Ok, the good ol’ boys (and girls) over at Infinity Ward have made the single player beta for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare available for everyone to download on the PC. It is approximately 1.37 GB, so if you want to download it, make sure you have a fast internet connection — or just set it, and forget it, like the Ronco Rotisserie.

After my download was complete, I fired up the self-extracting executable. In about 10 minutes or so, I was up and running. You enter the game, and it wants you to create a profile. No biggie, we’ve see this before. You click on “Play Demo” and then your mission starts.

You start off as a Marine, and while the mission is loading, you get an aerial overview of the terrain ahead. This is a much better use of the loading time than the note you read while waiting for COD2 to load, plus it’s pretty fun to watch.

For those of you who have seen the trailers, the mission should look very familiar. You start off in the middle of a war-torn highway as bullets whiz by your head. You end up running under buildings into the cover of dark where night vision will need to be enabled in order to proceed. Snap those bad boys on and you are in business.

I normally don’t like night vision goggles in games, but Infinity Wards on screen representation is done very well. A quick flip of a switch and you are in night vision goggle mode. The transition is very smooth, and killing people just looks cool when you are wearing them.

After a few objectives, you have to make it to the top of a building and use the “Javelin” to take out a few tanks. Now, I had no clue what the hell a Javelin was. I thought for a split second that they wanted me to throw a spear at them — what the hell? This is modern warfare?!? Well, I found the Javelin, and man was it cool. You lock on to a tank, shoot this thing, it fires, and after a secondary explosion sends it up in the air, it then flies right down and takes out the tank. Very cool.

After destroying a few tanks, your next objective is to protect one under heavy fire. You are part of a small group of marines surrounded by what appears to be a ton of enemies. I ended up just running around and shooting everything that moved, (Oh by the way, friendly fire is still not tolerated). There are a few more objectives, such as taking out a big gunner, (similar to taking out tanks in COD2) you have to run up, plant some C4, run away, and blow it up. No biggie there.

Then you have to call in an air-strike. When the helicopters come in, they just lay waste to everything. It is quite a site to witness. After which, you meet back up with your group, getting orders for your next mission, then bam, the demo is over. Hey, it had to end sometime, and it definitely leaves you wanting some more.

This thing was so intense it was scary. In terms of performance, it ran pretty good on my PC, which is not totally jacked up either. It has 2GB of RAM, and I am running a 64-bit processor, but that’s about it. It ran well, with no choppiness at all.

Once we get our hands on the full release, you can be sure we will play the hell out of it, and post a full review just as soon as our fingers cool down.

If you are interested in playing, head on over to www.charlieoscardelta.com and download it today. You will not regret it!

Tags: Beta, Call-of-Duty-4:-Modern-Warfare, Infinity-Ward

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1 Comment » Travis Stewart on November 4, 2007 12:20 pm I can’t play it :( my graphics card doesn’t support alpha blend or something darn computer atleast I got to play it at my friends house. RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL Comment Now Note: Commenting on Ripten does not currently require registration, however to be eligible for contests on the site, you must be a registered user. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Commenting Rules: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Ripten reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. Thanks. Notify me of followup comments Tired of the Goomba? Upload your own custom comment avatar.