Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

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Binding: Video Game
Creator: Windows
ASIN: B000TTFLS8
Manufacturer: Activision
Release Date: 2007-11-05
Average Customer Review: (From 172 total reviews)
List Price: ~~$49.99~~
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Features

Intense action thriller with stunning next-generation graphics and amazing special effects
Play as both a U.S. Marine and British S.A.S. soldier fighting through an unfolding story full of twists and turns
Enter treacherous hotspots around the globe to take on a rogue enemy group threatening the world
Use sophisticated technology, superior firepower, and coordinated land and air strikes on a battlefield where speed, accuracy, and communication are essential to victory
Depth of multiplayer action providing online fans an all-new community of persistence, addictive, and customizable gameplay

Editorial Reviews

Product Description:
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare PC

Customer Reviews

SP is grand, MP is a frustrating mess by T. O Rice
Although far too short, the game is worth buying for single player alone. Graphics, AI, and gameplay are superb. Once finished you can go back in arcade mode and try to outscore yourself for each scenario. This is amusing for a while.

Multiplayer, however, is a frustrating mess. As with all online games of this type, ping disparity is a serious issue. People with very good internet connections move like ghosts at matrix speed, slaughtering people at will. MP also uses a perks system which grants certain traits, weapons, and capabilities, but the best take forever to achieve. Players who rack up enough kills can begin calling in annoying air and helicopter strikes.

So what ends up happening is a few people rapidly acquire perks and become far more lethal than other players. This enables them to quickly call in air support which turns everyone else into cannon fodder as they spend what little time they have alive hiding from jet bombers and shooting at helicopters instead of focusing on tactics and shooting at the enemy. There is no escape because the maps are tiny and feature a couple bottlenecks which always become the focus of every battle. Around these no one will live for more than 30 seconds if they don’t get killed outright during spawn.

There are so many ways to die, and the ping disparity is such a constant problem, that you will spend more time dying and spawning than anything else. And that is the problem with multiplayer. I’ve had the game for three weeks and have already begun considering smashing the disc, burning the remains, packaging the ashes, and returning them to Activision.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME FOR MULTIPLAYER UNLESS YOU HAVE A VERY HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION.

Only a word: excellent by Luis Miranda Perdomo
This game is excellent for a lot of reasons: very good graphics, an excellent gameplay, and run in pc’s that are not ultra-new (compare it with Crysis) but approach very well the graphics and procesing capabilities of platforms more olds. For example, my pc configuration is: WinXP, Pentium 4 HT 3.2 Ghz, Geforce 7600 GS 512 MB (in agp slot), and ram 1,5 GB ddr 400. And, with this, that is not the last but is not bad, the game run in 1024 x 768 with almost the options in high. Incredible no? And i enjoy it. Only the short of the campaign is the bad point of this game.

The Real Deal… by Marcus Harp
I have been an avid fan of the entire CoD series since it first came out. I was beginning to wonder when they would move out of the WWII rut they were in, and I was pleasantly surprised when they released CoD 4.

As a Soldier, I have seen my share of action for that area of the world. This is about as close to realistic as it gets. Sure, there are the usual game quirks (squadmates occasionally run into your line of fire, enemies sometimes see you when you know they shouldn’t be able to, shot to the head doesn’t kill, etc.), but this game was so realistic I began to feel like I was back in it all again. Even the satellite dishes on the roofs of the mud brick buildings, the laundry strung out to dry, all the trash everywhere…If you want to get a feel for what it is really like to be “over there” (as much as you can without actually doing it), then this is the game. hehe…the only things they didn’t have were Humvees and IEDs, but I’ll gladly overlook that.

The makers also did a good job of reproducing the “feel” of the weapons. The AKs, M4s, SAWs, etc. all “handled” in the game similarly to the way they do in real life. For example, the AK was much less accurate than some of the other weapons (i.e. M4), but just felt like it had more “punch”. They also did a good job of reproducing the sounds of each weapon.

Overall, gameplay was excellent. Slightly linear, but good variety made up for that. Single-player campaign was a little short, but the intense action made for a good balance, and going through it again on a higher difficulty also makes for a different gameplay experience.

The only odd thing that I noticed was that they didn’t have the real USMC emblem shown in the mission briefings. They had another emblem that they apparently made. Nothing big, just a little odd.

I’ve played through it twice, and I’ll probably do it again. I’m looking forward to their next game in the series. They set the bar pretty high this time; we’ll see if they can beat it.

of worthy intensity by Andrew Elliott
Another worthy call of duty game in the series, good thing it went modern because WW2 was getting a little bit old, especially around COD3 where the story didn’t seem as strong or original as the first two (although then again, the first one did seem to be taken a lot from the stories and missions from the TV series “Band of Brothers”)

Immensely entertaining in both single player and multiplayer, the rank advancement and unlockables in multiplayer adds an addictive twist to playing online!