Excellent single player, Excellent single player online, although no splitscreen on live or any Co-op ...still great ...
I'm glad COD4 is now set in the modern warfare zone. COD 2 was great and COD 3 got very repetitive for me. The whole ww2 thing was starting to be cpompleted flooded. Although the COD series and the MOH series completly overshadowed anything else out there. 'Their finest hour' shows this, with its poor graphics and gameplay.
So with all this experince we all knew that COD 4 would be good, but did we think it would be this good. For me the graphics on the Sniper level in the single player game are out of this world. They have certainly done their research into tatics and warfare movement as well.
Currently I've played around 3 hours on single player and 10-15 hours online. Online is where it is at. Starting off as a private, you can quickly get experince by shooting and winning games. even if you are a bit poor compared to other onliners your experince will still rise if just a bit slower.
Experince and ranks give better guns and options. This rank stays with you and you are split into even teams on this ranking. An excellent idea that works.
COD4 suffers from some online issues which the designers and microsoft are fixing at present. Connection lose, server timeouts, lag etc... BUT in most cases the game runs great.
I've reviewed MOH airboure recently and thought this was a class game with excellemt graphics and a 'real feel' to the game. If you have this game keep it as its a ww2 era game. All I will say is though that once you have COD4 you won't play Airbourne online again.
Is it better than Halo 3 online? Well for me yes! The single player feel and weapons are far better than some stupid nailer weapon. Halo 3 still rocks online but COD4 feels better.
My only concern is the lack of any Co-op online options. I love the Co-op terrroist hunt in Vegas online and offline. I love to be able to fight against the computer splitscreen with my mates. I love the fact in halo 3 you can do the story mode in co-op. All this is missing. Even the splitscreen off line is just the players on the xbox and no bots (CPU palyers).
A big shame about the split screen and something alot of people have moaned about. Hopefully an Xbox live update may change this.
All in all a great game and in my top 3.
Cheers all.