CoD4 PC demo spotted

By Robert Purchese Published 12 October, 2007

Vultures circling carcass, over.

Activision has popped a new demo for Call of Duty 4 on the magical Internet.

It is available for PC, and you can find a list of places to get it from over on the official Charlie Oscar Delta website.

This new sample will give you a much better idea of what the retail version will be like, and let you test out different components from it. It will also make you better understand what life in the modern army is like, as you slip-on uncomfortable socks and bond in cooped-up but cosy barracks.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is being developed by Infinity Ward, the team responsible for Call of Duty 2. It takes place in the here and now, with flashy planes that can accurately bomb "hostile" targets, and robots that have travelled back from the future to eliminate potential rebel leaders.

The full game will be out on PC, PS3 and 360 on 9th November, and most signs are pointing to it being a sell-out success - apparently there is much more room in this genre than we thought.

Head over to our Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare gamepage for all of our considerable coverage to date.

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Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (20) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • S.J.Rogers #1 4 years ago

    Shock...

    ZZZZZZZZZZ...!

  • UncleLou #2 4 years ago

    Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is being developed by Infinity Ward, the team responsible for Call of Duty 2

    Certainly it's first and foremost the team responsible for Call of Duty 1. You make it sound a bit as if they took over from someone else. :)

    First one was a lot better, too.

  • The_Reevster #3 4 years ago

    I think it was said that way because CoD3 was developed by someone else, cant remember who though.

  • Cadence #4 4 years ago

    My PC is going to melt trying to play this....

  • UncleLou #5 4 years ago

    FWIW, the demo runs absolutely ultra-smooth on my admittedly fairly recent PC, fully maxed out. It's certainly a lot less of a system-hog than some of the console ports of recent months.

  • bioreit #6 4 years ago

    @ UncleLou

    What you got? Downloading this onto my PC now and just wondering what to expect.

    Everything is pretty good on mine bar the graphics card :-/

    Core 2 Quad 6600
    4 gig RAM
    256 meg Nvidia 8500 GT (see? Pretty crap...)

    Because it's hooked up to my 32" Samsung, graphics that look passable on a 22" or smaller monitor look abysmal :-(

    And yes, I am upgrading the graphics card, but I overspent on HDDs this month so it will have to wait as a self-bought Christmas present. Or rather, they will have to wait, as I reckon I'll go for two 8800 GTS :-D

  • UncleLou #7 4 years ago

    I have an C2D 6750 and an 8800GTS - yeah, I imagine the 8500 might be a bit of a bottleneck, to put it mildly. :)

  • IN4ARIOT #8 4 years ago

    OOOOOooooohhh.., loved this , defend the tank bit was well intense . OmFg another essential pc purchase...I wonder how much I can sell the cat for?..

  • Talha #9 4 years ago

    @bioreit: OK we get you - you are on the cutting edge of technology and your system makes all of our rigs look like PSP's in comparison, especially now that I look at my (newly bought, sob) 22" widescreen LCD. What's more, you will make up for your crap (yee-hah) card by getting two 8800 GTSs. Pity I have only one and that almost delayed my wedding!

    Stop that before someone breaks into your house and steals everything that you hold dear...!

    On a serious note, will C2D 1.86 GHz + 2 Gig RAM + 8800 GTS cut it?

  • whome #10 4 years ago

    "On a serious note, will C2D 1.86 GHz + 2 Gig RAM + 8800 GTS cut it? "

    yes.

  • kali_mist #11 4 years ago

    folks, i have a fairly old setup and the demo runs lovely without me changing any settings.

  • bioreit #12 4 years ago

    @ Talha

    Sorry! :-(

    I only got the PC for video editing and for storing all my DVDs on - I planned on using the 360 for all my games. But that damn COD4 beta spoiled me and now I'm desperate to play as much of COD4 as I can get!

    And I just got contents insurance for the first time ever due to paranoia! Although that's more for accidental damage, as I'm pretty much decent security on my own, regardless of the secure-download CCTV cameras I have wired all over the entrances. Which, interestingly enough, seem really off-putting to all the Mormons who come a-knocking :-)

  • YourMessageHere #13 4 years ago

    "JACKSON, go here!"
    Actually I'm fine here. I can see them and kill them from here. Oh wait, they don't stop spawning until I go there. I see.
    "JACKSON, do this!"
    Why don't you? You're closer. Oh wait, you exist only to irritate me. I see.
    "JACKSON, shoot the enemy for us!"
    Well, you all have guns too. I'm getting a little tired of getting killed while you all hide.
    "JACKSON, plant the asplosives!"
    Fucks sake, do I have to do everything? I DO? Oh.
    "JACKSON, destroy the tanks!"
    I'm sniping. YOU destroy the tanks, and I'll cover you.
    "JACKSON, destroy the tanks!"
    No. I'm busy killing towelheads in a justified and non-political manner. You, on the other hand, are having a nice sit down not twenty feet from the launcher.
    "JACKSON, destroy the tanks! Get the Javelin and go to the second floor"
    Oh fine, just to shut you up.
    Wait, how do I get to the second floor?
    (10 mins and 30 "JACKSON, destroy the tanks!" later) Oh, you mean the FIRST floor.
    "JACKSON, destroy the tanks!"
    Right, you fully deserve this.
    FRIENDLY FIRE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
    I see.
    /cancels preorder.

    If the rest of the game is like this, I'm not sure at all that this will be any fun.

  • wayn3h #14 4 years ago

    YourMessageHere; lol your post mirrors my experience with the demo exactly. Not impressed.

  • peppergomez #15 4 years ago

    just played it. christ, what an awful game this is gonna be. like a state fair shooting gallery on steroids.

  • BobsYourUncle #16 4 years ago

    The last 3 posters have really missed the whole point of Call of Duty games. Yes, they're linear on the rails shooters, but they're bloody fucking fun!

  • TagemandBagem #17 4 years ago

    YourMessageHere ;) Very true. But it's still an intense and great single player experience. Plus the multiplayer won't have anyone shouting orders at you unless you have an annoying clan mate.

  • YourMessageHere #18 4 years ago

    Well, from the amount I've heard the CoD games' singleplayer mode talked up (I avoided the previous ones as I'm broadly allergic to WWII games) I expected it to resemble an FPS game a little more and a lightgun game a little less. I mean, the fact you can move about is about the only way it really differs from the likes of Time Crisis. That being said, the actual game engine and feel of the game is very solid, but the truly ridiculous degree to which it is overly restricted and prescriptive makes me realise just how ahead of its time BF2 was (in concept, that is; BF2's floaty movement and fairly rubbish hand weapons are another matter). Or rather, it's only "bloody fucking fun" if you don't object to being told what to do all the time and not having to think about it.

    I'm still kind of interested in the multiplayer, though, so long as it has half-decent bots. I can all but see the twitch-l33t0rs already circling above this like vultures, so I'm not particularly interested in actual MP, but with bots I can see this could be great. One to wait for feedback on.

  • peppergomez #19 4 years ago

    well, with games like bf2, stalker, and oblivion, ridiculously linear & narrow shooters like cod are so late 90's, and are out evolved. that single player level was completely mindless, and was like an overamped tutorial, with zero thought. sorry, but that is fare for adhd teenagers, not for adults who want to actually think and make choices of their own. sure, for 15-30min. of mindless violence fix, cod works, but for anything else, based on that demo, it comes up short.

  • spiny #20 4 years ago

    I found it really, really....meh.

    TBH it's a relief there's one less great game to put on top of my already huge pile this autumn ;)