Call of Duty 4 Review

[Sid.]

Story

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You play two characters, but one mainly. His name is "Soap". You are a newbie in the S.A.S. ( I looked this up on Google and didnt find anything D:)At the beggining of the game, a terrorist in an unnamed Middle Eastern Country kills that country's President, excuting him on national television. Your job is to find this guy, and capture him, while doing other stuff like rescuing a captured informant, and protecting a stranded war tank. There is a tiny twist, but nothing major. It all ends with an explosive ending. ;D

 

After you finish the game there is a special mission you unlock, in which you are still with Gaz, a well known character in the game, and your on an airplane. You breach the airplane and are sent to go and retrieve a hostage. You have a time limit, in which if you dont find the hostage in that time he will die. On veteran, this is very very tough.

Gameplay

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The controls of the game are quite easy to be frank. Shooting and killing is as easy to do as saying 1. Along the course of the game you will find a variety of guns, but most of the time in the story they will not have scopes, or any type of attachment. I find that dissapointing, because really, terrorists can't be THAT poor. Along the story of the game there are collectables, and in turn they give you achievements, and the ability to use "cheats". Half of the "Cheats" are just changing how the screen looks, or how fast/slow you move. But there are a few that could totally help if you just feel like going through the game on the hardest difficulty, veteran. Speaking of difficulty, the game isnt very difficult, on Newbie, Regular, and Hardened. It has a alright lenth, but when your playing on Veteran, the games hardest difficulty, you will die so much that it will take you a long time to finish the game, unless you are very good at it. On veteran, if you are seen by one enemy, all of them will stop doing what their doing, and start shooting you, which I find utterly annoying.

 

Graphics

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Honestly, these graphics are great, for 2007 standards. The grass is very thin and paperish, as well as the bushes, and the water will not splash when you get into it. The enviroment will not change around you, unless you change it yourself, as in shooting the ground, trees, walls, cars, water, etc. For some reason, i find that on hardcore (Where you have no HUD , radar, friendly fire is turned on, and bullet damage is greatly increased)The game's graphics somehow get much better. You can distinguish between characters easily, as only the basic enimies and allies look the same. Even when you shoot a shotgun, you can see sparks fly out of the gun, as well as most guns. When you get a headshot blood spatters all over whatever the person who got killed was, and creates a "ping" noise. Blood in this game is rarely seen imo, but if your a headshot honcho, you'll see it a lot.

 

Online

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Yeah, this is what we've all been waiting for. Online is a MAJOR feature in this game, as it'll keep you playing for hours and hours on, if your with the right people. You can do numerous things in each different game mode, as there are quite a few. As you level up you unlock the use of several different guns, each with different uses and different strengths. There are 5 gun classes, and each have different upgrades. You also have the choice to use perks, each having a different effect on your character, such as shooting faster, reloading faster, being unable to be seen on radar, etc.

 

Challenges are a good part of online as well. Challenges help you level up faster, unlock upgrades for your weapon, and unlock new camoflauges for your guns.

 

One of the major features of online is the option to "prestige". Once the player has gotten to level 55, he has the choice too lose all of his guns, challenges, upgrades, etc, to set thier level back to 1 but on a new level, as in you have a new badge, but thats about it. You can only prestige 10 times.

 

One of the other major features that keeps people playing is the ability to unlock Golden Camo. Once you have gotten all of the challenges in a specific gun class (I.E. Assault), you get Golden Camoflauge. All it does is make parts of your gun golden, and nothing else. It makes the gun look cool, and thats all.

 

Music

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Honestly, i barely remember ever hearing music, but thats because its one of those things you tend to forget. But really, they did put a good amount of music into this, even though you may not remember/hear any. You will hear a great deal of music and interesting sound effects in one single espionage level though ;D

Difficulty

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Sure, the game does have different modes of difficulty. Overall, its inbetween tough and easy. Sure, you'll die a couple times, but you'll still get through without throwing your control at the tv, start screaming, get a crowbar and smash your xbox. On the first 2 difficulties, you'll rarely die. Sometimes there will be something you dont notice, a grenade, a guy you didnt see, a sniper, etc. But when you get to hardened, the difficulty increases. You'll start getting into low health much easier, you'll see famous quotes on your tv much more, and you may even scream. But on veteran... You'll go crazy. If your spotted, every soldier in the premises WILL direct their fire at you. Its a VERY tough experience, and it gets much harder through the levels, as like every other game. I recommend doing the difficulty it says after you take the FNG test at the beggining of the game. (Whats the FNG test? You'll find out ;D)

 

 

Overall

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+Online is awesome

+Story is great

+Gameplay is great

+Graphics are meh.

-Story should be longer imo.

-I honestly dont have anything else against the game, except parts of the story line. You'll find out what I mean if you play it.

 

Rating: 9/10

 

Hope you enjoyed.

[Tkill93]

Coming from a huge Call of Duty fanboy, decent review. But it could have when into a bit more detail in certain areas of the game.

 

Also

After you finish the game there is a special mission you unlock' date=' in which you are still with Gaz, a well known character in the game, and your on an airplane. You breach the airplane and are sent to go and retrieve a hostage. You have a time limit, in which if you dont find the hostage in that time he will die. On veteran, this is very very tough.

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Are you talking about Mile High Club? If so no, Gaz is dead at that point in the game.

:/

[Sid.]

Coming from a huge Call of Duty fanboy' date=' decent review. But it could have when into a bit more detail in certain areas of the game.

 

Also

After you finish the game there is a special mission you unlock, in which you are still with Gaz, a well known character in the game, and your on an airplane. You breach the airplane and are sent to go and retrieve a hostage. You have a time limit, in which if you dont find the hostage in that time he will die. On veteran, this is very very tough.

 

Are you talking about Mile High Club? If so no, Gaz is dead at that point in the game.

:/

 

I could have sworn that was Gaz's voice... D:

 

Fixed, FD.

[Cyber Altair]

Wait weren't you playing as the old guy in the mile high club mission?

[evilhorus]

Great review. Also;

 

"+Graphics are meh."

 

Is that good or great?

[Sid.]

Wait weren't you playing as the old guy in the mile high club mission?

 

Which old guy?

 

Great review. Also;

 

"+Graphics are meh."

 

Is that good or great?

 

Meh.

[OnSlaUghT]

Coming from a huge Call of Duty fanboy' date=' decent review. But it could have when into a bit more detail in certain areas of the game.

 

Also

After you finish the game there is a special mission you unlock, in which you are still with Gaz, a well known character in the game, and your on an airplane. You breach the airplane and are sent to go and retrieve a hostage. You have a time limit, in which if you dont find the hostage in that time he will die. On veteran, this is very very tough.

 

Are you talking about Mile High Club? If so no, Gaz is dead at that point in the game.

:/

 

I could have sworn that was Gaz's voice... D:

 

Fixed, FD.

 

actually, infinity ward put Gaz and Cpt. Price's voices in there to make you confused as to who you were and if your teammates were previously in the game. Either that, or they ran out of voice actors.

[Cyber Altair]

Cpt. Price XD

 

I'm pretty sure we play him cause we see an old photo later on =\

[Sid.]

Coming from a huge Call of Duty fanboy' date=' decent review. But it could have when into a bit more detail in certain areas of the game.

 

Also

After you finish the game there is a special mission you unlock, in which you are still with Gaz, a well known character in the game, and your on an airplane. You breach the airplane and are sent to go and retrieve a hostage. You have a time limit, in which if you dont find the hostage in that time he will die. On veteran, this is very very tough.

 

Are you talking about Mile High Club? If so no, Gaz is dead at that point in the game.

:/

 

I could have sworn that was Gaz's voice... D:

 

Fixed, FD.

 

actually, infinity ward put Gaz and Cpt. Price's voices in there to make you confused as to who you were and if your teammates were previously in the game. Either that, or they ran out of voice actors.

 

Or maybe your just lying...

 

Cpt. Price XD

 

I'm pretty sure we play him cause we see an old photo later on =\

 

Wait, where? What? Who?

[Cyber Altair]

idk after you finish it you see an old photograph I remember =\

 

It had Gas and Price on it.

[Sid.]

I dun remember D:

[HORUS]

2 years late on the review but still quite good.

 

This is and always will be one of my favourite games. The engine used in this game is purely the best FPS engine ever.

 

Can't wait for Modern Warfare 2.

[Cyber Altair]

lol agreed.

 

a terrorist in Saudi Arabia kills Saudi's President' date=' excuting him on national television.

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btw this is wrong. They say it's a small country in that region and never include the name. They obviously would get politically raped if they did what you said >.>

 

Also try finishing Mile High Club one more time. They show a picture of Gas, Cpt. Price, the american sergeant and someone else. The photo is Sepia toned as well.

[Sid.]

lol agreed.

 

a terrorist in Saudi Arabia kills Saudi's President' date=' excuting him on national television.

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btw this is wrong. They say it's a small country in that region and never include the name. They obviously would get politically raped if they did what you said >.>

 

Also try finishing Mile High Club one more time. They show a picture of Gas, Cpt. Price, the american sergeant and someone else. The photo is Sepia toned as well.

 

DAMMIT, FOILED AGAIN!

 

Yeah, your right. Aight, will change. If it was saudi though, could they sue/rape them? I mean, saudi has a king, not a president, so how could they REPA them for something thats not real?

 

So much confusion about whats going on in the Mile High club D:

I'll play it again tho.

[Cyber Altair]

They would get some really bad press and possibly banned in some countries. Activision likes money so it naturally hates that.