I was a little conflicted on what to rate this honestly. Despite my girlfriend's advice I decided to play on Veteran difficulty for my first run (well.. first since I played the original way back on release) and uh, well the difficulty definitely loses more points for this than anything else.
The enemies on recruit come armed with BB guns and no spacial awareness, the enemies on veteran? Oh they come with about 400 frag grenades each and what I can only assume is bulletproof skin. I lost count of how many times I got stuck replaying one checkpoint over and over because they wouldn't go down or stop coming, or I'd be boxed in by so many grenades they might as well have been using clusters. Is this bad level design? Sometimes, absolutely. Is that how the game is intended to be experienced? Hell no.
In the end, trying to set aside all the difficulty bullshit, the levels that are just hallways of enemies, fields with more soldiers than blades of grass, there's really no denying that CoD4 was a huge deal for Call of Duty, and probably for FPS games as a whole.
I feel like everyone in their teens/20s when this came out played it, and for good reason. Hell I have the memory of a dead fish and even I was getting to levels and being hit with nostalgia from the hours I spent getting my ass handed to me on them back in the day. It simply wouldn't be fair to discredit that because I decided to play it on "too hard", right?
Nostalgia aside, this entry has some of the most memorable characters in the franchise, and for better or worse, the most memorable missions as well. All Ghillied Up is one of the very few levels I remember from games of the years this first released, and I can still recall the excitement that I and many others had when first experiencing it. An assassination mission, covert, just you and the charming Cap'n MacMillan in fucking Chernobyl. There is no way to forget that mission really. (Even if One Shot One Kill has the most bullshit finale in FPS history on veteran .-.)
In conclusion, I think this is definitely a solid entry in the CoD franchise, and an enjoyable FPS game overall. It's worth noting that while they share a score I would consider this to be a low 4/5, but the 2019 Remake a high 4/5. (Like 4.0 vs 4.4 honestly lmao)
That's all from me, I may come back for the last couple trophies but I don't think the speedrun Training Course is something I am capable of so the platinum is highly unlikely. Watch this space I guess
(Oh and P.S. Mile High Club on Veteran is dogshit use the exploit unless you're a prodigy)
The enemies on recruit come armed with BB guns and no spacial awareness, the enemies on veteran? Oh they come with about 400 frag grenades each and what I can only assume is bulletproof skin. I lost count of how many times I got stuck replaying one checkpoint over and over because they wouldn't go down or stop coming, or I'd be boxed in by so many grenades they might as well have been using clusters. Is this bad level design? Sometimes, absolutely. Is that how the game is intended to be experienced? Hell no.
In the end, trying to set aside all the difficulty bullshit, the levels that are just hallways of enemies, fields with more soldiers than blades of grass, there's really no denying that CoD4 was a huge deal for Call of Duty, and probably for FPS games as a whole.
I feel like everyone in their teens/20s when this came out played it, and for good reason. Hell I have the memory of a dead fish and even I was getting to levels and being hit with nostalgia from the hours I spent getting my ass handed to me on them back in the day. It simply wouldn't be fair to discredit that because I decided to play it on "too hard", right?
Nostalgia aside, this entry has some of the most memorable characters in the franchise, and for better or worse, the most memorable missions as well. All Ghillied Up is one of the very few levels I remember from games of the years this first released, and I can still recall the excitement that I and many others had when first experiencing it. An assassination mission, covert, just you and the charming Cap'n MacMillan in fucking Chernobyl. There is no way to forget that mission really. (Even if One Shot One Kill has the most bullshit finale in FPS history on veteran .-.)
In conclusion, I think this is definitely a solid entry in the CoD franchise, and an enjoyable FPS game overall. It's worth noting that while they share a score I would consider this to be a low 4/5, but the 2019 Remake a high 4/5. (Like 4.0 vs 4.4 honestly lmao)
That's all from me, I may come back for the last couple trophies but I don't think the speedrun Training Course is something I am capable of so the platinum is highly unlikely. Watch this space I guess
(Oh and P.S. Mile High Club on Veteran is dogshit use the exploit unless you're a prodigy)
3 Comments
Solid review as always
Update: I somehow managed the training course and got the platinum lesgooo!
Nancyfly
1 year ago