To start off with I’m going to review Call of Duty 4. Having played through the campaign and played a fair share of multiplayer I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s a damn solid game.

The AI is much better than many previous FPS games, rather than running straight into your line of fire, they will move quickly between cover and generally never advance too close to your position unless “persuaded” by a grenade or two. They work together aswell, covering an advance and looking out for each other, most of the time at least.

The graphics are beautiful, even on my steadily ageing machine. They make the game far more dirty and gritty, you can practically feel the sand under your flak vest as you fight through streets in an un-named Middle-Eastern country, than any previous CoD or war related FPS.

I found Call of Duty 4 to be an enjoyable and exciting experience the first time I played it
but I think it’s biggest downfall is the replay-ability. As with most shooters
CoD4’s single player replay-ability is almost nill, unless you happened to miss the story first time round.

Now don’t get me wrong, CoD4 is a brilliant game, but it does have it’s faults, though they are few.

The multiplayer seems pretty solid though, with a nice easy ranking system to unlock more kit.
CoD4 succeeds where the Battlefield series seems to have failed. The environment is very interactive,
with the ability to jump over walls, through windows and such like. Grenade spamming doesn’t occur like it
does in games of BF2 (this is the only suitable game to compare it to.) due to the fact that you can throw them back, a wonderful little addition to some great gameplay.

Overall, I’d have to say that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is one of the best FPSs out there at the moment. It’s solid gameplay, excellent graphics, good story and terrific multiplayer make it a good investment, no matter what price you get it at. Though getting it for £150 or something is just stupid…

Anyway, I hope you found my first review reasonably good, feedback is always appreciated, just make a thread on the forums.

Thanks for reading.

P.M.