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"Call of Duty 4: Best. Shooter. Ever."

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Sat 10/11/07 at 17:53
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Not kidding, best shooter I ever played.

You might 'think' that the 4-5 hour offline campaign is a little short, but stop being a wuss and stick it on Veteran, then beat it.

Then play it again and again and again in Arcade trying to beat your previous best score.

Basically you take the role of an SAS newbie called Soap, and you see most of the game through his eyes, but as part of the storyline you also get to play as US Spec Ops as well as a fantastically graphically amazing level where you play a flashback level as your SAS commander. The storyline revolves around hunting down and disposing of a terrorist whos got his mitts on some of Russia's nukes and is quite happy to launch them at the west, and along the way you'll be taking out hordes of his minions as well as a few trained attack dogs which will rip your throat out if you're not quick on the melee button.

They've got everything nailed - Graphics are the best you'll see on the 360 running in 60 frames per second throughout, offline and online, Gameplay is wonderfully paced and you won't want the offline to end but you're in for a treat when it does, Sound effects can't be faulted and overall it's a definite Game of the Year contender. Storyline... nothing really new, in fact there are little nods to lots of other games, movies and real-life events along the way which keep it interesting but you can pretty much guess the ending before you start.

But what is most totally, utterly, absolutely and compellingly addictive is the online mode. Your first online game you'll get trounced as you only have the option of Free-For-All or Deathmatch and you haven't earned any 'upgrades' yet. You gain experience points for kills as well as just turning up for the game, and these unlock Ranks.

With each Rank, you get to tweak your player just a little bit more. Silencer for your pistol? Red dot sight for your M16? Desert or Town camoflague? Suit you sir?

Then there's the 'Challenges' - Get 25 kills with your M16 and you get extra camo options. Get a 75 kills with it and you unlock a silencer for it, which makes you very deadly indeed. 100 kills? Dunno, haven't got that far yet as I'm having fun with all the other weapons I've unlocked with my rank, including the wonderfully nasty yet woefully inaccurate RPG (at least when I use it).

That's just kills, you also get extras if you do the same with each weapon but instead of just kills it's also tracking Headshots, so if you're in it for the long haul there's plenty here to unlock and you won't be doing it overnight.

Also with Rank you get Perks to tweak your player a little more - extra damage? Sure thing. Extra health? Sure thing, but you'll have to lose the extra damage and pick something else instead, like better aiming.

With 5 customisable player slots you can set up your different types of player for all the different modes which you unlock as you gain rank including Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Sabotage, King of the Hill etc, there are loads of them and loads of levels too.

Probably the most fun thing in online is the scenery, you can shoot through sheet metal, sofas, boxes, wooden crates - pretty much anything a bullet can go through in real life will penetrate in this game too - and nothing beats watching your enemy dive behind a plasterboard wall for cover as you just let rip at the wall with your heavy machine gun and take him out, except maybe using the 'Last Stand' perk to shoot the guy who just shot you with your pistol before you die.

SOCOM can take a back seat and Rainbow Six can take a hike as far as I'm concerned, CoD4: Modern Warfare is the new daddy on the block. It's the first game in ages that isn't an RPG made me lose my RPG addiction.

If you're thinking of saving the pennies for another game coming out soon, don't bother, just get this one.
Mon 21/01/08 at 22:41
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"Brooklyn boy"
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yup 360 guy. Gamertag is Kawada23
Mon 21/01/08 at 16:32
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"@optometrytweet"
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Kawada, 360 or PS3? If you're a 360 guy, I'll add you as a friend (I'm hippymanjas).

Must get off Team Fortress 2 though... addictive... well it won't be after I get my 1000 kill achievement (so far 430 :[)
Mon 21/01/08 at 14:32
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"Brooklyn boy"
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I've got to start playing in the afternoons more often, hadn't played for 2 days and thought i was going to get my butt handed to me but i ended up going 60-2 over four 4 games. Lots of whiny kids moaning about it but just made it more fun.
Fri 18/01/08 at 20:17
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Went straight in on veteran and near the end, but along came another game and it was gone from my playlist :(

I couldn't get online with it for a while as the servers were a bit poor, but now made it to level 6 in 3 games (gave it a whirl today).

Really must play through it to complete it as I do think it is the best shooter on any console at the moment.
Fri 18/01/08 at 17:15
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"Brooklyn boy"
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Hope you're ready to lose your life then as you get sucked into "just one more game so i can get revenge on that guy" syndrome :-D
Fri 18/01/08 at 17:12
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"WhaleOilBeefHooked"
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Sunday it will be mine finally! :-D
Fri 18/01/08 at 17:06
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great game
Thu 10/01/08 at 09:24
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"Got any carrots?"
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the extra level was a real surprise actuallu. ive also noticed there are levels before the ship level, am i right?
Wed 09/01/08 at 21:45
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"Captain to you."
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Not really a secret just an extra level, which really finishes the game nicely as by the time the credits are rolling you really do want more and then a few minutes later, you get some.

Multiplayer is a damn good reason to buy this, i personally got the PC version which can have up to 50 players on a server, unfortunately the levels just aren't designed for that many people and leads to spamming grenades and random lucky kills.

I think 20-30 players is just right for most maps as there aren't so many people that you run in to someone every 3 seconds and have grenades landing at your feet all the time but there aren't so few that you are actively looking for people without any luck.
Wed 09/01/08 at 16:39
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"WhaleOilBeefHooked"
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Heard something about a secret level at the very end of the game after the credits on single player this morning on Chris Moyles...

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