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2007’s Best Game as generally voted upon, Call of Duty 4 definitely deserves that honor. Fast paced and really very exciting Video Games really get the cool feel of Fictional Interpretations of War and Conflict really well in COD.

When the game starts you are first sent to the so-called ‘training area’ to get a taste of your weapons… I’d say that the weakest part of COD is this recurring preamble that many ’shooters’ (for some reason) think they need to perform. This is probably not the way to begin an Epic… somewhere along the way the ‘industry’ the gaming industry must do away with this preamble. In fact, to use COD’s preamble as an example.. you get a gun or two and are told to shoot various targets… but it doesn’t really mean anything and has zero bearing on the game itself, as your shooting and grenade throwing is altogether your own when the game begins. Still COD… does this preamble stuff pretty well and COD looks amazing. The moves and visuals of COD are light years ahead. Far better than Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 Reviewed by Lost Planet) which although a good game isn’t nearly as intensive and/or inventive as COD here. But the two games are different to be sure, both are military in scope and design. After the small work out with the usual gruff and insulting Sarg or Captain your suddenly sent off to a ship in the Bearing Sea. The ship is going down and there is some important information you must find on the ship. The game hasn’t really begun and I’d chalk this up to the ‘training preamble part’. Very unnecessary to the game.

After this though is when COD begins for real. In the game you play a Marine recruit, Sergeant Paul Jackson, and also a SAS Officer, Sergeant “Soap” MacTavish.

The story is very convoluted with your character changing quite frequently. There is even a Nuclear dimension to the game where you actually have to punch in some codes to stop the weapons from hitting their mark… a sort of James Bondish touch I’d say! Since I doubt highly that a Nuclear Fission Bomb can be ‘taken back’!

There are even Russians in COD… they sort of come in here and there but the main focus is on the Terrorism Theme that seems to be big news these days. It’s funny that Islam is playing such a big affair in America these days, as if it didn’t exist before. But there are some very cool scenes of the soldiers fighting in COD… it moves along very quickly.

One of the best sequences I thought was being with the Officer in Camouflage who teaches you how to stealth your way in and around the bombed out city. It’s an amazing experience! As you follow him through many places… even as a tank and soldiers pass you buy in the fields! This part is superlative! They could make a game just about this, you and this Officer could make up a game on that alone. It is definitely one on the most innovative things I’ve yet experienced in a game. You end up with him at that ferris wheel, you actually have to carry the ‘old’ man! But this is where COD really shines… it’s very fun to play! In fact I wasn’t sure when it would end but when it did I felt really very surprised that it went so fast. Even though it is long enough, I suppose!

The story, granted, is everywhere, there isn’t that focus that one likes to see, yet with such a commanding way about it COD is one hell of a war game.

Sniper!

 

Game of the Year? Yes, most definitely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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