Isaac Lu (meepokman) reviews Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Now, I know I have not written in a long time; no excuse for that, mainly laziness. I never intended to do this now but upon witnessing my horrible English in an online conversation, I gave myself a good slap in the bollocks.
Now Call of Duty 4 has been hailed by critics as much as some Indians do a deformed human which they regard as some kind of god for no good reason at all. (It depends on who does the beholding--Ed.)
Upon popping in the disc, I prepared myself for a fucked-up experience, as all games hailed by critics tend to be all shoved up the development team’s arse twice over. But put away your shit shields readers, it is not that bad.
For those of you who are not familiar with Call of Duty, it started out as one of THE BEST WW2 shooters in the market. It was followed a couple of years later by COD2. Also quite good, but did not have the same wow factor as the first. Then, the publishers decided that they could squeeze the licence a little more and made COD3. It is quite enough to say it sucked (along with all the sucky portable-console versions that shit on themselves).
COD 4 manages to rescue some of the original flavour while farting in your face at others. Game play in single player is broken up into a Yank prick and a Brit smart arse. Both are mute, something I hate in games almost as evil hadjis. (see http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/) The American parts focus more on stupid action with retards as your teammates. It is quite enough to say that the US Marines have to reject this game altogether, as it portrays them as total idiots. Thankfully, the Yank is killed VERY early in the game. The rest of the game follow the SAS (Special Air Service) using stealth mixed with action. The SAS parts are darn well done, making you suspect that the American parts were all done when the dev team was high on Viagra.
Overall, the SP is fun for the most part, although the Yanks clearly fuck up, without giving too many spoilers.
Now, I don’t do this most of the time but I have to say that multi-player is where the game excels in. It is nothing short of GREAT, FABULOUS or maybe all kinds of similar words to describe it. Hardcore or casual action is up to you, countless styles of game play paired up with many low lag servers in Australia or New Zealand, which are available all the time.
It is well worth buying in my opinion, with a great SAS campaign, well countering its bastard sibling in the Marine sections. Oh yes, I forgot, the graphics are GREAT even though they hardly drain the computer at all.
I would greatly recommend this game, although it is a far cry from say Crysis, (see http://grace-and-salt.blogspot.com/2008/02/guest-review-5-crysis.html) or Kane and Lynch (see http://grace-and-salt.blogspot.com/2008/01/guest-review-2-because-i-tired.html). If you have some spare cash after buying both afore-mentioned games, I would really recommend it.
Darn, I forgot again, multi-player also has this damn cool character development system. You can upgrade your weapons and gain new ranks... cool stuff like that.
Anyway, that aside, the awaited H.O.N.O.U.R. system. (http://grace-and-salt.blogspot.com/2007/12/oms-and-airborne.html at the bottom of the post)
H – Honesty
4/10. Shitty story which hardly makes sense. The supposed “same location” in “the middle east” jumps all over the place. No NBC (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical suits) are in the Yank parts despite the threat of a nuke in the city. Use of cheap tricks to drive the plot, although it does get 4/10 due to the cool SAS parts.
O – Originality
Single Player—1/10. Same old boring shit as other rip offs. I don’t give out Zeros but then again, maybe I should.
Multi Player—9/10. Just plain cool. At least they try something different with the MP areas of the game. Not as good as say… Insurgency, which is a FREE MOD but still one of the best MP games out there.
N – N-joyment
7/10. Fun for the most part, with the SAS and multiplayer. But the Marine sections just bring dishonour to the men who have defended freedom since 1775!!
O – Overhype
5/10. Single player never really delivered. MP though makes up for it… ALTHOUGH NOT ENOUGH!! CALL OF DUTY IS A SINGLE PLAYER GAME FIRST YOU PRICKS AT THE DEV TEAM!!
U – User-friendliness
8/10. Good for the most part, easy to use controls, although not being able to upgrade weapons in the field like you can in Crysis kills the score a little.
R – Revisitability
10/10. Nothing to complain about here; the game has the “let’s play it again and again” feel to it.
Overall rating:
8/10. A cool and fun game. A must-buy if you are into this sought of mindless action, but still not as good as Crysis.
Credits:
Review by: Isaac Lu
Imaginary background music: Isaac Lu
Idea for reviews: Isaac Lu and Lu Zheng Ping
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H.O.N.O.U.R. system by: Lu Zheng Ping
Smacked for being lazy and not updating the blog by me: Lu Zheng Ping
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