Like most of you, we plowed through Call of Duty 4’s single-player campaign in a day and then spent the next couple of years blasting away at multiplayer. It’s not that the campaign was horrible, far from it. The first Modern Warfare employed innovative techniques that pushed the boundaries of interactive storytelling. ...
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Cue the banjo! It wouldn’t be the Week of Hate without our trademark “100 Reasons” videos. In case you missed it, last year we targeted game platforms. So this year we thought we’d change it up and go after a few popular genres. Up first, the ubiquitous shooter. ...
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Some games simply must have cooperative play. Gears of War, for example, was clearly designed with a co-op experience in mind – there are two main characters on the same mission with the same abilities with a strong personal bond. Blasting through the story with a friend lets you partake in that bond, which is a much more powerful experience than plain ol’ deathmatch or CTF. ...
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December is always good for a fight. We award our favorite games, mock our least favorites and shout at anybody whose opinion differs from our own. The one thing we can usually all agree on, however, is that gaming has progressed. Gaming has evolved. Right? Not this year. ...
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Which Call of Duty reigns supreme? Modern Warfare or World at War? Master debaters Charlie Barratt and Chris Antista are picking their trenches and laying it all on the line to help you decide. Using a refined mix of gentlemanly discourse and juvenile name calling, these two brave editors will navigate a minefield of topics and controversies. ...
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Campers lose. Campers are losers. Campers should be shot. Snipers are babies. Snipers aren’t good enough to mix it up with the big boys. Snipers should be shot. Running and gunning – sprinting around, living by your wits, relying on your reactions and turning, moving, gliding, weaving and doubling back - is the way a gentleman wins. ...
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Two minutes. One video. Fifty-five perforated skulls. ...
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Want to call in air support in under 10 seconds? Want to level up your character in the least amount of time? You don’t need to bother with lame aim bots that’ll get you banned from your favorite servers. In fact, you don’t even need to be that good at Call of Duty 4. Racking up ridiculous kill streaks can be easy if you’re playing under the right conditions. Head to the server “=OG= 24/7 Shipment ...
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A lot of excellent shooters from last year sit in our game libraries and hard drives waiting to be played again. But lately, we find ourselves coming back to Call of Duty 4 and we know we’re not the only ones. Finding active servers with settings you like is rarely a problem. But an added bonus to Call of Duty 4’s popularity is the wealth of awesomely original fan-made mods and maps.Click on to the next page for tons of ...
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More and more games seem to be plucking our heart strings to great affect and eliciting a genuine sense of woe amongst players. Here we look at five recent videogame deaths that have made us appropriately gloomy for all the right reasons and ponder how they succeeded in stoking the cold blue flames of our sadness. ...
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The move away from CoD’s WWII origins was met with much scepticism. Happily, fears proved unfounded, and the developers’ efforts were rewarded with the best-selling game this Christmas, shifting half a million copies in December alone on various formats. Still, no one’s perfect, and the devs should probably stay in their military issue flak jackets while we ponder some of the more common technical issues you’ve had with ...
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