my next point. The arsenal rocks. It is smaller than the PC games but now you can run around firing MG42s and 30cal. machine guns without having to deploy them. This is truely awesome. But here is what Finest Hour is missing out on, the M1 carbine, the STG 44, a couple others and strangley, pistols aren't any where to be had. So when your two big guns run out, you must rely on melee attacks. The game, oddly enough, works well without pistols. Only after finishing the game did I realize, "Hey, I never used a pistol." but then I said "Hey, I never needed one!" Now, how about gameplay. The game has wide variety of ways to accomplish each mission (something Rising Sun promised but kind of failed with) And really, almost every time you play is different. With a mixture of funny and down right awesome cheat codes this game will keep you entertained for a long time. But do understand the replay value of this game doesn't relay on the cheats but they are great. What more can I say when it comes to performance and presentation... THIS GAME ROCKS!

Now, the not so good. What game doesn't have glitches? If some one can tell me one, their lying! So don't fear when I tell you this game has some minor glitches. Their nothing most FPS don't have (floating guns) But don't worry, more than likely you won't even notice it. The few glitches their are take place in the really big battles, so a couple of floating guns shouldn't bother you or even catch your eye. Another thing is that the British campaign seems a bit short lived but it is packed with action and the jeep chase more than compensates for a shorter campaign. Also a little more detail could have been paid to bullet holes in the walls. They aren't that good looking but like the floating guns, you probaly won't care. Also, Where is the multiplayer? Sure, you can go online with this game but what about split screen four player. Hopefully they will put it in the next game.

How about a quick recap.

Pros:
Great Graphics
Wonderful musical score
Intense gameplay that doesn't drop a frame
Lots of replay value

Cons:
A couple of tiny glitches that don't affect gameplay at all
The British Campaign is shorter than the others
No multiplayer with out online connection

So all in all Activision and Spark have done a wonderful job on Finest Hour and this in one game any FPS fan or World War II buff should not be without!

Finally it's on the PS2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: November 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just rented this yesterday and I'm already loving it. You can play as Russian, British, and American soldiers (note: The way I put it is the order you play as them). Here is the good and bads.

Good:
- Great Graphics
- Great Sound Effects
- Lots of Guns
- Time slows-down when you get shot or blown-up
- Great A.I.

Bad:
- No Blood
- No pistols in the beginning(maybe there are no pistols at all)
- Some missions are Easy, while others are Hard

You should try it out first to see if you like it, then go buy it. Well I'm going to play it right now so bye.

I loved the PC versions - but am let down.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: November 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Sorry - I wanted to like this... I bought it the first day it was out.
The PC Versions are fantastic. This is fairly difficult to play and does not have nearly the same cinematic, realistic, 3D feel of it's PC counterpart.

Maybe worth it at $ 19.99?

AWSOME but not too AWSOME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 21 / 33
Date: November 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

aww man were do i start, well ive been waiting for this game FOREVER and when i finnally got it i was so exited. Well let me start off by saying that the campains in this game are EPIC like the invasion of stalingrad the part on the boat with commissar talking to the soldiers as stukas bomb and strafe there boat sent a chill down my spine. And despite the fact that i beat the game the day before thanksgiving just a couple days after i got the thing this game is a real [...] to beat its like you make a wrong move and POW!!! your liyin dead on the ground. ShellShock in this game is also cool if you get in the path of a stray artillery shell when it hits everything goes slow. The British campain is too short with it having only 4 missions but its hard i loved the russian campain but the one that really pissed me off was the american missions. Well anyway i wouldint go without this game its fun,challenging, and full of special fetures so this game IS A MUST HAVE TITLE.

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.

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.

Was looking forward to it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: December 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ever since i saw the trailer, i couldn't get this game out of my head, because it actually is the only war game worth playing. No diss to Meadal of Honor or Battlefield, but Call of Duty: Finest Hour is a much more mature, authentic and all around great war experience. Nobody likes the blocky graphics seen everywhere these days, and this game hardly has it. The controls are easy to get over, and although this is a hard game, it still is more authentic.

This is the only war game you should think of buying, it's a guarantee you'll like this, and try playing it onlne.

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