Product Description

Game of the Year edition includes 4 new multiplayer maps.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the new 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 an all-new community of persistence, addictive and customisable gameplay.

• Authentic Advanced Weaponry: Featuring an available arsenal of more than 70 new and authentic weapons and gear from assault rifles with laser sights, claymore mines, .50 caliber sniper rifles, and M-249 SAW machine guns. With accessories like night-vision goggles and ghillie suits, for maximum concealment, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has players locked and loaded to accomplish the mission.
• Coordinated Assault and Support: Delivering the most visceral action thriller ever, the title covers modern battle from the soldier to the satellite, where the need for air support is critical to success. The adrenaline rush deployment enlists gamers to fast-rope from tactical helicopters, ride in an armada of attack choppers, utilise jets to remove enemy strongholds and even engage hostiles from thousands of feet above the ground inside a state of the art aerial gunship.
• Cinematic Quality Graphics and Sound: Featuring stunning next-generation graphics, playe

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #309 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2008-08-22
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: Unknown format

Manufacturer's 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 an all-new community of persistence, addictive, and customizable gameplay.

Features:

• Authentic advanced weaponry: Featuring an available arsenal of more than 70 new and authentic weapons and gear from assault rifles with laser sites, claymore mines, .50 caliber sniper rifles, and M-249 SAW machine guns. With accessories like night-vision goggles and ghillie suits for maximum concealment, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has players locked and loaded to accomplish the mission.
• Coordinated assault and support: Delivering the most visceral action thriller ever, the title covers modern battle from the soldier to the satellite, where the need for air support is critical to success. The adrenaline rush deployment enlists gamers to fast-rope from tactical helicopters, ride in an armada of attack choppers, utilize jets to remove enemy strongholds, and even engage hostiles from thousands of feet above the ground inside a state-of-the-art aerial gunship.
• Cinematic-quality graphics and sound: Featuring stunning next-generation graphics, players will be drawn into the cinematic intensity of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Amazing special effects, including realistic depth of field, rim-lighting, character self-shadowing, texture streaming, as well as physics-enabled effects, will enlist players into the most photo-realistic gaming experience. Combine the lifelike graphics and the realistic battle chatter with the Call of Duty award-winning sound design and players will face battle as they never have before.
• Unparalleled depth to multiplayer: Multiplayer builds from the success of Call of Duty 2 delivering a persistent online experience for greater community interaction. Featuring create-a-class options allowing players to customize gear that is best suited for play, to experience points enabling unlockables and perks, all the way to matchmaking and leaderboards for the latest in tracking, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare's multiplayer is set to deliver easily accessible and addictive online play for all.

Customer Reviews

A New Type Of Gaming
This is a game that should set targets for developers. Forget that Americanised turd of Medal of Honor, this is what you should bust your money on.
Call of Duty introduces a new kind of war gaming. You actually have squads around you, similar to Operation Flashpoint, but they think for themselves. What you have to love about this game is that it borrows so heavily from the films we love. The final battle in Saving Private Ryan is similar to an earlier level in the game. The tutorial is like Band Of Brothers and, later on in the game, you will play levels similar to films but as the British and the Russians.
I think this is a breakthrough in gaming to have. For once we don't just have to play as an American in Normandy. Sure, paratrooper activies in Normandy is cool to play but was sadly cliched from Medal Of Honor. But more to the point: you will defend Pegasus Bridge with a company of paratroopers - this was a real battle and is the same as the location in Normandy. You'll have a dramatic opening to the Russian campaign in a steamer crossing the Volga river as in Enemy At The Gates. Wicked. Then, later on, you have the chance to defend the legendary "Pavlov's House", another real occurance that took place in Stalingrad.
The weapons are actually good in this game. You don't just use a Thompson and M1 Garand all the time. You see a wider selection: the British Sten and Bren guns, the Russian PPsH S.M.G, the German Panzerfaust and you'll see plenty of anti-tank rifles scattered around on some levels. It's one of those games where you can only have two guns with you at once which makes it so much more real and gives some suspense when you have to leg it for some more ammo stashed by your quartermaster in a ruined house and so on.
There are some Medal Of Honor type levels. In one particular mission you have to blow up a damn and kill Germans by the hundred. Those Special Forces missions just aren't fun. It's so refreshing to see a real battle and to fight it alongside your comrades.
The Germans are for once not immaculately uniformed. They're as scruffy as your own men so you're not fighting the stereotypical soldiers with the jackboots. However, it would be nice to see a game be made where for once you are a German fighting in Stalingrad or Normandy because it's more original and I think would attract quite an audience. Some of what I've heard happen in war to German troops is as interesting as any other record of war experiences.
Anyway, a game with fantastic atmosphere and environments, as well as missions that borrow from films. What more could you want? If you're a WW2 lover or even general war buff, this should be bought because of the originality and historical atmosphere.

Lock and Load!
I have played the earlier Call of Duty games. They were a lot of fun but became very "same-ish". They weren't very replayable. However, after playing CoD4 I immediately started again....and again! It is just as much fun every time.

It has an excellent story line. Surprisingly (and pleasingly for us Brits), the lion's share of the action is with the SAS. The acting is good (and amusing in a non-politically correct fashion at times).

I was stunned by the graphics. They are almost cinematic. Of course, graphics alone don't make a game but in this case it helps immerse you in the story. The realistic scenery, coupled with the physics make it feel real.

Bullets can now pass through some materials (eg walls). It's no longer possible for you (or your enemies) to take cover behind a sheet of paper.

There are two breaks from the all-out action. One is a stealth sniper mission. Normally, I find those pretty boring in a shooter game. Not this time. I loved it. There is also a mission where you act as a gunner in an AC130 Spectre. You sit in complete safety as you blast the enemy with an assortment of lethal weapons. Your only worry is blowing your own side to smithereens.

In the old days, I would always put tactical shooters ahead of FPS corridor shooters. However, the latest tactical shooters have been "dumbed down"(except, maybe Ghost Recon Advanced Warrior). CoD4 is linear with no direct control over squad mates. Nevertheless it's a great substitute for that feeling of reality that tactical shooters used to provide.

Call Of Duty - One of the best!
I actually bought the Call of Duty Deluxe Edition . which also includes the United Offensive Expansion Pack! This game is superb! I have only just bought it, however I wished I had bought it sooner as the game is so much better compared to the Medal of Honor series which I originally only owned. The game consists of 3 campaigns: The American Campaign, The British Campaign and The Russian Campaign and all have a pospective outlook on World War 2. The American and British Campaigns involve the D-Day landings on Normandy and both are based on being dropped behind enemy lines before the landings and securing key positions i.e. bridges, towns etc. Whereas the Russian Campaign starts off with you being a Russian peasent being forced to fight by Stalin himself. The campaign starts off by taking the city of stalingrad (now Moscow I think as Red Square gets mentioned) and then moves onto the invasion/liberation of Warsaw in Poland.
The Graphics are top notch on this game, the storylines are superb and you really feal as if you are in the action as the germans seem to like shooting at you more then your computer- generated army mates!
This game is a must have, however buy it from dvd.co.uk as you get the expansion which has loads more missions to keep you going for a long time!
I give this game 9/10