Call of Duty: Finest Hour Reviews
1. Call of Duty: Finest Hour
The console world forgot about the budding genre en masse after EA's Medal of Honor:
Rising Sun seemed to betray it for what it really was -- a fancy shooting gallery with
tons of eye-popping explosions but about as much substance as a mouthful of cotton candy.
The difference here is that, unlike Rising Sun, Finest Hour goes beyond the epidermal
layer and strives to provide a realistic yet still engaging and addictive experience on
all fronts, not just for your eyes.
The game is divided into three separate campaigns, beginning with the Russian defense of
Stalingrad and proceeding through British commando missions in North Africa and post-D-day
action viewed from the American perspective.
Controls are the standard console-shooter type and correspond roughly with the PC version,
with two buttons assigned to standing up, crouching and going prone.
For most of them, you fulfill a small role in a great, epic, and heavily-scripted battle
taking place all around yourself, complete with fire zinging past and CPU-controlled
soldiers falling to the ground in front of you.
Very few missions leave you isolated by yourself, and those are almost uniformly the least
interesting ones -- for the most part, you're either advancing through a war zone
(sometimes in a tank or other vehicle) or protecting your current position inside one, and
you're surrounded by comrades fighting right by your side, complete with running dialogue
the entire way.
This may make Finest Hour's single-player mode seem pedestrian, and if you simply lay out
the features like so many bullet points on a slide show, it is.
Every WWII shooter has to begin with some kind of epic battle, right?
It's simply trying to be the best console WWII shooter ever created, and in this it almost
certainly succeeds.
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2. Congratulations Activision and Team Spark on an amazing game
After being totaly immersed in Call of Duty and United Offensive on the PC I knew from
Finest Hour's anouncment that I had to have it.
First let me tell you that this is a completley new game.
Like the PC game, you eventualy get a rifle to use that ammo but in the begining of the
level you have all that you can do to follow your sargent up the hill into machine gun
fire.
It's trying to recreate the feel of war and although I've never been in war, I'd say this
game does a darn good job.
Some people complain the controls are hard to get use to but I'm guessing thats because
they are a bunch of hardcore PC gamers (nothing wrong with that) who aren't as good at
adapting to a controller layout.
Now like I said before, I own Frontline and many other FPS for PS2 and I caught on to
these controls in no time.
In fact, this game might have some of the best First Person Shooting controls I've ever
used (well, next to Halo) With controls aside, lets move on to graphics.
But here is what Finest Hour is missing out on, the M1 carbine, the STG 44, a couple
others and strangley, pistols aren't any where to be had.
So when your two big guns run out, you must rely on melee attacks.
If some one can tell me one, their lying!
So don't fear when I tell you this game has some minor glitches.
The few glitches their are take place in the really big battles, so a couple of floating
guns shouldn't bother you or even catch your eye.
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3. My husband likes this game
He played it for a long time. The graphics are good.
4. BEST GAME EVER!
I am a big shooter game fan. This game has very good graphics! the good: good graphics,
great music, a great secletion of wepons, relisistic gameplay. Now even though this game
rocks, all games must have a downside
the bad: The Ai are not very good, I truly expeted more from the tank missions. all in all
I rate this game 5 stars. If you want a good WWII game get this one
5. One of the Finest First Person Shooters Available!
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.
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.
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.
After the Eastern Front, you are whisked off to North Africa to serve with the British
Army in Tunisia.
More neat weapons used by the Brits and a lot of blowing stuff up in these levels.
As in previous levels, you get more awesome weapons to shoot and tanks to drive.
Online gametypes are: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and Search &
Destroy.
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