I wanted to reserve judgement before I had played the game for a week, but now I am prepared to say it.  This game is off of the scale.  It is so entertaining it makes me weep thinking about how many hours of my life I will be able to spend playing it.

Call of Duty 4 is separated into 3 games, each of which could be standalone games all of their own and still be worth sixty dollars, in my opinion.

The Campaign is like a movie that you shoot a bunch of people in.  I find myself on the edge of my seat and lately hardly anything does that to me.  It’s like tripping.

Spec Ops is the most incredible bot combat game I’ve ever played.   There are twenty five scenarios and all of them are brutal and can be set on an insane level of difficulty.  The cooperative play possibilities, especially those involving online play, are truly incredible.

The online multiplayer is beyond incredible.  Compared to the original, the yammering has stopped.  In the fifteen or so hours I have played, and I’m level 27 thanks for asking, I heard one person complain about a game feature, AND THEY WERE SHOUTED DOWN.

“Uh, I don’t think I’d be knocking 2.0, man.”

I have never seen anything like it.  The entire xbox live community is in awe and Infinity Ward are wearing hats of money and it looks to me like, in this particular instance, capitalism has worked.

We are having fun and everybody got what they paid for.

Addendum: More coming soon, I am going to go through each of my recommendations from my earlier post and grade Infinity Ward on how well they read my mind.