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Call of Duty 4 - The game to rival Halo 3 this autumn

So many games get labelled with being Halo beaters on the Xbox, but Call of Duty 4 is looking to up the ante on FPS games barely weeks after Halo 3 arrived. The magazine says "Physically there is no way it could be any smoother, updating twice as rapidly as key games such as Halo 3 and Project Gotham Racing 4." The issue includes a preview and developer interview, with Infinity Ward explaining "we’ve had as much time with the hardware as anybody". The full Call of Duty preview is in the issue, along with Mass Effect interview, Timeshift preview, Kane & Lynch, FIFA 08, Eternal Sonata, SKATE and loads more. It's the biggest issue yet, so broadband only and all you need is Adobe Reader 8 on Windows. Click here to download issue 11.

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Published: 825 days 5 hours ago | News | Xbox 360

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cheatmaster28 - 825 days 5 hours ago

1 - W00t!

Finally a halo killer. And so soon as well!

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Fanboi - 825 days 5 hours ago

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My guess is CoD 4 will not have a crappy 640p native res.

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joydestroy - 824 days 17 hours ago

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i dunno if it's a "halo killer" but it's definitely going to be a strong game this holiday season.

ANYONE into FPS games needs to pick this one up!

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kingboy - 825 days 5 hours ago

2 - can`t wait!

The game is simply amazing ,top notch graphics with realistic character animations that will put shame onto many other current fps out there

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Thump1967 - 825 days 5 hours ago

3 - King

King that just wrong lol,How many maps will be on MP to start

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kingboy - 825 days 4 hours ago

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I have no clue , the guys wouldn`t comment on that

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hi6hli6ht - 825 days 4 hours ago

4 - No way, Not true.....impossible.....HALO 3 BABY!!!.....

no, scratch that....i played the CoD4 beta....its f**kin awesome...i see this as a serious threat to halo, the helicopters where enemies drop down on u in battle...upgrading ranks and weaponry, awesome...add that to the fact that the game runs 60FPS with no slowdown...sounds like an instant win...hopefully they wont throw in a half-assed campaign

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andy001 - 825 days 4 hours ago

5 - very cool

Ever since the first Call of Duty on the PC this has been my favourite wargame. The Russian levels are straight out of enemy at the gates. It will make a change moving to more modern times but it looks like a must buy to me :o)

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Bullseye - 825 days 4 hours ago

6 - I'm not so sure

Thing about all the COD games so far is they mostly provide visuals in spades,but lack any real gameplay.If you stripped away the,no doubt glorious graphics, you could probably fit the gameplay mechanics into
10 lines of BASIC CODE!Like, you must go this way, you can't do that and you can ride that tank, but we will actually drive it for you('on rails' set peices..horrendous).Multiplaye r is usually much better, but nothing to match Halo as yet.we'll see.

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The Real Joker - 825 days 4 hours ago

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I have to agree with this. I have Halo 3 and played in the beta and COD had most of my play time. It is really run and the perks were just a great idea.

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sajj316 - 825 days 4 hours ago

8 - Any COD game

Created by Infinity Ward is a buy for me. They are right. They've had the most time with the 360 hardware. They've also had ... wait, they didn't have that much time with PS3 hardware. Yet, they are getting optimal performance out of it. Take that EA!!

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AllroundGamer - 825 days 4 hours ago

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Halo 3 was removed from my memory after finishing the game anyway :D COD4 will rule them all!

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gnothe1 - 825 days 4 hours ago

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im actually taking that week off for vacation so I can get COD4!! wouldnt do that for Halo 3. its a fun game, but I never been a real big fan of it!!

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Funky Town_TX - 825 days 4 hours ago

11 - I hope it is the "Halo Killer"

That would mean it is a better. What is wrong with having better games? Halo3 is fun and I hope COD4 will be also. I just hope the online is not like COD2. That online was a joke for about 2 months after launch. I will wait to see how this turns out.

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Jinxstar - 825 days 4 hours ago

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Rival?

Even 360 owners(Most) look forward to this more. I am looking forward to it more anyway...

It's just cooler on so many levels...

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masterg - 825 days 4 hours ago

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I'd pick COD4 any day. I'm so disappointed in Halo 3.
Yesterday I played Gears of War online. I didn't think I would do that after I got Halo 3, but it's just more fun and intensive.

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chanto23 - 825 days 3 hours ago

14.1 - COD4 wont hurt Halo 3 as much as Bungie did...

by not raising the bar on anything with the new Halo 3...they played it save, too save in my opinion...i bet you anything that the next Halo wont sell near as well as this one did because believe it or not there is a ton of gamers disappointed with Halo 3 or Halo 2 HD as some people call it...

COD 4 on the other hand is raising the bar on almost every aspect for FPS...it wont sell as well as Halo because it has a more mature audience that Halo and it doesnt even have half the hype that Halo has thanks to the millions wasted in advertising.

But believe when i say that COD 4 will be the Best FPS of 2007...

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crck - 825 days 2 hours ago

14.2 - The sad thing is it isn't even Halo 2 in HD

Its Halo 2 in two-thirds-HD. They had 3 years to work on the game there is no excuse to run in 640p and to have it letter boxed like a PSP game in Co-op mode.

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harpua - 825 days 3 hours ago

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COD4 > Halo 3

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genericname - 825 days 3 hours ago

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Halo 3 didn't exactly set the bar that high anyway for graphics and game play, but this game looks soooooo much better.

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gamehendge - 825 days 3 hours ago

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Even Rub a Dub Dub has better graphics than Halo.

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Spinitus - 825 days 2 hours ago

17 - COD 4 RULEZ!!!!!

you bet ur asss COD4 is better than Halo 3. it plays better it looks better its way more fun. how do i know??? i was in the beta oh and i also have Halo 3 thats how i know.

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jackie chann - 825 days 2 hours ago

18 - Ah reminds me of the good old socom days

People always complaining about lag, graphics and dodgy controls. Then the enevitable "SOCOM KILLER" would be coming, yet they all fell flat on their faces.

I have to say I haven't played a better online game on a sony console, socom is just so complete. So I would guess Halo is to the xbox what socom is and no game will manage to kill it.

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Donger - 825 days ago

18.1 - Oh how I miss those days..

COD Series is still going strong. As for SOCOM, they have one more shot with me with Confrontation. I hope they do what the say they're going to do and go back to their roots. A lot of people are saying this is the make or break.

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This game will get 100% attention from me next month. I like battling humans that only 2-3' verticals rather than 10'.

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media73 - 824 days 19 hours ago

19.1 - Are you joking?

Were you in the beta? Tis game is amazing, the gameplay easily matches the next gen gr, halo sucked balls, king kong balls, it was utter garbage, `i will never trust game reviewers or magazines again, it was obvious they all got paid off, 10/10 greatest game ever made my arse, greates game ever made due for the bargin bin.

Single player was boring, co-op was utter pants, grx were low res and jaggy, ouu let jump and fire at each other and see who wins.. god how lame.

cod 4 for game of the year!.

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nobizlikesnowbiz - 825 days 1 hour ago

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You smoke dirt. Bobby brown with crushed turds mixed in.

Thats where you get your delusions from. You've been smoking your own fecal matter.

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waldopepper - 825 days 1 hour ago

20.2 - Everything?

So all those games have customisable games, downloadable game-types, replays, media sharing and map editing features?

Most of these you haven't even played yet because they're not out yet so I don't know where you're getting your opinions from. Personally from what I have actually played myself, I think that Resistance doesn't stand up to the quality and fun you have whilst playing Halo3

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dachiefsman - 824 days 18 hours ago

20.3 - so

outta all those games...you can currently play....1 of them

you argument is null...u jackass

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socomnick - 825 days 1 hour ago

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Halo 3 > Call of duty 4
I played the beta and It sucked Nothing but a grenade fest.

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LostChild - 824 days 23 hours ago

21.1 - I can not wait...

for this game to come out. I can finally start off with the weapon of my choice and not have to run around the map to find it. I can play the game type I want to play instead of waiting for it to be recycled on a map I don't want to play it on. Plus, I don't have to sit around waiting to get matched up with random people. I have the option to just join a room or host it myself and best of all, no more unbalanced weapons or bunny hopping.

^Grenade fest in COD4? I will agree with this, only because of the perk martyphon but Halo3 is nothing but a grenade fest. Everyone is tossing grenades. Grenade to drain shield then shoot or shoot to drain shield then toss grenade. Rinse and Repeat. Heck, Bungie even made so when you die, your grenades a left behind causing a whole section of a map to be filled with grenades lying all around.

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dachiefsman - 824 days 18 hours ago

21.2 - wow

how about a beat down fest?

In the Beta I was mowing people down with guns more so than nades...

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JosefTor - 825 days ago

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I think Bungie concentrated too much on "extra" features and not enough on doing what they should have done... (sadly the list could get long) but... mainly CO-OP and custom games with online people... not just online friends who are mostly too busy doing their own thing then to sit down with you and beat the game on legendary.
-Joe

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JosefTor - 825 days ago

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Socomnick-

Not sure when you played the beta but I know early on people were always using the gernade launcher because you start off with it and it seemed awesome. Later on a lot of people realized it cramped their style and they couldn't be on top of the leaderboards if they used the gernade launcher so more tactical weapons with different scopes were used. I know at the end of the beta, gernades were used a lot less. I don't think many pros would be caught dead using the gernade launcher... it takes too long to reload so when you could be pulling off head shots... you are limited by reload time and the 2 gernades you get.

-Joe

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The Only Truth - 824 days 21 hours ago

23.1 - @JosefTor

I'm pretty sure he meant the grenades you can throw.

About 3 days befre the Beta ended, they gave us testers the "Martyrdom" perk. This perk let a grenade drop as soon as the player dies. Not to mention the grenades you are already carrying.

But hey, it was only a "grenadefest" cause everybody used this "new" perk .Just wait till we get the full variety of perks, you ll see, it ll all change again.

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FrostyMelon - 824 days 19 hours ago

24 - It's true

IW put some serious work into CoD4...it is one to knock Halo down a notch or two.

*I've heard 12 maps, with a ton of game mode variations.

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chester - 824 days 19 hours ago

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it'll probably be a better game, and i'll definitely be playing it, but there is no chance that it'll be the halo killer. no chance. doesn't have the backing, advertising budget, or casual hype of a halo. everyone here will have it i'm sure and love it, but it won't come close to touching halo.

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socalr6 - 824 days 18 hours ago

26 - cod4

This game will stay in the tray 24/7. I have HALO3 and revert to playing COD3 cause I love it so much. I stayed away from ranked due to the long wait to get a game going. Hopefully The ranked matchmaking is better now. COD FTW!

If you wan't to get murdered in COD3 just look for SOCALR6 biaches!

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dachiefsman - 824 days 18 hours ago

27 - the beta

was awesome and after having halo 3 for a week...I am already sick of it. The game hasn't change much and the best weapon in H3 is beat down<WTF>.

November can't come soon enough. At least in COD4, the odds of dying by melee are way less than any other tool of destruction. The multiplayer also rewards the player in a great fashion. In H3 however, you can sit around and play social matches and get your rank up to general in a week.

@socalr6: COD3 wasn't even made by infinity ward....fyi

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