Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PlayStation 3)
Manufacturer: Activision Part number: 83081
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- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the action-thriller from the award-winning team at Infinity Ward, the creators of the Call of Duty series, delivers the most intense and cinematic action experience ever. Armed with an arsenal of advanced and powerful modern day firepower, players are transported to treacherous hotspots around the globe to take on a rogue enemy group threatening ... Read more
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Gamespot editors' review
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PlayStation 3) price range: $29.00 - $49.99
- Reviewed by: Jeff Gerstmann
- Reviewed on: 11/06/2007
- Updated on:11/07/2007
- Released on: 11/05/2007
It took awhile, but Infinity Ward finally got the message that World War II is played out. With modern times and international affairs becoming more and more, shall we say, interesting in recent years, the 1940s just don't carry as much weight as they used to. Perhaps that's why Call of Duty 4 has a new subtitle, Modern Warfare. By bringing things into a fictionalized story that still seems fairly plausible, the developer has made a much heavier game. But COD 4 is more than just an updated setting. It's also an amazing multiplayer first-person shooter and a great but brief single-player campaign with the visual chops to make it a standout shooter in an era filled with seemingly dozens of standout shooters.
While the game may feel short, it covers a lot of ground.
The only real catch is that the single-player is almost shockingly short. If you've been keeping up with this style of game, you'll probably shoot your way to the credits in under five hours. While you can raise the difficulty to give yourself more of a challenge, the main thing this does is make the enemies frustratingly deadly, which sort of detracts from the fun.
While it may have a lack of single-player quantity, it makes up for most of it with its quality. The game tells its story from multiple perspectives, and you'll play as a new British SAS operative as well as a US Marine. The campaign takes you from a rainy night out at sea on a boat that's in the process of sinking to a missile silo where it's on you to save millions from an unsavory nuclear-powered death. Along the way, there are plenty of jaw-dropping moments where you'll look around the room for someone to whom you can say, "I can't believe that just happened." In a world filled with war games in which the good guys come out unscathed and the world is left at total peace, Call of Duty 4 will wake you up like a face full of ice water.
The action in the campaign is usually very straightforward. You have a compass at the bottom of your screen, and the direction of your current objective is very plainly marked. But getting from point A to point B is never as simple as running in a straight line, as you'll be conducting full-scale assaults in Middle Eastern countries by moving from house to house, taking out what seems like a never-ending stream of enemy troops along the way. You'll also get an opportunity to raid Russian farmhouses in search of terrorist leaders, disguise yourself as the enemy, and, in one sequence, don a brushlike ghillie suit and crawl through the brush as enemy troops and tanks roll right past you. It's a breathtaking moment in a campaign filled with breathtaking moments. Unfortunately, it's about half as long as the average shooter, and there are plenty of sequences where you wish there were just one or two more hills to take.
Of course, if you're looking for longevity, that's where the multiplayer comes in. Up to 18 players can get online and get into a match on one of 16 different maps. Many of the levels are taken from portions of the single-player and they offer a healthy mix of wide-open, sniper-friendly areas and tight, almost cramped spaces where grenades and shotguns are the order of the day. There are six game modes to choose from. The old standby is team deathmatch, though you can also play in a free-for-all deathmatch, which isn't as much fun as the team modes. The other modes are more objective-oriented, and a couple of those have you lugging bombs across the map to blow up enemy equipment, or preventing the enemy from blowing up your base. Others have you capturing control points. Lastly, you can change up the game rules a bit with a hardcore setting that makes weapons more realistically damaging or an old-school mode that puts weapons on the ground as pickups and generally moves away from the simulation side of things.
The campaign takes you to multiple locales, but they're all full of guys who are begging to be shot in the face.
In addition to just firing your weapon or tossing grenades, you earn some more interesting tactical moves for skilled play. If you can shoot three opponents without dying, you're able to call in a UAV drone, which basically is an upgraded radar that makes enemy positions show up on your onscreen map for 30 seconds at any time. Normally, enemies blip up onto the map only if they fire their weapon to make their location known. If you can go on a five-kill streak, you can call in an air strike, which brings up a shot of the entire level map and lets you place the air strike wherever you like. When combined with a UAV sweep, this can be really devastating. If you can make it all the way to seven kills--which is actually easier than it sounds--you can call in a helicopter for support. It'll buzz around the map and automatically open fire on enemies, though enemies can shoot it down, too. These additions to the normal first-person shooter gameplay really open up the game a lot and make it superexciting to play.
User reviews
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Motion sickness not even a problem
by mrfbaggins on March 29, 2008
Pros: So very easy to jump online and start gathering goodies
Cons: Can be addictive. Especially as you play just a little longer online to get promoted and unlock more goodies
Summary: This is an awesome game. I am an older part time gamer, who frequently gives up on first person shooters as they make me sick. This game does not, which ...
Summary: This is an awesome game. I am an older part time gamer, who frequently gives up on first person shooters as they make me sick. This game does not, which is a huge plus.
The real reason for the spectacular rating however, is the online play. Nothing I have played before comes close to it. This is for me the true strengh of the game. Gathering experience, unlocking more goodies, screaming down the mic as you are shot again by the sniper. I love this game1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Yummy like candy only you don't have to go to the dentist if you enjoy too much!
by ShyElite on May 15, 2008
Pros: Best PS3 online offering, Addiction can be a pro, can't it?
Cons: Short single player, AimBots for online make it easy to cheat.
Summary: I love and hate this game. No matter what frame of mind I am in at the time I can't seem to put the controller down. The FragFX makes ...
Summary: I love and hate this game. No matter what frame of mind I am in at the time I can't seem to put the controller down. The FragFX makes this game hard to lose.
Must have, must keep, must play online!1 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.
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Best Game I've Ever Played
by SporkytheGamer on July 21, 2009
Pros: 1. Online play is extremely addictive
2. "Perks"
3. Very fun campaign
4. Online ranks
5. Supports headsets
6. WON GOTY FOR DARN SAKE!
7. Best graphics game out there
8. Good story for a war game
9. Very good online maps
I could go on.....Cons: 1. Short Campaign, that's all...
Summary: I'm gonna keep this one short
Graphics: Call of Duty 4 is one of the only games for the ps3 that supports 1080p, making it the highest quality game ...Summary: I'm gonna keep this one short
Graphics: Call of Duty 4 is one of the only games for the ps3 that supports 1080p, making it the highest quality game you can get, best I've ever seen. Graphics: 5/5
Story: Good.... for a war game. It's hard to say anything without spoilers since it progresses well in stead of some games that have you searching for one thing the entire campaign. Story: 4/5 (war game scale, ordinary scale: 3/5)
Features: Doesn't matter, you play campaign and then play online for the rest of your life. Features: 5/5
Online Play: Phenomenal, best out of any in history. I've played online for a total of 9 days and am only half way done with the online rankings (5th prestige, there are 10 prestiges, each one takes you about 1-3 days (24-72 hours) of online gaming to complete. Online play 6/5, yeah.... its that good.
Gameplay: Campaign is a bit short, but you could play it over and over again on arcade mode or just to challenge yourself on a higher difficulty. Campaign is not what this game is known for, but it does not disappoint. Gameplay: 4/5
You could play this game anywhere from 72-480 hours before you get tired of it, however, some people have played call of duty 4 up to 2688 HOURS!!!! -
Best PS3 game out there!!! Online play is amazing!!!
by bmchasteen on June 12, 2009
Pros: Online play with prestige mode is an absolute revolutionary ranking system for online play! It forces players, if they so choose, to revert back to the weapons they had when they had just begun, which allows them to develop their skills better!
Cons: To me in game story mode seemed to get a little monotonous at times.
Summary: COD 4 has the best online gameplay I have seen! While in-game play is great, online mode keep me coming back! I never get tired of it! Graphics are awesome, ...
Summary: COD 4 has the best online gameplay I have seen! While in-game play is great, online mode keep me coming back! I never get tired of it! Graphics are awesome, the detail to which are astounding!
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this game is the game of the year
by johnnydk on March 26, 2009
Pros: Online play is great. The graphic and the sound is excellent. If you are looking for cheap ps3 games go check out http://www.squidoo.com/playstation3shopping it is a very helpful site that introduces many great ps3 games at cheap price.
Cons: It takes a short time to load that all I can think of.
Summary: I recommend this game for all gamers.
Summary: I recommend this game for all gamers.
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Visually stunning and very BIG! You are really there!!
by bsoten on February 7, 2009
Pros: The chaos and fog of war are tangible with this game. The character body movements and intergrated cut scenes are amazing. I feel like I'm actually in the world, instead of on a game level. The enemy AI seems right on with the chosen skill level.
Cons: Sometimes the characters, when shot and killed, fall INTO instead of on top of things. Otherwise I would have given COD: MF 5 complete stars.
Summary: In real life, combat can be disorienting. The enemy can be good enough, and organized enough, to pin down and slow down any objective. This game reminds me that I ...
Summary: In real life, combat can be disorienting. The enemy can be good enough, and organized enough, to pin down and slow down any objective. This game reminds me that I can't just rush through the objective by just blasting away at anything that moves. I've come so close to shooting, or being shot by, my own guys because of the fog of war. Just like here in Iraq, you just can't shot at movement and muzzle flashes, you must PID (personnel identification) before you resort to deadly force. With the current world situation, I feel like the various operations that I had to fight through were taken right out of real mission profiles. Yeah, it was a short game, but I felt satisfied when it was over. So I just upped the difficulty one notch and played it again. If you play the game on veteran difficulty from the very start, then I could see one not getting their monies worth out of this "short" game. What made the game fun for me was that I never felt like I could run through the battles without a scratch. As in real life, I felt like I had to "suck it up" and keep on fighting. The more vicious the enemy got, the more vicious I had to get in order to survive. This game made me feel, once again as in real life, that the only way to survive was to shoot first, accurate, fast and last.
And if you ever wondered why your fellow AI team mates seem to wait for you at times to start the next fight, it's because you are not the team leader. You are always the junior guy. You are the one that takes orders from the team or platoon leader. So if you ever wonder why the other guys seem to hang back, it is because they have nothing to prove to an FNG. So get out there and fire your weapon soldier!!
This game is way more fun to play than MGS4.
With that said, I'm going to go play rigth now! -
Great Game; Too Short
by tylerxfallingx on May 12, 2008
Pros: Great gameplay, very responsive, minimal glitches
Cons: Single Player too short, online sucks
Summary: This is one of the best games to grace the Playstation3 thus far. If you own a ps3 and you don't have this game, there is something seriously wrong ...
Summary: This is one of the best games to grace the Playstation3 thus far. If you own a ps3 and you don't have this game, there is something seriously wrong with you.
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Rating based solely on Single Player
by cjlehnert on March 19, 2008
Pros: Awesome Graphics, Gameplay and AI...Storyline is also great
Cons: Short single player campaign
Summary: Let me first say that this review is for the single player portion only. I am not a fan of the multiplayer modes. I am sure that they are a ...
Summary: Let me first say that this review is for the single player portion only. I am not a fan of the multiplayer modes. I am sure that they are a lot of fun but I don't have a lot of time to play and I am often times interrupted when I play so I avoid the multiplayer aspect. I imagine I would upset a lot of people if I had to start and stop a lot games. From what I have read the multiplayer mode for this game has some problems (server problems, disconnection, etc). Since I don't play multiplayer I won't comment any further. But since I have heard of various problems I felt that a rating of a 10 wouldn't seem appropriate. I actually wanted to give the game a 9.5 but CNET doesn't allow us to give 1/2 ratings.
What I will comment on is the single player mode, which is down right awesome. The CNET review of the game mentions that there will be different occasions where the cut scenes will shock you and they are right. I won't spoil anything but there is one cut scene that had my jaw dropping. I knew this cut scene was a fictional scenario but it still had me staring at the TV in awe. The gameplay is right on track with the best games out there. I was dissapointed to see the omission of a cover option like Gears of War or Rainbow Six Vegas. This is a very small complaint since the rest of the gameplay is darn near perfect. The sounds and graphics are exceptional. The musical score used in various situations really helped to set the mood. The single player campaign is short but when you look at the amount of effort put into this game it is understandable. When a game is this enjoyable, no matter how long it takes to play it, it is never long enough.
If you are a fan of FPS's this game will not disappoint. In fact you would do yourself a disservice by not picking up this game. Don't let the issues with the multiplayer (unless of course you like multiplayer) stop you from enjoying this game. -
This game is great.
by peicemaker on March 5, 2008
Pros: Graphics and gameplay is topnotch
Cons: there are no cons in this game
Summary: This is by far the best fps for PS3. The action, gameplay, graphics and perks make this a must have. Although Unreal Tournament 3 is fun, COD4 puts it to ...
Summary: This is by far the best fps for PS3. The action, gameplay, graphics and perks make this a must have. Although Unreal Tournament 3 is fun, COD4 puts it to shame. This should be the first game any PS3 owner buys. Don't miss it
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Brilliant!
by sony city on February 4, 2008
Pros: Online Multiplayer
Cons: Campaign is very short
Summary: Call of Duty 4 is one of the best games released on the PS3. It has many weapons which are fully customisable with brilliant graphics. The campeign is short but ...
Summary: Call of Duty 4 is one of the best games released on the PS3. It has many weapons which are fully customisable with brilliant graphics. The campeign is short but if you have online functions enabled, you will be playing continously. This game is one that you will not get bored off. Overall great game.
Specifications
- Manufacturer: Activision
- Part number: 83081
- Description: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the action-thriller from the award-winning team at Infinity Ward, the creators of the Call of Duty series, delivers the most intense and cinematic action experience ever. Armed with an arsenal of advanced and powerful modern day firepower, players are transported to treacherous hotspots around the globe to take on a rogue enemy group threatening the world. As both a U.S Marine and British S.A.S. soldier fighting through an unfolding story full of twists and turns, players use sophisticated technology, superior firepower and coordinated land and air strikes on a battlefield where speed, accuracy and communication are essential to victory. The epic title also delivers an added depth of multiplayer action providing online fans a community of persistence, addictive and customizable gameplay.
Product Basic Spec
- Platform Playstation 3
- ESRB rating Mature - Intense Violence,Blood and Gore,Strong Language
- Genre Action
- Elements Action - first person shooter
- Number of players 1-4 Players
- Offline modes Competitive,Team Oriented
- Online modes Team Oriented
- Sound Dolby Digital 5.1
- Resolution Widescreen
Game
- Developer Infinity Ward
- ESRB Mature
- ESRB descriptors Intense Violence,Blood and Gore,Strong Language
- Release date 2007-11-05
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