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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.
What’s the best way to best a great offer? Follow it up it up with an even better offer! And that’s exactly what the good folks at GamingIndians have done.
Regular visitors to this blog will be able to recall the Halo 3 & Heavenly Sword discount offer a couple of weeks back. For all those who availed it and are on the lookout for more such deals, here is the good news. GamingIndians have tied-up with distributor World Wide CD ROM and have came up with a Call Of Duty 4 Offer, where they are selling the game at a discounted price for all the three major platforms (i.e. PC, Xbox 360 and PS3).
Straight from the horse’s mouth:
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for Xbox 360
MRP: Rs 2,510
Offer Price: 2,135
You Save: Rs 375Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for PlayStation 3
MRP: Rs 2,799
Offer Price: 2,380
You Save: Rs 419Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for PC
MRP: Rs 1,299
Offer Price: 1,105
You Save: Rs 194
To top it all off, they are even throwing in a free GamingIndians T-shirt for one lucky winner. So if you are raring to have a go at this much anticipated game, as well as get a nice T-shirt for your wardrobe, head over to GamingIndians COD 4 Offer.
This and the near-imminent launch of Xbox LIVE India! We are drooling already!
OK, looks like a lot of crap has gone down in the last 24 hours since we posted that the countdown timer for the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare beta will be going up this week. After details surfaced at the CoD4 website about registrations being “sorta” open for the beta at 5 PM, the Internet just exploded and the website, predictably, went down 60 seconds later. After putting up a maintenance page up and redirecting people to Activision.com, the traffic, unsurprisingly, blew up Activision web servers as well, and every news site that picked this up also obligingly went down with the whole crazy internet descending upon them like starving zombies.
With the official announcement going out that the beta registrations at the COD.com website would be delayed a bit longer, thanks to “logistical issues”, Microsoft certifications, the token handling systems, etc., IW’s very own fourzerotwo, (who you’ve seen in all the beta videos released so far) ran the first wave lotto of the beta invitations on his blog.
The idea, of course, was pretty simple. Simply fill out an email with all the required details, including the answers to the trivia questions and then send them back, hoping and praying that you get a token. The first batch of tokens have now started going out to people, and don’t worry, if you don’t get in now, there’s going to be a bunch of other ways to get in, including the big tickets at the official website later.
The beta is going to roll out in waves. Rather than just putting a million people in the beta and hope nothing goes wrong, we will ramp up the playercount over time.
As fourzerotwo mentioned, right now some friends/family are testing. The press will be joining in the next couple days — including those of you who make it into the first wave.
No worries if you aren’t in the very first wave (most won’t be), we should have a new wave of players every day or so as we ramp up.
And, oh, the answers to the CoD4 beta trivia questions that were asked in the first wave?
What is the current level cap for the beta: Currently it is at 11, but if you entered 20, it’s OK, considering that was the level cap that was previously announced.
What button do you press to activate your streak rewards (radar, airstrike, etc): Right on the d-pad
What button do you press to use your weapon attachments or explosives (m203, c4, etc): Left on the d-pad
Keep checking back here to get more news on the beta as and when it breaks. Toodle-oo!
Boy, do I love being right! After convincing people over and over again that they’d have to wait for the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare beta until the Leipzig Games Convention begins, word finally comes down from developers Infinity Ward that the long-awaited beta should be up and running this week.
After Xbox LIVE Marketplace temporaily leaked the beta a couple of days back, Infinity Ward announced on the CoD4 website that the countdown clock will go up later this week and added that the wait should be a pretty short one. For those that have been swimming in pools of their own drool waiting for just this announcement, keep checking back here for more details as and when they arrive. In the meantime, keep yourselves amused with the new Perks video, which shows off a lot of the “Vacant” map and how the user-created classes work. See you all in the game soon!
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.
OK. For those of you who have seen this on the GameTrailers website, good for you. You know what you want now.
For those of you who haven’t, GameTrailers have compiled THEIR list of the best trailers showcased at the gaming event we all want to be part of, oh so bad!
‘Tis true - the COD 4 trailer looks sweet and we’ve been giving you all the latest news about the game as soon as we get to know. So considering how excited all of us here are about COD4: Modern Warfare, its just fitting that this trailer tops their list as well.
UPDATE: Call of Duty 4 Beta - First Wave Lotto Launched
Well, it’s finally happened. After days of speculation over when exactly Infinity Ward will be making an announcement on the Call of Duty 4 beta, they do so today, only to have a repeat of the E3 Microsoft presser on their hands - 10 minutes after the information goes up, the Call of Duty 4 website gives up the ghost under the heavy influx of trigger happy Xbox 360 gamers.
Being the awesome guys that we are, we save you the trip to their website and having to wait an eternity for the page to load at a spellblindingly fast speed of 389 bps. Here, then, are all released details of the beta, straight from the horse’s mouth. For those not patient enough to go through the whole thing below, here’s the gist of how you get your ass into the beta. Hit the jump for a whole lotta details.