As somebody who was a teenager around the time CoD 4 came out, it cannot be understated at just how revolutionary this game was. It was huge! It was nearly impossible to find someone who wasn't playing it, it truly changed the game on how we viewed FPS games! When CoD 4 dropped, it exploded!
It really did. I can’t help but think gaming truly peaked a good number of years ago. These days, we basically get the same games just with better graphics and larger maps. Nothing about the base game changes, still the same brain dead AI from the 7th generation of consoles. As a child I unfortunately was restricted to a Wii and a shitty PC to game back in the good old days, but I’ve heard so much about Xbox Live in the 360 days. Microsoft actually included a headset with the console, encouraging people to chat. These days they probably want the opposite, people will say offensive things and that needs to stop! We should all be little weaklings that turn the game off and cry when someone shit talks us. Gaming is just one of the reasons I wish I could go back to 2012. I was just a stupid kid back then and didn’t realize what we had :( Still good to apply that thinking to now, though. Appreciate what you got. America is likely to run out of diesel in about a month, and we currently have a presidential administration that is against us in every way. If that doesn’t get corrected we’re gonna really see what bleak is, and this Call of Duty shit won’t matter at all.
What kinda sucks is that there wont be a game that will make an impact like from everything i just read in these comments. Now it seems to me that every developer is just trying to make the best graphics over game play.
I was 14, yeah, it was nothing like anything else before. It looked AMAZING, played great, and wasn't about aliens and things that go pewpewpew (all love and respect to Halo). My bro and our friends used to play the campaign and swap out at deaths.
@@XIXRayderXIX I remember my cousins from California came over and had no idea what cod4 and online was I mean my family is mid class they were a little bit less well off but I looked at them crazy and was playing online multiplayer. By the way eavesdrop was amazing for playing cops and robbers anyone remember doing that in private match 🤣 prolly its only use for real
Harsh on the tutorial, it’s a gem. They added a competitive and replay-ability aspect by timing you and giving you a recommended difficulty. It was 2007, no one was doing that. You only mention it’s boring and overdone because every other studio copied this format. Hindsight is key.
Quite frankly i dont understand the critique on the tutorial, not all shooters had tutorials (Doom, Quake, Serious Sam, Duke Nukem and probably some others im forgetting) the one that i also thought was memorable was Half Life, i dont see whats wrong with presenting mechanics in a safe environment without bullets already flying above your head.
I remember spending hours trying to get the lowest time possible and when mw2 dropped with the same style tutorial I did the same stg I spent more time running the tutorial than the actual game😂 it was just so addicting especially if you just got fried and were on autopilot vibin to music
They turned a tutorial into a training scenario for a rookie (Soap) on his first day. Imitating you playing it for the first time, a rookie on his first day. You was soap. That’s the difference between now and then, we don’t feel connected to the same characters from 15+ years ago. We’ve grown older, so have the characters. They need to go back in time and do a “Call Of Duty: John Price” and base on his life, growing up, going through battles, etc. or a completely different character like “Call Of Duty: MacMillan” and base on Captain Price’s mentor. 🤷🏽♂️
Basically COD 4 is the essence of Call of Duty as we know it. If you take the franchise as a whole and boil it down to its root and fundamentals then you get this game. Fun gun play, smooth movement, strategic class building, kill streaks, and solid map design. That's what call of duty is at its core. Every other game is just building off of that.
Yes, it established the foundation from which the entire franchise is built upon today. Heck, its influence is still clearly seen in 90% of all first-person shooter games today. Easily one of the most influential first-person shooter games in video game history.
You can sum it up as simple as: if cod4 had not been the way it was, mw2 wouldn't have been either, neither black ops, mw3 and black ops 2. Straight up nostalgia looking at me in the eyes ... what a great era it was for the FPS genre.
most of the COD4 maps.... especially the DLC ones.... they are just re-skins of COD2 maps . the china town map is Carentan..... like a 1 for 1 copy from COD2, but with some neon signs added
Ironic as MW2 was when the franchise jumped the shark and never looked back. CoD4 was a crossroads for IW at the time, either go into a more thriller, implication styled game with tight professional work or to embrace it's new frantic rollercoaster ride.
Cod 4 was one of the most genuinely entertaining campaigns I’ve ever played. Each mission was fun and unique and not just run and gun like a lot of the later titles
I’ll never forget watching the E3 footage of this game for the first time when I was 10. I couldn’t believe how good it looked, the part where the javelin locks onto the tank blew my mind for some reason 😂 Timeless game.
Simple killstreaks, simple mechanics, simple weapon and camo progression, awesome maps, quick scoping, immersive sound stage and mountable machine guns in a modern realistic setting. What more could you want?
Tons of lootboxes? Lots of skins behind a pay wall? OP Gadgets that literally give you cheats? Bunch of kill streaks that constantly get spammed all over the map? Host Migration to pause every multiplayer game? And possibly crash someones game because their internet isnt good enough? Up the price by 20% ?
@@Kevin-be9iy ye ngl it would be lame ash to not have the weapon customization we do now all tho I despise the new cods and jus main bo3 and 4 these older ones will always be on top all the new ones are just a re skin of 2019 Cold War was the straw that broke the camels back for me I grinded dark aether and hitt prestige 14 before I realized it’s the same shi same w vanguard it’s just a ww2 reskin of 2019 and mw2 is just 2019 2.0😂 it’s Actually pitiful and I refuse to buy another until they drop this bs format and the whole warzone fad it’s alright they just need to put more focus into making their mps actually work on release and make it so that the host is migrating 24/7 it’s still a problem even on bo3 n 4
I was 13 when this game came out, this game single handedly got me addicted to cod franchise till bo2. Not sure if its a good thing now but i don't regret the incredible amount of fun and friends I made. I also was going through health issues and cod was a massive source of distraction. It was a magical time of gaming when everything was getting better and creative vision of devs in all genres were exploding. I think most of us feel jaded because of the deminishing returns you mentioned. Games will always feel less impressive from now on and we are older with responsibility. But be happy we got to experience it and im sure theres some young kids out there feeling the same magic we felt but with games today. Life goes on. Much love to any of the OG's reading this.
@@Johnson09641 ain’t that something lol some of the best memories with people you don’t even speak to anymore. Would be cool to experience those times again
I played the game on the Playstation 3. Cod4 gave me memories I will never forget. The gameplay, campaign, COMMUNITY, I could keep going. Coming from browser games to cod4 was such a leap for me, and I went straight for the ps3 every day I got home from school. I do believe your take on the training at the start of the game, has been influenced a bit with years and years of more modern games. For its time (cod4), it did its job perfectly, while still being somewhat immersive and not ruining an actual mission, becuase you have to learn how to press "Jump" in the middle of a warzone. Cod4 was also my first introduction to Call of Duty, so much that I didn't even know about World at War, till Mw3 came out, as I kept playing cod4 and then mw2.
Hot take. I believe COD4 had the highest skill gap in the entire franchise. Especially for a solo player. I also believe that it has the best designed maps and gun play. And finally I believe this also had the best spawn system which was scraped in MW2 2009 unfortunately for a chaotic revenge spawn system. This was because people cried about being spawn camped. The maps were designed to counter this. The amount of times I was spawn trapped and used the environment for cover to farm kills. Then pushed the enemy back with a chopper and won games was so satisfying. There was a chess element to COD4. This is why Modern Warfare Remasted fell short because it adopted the MW2 revenge spawn system. This changed the flow and slowed the pace down. COD4 isn't just a masterpiece. It's the greatest call of duty ever made. No other COD is anywhere near it.
Yep I remember spawn trapping on shipment shooting through the containers with the m16 hahah. Favorite weapon is still ak-74 but I would use the rpd on shipment sometimes just to tick people off n get a fat 100 kills a game lol.
Yup, hit the nail on the head. No COD has ever been as fun as COD 4. The maps really were incredible and when they bring them back in the new Code they're always the better than the new maps.
My first time playing CoD 4 we were poor so I couldn’t play online but had hell of a blast playing split screen with my brothers. There was just the basic needs met for just an absolute gem for a bunch of tweens screaming and gaming all night long. the funniest stuff ever was the disc was scratched and I couldn’t get pass the AC-130 mission for the life of me. So until nearly 2015 or so I didn’t get past the mission. Lol. Such a good foundation for fps games in general, and overall a GOAT for what it do for everyone today.
CoD4 and MW2 will always have some of my best online memories. Back when there was no party chat and the craziest gun skin was gold. Wish so bad we could go back to the simplicity of these games.
Open lobbies where everyone can communicate and talk ISHT Along with a ton of other Revolutionary content is what made this game amazing Along with no loot boxes and all gear and weapons UNLOCKED IN GAME
@@ki11atj49 yup. and ill never buy another one of these AAA gaming companies trash again till they do. but whats cool is thaat inde delvelopers onSTEAM are coming out with really cool games that give me that feel good vibe those 2006-2013 AAA games used to
CoD 4 was so revolutionary I still remember the feelings I had when I got home after launch day and put the disk in my Xbox… hearing the intro for the fist time gave me chills… heck I still remember my first online match when I jumped online. This game marked a before and after for online and gaming experience as we know it now days
I was 18 when this game came out and honestly it blew every other fps game that came before it out of the water, it was a huge step forward in graphics (great optimisation too) and the complexity of the multiplayer with weapon customisation, kill streaks, perks and great progression all being landmark advancements in 1 game. Totally reinventing the multiplayer fps genre, oh and it also has amazing maps design with 10+ classic maps I remember the exact layouts of even 15 years later
COD4 launched with 16 maps and were ALL GOOD with NO BUGS and was made by a team of about 100 devs. Now we have 3000 devs who put out GARBAGE REQUIRES RESTART and cant make a map to save their lives
The campaign was always split up into acts in the original. Just something else that made this game unique and stand out to anything else available at the time. I actually played through it again for the first time in years just a few days ago (original bc OG is best) and the only thing I could possibly complain about is that it didn’t go on for longer, the precise classified feel of the SAS missions intertwined with the fuck yeah US marines invasion is just as fun now as when I first experienced this masterpiece when I was 10.
I would disagree, I played back in the day and loved it , but I replayed it recently and I found it a chore to play through again, it just basically consist of infinite enemy spawning and you running mad to the next check point praying to the rng Jesus that you don't get killed getting there , not fun times. I guess I had more patience back then.
@@Jester_Jingles It has nothing to do with the comment you answered to, and if something is made wrong does not mean you are bad. I bet you were one of those geniuses who hate on COD ADVANCED WARFARE (Best COD) when you only had a skills issue.
I remember being in middle school and everyone playing Halo 3 and slowly all switching over to COD4, id do anything to go back and relive those days.. special games.
I was 17 when cod4 came out, and I can overstate how FREAKIN TIRED a lot of us were of WW2 fps games, so when this came out…it was awesome, easily the best time to be a teenage gamer since the beginning of video games. Being old enough to start out with doom, then to goldeneye and perfect dark, then halo, then COD4 to now, just amazing
I wanted a Wii for christmas in 07, my dad and i drove around trying to find one, after a few hours we ended up at a sears, my dad bought me a ps3 and Cod4. I was hooked on it right away, playing online using my DSL connection. I was at one point in the top 1000 on ps3 leaderboards. simpler times, i miss that.
I was at uni when the game came out playing halo 3 but couldn't ignore the hype. It was a game changer. I'm surprised you are making a video on this when you were not around to experience it yourself.
Damn. The fact this came out in 2007 hit me hard. I was seven when it came out. Playing World at war at my friends was the first cod experience I had and I asked for that for the next Christmas. My parents got me cod modern warfare instead. At first I was disappointed but after putting it in my 360 I fell in love with it. This ended up starting my love of the COD series that lasted through until black ops 3. I never had internet during my childhood so it’s sad I never truly got to experience the online MP unless I was at a freinds house. I’m gonna watch the rest of video now though. 🤘
I was 12 when this dropped but I was a DOG in this game. I was ranked Top 1000 in score, top 5000 in kills and top 7000 in wins. Search and destroy each round counted as a single win so we would go on massive win streaks. The guns were all amazing aside from the silly mp44 with no attachments lol, the maps were spectacular as was the campaign. I’ll never love a game like I loved this one
@@dahui58 The only reason why I wanted WaW instead was Zombies was more fun than the arcade mode that Modern Warfare had. I had no internet, so MP was barely a factor for me.
I loved this game so much. I got it as a Chrismas present in 2014 and I loved every minute of it. We didn't have WiFi at the time so I used to spend a lot of time in empty lobbies, exploring the maps. I even found some out of the map glitches using old school mode. The ambient music in the game was so nice. I still listen to it occasionally.
I was born '95. Remember playing this game and every other call of duty. Have been a gamer all my life and have the pain in my hands to prove it. Call of duty 4 is just different man, I absolutely loved it. I remember so many sleepovers with my friends to get the gold guns and stay up ALL night. We would literally play until one of us got tired, then the next would start while the other slept. We all shared one account and got basically gold on all guns. My favorite was the mp5. Anyway... i am rambling.. but great memories on that game, memories that made me the gamer I am today. Love COD 4.
Ramble on brother, born in 95 as well this game was absolutely IT man. Never will I love a game like I loved this one. Halo was a blast and gears was dope, but cod4 has my heart forever
I was 14 when this game came out so i remember the atmosphere very well around this game. I was addicted to Halo 3 at the time and when i heard all my buddies switching to CoD 4 it was disappointing but I eventually gave it a try early December (a month after it released) and I literally couldn't put the game down. Everyone and i mean EVERYONE was playing this game including my older brother who thinks video games was a waste of time. The word of mouth surrounding this game lived up to the hype. I honestly think because of this game, it was the beginning of ADS (Aim Down Sight). Before this game ADS was strictly a CoD feature. Nowadays most FPS games have ADS.
I experienced the same as you.. I was in to halo 3 first and I was sad when everybody wanted to play this new cod game but then I tried it and the rest is history lol but still halo 3 and cod 4 were the best
Yep I remember battle field bad company had no ads. I had ps3 at the time so no halo but cod 4 until black ops 1 is all i needed. Battle field 2 was also good but eventually I moved and didn't have internet for a few years... When I tried to play cod again I couldn't do it. It was all jetpacks on top of being almost 3 years without playing 😢 sad times getting embarrassed trying to play online lool.
There's a mod called COD4x for the pc version of COD4, its got a bunch of player run servers on there and a majority of them are always populated as of last time I played (a couple of the big team servers have bots as well so if the server isn't totally populated you still have a lot of things to shoot at). A couple servers even took the time to add more killstreaks as well (ac130, predator missle, etc). Its not the vanilla cod4 experience but its still a lot of fun if you just want to play. I think there is controller support in the mod too but I'm not sure, I just play M+K on it.
I gotta say its crazy how much cod4 was polished, even from the later builds of the leaked pre release versions. It literally went from reskinned cod2 to pretty damn good maxxed out on pc in 07
Hey chopper I just wanna say it was cool chillin with ya during the cod mw2 campaign. Sure the campaign was a mixed bag but it was cool seeing it first hand with ya. Keep these uploads coming my boy.
3:33: "The standard for quality has gone up astronomically in the gaming industry" HARD disagree, just because new games all have these features by default does not mean the quality is better, we have just become accustomed to the innovations of the old games
I was 14 when this came out, cod4, halo 3, and mw2 were how I spent basically all my time until I got my drivers license. What I'd give to go back in time and play on those lobbies...
Finally somebody mentions the simplicity of older cods compared to more recent cods. Nowadays the devs have to put in ten times the amount of content and details into their games, just for the bare minimum requirements of a “finished” cod game (they’re barely finished when they’re released anyways tho). I mean just look at all the content that is releasing for MWII this month. 50+ weapons, insanely detailed animations and sound design, 100’s of emblems and calling cards, 100’s of weapon attachments, new kill streaks, updated movement, new operators, nearly 200 camos, five massive ground war maps and eleven 6v6 maps. Just look around any map in and look at the insane amount of details hidden around every map, and compare it to the simplistic rubble and the basic furniture laying around in early COD maps. It’s no wonder why they need so many game studios working on each cod game nowadays. And yet a massive chunk of our community is still going to find ways to complain that MWII launched with “not enough” content compared to a few other games.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was my first introduction to the series. I first got it back in August of 2008 for my 12th birthday. I’m 27 now and still occasionally play it from time to time. It’s the only CoD game I ever return to. There’s something about it that just feels great. The only sad thing is now on the PS3, the game is mostly dead aside from TDM. I used to play so much SND. I loved how the game rewarded skilled and experienced players rather than noobs like MW2 did.
Good times. Met a lot of friends playing this game, all over the world. Still friends to this day. When devs get that perfect balance of simplicity and complexity right, you end with with masterpieces like this. Sad what the AAA game industry has become, but at least we have indie devs still coming out with good stuff.
Just a few things; there was not a prestige mode for cod4 on pc, it might have been added years later, but it didn’t exist originally. The main thing that kept people going was completing a,, the challenges for a certain weapon class and unlocking the golden guns. I remember getting the Golden deagle, golden ak47, golden m60, & golden dragunov. There was a golden shotgun and golden sub machine gun as well. Also shooters at that time had campaigns that were entirely focused on the gameplay. Levels were just sections that would each have a different unique gameplay mechanic. Cod4 was revolutionary in that it had an actual story that wasn’t on a huge macro scale. It felt very involved, especially the no ghillie level, which was by far the most stunning thing to happen to shooters in a very long time
Everyone talks about All Ghillied Up but my absolute favourite was Warpig. Just drops you in absolute chaos and tells you to make your way out. By far and away the best Call of Duty, both Campaign and Multiplayer!
I remember getting this game from my uncle, I wasn’t a big FPS back then at all, but my uncle was a military man, Canadian Peace Keeper And because back then I was interested in military type things he thought I might like this. So he came over we popped it in and we played right on online and had a blast, and been getting every cod ever sense
I was a Halo 2 "clan" member of the XGC group (Xbox Gaming Community) back then. We were 30,000 strong on XBL. Through that community I got invited into the closed Beta/Alpha servers for COD 4 months before launch. COD4 was literally a game changer. Period.
Woow this brought back so many memorises! COD 3 brought me in to the series and i was in the top 1000 in the world for pretty much all of its release but then this game came out. Completed vetrean SP on the first night and then grinded MP. Was top 500 for the first 6 months and think i hit prestige 10 after 3 months of the game coming out. So many good time with friends!
What a wonderful video. Well done. As a Battlefield refugee that picked up COD after BF2042 killed the franchise, I really appreciate your Call of Duty game summary videos. I enjoy learning the history of the games I play and your videos make that easy and entertaining.
Still has the best MP maps of any game Ive ever played. With the exception of District and the DLC's, every match was pure joy. Crossfire, Bog, Downpor, Overgrown, Ambush, Countdown... the list goes
What shocks me about Cod 4 for at least Infinity Ward and Activation? They managed to get any sort of massive attention, like, bro. Cod 4 was released only a week or a few days before Halo 3 launched. Like, we are not talking about some small game like it's Halo, the fucking juggernaut of First-person shooters it was during the 2000s. Halo 3 was one of the most hyped games near launch, it was crazy, of course, I was only like 2 years old when that was going on. But the fact that both Infinity Ward and Activation managed to stay their ground with the attention they got and got Call of Duty off the ground is amazing to me. I still remember going for beating the Modern Warfare trilogy that I used to do when I had all three games on Xbox, lol. a lot simpler times... I still miss them. :(
I don't know if he went over this I only had time to watch a few minutes of this video but cod4 was amazing but it was so dated you could literally copy your online save file onto a flash drive and open the save in notepad and you would easily find lines of code you could change that gave you unlimited ammo, lasers, crazy jump height, god mode. ONLINE!! They patched it within a few weeks working with Sony so that online files from cod could be locked and not copyable. Just insane all it took to cheat was a flash drive, and any computer. Cod4 was out for a while already too it took forever for people to even figure it out! Lol!
I remember being 8 and this catching me off guard after seeing it in a catalogue back in 07. My first thought was "whoa, cod is modern now?" I hadn't played a cod game since big red one and never truly got into the series until 2010 when I finally played cod4 and mw2 after my dad got me cod 3, cod4 and mw2 for the 360. Now I'm not gonna lie, I had also been playing cod 1 on pc and was very much into ww2 at the time and played more of cod 3 as opposed to cod4 and mw2. but it didn't take long for thise to grow on me.
There was a time back when I was 14 when my mind was blown by this game, before I was married, before I had kids and any real responsibility to speak of. I would stay up night after night chasing that oh so coveted 10th prestige level 55, and every golden gun. The amount of memories this game was/is responsible for is almost indescribable. I will never forget logging onto Xbox after school and every last person on my friends list on Xbox read "call of duty 4 modern warfare"...we will never have that type of era in gaming overall ever again. To the good ol day ✊
Man I remember going over to friends house and seeing this game for the first time and it was just amazing, needless to say I begged my mom to buy it for me and that the guns are "just in the game, it's not bad I promise" 😂😂 what a time
I spent over 28 days into Cod 4. At the time this was a masterpiece at its time. I remember reading reviews of the game saying it’s cons “nothing really” That always stuck with me. The problem with the game, which you touched on was it got stale, maps got old, especially with only 1 map pack as dlc. Either way Cod 4 is still a masterpiece in my mind. It definitely paved the way for all the future Cods.
Well, i can't tell how much days i spent on it but this should probably be around 400 aha played it from the end of 2009 until 2018, playing some summer like 8 to 10 hours a day (ofc not all day BUT), got at the very least a day of gaming each week
It was simple, yet still had a good amount of customization. Unlocking camos and attachments was fun, not some boring never-ending grind. The map design is also unrivaled with WaW being an exception.
This game was the perfect time in gaming for me. It sits within the golden age of RUclips where creators were just starting to get big and uploaded only for the love of the games, not to grab views or teach everyone how to play optimally as fast as possible. The game was perfectly imperfect, with its many glitches it spawned new communities of glitchers and that lead to fun community mini games like Mike Myers (where it paid to know glitches). This worked too because most glitches were only accessible in the old school mode. Not to mention how ahead of its time the game was, it just felt so good to get home from school and hop on the game for fun with friends. The campaign had unlockable cheats which just gave it such replay value and there were so many cool easter eggs littered throughout the game. The whole game just has this unique feeling that will sadly never be replicated in my opinion, times have just changed too much. I remember when I first got out the map on the mission 'Charlie don't surf' and you could walk for ages out there. I found the random turret that was hidden out the map that you could use, and I just remember finding it so cool.
I was 10 when this game came out. Before it I had played the hell out of CoD 2 and Finest Hour and loved them for the campaign alone, when CoD4 came out it was the first shooter I personally had played online and it was revolutionary. I would spend all day at school talking to friends about it and thinking about playing it when I got home, it made me a longtime CoD fan for sure up until BO2 when the series took a nosedive. CoD4, WaW, MW2, BO1, and MW3 were the golden years of CoD imo, all of them masterpieces. I hope that when the Microsoft/Activision deal goes through all of them get added to gamepass, if so there may be a resurgence in the playerbase and we may get to experience these classic games online one last time.
As someone who was 20 when this dropped there was no cod community this game created it no one gave a shit about cod before this medal of honor was more popular.
You are pampered by today's and technology. Internet and cell phones were in their infancy. Social media was non existent. This game as I remember took over the globe. Everyone talked about it. Celebs, athletes, everyone. I remember it was named dropped on movies and TV shows. Multi player with mics was revolutionary. Between halo 3 and cod4 it was the birthplace of leagues and ladder play. The maps were all genius and so were the weapons. I could write a book on what made this game amazing.
If cod 4 modern warfare never existed, then we will not have games like mw2 2009, waw, mw3, bo1, bo2, and so on... cod 4 modern warfare was the one that started it all honesty. Gotta respect it😊
Yeah lol that was before there were any pro gamers or if any at all. I remember have a team there and losing a lot lol. But winning some. Your comment activated a core memory for me dude 👍
Long tangent but I remember getting my first xbox 360 Christmas 2007 and it came with gears of War, I had played CoD in the past on ps2 but now having GoW I thought nothing could be better, I saw a commercial for cod4 and asked my mom to take me to buy it, fast forward a few hours and I can specifically remember being a few games in to cod4 tdm, loading onto downpour being absolutely addicted
I connect so well with these videos cause I experienced CoD almost identically to you. Got my start on WaW. Went hard in MW2, BO1&2, and started playing less after MW3. I also think we the same age.
This was my first call of duty on the new 360. I was 13 with the war in Iraq/Afghanistan fresh on my mind. I sunk 20 days into it during its peak in late 07 until WAW came out in 08. Was a masterpiece at the time and still is. It was considered one of the holy trinity back then… Halo 3 and Battlefield Bad Company the other two. Keep up the great videos man 👍
Man, CoD4 is such an incredibly great game. I was twelve years old when it released. I had six really good friends that lived on the same street as me at the time, and we all had Xbox 360s. Nearly every night for two whole years, all seven of us would play it together. Whether we ended up on the same team or opposing teams, we always had a blast. Every. Single. Time. CoD4 is one of those games that I'll always remember very fondly. It'll always be my favorite game in the franchise, because its simply that damn good. Man, this video brought back so many tremendous memories for me. Thanks for that. Cheers.
It was the start of the "you had to be there" era, and what made it even more special was that for those of us that were old enough WE KNEW it was happening. And I was fortunate enough to have 2 best friends that wanted to play CoD4 just as much as I did, so there was nothing better for us than hopping on Team Tactical and absolutely dumpstering opps literally going on 15-20+ game win streaks all night long like it was nothing. I treasure those sessions, much the same way I do with my then-future MW2 playgroup, my MW3 Serbian homies, and finally my BO2 league team. That's all more than a decade ago and Idk what any of them are up to now, but wherever they are I still love em and hope they're doing well. 🖤
I remember those nights me and my friends stayed up like whole weekends playing CoD4 and Halo 3. I miss those days man. I wish we could all relive them for just one day.
litterally every gun felt great in this game. ttk was tight and very unforgiving. great sandbox with how they thought out the perks save a few. boo boos like the acog m40. ah so many good memories on the gold gun grind.
Back in 2007 the main thing was online gaming. Everyone pretty much had WiFi then and that opened up everything. COD 4 was the only one that worked properly
I was 17 yrs when this game came out and remember seeing the night time gameplay demo, the reload animation was insanely good and the night vision looked so real at the time. Before Call of Duty 4, there where no killstreaks, no create a class (the norm was to find weapons on the map or buy like in CS), no perks, no standard 60 fps MP, aiming through iron sights and super presice weapons was not common and the point that popped up when you got a kill where revelutionary. In games before CoD4 the standard was a killfeed in the bottom corner of your screen and that was the only way to know if you got a kill, there where no actual feedback when you got kills before CoD4. I rember I was blown away by that game and RPG elements was so popular at the time and to see them implemented in a fps was unbeliveble at the time. Especially since it improved the game.
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Literally a Goated 🐐 series
As somebody who was a teenager around the time CoD 4 came out, it cannot be understated at just how revolutionary this game was. It was huge! It was nearly impossible to find someone who wasn't playing it, it truly changed the game on how we viewed FPS games! When CoD 4 dropped, it exploded!
It really did. I can’t help but think gaming truly peaked a good number of years ago. These days, we basically get the same games just with better graphics and larger maps. Nothing about the base game changes, still the same brain dead AI from the 7th generation of consoles.
As a child I unfortunately was restricted to a Wii and a shitty PC to game back in the good old days, but I’ve heard so much about Xbox Live in the 360 days. Microsoft actually included a headset with the console, encouraging people to chat. These days they probably want the opposite, people will say offensive things and that needs to stop! We should all be little weaklings that turn the game off and cry when someone shit talks us.
Gaming is just one of the reasons I wish I could go back to 2012. I was just a stupid kid back then and didn’t realize what we had :(
Still good to apply that thinking to now, though. Appreciate what you got. America is likely to run out of diesel in about a month, and we currently have a presidential administration that is against us in every way. If that doesn’t get corrected we’re gonna really see what bleak is, and this Call of Duty shit won’t matter at all.
I still play it on PC, and still a healthy community. Never gonna stop 😁
What kinda sucks is that there wont be a game that will make an impact like from everything i just read in these comments. Now it seems to me that every developer is just trying to make the best graphics over game play.
people who “didn’t” play games, played this game that’s how big it was lol
I was 14, yeah, it was nothing like anything else before. It looked AMAZING, played great, and wasn't about aliens and things that go pewpewpew (all love and respect to Halo). My bro and our friends used to play the campaign and swap out at deaths.
All ghillied up was the perfect mission. It changed fps forever. I'll never forget playing it.
"Uhm no?"
Absolutely same, I was so glad when MW2 2022 had a similar mission
This campaign legendary for sure.
Hell yeah man, I'll never forget me being right up in Cpt. MacMillan's ass while I crawl behind him
@@XIXRayderXIX I remember my cousins from California came over and had no idea what cod4 and online was I mean my family is mid class they were a little bit less well off but I looked at them crazy and was playing online multiplayer. By the way eavesdrop was amazing for playing cops and robbers anyone remember doing that in private match 🤣 prolly its only use for real
Harsh on the tutorial, it’s a gem. They added a competitive and replay-ability aspect by timing you and giving you a recommended difficulty. It was 2007, no one was doing that. You only mention it’s boring and overdone because every other studio copied this format. Hindsight is key.
Now that I think about it, the only other game I've played with a tutorial like that is Titanfall 2. I guess Vince is the common denominator there.
Quite frankly i dont understand the critique on the tutorial, not all shooters had tutorials (Doom, Quake, Serious Sam, Duke Nukem and probably some others im forgetting) the one that i also thought was memorable was Half Life, i dont see whats wrong with presenting mechanics in a safe environment without bullets already flying above your head.
I remember spending hours trying to get the lowest time possible and when mw2 dropped with the same style tutorial I did the same stg I spent more time running the tutorial than the actual game😂 it was just so addicting especially if you just got fried and were on autopilot vibin to music
ofc hes gonna hate on miniscule things like that, hes a BO d1ck rider
They turned a tutorial into a training scenario for a rookie (Soap) on his first day. Imitating you playing it for the first time, a rookie on his first day. You was soap. That’s the difference between now and then, we don’t feel connected to the same characters from 15+ years ago. We’ve grown older, so have the characters. They need to go back in time and do a “Call Of Duty: John Price” and base on his life, growing up, going through battles, etc. or a completely different character like “Call Of Duty: MacMillan” and base on Captain Price’s mentor. 🤷🏽♂️
Basically COD 4 is the essence of Call of Duty as we know it. If you take the franchise as a whole and boil it down to its root and fundamentals then you get this game. Fun gun play, smooth movement, strategic class building, kill streaks, and solid map design. That's what call of duty is at its core. Every other game is just building off of that.
Yes, it established the foundation from which the entire franchise is built upon today. Heck, its influence is still clearly seen in 90% of all first-person shooter games today. Easily one of the most influential first-person shooter games in video game history.
Too bad they have been absolutely failing at providing this type of experience
You can sum it up as simple as: if cod4 had not been the way it was, mw2 wouldn't have been either, neither black ops, mw3 and black ops 2.
Straight up nostalgia looking at me in the eyes ... what a great era it was for the FPS genre.
most of the COD4 maps.... especially the DLC ones....
they are just re-skins of COD2 maps
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the china town map is Carentan..... like a 1 for 1 copy from COD2, but with some neon signs added
Ironic as MW2 was when the franchise jumped the shark and never looked back. CoD4 was a crossroads for IW at the time, either go into a more thriller, implication styled game with tight professional work or to embrace it's new frantic rollercoaster ride.
Such an iconic game. CoD4 was my first experience with the franchise in 07' and is still my favorite game to this day! Incredible video man, loved it!
Cod 4 was one of the most genuinely entertaining campaigns I’ve ever played. Each mission was fun and unique and not just run and gun like a lot of the later titles
Absolutely love these long form old-school COD retrospectives you've been doing, thank you for giving me hours of entertainment on the toilet.
this man is taking 40min booboos, u need some fiber brother
Fuckin nasty
TMI and gross 🤢
I’ll never forget watching the E3 footage of this game for the first time when I was 10. I couldn’t believe how good it looked, the part where the javelin locks onto the tank blew my mind for some reason 😂 Timeless game.
I was 9 years old skipping elementary to play cod4 online. I’m so grateful to have experienced cod4 on pc too.
Ups for Wormrot
Simple killstreaks, simple mechanics, simple weapon and camo progression, awesome maps, quick scoping, immersive sound stage and mountable machine guns in a modern realistic setting. What more could you want?
Tons of lootboxes?
Lots of skins behind a pay wall?
OP Gadgets that literally give you cheats?
Bunch of kill streaks that constantly get spammed all over the map?
Host Migration to pause every multiplayer game? And possibly crash someones game because their internet isnt good enough?
Up the price by 20% ?
@@kissaninja9700 Ahh those were the days.
I miss there only being a handful of attachments, honestly can explain how cod 4 was the peak of gaming for me
@@stephenmccann3407 yeah this is a underrated aspect, you either wanted a red dot or nothing, simple. probably wouldn’t work today tho.
@@Kevin-be9iy ye ngl it would be lame ash to not have the weapon customization we do now all tho I despise the new cods and jus main bo3 and 4 these older ones will always be on top all the new ones are just a re skin of 2019 Cold War was the straw that broke the camels back for me I grinded dark aether and hitt prestige 14 before I realized it’s the same shi same w vanguard it’s just a ww2 reskin of 2019 and mw2 is just 2019 2.0😂 it’s Actually pitiful and I refuse to buy another until they drop this bs format and the whole warzone fad it’s alright they just need to put more focus into making their mps actually work on release and make it so that the host is migrating 24/7 it’s still a problem even on bo3 n 4
I was 13 when this game came out, this game single handedly got me addicted to cod franchise till bo2. Not sure if its a good thing now but i don't regret the incredible amount of fun and friends I made. I also was going through health issues and cod was a massive source of distraction.
It was a magical time of gaming when everything was getting better and creative vision of devs in all genres were exploding.
I think most of us feel jaded because of the deminishing returns you mentioned. Games will always feel less impressive from now on and we are older with responsibility. But be happy we got to experience it and im sure theres some young kids out there feeling the same magic we felt but with games today. Life goes on.
Much love to any of the OG's reading this.
Well put, cod4 will alaways be in my memory mainly due to playing with high school friends who I no longer speak to.
@@Johnson09641 ain’t that something lol some of the best memories with people you don’t even speak to anymore. Would be cool to experience those times again
@@lonemaus562 yep definitely, I do miss those days alot somtimes!
I played the game on the Playstation 3. Cod4 gave me memories I will never forget. The gameplay, campaign, COMMUNITY, I could keep going.
Coming from browser games to cod4 was such a leap for me, and I went straight for the ps3 every day I got home from school.
I do believe your take on the training at the start of the game, has been influenced a bit with years and years of more modern games.
For its time (cod4), it did its job perfectly, while still being somewhat immersive and not ruining an actual mission, becuase you have to learn how to press "Jump" in the middle of a warzone.
Cod4 was also my first introduction to Call of Duty, so much that I didn't even know about World at War, till Mw3 came out, as I kept playing cod4 and then mw2.
Hot take. I believe COD4 had the highest skill gap in the entire franchise. Especially for a solo player. I also believe that it has the best designed maps and gun play. And finally I believe this also had the best spawn system which was scraped in MW2 2009 unfortunately for a chaotic revenge spawn system. This was because people cried about being spawn camped. The maps were designed to counter this. The amount of times I was spawn trapped and used the environment for cover to farm kills. Then pushed the enemy back with a chopper and won games was so satisfying. There was a chess element to COD4. This is why Modern Warfare Remasted fell short because it adopted the MW2 revenge spawn system. This changed the flow and slowed the pace down. COD4 isn't just a masterpiece. It's the greatest call of duty ever made. No other COD is anywhere near it.
Entirely accurate. Best cod by a country mile
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Yep I remember spawn trapping on shipment shooting through the containers with the m16 hahah. Favorite weapon is still ak-74 but I would use the rpd on shipment sometimes just to tick people off n get a fat 100 kills a game lol.
Yup, hit the nail on the head. No COD has ever been as fun as COD 4. The maps really were incredible and when they bring them back in the new Code they're always the better than the new maps.
Right on, brother! Everything said here is 100% true!
I can’t believe that it’s already been 7 years since COD 4 Remastered came out…time flies as an adult bro! 😭
My first time playing CoD 4 we were poor so I couldn’t play online but had hell of a blast playing split screen with my brothers. There was just the basic needs met for just an absolute gem for a bunch of tweens screaming and gaming all night long.
the funniest stuff ever was the disc was scratched and I couldn’t get pass the AC-130 mission for the life of me. So until nearly 2015 or so I didn’t get past the mission. Lol. Such a good foundation for fps games in general, and overall a GOAT for what it do for everyone today.
I loved the story mode on MW I played it probably 30 times 😂 i didn’t even know about online gaming at the time.
CoD4 and MW2 will always have some of my best online memories. Back when there was no party chat and the craziest gun skin was gold. Wish so bad we could go back to the simplicity of these games.
Open lobbies where everyone can communicate and talk ISHT Along with a ton of other Revolutionary content is what made this game amazing
Along with no loot boxes and all gear and weapons UNLOCKED IN GAME
Yeah, we'll never see that type of gaming ever again too. It's sad
@@ki11atj49 yup. and ill never buy another one of these AAA gaming companies trash again till they do.
but whats cool is thaat inde delvelopers onSTEAM are coming out with really cool games that give me that feel good vibe those 2006-2013 AAA games used to
@@blackfacegaming191 can you give me examples to check out
CoD 4 was so revolutionary I still remember the feelings I had when I got home after launch day and put the disk in my Xbox… hearing the intro for the fist time gave me chills… heck I still remember my first online match when I jumped online. This game marked a before and after for online and gaming experience as we know it now days
The amount of hours I put into this game, sniper lobbies, making montages, easily the goat cod imo. SO much fun and very simple
I was 18 when this game came out and honestly it blew every other fps game that came before it out of the water, it was a huge step forward in graphics (great optimisation too) and the complexity of the multiplayer with weapon customisation, kill streaks, perks and great progression all being landmark advancements in 1 game. Totally reinventing the multiplayer fps genre, oh and it also has amazing maps design with 10+ classic maps I remember the exact layouts of even 15 years later
COD4 launched with 16 maps and were ALL GOOD with NO BUGS and was made by a team of about 100 devs. Now we have 3000 devs who put out GARBAGE REQUIRES RESTART and cant make a map to save their lives
I got a ps3 at launch and when COD 4 came out it blew my mind and got back into gaming, COD4 Was awesome !
man I played this every day for hours, no shooter even came close to that magic since then. Awesome video !
The campaign was always split up into acts in the original. Just something else that made this game unique and stand out to anything else available at the time. I actually played through it again for the first time in years just a few days ago (original bc OG is best) and the only thing I could possibly complain about is that it didn’t go on for longer, the precise classified feel of the SAS missions intertwined with the fuck yeah US marines invasion is just as fun now as when I first experienced this masterpiece when I was 10.
I would disagree, I played back in the day and loved it , but I replayed it recently and I found it a chore to play through again, it just basically consist of infinite enemy spawning and you running mad to the next check point praying to the rng Jesus that you don't get killed getting there , not fun times. I guess I had more patience back then.
@@steevk9787the game takes like 5 hours to beat. You’re just bad.
@@Jester_Jingles
It has nothing to do with the comment you answered to, and if something is made wrong does not mean you are bad.
I bet you were one of those geniuses who hate on COD ADVANCED WARFARE (Best COD) when you only had a skills issue.
I remember being in middle school and everyone playing Halo 3 and slowly all switching over to COD4, id do anything to go back and relive those days.. special games.
When you think about it, Eavesdrop was basically just a one-way proximity voice. So in a way, now everyone just has Eavesdrop on in the new MWII.
I was 17 when cod4 came out, and I can overstate how FREAKIN TIRED a lot of us were of WW2 fps games, so when this came out…it was awesome, easily the best time to be a teenage gamer since the beginning of video games. Being old enough to start out with doom, then to goldeneye and perfect dark, then halo, then COD4 to now, just amazing
Damn unc you’re an OG
I wanted a Wii for christmas in 07, my dad and i drove around trying to find one, after a few hours we ended up at a sears, my dad bought me a ps3 and Cod4. I was hooked on it right away, playing online using my DSL connection. I was at one point in the top 1000 on ps3 leaderboards. simpler times, i miss that.
I was at uni when the game came out playing halo 3 but couldn't ignore the hype. It was a game changer.
I'm surprised you are making a video on this when you were not around to experience it yourself.
I love the OG COD4's color pallet so much. It's reminiscent of Black Hawk Down. It emulates that "war movie" look so well.
Be quiet you fool
Damn. The fact this came out in 2007 hit me hard. I was seven when it came out. Playing World at war at my friends was the first cod experience I had and I asked for that for the next Christmas. My parents got me cod modern warfare instead. At first I was disappointed but after putting it in my 360 I fell in love with it. This ended up starting my love of the COD series that lasted through until black ops 3. I never had internet during my childhood so it’s sad I never truly got to experience the online MP unless I was at a freinds house. I’m gonna watch the rest of video now though. 🤘
Getting you CoD4 instead of WaW is probably the best parental present mix up there could be 😂
Both games are great, but CoD4 is the OG
I was 12 when this dropped but I was a DOG in this game. I was ranked Top 1000 in score, top 5000 in kills and top 7000 in wins. Search and destroy each round counted as a single win so we would go on massive win streaks. The guns were all amazing aside from the silly mp44 with no attachments lol, the maps were spectacular as was the campaign. I’ll never love a game like I loved this one
@@dahui58 The only reason why I wanted WaW instead was Zombies was more fun than the arcade mode that Modern Warfare had. I had no internet, so MP was barely a factor for me.
The initial execution of the President still gives me goosebumps.
This is a classic, apart from other reasons this is epic never boring game is it’s music, the best of all series. Yes, thank you
I loved this game so much. I got it as a Chrismas present in 2014 and I loved every minute of it. We didn't have WiFi at the time so I used to spend a lot of time in empty lobbies, exploring the maps. I even found some out of the map glitches using old school mode. The ambient music in the game was so nice. I still listen to it occasionally.
I was born '95.
Remember playing this game and every other call of duty. Have been a gamer all my life and have the pain in my hands to prove it.
Call of duty 4 is just different man, I absolutely loved it. I remember so many sleepovers with my friends to get the gold guns and stay up ALL night. We would literally play until one of us got tired, then the next would start while the other slept. We all shared one account and got basically gold on all guns. My favorite was the mp5. Anyway... i am rambling.. but great memories on that game, memories that made me the gamer I am today. Love COD 4.
Ramble on brother, born in 95 as well this game was absolutely IT man. Never will I love a game like I loved this one. Halo was a blast and gears was dope, but cod4 has my heart forever
As a younger man I thank you both for your service to the gaming community, back when things were so simple yet so complex, you will not be forgotten.
I have been playing since 2007. I am still playing it in June 23. It never gets old unlike me.
Forever my favorite game ever, first fps game on the 360 I got as a kid. Yes I was the annoying little guy screaming while using martyrdom😅
Gay af
You were the super easy kill hah
I remember being stuck at the last portion of All Ghillied up on Veteran for so long. Those dogs would fuck me up every time
I was 14 when this game came out so i remember the atmosphere very well around this game. I was addicted to Halo 3 at the time and when i heard all my buddies switching to CoD 4 it was disappointing but I eventually gave it a try early December (a month after it released) and I literally couldn't put the game down. Everyone and i mean EVERYONE was playing this game including my older brother who thinks video games was a waste of time. The word of mouth surrounding this game lived up to the hype. I honestly think because of this game, it was the beginning of ADS (Aim Down Sight). Before this game ADS was strictly a CoD feature. Nowadays most FPS games have ADS.
I experienced the same as you.. I was in to halo 3 first and I was sad when everybody wanted to play this new cod game but then I tried it and the rest is history lol but still halo 3 and cod 4 were the best
Yep I remember battle field bad company had no ads. I had ps3 at the time so no halo but cod 4 until black ops 1 is all i needed. Battle field 2 was also good but eventually I moved and didn't have internet for a few years... When I tried to play cod again I couldn't do it. It was all jetpacks on top of being almost 3 years without playing 😢 sad times getting embarrassed trying to play online lool.
There's a mod called COD4x for the pc version of COD4, its got a bunch of player run servers on there and a majority of them are always populated as of last time I played (a couple of the big team servers have bots as well so if the server isn't totally populated you still have a lot of things to shoot at). A couple servers even took the time to add more killstreaks as well (ac130, predator missle, etc). Its not the vanilla cod4 experience but its still a lot of fun if you just want to play. I think there is controller support in the mod too but I'm not sure, I just play M+K on it.
Just played last night still a good handful of players
I gotta say its crazy how much cod4 was polished, even from the later builds of the leaked pre release versions. It literally went from reskinned cod2 to pretty damn good maxxed out on pc in 07
This game for it being released in 2007 was absolutely perfect. This was the benchmark, making it one of the best call of dutys of all time.
Hey chopper I just wanna say it was cool chillin with ya during the cod mw2 campaign. Sure the campaign was a mixed bag but it was cool seeing it first hand with ya. Keep these uploads coming my boy.
Gay af
3:33: "The standard for quality has gone up astronomically in the gaming industry"
HARD disagree, just because new games all have these features by default does not mean the quality is better, we have just become accustomed to the innovations of the old games
I was 14 when this came out, cod4, halo 3, and mw2 were how I spent basically all my time until I got my drivers license. What I'd give to go back in time and play on those lobbies...
Finally somebody mentions the simplicity of older cods compared to more recent cods. Nowadays the devs have to put in ten times the amount of content and details into their games, just for the bare minimum requirements of a “finished” cod game (they’re barely finished when they’re released anyways tho). I mean just look at all the content that is releasing for MWII this month. 50+ weapons, insanely detailed animations and sound design, 100’s of emblems and calling cards, 100’s of weapon attachments, new kill streaks, updated movement, new operators, nearly 200 camos, five massive ground war maps and eleven 6v6 maps. Just look around any map in and look at the insane amount of details hidden around every map, and compare it to the simplistic rubble and the basic furniture laying around in early COD maps. It’s no wonder why they need so many game studios working on each cod game nowadays. And yet a massive chunk of our community is still going to find ways to complain that MWII launched with “not enough” content compared to a few other games.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was my first introduction to the series. I first got it back in August of 2008 for my 12th birthday. I’m 27 now and still occasionally play it from time to time. It’s the only CoD game I ever return to. There’s something about it that just feels great. The only sad thing is now on the PS3, the game is mostly dead aside from TDM. I used to play so much SND. I loved how the game rewarded skilled and experienced players rather than noobs like MW2 did.
Good times. Met a lot of friends playing this game, all over the world. Still friends to this day. When devs get that perfect balance of simplicity and complexity right, you end with with masterpieces like this. Sad what the AAA game industry has become, but at least we have indie devs still coming out with good stuff.
Just a few things; there was not a prestige mode for cod4 on pc, it might have been added years later, but it didn’t exist originally. The main thing that kept people going was completing a,, the challenges for a certain weapon class and unlocking the golden guns. I remember getting the Golden deagle, golden ak47, golden m60, & golden dragunov. There was a golden shotgun and golden sub machine gun as well.
Also shooters at that time had campaigns that were entirely focused on the gameplay. Levels were just sections that would each have a different unique gameplay mechanic. Cod4 was revolutionary in that it had an actual story that wasn’t on a huge macro scale. It felt very involved, especially the no ghillie level, which was by far the most stunning thing to happen to shooters in a very long time
Genuinely interested on the MW3 and Cold War retrospective videos coming in the future.
Everyone talks about All Ghillied Up but my absolute favourite was Warpig. Just drops you in absolute chaos and tells you to make your way out. By far and away the best Call of Duty, both Campaign and Multiplayer!
I remember getting this game from my uncle, I wasn’t a big FPS back then at all, but my uncle was a military man, Canadian Peace Keeper And because back then I was interested in military type things he thought I might like this.
So he came over we popped it in and we played right on online and had a blast, and been getting every cod ever sense
I was a Halo 2 "clan" member of the XGC group (Xbox Gaming Community) back then. We were 30,000 strong on XBL.
Through that community I got invited into the closed Beta/Alpha servers for COD 4 months before launch.
COD4 was literally a game changer.
Period.
It was totally something new .. compare halo 3 to cod 4. It changed fps
Woow this brought back so many memorises!
COD 3 brought me in to the series and i was in the top 1000 in the world for pretty much all of its release but then this game came out. Completed vetrean SP on the first night and then grinded MP. Was top 500 for the first 6 months and think i hit prestige 10 after 3 months of the game coming out. So many good time with friends!
What a wonderful video. Well done. As a Battlefield refugee that picked up COD after BF2042 killed the franchise, I really appreciate your Call of Duty game summary videos. I enjoy learning the history of the games I play and your videos make that easy and entertaining.
Still has the best MP maps of any game Ive ever played. With the exception of District and the DLC's, every match was pure joy. Crossfire, Bog, Downpor, Overgrown, Ambush, Countdown... the list goes
I’ll take district over any map they make now a days. This game was perfect man
What shocks me about Cod 4 for at least Infinity Ward and Activation? They managed to get any sort of massive attention, like, bro. Cod 4 was released only a week or a few days before Halo 3 launched. Like, we are not talking about some small game like it's Halo, the fucking juggernaut of First-person shooters it was during the 2000s. Halo 3 was one of the most hyped games near launch, it was crazy, of course, I was only like 2 years old when that was going on. But the fact that both Infinity Ward and Activation managed to stay their ground with the attention they got and got Call of Duty off the ground is amazing to me. I still remember going for beating the Modern Warfare trilogy that I used to do when I had all three games on Xbox, lol. a lot simpler times... I still miss them. :(
Agreed. Everybody in my High school was talking about Halo 3 and It's Trailer was Top Rated on RUclips
Though I'm sad I never got to play the original during it's prime, I've had a blast playing through the remaster. It's such a good game and I love it.
I don't know if he went over this I only had time to watch a few minutes of this video but cod4 was amazing but it was so dated you could literally copy your online save file onto a flash drive and open the save in notepad and you would easily find lines of code you could change that gave you unlimited ammo, lasers, crazy jump height, god mode. ONLINE!! They patched it within a few weeks working with Sony so that online files from cod could be locked and not copyable. Just insane all it took to cheat was a flash drive, and any computer. Cod4 was out for a while already too it took forever for people to even figure it out! Lol!
Man i wish you couldve played this game in its height. It really was a special experience. No bullshit, no caveats, just incredible fun.
my dad bought me this game when I was in 6th grade.
This is how core memory created.
Honestly nothing will be as fun as starting up cod 4 back in the day. No cheaters no sbmm no cronus
I remember being 8 and this catching me off guard after seeing it in a catalogue back in 07. My first thought was "whoa, cod is modern now?" I hadn't played a cod game since big red one and never truly got into the series until 2010 when I finally played cod4 and mw2 after my dad got me cod 3, cod4 and mw2 for the 360. Now I'm not gonna lie, I had also been playing cod 1 on pc and was very much into ww2 at the time and played more of cod 3 as opposed to cod4 and mw2. but it didn't take long for thise to grow on me.
"ON YOUR FEET SOLIDER! WE ARE LEAAVINGGG!". What a fantastic game this was, miss the simple days
First COD I ever played back in 2005 was Big Red One..First MP experience with COD was MW2 2009. Great video Chop!
There was a time back when I was 14 when my mind was blown by this game, before I was married, before I had kids and any real responsibility to speak of. I would stay up night after night chasing that oh so coveted 10th prestige level 55, and every golden gun. The amount of memories this game was/is responsible for is almost indescribable. I will never forget logging onto Xbox after school and every last person on my friends list on Xbox read "call of duty 4 modern warfare"...we will never have that type of era in gaming overall ever again. To the good ol day ✊
Was 15 when this game came, the memories.
Man I remember going over to friends house and seeing this game for the first time and it was just amazing, needless to say I begged my mom to buy it for me and that the guns are "just in the game, it's not bad I promise" 😂😂 what a time
I started with cod3 and was like 14 when cod4 was out lol. You got the vibes right as far as I remember
I had a lot of fun playing campaign again in the remaster but yeah the gameplay def shows it’s age
I spent over 28 days into Cod 4. At the time this was a masterpiece at its time. I remember reading reviews of the game saying it’s cons “nothing really” That always stuck with me. The problem with the game, which you touched on was it got stale, maps got old, especially with only 1 map pack as dlc. Either way Cod 4 is still a masterpiece in my mind. It definitely paved the way for all the future Cods.
84 days. I looked up what that meant in hours once. Pretty shocking moment. 🤣
@@JoeyRhubarb yoooo 😂😂 you were on that heavy grind
Well, i can't tell how much days i spent on it but this should probably be around 400 aha played it from the end of 2009 until 2018, playing some summer like 8 to 10 hours a day (ofc not all day BUT), got at the very least a day of gaming each week
Unless you were there to see games go from Zelda OOT graphics to CoD 4, you just have no idea how mind blowing it looked at the time.
It was simple, yet still had a good amount of customization. Unlocking camos and attachments was fun, not some boring never-ending grind. The map design is also unrivaled with WaW being an exception.
😂😂😂😂 waw maps were fucking garbage bruh
Castle and dome the only two i can even remember i went back to cod 4 1 month after waw came out
@@Calgac Sounds like a skill issue
This game was the perfect time in gaming for me. It sits within the golden age of RUclips where creators were just starting to get big and uploaded only for the love of the games, not to grab views or teach everyone how to play optimally as fast as possible. The game was perfectly imperfect, with its many glitches it spawned new communities of glitchers and that lead to fun community mini games like Mike Myers (where it paid to know glitches). This worked too because most glitches were only accessible in the old school mode. Not to mention how ahead of its time the game was, it just felt so good to get home from school and hop on the game for fun with friends. The campaign had unlockable cheats which just gave it such replay value and there were so many cool easter eggs littered throughout the game. The whole game just has this unique feeling that will sadly never be replicated in my opinion, times have just changed too much.
I remember when I first got out the map on the mission 'Charlie don't surf' and you could walk for ages out there. I found the random turret that was hidden out the map that you could use, and I just remember finding it so cool.
In my mind one of ch0pper best videos
When you he said "go to a friend's house to play" I felt that lol the nostalgia I got is incredible thanks for bringing back the good old days!
Love watching vids like this to get me hyped for the new CoD. Been binging these all week!
I was 10 when this game came out. Before it I had played the hell out of CoD 2 and Finest Hour and loved them for the campaign alone, when CoD4 came out it was the first shooter I personally had played online and it was revolutionary. I would spend all day at school talking to friends about it and thinking about playing it when I got home, it made me a longtime CoD fan for sure up until BO2 when the series took a nosedive.
CoD4, WaW, MW2, BO1, and MW3 were the golden years of CoD imo, all of them masterpieces. I hope that when the Microsoft/Activision deal goes through all of them get added to gamepass, if so there may be a resurgence in the playerbase and we may get to experience these classic games online one last time.
cod 4 changed fps in a positive way
strange knowing that we are almost as far away from MWR now as we were back then from the original CoD4
The missions were separated by "acts" on the original pc version 👍
Aswell as the Wii port
They were separated into Acts on the OG Console versions as well. Must have played through this game’s campaign at least a hundred times on my 360.
They were separated into Acts on the OG Console versions as well. Must have played through this game’s campaign at least a hundred times on my 360.
As someone who was 20 when this dropped there was no cod community this game created it no one gave a shit about cod before this medal of honor was more popular.
Still my favorite cod game
Cod 4 was the first multiplayer game i ever played. So many memories.
I don't see anyone talking about how well balanced this game was. That alone was HUGE!
You are pampered by today's and technology. Internet and cell phones were in their infancy. Social media was non existent. This game as I remember took over the globe. Everyone talked about it. Celebs, athletes, everyone. I remember it was named dropped on movies and TV shows. Multi player with mics was revolutionary. Between halo 3 and cod4 it was the birthplace of leagues and ladder play. The maps were all genius and so were the weapons. I could write a book on what made this game amazing.
Man playing online was crazy. Hahahhha no rules. No reporting. It was all out war.
The jump in graphics quality, the quality of the story, and the gaming community made this great.
If cod 4 modern warfare never existed, then we will not have games like mw2 2009, waw, mw3, bo1, bo2, and so on... cod 4 modern warfare was the one that started it all honesty. Gotta respect it😊
Anyone remember cod4 competative on gamebattles? Where you lost the games you won :D? Near all of them btw!
Yeah lol that was before there were any pro gamers or if any at all. I remember have a team there and losing a lot lol. But winning some. Your comment activated a core memory for me dude 👍
cod, cod2, cod4, and mw2 are the only cods that matter and made with actual talent.
Long tangent but I remember getting my first xbox 360 Christmas 2007 and it came with gears of War, I had played CoD in the past on ps2 but now having GoW I thought nothing could be better, I saw a commercial for cod4 and asked my mom to take me to buy it, fast forward a few hours and I can specifically remember being a few games in to cod4 tdm, loading onto downpour being absolutely addicted
I connect so well with these videos cause I experienced CoD almost identically to you. Got my start on WaW. Went hard in MW2, BO1&2, and started playing less after MW3. I also think we the same age.
This was my first call of duty on the new 360. I was 13 with the war in Iraq/Afghanistan fresh on my mind. I sunk 20 days into it during its peak in late 07 until WAW came out in 08. Was a masterpiece at the time and still is. It was considered one of the holy trinity back then… Halo 3 and Battlefield Bad Company the other two. Keep up the great videos man 👍
Ah, if u had 9 years old at the time - you do not remember an impact that CoD1 made at its release.
Man, CoD4 is such an incredibly great game.
I was twelve years old when it released. I had six really good friends that lived on the same street as me at the time, and we all had Xbox 360s. Nearly every night for two whole years, all seven of us would play it together. Whether we ended up on the same team or opposing teams, we always had a blast. Every. Single. Time.
CoD4 is one of those games that I'll always remember very fondly. It'll always be my favorite game in the franchise, because its simply that damn good.
Man, this video brought back so many tremendous memories for me. Thanks for that. Cheers.
It was the start of the "you had to be there" era, and what made it even more special was that for those of us that were old enough WE KNEW it was happening. And I was fortunate enough to have 2 best friends that wanted to play CoD4 just as much as I did, so there was nothing better for us than hopping on Team Tactical and absolutely dumpstering opps literally going on 15-20+ game win streaks all night long like it was nothing. I treasure those sessions, much the same way I do with my then-future MW2 playgroup, my MW3 Serbian homies, and finally my BO2 league team. That's all more than a decade ago and Idk what any of them are up to now, but wherever they are I still love em and hope they're doing well. 🖤
eavesdrop was a unique idea at the time and they had a good idea that just didnt work how they would have thought
I remember those nights me and my friends stayed up like whole weekends playing CoD4 and Halo 3.
I miss those days man. I wish we could all relive them for just one day.
I can't wait to tell my date about the cod 4 retrospective. Thanks so much Chop! Can't wait for your modern warfare 2 video 😬.
Tell HIM I said hi
litterally every gun felt great in this game. ttk was tight and very unforgiving. great sandbox with how they thought out the perks save a few. boo boos like the acog m40. ah so many good memories on the gold gun grind.
Back in 2007 the main thing was online gaming. Everyone pretty much had WiFi then and that opened up everything. COD 4 was the only one that worked properly
I was 17 yrs when this game came out and remember seeing the night time gameplay demo, the reload animation was insanely good and the night vision looked so real at the time. Before Call of Duty 4, there where no killstreaks, no create a class (the norm was to find weapons on the map or buy like in CS), no perks, no standard 60 fps MP, aiming through iron sights and super presice weapons was not common and the point that popped up when you got a kill where revelutionary. In games before CoD4 the standard was a killfeed in the bottom corner of your screen and that was the only way to know if you got a kill, there where no actual feedback when you got kills before CoD4. I rember I was blown away by that game and RPG elements was so popular at the time and to see them implemented in a fps was unbeliveble at the time. Especially since it improved the game.