Players who frequently battle online will be able to accrue experience points, unlock special weapons and gear, and eventually unlock Prestige Mode in which gamers can trade in their rank for special insignias. Gamers can then take their fighters through a dozen different multiplayer modes like Free-for-All, Team Deathmatch, Search and Destroy, Headquarters, Domination, and Sabotage. Players will be able to choose from Assault, Special Ops, Light Machine Gunner, Demolitions, and Sniper classes, or create up to five special classes with customizable weapons and perks. Modern Warfare features an expansive set of online multiplayer modes. Gamers also join a two man sniper team on a flashback mission in which players head to the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation on a mission to assassinate a younger Zakhaev. In addition to close quarters combat, players will be called upon to perform fast-rope helicopter drops, provide air support from an AH-1 Super Cobra helicopter, call in precision air strikes, and man the turret of an AC-130 Spectre Gunship to engage enemy fighters from the sky.
Marine fighting in the Middle East.Ĭall of Duty 4 aims to capture the challenges of modern war by pitting the superior technology of the U.S Marines and British SAS against the cunning guerilla tactics of a terrorist group.
Players fight through this chaos as both Sergeant John MacTavish, a British SAS operative doing battle in Russia, and Sergeant Paul Jackson, a U.S. Led by Zakhaev ally Khaled Al-Asad, the Middle Eastern coup results in intense fighting which eventually leads to the launch of a Russian nuclear missile toward American soil. Zakhaev has support from several divisions of the Russian army, but, knowing that the United States would quickly come to the aid of the Russian government, he funds a coup in the Middle East to divert attention. Imran Zakhaev is a one-armed Russia nationalist who longs to return his country to a Soviet Union style of government by seizing a stockpile of nuclear weapons. The plot centers on two megalomaniacal madmen who are fomenting unrest around the world in an attempt to cement their own power. Though the story is a departure from the previous games, Call of Duty 4 still features intense mission-based first-person shooter gameplay that should be familiar to fans. Nazi storm troopers and kamikaze pilots have been replaced by a patchwork group of terrorists and insurgents, and traditional WWII weapons have been jettisoned in favor of more than 70 modern armaments. Eschewing the traditional WWII setting that has been the hallmark of the series, Call of Duty 4 takes on the more nebulous world of modern warfare.
Starting Friday, April 4th through Sunday, April 6th, players can earn twice as many experience points as they play the maps on the Variety Map Pack-specific playlists.Ĭall of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was awarded top honors in GameSpy's 2007 Game of the Year Awards, winning PC Game of the Year, Xbox 360 Game of the Year, PS3 Game of the Year, Best Graphics, Best Developer - Infinity Ward, Console Game of the Year and our most prestigious award, Overall Game of the Year. To celebrate the launch of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Game of the Year Edition and the Variety Map Pack, Xbox Live will host a double XP weekend.
This special release allows gamers to experience the intense cinematic action of the original, award-winning and best-selling title and includes a download token for the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Variety Map Pack, available exclusively for download via Xbox LIVE Marketplace.Īvailable exclusively on Xbox 360 for the next three weeks, the map pack includes "Broadcast," which features tight corridors and wide-open parking lots where large groups utilize close-quarter fighting and strategic maneuvers "Chinatown," where night battles are lit by the full moon against a backdrop of brightly colored lamps, antique shops and neon signs of the local district "Killhouse," a desolate warehouse under enemy attack where squads will need to move through building mock-ups and plywood walls in order to full take control of the combat arena and "Creek," a large wide-open village in a heavily wooded area where battles are fought between high ridgelines and deep in underground caves. Activision and Infinity Ward today announced the release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Game of the Year Edition.