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Call of Duty: Finest Hour 5 STARS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: December 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best games of the year. The intensity realism, and difficulty kept me on the edge of my seat. But there were flaws, examples: terrible allie A.I., the game was also to short it could have had more Russian and British missons. Even with those flaws the game was so great I gave it five-stars because I loved it. It is a must own for any serious gamer(or a fan of MOH games).

A Medal Of Honor.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game reminded me of the first scene in the movie saving private ryan.Your first level you even start in a boat going ashore.This game is very simular to the first medal of honor game.With intense firefights,and authentic WWII weapons.Lots of explosions and bullets flying over your head.Made me feel like I was action star in WWII movie.Graphics are good.But the later levels get a little bland,sometimes not very detailed,but most of the games graphics are good.If your a fan of Medal Of Honor.You'll probably like this game .It's a good solid FPS.Its all first person mode.

Hmmmm... Could have been better...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The commercials for this game were very misleading. They make Call of Duty: Finest Hour look so much better than it actually is! However, that's not saying it's a bad game. Once you get past the initial disappointment, it has its high points. Call of Duty is your basic WWII first-person shooter. The graphics are nice and the game is pretty realistic, but not much stands out from other games of this genre.

PROS:
The weapons are realistic, but some people will try to tell you it's too hard to aim, and aiming is so much easier on the PC version because the gun doesn't move around as much. Go try shooting a real gun and tell me how easy it really is to aim and fire a rifle while standing. Sure the gun moves around a lot when you're using the iron sights, but it's supposed too! Another good thing is there's not some tiny little crosshair that will tell you right where you're going to shoot. The huge crosshair in Call of Duty is only to be used in close quarters fighting, and the rest of the time you need to use the guns' iron sights. The guns are accurate, but not TOO accurate, and accuracy is lost the longer you fire.

There's also a nice selection of weapons, from the M1 Garand to Bren Light machine guns. My favorite was the Mosin-Nagant sniping rifle, and the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) was great as well. If you run out of ammo, you can always steal a gun from a dead enemy. MP40s are especially useful, because they fire slow enough to remain accurate while still covering a large area with bullets relatively quickly. In the Normal difficulty setting, it takes about the same number of shots to kill an enemy as it takes for them to kill you, and you don't have to empty an entire magazine to take down a single enemy, but it takes enough shots that it doesn't become too easy. And so what if there are no pistols? If you were charging up a hill at a machine gun nest, would you rather have a pistol or a more powerful weapon?

The levels are designed nicely, though they are a little too scripted. If you get killed, you'll always know right where the enemy is going to pop up from when you get back to that spot. The levels are large and detailed, and there are just enough to amke the game interesting without becoming repetitive or boring. There are plenty of ammo and health pick-ups throughout the game. Enemies are everywhere, and there's rarely a quiet moment. The only level that I thought was stupid and pointless was the last one of the British campaign where you have to run through the open under fire from three MG42 positions and countless enemy soldiers, plant explosives right where all the enemies are pouring out of, and then run. This seemed very unrealistic, and would have been impossible in real life, because there's no way to take out the MG42 gunners, for if you snipe one, another immediately takes his place. Luckily, this was the only mission that I didn't like. The levels in this game are taken from some of the less-known battles and locations of WWII, from North Africa to Remagen, with none of battles that are overdone in other WWII games, such as D-Day. I had hoped for a longer battle in Stalingrad, but oh well...

You get to play as the Russians, British, and Americans. Each country has its own weapons and locations to fight in. This gives you views of the war from the perspective of many different people. Unfortunately, there are only four British levels, two of which are very short and simple.

CONS:
Call of Duty: Finest Hour has some of the dumbest AI I've seen in any game, EVER. If anyone tells you the AI is well-done in this game, they're either stupid or a dirty liar, or both. Friendly and enemy AI is terrible!! I parked my tank on a runway at a German-controlled airfield in Russia, and their planes continued to attempt to take off, even though I was shooting every single one of them down, one after the other. When driving in a tank, stupid German infantry will stand out in the open shooting you with their MP40s, which do absolutely nothing. While they're shooting, you can roll your tank right over them, and they don't even make an attempt to get out of the way. Your own Allies in some of the levels are complete idiots who do nothing but run around yelling at you to shoot the enemy, even when they have a more clear shot. They do shoot, but never hit anything and the only thing that they accomplish is giving away your position. On the first American mission, you have to protect an M12 Mobile Gun Carriage, and there are Germans with panzerfausts all over. Your squadmates could be standing two feet from an anti-tank German, and rather than shooting them, they yell at you to protect the M12, so you have to try and kill all the Germans yourself. It took me several tries to get through that mission on EASY mode! On several occasions, I would man a MG42 emplacement, and one of my own men would stand in front of the gun and get shot, and still wouldn't move. They follow you around like Lemmings, doing nothing except getting killed. Say you go through a door with your squadmates following you, and then a grenade is thrown at you. The most obvious course of action would be to run back through the door to safety, but lo and behold, there are morons blocking your path who don't seem to realize they're all in danger. Your allies will blindly walk into enemy fire or onto grenades. But I guess that's all for the best: they weren't doing you any good anyway.

Characters who are necessary to the plot or are needed to make an appearance in a cutscene later in the game are invincible. But do they use that to their advantage? NO! You still have to do all the work. An example of this is Cpl. Benny Church, who always follows Sgt. Chuck Walker (that's you in the U.S. levels). He does nothing but is constantly getting shot, yet is promoted to Sergeant later on. It's pretty funny to watch one of these characters walk towards an MG42 nest, stand there getting pummeled, and then run away without a scratch. And by funny I mean stupid.

One of the unrealistic elements of this game is the tanks. Enemy tanks can be destroyed in one or two shots, but your own tanks are nearly invincible. Tanks have armor and health, and when the armor is depleted, the health will regnerate itself if you continue to get damaged. If I remeber my history correctly, U.S. Sherman tanks were no match for German Panzers and Tigers, yet one Sherman can take on six German tanks at one time, no problem. And what's the deal with the 3rd-person "chase mode" while in a tank? The gun won't fire where you aim, and there's no point for it. But I guess I shouldn't complain... if the tanks weren't invincible, I'd never make it through those levels.

There's no way to save in the middle of a mission! The game is saved before and after, and there are checkpoints in between, but you'll often find yourself getting to the end of a level, dying, and then having to restart from the beginning. Checkpoints rarely occur, and they're usually in the most pointless places and never when you really need them.

Some of the action is too scripted, and the missions are pretty linear. Only certain doors can be opened, and there's really only one way to complete your mission. Very little strategy is involved: shoot the Germans, complete your objectives, move on to the next level.

Despite its shortcomings, Call of Duty: Finest Hour is an okay game. However, I'd recommend renting it or waiting until it's on sale to buy it. Playing Call of Duty is a good way to spend a weekend, but it won't leave any lasting impressions, and it will probably be forgotten soon after you finish.

Good Shooter But.....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: January 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Game has very nice graphics and is realistic. Im not finished with it as yet and i have encountered a couple of glitches such as getting stuck, going through a window and on a ladder. This takes much from the game play but overall i do enjoy this game.

Chaos, Death, and Adrenaline

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: December 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is as close to capturing the pure chaos of war, with good graphics and amazing sound quality you can't help but get sucked in to WW2. I never played the PC version of this game but I'm sure it's better, most PC games are. But if your like most of us in this billion dollar industry you buy games for your XBOX or PS2, not for the PC. So it serves no purpose to compare this game to the PC version. For anyone looking for a solid game that will keep you involved every step of the way, this is a game that won't let you down.

Good action .......so far!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I picked up the game yesterday. The graphics are well done and the story line is pretty interesting- you assume different roles as you progress. There is a good variety of weapons and a lot of different landscapes. It doesn't have the same liquid flow as Halo( The x-box benchmark) but its no slug either. I'd say it is worth the money so far since my interest level is still high and I'm still having a great time with it!

BEST WORLD WAR II SHOOTER EVER!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome! Fans of Medal of Honor, this game is a must-buy. The graphics in this game are fabulous, very well designed. The gameplay in this is easily the best part of the game. Each mission is designed in its own unique way, and they do not get repetitive, like MOH games sometimes do. The sound, what can I say. Maybe just AWESOME!!!! Without the sound, I would of easily rated this game a four. The music makes the game, especially in intense fights where you're always behind cover firing at the enemy.

The levels vary throughout the game. Also, you get to play as Russian, British, and American soldiers (the American are the best). Throughout the game, you will have to do various things such as provide tank escorts, snipe away Germans, travel through large towns that are swarming with Germans, blow up German anti-tank armour, blow up old buildings, conquer a bridge that is infested with Germans, shoot down enemy aircraft, and the list goes on & on. The tank controls can be a little tricky at first, but you'll catch on after a while. I'll address this too. Many gamers complain about COD because of the lack of checkpoints. This game does get frustrating occasionally because you have to keep replaying levels due to lack of checkpoints. But when you get this game, you cannot go out there like on Halo and just run into the middle of a whole bunch of Germans. Sorry, but humans are not made of steel like masterchief. What you have to do is use the environment to your advantage; hide behind blown up tanks, crawl under some rubble of a blown up building, hide behind a building and shoot around the corner of it without revealing your body (which comes in handy so much in the game), and anything else you can use. That is one of the main reasons why I like this game so much, is you have to use strategy sometimes (opposite halo where you can run into the middle of a dozen grunts and stand there without getting killed).

World War II fans, all I can say is that this game is AWESOME and you should add it on your shelf alongside all your Medal of Honor games.

PC Call Of Duty is WAY BETTER! Finest Hour = Dissapointment!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: April 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Activision should've reconsidered before hiring a game company like Spark Limited to ruin a whole epic. Why couldn't they hire Infinity Ward?

If you are a Call Of Duty crazer, avoid this. This game is more like designed by an un-skillful ametur company. Even if you see a teaser trailer of the actual game footage, they create a diversion to gimmick. The intro movie in the game has got nothing to do with the game at all.

Good things:

None.

Bad things:

Plenty you'll find them in Call Of Duty: Fines Hour. The modelling and graphics are rushed, and a few number of weapons are missing from the PC version - weapons omitted from the release like the MP44, and all the pistols are gone, and only one rocket launcher which is the Panzershrek. All the classic weapons from the original PC release isn't included.

Next downside point..tight aiming. The feel of the weapon your holding is absolutely a shocker. You can't even aim correctly at a far German - it will move too fast causing you to waste time and get asassinated. Comparing this to the PC version, aiming with the mouse is easier to use.

Why can't we not forget? Saving during missions. Guess what, there is no saving ability during missions and you can only save after a mission. PC Call of Duty has a in-mission saving ability, incase if you get stuck on something. Finest Hour doesn't - every time you die, you have to start sorrowly from the beginning all over again (back to square one), and builds up frustration.

Thirdly is the looping music. Ripped from the MP3 music from the PC version, but causes continuous looping at a point. Michael Giacchino deserves better than this.

And yes, it takes forever bloody hits to finally kill a German and it's unrealistic. If you shoot an enemy in the head on the PC Call of Duty then the enemy dies instantly. You won't see it happen on Finest Hour.

So sad, Spark Unlimited, get to learn how to program games, so sad.

Dont buy this game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: December 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is the worst game I have ever played. The graphics look like yur playing on ps2 and the AI is really stupid. The commercials made this game look awsome but it is know where near awsome. [...]

Absolutely Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Duuuuuuude! This game is awesome. You do it all: run from cover fire, take over bunkers, run through trenches, melee the enemy, drive tanks, and sniper the fool out of your enemies. I hate to say it, but I am playing this more than Halo 2 right now. It is that fun. You've got to get this game.

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