Re: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Thread (360/PS3/PC)
To answer your CoD4 question from another thread:
You missus plays Battlefield 2?
I loved that game was truly amazing! Online was like a dream, nothing better than being behind in pts, scavenging up a last minute tactic, you decide to take the role of an attacking leader, and decide you want a small group of men to aid your attack, you send the rest to flank to one command flag, and your team of 3 go to one far away, the defence is weak as they are aiding the one beeing attacked by the flank, so you kill the rest take over the command flag and on your way back to victory! Was amazing... dunno why i got rid of it, thats what we need on the XBOX360 and PS3, is CoD4 gonna be similar then?
Well I couldn't get into BF2 like her, she is mental on it. Practically the only game she plays, and she plays it like I play Football Manager (i.e. every night, until either she falls asleep or she's thrown off the computer). But when I was playing the CoD4 beta, once she saw it, that was it, she took over and I couldn't play it until she'd buggered off out. She's not a big console fan either, so it shows how good it is.
Like I say, I couldn't get into BF2, but I instantly fell in love with CoD4. It's frantic, it's exciting, the effects (ground rumbling every time a fighter jet goes over) are brilliant, and it seems a lot fairer (in BF2 I could shoot someone ten times and then I die in one shot, and trying to shoot someone in the relative-distance was a nightmare for me, so much so that I gave up with the game in a matter of months ... but in this it seems fairer and, in a realistic way, easier - one or two shots in the right place and you're down).
The perks make me laugh my head off as well, in a good way - the wall-piercing bullets and the "last stand" (where you can sit up and shoot for a while while you're lying on the floor dying) are great, just to name a few.
Some things you may not like (and I certainly didn't like the sound of), such as, when you get three kills in a row you're granted a UAV scan for you and your team, when you get seven kills in a row you can call in an air-strike, etc... But honestly, it's so much
fun, you wouldn't believe. I thought I'd be sitting there like, "oh God, that's so stupid and unrealistic", but if anything it heightens the drama because you've done something, you've got an achievement for your team, MWAHAHA, you've got an edge on the opponent now. It's really great, IMHO.
Is there offline multiplayer, co-op and are guests allowed online?
I can't answer those because you're severely restricted in the beta - you can only level-up so far, and you can't use vehicles etc... So you can't play offline or play with guests online either. Previous CoD games on 360 haven't had offline multiplayer as far as I know (at least, not co-op, I know that for sure), don't know about guests online either but I'm sure that will be in the retail version. The other stuff, I wouldn't imagine so unfortunately (and I love completing games in co-op as well).
Also whats so good about 60fps, whats the difference between 30fps, I should really know this seeing as I play games and I see it so often, I just never took it in, ive probably seen it alot and complained aswell haha
Thought I would imrpove me knowledge.
Well, it's a long-running debate. The eye can only see upto 24fps, which is the speed that movies run at, but the more frames per second there are, the "smoother" it looks (and "feels", to the brain, apparently). Basically, 60fps is pretty great (even if it isn't strictly neccessary), and the more games that have similar frame rates, the better.
For more information (and it's a good quick and easy read actually), click
HERE. The second page covers computer games, but don't skip to it, read the bit on movies first.
