Call of Duty was one of the best WWII games of all time; it was also
one of the best shooters of 2003. When Infinity Ward stated that they
were over WWII for the next Call Duty game, Call of Duty 4, it made us
wonder how well the game would transfer.
Let me say with out a doubt, Call of Duty 4 is easily one of the best
packages of the year. It has everything, a powerful story, awesome
graphics, superb sound, an awesome single player campaign, and an even
better multi-player to back it up, Call of Duty 4 may in fact be the
best game this year. Call of Duty 4's single player is almost
everything you could want from a campaign. It has all the intense
firefights, plot twists, guns, and voice work to make a
single player almost perfect.
The one place where Call of Duty 4 falls apart is the length of the
single player. The game can take almost four to five hours. The single
player shows you through a fictional war, one which feels like could
happen today. The story takes a man who has a lot of power, and wants
more. With the power he wants to do bad things to the west. The single
player is through multiple perspectives like the other games, but
mostly through two men, a S.A.S. soldier and a U.S.M.C. soldier. Both
pretty much play the same, except they are both found in different
environments through the game. All in all Call of Duty 4’s single
player is short, but extremely fun, intense, and rewarding.
While the main single player campaign is short, there is quite a lot to
do after the game has been completed. First off you get an extremely
deep and addictive multiplayer experience. The multiplayer gives you
one character to build on and level up, allowing you to create up to
five custom classes with advantages and guns to cater your personal
style of gaming. You gain experience through all your games, not just
one. Meaning, when you leave a game to join a new one, you won’t lose
any experience. The multiplayer works like all the other games, meaning
it is still one of the strongest multiplayer games on the market. Also
to make the replay value even higher, you get the option of playing the
single player again on Arcade Mode. Arcade mode scores you on how well
you do on a mission. You get more points for tricky kills, headshots,
knife kills, and completing objectives. You also get four lives, if you
lose them all you have to start the level over again. You also get more
points for what level of difficulty you’re playing on, how many lives,
etc. With that said, Call of Duty 4 will give you plenty of reasons to
keep coming back.
From a technical point of view Call of Duty 4 for is also marvelous.
The graphics looks very good, with tons of things happening on screen
and effects that are just awesome. The water and night time levels
looks particularly spectacular and stand out from the rest of the game.
The game feels like your watching a movie it looks so good, and feels
like your right in the middle of war. Of course, Call of Duty 4 makes
war look a lot cooler than it actually is, until right around the end.
The audio in Call of Duty 4 is also amazing. The ambiance is awesome,
where bullets whiz by you and you here explosions far off, you feel
like your right in the action. The musical score, like the other games
is also incredible, with music at just the right time, and some really
cool sounds at that. The best part is the Voice work though, which is
outstanding, voices from your team mates are anything from extremely
calm to superbly frantic. You will find your self being attached to
certain characters just because of the voice work. Both the sound and
grpahics will make you feel like you're the one in this fight.
Call of Duty 4 is a rare game, one that is plenty of fun no matter what
you do. Like I said before, it has everything a first person shooter
needs and then some.
