New COD4 Maps

Saturday, I bought the new Variety Map Pack for COD4, but didn't have a chance to actually play it 'til today. In short, it is awesome!!! I'm a huge fan of each of the maps, but I especially enjoyed the China Town map. It was amazing.
Also, it looks like the Double XP Weekend is still going on b/c I continued to get 20xp for each kill, etc.

COD4 Walls (Part 4)

This is definitely the final wall for me in COD4, the only problem is that I really don't know if I'm going to be able to get through this one. It's the epilogue of the game on veteran and I've been playing it for quite some time and just can't seem to finish the deal. I've got to the hostage 3 or 4 times and each time I've shot him...bummer. Anyway, here's a video to give you an idea about how hard this thing is.

New COD4 Map

I just found this videon of one of COD4's new maps. It looks pretty awesome!!!

COD4 Walls (Part 3)

This post is a bit of a misnomer, seeing as I've already beat COD4. At this point I have one outstanding achievement in COD4 and that's to beat the Epilogue on Veteran. I've gotten pretty far in my pursuit of this crown jewel but I have to admit that I'm probably going to give up here pretty soon. To be honest, I just don't know if it's worth the time investment b/c this is a REALLY HARD thing to do. I've watched videos and everything and I have no idea how these guys are pulling this off. Well, I guess we'll see what happens.

I forgot to post about the final wall that I hit when I was going through the campaign of COD4. On the last level there's a section where you have to make your way through a number of hallways before you reach the control center for the nuclear launch facility. This took me FOREVER!!! There's one section that has a single hall that has two passage ways splitting off from it, which I just could not make it past. I finally figured out that I needed to clear everything from the main hall way, through a flash bang in one passage way, clear the guy from the other passage, sprint into the room, kill the guy who comes down the other corridor and than slowly make my way down that passage to clear out the last guys. It REALLY HELPS if you can have a sniper rifle with you, which you can get on the level before. It's in a box right after you go through the chain link fence. Anyway, that's about it for COD4. I'll keep playing the multiplayer for sure, at least until Vegas 2 comes out!!!

COD4 - Beat It

It's been quite a while since I posted on this blog, so let's see if I can catch up to speed. Before I left for Shepherd's Conference and the Mexico Recon Trip I did manage to beat COD4 on Veteran. The only achievement that I haven't gotten out of it is the Epilogue on Veteran, which seems right next to impossible right now. I'll probably come back to it later but I'm going to simply bask in the glory of having beat the storyline on Veteran for now.

COD4 Walls (Part 2)

The other night I hit another wall in Call of Duty 4, it's the last section of the "One Shot, One Kill Mission." You end up making your way to an abandoned carnival where you have to defend yourself for several minutes as swarms of enemies try to flank you. I actually made it thorugh the first major onslaught without much trouble, but once the helicopters were called in I couldn't make it through. I finally googled the problem to see if I could find any advice and was amazed by the following video. I tried it that night and it totally worked. Here's the video:



Sorry Ben, it really was that easy.

COD4 Walls (Part 1)

The other day I casually picked up my copy of COD4 and decided to set the difficulty level to veteran and give things a try. Since then, I have become utterly obsessed with finishing this game on veteran and have made some pretty good progress, but I thought it might be kind of fun to write about the walls that I encounter along the way. For your benefit, I define a wall as any point in a game that causes extreme and excessive frustration bordering on insanity.

Fortunately, I've only hit one place thus far that I would call a legitimate wall. There have definitely been a few frustrating spots, but the only wall thus far was in the news room in the level "Charlie Don't Surf." The frustration began when I made it to this point one night, decided to wait to beat, but simply turned of my xbox w/o saving. The next day I awoke to the horror of having lost all of my progress on the level. After slogging my way back through the streets of the middle east, I finally made it back to the newsroom and was firly stuck for at least 45 minutes to an hour. This is an extremely difficult run with snipers, rpg's and seemingly omniscient soldiers finding you even from behind cover. Fortunately, I made it through w/o throwing my controller through the TV, although I came close, and have now made it through the rest of Act 1.

As I move forward from here, my greatest fear is coming up in "One Shot", which I have it on good authority is one of the most difficult levels ever...although I don't think anything can compare to "The Silo" in Call of Duty 2. I nearly lost my sanctification on that one.