
I was a fairly late comer to
Call of Duty 4, but
I have no doubt that this is the new benchmark in FPS's.
I'll take a moment to comment about the Single player side of things first. The single player mode of this game
follows two soldiers across the Middle East and Eastern Europe on a mission to stop terrorists from setting nukes off.
The single player mission story lines are expertly woven together to suck the player in and keep playing, which it does
very well. The cut scenes are also brilliantly done as they play while your next mission loads up, there's no just head
of for a drink or anything as your thrown into the next mission straight away.
Graphics are awesome, the environments have an attention to detail that I haven't seen since Half Life 2 days. The sound effects
are also of high quality even the ingame voice acting is spot on. The only downside to the single player is the length...if you
put the effort in you easily finish the game in a day.
The multi-player game mode offers the real goods with this game. When you first hit the ground you will be absolutely smashed,
I still get smashed now after playing the game for the last 3 or so weeks. When you get over the being smashed part you will
find that this is the first game where they have gotten things right. You rank-up regularly instead of the old BF2 style of things where
you don't rank-up for like acouple of months of playing. With ranking up you get unlocks aswell and there are plenty of unlocks ranging
from new weapons to skill upgrades called Perks.
Now this is the best part of the multi-player, you get to combine these weapons and perks into your custom classes. You can make up to
five custom classes and call them whatever you like...it's such a simple but brilliant idea that I'm really surprised that no other big
FPS game has thought of it before.
With the good there has to be some bad points, yes getting absolutely hammered the first couple of times you play is a bad point but the
main bad point is the ingame server selection. It astounds me that somebody can make such an awsome game but stuff up the server selection
screen. To rectify this just download
QTracker and connect
to the server you wish play on by this.
Overall this is an outstanding game with plenty to offer and likely to keep you playing for the time to come...which is pretty unusual for
a FPS in my opinion. This deservers two big thumbsup from me.