Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)

The Call of Duty series returns this time into a modern day setting. The player takes control of a character nicknamed "Soap," for the majority of the campaign and will need to progress through many modern warfare scenarios.

Director:

Keith Arem

Writer:

Jesse Stern

Stars:

Billy Murray, Craig Fairbrass, David Sobolov

1 win & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Billy Murray	...	Captain Price (voice)
Craig Fairbrass	...	Gaz (voice)
David Sobolov	...	Lieutenant Vasquez (voice)
Zach Hanks	...	Captain Macmillan (voice)
Fred Toma	...	(voice)
Eugene Lazareb	...	(voice)
Gabriel Al-Rajhi	...	(voice)
Sarkis Albert	...	(voice)
Desmond Askew	...	(voice)
David Neil Black	...	(voice)
Marcus Coloma	...	(voice)
Michael Cudlitz	...	U.S. Marine (voice)
Greg Ellis	...	(voice) (as Gregory Ellis)
Gideon Emery	...	Mac / SAS 4 (voice)
Josh Gilman	...	(voice)

Storyline

The year is 2011, and civil war has broken out in Russia between the Russian government and Russian ultranationalists under the command of Imran Zakhaev who seek to restore Russia back to its former Soviet-style leadership. A revolution has toppled a regime in an unnamed Arabic country which has ties to the Russian ultranationalists, with Khaled al-Asad coming to power. These two simultaneous events are causing fear that al-Asad and Zakhaev might form an alliance and use nuclear weapons against the West. In response to these concerns, the United States and the United Kingdom conduct joint operations to put down both uprisings, without putting their own nations' security at risk. Will they succeed?

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Plot Keywords:

jeep | grenade launcher | army | u.s. army | gunfight | 

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Genres:

Action | Thriller | War

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Certificate:

M

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English Russian French

Release Date:

5 November 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

CoD4

Company Credits

Production Co:

Infinity Ward, PCB Productions

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Is the first "Call of Duty" game set in a time period other than World War II. As a result, it is also the only "Call of Duty" game not to feature any of the Axis nations as an enemy.

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Goofs

During the SAS and US Marine joint operation the team is drooped in the Altay mountains, in Central Russia, to retake the nuclear launch facility. But the next mission starts by showing the rockets simulated attack, and the launch is from the Caucasus, thousands of kilometers away from the Altay mountains.

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Quotes

Gaz: [after learning pickup can't come now] Is he taking the piss? We just busted our arses to get to the LZ and now they want us to go all the way down?

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Connections

Referenced in Like Totally Awesome: Modern Warfare 2 Review (2009)

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Soundtracks

"Hard and Deep"
Performed by Mark Grigsby

User Reviews

Aaaaaaaaaaaargh!!! The Next Generation is in the hizouse!!!

What an incredible piece of game-making.

By far, the best graphics yet seen on any platform.

Action, action, action. No more wandering around, going, "er...where do I go now?" Nothing but action. The bad guys crawl out from anywhere, like six-foot roaches with machine guns.

A level of realism previously unachieved in any field of entertainment.

The graphics look silky and photo-realistic. I refer not solely to the facial features and the movement and stances of the characters, but also to the incredible backgrounds that da Vinci would have been proud of.

You get the feeling you're in a war - not a computer game. You feel attached to the game, and lose concentration in the real world, to such an extent that you'll lose track of time, and maybe even be late for work/school/auditions/AA meetings.

Without doubt, this game is the one that will change everything. Halo? HALO? Nothing compared to this. Honestly, buy this game. You have no reason to dislike anything about it, apart from maybe the price.

This game has raised the bar so high, that I'm certain some developers who were a couple of months away from releasing their own FPS will have to delay their games' releases to have a major overhaul to catch up.

Call of Duty 4 is streets ahead of anything else out there. Get it. Play it. Love it. Live it.

Lots of love, Thomas Hardcastle