PC gamers were left out in the cold forced to stare longingly through frost-covered windows as some lucky Xbox 360 owners battled endlessly in the Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat multiplayer beta, but now their day is here. It's not a multiplayer demo but the single-player demo for Call of Duty 4 is now available at Yahoo! Games and ready for you to test your system against it.
I played the 360 multiplayer beta for Call of Duty 4 extensively - click here for the article - and if the PC version is anything close to the Xbox version this game is a must-have. I loved Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2 as much as the next guy but by the time it came to Call of Duty 3 - not to mention that it didn't even come to the PC - I was a little tired of Nazis and Thompson machine guns. Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat takes the excellent cinematic action and gameplay from the first two games and drops it squarely in the twentieth century.
As good as the multiplayer is I'm looking forward to getting my hands on some single-player action. The Call of Duty games are always great about capturing an action movie vibe and scripting situations that go beyond the typical run-and-gun gameplay of shooters. The demo promises a full level from the game but it'll still be just a tease for the full campaigns.
Here are the requirements as posted and you may also need a Yahoo! account to access the download.
Required (minimum) Specs
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 2.4 GHz or AMD(R) Athlon(TM) 64 2800+ processor or any 1.8Ghz Dual Core Processor or better supported
RAM: 512MB RAM (768MB for Windows Vista)
Hard Drive: 8GB of free space
Video card: NVIDIA(R) Geforce(TM) 6600 or better or ATI(R) Radeon(R) 9800 Pro or better
Recommended Specs
CPU: 2.4 GHz dual core or better
RAM: 1G for XP; 2G for Vista
Hard Drive: 8GB of free space
Video card: 3.0 Shader Support recommended. Nvidia Geforce 7800 or better or ATI Radeon X1800 or better
Comments (6)
They must have a broke link or a broke server because as of 1:29 Central time its not working.
Posted by Levi | October 11, 2007 7:30 PM
Posted on October 11, 2007 19:30
Its a Y! exclusive which is great for Y! but bad for the rest of us because we all have only Y! to download it from.
At this rate, it would take me, 3+ hours to download the entire file.
Posted by JD | October 11, 2007 7:58 PM
Posted on October 11, 2007 19:58
Yeah I'm not sure how Yahoo! could screw up something as easy as a filedownload but I can't seem to get it to finish either.
Posted by Travis | October 11, 2007 10:05 PM
Posted on October 11, 2007 22:05
After I downloaded it, it seems that the demo requires 64-bit
Posted by Scott Sorset | October 12, 2007 2:58 AM
Posted on October 12, 2007 02:58
It took about an hour to download for me. It's pretty bad ("not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good!"). Graphics are improved as compared to the Xbox beta version, and it feels good to be partaking in such mayhem with keyboard and mouse (I hate those little joysticks). Going to pick this one up for sure. Played well with a cruddy x1600 pro, e4300 and 3 gigs of RAM. 8800's and the like should make this one a winner.
Posted by Habib | October 12, 2007 3:47 AM
Posted on October 12, 2007 03:47
Downloaded the demo from fileplanet it isnt that good, it felt like the WW2 themed CoD from many years ago just with better graphics. Simple, run and gun, linear FPS = boring. Big disappointment because it looked like it played good in the demonstration videos
Posted by zzz | October 15, 2007 8:23 PM
Posted on October 15, 2007 20:23