Chierin
11-13-2007, 11:31 AM
Overall, there are a few flies in the ointment of Call of Duty 4, but none are big enough to prevent this from being a great game. The main thing I felt the game was lacking was the ability to dive for cover as there are a few areas of the game where you have no choose but to dodge bullets and move between cover. At those times, navigation can be a little difficult and you can easily get the process of sprint, stop, duck a little bit wrong.
I can't count the times I got killed by a helicopter gunner because I was ducking early or accidentally going prone instead of crouching.
The problem of weapon switching is a little annoying too and it seems counter-productive to move a generation of gamers away from the mouse wheel for seemingly no reason.
That said, there are a few nice extra touches which have been worked into the latest game, such as the enemy intelligence which can be collected throughout the game for extra boasting points. The voice acting and clever use of loading screens as more high-tech briefings is also particularly praise-worthy as it really helps make the game more immersive and interesting.
There's bound to be a fairly large number of Call of Duty fans who are going to be disappointed by Modern Warfare because it's moved away from the original setting and shifted to the present delay. Those people are missing the point. Call of Duty 4 is the same as all the other games in the franchise -- an awesomely fun war simulation which blends realism and superheroic endurance to give players a war which is all at once scary, difficult, moving and enjoyable. The shift to a new setting is mostly a cosmetic change and it isn't a bad one at that.
Combine kinetic feel of the game which communicates every nudge of recoil and the graphics which beautifully detail every bullet impact with the same fluid gameplay we've all come to love and it's easy to see that Modern Warfare could be the best Call of Duty game yet. It acts as if it were in another, different Christopher Lambert film, decapitating the opposition and absorbing their power to become the king of all war shooters to date.
There can be only one. Modern Warfare is it.
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I can't count the times I got killed by a helicopter gunner because I was ducking early or accidentally going prone instead of crouching.
The problem of weapon switching is a little annoying too and it seems counter-productive to move a generation of gamers away from the mouse wheel for seemingly no reason.
That said, there are a few nice extra touches which have been worked into the latest game, such as the enemy intelligence which can be collected throughout the game for extra boasting points. The voice acting and clever use of loading screens as more high-tech briefings is also particularly praise-worthy as it really helps make the game more immersive and interesting.
There's bound to be a fairly large number of Call of Duty fans who are going to be disappointed by Modern Warfare because it's moved away from the original setting and shifted to the present delay. Those people are missing the point. Call of Duty 4 is the same as all the other games in the franchise -- an awesomely fun war simulation which blends realism and superheroic endurance to give players a war which is all at once scary, difficult, moving and enjoyable. The shift to a new setting is mostly a cosmetic change and it isn't a bad one at that.
Combine kinetic feel of the game which communicates every nudge of recoil and the graphics which beautifully detail every bullet impact with the same fluid gameplay we've all come to love and it's easy to see that Modern Warfare could be the best Call of Duty game yet. It acts as if it were in another, different Christopher Lambert film, decapitating the opposition and absorbing their power to become the king of all war shooters to date.
There can be only one. Modern Warfare is it.
Read Article Here (http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2007/11/13/call_of_duty_4_modern_warfare/1)
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