Now Playing: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Video Review
While you can raise the difficulty to give yourself more of a challenge, the main thing this does is make the enemies frustratingly deadly, which sort of detracts from the fun.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's If you've been keeping up with this style of game, you'll probably shoot your way to the credits in under five hours. The only real catch is that the single-player is almost shockingly short.
While the game may feel short, it covers a lot of ground. It's also an amazing multiplayer first-person shooter and a great but brief single-player campaign with the visual chops to make it a standout shooter in an era filled with seemingly dozens of standout shooters. But COD 4 is more than just an updated setting. By bringing things into a fictionalized story that still seems fairly plausible, the developer has made a much heavier game. Perhaps that's why Call of Duty 4 has a new subtitle, Modern Warfare. With modern times and international affairs becoming more and more, shall we say, interesting in recent years, the 1940s just don't carry as much weight as they used to. It took awhile, but Infinity Ward finally got the message that World War II is played out.
