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| Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Special Edition (PC DVD) | 
 enlarge | From: Activision
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 6333
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.6 x 1.1
EAN: 5030917052248
ASIN: B000XJ7GAK
Release Date: November 9, 2007
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- D-Day on the Modern Battlefield: Watch as your armada of helicopters charges over the rooftops of a bombed-out urban hell, while ground fire and RPGs streak past the open door of your helicopter. Fast-rope down to the streets through a cyclone of choking sand and dust with your Marine platoon and engage the enemy in unrelenting battle.
- High Speed Tactics: Experience intense close-quarters urban combat in the way that only Call of Duty can deliver. Supported by you well-trained squad, rappel down the walls of enemy strongholds, blast out the locks with your shotgun, and then clear the rooms using tear gas grenades, flashbangs, and silenced MP-5 submachine guns.
- Cutting Edge Modern Arsenal: With the help of actual Marines and SAS operatives, all the weapons in Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare have been painstakingly researched and replicated in game, bringing to life the ultimate war experience.
- Global War: Take the fight to the enemy in an epic war across the Middle East, board and storm ships in the North Atlantic, engage in heavy urban combat through the streets of Eastern Europe, and assault terrorist cells in London.
- Next-Generation Multiplayer: Physically alter the environment to your strategic advantage. Open up new flanking routes by blowing through walls and doors. Knock down bridges, close off roads, and blast buildings into rubble. Move furniture and vehicles to block doors and seal up windows with chicken wire to repel enemy grenades.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 A GUTSY MOVE BY Activision! February 22, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
WWII had been done to death! Ever since the original CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN-3D every war theater, every front, every battle has been done again and again. True, a number of great games was produced. Yet, some game developers seem unable to stop whipping a dead horse..
ACTIVISION proved it had the guts to break with the mold it had made its CALL OF DUTY franchise a huge success. CoD4 is set in a (fictional) present in which American and British agents are called upon to stop a Russian plutocrat with Soviet-nostalgia and terrorist aspirations.
The weapons are new, the gameplay is inventive, the graphics are realistic, the settings are beautiful - a great game all together!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Too Short? Try Veteran. January 29, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
If this game was too short for you, I recommend you play the game again.
This time, set the difficulty rating to Veteran, play it on "arcade mode" so you only have limited lives/respawns.
Now I dare you to complain that the single player game is too short.
Hats off to the gamers who can complete the game (including the short 50seconds you have to rescue the hostage at the end on the plane mission).
Ive been playing FPS since "Magic Carpet" and anyone with any knowledge should know, that was the first real FPS ever made (1993-94 and yes it was the guy that made Black and White). I.e. i'm good, I think myself good and I enjoy it; my point is this: I can't complete CoD4 on Veteran + the plane mission at the end. So a great big *bow to anyone that can and I would love to know about it.
Welcome to a whole new level of CoD and difficulty. Challenging? If you're the person that played CoD4 on Easy, Charged in and got shot a hundred times before being felled, completed the game so easilly that a 7 year old child could do the same, THEN complained on here that it was too short...then be prepared to die. Many times. In as many ways possible as you can imagine, or your patience will allow you to endure, before restarting the machine and shouting at anyone in the vacinity at the time.
The game takes on another form of its own at this level.
With limited lives as well, you're going to be cursing your screen at the intellegence of the A.I. and that sniper that hit you bang on for the 5th time when you're on your last life of 6.
Enjoy, and no more complaints until you've tried this.
p.s.
As a general rule, to make your games last alot longer, play them all on hard if not the hardest difficulty setting to start off with unless you're totally new to them.
 disapointing January 19, 2008
1 out of 16 found this review helpful
I looked forward to this next game after thoughrly enjoying C/of/ Duty 3 but what a load of rubbish,game takes place in shadows most of the time,so you are not sure where the enemy is half the time,so I find I have wasted my money
Fantastic multiplayer January 12, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
One of the most involved multiplayers i have come across. very addictive and rewarding. work your way up through hundreds of ranks and play numerous forms of engagement such as headquarters, search and destroy and plenty more. Worth every penny just for the multiplayer alone. great graphics. Buy it.
Call of Duty 4 review December 31, 2007
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I was shocked, amazed and relieved when I heard about a year ago that the Call of Duty franchise was in for an overhaul and was going to be set in present day. To be frank, I think that WW2 has been done to death in video games. However, like many others, I was a little apprehensive as to how well it would be pulled off. Thankfully there is no need to worry because Call of Duty 4 is probably the best Call of Duty game that has ever been made and arguably game of the year.
Like many other Call of Duty games, the story is told through the perspective of more than one soldier. Throughout the game, you play as Sergeant John "Soap" MacTavish of the 22nd SAS regiment and Sergeant Paul Jackson of the American 1st Force Recon and another surprise character. Without giving too much away, the game is basically about a Russian ultranationalist called Imran Zakhaev who is set on returning his homeland to the times of the Soviet Union by revolting against the current government and seizing a nuclear weapons stockpile. The story is very good overall and fits together very nicely. There are 4 difficulty settings which are easy, regular, hardened and veteran and there is quite a spread between these. There are a few niggles to the single player and one is its length. I found myself completing it on hardened within 6 hours and for more experienced players than me this could go down to 4-5 hours. Another gripe is the repetitivity involved during the game. Most of the time, you find yourself killing wave after wave of enemies. In the end it all gets rather tedious.
When single player has been finished, you are in for a treat. The multiplayer in Call of Duty 4 is spot on and extremely addictive (while it lasts). The multiplayer is level and experience points based where you start as private (level 1) and finish as commander (level 55) (above general). As you progress through the ranks, you unlock more weapons and perks which then you are then permitted to use on the battlefield. The multiplayer also uses experience points which can be achieved by killing people, completing mission objectives (such as planting bombs or capturing the flag) or by completing challenges. By completing challenges for weapons you can unlock red dot sights, acog scopes and silencers etc. If you wondered what perks were, they are basically abilities. You can have up to three perks which for example could be extra ammo, or extra grenades, the ability to reload faster, the ability to drop a live grenade when you are killed etc... My personal favourite is called last stand. (much like the single player finale) It is where, when you get hit enough times by the enemy, (instead of dying) you drop to the floor with your pistol. You are then allowed about 15 seconds (providing you don't get shot again) of shooting with your pistol until you get killed. This can be very handy, especially at getting revenge on the opponent who put you in that state. When you just start out in the game, there are pre-set classes which you are able to use but as you climb up the ranks, you can create your own classes with your own choice of weapons which help in making the classes more individual. Moving on, the only gripe I have with the multiplayer is the length. It will take most people about 50 hours of solid gameplay to reach the rank of commander. Once you have reached commander (level 55), you will probably find the game gets slightly boring as there is nothing to unlock.
Moving onto other matters, the game itself isn't much of a system hog providing you've got more than a 3.0ghz single processor, about a gigabyte of RAM and a graphics card with 256mb or more. You will want to play this game on full settings because of the brilliant visuals. If you don't meet minimum, then it's probably worth upgrading for the likes of this game and others like Crysis. If you have 2 gb RAM and an 8 series nvidia card, the game will look very nice indeed.
In conclusion, Call of Duty 4 should probably be owned by everyone who plays video games, let alone those who are fans of the genre. Congratulations to Activision and Infinity Ward who produced a cracking game which hardly disappoints. If you don't already own this game, then I strongly suggest you buy it soon.
I shall now rate the game
Gameplay: 9/10. Slightly repetitive at times but generally very good. Multiplayer can have you playing for hours at a time.
Graphics: 10/10. Stunning visuals. From the lighting to the character models, all are superb.
Sound: 9/10. This aspect does not disappoint. Excellent voice overs, atmosphere and music.
Lasting Appeal: 9.5/10. Although the single player is short, the multiplayer is what this game is all about. This game will probably take the average gamer roughly 60 hours to complete.
Overall, I give this game 9.5. This game is a real masterpiece.
If you liked this game, then I recommend other games in the genre such as Crysis, The Orange Box, Gears of War, Timeshift, Medal of Honour: Airborne, Rainbow six: Vegas and STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, all of which I have played, completed and enjoyed immensely.
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