| | |  | Shooter | Home » » » Call of Duty Finest Hour | | | | | | | Description: | | Call Of Duty: Finest Hour leads you back into the World War, where you will experience epic battlefield moments in the war's most legendary conflicts. Fight alongside ordinary men who fought and died for freedom and changed the world. | | | Features: | |
• View World War II through the eyes of American, British and Russian soldiers, as you take on the Nazi War Machine through 12 authentic combat missions
• Travel through four continents - From the Russian infantry charge at Stalingrad, to the British Commando raids in North Africa and the American-led tank charges in Belgium
• Become brothers in arms as your squad acts like a real military unit - Laying down suppressing fire, providing cover fire and coordinating attacks on enemy positions
• Fight it out with over 30 authentic WWII weapons from the Russian, British, American and German armories - Pistols, machine guns, sniper rifles and grenades
• Missions feature hundreds of soldiers to coordinated tactical assaults, sabotage, stealth, sniper and vehicle-based combat
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.75 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.25 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.3 pounds | | Release Date:
| November 16, 2004 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 81 reviews |
| | | Game Information: | | | Platform:
| PlayStation2 | | Media:
| Video Game | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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106 of 115 found the following review helpful:
 Congratulations Activision and Team Spark on an amazing gameNov 25, 2004
By Barry Robinson
After being totaly immersed in Call of Duty and United Offensive on the PC I knew from Finest Hour's anouncment that I had to have it. First let me tell you that this is a completley new game. It's not a PC port but it does manage to incorporate familiar gameplay and levels into this jaw droping experience. In the first level you play as Alexander Solkovo, who is throw into the battle of Stalingrad with only a handful of ammo. Like the PC game, you eventualy get a rifle to use that ammo but in the begining of the level you have all that you can do to follow your sargent up the hill into machine gun fire. I would like to compare this to the D-Day scene in Medal of Honor Frontline, but that just wouldn't be fair. This game crushes Frontline and although I'll still play Frontline (an incredibly awesome game)This is what is owning my PS2 right now. After Stalingrad you will shift through roles, playing as a Russia female sniper, a Russian tank commander, a British PPA commando, a sargent with the Big Red 1, and a tank sargent in Belgium. The whole storyline is very cool and Finest Hour truely does capture the gritty cinimatic feel of WWII that most games don't. Some might need to remember that this game isn't trying to recreate the feel of the PC game. It's trying to recreate the feel of war and although I've never been in war, I'd say this game does a darn good job. Some people complain the controls are hard to get use to but I'm guessing thats because they are a bunch of hardcore PC gamers (nothing wrong with that) who aren't as good at adapting to a controller layout. Now like I said before, I own Frontline and many other FPS for PS2 and I caught on to these controls in no time. In fact, this game might have some of the best First Person Shooting controls I've ever used (well, next to Halo) With controls aside, lets move on to graphics. Thats always a fun part. They are simply amazing! Each character has around 1500 different animations thay can perform and trust me, they do perform. Really, graphics aren't an issue. The framerate in the game will make FPS fans happy. You can be mowing down twenty enemies and the frame rate doesn't drop at all. Which brings me to my next point. The arsenal rocks. It is smaller than the PC games but now you can run around firing MG42s and 30cal. machine guns without having to deploy them. This is truely awesome. But here is what Finest Hour is missing out on, the M1 carbine, the STG 44, a couple others and strangley, pistols aren't any where to be had. So when your two big guns run out, you must rely on melee attacks. The game, oddly enough, works well without pistols. Only after finishing the game did I realize, "Hey, I never used a pistol." but then I said "Hey, I never needed one!" Now, how about gameplay. The game has wide variety of ways to accomplish each mission (something Rising Sun promised but kind of failed with) And really, almost every time you play is different. With a mixture of funny and down right awesome cheat codes this game will keep you entertained for a long time. But do understand the replay value of this game doesn't relay on the cheats but they are great. What more can I say when it comes to performance and presentation... THIS GAME ROCKS!
Now, the not so good. What game doesn't have glitches? If some one can tell me one, their lying! So don't fear when I tell you this game has some minor glitches. Their nothing most FPS don't have (floating guns) But don't worry, more than likely you won't even notice it. The few glitches their are take place in the really big battles, so a couple of floating guns shouldn't bother you or even catch your eye. Another thing is that the British campaign seems a bit short lived but it is packed with action and the jeep chase more than compensates for a shorter campaign. Also a little more detail could have been paid to bullet holes in the walls. They aren't that good looking but like the floating guns, you probaly won't care. Also, Where is the multiplayer? Sure, you can go online with this game but what about split screen four player. Hopefully they will put it in the next game.
How about a quick recap.
Pros:
Great Graphics
Wonderful musical score
Intense gameplay that doesn't drop a frame
Lots of replay value
Cons:
A couple of tiny glitches that don't affect gameplay at all
The British Campaign is shorter than the others
No multiplayer with out online connection
So all in all Activision and Spark have done a wonderful job on Finest Hour and this in one game any FPS fan or World War II buff should not be without!
19 of 24 found the following review helpful:
Nice game!Dec 19, 2004
I am a big fan of MOH but when I heard about this game I had to get it. The first thing I did whene I got home was stick it in. When the game starts you are with a bunch of other Russian comarads in a boat. The two things that surprised me the most is that: You dont get a rifle untill half way through the first levle, and that you can lie on your stomach and crawl! As the game goes on you get to be a female sniper and a tank comander. In the British levles you stay the same person. Then last but not least you get to play as an american soldier named Chuck Walker and a blach tank comander named Sam Rivers for a levle. All in all it a fine game though some levles are a bit hard. I reccomend this gameand MEDAL OF HONOR to people who like war games and also for those who like strategy games.
10 of 13 found the following review helpful:
An Upgraded Version of "Medal of Honor"Dec 17, 2004
By Zachary Shrier
"Call of Duty" for PS2 can be fairly described as a nicely upgraded version of Medal of Honor. My favorite "new" features are 1) the great number of battles which require you to work in tandem with your fellow squad members (often 5 or more) 2) scenes in which you have to work as a footsoldier or sniper in tandem with Allied tanks 3) scenes in which you are controlling a tank and 4) playing from the perspective of the British and Soviets as well as the USA. Overall, COD is great fun. But I wouldn't say it's qualitatively different from the MOH experience.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Difficult but still funNov 26, 2006
By GAMER
Call of Duty Finest Hour is a pretty good game. It can be difficult at times and really confusing. I was lucky because I bought the Strategy Guide which had maps but I still often got lost. This was especially true in the sewer levels, you're under ground walking around in circles and almost all the tunnels look the same. Also you really don't need your teamates all that much and don't bother giving them med packs. They don't draw any fire away from you and they are not very good at killing anyone. It is true that this game is more realistic Than most shooters because your not winning the whole war by yourself like in the Medal of Honor games but the soldiers you are fighting with are not even close to the level of the Germans. Another reason you shouldn't worry about keeping your soldiers safe is all the important ones that give you instructions can not even get killed. Another problem with this game is repetiveness, how many times do you have to protect your tanks in a mission? Also, this game can get pretty difficult and in order to beat some missions you have to know where most enemies, health packs, machine guns, etc. are (another bonus of buying the strategy guide). To be able to know where these things are you have to die a couple of times and keep starting the mission over which can take some of the enjoyment away. Also this game lacks a multiplayer mode so anyone that does not have online, like me, will end up not pickng this game up again after beating the campaigns. This game is a great as any shooter game in all aspects besides the ones I have mentioned.
I hope I have helped you in your decision on whether or not to buy this game. :)
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Yay! If only it were longer...Nov 11, 2005
When i got this game for Christmas, i immediatly started to play this game. This was the first game in the call of duty series i had played, so i'm not aa expert on call of duty but by the looks of it, this was a real good game
The Good:
the graphics are awsome.it gets sorta fuzzy, but it won't effect any of your skills
the aiming sytem is straight down the barrel, unless you choose not to aim. (i prefer this system. it's more realistic) where in meadal of honor (moh)it's just the a side view of a gun and a cross aiming thingy in the center screen.
your comrades actually help you fight the enemies, unlike in moh, where it's basically you fighting the war alone.
a variety of weapons from the germans, russian, english and the american. to get every weapon, you have to kill certain people. In moh, they give you away every weapon (on different levels), which is more unrealistic and sorta cheesy.
you get to change to different people in different missions, instead of staying as only one person the whole game. (i don't really care if you stay as one character the whole game though).
The darkside of the game:
if some of you gamers (i'm not exactly a hard gamer) care about every single detail, in will include it.
a flaw in the graphics makes some of the weapons appear to be floating on the ground, but i don't think it will be much problems, and you might not even notice.
the british campaign is way too short (only 4 missions) and two of the missions are tiny.
i personally don't like the tank missions and 50% of the russian campaign (which is the longest campaign) are tank battles.
in the american/british arsenal, there is weapon known as the 1903 springfield rifle (scoped) and it is impossible to get. one comrade had one and i threw literally all my "sticky bombs" at him, and he dropped no springfield. so that was bad. but it didn't really bother me.
the multi player is only on line! it's not fair that you can only go online for multiplayer. after you beat the game, it gets sorta **boring**.
overall review
this game was real intense (it won't give you a heart attack). sometimes when i was secretly killed from behind, i screamed (a little silly right?). the only thing thats keeping this game from a 5 star rating is the shortness of the game. It's not that short though. it's just that you want more.
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