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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

The game with the potential

to become a new Canon Game

2890Sherlock Cai


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Background Information

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a first person shooter game published byActivationin 2007. The game isdeveloped byInfinity Wardand first designed for home consoles like xbox360, ps3 and Wii. The gamesimulates real war environment and brings the players into an amazing experience of being a soldier withmodern weapons. The game provides a thrilling first person game mode and also a multi-players mode whichsupports up to 54 players to player at the same time though Internet. The game is the best selling game of2007 with a record of 7 million copies. The verisimilar graphics and the awesome game play make it amilestone in the Call of Duty series.

Horner and Awards

The rank from 4 game sites or publicationsGame of the year(2007) ----- GameSpotThe Best Graphic Of E3(2007)The Best PS3 Game of 2007------ GameTrailersBest Overall Game of 2007 ------ Game Pro

Spike Video Game Award ------ Best Sound Design & Best Shooter of 2007Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences ------- Console Game of the Year, Action game of the Year, andOverall Game of the Year.British Academy Video Games Awards ----- Best Game play of the Year, Best Story and Character of the Year,and People's Choice Game of the Year


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Why this game has the potential to become a Canon Game The Subject Matter

As we known, every episode from COD (Call of Duty) Series are all based on history happened during theWorld War II. But COD 4 breaks the rule. The develop group of Infinity Ward revelates a real and cruel moderwar in front of the funs. In the game, players can follow the storylines go to several Hot spots around theglobal. The game has two clues. One clue is to follow the step of the United States Marine Corps (USMC). Thother clue is fight as the Special Air Service (S.A.S). The battlefields include Middle East, Azerbaijan, Russiand Ukraine Prypiat etc. Famous counties are involved, America, Russia, UK, Iraq, UkraineThe game is really dark and contains strong political overtones. Even the first mission of the game involvesnuclear bombs. The after scenes all contain sensitive globe issues. Though all the warfare happened in COD 4are made-up. But as the game is set as present, so the players can still kind of relate the game scenes tosome famous events happened or happening on earth. This proved to be a brilliant idea by the sell record ofover 15 million copies world wide.For example, the first chapter of game is located at the Middle East, where the rebel army killed the president,and USMC send troops to search the rebel leader. But the rebel leader has already gone, before he leave, heset a nuclear bomb inside the city and detonate it after USMC occupy the whole city. 30,000 Americansoldiers die instantly in the explosion. Use this tragedy as a opening of the game means the after game playerwill be amazing because we all know that the USA will not leave the things like that.After all, the battlefield changes from WWII to now a day are a wise decision. The next year, the EA publishetheir FPS game - Battlefield: Bad Company. The game also chooses to show the modern war. If COD 4 keepfocuses on WWII. Its not hard to guess that they wouldnt reach the height they have reached today.

The Story The single person game play of this game will be around about 5-6 hours. The story makes the game moreand more attractive. There are total 5 chapters and 20 different scenes (missions) in the game. The storyincludes multiple clues and different clues goes wove together. Also there is one mission which is based onthe memory of one of the main characters. Its the best part of the game.At start, the player plays as a member of the S.A.S. Search a freighter which is confirmed carrying weaponson the Bering Strait. When they find out the weapon is a nuclear bomb, the freighter attacked by unknowntroops and the S.A.S team is forced to leave. Right after that, the game switches to Middle East, and for awhole 10 minutes, the players are a prisoner being handcuffed inside a car. The player can do nothing but lookleft and right. The car slowing drives through the chaotic city and finally reaches a square. Not until now


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when the players can realize that the man being transferred is the president of the county. And as soon as hegot out of the car, on main villain comes up and shoot him in the head with out hesitate. The whole scene is socinematic and everyone will surprised by the result. And this is only the opening chapter of the game.The following chapter switches the two different part of combat and let the player players them one mission

after another. At the end, the S.A.S got escaped under the heavy fire support from the AC-130. Players canplay as the operator inside the AC-130. It is the first time in game history that players can play in that way.

The other side, the USMC gets to the location where they told the bad gay should be, but its just a deadly trap.A nuclear bomb has been set under the city. The troops start evacuate immediately. But its too late. Thebomb has been detonated and all the 30,000 American Amy in the zone was killed instantly. Its so tragedy.At the epic snack in mission, player with the NPC partner went to Prypiat to assassinate the main villain. Theymade their way to the assassinate location but finally miss the kill shoot. On the way to escape, your partnergot injured by the helicopter they shoot down and cant move. You decided to carry your partner and rush tothe rendezvous. Its a touching moment when the character carry up his partner without hesitate. Theemotion is very strong there. Because the back up still needs more time to get over, so you and your partner

have to survive under flood of enemy attack for several minutes. And at last, you and your partner got pickedup by the back up teams. From snake in to use snipe-rifle to kill and at last the long way escape. The plotmakes the players intense, nervous, surprise, touch, staunch and excited. It is one of the best levels in FPSgame history.

The Evolution of Game Engine

This game was developed byInfinity Ward.This company has now developed 4 episodes of the COD games.They got a team of about 100 game makers and developed their own game engine.The game engine which used to make COD 4 is called the IW 3.0. Its based on id Tech 3, which was used onthe first Call of Duty game. The IW engine has been considered one of the best game engines of thisgeneration.With this magnificent engine, the infinity ward was able to create the amazing game. The effect and graphicsof this game are excellent. We cannot say its the best graphic ever, but it sure is the best at its time. Thetexture, lighting, physics and render are all running at a very high level. Now the IW engine has been modified

to IW 4.0. The IW 4.0 was used on the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.The most evolutional technique is the physic simulation. Every kind of weapon has different attributes, andthey have all been set to the data as they in the real world. Different bullet comes out from the barrel withdifferent speed, and when they hit the wall. The engine will decided whether the bullet can run though it or just leave a mark there according to the material of the wall. And the bullet can still cause harm after it runthough the wall. If the player hides behind a wall which is wood of plastic, it cant prevent the player of beinghit by the bullets or explosions. In the classic snipe scene, there is one moment the player needs to take outthe bad guy from a very far distance with a Barrett M82 sniper rifle. The wind situation is involved in thecalculate. The player has to wait until the right wind direction and strength. Its really a very cool experience.


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The Graphics Talking about the graphics of this game, first let us compare some pictures.

Picture 1: The image from COD 2



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Through compare these three pictures, we can clearly feel the change of the game technology and developedlevel. COD 4 uses the IW 3.0 game engine to create the game world. The texture and the lighting are allincredibly beautiful. The particle system is one of the most important parts of the game. In the Middle Eastscenes, players can feel the dust in the air, and the billowing smoke rise up from the city are so real.Different locations are made very carefully and believable.

The explode effect. We can see fire and rocks inside the range of explosion, pay attention carefully to theblood which sprayed from the poor man killed by the explosion. There also some wave on the screensimulates the explode blast.


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This image shows great lighting and reflection details appears on the gun.

We can see the forces in the image. Also the realistic smoke effect after a RPG passed by..


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Through this image we can see the depth of field has been well shown.

The great graphic image makes the game more credible and attractive. At the sniper scene, all the villainsnipers are hiding under the grass. The player is really hard to tell where they are even if you stair at them,

unless they move a little bite, you cant be sure there is a man hiding there. Its so realistic and the player hasto risk their life to attract the sniper to shoot at themselves and catch the fleeting reflection come from theirscope.


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This image shows the environment. The whole scene looks awesome and realistic. The Sky is nice and theplants got precise details. And they have reacted to the environment because they are physicalized. And theimage also shows details of the weapon. The gun has been modeled carefully and the textures are good.

After we analyzed the images above, we can clearly feel the power of the IW engine. Every frame from thegame looks pretty solid. Thats an incredible achievement to make the game graphic so realistic and full ofdetails. And to run the game, it is not necessary to use a top computer.

The game has a very detailed menu to let the player conveniently adjust the attributes to make the game runsmoothly on their computer.


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The Animation

Play the COD 4 is like to watch an exciting Hollywood movie. In addition of the awesome graphic and souneffect, the well animated characters and AI play an important rule of it. Most of the normal actions in thegame is using the motion capture system to record. That is the reason why every one in the game moves likereal human. There are many different reaction of a same purpose. For example, the AIs reactions of beingshoot in the head. Most games have 3 or 4 different reactions. But in COD 4, that number is up to 16. It means,if you shoot an enemy in the head, you will see at least 16 different ways of dying instantly. And thats just thehead part. There will also be different actions if you shoot the other body parts. This game is really dynamicthat all the things are changing in the game so the player will never get bored.

The awesome thing about the game is that many animations are played with the game play. So if the playerdid something, it may probably activate some plot. In the sniper scene, during the escape, the players canshoot down a Mi-28 helicopter. The Mi-28 falling down towards the player, the wings hit the buildings and theplayer dash to avoid the crash, but final one of the character hit by the helicopter and badly injured. Thatsone of the coolest scenes Ive ever seen in video game. Its a perfect example of combine the game play andanimation.

There are many similar parts in the game, each of them looks exciting and make prominently improves to thegame plot and game play.


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The Weapon and item system

All the weapons in the game are real. Players can use more than 30 different weapons over 8 categories inthis game. There are Assault Rifles, Sub Machine Guns, Light Machine Guns, Shotguns, Sniper Rifles, RocketLauncher and Missiles and Mines. Most of the main weapons can have different Attachments.The weapons in COD 4 cover most of the famous killing machines in the world like M16, AK-47, DesertHwBarrett sniper rifle, Uzi, RPG, and G3 etc.Player can carry two heavy weapons, one pistol, several grenades and a knife. Enemy will leave their weaponwhen then dead, and the players can pick it up and us. The ammo of the weapon will automatic fill when playepass the weapon use the same ammo.


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Weapons have 4 kinds of aiming apparatus, mechanical aiming system, sighting telescope aiming system,infrared targeting system and reticle aiming system. Using aiming apparatus will substantially increase theaccuracy of shooting. Player will pick up weapons with different aiming apparatus. Its vital to get use with allof them.

Some of the weapon can attach with the M203 grenade launcher. Grenade and mines can play a significantrole when the players are trapped. There are frag grenade, smoke grenade, flash grenade and shock grenade.One of the most practical weapons is the Claymore Anti-personal Mine. It uses infrared to detect the target.At some scenes, players will be required only use certain weapon to complete the mission. Multiple weaponattacks the male players and also increase the fun of the game.

The Multi-Player Mode

A part from the single player mode, the multi-player mode is also very creative. COD 4 features 2 types ofmulti-player mode, one is team-based and other one is deathmatch-based. Several maps are provides formaximum 56 players to play at the same time. Each mode requires special tactics to win. The basic thing is tokill the other teams members and get points. The team with more points wins.There is an upgrade system. Win more brings more new weapons and upgrades.

The players can have special perks to improve your ability. Three combine of perks are available. Perk 1 youcan bring more weapon such as grenade and claymore. Perk 2 make the player expert the weapons. Perk 3contains many useful skills make you survive longer than the others.The player will receive a gift if they kill a certain amount of enemy without dying. The gift will be Rader ScaAir Strike or armed helicopter attack.The multi-player mode is great because in the game you deal with real person not AI or NPC. The player canuse the same weapon and items as in the single-player mode.


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