Although Halo 3 managed to reclaim it’s throne from Call of Duty 4 (COD4) on Xbox LIVE a few days back, it did prove the popularity of Infinity Ward’s  breathtaking offering. Infinity Ward managed to revive a dying a genre and my, what a revival it has been! So it comes as a no surprise that gamers have been salivating all over there controllers ever since the news of an expansion for COD4 surfaced. Now, while a concrete date hasn’t been fixed for the expansion, there is something more coming our way to keep us busy till the promised expansion shows up.

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Before we start, lets get this one thing out of the way – Call of Duty 4 (COD4) is woefully short as far as the single player campaign is concerned. Agreed, there’s tons of fun to be had with the superbly well done multiplayer aspect of the game, but still, once you see the end credits roll, you have this feeling that the game could have gone for a little more.

Now that we have that out of the way, we come down to what we have on hand, which is nothing short of amazing. This is a game that will grab you by your throat and never let you go till the very end, such is the quality of it. Right when you thought that war games were passé, Infinity Ward came out with COD4, completely revamping the series, taking it light years beyond Treyarch’s Call of Duty 3. While it is still essentially Call of Duty as far as the gameplay is concerned, the wise choice of shifting the setting from the much used World War II theater to a grittier, modern day setting comes as a breath of much needed fresh air, even as announcements start to go out that Treyarch will be taking the series back to boring World War II with the next game in the series.

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Amazing how much chaos and confusion can be caused by the slightest of events. We all know the Call of Duty 4 beta is coming, and Infinity Ward has been kind enough to tell us that when the time is ready, they will announce the beta and have a countdown timer to it running, yet, when the CoD4 beta download shows up momentarily on the Xbox Live Marketplace, complete pandemonium ensues. Obviously, no matter how much bandwidth they keep adding to the CharlieOscarDelta website, every time the smallest of news about the beta breaks, the site obligingly buckles under the load, finally crashing and burning in a really ugly fashion.

For all those going berserk over the 995 MB beta that lived for a short while on the Marketplace, just remember to keep your pants on, please. The beta’s release date has still not been announced officially and we will let you know the moment it is. Scout’s Honor! We’ll even answer your trivia questions for you, being the awesome guys that we are.