Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Game for Macintosh Players

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (ESRB: M) for Mac OS X is the fourth installment of the Call of Duty video game series, excluding expansion packs. The first-person shooter game breaks away from the World War II setting of previous games in the series and is instead set in modern times. The game was developed by a team of a hundred people, over the course of two years.

The game features state of the art graphics and audio. It runs on a proprietary engine and includes true world-dynamic lighting, HDR lighting effects, dynamic shadows, and depth of field.

The story takes place in a fictional near-future, where a radical leader has staged a coup d’état in the Middle East, and an “Ultranationalist” movement has instigated a civil war in Russia. The events of the conflicts are seen from the perspectives of an American Marine and a British SAS commando. The multiplayer portion of the game features various game modes, and contains a leveling system that allows the player to unlock additional weapons, weapon attachments, and camouflage schemes as they advance.

The game’s move to modern warfare introduces new weapons and technology to the Call of Duty franchise, including the M4A1 carbine, the M203 grenade launcher, the AN/PEQ-2 Target Pointer for use in conjunction with night vision goggles, the MP5SD submachine gun, and the FGM-148 Javelin portable anti-tank guided missile. The player gains access to these over the course of the game, but may only carry up to two weapons in addition to grenades. Weapons from fallen foes can be picked up to replace weapons in a player’s arsenal. Players also have additional abilities, including a grenade launcher attachment, night-vision goggles, and the ability to call in airstrikes.

Similar to previous games in the series, the player takes on the role of various characters during a single-player campaign. Each mission features a series of objectives; the player is led to each objective with the HUD, which marks its direction and distance. Some objectives require that the player arrives at a checkpoint, while other objectives require the player to eliminate enemies in a specified location, stand their ground to defend an objective, or plant explosive charges on an enemy installation. The player is often accompanied by friendly troops, who cannot be issued orders. Laptop computers containing enemy intelligence appear throughout the campaign, and can be collected to unlock game bonuses.

Call of Duty 4 features team-based and deathmatch-based multiplayer modes on various maps. Players can call in UAV reconnaissance scans, air strikes, and attack helicopters, either an AH-1 Cobra for S.A.S. or USMC or an Mi-24 for OpFor or Spetsnaz, when they achieve three-, five-, and seven-enemy kill streaks respectively. A game ends when either a team has reached a predefined number of points, or the alloted time expires in which case the team with the most points wins. However in the rare case the points are even when the time expires, Sudden Death mode is activated in which there is no re-spawning and the team who either has the last man standing, or achieves the objective first are the winners. The highest obtainable level is 55. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is available for $54.59 from Apple’s online store.

System Requirements:
Mac OS v10.5.4 or later with 2Ghz or faster Intel Core 2 Duo processor;
1GB of RAM with 9GB free hard-disk space; and
ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce FX7300 video card with 128MB of VRAM.