'Member last week? With that Singleplayer overview? Yeah you probably didn't read it either but now is the well anticipated Multiplayer overview of Call of Duty 4. Even though I'm still halfway through the white-knuckle Singleplayer campaign due to my preoccupation with Bioshock's hard-ass "Historian" achievement, CoD4's Multiplayer proves to be reason enough for my return to LIVE. The multiplayer is formidable in its undeniably large presentation without having to overwhelm the players, which is excellent on our side because of its replayability. What excited us the most is the premier Create-A-Class feature unlocked at Rank 5, Lance Corporal, or Corporal I forgot but what tops that is the multitude of gamemodes that builds upon the original CoD staples such as Objective, Sabotage, Tactical, Hardcore, and my personal favorite Ground War. Despite the omission of a refreshed server list the game wittingly loads the player into a lobby with other similar players in a random map with the occasional long wait. At times it can be an awkward pain or it reduces the effort of having to search for an adequate server, though we didn't come by too many annoyances or obstacles aside from the occasional "can't-find-game-so-we'll-make-you-a-host" BS. Considering our play ...

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 ...