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Dr. Headshot (Or how I learned to stop caring and love the FPS)
DynamicSheep | 12:05 PM on 09.13.2007 23 comments


I was reading the Cblogs yesterday, and someone mentioned that Gamespot has COD4 beta keys. I'm not a big fan of FPS, but I'd heard such good things about the game that I figured I'd give it a shot... at worst I'd hate it and delete the d/l.

I start downloading the beta after entering my beta key and it's almost a gig. This isn't normally a problem, but my internet connection is running like shit and so it takes a few hours. In the mean time I play the demo for Sonic 2, spend some quality time with the g/f and our cats and watch the Colbert Report. (Did you know that MSNBC ran 3 hours of their 9/11/01 footage on the 11th of this year... what a bunch of twats!) All the while I'm thinking, "Here I am spending all this time dicking around while this demo of ANOTHER Call of Duty downloads, when I could be finishing off Dead Rising or Oblivion." So I go back in to check on the progress and it's done. It's about 30 minutes after midnight.

I start up the beta, and notice that at level one I really can't do any of the cool shit that I'd heard about, but I should be able to later. I get into the game as a heavy gunner in a free for all, and four minutes into it I realize that I'm having fun. A lot of fun. I continue ranking up and playing for hours... and log off to go to sleep a little before 5am. Call of Duty really is all it's cracked up to be... it's fun, easily accesible and it has a ton of cool, innovative features that make it a truly unique shooter in a sea of nazis and aliens. If you have an XBox 360 with Gold Live you owe it to yourself to go try out this excellent multiplayer experience, as I finally feel that Live is being worth what I paid for it.



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atheistium's Destructoid Blog
ZERO
Garbz's Destructoid Blog
Word
GrayFox's Destructoid Blog
It's an awesome game so far, love the maps and the level system. Oh, and the knife is the cat's pyjamas.
DynamicSheep's Destructoid Blog
@GrayFox

The knife is actually the "bee's knees".
Justice's Destructoid Blog
The Jock's socks?
AngelsDontBurn's Destructoid Blog
Knifing has never felt so accomplishing!
V3r1n's Destructoid Blog
just got my key so i'll be getting on soon and calling out of work tomorrow to play.
BahamutZero's Destructoid Blog
hey what's your gt?

<--- smokingrobot

yeah it's the shit. I love heavy gunner. make a custom class and switch out the default for the other light machine gun, it's deadly. I also like the perks extra speed, juggernaut and armor piercing
V3r1n's Destructoid Blog
awesome title too btw
DynamicSheep's Destructoid Blog
@Zero

It's DynamicSheep360.

For some reason, DynamicSheep was already taken, which made me a sad panda. I'll add ya' when I get on to play later.
mid3vol's Destructoid Blog
Got the beta yesterday as well. I just wanted to comment on the awesome Kubrick reference in the title. Well played, sir.
Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain's Destructoid Blog
BAHAMUT'S ARROW, IT POINTS TO NOTHING

<--- Agent Chieftain
BahamutZero's Destructoid Blog
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DynamicSheep's Destructoid Blog
Bahamut's Arrow points to our very souls.
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chief curtains - check out my profile. you're internet famous
DynamicSheep's Destructoid Blog
@mid3vol

Coming up with the title is the most crucial and important part of the blog. If you use a blahze title, noone will click to read.
Eschatos's Destructoid Blog
Sounds nice, but I wish there was a PC beta.
dingus's Destructoid Blog
Glad to hear a new FPS fan may have been born. I'll admit that the genre is a little less 'think it out' and a lot more 'shoot it out' which can be a turn off to fans of RTSs and RPGs especially, who are used to using their brains and not their brawn. (That's a compliment, btw)

I did enjoy the title. That's why I read the post. And no, I don't know the original reference, but I do know that the Simpsons did a parody of the title way back when with their $pringfield episode so that's how I knew it.

Promagnum's Destructoid Blog
Kay, couple problems with this.
A - Nothing is innovative about it. Perks is another name for mutators.
B - It's CS + Modern Combat = all kinds of suck
C - Ironsights serve no purpose
and finally
D - it's a console fps, badly aimed (pun) around an 12yr old audience - "Kno wut I' sayin foo, I jwned j00"

Verdict: Run of the mill, but prossibly great for those fine Halo fans.
DynamicSheep's Destructoid Blog
@dingus

It's a reference to "Dr. Strangelove (Or how I learned to stop caring and love the bomb)"
Copyright 2008 Agent Chieftain's Destructoid Blog
YES, I'M FAMOUS ON THE INTERNET
DynamicSheep's Destructoid Blog
ME TOO CHIEFTAIN! I ARE EXCITE!
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@ Promagnum

Up your nose with a rubber hose!

It's innovative to me, and anyone like me (who hasn't like a FPS since the SNES day) should find it to be a breath of fresh air.


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