Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare® (2007)

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Some of the most fun I've had in a little while, this game is really good with some friends

This is one of the best games ever, super cool if you are new into shooting games

It's an great game! Glad there is still lots of players playing!

Play this and the remastered version. Still one of my favorite campaigns ever. Such a classic

really fun game. highly recommended. but the thing is that it sometimes keeps crashing. but i honestly think i need a high-end pc to run this

The usual us military propaganda, we're good & superior, they're bad & monkeys fighting with sticks and rocks. However as a game it's amazing, especially for its time.

the master price. congratulate

Like Adam Webber (Brendan Fraser), this game is an awesome 'blast from the past.' This was the very first Call Of Duty I ever played c. 2008. It still amazes me to this date that I played this game on a computer with a single core Intel Pentium 4 Northwood (?) CPU and a GPU of a 6600 GT (maybe 6800 GT) with 8 gigabytes of RAM which was all the computer could hold. I also sported a SATA I hard drive back then. "Yay..." LOL

I'm not sure about all the other Call Of Duty games except a few, but this Call Of Duty is different in how you are able to finally get the ability to create a custom load out. In that you must at least be the rank of Private or Private First Class. Also, your score streak is an acquire it or not type of thing. Where if you don't get at least three kills while alive you have to start all over again when you respawn to get a score streak. The longer you're alive and taking down the enemy the further ahead you are in the score streak hierarchy.

The game feels and moves great for an FPS, but you're very loud as you move. So because of that you'll want a stealth perk in your load out otherwise you'll spend your time crouched as you move around the map so as to not alert the enemy which is what you'll have to do until you finally obtain the stealth perk. Which is what I like to do in all the Call OF Duty games I've played.

Punkbuster doesn't support this game anymore, but that doesn't mean there are no servers. As of this post I found a ton and there are more if you downgrade the game version. Plus there are plenty of interesting Mods players have created which may or may not require a downgrade, which you can easily mange by creating more than one folder of the game's installation files. This is how I rolled back in the day while using Mods. I'm sure there are still loads of cheating cockroaches out there, but a good and competent server administrator will have their cheating CD key lying in chalk... I personally never did care for Punkbuster as it caused nothing but grief and false kicks from a server. Plus, at one time I have read at Wikipedia I think it was that Punkbuster steals your privacy while that crap ran on your PC. God only knows what the new so-called "anti-cheat" crap code does on one's machine today.

The game may be archaic by today's standards, but it's still fun to play none the less. Especially with Mods. Not a Mod per say, but I like how the game seems to have code built-in for the jet bombing score streak when it's Christmas season where instead of jets dropping bombs it's none other than the jolly red suit wearing Santa himself in his slay all the while saying, "HO HO HO" as he passes by over head dropping bombs to the enemy below. I always thought that was funny.

Fantastic OG shooter with smoothing movement. Shame there are few servers left, but all players welcome :D

The campaign on veteran is ridiculously hard. I have played them all on veteran now CoD 4 is by far the hardest one. One Shot One Kill is insanely difficult just as hard as fighting a tough Soulsborne boss like Malenia or Isshin. If you like that kind of difficulty then I totally recommend it.

This is when call of duty shined! COD1-BO1 were the years! After that it dove off a cliff and became the circus infused with nonsense cod points irrelevant skins and war (clown) zone.

its amazing.
very action packed so not a dull moment while playing the game.
10/10 would recommend

fun to ragebait oldheads into thinking you're hacking by noscoping them over and over

the guns go pew pew and the grenades go boom its fun

Kids would not have survived the multiplayer lobbies back then.

Halo Combat evolved is a spectacular game, but shows its age in comparison to its recent forebears. Halo Reach, on the other hand, is a timeless masterpiece with top-of-the notch level design, weaponry, and storytelling. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare may be missing out on the story aspect, but in all other fields it proves itself to be Reach's equal. And, godammit, if this game doesn't get you shouting hoo-rah, then nothing ever will.

Great game love the campaign, the characters are amazing and you get into the characters good ending too

the campaign is really good, not as good as mw2 tough.
but in terms of multiplayer, def better then mw2. it feels faster and not as many noob tubers as in mw2.

sometimes i could say mw1 is more stratigical then mw2 because of how big the maps are, even the free for all ones.

to (feasibly) play this game online i had to:
-MANUALLY install the game's anti-cheat: punkbuster, because it gives in error when it tries to do it itself.
-install a mod for the game: cod4x, just to play multiplayer but kept getting errors when installing it
two hours of my life modifying a broken game, no playtime, refunded
i tried man, i tried...
don't buy this broken piece of software

i used to love this when i was a kid but im kinda disapointed how fast i got thur the campaign still 10/10 to this day

A short campaign. Doesn't hold up in today's standard and the infinite wave of enemies gets old after awhile. I enjoyed reliving the nostalgia with this title though.

Still one of the greatest CoDs in both Singleplayer and Multiplayer.

Good game but it pulls textures straight from disc and doesnt store in memory. Would play on ssd if you can.

I love the part I shoot with the M82A1, we hide and the tank just pass me, it's super cool

This game is a true masterpeice, for 2007 the graphics feel like a much later game and the storyline is epic. One note, the multiplayer servers are dead

best game ever, taught me how to communicate with 18-30 year olds as an 8 year old myself! thank you linkedin

Negative review until achievements are added to the Steam version of the game. The Xbox 360/PS3 versions of the game have them but they still haven't been added to the Steam version.

8.5/10

Campaign-only review. Playing with the IW3SP-MOD. Still a fantastic game, but just doesn't hit quite as hard anymore. A bit stiff feeling, annoying enemy respawn mechanic from old CoDs shows its head, and the flinch gets wild. Still a great campaign you can enjoy on modern systems.

gold

game good fun a lot

I always enjoy playing the older Call Of Duty games because of the game play and nostalgia. No matter how many newer CODs they make. I will still be playing the originals

Really grate game even though I wish the story was a bit longer. It was kinda nice playing this game also cause of the graphics. I am a fan of this kind of oldish graphics and it was really enjoyable . Sad that Cap died at the end :(( .

I do recommend this game though

It's unfortunate that one of the biggest things about this game is unplayable. You need to download some sort of software in order to be able to play Multiplayer which is just a shame. Hope all the stars align in order for Activision to fix the game, like they did with Xbox. But besides that, the game is good, but having only Singleplayer sucks.

The multiplayer is unsafe, you need to install an unoffical software to play "safely". Activision is lazy and wont do anything about it, steam has also ignored this issue for many years, even though it violates steams TOS and probably laws of many nations. Do not buy.

Best FPS in World! Made with love! Campaign awesome, Story awesome, Multiplayer was awesome too!! Highly recommended!!!

This has got to be one of the most Important first-person shooters of all time. In a year like 2007 where you got games like TF2, Portal, HL2 along with It's episodes, Halo 3, and this game are just so amazing and are such fun games. The guns feel great, the movement Is great, the characters Is so rememberable, and don't even get me started on the missions, Every single one Is so well put together and so well crafted. I seriously can't explain how great cod mw1 one Is. just both campaign and multiplayer are still extremely fun. Not only one of the best cod games In the series, but one of the best games ever created.

not the best why too play it if. but you have a xbox 360 or a ps3 just play it on that

great game for nostalgia and even the original looks good on a 4k screen with maxed out settings. Campaign still holds up and is much better than lots of other single player fps campaigns that have came out recently

the game is just so fun, but sadly its short. the pve missions are really good, but there are only 18 missions or so.

7/10

I love this O.G game, C.O.D sucks nowadays but it's old ignored games still rock! The only hard parts are "all ghilied up" and getting zhakev's @$$

This game is amazing

I've been going around and reviewing these games in 2025 to see how these aged and this game is one of the better ones IF you only play campaign. As to be expected the multiplayer experience is horrible, this is unfortunate but it's how it is.

I would recommend if it's on sale and you only want the campaign experience.

This game stands the test of time. One of the best, if not the best CoD game ever released. Back when CoD games were developed to be good, and not developed every year just for the money. Nostalgia is kicking in, oorah marines!

Make sure you run it through the community patch. The tutorial is on youtube along with clients to play other older CODs on. I highly suggest doing research and playing all the older COD games.

Bought this on sale to tell you that Activision is trying to milk you of $20 19 years after the game came out.

Never played Call of Duty on PC before nor have i really played COD before but i can confidently say this game is a masterpiece even with 73 minutes only

A friend warned that it had a tonal shift from the previous games, and I'd say they're right. But only in the sense that the WWII games made a point to mention how they were on the back foot (underdogs, in a way), but this seemed to have more of a "victory is guaranteed" vibe, even when the plot very much wasn't going their way.

Biggest positive: team callouts of enemy locations/approaches (though I might only just now be starting to pay attention). Very helpful. : )

Most "oh! :D" aspect: the time trial tutorial to estimate difficulty. I think that's neat, though only for a first run, since knowing where to expect enemies gets you faster but not necessarily more skilled.

Most inconvenient aspect: I'm not familiar with the mechanics/rules for NPCs pushing forward, because sometimes I go but none of my team comes with me.

Having played COD4: Modern Warfare for the first time in 2025, even after playing games that are technically far more impressive, this game's campaign is still a lot of fun. Not only is the combat immersive and extremely satisfying, but I really like a modern military shooter where you play as actual US marines in an actual conflict. This game puts the 'war' in modern warfare. In my opinion (subjective), this game rides the perfect line between realism and arcade, making a smooth and flawless experience. Would highly recommend.

May allah The Multiplayer servers are dead
but still playable