COD4 is a first person shooter set in modern places where warfare is brought into close combat. Throughout the campaign, the gamer, plays an average private called “Private McTavish” also known as “Soap”. The story requires the gamer to test his/ her skills at all positions of warfare. There are various levels that require the gamer to run and gun, a very offensive, risky and quick battle tactic, probably using a sub machine gun. In other levels stealth is used, with an M4 Carbine, red dot, silencer and night vision goggles. These levels require the gamer to be sneaky and silently take out outposts with a few men in them. There are also levels that require the gamer to cover his men as they advance on the battlefield, weave their way through buildings and eventually win the battle against the Taliban. Not all levels require a lot of close combat and many kills. There are a couple levels in which staying back a silently sniping. Having played the campaign, having the variety of the different levels it is very entertaining to play because it is always changing and the gamer never knows what gun he will be given at the beginning of a level. There are also 4 different difficulty levels that allow the gamer to set it to his gaming capability.
The game doesn’t stop at just the campaign, Call of Duty 4 also has a fantastic online game play. With the only play your have your own character and you level up. Once you get to level 55 you can choose to stay there and try to achieve the golden guns or prestige. There are ten prestiges and once you finish each one you get a new symbol which allows other player to recognize you as a more advance gamer. A gold cross is the tenth symbol which makes you a feared gamer to play against. The part I like most about the online play is the camouflage that any gamer can acquire for all of his guns. Once 25 headshots are accomplished with any given gun digital camouflage is given to you. It is a black and white pattern. There is also blue tiger and red tiger, given to a gamer at 75 and 150 headshots with a gun. If any of the camouflages are acquired they don’t help the gamer’s player in any way but it is more for looking cool and respect. There are 5 different categories of guns that a gamer is allowed to choose from, Assault rifles, sub machine guns, light machine guns, shotguns, and sniper rifles. There are many guns in each of the categories and if red tiger is achieved for all the guns in a category a golden gun is achieved. This means that a gamer has accomplished one of the most difficult tasks in the online play. This also looks very cool and a lot of respect is associated with this achievement. Each time a gamer is killed a “kill cam” is shown, this shows you who killed you and what weapon they used. This is how a gamer can tell if their opponent has a tiger or golden gun. The concept of camouflage is very cool and the variety of guns is also a huge asset to the game. The online play is a lot of fun and definitely scores high on the game rankings.
Aaron Carr
