(4.5/5) – shooter
Reviews: Metacritic 94%| Game Rankings 94%
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Developer: Infinity Ward Engine: Infinity Ward proprietary
[Note: This mini-review predates the founding of the Daleisphere. It was culled from an email I wrote to friends about the game in early December 2007.]
Wow, did Infinity Ward EVER out-do themselves here.
This is the shortest shooter I have ever played. I finished it in about 6 hours. But oh, what a sweet 6 hours they were.
In a way it was a bit like Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune in that they brought a few cinematic elements to the game that I’ve never quite experienced in a shooter before. The part where you are the gunner in AC 130 gunship looked like it was taken from actual footage of the Iraq war. Very, very compelling. I have NO complaints about the game except it was too short.
Infinity Ward made COD2 and 4. Activision farmed out COD3 to Treyarch. They should NEVER do that again as Call of Duty 3 was really quite bad. Infinity Ward has made this more than a respectable franchise again.
Because I had nobody to play this game with online, I can’t say much about the online play (which I tried a few times). It’s getting very good online reviews though.
