Game Review 1

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

 

COD4 or Modern warfare is a FPS genre game that was developed by Infinityward and published by Activision in 2007 and has already been released to many kind of console. The game used a war themed storyline and included with single player or simply known as campaign mode and multi-player that allows many players to play locally or over the Internet connection. The game are thoroughly known until now for having a good collaboration of story and gameplay, that later the game wins a lot of awards and high rating from the players.

The campaign mode was quite short, we may barely can finished it in one day. Even so, this games have provided interesting mission and amazing gameplay the player may experience as a soldier. This game is not just all about "shooting the bad guy" in a warfare area, the game provide some kind of missions, example some kind of special-ops mission that include by saving a marine by infiltrating a house using night vision goggle, stealth mission which include crawling,hiding from the enemy, and the usage of sniper to take out the opponents by the captain's order, also we can play as the ship operator that play parts in giving air support to the army. 

The multiplayer mode will allows player to customize its own weapons and perks. The player can choose their main weapon or sidearm weapons, and may customize or modify them by adding laser sight, scope, or even a grenade launcher. The player can choose their perks that will give advantage to each player depend on what they choose. For example, player who choose Martyrdorm will drop a grenade when he died, so maybe it will also kill some opponent nearby. If the player are able to kill other player without dying more than 3 times, they may also get some advantage. For example, if you able to kill other player 3 times without dying, you can have the other player location for 30 seconds. The player can swap weapons in the game and also may use some weapon turret that was provided in some map with infinite bullets

Using A.G.E framework the Action part of the games involves some buttons, they are movement button that can also make player run, pointer or analog that provide for 360 degree view, crouch, crawl, jump, a button to fire and aim the weapon, swap weapon, button for flashbang and grenade,and a button to use corresponding item, there is also melee button that used for close-range counter attack. Looking at the gameplay side, the player have to move or dash through the game objective, the analog plays as the player heads, so we can look to our surrounding. Crouch, crawl, and jump may be useful for some stealth mission or to quickly cover from the enemy fire. We may counter attack the enemy by using melee button or aim and then fire weapon, swapping them between main weapon or side arm, and flashbang or grenade to blind or explode the enemy. Some item may also been used by pressing the corresponding button

For the experience side, the player may experience some competition feeling to achieve the highest point in the game by killing another player by shooting them, competition may lead to pride by being able to get the highest score and win the game that will lead to joy where the obtained exp from the competition may increase the player's level stats thus adding more weapons and perk to the players. In single player side, the player may experience a self-identification as a solider that will lead to anger when the NPC trying to shoot us and will cause aggressiveness that will make us counter attack the NPC or other player that shoot us by killing them.