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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. [...]

Not what I expected

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am a counterstrike player and I bought this game for my XBox thinking it would be kind of like DOD (Day of Defeat) or the MOH series. It is a decent game but very random. The randomness is that you will be sitting in a corner waiting to push and then all of a sudden out of nowhere a grenade just happens to land right by your feet taking almost all of your life away. Or you'll be pushing forward and you'll get shot in the back with half of your team behind you. The accuracy of the weapons is realistic to a point. You can't just run through the Nazi's blasting them with your Thompson or BAR. But they made the K98 (German Sniper Rifle) a hunk of crap in this game. I picked one up off a Nazi while playing and shot it once at an enemy and threw it down. The crosshairs on it are ridiculous to aim with that I wouldn't even waste my time guessing where to shoot between the huge crosshairs they provided. Although I have not played it on XBox Live I don't think I will. Just from playing the first few missions I found it to be quite boring. The AI always knows where you are and if you try to bait a member on your team and step out to take out that MG42 you'll get blasted. When I say blasted...the MG will be completely focused on your teammate and he could be across the map but boom you always seem to get hit when you step out no matter what.
Theres also a glitch in my game on the Remagen level when I go up a set of stairs there's a Nazi running sideways and he is superfast and quite accurate. The graphics and realism are very amazing, but the single player just stinks. All in all if you buy this game you obviously should play it on XBox live. Don't waste your time playing the single player missions. There are very few checkpoints so just when you think you are almost there you get killed and have to start all the way over again.

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.

Don't buy the XBox version of this game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Never mind the myriad of issues that other reviewers have listed, if you just simply enjoy the play-ability of Halo or Halo 2, you'll find this shooter to be a clumsy disappointment. Even Medal of Honor and Wolfenstein offer a more smooth player interface. Save your money on this one and rent it from your local video rental.

Not worth the money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: March 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is not worth it! Frist of all this is not relistic. You have to shoot them so many times to kill them. Then its really hard. The game will ripe you off to like your in the coner then the guy comes through the wall and kills you.Then the tank controls are really bad and are confusing then when you are in war you are taking so much damage then you die later on. Do not get this game it is not worth the money.

Horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Call of Duty games are the same thing every game. Except now you can drive a tank at a fasinating speed of maybe 10 MPH with a gun that doesnt shoot straight. Right now im on a level where you have to advance two machine gunners firing at you with little to no cover.i hide behind this little wall and the bullets are flying past both sides. HOW DO YOU PASS THAT WITH A BAD GUN?? This game tries to hard also. They try to make it accurate down to the last detail. Which sometimes is ridiculous. No one in 1942-1944 lived and fought like your expected in this game with the horrible firing accuracy of the guns. Anyway, my point is dont waste your money. Buy Medal of Honor Frontline, or The original Call of Duty for PC. Oh by the way I am a huge COD fan. Not some guy who bought this never playing a Call of duty game before.

Too hard and slow

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I think that this Call of Duty was to hard and the gameplay was to slow. I didn't enjoy this game. I didn't have fun while playing this Call of Duty. I struggling to keep alive and make my objectives. Too hard for me atleast. Rent before buying this one, or play call of duty 2 big red one if you have just the original xbox and your looking for a call of duty.

Don't buy this game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 22 / 31
Date: November 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is nothing like the Call of Duty for pc. There is no D-Day or running through Stalingrad. I remember trying to secure a building but I kept on getting killed by my own tanks. It has some of the worst A.I. that ive seen in a game. Every time the enemy shoots they seem to hit you even if you're crouching, running and sometimes even behind what seems to be perfectly safe cover. The Nazis charge at you like madmen. Shooting them in the stomach, legs, or other appendages should wound them but, oh yeah, they cant be wounded only killed. I gave the game two stars for the graphics and game designing. Its hard to believe that the best WWII FPS for pc would turn out to be one of the worst games for X-Box. This was by far my worst purchase ever.

Get the PC version instead.

Lost in translation...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 20 / 33
Date: November 27, 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.

Your Call of Duty.... don't buy this x-box version

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Most of the reviews I've read sum it up. Something got lost in the transition from the PC to the X-Box. The A.I. is terrible, the multiplayer is terrible, various option selections are terrible, and the game itself is full of all sorts of wierd bugs and glitches. It's sad to see such an awsome PC game with such console potential wind up being the next sequel in the Medal of Honor series.

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