Wow, wow, WOW! This game is un-fucking-believably good. It’s actually less of a game and more of a life experience. I kid you not; this game is that good. Sitting in a chair thinking and writing about it makes me want to sell everything I own and buy an Xbox 360/Call of Duty 4, even if it meant I was allowed to play through the campaign one time. Clearly I’m exaggerating, as Call of Duty 4 is much better than the credit I’m giving it.
When the game starts, make sure you replay the training mission several times in order to get used to the game’s controls and find out which difficulty your skill set is best suited towards. I didn’t stop until the system recommended that I play the game on the most difficult setting: Veteran. I was certainly no veteran, and it showed throughout as I was brutalized in manners very similar to how I would expect real life war-deaths to occur.
See that grenade to your left? Yeah? BAM! You’re dead. How about that guy on the roof to your right? You can see his face, but that means… BAM! You’re dead again. If you can see your enemies, they can see you, and this game ditches the dummy enemy A.I. in favor of incredibly realistic opponents. These guys will lob grenades endlessly towards camping snipers. They’re capable of blind firing when they know that “just a peek” would result in their heads blown off. They’ll take you out just as fast as you can imagine taking them out, and sometimes faster. This happens quite often, and it only increases the desire to be victorious. Very seldom did I feel as though my death was directly related to a fault of the game’s mechanics, and that is a massive compliment.
Don’t let my babblings of the most challenging difficulty become off-putting; the game has 3 easier difficulty settings, the lowest of which is a walk in the park. Regardless of whether or not you’ve played first person shooters, you’ll absolutely die for this game. Pun intended. If I could give it an 8, I would.
