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4.5 stars
"Very Well Made Game"
Pros: Great graphics, Many unlocks and challenges, It carries a large online player base, The sound is great, The Perk system works perfectly
Cons: Somewhat linear battlefields, No vehicles
Summary: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is the fifth in the series of World War II shooters. This one changes it up by immersing the player into a modern and up-to-date battlefield. The weapons range from an M-21 sniper rifle to a .50 Desert Eagle handgun to an M4 to an M60E4. Most weapons are released through an unlock system. Each rank you gain you unlock something new. This isn't always a weapon but usually new challenges. By completing these challenges you can gain upgrades for existing weaponry. That has to be one of the biggest bonuses of the game. The ability to unlock add-ons to your current gun to upgrade it. Along with the Perk system and the Create-A-Class system, this allows you to create a very customized soldier. This has to make up for the deepest and most thought out online gameplay I've ever seen in a shooter. The graphics are stunning to a point. Some of the guns lack the detail that would have been nice to see like dings and scratches and most piles of rubble and simply sloped models with a texture plastered on them. The game lacks a large physics system that could have made up for the linear battlefields. You are able to shoot through walls (in which it calculates the wall material, bullet size, speed, and distance as well as the firearm that fired it) which is an addition rarely seen but you can destroy things like weak brick walls as you should be able to with something like an RPG. Nor can you rip through tin steel with an RPG. The glass on buildings when hit is seen as a different material and treated as such but it does not shatter as it should, a bullet hole is simply formed. When a car windshield is shot it does shatter and if shot enough the whole thing will blow up. This adds some interesting tactics for those who like to hide behind automobiles. Overall the game makes for an enjoyable and lengthy experience although I believe, unlike the Battlefield games that have such open ended gameplay, once you get through all of your unlocks you may put this one down.
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