Call of Duty: Finest Hour

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User Score
6.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 39 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 39
  3. Negative: 11 out of 39
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  1. Nofunatall
    Jan 25, 2005
    3
    Do not get this game!! I thought it was going to be good like the pc version but with all the effort put into it still a big disappointment. Graphics are nowhere near as good as MoH: Frontline, the characters are meaningless, controls are VERY slow and not tight gameplay, bad weapon sounds. Just too unpolished.
  2. AaronB.
    Nov 22, 2004
    2
    What a lot of balls. Could they have screwed up any more. Activision should just make PS2 games- they haven't got what it takes to play in the big league- I can't believe I almost bought this over Ghost Recon 2. Renting it was just as bad. Lame PS2 graphics, absolutely no thrills while playing it- even the awesome Stalingrad level has been stripped of any excitement whatsoever.What a lot of balls. Could they have screwed up any more. Activision should just make PS2 games- they haven't got what it takes to play in the big league- I can't believe I almost bought this over Ghost Recon 2. Renting it was just as bad. Lame PS2 graphics, absolutely no thrills while playing it- even the awesome Stalingrad level has been stripped of any excitement whatsoever. Very poor- even for a PS2 release. Garbage on an xbox. This game rocked on the MAC by the way.… Expand
  3. Dperks
    Dec 7, 2021
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really didn't want to give this gamer as low of a score as this but after returning to this game after years and even with my nostalgia glasses on its just not that good. So for context this was the first COD game I ever played. At least I'm pretty sure its kind of of hard to remember but needless to say I remember loving it as a kid. But after coming back all the bad stuff in this game has come rushing back to me. So for starters this was the first COD game on consoles and it takes a lot from the first COD but is still its own game. The only scene ripped straight from COD 1 is the crossing of the Volga river except this time its at the beginning of the game. And I think this makes for a very strong opener along with the second level where you have to storm a fortified hill top. In fact I'd say that other then the third level which is a sewer level and it looks really bad visually like its just a mess of grey. The whole soviet campaign for the most part is actually fairly solid. If the whole game were like it it would probably be a 6/10. But its the British and especially the American levels that you see the crap in this game. But I'm getting ahead of myself lets start with some core issues. Visually and sound design wise the game is very generic even for its time the games visuals were criticized back then and today they only look worse. There are some levels that look a lot better then others but most of them use a lot of greys and dark colors that just make it really boring to look at. And gunplay isn't much better and controls were weird which I can excuse a bit for being the first COD on console. The gun selection is very pitiful though there are no handguns or shotguns and so its pretty much rifles and machine guns for the most part and their animations and sound effects aren't very punchy or impactful. And grenades are just terrible you can through one right by someone and it may not kill them and then in the later levels enemy's love to just spam grenades at times and with some fairly unforgiving health pack placements and at times no check points in levels makes for a very frustrating experience. For example the last British and American levels don't have checkpoints what so ever. And in both there's tons of enemy's and machine gun placements that can chew right through you if unprepared. The British levels aren't to bad as there's only 4 of them and there fairly short. But it makes that whole chunk of the campaign really forgettable. And the American campaign is where all the most frustrating aspects come out. With escort missions, way to many enemies who take way too long to kill and unforgiving checkpoints along with some crap level design makes nearly half of the game just not fun to play through. Except for one American mission where you got to paly as an all African American tank division which It thought was interesting. The level itself did start to drag on and the tanks don't handle very well but it was still a nice change of pace I thought. One last thing the enemy AI is really dumb sometimes with enemy's just mindlessly charging you or running past you the most they ever do is take cover and it makes the gunplay all the more boring by time you get to those later missions. In conclusion despite Finest Hour having some solid levels and set pieces in its first half the meandering second half really drags the whole game down and puts a spot light on the many issues the game has. And while the game overall feels more grounded in reality then the first COD game it isn't nearly as fun and doesn't save it from blending in with the mediocre WW2 shooters that were so prevalent in the early 2000s.… Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#80 Best Xbox Game of 2004
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#41 Most Discussed Xbox Game of 2004
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#19 Most Shared Xbox Game of 2004

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Metascore
73

Mixed or average reviews - based on 55 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 55
  2. Mixed: 28 out of 55
  3. Negative: 0 out of 55
  1. Xbox Nation Magazine
    80
    The shoddy A.I. and other flaws are rare or negligible enough so as not to detract from the overall enjoyment of an otherwise great game. [Jan 2005, p.89]
  2. AceGamez
    80
    With the lovely graphics comes lovely sound.
  3. GMR Magazine
    70
    The game's presentation is incredible... Unfortunately, the A.I. should have spent more time in basic training. [Feb 2005, p.87]
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