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Rating:  239 reviews
Sales Rank: 992
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Genre: military_and_espionage_action_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 33169
UPC: 047875331877
EAN: 0047875331693
ASIN: B000TTFLS8
Release Date: November 5, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Disappointed November 15, 2007
Zarock (NZ)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I was disappointed with this game and no matter how much I try to like this game I can't.
For a start the game has a real "consoleness" feel to it and no matter how much you try to ignore it you know that this was developed for the lowest common denominator. For example overly large text and icons, etc.
The single player is really short which was a real surprise and shame especially considering the wonderful single player earlier CODs had. You would think that after the success of games like BioShock and the earlier CODs the developers of this game would have realized there is a significant number of people that like a good single player experience, but sadly its obvious that the bulk of the development has gone in to the multiplayer aspect of the game.
While some of the missions are really great (full credit to the people that designed them) and you get to do things like crawl through a field full of enemies as a camouflaged sniper, use a 50 cal sniper rifle, and be on helicopter turrets, there is no Armour or any other ground based vehicle missions except a "car chase" mission where you fire out the back of a truck while trying to get away. A number of the missions feel a lot like you are playing Rainbow Six / Delta Force and not so much like COD because of the real small-unit action clearing out ships and buildings.
Many of the missions are frustrating as you die a lot and have to repeat some parts over, and over, and over about 30 times which gets really annoying. While this was OK in the earlier CODs, I'm really rather tired of this now, especially after playing other FPS where this does not happen so much.
Because the missions are heavily scripted you know that staying in the same spot and shooting at the enemies until the sun goes cold is not going to achieve much and in order to stop more enemies magically replacing those that you just killed you need to move your character up, which you can take advantage of to complete the missions faster.
It is obvious that the developers have tried to stop players from staying in one place for too long because, after a not very long time at all, no matter how far you are away from enemies and at the back behind all the other troops, a grenade magically lands beside you forcing you to move.
I found the concept of modern warfare boring, why would I want to play something that I am sick of seeing on the news every other night? Sure I realize that after 3 CODs the amount of good quality WW2 missions left must be on the decline, but why modern day warfare? why not Vietnam? or the Korean war (if nam is a bit too sensitive)? they could have even done some missions based around the Falklands war.
Instead of the intimate, and mature tone that was taken with the earlier CODs, where the character you play talks about what they are about to do while the mission is loading via a personal log type of thing and in game they and their comrades behave in a civil manner, the mission briefings in this COD are overly flashy, stroke off over the hardware that the US military has, and try to make war cool, and a number of the characters are a very gung-ho when it comes to killing. A further example of this is the inclusion of an Arcade mode in the game where you get points (i.e. "+ 5", "+ 100") show up on the screen when you hit and also when you kill people.
Multi player. After the averageness of the Single Player I figured that the Multiplayer would be better, but again I was disappointed mainly because I can only get 1 server with a ping of under 200 and once again I can't hit other players very well due to the lag issue which means that even though from my point of view after unloading half a clip in to someone and then me dying, I see on the kill cam that from their point of view I did not even get a shot off. Also you die a lot (and I mean a lot) in the COD4 multiplayer because unlike COD2 where you could take a few slugs, crawl somewhere quiet and recover, then get back in to it, you die too easy in this one. The FEAR multiplayer, not the COD2 multiplayer is what it is like.
Graphics. As you can probably tell by now graphics are not a big thing for me. While I do have a pretty good PC and graphics card, I found the graphics were good, but not outstanding. Actually a number of times I felt like I was in the STALKER universe.
To finalize, if you are looking for a really good single player experience with a similar length and feel to the earlier CODs then sadly, like me, I think you will be disappointed.
If however you are after yet another modern FPS to play online, don't really care about any single player, and think war is cool, then you will probably find that this game is pretty good.
Good not Great December 4, 2007
Ben (New York City)
10 out of 18 found this review helpful
Decent addition to the COD series, I like the change to modern settings. Single player is classic COD style, thrilling and intense missions. The game is short though and theres not alot of replay value after youve finished it. Graphics looks nice and runs smooth even on a low end system. Overall the game has a nice look and feel to it. Those are all the positives, all the negatives to me show up on the multiplayer side. Two major problems I have are the random respawns and size of the maps. Randomly respawning (constantly) right next to a cluster of enemies is irritating. Its OK the first few times but it starts to get annoying and repetitive. Combine that with the small size of the maps and you get the run and gun style of gameplay which is complete chaos. There is no strategy involved, basically everyone is just blasting away or its a spamfest of grenades and airstrikes. So if you want to jump right into the action then COD4 is for you. But for the rest who have played the original Call of Duty/UO, you might find this title a bit lacking if you are looking for teamwork and balanced maps.
 The same old game repackaged November 9, 2007
SBJ400 (Mt. Laurel, NJ USA)
9 out of 33 found this review helpful
I have to call it as I see it. I really think the team behind the COD franchise needs to be wiped clean and new people need to be brought in.
COD 4 has been modernized. No more WW2. GREAT! I love WW2 games but it was time for a change in COD. That is it. Nothing else is new.
You still cannot shut the music off during game play! ULTRA ANNOYING to many people out there. What is the harm of giving people a choice? NOPE, the ego centric nature of Activision won't allow that. I had to hack the files of COD, COD2 and now I will have to hack the files again to shut the music off.
I have nothing against the music, I just don't like it on. I like the combat sound effects.
Again, the COD game play is nothing but run and gun and it is AGAIN SCRIPTED!!!! Achieve a goal or move your character to a certain spot and events occur. This makes a game so darn predictable that replay value goes down the tubes!
I am not impressed with the graphics either. They seem outdated, stale. There are too many other games out there with nicer details and realistic features. COD 4 is not one of them.
This game is not worth the high price tag they have slapped it with. NO WAY! I recommend you borrow a friend's copy, install it, play it and if you still want to buy it, go for it. It is too soon to tell if the multiplayer will be worthwhile. There were a lot of claims that the COD 2 MP was outstanding and a tremendous success, yet the servers were empty. Hop on a 3 year old UT 2004 server and it is still jamming with action!
No, the COD franchise is at the end. They really need to rebuild from the ground up. There is a ton of potential but it is not here in this release.
Very addictive, but claustrophobic January 20, 2008
Benjamin R. Greene (Bakersfield, CA USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
First, the positives: This game features absolutely movie-quality graphics and life-like realism. It just can't get any more realistic and addictive than this. Clear your calendar, because this is the heroin of games: once you start playing you will find it very difficult to stop in the beginning, especially on multiplayer. However, I think the game has inherent drawbacks that make it not very "deep", in the sense that developing great skill is not necessary or even rewarded.
The prime issue is that, probably due to the graphic demands, you are constantly playing on maps just larger than a shoebox. If you are the type who just can't get enough of shooting your opponents at point blank range in the face with a shotgun, congratulations, welcome to heaven. Unfortunately, if you are more interested in group or clan strategy or using sniper tactics, I have bad news: the quarters are just too tight.
The maps are so small that many players just wildly huck their grenades at the start of action in multiplayer in a random direction and get multiple kills. They even have a name for it: "grenade (nade) spamming".
The problem is made worse by many servers having "no friendly fire". It detracts from the skill and realism of the game if you can just wildly throw grenades in every direction, followed by a blind spray of automatic weapons fire, secure in the knowledge that hitting your own teammates won't count, and with the tiny map, you are sure to kill several enemies before one of your opponents gets equally lucky.
If you compare this game with Battlefield 2142, you see the differences. The graphics of COD4 make BF2142 look like a cartoon, but you can play BF2142 for years and not get bored, because the maps are large and reward skill in hunting your opponents. The "spray and pray" technique is not so successful on BF2142. I wish someone would combine the graphics and "you are there" cinematic quality of COD4 and the gameplay and balance of BF2142 for the ultimate first person shooter game.
 unfulfiled potential! December 4, 2007
Anthony Birdie (CA, USA)
8 out of 18 found this review helpful
this game could have been so good, call of duty desperatly needed a good title now it was finally out of ww2 (the cod series was stuck in ww2 longer than the actual ww2!!!).
the first thing that struck me are the graphics, they are not any step forward, they are just 'ok' - i suppose the good thing to come out of this though is that it will play well on more pc's.
but the biggest negative point i have about this game is the single player mode.... oh my god its soooo short!!! - this should not have been a full price game, really!!
If like myself you are a fan of first person shooters, i personaly would go for crysis, sure it requires a super amazing pc to play it well, but it looks amazing - and its a lot longer then cod4.
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