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Horrible Multiplayer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: August 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The multiplayer for this game is horrible, perhaps unless you have the best of connections to the game. I don't think it was so bad until it was updated several months after its release. If you like dying about one or two seconds after you spawn, or dying to enemies that you haven't even registered on your screen, you may actually like this game. Also, the realism factor is very low in this game. On half the maps, you're likely to find that your opposing team is made up of snipers by more than 50%. This game really has nothing to do with "modern warfare".

The single player part of the game is even worse than the multiplayer. It's more like a fantasy game than a war-action game. There is a fun level, though, where you get to fire out of a gunship. I thought that was pretty unique and interesting. I'm going to stick to the games like the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter games.

It's OK

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 14
Date: May 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As an avid Xbox 360 player, I find that this game is WAY to overhyped. Yes it is fun for the first few weeks you play it, but the game modes do not have the ingenuity to keep one intrested. Also, once you reach commander for the first time, there is no sastifaction. You fell like, wow, that was way too easy, so what do they do, prestige mode. Good idea, poor execution. Basically you get to lose everything for a little symbol. totally worth it...NOT. If you are getting this game as a transition while you wait to get Gears 2 or Rainbow 2, then this is a good buy, but if you want a game to play for the long haul, i Suggest Rainbow Six Vegas 2.

A Lot of fun...single player mission too short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: June 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was terrific. Lots of different missions and weapons. Adrenaline-pumping action and tension. But the single player mission is very short. I'm not one for online play, so this was a bit discouraging given the price of the game, but like Bioshock or Gears of War, I might actually be tempted to play it through again.

Excellent title

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This will please any war fighting game fans, and even first timers. Graphics are amazing and the missions are great fun. Haven't tried multiplayer yet but I hear it's a whole nuther world. A must for cod players and as well for anyone who owns an xbox 360.

Very good sarter game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

So, this game is a great starter game for most hard core gamers that are only about to buy a 360, so, buy this game with it. The game of the year edition is the exact same as the regular one, but it includes new maps, like kill house and creek. But, im giving this game a 4 and a half out of 5, because creek is very much a camper map. But, this is a fantastic game overall and i recommend it to almost everybody that like FPS's.

An addictive time-waster

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is tons of fun in online mode. The single-player mode is fun, too, but it has the same design as others in the series where you have limited ammo and unlimited enemies until you move to the next checkpoint. Keep this in mind or you're screwed.

The graphics and sound are fantastic! See and believe. The weapons have been tweaked so they're more balanced in the game, and less accurate representations of the accuracy and damage of the real things, but so what.

The online game has an innovative system where you earn upgrades by reaching certain achievements, such as a 25 kills with this weapon or killing X number of enemies using C4, and so on. It's frustrating that you can only use two of these upgrades ("perks") at a time, so you can't have increased bullet damage and red dot sights and increased health, but I guess it evens out the game.

I'd give it five stars but a couple of online maps are sub-optimal and really annoying, but overall it's still a blast to play, and if you like first-person shooters you'll be stuck on this for ... a while.

If someone blew you up with a claymore, it's probably me. Sorry.

Nearly Perfect!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Too bad I cannot give this game 4.9 stars. It was that close. Everything good that you have heard about this game is true. There are just some things that seperate it from a full 5 stars.

Actually only 3 come to mind:

In the single player mode, some of the AI characters who are "Force Recon Marines" are Privates (or paygrade of E-1). Perhaps the creators just didn't research their rankings enough. In the American military you advance up to E-3 (Lance Corporal for Marines) after 18 months, any Force Recon Marine would already be long past the rank of Private.

The second mistake was also related to rank. Captain Price is an O-3 (3rd officer paygrade), yet 15 years ago (in the sniper mission) he was a young Leftenant (an O-2). If he was a leftenant 15 years ago he should be at least a Lt. Colonel (O-5) or Colonel (O-6) by now. Yes O-6 in the Navy is called Captain, but then he would be placed in a desk job in any case. Either way for him to still be a Captain he would have had to have been reduced in rank several times, and have higher-tenured out (released prior to retirement for failing to pick up rank in a set number of years).

The third and last gripe I have is with the sniper mission. Great mission. But the sniper rifle you use when posting out in the Hotel is supposed to be the barrett M107, which was not around 15 years ago, when that mission was set.

These may seem rediculous, but hey, 5 stars doesn't come easy. Wish I could give them 4.9 stars, but 4 will have to suffice.

Same Great COD4 With Extra Maps for Online!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: April 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

U should get this game.....Best shooter thus far and it comes with 4 new maps for the same price as the Regular Edition...

May not be Worth It

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 24
Date: May 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've played COD4 for a grand total of about 16 full days (384 hours) and still appreciate it very much. Like Halo 3, this is primarily a multiplayer FPS with a sidecar campaign that is well-written, choreographed, and voice-acted. All there is to say about the game has been said, however, on the original game's forum, so let's focus on the GOTY Edition's only added feature: the Map Pack.

I purchased the map pack the day it dropped and instantly had mixed feelings. Two of the maps, Creek and Killhouse, only tangentially keep with the game's fiction. Creek is vast, set in an undulating eastern European countryside. Due to the map's size, most players equip sniper rifles and just pick others off as they make their way through choke points and hence has gained a reputation as a "camper's paradise", meaning that players tend to just sit and wait, or "camp", rather than rush their opponents. Killhouse, on the other hand, is somewhat like Halo 3's Foundry map in that it is a big generic warehouse within which players navigate generic barriers and structures. It really is supposed to resemble an indoor military training area and can only be accessed online by playing Team Objective games (like Search and Destroy, Sabotage, etc.) or playing private matches with your friends. If you don't appreciate campers in FPS's and would prefer not to play a map that feels "outside" the game's narrative space, you may not enjoy these two maps.

Chinatown is in a class of its own, and well outside the game's fiction. It is a remake of an old FPS map and very dark, with convoluted passages through a cluster of themed buildings and various shifts in altitude depending upon which building you're in. In contrast to Creek, this is a map that favors close-quarters weapons like SMGs and Shotguns, but doesn't totally exclude LMGs or Assault Rifles. It stands apart from the game proper due to its theme, and if you like getting down and dirty in an urban setting, you might enjoy this map.

Broadcast is a large map lifted almost pixel-for-pixel from the single-player campaign. It is a television station in a city somewhere in eastern Europe, and affords players the opportunity to battle both indoors (various offices, a recording studio, mainframe room) and out (parking lot, roof, small adjacent buildings). Out of the Map Pack maps it boasts the best "flow", meaning that time between scuffles is short and that there is easy, obvious passage between areas and floors. Campers and rushers are both satisfied as the indoor action favors machine guns while snipers may pin down marks from accross the parking lot.

All of that being said, I'm a little disappointed that the GOTY version of the game doesn't include any visual or technical enhancements like other GOTYs have (thinking of Morrowind and Oblivion here) and only includes a free set of mostly-mediocre maps that will, after time, be free anyway. Also, it doesn't seem like a sound marketing decision to charge full price for the GOTY Edition when a consumer can purchase the original game (from Amazon) and the maps (from XBL) for $10 less than it costs to buy the GOTY Edition. Questionable...

Game of the what?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: May 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is very realistic. If you came from Halo to play this, or any other game where you can take hits, dont play this online right away. It is extreamly fasted paced and as a noob to this game, I got owned my first match, but I picked up the controlls really quick. They are easy to use and fast to react. Very realistic. Though when playing on some of the maps, there is some mystery person always yealling every few moments, and that is really annoying when your are trying to get someone and your listening for them around the corner and the voice yealls at you. Arrg. overall 5 stars for the realism and game play.

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