Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare – Single Player
Categories: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Written By: Thunderface
Nearly five years has the Call of Duty franchise progressed in the genre of Historic First Person Shooters. Call of Duty set the scale of soldiers not fighting alone but with an AI squad in the different Allied fronts against the ever persistent and hard-headed Nazi war machine. What distinguished the Call of Duty series was the often memorable scenarios where the player experiences the full intensity of a firefight where ambiance is key, in conjunction with visuals and audio. After the widely lauded Call of Duty 2 and the faithful though controversial Call of Duty 3, Infinity Ward finally decides to advance sixty or seventy years into the future of modern warfare.
Modern Warfare proves its namesake with the expected load of the Clancyian military intrigue comprised of Islamic extremism and Neo-Stalinist beliefs returning as a scourge to the modern world. In short a civil war begins in a still recovering Russia between the Democratic ultra nationalist military and the Neo-Communist rebel regime while an Iran/Khmer Rouge-esque military coup overthrows the government of an undisclosed Middle Eastern nation. In turn the superpowers of the US and UK set their own operations.
Gameplay-wise, nothing to shout about in comparison to the prior two console installments. With that said it is much more adventurous and “in-yur-face”. The two campaigns vary from each other by play style as the series did earlier. The British S.A.S missions are a more special operations approach where infiltrating, sabotage, and espionage is required whereas the U.S. Marine Force Recon missions involves directly hitting the targets in the middle of their territory in a fireteam style. While both groups are special forces, their scenarios defer distinctively.
Though the length or rather the alloted time of 6 to 10 hours depending on the difficulty, is disappointing but passable due to the trend of shortened next-gen shooters. What overshadows this flaw is the replayability in the form of a time-limited Arcade Mode and an amusing Cheat Mode, both of which are unlocked after the first completion of the campaign. Oh and theres an addictive multiplayer- but thats for the later entry due to time constraints. More like length constraints.
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