

There are flag-capping hints of Battlefield as well, but with an increased dose of authenticity more reminiscent of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. Enjoy Rainbow Six? The single-player campaign includes several levels that allow you to "breach and clear," then enter a room filled with computer equipment and destroy everything in sight. Like Counter-Strike? You can customize your load-out and play only the multiplayer game types that don't allow respawning. Nice touches abound, like having the ability to shoot through walls, peek around corners and call in UAV support, helicopter attacks and airstrikes.ĬoD4 builds upon the strengths of past shooters without being derivative. Among other things, what sets it apart from the aforementioned FPS titles is its emphasis on realism in combat. While the single-player campaign is short by most standards (six to eight hours at the normal difficulty setting), the quality is superb. 50 caliber sniper rifles, M-249 SAW machine guns and more.

Those who can afford to load up their hard drives with all of these titles ought to count their blessings.ĬoD4 is an intense and cinematic first-person shooter in which players are armed with an arsenal of advanced and powerful modern-day firepower, including more than 70 new and authentic weapons and gear, including assault rifles with laser sites, Claymore mines. Bioshock? Quake Wars? Crysis? Team Fortress 2? With the entry of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the decision becomes even more daunting. For those of us on tight budgets, deciding where to spend those video game dollars has never been more difficult. What a season it's been for first-person shooters titles that fans have been anticipating for the past several years seemed to be released within days of each other.
