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In Call of Duty: Finest Hour players will be able to experience the cinematic intensity and the chaos of battle as never before – through the eyes of ordinary soldiers fighting together as a squad through the epic moments of World War II.

The original Call of Duty was an astonishing success, with superb single-player experience coupled with a marvelous multiplayer experience. Then came the announcement that COD was coming to Xbox, and Xbox gamers have awaited anxiously the newest installment of the COD series…Finest Hour. Now, will it live up to it’s COD name?

Game Blurb

“London, Tuesday, June 6, 1944: Under command of General Eisenhower, Allied naval forces, supported by strong air forces, began landing Allied armies this morning on the northern coast of France.”

- first broadcast communiqué after the start of the Normandy Invasion

Let the landings begin! D-Day drops players into the role of World War II Allied forces in the final drive to liberate Europe. Throughout three campaigns and 12 missions in single player mode, D-Day challenge players to prepare troops for battle, create combat strategies, and execute one of the largest military invasions in wartime history.

There’s such an over saturation of movies to video games that its hard to tell whats worth playing and what isn’t. Especially when we’ve had several of these types of games come along and wow us with their surprisingly good gameplay. Lord Of The Rings: The Battle For Middle Earth is the next game to saunter up and make us go wow.

I’ve been playing Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures since it’s first release in Europe, well to be completely accurate two days after AoC was released 23rd of May and it rocks.

This is not the only massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) I’ve played, been playing The World of Warcraft online game for about two years (just before the Burning Crusade release) and also dabbled in Entropia Universe (which I hated) and Runescape (which is free, but not as enticing as WOW and now AoC).

Update: I’ve also played the beta release of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning and have preordered the full release game (I might make this my main MMO game).

Tags: MMORPG

So, it appears the big game release winners this year goes to both World of Warcraft and Half Life 2. I think what has shocked many, is just how popular WoW is over the long anticipated EverQuest II. Personally, I don’t care much for EverQuest II’s gameplay, and I don’t care much for WoW’s graphics.

With the release of Half Life 2 and now the Half Life 2 SDK, 11/2004 marks the beginning of a new FPS era. The next generation MODs are already under heavy development and should start releasing betas early next year. Until then, there’s a great frag-fest to be had in Half Life 2’s newly released deathmatch MOD. I suppose, rather than hold back the Half Life 2 release again, Valve decided to just do a post-release of the Half Life 2 multiplayer, which would be similar to Half Life 1’s DM MOD.