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Call of Duty Finest Hour

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This game was the best game. The Nazies are pretty challenging. The level that is one of my favorites is when you are trying to take back the Red Square. THe sounds and graphics are great. The guns are great and my favorite is PPSH or the MG42 I dont know, but they are both great.The best part of the game is when you are Soviet and you are in a tank. I highly recomened this game.

So, what is Call of Duty?
Call of Duty is a game based on World War 2.

What do you do in the game?
The gameplay is very fun. You can use plenty of weapons which are all different, but equal. You can snipe, man turrets, search buildings, crouch, aim, jump. But the presentation ties it together nicely. Sometimes you may get stuck due to lousy instruction, but most of the time, you should be on key.

How hard is this game?
You can play on 3 different difficulties. Easy. Medium. Hard. Even on easy, the game can get somewhat difficult. The challenge is what keeps the player playing this game and it doesn't frustrate you like in other games.

How are the graphics?
Amazing. They aren't that high def, but the graphics create surroundings that make it feel like you are actually in the war. And that is what seperates it from most games.

How is the sound?
Great. It uses Dolby Pro Logic II. Everything on key. Without sound, it wouldn't be a war.

How long is it?
Short, I admit. It is only a couple hours long. But it's difficulty and fun gameplay will leave you coming back for more. Too bad Gamecube didn't give this online play.

Any unlockables?
Some cheats. Movies. Photos. The small stuff.

Who do you reccomend owning the game?
WWII veterans who want to look back at the wars. FPS fans who want a tense experience.
War/weapon fanatics.

Pros: Realistic in-the-war presentation ; enjoyable gameplay ; plenty of weapons to choose from and use ; Challenging game.

Cons: Slow motion moments are annoying ; No multiplayer or online play ; Short single player.

Call of duty:Finest hour is an excellent game that I played 2 times. The little movies shown before each battle front are so amazing you wouldn't want to miss them. The battle scenes are awesome and the music ties in so well that youd think thats what the actual battles sounded like! With great gamelay,huge array of weaponry(tanks included), good music, and in-depth stories for every character you play as. This game gets 5 stars easily.

This game was very fun, but hard. I agree with the person who said it was hard to distinguish dead from alive. They stand frozen for a few seconds then fall, making them either recover and kill you, or you waste ammo. Also the save system. A level is seemingly impossible, and you are working your hardest, and you are killed, and have to start where you were about ten minutes earlier. So aggrivating, you are discouraged and turn the game off. And there is no multiplayer. So once you complete it (which I did in 2 days) there's nothing more to do. I also noticed a minor lack of famous WWII events. The siege of Stalingrad and the bridge level are the only widely known things that I noticed. This game was a lot of fun, with some tough times, and I at least recommend waiting until the price goes down because I don't think it is entirely worth it to some people. But it was a good game anyway, a suitable length, easy enough, overall a well made game.

This game is very realistic, making you feel like you are really there on the battle field. Graphics are amazing. The game gets a little frusturating after a while, but if you are patient you will succeed. I highly reccomend this game, especially if you like action packed adventure!

So im a WWII fanatic, i have 5 medal of honors, they were pretty good, i liked them. The graphics could use a lot of help, and its not realistic.
So for Chrismas i get Call of Duty: Finest Hour for G-cube, The first level i played, u r in Stalingrad, u r a Russian soldier (a first for WWII games, it was cool) with authentic russian weapons. The begining of this level, i got goose bumps ALL OVER!! I was in awe! It is a very realistic game compared to Medal of Honor (wich was realy fun) and im sure there will be much better games than this(the new game Brothers in arms looks promising)but it was still a REMARCABLE STEP from medal of honor and the other WWII games. In this game, you get to play as many people, you start out as a Russian, play 2 levels as this one guy then 2 levels as someone else, and so on. Until u become a British solder, then you go through the same prosses until ur American, then thats it.
They do have some cool anima. reels, and making of bonuses for when u beat campeign mode.
Over all, the sound is great, with realistic weapon sounds, and good music. The graphics are a big leap compared to medal of honor,and other ww2 games.
Gameplay is good, lots of weapons including German, Russian, British and American wepeons at ur disposal.

I would have liked for the game to have smarter A.I., your comrades are pretty dumb, they arent to good to rely on, but its easy enough to do it alone, and hard enough that its enjoyable.The game could have had a better ending but it was still good. There could have been a multi player, that was a downside, i thought it would be great 4 player with your friends kind of game, but the 1 player campeign makes up for that. There isnt too much else that needs improvement, its a great all around game.

My overal rating,*****10*****!!!!

Reviewed for Big Boss Games by: L.E.G.

As a lover and avid player of FPS (First Person Shooter) type games, I am probably one of the toughest critics and a game must satisfy all my criteria for me to give it a 5/5 rating. Without any doubts, Call of Duty Finest Hour has successfully accomplished this lofty goal.

To start with, Call of Duty Finest Hour is entirely based on events that happened during World War II. But, ActiVision took on a bigger role than just making a video game and actually tries and succeeds in teaching us a brief history lesson. Granted it's very short and concise, but it helps to setup the game and it's many diverse and challenging levels.

You start out playing as a member of the Russian Army fighting with your comrades on the Eastern Front, from the Volga to Stalingrad. The missions can be somewhat difficult to finish, but the squad leader does give you instructions (just as if you were in the army) on what you need to do or where you need to go. "Blow up that building" and "Take out those machine guns" are typical fare. And most of the time you are a member of a "squad", so don't try to be all "Rambo" and try to defeat the Germans all by yourself. You will get slaughtered!

After you complete your mission(s) as one person, you are then placed in someone else's shoes and get to fight the war from their perspective. Which also opens you up to using different weapons and driving around in tanks. But, this is not Grand Theft Auto. You can't go around and jump in vehicles and take off. Your tour of duty on the Eastern Front with the Russians takes a total of 8 sometimes-grueling missions. At least the game is very forgiving and lets you restart the mission at the last checkpoint.

After the Eastern Front, you are whisked off to North Africa to serve with the British Army in Tunisia. All of the buildings and backgrounds used in this game are simply amazing. There is a lot of rich and articulate detail to keep your attention. You will serve a total of 4 missions with the bulldogs. More neat weapons used by the Brits and a lot of blowing stuff up in these levels. G-D Save the Queen!

And last, but not least, you go to the Western Front to fight with the American Army. As in previous levels, you get more awesome weapons to shoot and tanks to drive. Some of the toughest battles will be fought with the Americans. A total of 7 missions await your shooting skills.

Call of Duty Finest Hour by ActiVision is available for the Playstation 2, Xbox and Gamecube. It is rated "T" for Teen and contains a ton of blood and a whole lot of violence. Since this game is based on World War II, blood and violence is to be expected. Total missions are 19 and 23 different weapons.

This game is Single Player only, but does offer multiplayer online broadband only and 2-16 players. Online gametypes are: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and Search & Destroy.
Overall, this game was as close to perfect as they can get with very few technical glitches. Like one time I was crawling around on the floor and trying to climb a flight of stairs and my character just fell through some empty space to his terrible death.

This game was just so well balanced between missions, story, music and action that I had to give it a 5/5.

It's really an awesome game, so go ahead and get a copy.

If you can get past the mediocre looking first levels in Russia, then you will be rewarded as Call Of Duty actually IMPROVES the graphica as you play. The first few levels as the Russian sniper looked fair at best, but the game eventually brightens up and begins to tax the old Gamecube engine. Sounds are great as is the enemy AI. You gotta love the detail in these games. From German camouflage to the weapons, the designers really did their research. The German Army had 4 or so different camouflage patterns in WW2 (from the elite SS Oakleaf to the Splinter camo of the paratroopers)and you will see all of them in this game. Very detailed. The bodies do disappear about 5 seconds after being shot due to Gamecube memory limitations, but this is corrected in the new Call Of Duty Big Red One as the enemies now stay where they lay. Worth a purchase for 20 bucks!

Call of Duty Finest Hour is a fun but challenging game. My favorite campaign is the Russian campaign because of the sniper levels, and because it isn't near as hard as the American campaign. A frustrating thing about this game is in the rulebook, it says the the Thompson machine gun is a high damage weapon. 3 enemies came out of a sewer once and it took a little over a whole clip to take them out. The Thompson has a 30 round clip. The tank driving in this game I found hard. German anti-tank soldiers constantly shoot your tank and the Russian tank is hard to manuever.
The British campaign is short, but challenging. The first 2 levels are hard because you have to take out 2 tanks with sticky grenades. I found that to be a challenge because the tanks constantly shoot you before you can throw a grenade at them.

Another drawback is your health bar is small and runs out fast. This game is fun but can be very challenging.

If you like war games, especially WWII, then get this game. It is fun and challenging. I think the graphics are very good. The action at times is almost overwhelming and it gets my heart pounding at quite a rate! I was not disappointed with this game at all. Personally, I like that sometimes you don't know if an enemy is actually dead or just wounded... war is like that... not making sure can kill you! I also did not find the lack of save points a big problem. It forces you to be more careful and to think about your mission. Otherwise you just run, shoot and save all the time.

Overall, a quality game, not the best ever, but right now it's on my top 10 list. And... the slow-mo scenes are great!