Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Plot synopsis:
On a mission in the Bering Sea, Sergeant "Soap" MacTavish, Captain Price, "Gaz", and several SAS members find a nuclear device onboard a cargo ship. Suddenly, the ship is attacked, and the team evacuate with the cargo manifest, which provides evidence of ties between the Russian Ultranationalist Party and a rebel faction in the Middle East. Russian Ultranationalist Imran Zakhaev, who plans to return his homeland to the times of the Soviet Union, draws international attention away from his plans by funding a coup d'état in an unnamed Middle Eastern country, organized by a local separatist leader named Khaled Al-Asad. The British and American governments, who discover the plot, initiate a police action to stop the uprisings in both regions. After President Al-Fulani of the Middle Eastern country is executed on live television and Al-Asad takes control, the SAS rescue their compromised informant in the Russian Ultranationalist Party, Nikolai.[4]
One section of the game takes place in Prypiat, Ukraine. Several iconic aspects of the abandoned city, such as this square, were recreated in the game.
In an American invasion of the Middle Eastern country, a platoon from the USMC 1st Force Recon, led by Lieutenant Vasquez and Sergeant Paul Jackson, searches for Al-Asad, but only manages to secure a television station broadcasting Al-Asad's propaganda. During the operation, United States Central Command is notified by Seal Team Six of a Russian nuclear weapon nearby, and sends the NEST to disarm it. However, the nuclear device suddenly detonates, leveling most of the city and killing everyone in the area, including Vasquez's squad, whose helicopter had not left the blast radius after coming to the last-minute rescue of a downed helicopter pilot. [4]
The British learn that Al-Asad fled the country before the USMC's invasion. With the help of their informant Nikolai, the SAS finds and interrogates Al-Asad. After learning from him that Zakhaev supplied the nuclear bomb, Captain Price shoots Al-Asad. Price then has a flashback of his mission to eliminate Zakhaev in Prypiat, Ukraine, 15 years earlier. In the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Zakhaev took advantage of the turmoil to profit from nuclear proliferation and used his new wealth to lure soldiers from the Soviet Army to form his Ultranationalist Party. Price was paired with Captain MacMillan to carry out the black op assassination of Zakhaev. MacMillan spotted Zakhaev while Price fired a sniper rifle, only to end up shooting off Zakhaev's left arm. The two commandos were then pursued, narrowly escaping.[4]
Back in the present, a joint operation, by the SAS regiment under the command of Captain Price, a USMC Force Recon unit led by Staff Sergeant Griggs, and forces from the Russian military led by Sgt. Kamarov, is undertaken to stop Zakhaev. They capture his son Victor to learn of Zakhaev's whereabouts, but before they can question him, Zakhaev's son commits suicide. Zakhaev becomes enraged, blaming Western nations for the death of his son, and plans to retaliate by launching ballistic missiles armed with warheads at the United States. When SAS/USMC operatives arrive at the facility, Zakhaev manages to launch two missiles towards the United States. However, the squad successfully deactivates the missiles and escapes the facility in military trucks, Zakhaev's forces in hot pursuit.[4]
Before the squad can escape across a nearby bridge, it is destroyed by a gunship, leaving them trapped. Zakhaev's forces arrive and engage the remaining members of the strike force. Suddenly, Gaz receives a call from Sergeant Kamarov, informing him that his forces are on their way to help the American and British forces. On the bridge, a gas tanker explodes, incapacitating most soldiers nearby except Griggs, who is shot while trying to pull MacTavish to safety. Zakhaev, along with two of his soldiers, finish off Gaz and other surviving members of the strike force. He then begins to walk towards Soap and Price, but is distracted by the destruction of his gunship and the arrival of a Russian military helicopter. As Zakhaev looks away, Price slides his pistol to Soap, who shoots and kills Zakhaev and his two guards. When Kamarov and his team arrive, MacTavish is evacuated to safety, while a Russian medic attempts to resuscitate Price. MacTavish survives and becomes a captain in the SAS before leading an elite military force in Modern Warfare 2, but Price's ultimate fate is unknown.

Tags: violence

Review:
This is one of the few games which takes me out of myself (the way a really great movie does) and throws me into the shoes of an SAS soldier or Marine, and has me wondering if I'll make it to the end.I'm not a game reviewer, but these are some things that have earned Infinity Ward high marks in my book with this title: Graphics - As of today (December '07), these are the best visuals a game has to offer, and sometimes I find myself just walking around an area admiring the detail that went into it.
It's fast paced, but not in an unrealistic way - you're on the edge of your seat because there's "hostiles" all around you, and you can't afford the luxury of being bored.Difficulty - I'm glad to see that a higher difficulty here does NOT mean an enemy who takes more shots, but rather one with faster reflexes, sturdier aim, and more strategic grenade-lobbing.Sound effects - I don't know how many people look for good sound effects in a game, but for me, they tend to be a major factor, and I appreciate the satisfyingly diverse sounds of each weapon, or the "ping" grenades make as they bounce towards you, and yes, even the "thup" of hitting your target.Story - About the highest compliment I could give this game is that it plays like a superbly made war drama.
The campaign ends with a dramatic conclusion, and I frankly hope there are never talks of making this franchise into a movie, because Call of Duty 4 goes beyond the limits of what films are capable of.(also, the music is commendable, simply because I generally don't think I'd want much of a soundtrack for realism's sake, but Stephen Barton's work here is beautifully sublime, and sets the mood well).
The game doesn't glorify war, it shows how messed up it can be with many things like, friends dying, see death through the eyes of others, rescue missions, and even an amazing assassination with a .50 caliber Barrett.
You play S.A.S sergent Soap Mactavish, Sergent Paul Jackson of the U.S.M.C and also a very fun one off mission were you go flashback 15 years and play as captain price.The graphics are incredibly detailed and every tiny detail is catered for.The story was a fantastic idea considering how call of duty has jumped from world war 2 to the modern day.Online is where the fun really lies.
There are hundreds of different online games but my favourite is ground war which is basically your team deathmatch but with LOTS more players and it actually feels like a warzone with grenades,explosions and bullets happening all around you.A very deep experience and certainly worth your money, definitely my game of the year..
Never are you so delighted to be ordered around by a guy with a mustache.Graphics: 9/10: Great graphics, with slight flaws in grass and thin layered items.Controls: 10/10: The scoping system is wonderful and I love how you can stab people in the back.Realism: 10/10: The war zones and situations are so life-like in COD4 that you feel yourself simultaneously slashing with the controller as if it was a knife while pressing the mêlée weapon.Difficulty: 9/10: I beat the game on the Recruit difficulty setting, and I had no problem (it was the easiest).
This game is going to be a classic for 100 years, people are going to talk about it in decades...Call of duty 4, Modern warfare 9/10graphics:10 sound:9 feeling:9.
I've only played the online mode at my friends house, and let me tell you, It is by far THE GREATEST WAR GAME AND FIRST PERSON SHOOTER EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF VIDEO GAMES!!!!
First off the visuals are excellent the visuals are truly some of the best.The look of explosions and battle worn areas in the middle east is intense.It's great to just look around(when your not getting shot at) and realize the scope of how much work was put into the game to make it look so good.The sound is great its like they went onto an actual battlefield and recorded everything.Explosions and gunshots sound just so great its probably as best there gonna get for the moment.Voice acting was great the actors did a stand up job sounding like the characters they were.It's always great when a voice actor does a great job and makes the character more believable.Game play is the best Call of Duty game play ever.Nothing was wrong with it unlike Call of Duty 3 which seemed to have physics to have problems as often id get stuck on a tire.Coming off that note the physics and frame rate are excellent and hardly ever falter.The controls in this game were tight and easy to learn.This COD game perfected the throw back grenade function which was first introduced in COD3.The use of a knife as a melee attack was also entertaining and to me was more believable then beating a man to death with a rifle butt.Guns seemed to be as strong as they should be and fired like they should.For once a storyline was attempted that didn't all but just make you want to skip the cut scenes as it was interesting and could draw you in.The one thing i wished there was more of was guns.
Also many times i found myself forced to use an m4 assault carbine and had few chances to use an m-16 which i believe is a better gun.I found it a little odd the British S.A.S. was using the m4 and not the standard British rifle the L85 which was a gun i was really hoping to see.(I only have this problem with the campaign.) Multiplayer leaves nothing to be desired.The multiplayer is excellent its easy to just jump in and play the game and actually be good at it.There is a good variety of weapons on multiplayer and some customization to be done to the weapons.Plenty of match types that people could want or need.All around Call of Duty is the best war game i have ever played and I've played enough of them.I own it for the ps3 and have not experienced many problems with it.Best war game out there and best COD of the series..
I was never a fan of the previous games in the Call of Duty series but I must say that Infinity Ward has created a wonderful game.The first 3 missions give you great idea of what is to come.
However, the game has a top-notch ranking systems which rewards you for good play by giving you extra weapons and perks as well as game modes.The single player game is a little short but I have not come across one as good as Call of Duty 4.
To this day, no other game in the series has given me an experience quite like this, Modern Warfare is probably my second favorite game in the series, right behind Black Ops, the game is surprisingly solid in almost every area, the gameplay feels just right and the game can be pretty challenging at certain levels, but if you play smart, you can actually get on top of almost every situation, the score is great, I specially love the main theme, the story of the game is fairly standard but it works well for this kind of game, ironically this is probably the last CoD game we had that was in any way "realistic".
The game also looks good all this years later and the campaign is filled with memorable set pieces, my favorite part of the game is a stealth section where you are basically playing as a sniper trying to hide from enemies, it was tense and by far the highlight of the game.
Platform: PS3 Setting: Eastern Europe, Russia, Middle East etc.Story: You're part of the military elite (S.A.S.) and fighting terrorists determined to get nuclear weapons.Graphics: Good.Sound: Good.General observations:Not being a lover of first person shooters, I thought I'd give this massively popular franchise a burl.
There are multiple weapons to use, including high tech ones.Good about the game: The training module at the start is brief and gives you a feel for the gameplay.The controls are intuitive...even after I returned to the game after finishing MGS4, it was easy to pick up on the gameplay.The game doesn't waste your time...you can skip the self-promotion slides at the start of the game and in game, if you die, you pretty much resume from where you died...so, generally you don't have to repeat slabs of levels, which I like.I like how your squad waits for you...there are things to collect in the game (which I didn't really care about) and you can roam at your leisure to find them, then meet up with your squad and continue the action.Variety of gameplay...sniper missions, helicopter gunships, missile launches etc.The final moments of the game were cinematic and effective (before the "mile high" mission).Your squad commander looks like Lemmy Kilmister!
So, if you enjoyed some of the unconvetional parts of the game, like shooting big guns from a helicopter using thermal vision, you can replay that again.Bad about the game: Very occasionally you can get lost in the game, not sure what to do next...e.g. in an early sniping mission your commander tells you to come "over here" to snipe...where is "here"?
That looks like a quick and easy option if you want a short FPS fix if you don't have much time.The single player campaign is a good introduction to this genre and you can easily learn the ropes here until you feel ready to tackle what this game was no doubt intended for...online play...where you can expect to be pwned and teabagged by 11 year old boys!
It is in 3rd person view but you can play it like a FPS I'm sure...maybe for most of the game?
Yes this game is really great.This game have best video game scenario ever..That deserves the Game Of The Year 2007..Now 6 years already passed but still have 1.000 more online players..Win 2007 best FPS game.Win 2007 best Multiplayer game.Win 2007 best Action game.Win 2007 best scenario.and more,more..This game more best than all Call of duty series in my opinion...Don't have good graphics maybe but still better than more quality graphics fps game's...
I liked the old call of duty's but bringing it into the 21st century is activision and what a way to bring it.The graphics are truly brilliant with the streets of Iraq and the forests of Russia coming to life.The level that really stands out it "all gillied up" which involves you crawling though the Russian defences and the detail of Chernobyl is truly spectacular it looks so real with the ferris well and swimming pools of priypet.The multi player made me a slave to my living room spending a total of 5 day online trying to be better.A Must Buy!!!!!!!!.
But as well 'Soap', you also get to fight as an American Marine fighting in a urban warfare environment.Call of Duty 4 is a first-person shoot-em-up, with most of the action taking place in war-zones, with the use of automatic weapons, RPGs, javelin rockets, etc...
Wow...what can I say about Call of Duty 4...man no words can describe this but I will tell you something...as for me I'm not much of a fist person shoot game fan but I "like" them...but after playing COD4 it changed everything for me.
Everything about this game is perfectly good...and well done.From the Graphics, game play is very easy, nothing special, but one thing that makes this game a great game is that it captures the character and you...there are times where you feel like you are the main character, and your there in experience...
because there are times when you would see things that only your eyes can see if you are there...and especially when the in game characters come and help you when you are hurt, its like there saying it to you and makes you feel calm...and rescued.
I thought Socom was good and COD$ blows Socom out of the water, and I was a die hard Socom fan.In multi-player mode you can play a series other other games within the COD4 world, such as, Free For All, team death-match, Sabotage, Team Tactical, Cage Match and so on.THe best multi-player FPS game period, for any of the new consoles.
The mission ends with you being executed by Khaled Al-Ased, who was ordered by Imran Zakhaev to kill you.All of these missions lead up to the game, which sees you take control of British SAS operative Sargeant John 'Soap' MacTavish, and United States Marine Corps Sargeant Paul Jackson, each sent to a different theatre of war.The game is primarily played through the eyes of MacTavish in stealth-oriented missions, but occasionally changes to Jackson for all out action missions.This game was definitely the best i have ever played, and i would recommend it to anybody with a PS3, XBOX360, or PC powerful enough to run it..
After playing and learning new information about this failure series installment, it is proved fact that the graphical works in this game are completely made up of pixels and coding.Seeing as that this game sucks, it still remains a huge financial success, due to the public and their petty opinions, that spark the falling of a great video game developer, all because they were fooled by the encouraged usage of the art of repetitive gaming into the continuing production and creation of these sh** worthy games that are destroying this world as we know it.A quick way to summarize Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, is that it is a failure attempt to reunite the series that once popularized the war fighting genre.
Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is the most amazing game i've ever played.
If your a CoD fanboy, this review is not for you, just vote it down without reading, and move on.I normally play more realistic or story focused shooters, but with most CoD fans saying this is the best one in the series, I thought I'd try it (single-player) with modest expectations.
Like everyone has said, it is easy to pick it up on the easy level and pretty much "finish" the game in a few days of broken play.
It almost goes without saying that the game looks amazing and that HD is a must.Within the levels there are things to collect like laptops to get various fun things and there are also arcade settings where you play for points but ultimately the main reason, two months later, why this game remains a mainstay with me is the online experience.
However with time you can easily get to a reasonable level of playing - you'll always get those who take it really seriously but for me I was soon at a level where I felt I was doing as well as I would expect and occasionally doing better and, like everything, gradually improving my game with experience.In this area, COD4 is near perfect because it is a great game to drop in, play a game and then get on with something else, but it is also the sort of thing that you can play for whole days if the mood takes you.
For me level 55 is enough since it allows me to work on the challenges, keep all my perks etc and just focus on enjoying the game - there is little reason to go on apart from impressing others (hence it called prestige).COD4 is roundly awesome even if all bits have strengths and weaknesses.
Technically superb, tightly plotted, fast-paced and wonderfully cinematic, Call of Duty 4 is one of the best war first-person shooters ever made.The game quickly shows off its qualities: after a brief tutorial we get a great level on a ship, then an amazing credit scene - a steady-cam sequence seen through the eyes of a man dragged through a Middle Eastern city to be executed: a chilling, brilliant moment worthy of Brian De Palma.Call of Duty 4 is a roller-coaster ride.
It's a great and well-designed FPS game and really brings the series to an entirely new level.Campaign - The campaign is short and relatively easy, with few teammates with you, tonnes of enemies ahead of you, and quite a varied and breathtaking set of missions, from stealthy two-man infiltrations to noisy and explosive massive-scale assaults.
What's extremely annoying is the fact that more accomplished players are able to hold better weapons, meaning what whilst more experienced soldiers show off their advanced gadgets, the low newbies who don't know how to play the game are left to deal with weaker guns.
With a mixture of the air strikes, choppers, UAVs, and the fact that it'll take years for an average player to become the top rank ever (after passing the 55th ten times), Multiplayer deserves a 9/10.Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a fantastic game and I recommend it to anyone who is a fan of First-Person Shooter and loves short but epic games.Total Mark: 8/10By HowlingRabbit334.
the game itself is great with multi-player being amazing.the problem with one player is that its actually quite short but when you complete the game you unlock a thing called arcade mode, which you can try to get the highest score possible and getting a high kill streak makes your score go up more and is fun if you like comparing scores with your friends.multi-player is really excellent because of its customizable features being able to choose your primary weapon and side arms and you can add attachments to them.
I have played a few war games like MOH, BHD and JO but none of the previous COD's.
If I had to call a best FPS of all time, Call of Duty 4 would definitely be in my top whatever.This game is relentless, it's powerful and it's pretty, plus it's DAMN fun.