COD4 First Review

ShaneU

This is brilliant online, no idea why you're disappointed. Far better than cod3, or halo3 for that matter.

ShaneU

jasonbourme.cs wrote: »

definately agree with you on that one silence !! gotten as far as the storming the TV station part on veteran , the central area where you have to get upstairs literally rains nades :mad:

That part is pretty annoying, they keep respawning unless you move forward.

Ludo

ShaneU wrote: »

This is brilliant online, no idea why you're disappointed. Far better than cod3, or halo3 for that matter.

I was talking about the PC version...it SUCKS. I assume you are a console gamer. COD4 is designed totally for a console and that is VERY obvious. WTF is that experience points crap that appears when you kill someone....it is for 13 year olds.

It does NOT FEEL like a COD game anymore which is a huge disappointment. The clan I am in (and another one we are affiliated with) are thinking of abandoning it already as it has lost all association with what COD is about.

Dcully

After spenging about 6 hours playing it online lastnight i couldnt disagree with your more.
I havent touched SP yet so cant comment.

I was talking about the PC version...it SUCKS. I assume you are a console gamer

Im a PC gamer and am loving it online as are all the guys from our community and clan.
We have 3 other clans who we are friends with and all are loving it too.

WTF is that experience points crap that appears when you kill someone....it is for 13 year olds.

The unlocks and perks you get from experience points are great for customising your class.

And what is with the "team" uniforms? To me they look way too similar. You end up shooting at your own team mates or as I found, You end up NOT shooting at people you are meant to!

I dont have this problem and your the first ive seen comment on it.

COD4 is designed totally for a console and that is VERY obvious.

Again totally disagree with you,the console version has a subtle auto aim feature,the pc doesnt.
I read on one of the dev interviews that the pc version had a different team working on it than the console team.
How true this is i dont know but what i do know is im playing online pc fps games for many years and this game feels great to me.

It does NOT FEEL like a COD game anymore which is a huge disappointment

Modern Warfare COD doesnt feel like old COD ie WW2 because its exactly that "modern warfare".
The whole theme and game setting is different so ofcourse it wont feel like old COD,what were you expecting?

The clan I am in (and another one we are affiliated with) are thinking of abandoning it already as it has lost all association with what COD is about.

and what would that be about?

Each to their own however

jonski

I am sure it is on the web somewhere but I can't find it ( with my first limited lazy arsed search ) , is there cheat protection ? pb ?

Dcully

Yeah jonski it uses PB.

Ludo

I know what the exp points are for...my point is why flash it up so big. Makes it feel like an 80s arcade game after being ported to a console.

Scoreboard interface looks cheap and tacky...consoley...

Of course it is modern warfare. But if you don't understand what I mean by it not feeling like COD and what COD is about , then I can't explain it any better.

They even limited the player names to 15 chars or something...wtf like. How are you supposed to put clan tags and colours on? Again...consoley.

To me COD was always head and shoulders above other games for sheer online playability and experience. That seems to be gone...ah well.

Dcully

I know what the exp points are for...my point is why flash it up so big. Makes it feel like an 80s arcade game after being ported to a console.

Its not big for me m8,what res you running?
Im running 1650X1050,text and scoreboard etc look lovely.

heebusjeebus

Ludo wrote: »

They even limited the player names to 15 chars or something...wtf like. How are you supposed to put clan tags and colours on? Again...consoley.

Eh, you can do all that the same as CoD 1/UO/2. Nothing has changed there like.

Why not give it a fair shot before flaming it FFS.

Silenceisbliss

@heebusjeebus, totally agree with ya! cant judge and criticize until uv given teh game a fair run. personally.....for me and the lads i play lan games with, its the new css

0ubliette

I hate this game. The SP is woeful. Its a perfect example of last gen gaming with a lick of next gen paint. And i do mean 'lick', as it barely looks any better than cod3. The best level in the game, 'all ghillied up' is ruined by the ferris wheel secion at the end. That part successfully destroyed my good memories of the entire level. As for MP, its all been done before. Yay i got exp and unlocked a new gun whoo hoo..is this 2004? Am i playing BF2 with stat whores again??
Cod has been goign downhill since cod2, this game is no better. The gameplay for both SP and MP could be lifted directly from any cod game...bleh. Mediocrity, COD is thy name.

humanji

Why were you expecting them to change the style of the game? It keeps the same mix of stealth and action that the other 3 games had. It's what made the games so popular.

muletide

Rented it for the weekend purely for the multiplayer - some nice touches but for me there is only one decent Multi player shooter out there GRAW 2. It is fuppin awesome

GRAW 2 ftw

Branoic

0ubliette wrote: »

Its a perfect example of last gen gaming with a lick of next gen paint. And i do mean 'lick', as it barely looks any better than cod3.

Opinions are all well and good, but that's just crazy talk.

BKtje

Not played SP yet. MP looks great BUT it isn't COD. In fact it sucks. Maybe it is a grower but it just doesn't grab me like COD1, COD:UO and COD2 did. I got bored after ten minutes and went to the pub

I agree it doesn't totally feel like COD but thats probably because of the non ww2 action. I disagree with you completly however that it sucks, i and my old cod clan buddies are loving the game. (cod:uo however did suck .
I just hope it has more staying power than cod2 as i got bored of it fairly quick (ie a few months). Cod1 though was epic.

And what is with the "team" uniforms? To me they look way too similar. You end up shooting at your own team mates or as I found, You end up NOT shooting at people you are meant to!

I had the same problems with cod2 initially (dont ask me why ). You get used to it very quickly.

The unlocks etc are good but i expect a lot of servers to go unranked fairly soon after newness has died down.
The only gripe i have thus far is with S&D and that they have gone the way of cs with a bomb carrier that has to be protected instead of classic cod where anyone could plant. I'm sure i'll get used to it however.

I dunno where the same game with new lick of paint reference comes from. It feels completly different what with being able to shoot through walls, nightvision (useless so far in mp tbh), flash bangs (new to cod at least) claymores, c4 etc etc. They may not be new to experienced bf2 heads but to cod players it is.

0ubliette

humanji wrote: »

Why were you expecting them to change the style of the game? It keeps the same mix of stealth and action that the other 3 games had. It's what made the games so popular.

I wasnt expecting them to turn cod into a rhythm action game or something, i was just expecting them to move with the times, and not release something that plays exactly like its predecessor did almost 4 years ago. CS:S has better physics than cod4 does and its 3 years old at this stage. The physics in cod4 make it feel like a Q3 engine game.
I thought the game was good at first but nothing special, the more i played it the more it annoyed me. The respawning enemies jsut feel cheap. And the graphics really arent that much of an improvement over cod3. Just look at any indoor environments, blank walls and blank floors, the boat level is the worst offender for that, its like walking through a level completely devoid of textures.
I just think its a shame as the potential is there, the DOF effects are lovely, and some of the animations are stunningly lifelike, but everything else feels so last gen it hurts.
EDIT:
Just to say to BKDZr, shooting through walls isnt new either, you can do that in CS:S too

ZeRoY

Ludo wrote: »

I know what the exp points are for...my point is why flash it up so big. Makes it feel like an 80s arcade game after being ported to a console.

Scoreboard interface looks cheap and tacky...consoley...

Of course it is modern warfare. But if you don't understand what I mean by it not feeling like COD and what COD is about , then I can't explain it any better.

They even limited the player names to 15 chars or something...wtf like. How are you supposed to put clan tags and colours on? Again...consoley.

To me COD was always head and shoulders above other games for sheer online playability and experience. That seems to be gone...ah well.

When COD2 came out we could see the same childish comments, then everyone got hooked -- Ludo: whatever man.

ZeRoY

0ubliette wrote: »

I wasnt expecting them to turn cod into a rhythm action game or something, i was just expecting them to move with the times, and not release something that plays exactly like its predecessor did almost 4 years ago. CS:S has better physics than cod4 does and its 3 years old at this stage. The physics in cod4 make it feel like a Q3 engine game.
I thought the game was good at first but nothing special, the more i played it the more it annoyed me. The respawning enemies jsut feel cheap. And the graphics really arent that much of an improvement over cod3. Just look at any indoor environments, blank walls and blank floors, the boat level is the worst offender for that, its like walking through a level completely devoid of textures.
I just think its a shame as the potential is there, the DOF effects are lovely, and some of the animations are stunningly lifelike, but everything else feels so last gen it hurts.
EDIT:
Just to say to BKDZr, shooting through walls isnt new either, you can do that in CS:S too

lol - what gfx do you have? and yeah you can Shoot through walls in CS:S and blow up cars/barrels - I am running the game with full gfx settings @ 1280*1024 and I get over 70 FPS, never seen a game looking so good and be so fast. (8800 GTS 320Mb)

Edit: My mistake, you can shoot through wall in CS:S, nevertheless I still think COD4 gfx/engine is way better!

humanji

0ubliette wrote: »

I wasnt expecting them to turn cod into a rhythm action game or something, i was just expecting them to move with the times, and not release something that plays exactly like its predecessor did almost 4 years ago. CS:S has better physics than cod4 does and its 3 years old at this stage. The physics in cod4 make it feel like a Q3 engine game.
I thought the game was good at first but nothing special, the more i played it the more it annoyed me. The respawning enemies jsut feel cheap. And the graphics really arent that much of an improvement over cod3. Just look at any indoor environments, blank walls and blank floors, the boat level is the worst offender for that, its like walking through a level completely devoid of textures.
I just think its a shame as the potential is there, the DOF effects are lovely, and some of the animations are stunningly lifelike, but everything else feels so last gen it hurts.
EDIT:
Just to say to BKDZr, shooting through walls isnt new either, you can do that in CS:S too

Sounds like you were looking for it to be a little more realistic like GRAW2. I liked the COD games because of the arcady feel, so I guess I wasn't going to be disappointed with this.

Although that COD rhythm action game sounds pretty cool...

Ardent

Currently playing COD4 on the PC with an 8800 GTX gfx card. Looks and plays beautifully.

Absolutely loving it so far, love the variety of missions and characters you take on, the fire-fighting is insane! Best game I've played in ages.

BKtje

ust to say to BKDZr, shooting through walls isnt new either, you can do that in CS:S too

Still new to cod players

Takeshi_Kovacs

Been playing it all evening since getting it earlier, and i am liking it very much so far, best bit so far was the level in pripyat with the ghillie suits.

Looking forward to some multiplayer action soon

cathalspot

What a game got through it in one sitting on regular mode, and now cant log into servers on the ps3, just loged on to get some help with this but had to say dammm, the best shoot em up EVER, no ****

Dcully

Still havent played SP,cant stop playing MP

Kashkai

I've been a COD fan since the first one so many years ago (well about 4 I spose!). COD1 AND UO were fantastic and I practically wore my pc out playing them online. However, COD2 was sh1te IMO and put me off playing it after a week. I recently bought a PS3 and my first game was COD3 but this was a disappointment. Levels were repetative and boring and I gave up about half way through.

However, I fell for the hype surrounding COD4 so I bought it last Friday for my PS3 and..................

I can't stop playing it!!!!:eek: Brilliant game, fantastic graphics, great story and those firefights, out of this world. I know its only a game but when Sgt Jackson, the marine was killed in the nuke blast, I felt sorry for him (especially as it had taken several attempts to get to that point, only to have him killed on me:mad:)

The level "All ghillied up" is brilliant though its so tempting to just run and gun that to sneak around. The marine levels in the middle east are insane in their intensity - those firefights through my surround sound system make it incredible.

The downsides are that it is a short game and some levels are not so great such as the ship level but all together, the game is class. I still haven't played it online yet as I want to let you noobs build up your rankings before the big dog starts to bark;);)

Can't wait for COD5 or the expansion to this one. It'll be brilliant so long as Infinity Ward do it!!

Jip

Spoilers tags, you dropped a fairly big one in my opinion there.

Jackabo

Been playing away all night here,deffo an action packed game. you will die a lot but to be honest to begin..you dont mind in the slightest .
Good game and i hope theres a good irish following

Sephiroth_dude

got this there last friday,its a very good fps,almost finished it though its very short,Im on the mission where you have to kill your man with the sniper rifle,well I killed him and now I only got 20minutes to get back to the extraction point its aint easy,especially when you have 40 bad guys shooting at you and mutts running up to you and ripping your throat to shreds .

marco murphy

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Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

yeah we've all played the game, we know what the first scene looks like..