Posts tagged call of duty

Just the single player campaign today. A great variety of gameplay styles (well, a great variety within the limited scope of a modern war-themed first person shooter) and some amazing set pieces. Great stuff.

Last night was the weekly BETEO vs UGVM match, which this week was Call of Duty 4. I had a couple of goes at Free-For-All with strangers before the match and got slaughtered horribly. And then got slaughtered horribly when we started playing Team Deathmatch. I was on the UGVM side to make up numbers and it seems that the BETEO players are much, much better. After they killed us a few times we just decided to completely mix the teams up, which worked a lot better and made for some very close games.

I was awful, though. Just kept dying over and over again. Except for one map that was just lots of corridors and small rooms. I had a shotgun in that one and managed to kill eight people. Pretty cool.

Great fun, but I really need some practice.

I’ve had this sitting around for a while now, but only started it last night.

You know how most shooters have you running around corridors, with a few memorable set pieces thrown in? This is the opposite. Huge firefights and amazing scenes linked by short runs from place to place. One moment you’re escaping a sinking ship, then you’re sniping some Russians, then running for your life across a town square filled with burning cars, then fighting it out in a TV station in the Middle East. All those things happen in the first hour, with more besides.

It’s really very good indeed. So intense, though, that after an hour or so I had to stop playing because I was completely worn out.

I’d make a rubbish soldier.

I just tried out some games of Free-For-All to get used to the controls and had a good time. Got promoted a few times. Created a class and added a grenade launcher to my AK-47, but couldn’t work out how to fire it.

And then I quit out, which seemed to end the game, because I was the host. I hadn’t realised that. Oops. I feel bad now.

GAH!

What the…?

I thought something was odd when I started playing today and it had reset the y-axis to univerted, but I played through to the end of The Battle of El Alamein. But it didn’t give me the achievement for completing it and then dumped me back to the start of the Russian campaign.

I turned off the console and turned it back on and my save game is completely knackered. It’s showing The Battle of El Alamein as uncompleted and apparently I’ve done none of the Russian campaign. The Russian campaign that took me many, many hours and which I have achievements for, to show I finished it on the hardest difficulty level.

Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid bloody game.