Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Expert Reviews

From its visually stunning beginning to its emotionally wrenching ending, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a surprisingly deep, rich, and unique approach to the first-person shooter.

Stunning graphics; rich story.

Steep hardware demands; some very challenging missions.

The opening credits deserve mention here too, because you are introduced to the crisis by witnessing the assassination of a Middle Eastern nation's president, from his perspective. It's rare to see a war game that punctures the monotony of combat to actua...

Last week we were at a secret location to check out the brand new downloadable map pack for Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare. As you can guess we were licking our lips in anticipation, so, were they any good? You bet they were.

There were burnt out cars, sounds of gunfire filling the air, oil drums cast aside and even army rations to help ourselves to. But we passed on the powdered chocolate pudding, and after a brief presentation from developer Jason West, we got down to action...

Call of Duty 4 moves past the ditches of World War II and into modern warfare. The game promises to be one of the strongest titles this holiday season, and I was eager to see if it could live up to the mountains of hype.Visually, CoD 4 is a cut above CoD

Ever since iD's Wolfenstein 3D came out in 1992, World War II has inspired a long line of games. Credit for several of the best can be claimed by the developers of Call of Duty 4, Infinity Ward. Many of the team worked on the legendary Medal of Honor game...

You're in the army, now. Any more realistic and you'd need body armour.

Visually mindblowing, COD4 provides you with an enormous arsenal of real-world weapons to hack and chop at the seams of international terrorism.

CoD4 lacks the flexible-open areas and hence the choice of attack vector you'll find in games like GRAW 2 and Medal of Honour: Airborne. Still, any complaints with CoD: 4 can really be distilled down into criticisms of the game style. While it'll irk some...

It's possible, following a year's worth of games such as Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2, that gamers might be slightly sceptical about yet another modern, realistic first-person shooter. After all, modern war doesn't afford the gravity-defying possibi...

Absolutely brilliant. COD4 looks superb, plays amazingly and is utterly, hopelessly, sleep-deprivingly engrossing.

Gripping single-player storyline, immersive online play and stunning graphics

This latest edition of Call of Duty marks a quantum shift in the game's evolution. Instead of WWII combat - fighting as a squaddie for...

Call of Duty jumps into the 21st century with a bang.