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Fanswag Weekly: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare [update]
[Update: The giveaway is now closed and our winner has been notified. Check your inbox (and spam box). It might be youu.]You hardly need us to say it, but the big game this week is definitely Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. It's already garnering some impressive reviews, and we're willing to bet that plenty of our readers would like to add the game to their collection. Well, here's your chance to do it for free. Yes, this week's Fanswag Weekly is for none other than Call of Duty 4. Here's how to enter. Call of Duty 4 brings the series into the 21st century. Leave a comment on this post telling us what your favorite moment of the 21st century has been so far. You can leave one comment per calendar day (Eastern Time). Be sure you only leave one comment per day. Posters of multiple comments during the same day will be disqualified. We'll accept entries until Friday, November 9, 12:00 Noon, Eastern Time. You must be at least 18 years old to enter. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only On Friday, we'll pick one winner via a random drawing One winner will receive a copy of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, worth $60. Make sure to take note of the fact that you can enter once per day. That's three entries between now and Friday. Be sure and enter every day to maximize your chances of winning.You can maximize your understanding of the official rules by clicking here.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare deploys on Steam Nov. 12
If you're not keen to engage in the sort of modern warfare that comes from navigating shopping aisles during the holiday months, you now have the option of downloading Infinity Ward's latest thrill-a-minute first-person shooter, Call of Duty 4, from Steam. It amounts to roughly 360 thrills, excluding any thrills experienced during hectic multiplayer shootouts!Modern Warfare is already available for pre-purchase at $49.95 before its digitally distributed November 12 launch.
Nega-review: Call of Duty 4
While Modern Warfare finally brings the Call of Duty series into the present day, "the story itself ... isn't exactly cutting edge." (2) "The story unfolds from an unapologetic 'us versus them, and they are wrong' perspective, with little time spent on the larger philosophy of war." (4) "The story fails to provide many twists. There's not much of a guessing game taking place here." (3) "The story flies by so fast," (1) but at the same time, "there are a few too many shell-shocked slow-mo moments that seem to drag." (2) There are "no massive renovations in the AI department. ... they're pretty much the clever-clogs Nazis we've shot before." (9) "The enemies aren't the smartest lot, as they are formidable thanks more to their numbers than their IQ." (3) "There are going to be moments when enemies get stuck in dumb routines or stand in the open waiting to be mowed down." (2) "However, some of them have definitely missed their calling as an NFL quarterback -- tossing grenades 100 yards, dropping them right at your feet time and again." (3)Your squad mates are no better. "It is a little annoying when you figure out that your highly trained and specialized team is totally dependant on you in every situation." (8) "There were several moments when it would've helped for my friends to be a little more proactive. Once, when we were flanked by enemies from both sides, Captain Price just sat there, kneeling, waiting for me to make a miracle happen. If he would have popped a few shots at one of the guys so that I could go after the other, that would have helped a lot--not to mention make the game more realistic." (1)
Metareview: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
War is good -- for games. Infinity Ward's latest, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, hits the shelves with resounding applause. It really will be a good quarter for publisher Activision. Call of Duty 4 drops all that feel-good WWII stuff and goes straight for the modern war quagmire resulting in an even more intense experience than the series is known for. Modern combat apparently brings out modern intensity. Game Daily (100/100): "Combat is visceral and unrivaled. You've never experienced anything more vicious and unforgiving. Rockets zip past your head, attack choppers shred nearby houses with gunfire, jets carpet bomb an area, tanks blast through walls and soldiers fall by the hundreds. The insanity, coupled with your character's inability to absorb as many hits as in other games (Halo 3, Bioshock), causes you to question your actions and rethink strategies. Bottom line, if this game represents even just a fraction of the hell actual soldiers deal with on a day-to-day basis, we have a newfound respect for the armed forces." IGN (94/100): "The single-player experience is easily Infinity Ward's best work to date. Calling it intense may be an understatement. The overall story is standard action movie fare, but the relationships built over the short five hours of play are surprisingly strong. Though the single-player lacks length, the multiplayer should keep you invested in COD4 for the long winter. This is a truly fantastic multiplayer offering that's as deep as any other online game available." GameTap (90/100): "COD4 grips the imagination and finds a way to impact the player's emotions. And though we've seen a ton of games on similar subject matter, COD4 distinguishes itself with a washed-out gritty look and profound attention to detail. That same level of detail carries over to the online campaigns, which are just as vast and in-depth as anything found in the single player missions. From beginning to end--especially the end--COD4 is an amazing immersive experience. All other first-person shooters coming out definitely have to step it up at this point, because the bar has been set high."
Activision hits Q2 financial high, Guitar Hero fuels sales
Activision posted financial results for its second quarter ending September 30th, highlighting a 69% increase in revenues over the same quarter from last year -- an improvement of $318 million. The publisher's net income was only $700,000, better than the $24 million loss experience this time last year. And yes, it can thank Guitar Hero for most of it, now and in the future.The Q2 results were driven by Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s and (unfortunately) Transformers. Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision, says that the quarter saw net revenues at their highest in the "company's history." Now, as nice as Q2 was, Q3 is expected to be a show stopper. Revenues are expected to break $1 billion due to the release of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and the buzz surrounding Call of Duty 4.
It's arcade'tastic! CoD4 gets arcade mode
Check it out! Check out the video above and try and tell us that the guys over at Infinity Ward haven't gone out of their way to create one helluva game. If it's not obvious already, Call of Duty 4 will include an Arcade Mode (complete with next gen yet very old school NES menus) in which you'll get to mow down wave after wave of baddies. It comes complete with scoring, multipliers and crazy amounts of fun, so we're more than comfortable in giving Infinity Ward an official X3F pat on the back ... conglaturations![Via Game Stooge]
Shipping this week: war is hell edition
And so it begins, a November to end all Novembers. Within the next month, we will be positively assaulted with new and wonderful Xbox 360 games. The summer wasn't exactly thin, especially as summers tend to go for video games, but the sheer amount of games dropping this month alone -- good games, mind you -- is ridiculous. But let's not get ahead of ourselves thinking about the impending arrival of Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, Kane & Lynch, and Rock Band (to name a few). No, let's concentrate on this week's titles. One thing at a time, as it were. So, this week we have: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare F.E.A.R. Files Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War Scene-It LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga Cabela's Big Game Hunter We have something of a soft spot for Scene-It, but we imagine the majority of you are most excited for Call of Duty 4. We don't blame you either, all of us here at X3F were addicted to its online leveling system during the beta in earlier this year.Don't get too excited though. We've got three more weeks of high caliber releases to come. You might want to start your financial planning now.
Complete CoD4 MP map list and descriptions
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare will be here in a few days, but we know some of you are too excited to wait. Too excited to wait for your copy to arrive and too excited to ignore any official or leaked details. That's why we wanted to tell you about some screenshots detailing CoD4 multiplayer goodness.Thanks to AVSPics and their sneaky means of obtaining an early copy of CoD4 (on the PS3, eesh!), they've posted all kinds of screenshots that help answer some the game's multiplayer questions. Using the links below, you can check out the names and descriptions of all 16 multiplayer maps, a list of multiplayer weapons and get a glimpse of the game's visuals with other random screenshots. It's a multiplayer CoD4 fanboy's treasure chest of warfare! Snoop around, get some information and wait few days ... your copy of CoD4 is so close, we can even smell it from here.[Via The 360 Forum]Read - Call of Duty 4 MP maps and descriptionsRead - Call of Duty 4 MP weaponsRead - Call of Duty 4 MP screenshots
Sunday ads bring out the crazy CoD4 deals
There's lots of gaming deals this weeks, so let's hop right into it. The big new release this Tuesday is Call of Duty 4 and the top gaming retailers are all offering up the goods. If you purchase CoD4 at Target they'll give you a $5 gift card, Best Buy will give you a free Behind Enemy Lines DVD as part of their exclusive CoD4 Ultimate Box Set and they're also offering a $20 instant savings if you purchase the game with a 360 wireless headset. But we think the CoD4 deal crown goes to Circuit City this week, because they're going crazy nuts giving away a poster and Call of Duty 3 with purchase.Other deals you want? Okay ... let's keep going. Best Buy's other deal is a free $10 gift card with F.E.A.R. Files, but that's about it from them. Over at Circuit City this week you can pick up a $29 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary, a $39 Gears of War (PC) and a $39 Virtua Fighter 5. That's not all, you can also get a $10 gift card with TimeShift and a $39 wireless Xbox 360 controller too. Oh, and we didn't know this ever existed, but you can Cars, Open Season and Fuzion Frenzy 2 all bundled together on one game disc for $29. That's about it for money savings offers this week, but feel free to share what other deals you discovered in the comments below.
Hunker down, CoD4 Live Fire Weekend incoming
Call of Duty 4's release to retail is quickly approaching and, as a result, so is the Xbox Live planned launch fun. Call of Duty 4 Live Fire Weekend will take place from November 16th through the 18th and feature Play & Win, gametime with developers, gametime with the PMS Clan and various Xbox Live Marketplace content including a free gamer picture, theme and videos. More details including prizes and gamertags will trickle in once Live Fire Weekend approaches, so while you're waiting feel free to pre-register for everything right here. Big A+ video game launches equal marketing planned weekend events ... and we're loving it.
Revolutionary: Answering the Call
Every Tuesday, Mike Sylvester brings you REVOLUTIONARY, a look at the wide world of Wii possibilities. Metroid Prime 3 has proven indeed that a Wii Remote and Nunchuk is the next best thing to a keyboard and mouse for first person shooting and action. Although we have few FPS titles being developed and released on the Wii (relative to party games and family-friendly content, or the main attraction of a certain other platform), the genre is among the most popular in the scripting community. This is naturally so with FPS being a favored genre among hardcore PC gamers and hardware enthusiasts. With the recent release of the demo version of Call of Duty 4 and its imminent final release, I felt it was time to pick up arms and serve you a script for this spectacular shooter.
Preview CoD4 at select Gamestops tomorrow
Tomorrow night at a handful of Gamestop stores in the US, eager Call of Duty 4 gamers will get a chance to preview and play the game. Tomorrow's Call of Duty 4 First to Play event will be held at 9:00PM at Gamestop stores in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia, DC, Atlanta and Minneapolis and promises hands on play of CoD4 weeks before its November release. And be sure you're 17 years old too, because the game is rated M, so the Gamestop identification police will be patrolling the streets. Have fun at the events and be sure to make the jump for more information.[Via Fourzerotwo]
Complete CoD4 weapons list discovered
With all the news surrounding Halo 3, Orange Box and other gaming gems this past month, Call of Duty 4 hasn't been featured in the limelight all that much. But we're changing that this afternoon and bringing you a complete list of every weapon featured in the game's single and multiplayer. Where did this list-o-weapons come from you wonder? The guys over at COD4Forums discovered the weapons in the dev code from the PC beta (which is available for download right now), of course! So start dreaming of all the destruction, death and military mayhem you'll be able to create with the list of CoD4 weapons posted after the break. Fear our Winchester 1200 ... fear it baby![Via TeamXbox, Thanks DjDATZ]
Call of Duty 4 playable at Gamestop this Wednesday
If you're still not sure what all the hubbub, brouhaha and sometimes broubub surrounding Infinity Ward's Call of Duty 4 is about, you may just get a chance to play the game's single-player campaign before the week is out. If you're over the age of 17 and generally enjoy shooting things from a first-person perspective, Activision and Gamestop cordially invite you to waltz into a participating store on Wednesday, October 17th, give the Xbox 360 version of the World War Now epic a bash and promptly fall into their carefully constructed pre-order trap. The bait is set at 9PM.After the break you'll find a list of stores offering the playable taster -- those not on the list are only good for selling you the game when it releases on November 5th. Additionally, you can visit Gamestop's website and enter your contact details so that they may kindly draft you into a mailing list send you a "reminder" for an event that's two days away.
Joystiq tries Call of Duty 4 single player
Joystiq recently got to lay their hands on the Call of Duty 4 single player campaign, one of the less explored aspects of the game. Many players have had a chance to give multiplayer a try thanks to the multiplayer beta that ended last month. Overall, the largest impression gathered about the game is that it is not necessarily realistic, but hovers more closely to straight up action. Joystiq comments on its grand sense of scale and fast paced combat. A plodding, strategic affair it isn't, apparently. Still, regardless of the action focus, the game seems to present a solid single player campaign that FPS fans should be excited to play. Head over to Joystiq for full impressions.
Joystiq hands-on: Call of Duty 4 single-player (360, PC, PS3)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, literally rocks with action. In an early stage, a freight ship that you siege pitches and rolls, like a giant movie set-piece. While playing a close-to-shipping version of the title, I felt like the action game used these special-effect focal points to drive its frenzied pace and huge scope.Because of the "modern" setting, I had assumed I'd be plodding slowly with a squad of soldiers, tactically (and tactfully) knocking on doors to root out bad guys. And while there are sometimes AI-teammate elements, I never felt like I had to slow down and proceed with caution. Instead, I often had to speed up and dive for cover; depending on the situation, snipers, RPGs, and essentially armies of enemies are firing at you at the same time.%Gallery-3922%
CoD 4 beta level cap gets increased
We know Halo 3 has commanded your attention since its release on Tuesday and we don't blame you, but if you're looking to switch things up this weekend then maybe the Call of Duty 4 beta will fit the bill, because the level cap has been increased. This morning the CoD 4 level cap has been increased from a max of 16 to 25 allowing beta participants to unlock new perks and some new weapons along the way. But if your goal is to experience everything rank 25 has to offer then you better drop Halo 3 and get playing the beta, because the CoD 4 fun ends this Sunday at midnight. Have fun fanboys, this is where you make the decision to stay a Spartan or become a modern day soldier.[Thanks, Jim Halpert DM]
Reminder: win more COD4 beta invites from Joystiq
Just a quick reminder folks, Joystiq is still giving away Call of Duty 4 multiplayer beta invites every other day (in conjunction with GameDaily, who is giving them away every other other day). If you haven't made into the beta yet, you'd better hurry, as it's only open until the end of the month. And, with a new level cap that lets players unlock even more goodies, the beta is better than ever. Hell, you just might enjoy it more than waiting in line for Halo 3. If you'd like your shot at the beta, head over to the Joystiq giveaway post and enter.What are you waiting for? Go!
Joyswag: 10 invites to the Call of Duty 4 Beta (Day 7)
[Update: That's it, folks. Congratulations to the winners! To the rest, see you Nov. 5 for the real thing.]Welcome to the final round of GameDaily & Joystiq's Call of Duty 4 multiplayer beta giveaway. Make your comment count! Here's how: Leave a comment below predicting the final Call of Duty sequel with number and subtitle (ex. Call of Duty 4²: We Been Had Finished the Fight) You may only comment on this specific post once. If you leave more than one comment, you'll be automatically disqualified ... FOREVAR! If you enter more than once, only activate one comment or see above Usually we reserve this bullet point to remind you that there will be more chances to win. Not this time -- it's the final round! Entries can be submitted until 7:59pm EDT on Monday, September 24th [Official rules]
Joyswag: 10 invites to the Call of Duty 4 Beta (Day 5)
[Update: That's it for this round, folks. Round 6 is underway at GameDaily, so head over there for another chance to win.]Welcome to another round of GameDaily & Joystiq's Call of Duty 4 multiplayer beta giveaway. Follow these simple guidelines to enter: Leave a comment below telling us what your call of duty is (keep it PG-13!) You may only comment on this specific post once. If you leave more than one comment, you'll be automatically disqualified If you enter more than once, only activate one comment Though you can only enter this specific giveaway once, there are still a couple of entry phases to follow, including a giveaway on GameDaily tomorrow (don't worry, we'll remind you) Entries can be submitted until 7:59pm EDT on Saturday, September 22nd [Official rules]
