Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare | 
| From: Aspyr Media
Category: Video Games
List Price: $54.99
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 726
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Mac Os X Intel
Genre: shooter_action_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 11760
Model: 11760
UPC: 618870117607
EAN: 0618870117607
ASIN: B00134G3AS
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Authentic Advanced Weaponry Featuring an available arsenal of more than 70 new and authentic weapons and gear from assault rifles with laser sites, claymore mines, .50 caliber sniper rifles, and M-249 SAW machine guns. | | • | Coordinated Assault and Support Delivering the most visceral action thriller ever, the title covers modern battle from the soldier to the satellite, where the need for air support is crucial to success. | | • | Cinematic Quality Graphics and Sound Featuring stunning next-generation graphics, players will be drawn into the cinematic intensity of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. | | • | Unparalleled Depth to Multiplayer The highly-anticipated multiplayer builds from the success of Call of Duty 2 deliver a persistent online experience for greater community action. |
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Product Description
Join the battle in Call Of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare for Macintosh. Featuring a tense storyline, filled with plot twists, the game thrusts you into battle like never before. With amazing special effects, including rim-lighting, depth of field, texture streaming and character self-shadowing, you are enlisted into one of the most photo-realistic gaming experiences imaginable. The community-oriented multiplayer gameplay features a robust leveling system, variety of unlockable perks, hot-join and matchmaking, as well as create a class and party capabilities. Over 100 challenges and a host of environments and modes deliver unlimited possibilities. Kill-Cam, a feature from Call of Duty 2, allows for spectator instant replays.
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Join the battle Featuring a tense storyline, filled with plot twists, the title thrusts players into battle like never before. With amazing special effects, including rim-lighting, depth of field, texture streaming and character self-shadowing, players are enlisted into one of the most photo-realistic gaming experiences imaginable.
The community-oriented Call of Duty 4 multiplayer gameplay features a robust leveling system, variety of unlockable perks, hot-join and matchmaking, as well as create a class and party capabilities to ensure that players of all skill levels can join in the fun. Additionally over 100 challenges and a host of new game environments and modes deliver unlimited possibilities. Infinity Ward has also included Kill-Cam, a fan favorite feature that they created in Call of Duty 2, which allows for spectator instant replays.
| Key Features
- Authentic Advanced Weaponry - Featuring an available arsenal of more than 70 new and authentic weapons and gear from assault rifles with laser sites, claymore mines, .50 caliber sniper rifles, and M-249 SAW machine guns.
- Coordinated Assault and Support - Delivering the most visceral action thriller ever, the title covers modern battle from the soldier to the satellite, where the need for air support is crucial to success. The adrenaline rush deployment enlists gamers to fast-rope from tactical helicopters, ride in an armada of attack choppers, utilize jets to remove enemy strongholds and even engage hostiles from thousands of feet above the ground inside a state of the art aerial gunship.
- Cinematic Quality Graphics and Sound - Featuring stunning next-generation graphics, players will be drawn into the cinematic intensity of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Combine the lifelike graphics and the realistic battle chatter with the Call of Duty award-winning sound design and players will face battle as they never have before.
- Unparalleled Depth to Multiplayer - The highly-anticipated multiplayer builds from the success of Call of Duty 2 deliver a persistent online experience for greater community action.
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View larger image | System Requirements: | Minimum Specifications: | Recommended Specifications: | | OS: | Mac OS X 10.5.4 (Leopard) | | Processor: | Intel Core 2 Duo processor | | CPU Speed: | 2.0 GHz | 2.4 GHz | | RAM: | 1 GB | | Hard Disk Space: | 8.0 GB + 1 GB Swap File | | Video Card: | NVIDIA GeForce 7300, 7600, 8600, 8800 NVIDIA GeForce Quadro FX 4500 ATI Radeon X1600, X1900, HD 2400, HD 2600 | | Video Memory: | 128 MB | 256 MB | | Multiplayer Requirements: | Internet (TCP/IP) or LAN (TCP/IP) play supported Internet plays requires broadband connection |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Excellent port of COD4 November 16, 2008
Works perfectly on my 2008 iMac at a fairly high resolution. The game is super fun in single player, and especially fun on multiplayer. If you want a first person shooter game for your iMac, this one is a must-have.
good game, great online play November 12, 2008
This game is great, totally fantastic. I really should not have bought it, i haven't done school work in weeks. Still great game.
 crappy mac port, runs slower than on xp boot camp partition. November 12, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I would first like to say that I love this game; the game itself is amazing. I have an xp partition on my Macbook Pro that I created with Boot Camp for the express purpose of playing games. The reason I am writing this review is so people, like myself, don't buy the game for Mac. It runs much faster on windows. The developers decided it would be better to port the game over instead of develop it for the mac platform so...it sucks. When I installed it on my Mac side it lagged with settings all the way down, aside from resolution. I have three gigs of ram and 256mbs on my video card. It should have been fine. Anyway, I pirated the game first to see if it was worth re buying for the Mac and it isn't. So be forewarned.
Great fun, if not entirely original November 10, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Technical Stuff
First of all I am running COD4 on a MacPro Quad Xeon 2.0 GHz with 4 GB RAM w/ OS 10.5.5 (Leopard). I have run the COD4 on both nVidia 7300 and 8800 GT graphics cards.
Running with the stock nVidia 7300 card the game was quite playable at the lower resolutions with many of the effects turned off. If you have this card, don't let this stop you from ordering COD4. Although you'll have to play at a lower resolution (800x600 or lower), the action remains fairly fluid except for some sequences that slow to a few frames per second. Still, the game is quite enjoyable, although you might be at a frame rate disadvantage during multiplayer.
Playing on the more advanced nVidia 8800GT GPU is a completely different experience. You can quadruple the resolution and turn most of the effects on, yet the game play remains very fluid. I haven't done any frame rate tests, but I don't have any complaints. Note: there does seem to be a small rendering bug in the current 8800GT driver that renders the "heat distortion" effects rather bizarrely (as a distracting reversed mirror reflection), but it rarely affects gameplay.
The Single Player Game
The gameplay is intense with lots of 360 degree action. The weapon modeling is fun and accurate enough to make weapon choices important. The ability of higher power weapons to shoot through walls is a welcome realistic addition. And there are lots of weapons to choose from, along with accessories such as night vision, claymores, flash bang grenades, and Javelin anti-tank missiles.
However, the entire single player game is rather short compared to previous COD releases, and despite the focus on modern warfare weaponry, some of the new missions seem familiar. The "Safehouse" mission is very much like "The Silo" in COD2. There are missions that take place on a ship, shooting from a vehicle, and at a missile silo - all of which have been done in previous COD releases.
And if you are looking for non-linear gameplay, you will not find much here. Most of the missions are tightly scripted and linear. They are quite fun, but there is not a lot of freedom to pursue alternate courses of action during repeat game play.
Still other missions are quite innovative, such as the Spectre Gunship mission, the excellent sniper stalk missions, and the unexpected "Mile High Club" mission in the epilogue where you combat terrorists on a plane.
There is also an arcade mode that gives your points for every kill and a countdown timer to beat, perfect for a quick gaming "fix."
Multiplayer
While I have only just begun playing the game in multiplayer, the Mac version is supposedly fully compatible with PC servers. When I did a complete server refresh, I got a list of more than 19,000 COD4 servers. The multiplayer version has an elaborate system of perks that allow you to upgrade weapons and other talents the more you play.
Graphics
COD4 has some of the most realistic graphics yet. Some of the scenes are so well rendered they look photo realistic. Smoke, haze and shadows are well done, and effects like bullet strikes and explosions will make you think you are there in the firefight. Many objects take advantage of the game's physics engine, so you can shoot at paint cans, bottles, and tires, and they will react realistically. Cars will smoke and explode when riddled with bullets. However, to really experience the game at its best, you'll want to have a graphics card that is up to the task.
Conclusion
We Mac users usually have to wait a long time until we get the good game ports, and COD4 is no exception. Although it has been in release on other platforms for about a year, if you are a Mac gamer you owe it to yourself to pick this one up.
Great game but..... October 25, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
My Macbook pro fits within the stated requirements, but the single player mode does not run on it. I get a "quits unexpectedly" message every time, within seconds of launching the app. I contacted ASPYR and spent a lot of time deleting, reinstalling, verifying disk permissions, etc... but it still does not work. The multiplayer works fine (Which leads me to believe that it's not a hardware issue). I tried installing the game on my wife's Macbook Pro. All the specs are identical, but it it runs an older OS 10.4 which is NOT supported according to ASPYR and guess what? It runs! There are a number of glitches, including the fact that as the game starts, the graphics are flipped horizontally and vertically (The top is at the bottom and the left side is on the right). This glitch goes away when I hit "escape" to go back to the main menu, then return to the game. Other than that and some lagging in the video intros, the games runs beautifully, and the frame rate is excellent.
The games is fantastic, the graphics and the environments are stunningly realistic . Modeling and movements of the soldiers are very realistic and contribute greatly to a very immersive experience. The gameplay is intense to say the least. In fact it's often a little too intense for my taste. The situations a so chaotic with foes popping up from everywhere, and bullets and RPG flying all over the place that it's hard to play strategically. You just scramble to keep up with your team and shoot at anything that moves. It's true that there are slower-paced missions also and that with replay and if you have the reflexes of a 14 year olds, this may not be a problem. The mission set is a little short. It only took me about 6 hours to play the entire game. Infinity Ward opted for quality instead of quantity, and given the level of detail, i'm satisfied that I got my $50's worth!
I would highly recommend this game if it weren't for one detail: IT DOES NOT RUN ON MY COMPUTER! Unlike the limitless hardware configurations in the PC world, there are relatively few spec option on the MAC side. Therefore there is no excuse for this - it's just bad testing by ASPYR. I hope that ASPYR is working on a fix, though from previous experience with call of duty, product support is not a strength of theirs.
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