Forgotten Hope 2

Call of Duty 4

2008-01-10T17:15:00.000-08:00

Call of Duty 4 is the latest in the Call of Duty Series and was released in November 2007.

This version sees you playing as a member of the SAS and Marine Force Recon.

The single player puts you in many different situations, starting from training for a raid on a cargo ship looking for a nuclear device, hostage rescue and assasination.

I also found the single player storyline to be very dramatic, with some great new elements added that I had never experienced in a game like this before (main characters dieing for one).

Multiplayer action was different too. Unlike in previous versions, you can gain ranks (all the way up to commander), which provides you with new weapons and other unlocks for your weapons. Also once you reach ceratin kill streaks (which are kills you gain without being killed yourself) you gain the UAV or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle which can spot enemy units on the map unless a soldier is using the "UAV Jammer" Perk, Air strikes which calls in 3 waves of jet fighters to drop bombs on a target and finally a helicopter which roams around the map shooting enemy targets.

The addition of perks brought a new perspective to gameplay as well. Perks such as "Iron Lungs" to aid in sniping by allowing the user to hold their breath for longer, giving them time to aim their sniper rifle at their head for an easier kill and "Last Stand" allowing a critically wounded unit to pull out his weapon as a last resort before dieing added new depth and many new and intersting combos for gameplay.

All in all I highly enjoyed this game and recommend it for people who enjoyed the previous games (apart from COD3 which was a complete joke) and anyone interested in modern warfare.

Forgotten Hope 2

2008-01-09T23:02:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone and welcome to my first blog!

As I'm an avid gamer, most of my blogs will be about various games that I play or am interested in playing.

This first game I will be writing about is Forgotten Hope 2. This is a mod for the popular EA Battlefield series which started in Battlefield 1942 in the form of Forgotten Hopes 1 and is now in Battlefield 2. The game is set in the World War II era and features many different vehicles and weaponry ranging from famous Panzer tanks, Stukas, 109's and the fearsome 88mm Flak cannon for the Axis side to the Spitfire, Velentine and Mighty Sherman Tank for the Allied side.

The gameplay is excellent. The tanks and guns are very realistic to the way they would have been back in WWII.

The infantry kits a very specific to each role they are made for. Examples of this are the standard rifleman kit which is good for your basic gun fights, then there is the engineer kit which is useful for repairing vehichles and destroyed guns to laying mines for unsuspecting tanks and vehicles heading to a flag. Then you have the anti tank rifleman kit, useful for taking out light tanks and sniping infantry with their rifle and heavier tanks with sticky grenades and 3kg bombs.

The game is of course not without its flaws. The flying in this, as with the standard Battlefield 2 game is sensitive and difficult, not to mention it is often hard to distinguish friend from foe, as uniforms are often similar and tags don't appear as quickly as they should.

Overall I highly recommend this mod if you are into WWII or Battlefield games.

Please feel free to add comments, as I would love to hear what you thought of my blog and the game itself.