"Official" Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Review and Discussion- by yours truly

Wow, never realize the shotgun is so easy to score... Just now I joined a team deathmatch server with 20 people on the map downpour in the last 5 minutes of the match only using the 1st shotgun & stun grenades and I managed to get a record of 22 kills / 3 deaths. Called in 3 UAVs, 2 airstrikes & 1 heli and annoyed the hell out of the enemy team...

 

Yeah, I was surprised at how well the Shotgun worked as well, just aim in the general direction and it is bound to score with it's huge target area.

 

Really? I found the last shotgun to be terrible. The 4 shells and very slow rate of fire just were terrible though it had so much raw power. Overall I avoid using them.

 

I thought the last shotgun was suppose to have a higher rate of fire than the first one... Anyway, I'm trying to complete all the challenges for the shotguns now (100 headshots for each shotgun, at the moment I have scored 51 headshots for the 1st shotgun and 3 headshots for the last shotgun...xP) so I can get a gold shotgun at the end. It's actually quite hard to get headshots for it because most of the time even when I aim at their head it doesn't register as a headshot.

 

Wow the p90 is a hell of a submachine gun. Its the best weapon in the game in my opinion. With a silencer its outright deadly. I'm getting 5:1 ratios with it compared to 3:1 ratios with other weapons.

 

Yea I'm still working on getting it. Getting close, though

 

I prefer the Mp5. Oldschool. I just got the gold semi-auto shotty, rather anti-climactic. But running around with the gold shotty and the gold deagle is petty pimp.

 

What level is P90 acquired at?

 

haha... I'm working my way to the gold shotty right now. Just need 76 more headshots for the auto shotty and it shall be mine!

 

i have a ati 2600xt 256mb gddr3
128bit
why cant i play with every settings att high i laggs

 

Well I am playing with my gpu overclocked at 1680 x 1050, its not stock speeds.

 

Try using different drivers, modified ones by laptopvideo2go.com (site down as they are moving to a diff server)

I have an 8600M GT which is I think a little better than your card but not a lot and I play at 1680 x 1050 no AA or AF, specular map off and everything else on high or max settings and I get average 30 fps.

With a little overclocking I can put specular map on and get the same average fps

 

P90 is unlocked at level 40.

 

Gah, how do you overclock?! Is it just a program that you run? Are you ruining your computer by doing it? Help! O_.

 

Yes I use a program called rivatuner (most of us do). Its reall simple with the directions from their site or you can ask if you need help. Just google rivatuner and you'll find it. With newer cards its really hard to do damage to your card. My card often actually underclocks itself if I try to clock it too hard. Or the screen will artificat (apparent distortions and waves) which are a sign that its overheating. There is some risk involved but its very minimal.

 

Lo and behold, Call of Duty 5 has already been confirmed as in the works.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/839/839084p1.html
http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/guitar-hero-iv-call-of-duty-5-in-the-pipeline/18717/

I pray Infinity Ward will develop it!!! Expect a full review.

 

I hope it will be available for PC... (not only for consoles)

btw I just unlocked the gold shotty. It was hard work in getting 100 headshots for both shotguns...

 

I've asked to get C0d 4 for Christmas. I just wish it was Christmas already!

 

Did anyone noticed that the SAS captain in COD4 and the SAS sargent major in the book Rainbow Six have both the same name?

 

anyone able to play this game using intel x3100?

dont know if i should buy it yet

 

I gotta say,after playing and finishing Crysis I thought no game could impress me again.
But I`ve just started to play COD4 and it`s absolutely amazing. I feared that the graphics would be poor,but it`s beatiful,complex,realistic and the shaders and shadows do it justice.
Best part about it, i can max it out without a problem,and it`s a 2007 game!
Crysis was meant for the future,COD4 is the present.You gotta love it!

 

Well said!

 

Excellent review Forerunner (as always), and after reading your article I have decided to buy the game.

However, I have a problem. My university has blocked all my multiplayer ports, so I need to know if this game has a lot of replayability for the single player mode. Specifically, is the arcade mode any good?

The hard drive requirements these days are insane, every recent game seems to be more than 8GB in size. This sucks for people who own laptops, as we don't really have the privillege of owning massive hard drives. I wish they had different installtion options... I mean since I'm not going to be playing on 1080p graphics settings, they may as well leave out those textures and let me save a few GB's of space.

Also, do you need to have the CD in the drive to play the game? Coz if that's true, I'll probably buy the game through Steam. It's no problem, since I love Steam anyway.

 

Arcade mode is gppd but not really something would be fun for many hours on end.

The space my system is reporting is 6.5 gigs for it. How big is your harddrive?
Maybe reduce the amount of space for system restore. I have about 6 games installed and a few gigs of music and still have 70 gigs left. I have a 160 gb drive. You can always buy an external drive.

Well, you need the cd for singplayer but you don't need it for multiplayer.

Also in all honestly. The campaign is short maybe 5-8 depending on setting and how good you are but regardless I don't think 50 dollars for just the single player might be worth. Its the best game of the year in my opinion but you might feel like you made a bad decision once you finish the campaign a few times and can't do much else with the game. If you can multiplayer somehow then your fire. I dunno its up to you, the campaign is excellent but...

 

The single player runs about 5 hrs on easy/normal ,7-12 hrs on harden/super hard. The gameplay in linear but the story are very dramatic and jaw-dropping , it feel like if you are in hollywood war movie. What it lacks in length, it makes up in quality. I am guessing maybe 2 or 3 replays.

My advice would be wait for the price to drop if you are only going to play single player, or but yet borrow it from one of your friends. You don't need the cd for mp, so once they are done with single player, they dont need it anymore.

P.S. Gamespy.com just named COD4 The Game of the Year. Cheers!

 

Home for Christmas so I bought it and beat it today on Normal....awesome story wow! short but sweet!

Haven't tried multiplayer or arcade mode yet but this is definitely the GOTY IMHO (that or mario galaxy which i tried briefly)

 

What does everyone think about the new 1.4 patch and Christmas themed winter_crash map?

 

i love it, not the map specifically but the fact that IW is giving us more variation and extra goods, hopefully more will b coming soon

 

Yeah its fun, I definitely appreciate it.

 

You lucky PC users...I'm jealous...lol. Just kidding!

 

guys, ran this game just fine on 169.28, then had to switch back to 169.04, cuz gta was running pretty slow on them. now the cod won't play very well. anyone esle experiencing similar problem?

 

what do you mean by wont play so well

 

it played sluggishly(lagged on the same settings). installed omega's 169.21 for xp and that solved the problem! it plays at least 2x as fast right now!

 

havent heard from ya for a while V, anyway good those drivers solved the problem.


wouild you recommend omega ones over lv2go 169.28 or not

 

nah, bb, i've been around - just reading a lot lately u been alright?
over 28's...dunno yet. have to run gta: san andreas to say for sure(which won't run for some reason, have to restart i guess), since gta performed very bad on 169.28.

 

cool cool, thx for asking and yep am great, been busy doing sports, mainly boxing these days...thinking of going amateur soon (very hard to decide which trainer to go for as there are numerous), then hopefully pro in 2-3 yrs time after amateur

 

nice. like the spirit keep us informed about ur ass-kickings! lol
back to the drivers: gta seems to work really well on them as well, so i say give them a shot. i posted a moddified inf on the last page of this thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=202165

 

lol thx for both

 

hell, just ran cod4 with aa4x and it is playable. it does, however, deep into some mid-teens but the quality is wow

 

I just got CoD4 last night. I have only tried single player so far, but it is a really fun game. Very intense.
Tim

 

I like it. I just played the game right now. It is intense. It is about real issue going on. Like the iraq war.

 

LOL. I'm not even going to go into the reasons why that is wrong. You can't compare real life to a computer game. Video games are about fun, war is not.

One of the reasons I loved Call of Duty 4 is because they didn't get too political with their storyline. That allowed them to build an epic single player campaign, of a battle between good and evil, of rationalism against extremism. Like in WW2, where the line between the good guys and the bad guys was easy to see.

The Iraq War however, is skeptical at best. In a perfect world, we could kill all the terrorists without slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocent civillians in the process. Especially since Iraq didn't have WMD's, or any ties to Al-queda prior to the 2003 invasion (as stated by the US senate).

Video games usually depict an ideal world, where the good guys win, and Bush stayed with his oil companies instead of running for president.

 

Okay Okay. Sorry. I know real life is not similar to a game. Thanks. I try not to get into that issues.

 

Hehe made sure to steer clear of that when I wrote my review.

Also yeah the 1.4 patch totally fixes the connecting issue, and now it connects near instantly. Also the .28 drivers gave me a nice boost in fps.
Ping is rather high though for my connection. Your tweaks did help BB (blackbird.)

 

Now guys i am having a problem. I don't know if it is regular. After Sniper mission. When you carry the guy to the extraction. Everything goes well there. I complete the mission. Now when the next mission is loading it will not finish loading it. It will stay there. Now When i press ctrl+alt+delete. to get the task manager and i see that it is not responding. ANyone had this problem before or does that mission take longer to load. THanks. I have included a screenshot of what i am talking about and it shows the point where it stop and the the screen goes black after that but the loading stay there.

 

what do you call playable ? I get around 23-25 fps during heavy fights in the city , with aa2x and no shadows

lol the game is pretty awesome and it makes you "hate" muslims , not as bad as black hawk down made me "hate" black people.

Its not really hate , and not generally all black people but just the ones in the movie lol.

 

cod4 is still awesome for me...just had to throw that out there. Its getting a little boring after doing prestige though.

 

Yh thats the one thing i dont like about cod4 - the maps are already getting boring. Its not like Enemy Territory Quake Wars, or even Wolfenstein Enemy Territory for that matter, where you progress through the map while doing objectives. This then makes sure that you spent a small amount of time in certain areas of the map and keep progressing to the next area of the map, which keeps the maps having a "freash" feel every time u play. But with COD4 you can just run anywhere in the rather small maps and u tend to get bored rather quickly.

 

Hey guys... I have a question. I bought the game from direct2drive.com and after being curious about the patches I emailed them and they said their digital version did not have the same issues as the retail version. I guess it's true since I have never used a patch and have never had any problems with the game.

My question is why/how is this possible?

 

I bought mine from Steam. and it's updated automatically during my time online. Maybe that's what they mean, you don't have to actively download any patches.