Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
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Blood and Gore,Intense Violence,Strong Language
Publisher: Activision Genre(s): Shooting Home Page: http://www.callofduty.com/
Single Player Campaign This crashed Blackhawk chopper's minigun is a great impromptu defensive turret After the tutorial, things heat up very quickly, and never really cool down until you see the credits roll. The single player campaign is a frantically paced, addictive thrill ride - there's no pause in the action, as even level loading times are used for snazzy mission briefings in wireframe graphics. The fast pacing is achieved by moving the player between "Soap" and the game's other main protagonist, Sergeant Paul Jackson of the U.S. Marine Corps First Force Recon. While "Soap" and Sgt. Jackson get a breather after a hard-fought mission, you the player never do. COD4's campaign missions honor all of the Call of Duty series' traditions: you rush enemy positions, sneak around as a sniper, and defend your position against insurmountable odds. The campaign relies on heavy scripting and frequent check points to keep the action going. A compass marker tells you exactly where to go, and friendlies (who usually can't die) follow the your progress. You have very limited interaction with the game world, other than shooting and blowing stuff up: for example, only your allies can open doors. While this feels a bit silly sometimes, especially on the rare occasion when the scripting hangs and you're stuck behind a door, at least you get treated to some pretty nice animation every time your squadmates breach a building.
The campaign is short, and it's so good it feels even shorter. There's only one repetitive sequence where you have to scour a rural Azerbaijan village for rebel leader Khaled Al-Asad - the whole romp is basically a retake of Act One's first mission Blackout, where you scour a Russian village for your informant Nikolai. Hearing "Building clear, move on to the next house" for the umpteenth time was the definite low point of COD4, and the only time I really felt like I was playing an FPS campaign game, not watching some kind of interactive techno-thriller. In fact, the rest of the campaign is so high quality that it's hard to pick out the best bits. On two occasions, though, the game presents pretty harrowing scenes: the first one ends the game's prologue, where you watch President Al-Fulani's last moments through his eyes. The second one comes at the end of Act II, and gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "shock and awe". Call of Duty 4 has some powerful moments that can give you pause.
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