User Reviews

Technically superb, tightly plotted, fast-paced and wonderfully cinematic, Call of Duty 4 is one of the best war first-person shooters ever made.

The game quickly shows off its qualities: after a brief tutorial we get a great level on a ship, then an amazing credit scene - a steady-cam sequence seen through the eyes of a man dragged through a Middle Eastern city to be executed: a chilling, brilliant moment worthy of Brian De Palma.

Call of Duty 4 is a roller-coaster ride. You never get that "enough with this damn level!" feeling plaguing many games. There are also touches of class such as plot twists and playable flashbacks (the mission with Price in Chernobyl is easily one of the best levels I have EVER played in a FPS). A.I is remarkable: although main events are scripted, both your allies and enemies are reasonably flexible.

The game has two flaws. First, the single player campaign, while an excellent gaming experience, is fairly short. Second, although you do have a key impact on every battle, deaths or survivals of your team members feel staged - which means they won't die unless the plot requires them to.

Stay through the credits for a bonus level.

9/10

So yet again I venture into the new FPS PC games. This time its COD4: Modern Warfare. The graphics are actually quite good matched with some realistic weapon sounds. It features a unique concept of being able to play cross console on a LAN. That is if you network your PC with your friends XBOX 360 you can pummel them.

The story line is very basic, your standard shoot em up though there are geographical errors. The weapons are up to date and ballistics are fairly accurate. Don't buy this game if you are looking for the next generation in gaming as the graphics are no where near that of Crysis. However on the whole it is a decently put together game. Runs great on dual GeForce Ultras. My only major grip is that it has awkward controls but even these are easily corrected in the options menu.

• Ronin

If I had to call a best FPS of all time, Call of Duty 4 would definitely be in my top whatever.

This game is relentless, it's powerful and it's pretty, plus it's DAMN fun. Remember playing as a modern-day SAS operative in Russian territory? I sure don't. Remember playing an American soldier in Iraq? Well, Battlefield 2 did things pretty close to that... But doing it with the actual USMC behind your back, giving hell to the Iraqi? I don't think so. This game shows that you can have non-stop gunplay action and still be fun, while remaining intelligent. I'm not one to praise story lines when the games rock so much, but I have to say that every single moment of tension in the game works really damn well.

So, Call of Duty 4 is "realistic" in some ways, fun, pretty and it also has great immersion. What's the catch? I don't think there's much of one, but you could get at the developers of the game for making the main protagonist as always this silent gimp guy who does everything everyone asks him to. But, the way I look at it... If Captain Price becomes the kickass SAS operative he is after having been a mute in Tchernobyl, I suppose all our -surviving- characters become as much eventually. Yes, for once in CoD4, we're reminded that human life, no matter how brave it can be, can be erased in an instant.

Only problem though is that the game homo-erotically explains that you need a Nuclear Bomb to kill off the USMC. Still, it helps to feel like you're side by side with world-wide elite counter-terrorists and military organizations alike. Wading through armies of Russian soldiers or iraqi terrorists only gets fun when they're getting obliterated by a pack of 6 or so.

The A.I. is, as it's always been in those games, kind of lacking. Sure they move and act stylized, but they still are scared of going forward without you when you reach a certain script. Like "Soap! Plant a claymore in front of the door!" or "Get on that machinegun and blast the entirety of the enemies we can't shoot from here!" It sounds good but it always seems like your partners always wait for you to do things, instead of every now and then appearing autonomous.

The enemies have that weird "twitch" that wills them to shoot you and only you once you get into the room, until one of your teammates decides to shoot them. To top that little A.I. problem, there are quick-time events in this game. Which pretty much act as random "PRESS V TO NOT DIE HERE". This usually happens only when dogs tackle you.

At any rate, this is a very good game whose bad points can easily be overlooked. Plus, the multiplayer is very effective, too.

You'll become addicted to this game for at least a few weeks.

Title: Call of Duty4: Modern Warfare

Developed by: Infinity Ward Published by: Activision

Completion Time: 8 Hours

Storyline: As the title would suggest, this game is set during the modern time of the late 20th to early 21st century, which makes a change from the first 3 Call of Duty games being set during WW2. But never fear, Treyarch will be sending the franchise back to WW2 in the next game. As soon as you press the "Start Mission" button you are shown an opening cutscene to provide you with plotting exposition about a guy in the middle east who is getting more power, and that is all you're going to know for the time being. The SAS missions will generally be stealth based with you neutralizing enemies with silenced weapons and tactics. The first mission will have you boarding a cargo ship to receive documents from a container containing radioactive material, once you have got the documents the ship will start sinking due to incoming fire from MIGs, once you make it out of the ship you'll have to complete a quick time event to jump for the helicopter. I won't necessarily go into great detail about every mission, just give a brief summery for the levels which don't contain that much story. Needless to say the next level is just a "sit back and admire our graphics engine" level, where you are the president of an unnamed middle eastern country and you're being kidnapped by the guy who looks a hell of a lot like Yusuf from GTA 4 BOGT. 3 levels in and we are introduced to Sgt. Jackson who is with the USMC. For these missions it is generally always going to be run, cover and shoot. You would fare better by not being by yourself at most times as the AI in your allies seems to be better than other games as they can hit and kill a lot more targets than you can, they also make good as human shields for when there is little cover.

Depending on the difficulty you like to play on, you might die more than a couple of times. This can become aggravating at times as the death screen will tell you that grenades and flaming vehicles explode. This wouldn't be so bad if I was only done once or twice, no it is done every time you are killed by an explosion. But if you are killed by standard gunfire, you will be given a quote about war or nations during wartime, this can be very interesting and almost outweigh the annoyance of the condescending explosion death scene.

But you get word of nuclear weapons being found, but first you decide to go and rescue a pilot in a down helicopter. You're able to get to her in time, but just on your escape in the helicopter there a nuclear explosion which sends a shockwave out and this downs all of the helicopters. You are then forced to play as Sgt. Jackson as he slowly dies of radiation poisoning until he blacks out. This was one of the stable points of the game. Weapons of mass destruction are used to kill one of your main character. This ends the USMC missions until the 3rd act. The SAS track down the man who the marines were looking for and find he is in a safehouse in Azerbaijan, so the SAS go in while working with the Russian loyalists, they take out all of the ultranationalist forces and tie up their man after Price beats him half to death. But during the interrogation, he gets a call. Price answers the phone before executing the guy. This adds to the list of war crimes portrayed during this game. Use of WMDs (Weapons of mass destruction), murder of unarmed solders and massacres of civilians. The next level is kicked off as Price talks about who was on the phone and what this means. The level revolves around Price and Captain Macmillan as ghillie snipers trying to get to a sniping point to take down an illegal arms deal. So you have to follow Macmillan through the abandoned Pripyat city, sniping each soldier you come across while working to not be seen. After you get to the sniping point you then wait there for a couple of days until Zakhaev shows up, you take the shot on a high powered rifle and take his arm off. The next level consists of you finding out the location of Zakhaev's son who still looks like Yusuf from GTA, you arrive in advance and take out the soldiers already there and plan an ambush, this leads to you chasing him down to an apartment complex, this ends with him shooting himself as he is surrounded.

The last level has you gunning from a truck that get knocked over, and you have to watch helplessly as the people you've spent the whole game learning about get executed by Zakhaev and his men. But the Russian Loyalists come just in time to distract him and his men while Price slides you a gun and you shoot and kill Zakhaev and his men.

Overall Feel: The story was a good length, made coherent sense for the most part and offered interesting twists at points. Health regeneration system was as good as you can really get on a first person realistic shooter. Graphics look good for a 360/PS3 era game. Gun mechanics worked well, especially for sniper rifles which allow you to steady your aim. Not too happy with the AI for some of the Marines which just run up to enemies to and let themselves die, but apart from that, there is nothing I can really complain about, except the fact that Modern Warfare 2 and 3 won't be as good because they'll be trying too hard to be different but still be Modern Warfare 1

Positive: + very nice realistic graphics + Great sounds + Really cool weapons + The movie sequences are cool + Good control + Beautiful places + Lots of action + Great Story

I love COD 4. One of my favorite games. Very well implemented. When you play the character it feels like watching a realistic movie. It's really cool. Only 1 point deduction because it is a bit difficult in some places. Otherwise a top game. > 9/10 *

Call of Duty 4 beats all previous Call of Duty games and World at War because its based on modern warfare, not World War II, which no one cares about anymore. It's a great and well-designed FPS game and really brings the series to an entirely new level.

Campaign - The campaign is short and relatively easy, with few teammates with you, tonnes of enemies ahead of you, and quite a varied and breathtaking set of missions, from stealthy two-man infiltrations to noisy and explosive massive-scale assaults. But then there comes Veteran difficulty, which is a killer. Due to the realistic nature of the game, enemies still go down easily, but you can die within half a second of a full-on encounter with one. And that gets harder when you realise there's a whole squadron of them after you. And the last mission, not providing any spoilers, is near-impossible in Veteran difficulty, with only a single minute to complete it! A good and structured campaign with a few flaws gets a 7/10.

Multiplayer - This game's online multiplayer gaming is better than Gears of War 2, but is still inferior to Halo 3. What's extremely annoying is the fact that more accomplished players are able to hold better weapons, meaning what whilst more experienced soldiers show off their advanced gadgets, the low newbies who don't know how to play the game are left to deal with weaker guns. But what's good is that you gain experience for every kill or assist you do. For example, in Halo 3, you can be the best in the whole game, but if your teammates are rubbish, you may lose and not even get a single experience point even though you were the best. Call of Duty 4 covers that issue, and not only that, it gives EXP for assists too. Many players weaken foes but not get the finishing blow and receive nothing for their effort, but in Modern Warfare you even get a bit of experience for helping teammates. With a mixture of the air strikes, choppers, UAVs, and the fact that it'll take years for an average player to become the top rank ever (after passing the 55th ten times), Multiplayer deserves a 9/10.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a fantastic game and I recommend it to anyone who is a fan of First-Person Shooter and loves short but epic games.

Total Mark: 8/10

By HowlingRabbit334

Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare is a masterpiece from start to finish, and was the first game in the series to break away from it's World War II setting, and be set in present day. Like man other fans of the series, I can agree that this was the game that catapulted the series and introduced it to a wider range of players, who still play today for its fun action, intense and emotion sciences, and probably the most well written story in the entire series (other than Black Ops).

Campaign: The game takes place in 2011, when the leader of an Untranationalists terrorist organisation named Imran Zacheav try to take over Russia and wish to return the country back to what it was during the days of the Soviet Union, starting a civil war between the Goverment and the Ultranationalists. Meanwhile, a coup occurs in the Middle East orchasteated by Khaled Al-Asad. You play as both Soap Mactavish in the British Special Forces, fighting alongside Captain Price, and Paul Jackson in the U.S Marines. Captain Price has become the most iconic character in the entire series, and is a total badass filled with plenty of sarcastic and witty dialogue. I'm aware that he appeared in the first Call of Duty game, but this was the game whers the character really got a chance to shine. Once you've finished training, your first official mission is to hyjack a cargo ship in the Bering Strait after recieving intel courtesy from a Russian informant, who we will later learn is named Nikolai. After you and your team kill everyone onboard and receive the package, the ship is suddenly attacked by enemy helicopters, resulting in you, Price, and the rest of your team having to make a daring escape in the now sinking ship. It is a great mission and prepare you for the action-packed game your about to play. Not long after, Khaled Al-Asad sends his sinister message to the world by executing President Al-Fulami on national television, finally causing the Americans to invade the capital city in search of Al-Asad. But the mission ultimately fails when the realise that Al-Asad had already escaped the city before they arrived, and had walked into a deadly trap to all be killed in a giant nuclear explosion, including Jackson. While that happens, Soap, Price, and Gaz travel to Russia to meet with Kamarov and his loyalist rebels and to save Nikolai who's been held captured by enemy lines. As they attempt to leave after saving Nikolai, their helicopter is of course shot down, and the team have to fight their way through the Russian countryside, killing a bunch of Untranationalists, before finally being rescued. When Price and his team learn about the nuke in the Middle East, they attempt to track down Al-Asad at his safehouse, where they learn that Al-Asad had been collaborating with Imran Zacheav. And Price tells his men about the time when he was a leftenant under the command of Captain Macmillan in a top-secret mission to assassinate Zacheav in Chernobyl, which leads to one of the best missions in Call of Duty history "All Ghilled Up". The assassination attempt fails, and Price only manages to blow off Zacheav's arm, and then him and Macmillan must make a daring escape. The reason why I think "All Ghilled Up" and "One Shot, One Kill" are such important missions is because it puts Price in the same position that you play as Soap, which I feel makes Price way more relatable, and portrays him as a human rather than a larger-than-life hero. Back in present day, Soap, Price, and the rest are rescued by the Americans after killing Al-Asad, and from then on, the U.S and British form a joint operation to finally kill Zacheav. When they realised that Zacheav's son, Victor Zacheav may be their ownly lead, they attempt to track him down, but unfortunately, he shoots himself before he could reveal the location of his father. Outraged by the death of his son, Zacheav threatens to nuke the whole east coast of America. In order to prevent Zacheav from starting World War III, Price and his team must invade to launch facility. But before they could enter the facility, they witness two missles being launched, heading directly towards the United States, but fortunately the team find their way into the facility and manage to stop the nukes from reaching their targets, saving America from annihilation. Afterwards, they see Zacheav escape in one of the helicopters, and the team decide to follow the helicopter and take it out. But before they could do it, Zacheav's helicopter destroys half of the bridge, forcing their truck to crash, and defend themselves against enemy reinforcements. After Soap and Price are injured, they can't do anything but helplessly watch their fellow soldiers being killed. But when they come face to face with Zacheav on the bridge, Price slides Soap a pistol to finally kill the mudak once and for all. With Zacheav now dead, Price and Soap lay there dying, before Kamarov and his men come to the rescue to bring them home.

I will say, even though their both so old now, I still think that Modern Warfare and World at War are greatest games in the series, and still feel that every recent Call of Duty games that is released every year still fails in comparison.

To me, and many others, this was where it all began and why the series has become so popular, and as always, I highly recommend it.

the game itself is great with multi-player being amazing.

the problem with one player is that its actually quite short but when you complete the game you unlock a thing called arcade mode, which you can try to get the highest score possible and getting a high kill streak makes your score go up more and is fun if you like comparing scores with your friends.

multi-player is really excellent because of its customizable features being able to choose your primary weapon and side arms and you can add attachments to them. In multi-player they also have perks for example you could have increased health or higher damage. they also have levels to unlock the weapons and perks but they don't really give a person an advantage just more options.

this game is just absolutely amazing if you don't have it. GET IT!

I have played a few war games like MOH, BHD and JO but none of the previous COD's. But this one looked interesting so i looked up videos of it on you tube to see the game play and it was awesome. I really loved the graphics on it. I hear if you play it on HD TV it looks real. I have it on PC and it looks awesome i cant wait to get Xbox 360 and find out for myself. I completed the Single Player fairly quick on regular. I always do and individual mission if i feel like it on veteran but otherwise i play on a server called SMART MIX IT and its a mix of the different types of games you can play. My favourite is Search and Destroy because once your dead thats it no re spawning. But other games you get more kills and earn UAV when you get 3 kills in a row, Airstrike for 5 kills and a chopper for 7 kills. The chopper is good because you can get 7+ kills and call in another. The guns are amazing and you can get ranked. The top level is 55 and its called commander. Im on commander and now I'm trying to complete all challenges. Here are some examples of the challenges but i don't remember the XP you get.

Goodbye-Jump 30 feet and die.

No Secrets-Call in a UAV 3 times in a single match.

Backdraft-3 stages but to complete all you have to destroy 15 explosive devices.

Hard Landing-Kill someone when the in mid air.

Airstike Inbound-Same as chopper in bound just kill 5 or 7 people and call in the air support.

They are just some examples so go buy it now if you haven't already.

10/10