when i bought COD4 i immediatley started playing it, i didnt come out of that room untill i had beaten the game and had gotten the highest multiplayer rank EVER.
Then I read reviews:
LINEARITY
NO COVERSYSTEM
JUST A STUPID CONSOLE PORT
DIMWITTED AI
CRAPPY STORY
I went WHAT? Then i saw everyone had the sam opinion.
Let me just address some of the issues stated above:
The maps are pretty linear, yes, some even compare it to a rail shooter. But so what? The fact that instead of getting shot at from the right I can get shot at from the left in non linear maps isnt a innovation but is just normal. Also, almost every shooter(including halo 3) has pretty linear maps. But also, do you have time to think left or right when your brain is occupying the space of one million-billion bullets and grenades? Also, the level that is kinda rail, the AC 130 mission, CANNOT BE COMPLAINED ABOUT EVER.
As a Level Designer for Insomniac(Valve before that, doublefine before that,then valve again) I can say that putting in a cover system is HARD, lots of programming and lots of Level Designers time go into making sure you can cover that wall. Its not just this map is good, throw in a cover system BOOM good game, IT TAKE LITERALLY HALF A DEVELOPMENT TEAM A FULL YEAR.
First of all It came out for PC ALONG with the consoles, and crappy?
I thought the game had great AI that had enemies using cover depending on their weapons and had my teammates actually helping me instead of making me run errands for them.
Yes the story is short but its great, and theres no part in the story where the storyline stops because some guy is held hostage and you must go alone to find him, bring him back, find out he has nothing to do with anything, and then go on to the next mission.
Basically whats your thought on the complaints? Are they all valid? what?
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