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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360)

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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360)

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Reviewed by: Jeff Gerstmann
Reviewed on: 11/06/2007
Updated on:11/07/2007
Released on: 11/05/2007

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It took awhile, but Infinity Ward finally got the message that World War II is played out. With modern times and international affairs becoming more and more, shall we say, interesting in recent years, the 1940s just don't carry as much weight as they used to. Perhaps that's why Call of Duty 4 has a new subtitle, Modern Warfare. By bringing things into a fictionalized story that still seems fairly plausible, the developer has made a much heavier game. But COD 4 is more than just an updated setting. It's also an amazing multiplayer first-person shooter and a great but brief single-player campaign with the visual chops to make it a standout shooter in an era filled with seemingly dozens of standout shooters.

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While the game may feel short, it covers a lot of ground.

The only real catch is that the single-player is almost shockingly short. If you've been keeping up with this style of game, you'll probably shoot your way to the credits in under five hours. While you can raise the difficulty to give yourself more of a challenge, the main thing this does is make the enemies frustratingly deadly, which sort of detracts from the fun.

While it may have a lack of single-player quantity, it makes up for most of it with its quality. The game tells its story from multiple perspectives, and you'll play as a new British SAS operative as well as a US Marine. The campaign takes you from a rainy night out at sea on a boat that's in the process of sinking to a missile silo where it's on you to save millions from an unsavory nuclear-powered death. Along the way, there are plenty of jaw-dropping moments where you'll look around the room for someone to whom you can say, "I can't believe that just happened." In a world filled with war games in which the good guys come out unscathed and the world is left at total peace, Call of Duty 4 will wake you up like a face full of ice water.

The action in the campaign is usually very straightforward. You have a compass at the bottom of your screen, and the direction of your current objective is very plainly marked. But getting from point A to point B is never as simple as running in a straight line, as you'll be conducting full-scale assaults in Middle Eastern countries by moving from house to house, taking out what seems like a never-ending stream of enemy troops along the way. You'll also get an opportunity to raid Russian farmhouses in search of terrorist leaders, disguise yourself as the enemy, and, in one sequence, don a brushlike ghillie suit and crawl through the brush as enemy troops and tanks roll right past you. It's a breathtaking moment in a campaign filled with breathtaking moments. Unfortunately, it's about half as long as the average shooter, and there are plenty of sequences where you wish there were just one or two more hills to take.

Of course, if you're looking for longevity, that's where the multiplayer comes in. Up to 18 players can get online and get into a match on one of 16 different maps. Many of the levels are taken from portions of the single-player and they offer a healthy mix of wide-open, sniper-friendly areas and tight, almost cramped spaces where grenades and shotguns are the order of the day. There are six game modes to choose from. The old standby is team deathmatch, though you can also play in a free-for-all deathmatch, which isn't as much fun as the team modes. The other modes are more objective-oriented, and a couple of those have you lugging bombs across the map to blow up enemy equipment, or preventing the enemy from blowing up your base. Others have you capturing control points. Lastly, you can change up the game rules a bit with a hardcore setting that makes weapons more realistically damaging or an old-school mode that puts weapons on the ground as pickups and generally moves away from the simulation side of things.

The campaign takes you to multiple locales, but they're all full of guys who are begging to be shot in the face.

In addition to just firing your weapon or tossing grenades, you earn some more interesting tactical moves for skilled play. If you can shoot three opponents without dying, you're able to call in a UAV drone, which basically is an upgraded radar that makes enemy positions show up on your onscreen map for 30 seconds at any time. Normally, enemies blip up onto the map only if they fire their weapon to make their location known. If you can go on a five-kill streak, you can call in an air strike, which brings up a shot of the entire level map and lets you place the air strike wherever you like. When combined with a UAV sweep, this can be really devastating. If you can make it all the way to seven kills--which is actually easier than it sounds--you can call in a helicopter for support. It'll buzz around the map and automatically open fire on enemies, though enemies can shoot it down, too. These additions to the normal first-person shooter gameplay really open up the game a lot and make it superexciting to play.

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9 stars

Great game with some minor disappointments

by Zoram on December 26, 2007

Pros: Excellent Multi Player

Cons: Loss of features from COD3

Summary: While this game boasts many wonderful features, especially multi-player, I wanted to provide a very detail critical review to discuss overlooked frustrations and disadvantages of the game. since you can ...

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Summary: While this game boasts many wonderful features, especially multi-player, I wanted to provide a very detail critical review to discuss overlooked frustrations and disadvantages of the game. since you can find praise on the game everywhere. This game is by far one of the best games I have played to date. That being said there are some disappointments and frustrations that can be rather annoying especially for those just starting out in the game.

First back step from COD3 is the lack of manable vehicles. While this isn't a deal breaker the maps on COD4 are rather large for the most part. Sometimes, especially in smaller games it makes the game feel slower.

Second back step from COD3 is the inability to play multiple players on the same Xbox on live. This feature was fun for COD3 and it's just not available in COD4.

Annoyance 1. COD4 provides you bonuses for kill streaks which is very rewarding. However if your the new guy and air raids and helicopters keep taking you out it becomes very difficult to get acclimated. Additionally the helicopter makes some rather exaggerated and annoying kills at times.

Annoyance 2. The customizability and depth that COD4 provides is terrific however, coming in new can be frustrating because everyone seems to have better guns and abilities then you. While you get to start out with any gun you want... the enemy can to.

Annoyance 3. The match making in this game leaves something to be desired. Matchmaking is a lot quicker then I have seen with other shooters recently, however it sometimes throws you into grossly disproportiante teams at times.

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8 stars

Excellent game with great online play

by myles taylor on August 21, 2008

Pros: Great online play and easy to learn controls

Cons: Not the best single player storyline.

Summary: One of my favorite games to play online. Great customizable weapons and maps. Definitely one of the top FPS out there.

Summary: One of my favorite games to play online. Great customizable weapons and maps. Definitely one of the top FPS out there.
9 stars

Awesome Game

by xGeofx on April 22, 2008

Pros: Amazing Game Play

Cons: Too Short Of a Game-StoryLine

Summary: I absolutely loved the game but, i hated how short the storyline was. It was pretty awesome though, and the online play is fantabulous. add my gamertag xxdf1ntxx on xbox ...

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Summary: I absolutely loved the game but, i hated how short the storyline was. It was pretty awesome though, and the online play is fantabulous. add my gamertag xxdf1ntxx on xbox live. Graphics are prefect, and my OIF buddies say its just like that in the middle east. This could be the only game i ever play!

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10 stars

Best Game I've Ever Played to Date

by FS1982! on April 22, 2008

Pros: Mutiplayer Keeps you occupied for hours

Cons: Mutiplayer Keeps you occupied for hours

Summary: This game is awesome. I remember when the original Rainbow Six came out for the PC back in the day and my brother and I wanted it to be this ...

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Summary: This game is awesome. I remember when the original Rainbow Six came out for the PC back in the day and my brother and I wanted it to be this game. This is an awesome game just be prepared if you are new to playing because there is a learning curve and there are some excellent players out there. Look me up if you want to play FS1982.

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9 stars

Great game in all aspects

by Pharts on April 19, 2008

Pros: Super awsome amazing spectacular

Cons: A few party issues

Summary: Game is amazing, except for sometimes when you're partied up with some buds you randomly all get booted back to the main menu. New maps are pretty sweet. In ...

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Summary: Game is amazing, except for sometimes when you're partied up with some buds you randomly all get booted back to the main menu. New maps are pretty sweet. In my opinion, its better than halo3; better frame rate, more stuff to do, unlockables, faster paced, more laughs, not as repetitive and less annoying brats.

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8 stars

Close but not quite

by peterwhite on April 16, 2008

Pros: Graphics are amazing, Online play is great

Cons: Doesn't support co-op campaign, game length

Summary: I really liked this game but was surprised at how quickly the game ended. I'm used to playing a game on normal and sometimes easy mode just to get ...

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Summary: I really liked this game but was surprised at how quickly the game ended. I'm used to playing a game on normal and sometimes easy mode just to get the feel down, then replay on the hardest settings to get my achievements - Normal took by 2 1/2 days of a few hours each - Veteran 2 days and I'm 2/3 complete. The game is too short, I'll up score to 10 though if they ever download a patch for on-line co-op play.

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10 stars

My favorite FPS!

by BMWguy206 on March 25, 2008

Pros: Graphics, use of modern weapons, storyline, AC-130 Gunship, and online multiplayer.

Cons: Short storyline, need more AC-130 gunship play!

Summary: After reading so many reviews and watching videos of COD4 I ended up buying the game a brand new XBox 360 Elite!

The storyline is great but is a bit

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Summary: After reading so many reviews and watching videos of COD4 I ended up buying the game a brand new XBox 360 Elite!

The storyline is great but is a bit short. I literally beat the game in less than 4 hours on the "recruit" level. The use of modern weapons, explosives, and technology is great. The best part of the game is firing the arsenal of the AC-130 Gunship. There's only one mission when you get to do that and I feel that should've been more.

Online multiplayer is very addicting and Infinity Ward did a good job in setting up how to create different class soldiers and that you have to gain experience points to unlock weapons, weapon attachments, challenges, perks, and getting promoted to the next higher rank. Ranking is based on the United States Marine system although COD4 has a lot more added to it.

In my opinon the COD4 online multiplayer is a much better experience than Gears of War, the older COD titles, and Halo.

Get this game! You will not be disappointed.

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9 stars

Best Call of Duty Game Yet

by DSmarr34 on March 16, 2008

Pros: Great Graphics, Terrific Sound, Great Storyline, Best Online Experience

Cons: Short Campaign

Summary: Call of Duty 4 is finally a break from the World War II battlefield and it takes you to modern day. Russian Ultranationalists have overthrown the Russian government and have ...

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Summary: Call of Duty 4 is finally a break from the World War II battlefield and it takes you to modern day. Russian Ultranationalists have overthrown the Russian government and have brought the Soviet Union back, and Al-Asad has taken control of the Middle East. The game allows you to fight for the United States Marines and the British S.A.S.

Call of Duty 4 has some of the best missions I have ever played. My personal favorite is the "All Ghillied Up" mission in Chernobyl where you are with another sniper and you are on an assassination mission. Pripyat looks exact and even still has radiation that has a chance of killing you if you absorb too much (go out of the map). The storyline is great and has some twists and turns that has you thinking what might happen next.

Call of Duty 4 has some of the greatest graphics I have ever seen. Everything is beautifully detailed and the character designs are awesome. I love the Russian terrorists that wear the gas masks because it looks awesome.

The Online play is amazing and is way better than the Online for Halo 3. The game modes are all fun to play and will have you hooked for a long time. You gain weapons as your rank gets higher and you will be working hard for that next promotion.

I definitely recommend this game obviously because it has won numerous Game of the Year awards. I think that this game is much better than BioShock.

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10 stars

Massive Goosebumps!

by gruversm on January 30, 2008

Pros: Ultra-Realistic Game Play

Cons: Unless you have no emotions, there are none.

Summary: I can't believe how awesome this game is. When you get goosebumps during gameplay, you've got a winner.

Summary: I can't believe how awesome this game is. When you get goosebumps during gameplay, you've got a winner.
10 stars

Best Game I've Played

by DaMaDdEsTDoG on January 1, 2008

Pros: Great Graphics, Improved

Cons: When You Shoot Someone It Doesn't Die, Sometimes

Summary: This Is The Best Game I Have Played.

Summary: This Is The Best Game I Have Played.

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Manufacturer: Activision
Part number: 47875830837

Product Basic Spec
Platform Xbox 360
ESRB rating Mature - Blood and Gore,Strong Language,Intense Violence
Genre Action
Number of players 1-4 Players
Offline modes Team Oriented,Competitive
Online modes Team Oriented
Sound Dolby Digital 5.1
Resolution Widescreen

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Developer Infinity Ward
ESRB Mature
ESRB descriptors Blood and Gore,Strong Language,Intense Violence
Release date 2007-11-05

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