Call of Duty 4 Demo hands on

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Demo impressions: it is as intense as previous CODs (COD2 gets a lil boring tho) and we have blood splashes when hitting the head and other un-armored body parts. A nice touch! Just too bad no blood spills.

Nice weapon models and environment settings

The game weapons, have very light recoils, especially the sniper rifle, dragunov. This made the otherwise high sense of realism FPS into some run and gun. Guess noobs will be spamming sniper rifles on multiplayer mode. Holding down the breath (shift key) made the aiming even more accurate. If they just improve or increase the recoil in the game in aiming mode...just a lil bit more, this game would not be far from perfect.

Tons of smokes and exploded chopper (left) & aiming down the hip of the rifle (right)

Wearing the NV goggles is one of the damn cool moves. I put it on and off a couple of times just to see the animation. There's also a melee attack: stabbing your enemy with a combat knife. Even though there's only one type of move (wish they implement some more, upper slash and something like that...) it is kinda cool that the whole screen shakes as if you swing your body hard enough, trying to cut through that S.O.B..

NVG (Night Vision Goggle) in action

The knife melee move (left) and shooting in the corridor (right)

With the modest system requirement to run this game, I believe people with last 1~2 years computer should have no problem with it. Here's the system requirements for the demo.

Recommended Specs:
CPU: 2.4 GHz dual core or better is recommended RAM: 1GB for XP; 2GB for Vista is recommended Harddrive: 8GB of free hard drive space Video card: 3.0 Shader Support recommended. Nvidia Geforce 7800 or better or ATI Radeon X1800 or better

Minimum Specs:
CPU: Intel® Pentium® 4 2.4 GHz or AMD® Athlon™ 64 2800+ processor or any 1.8Ghz Dual Core Processor or better supported RAM: 512MB RAM (768MB for Windows Vista) Harddrive: 8GB of free hard drive space Video card (generic): NVIDIA® Geforce™ 6600 or better or ATI® Radeon® 9800Pro or better

However, I wouldn't recommend running this game in minimum settings as it would kill off the nice eye candies. If you have less than the min specs, it is time to upgrade.

Neck shot and nice blood splash

Playing with max settings 1680x1050 resolution with my gaming rig shown in the signature (at the bottom of the page), the game performance was smooth as butter. Seeing the COD2 outdated smokes, even in full details. It seems Infinity Wards (the game developer) is using the heavily modified COD2 engine in this installment.

Got the Dragunov and aiming for a headshot

This game lives up to its hype and expectations so far. Can't wait for the full version.
COD4 will be released in early November this year. Keep your eyes peeled!