Call of Duty 4 Review

FANTASTIC! This game is prolly the best I have played since Half Life 1. Seriously. By a long way.

I’m currently playing the single player levels and I am blown away. The modern warfare setting, storyline, weaponry are only a close second to the best graphics “in game” that I have ever played. I’m running in 1900×1200 and left all the settings as suggested and (with the exception of a few rare slowdowns) it performs well and is the closest to realism I have seen. The world, the explosions, the cut scenes (and their amazing transitions) and the secondary scope guis are all just fab! A partially destructive world environment gives it a realistic feel and the panoramas, landscapes and textures used for the scenery are beautiful.

I have not yet finished but I am completely hooked. I need to have a break after 5 straight hours of play.

As if all that wasn’t enough, I have just played the best level I have ever played in 10 years of gaming. You see, the best thing for me in warfare FPS games is when they let me loose with a decent sniper rifle and this level gave me everything I wanted and more. I will not spoil it for you but you follow a lead sniper and support him as you go about your snipey mission. His character animation, amazing detail and shadow/light play across this character is just jaw dropping. I kept stopping just to watch him move around and point and stuff! At one point you follow him crawling prone and you can see the tread on his boots as your heart races while you hide from the enemy. I would play it all again just to replay that level.

Anyhoo, the only downside seems to be that you cannot control the save games. It saves as you cross checkpoints but these are frequent and have not seemed to be a problem so far.

It’s not easy! I am playing on Normal, and I have died more times than care to remember. There is a lower, spastic level for those of us that struggle to play these things. And there is a hard and a shit-thats-difficult level for Jezz!

I wanted to review this game as I was SO impressed with it. I have just played 30 mins of Gears of War and it sucks by comparison. If Crysis doesnt completely change the graphics performance and playability in the full realese (the demo was cak imho), this COD4 will wipe the floor with it and will deserve to.

A big 9/10 and that’s only for the single player. There’s a whole new world in the multiplayer mode. This is gonna be a big game. And I have not even mentioned the nuke! Oh the nuke…

Actually, this is the the best game I have played. There, I have said it. Sorry Action Half-Life, you’ve been demoted!