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OMG IT ROCKS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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...

Great game - get it now

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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.

Best one Yet?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Maybe its just me but the World War 2 theme was getting a little worn out. Dont get me wrong, it was a very important time in history but one can only make so many games based off of it.This fourth incarnation of the franchise is a little more gritty and kept me on edge for most of the time I spent with it. Although the action is heavily scripted (though most COD's are) the firefights you will find yourself in are amazing and the story is hollywood grade stuff. Overall a great game and very glad I purchased it.

Awesome Game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have now played the whole game and I was very impressed. I would recommend it to anyone who is into these kind of games.

Tons-O-Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is defiantly one of the most entertaining games I've played.

-Pros
Smooth and balanced gameplay.
Great looking graphics.
Fun customizable classes.
Great selection of guns and maps.
Single player actually has a very good story line.

-Cons
Heavy on graphics. (Fast machine required)
No prestige mode in PC version. (For those of you who have it on Xbox)
Sucks your time down like milkshakes in "There Will Be Blood"

Play well and conquer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Call of Duty 4 is a fast paced, truly epic first person shooter. The single player campaign will grab a hold of you and will not let you go. It's like playing a movie. The multiplayer online mode will keep you coming back for months to come. Like other FPS games, quick thinking and excellent mouse aiming are your keys to victory. Call of Duty 4 requires a slightly higher end computer to enjoy it at it's prettiest settings.

gun, plains, and choppers, OH MY!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is by far one of THE best CoD games. Sure the single player mode is short but that's just to get you ready for what this game is made for: online play. The online is simply AMAZING. The maps could be a bit bigger (especially Shipment, the smallest map. I once played a 50-person Hardcore (1 hit kill) match... wow was that hectic!) but the ones that are big are pretty good. The PC version's online play has better people that the Xbox 360 version. At my friend's house I got him 1st place in a match where he was in 2nd to last. And the ending, not to give anything away, is the best ending i think I've seen in a video game! Very much worth the 50 dollars!

Mayor disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As the graphics looks nice, the game itself is a big disappointment. The underlying story is the usual stuff (hunting down some bad guys). But what disappointed me the most was that you can play the entire game in one weekend or less. Yes! And that's not just when playing 24 hrs a day, rather like 5-8 hrs a day. The game is short. You don't get the money's worth. Maybe they ran out of ideas halfway into the game or thought that if they keep it short, then they can release another one to get more of your money. I guess that most of the people who posted the review here didn't realize how short the game really was because they wrote the review before they fisished the game. Don't buy. Crysis is much, much better.

Stunning

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

On a high end PC this game is absolutely stunning. It's harder then the earlier WW2 COD games, but the attention to detail in both the characters and the environments is staggering.

The sniper mission stands out, you'd swear you were watching a movie sometimes.

It's true that this is a linear shooter in the sense that you are restricted in what routes you can take and enemies will appear in response to your location (sometimes a bad guy won't appear unless you walk through a doorway or enemies will continue to come at you while you stay in one place). This doesn't really detract from the game too much though.

Thoroughly recommended.

This raises the bar

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Amazing well done single player game. It takes a lot to impress me with a video game these days and Ativision has done more than just impress, I was in awe. This should be the new benchmark for single player first person shooters. My only complaint is the multiplayer platform. It does not measure up to the single player game or other multiplayer first person shooters.

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