Product ReviewsCall of Duty: Finest Hour (Nintendo GameCube, 2004)

Childhood relived

Pretty cool getting to play games from my childhood. Game runs as needed. Case doesn't have a sleeve but not a big deal

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Call of duty (S.G.)

Came early love the game hard to get used to though but keep you in your toes.

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One of the Finest First Person Shooters Available!

Reviewed for Big Boss Games by: L.E.G.

As a lover and avid player of FPS (First Person Shooter) type games, I am probably one of the toughest critics and a game must satisfy all my criteria for me to give it a 5/5 rating. Without any doubts, Call of Duty Finest Hour has successfully accomplished this lofty goal.

To start with, Call of Duty Finest Hour is entirely based on events that happened during World War II. But, ActiVision took on a bigger role than just making a video game and actually tries and succeeds in teaching us a brief history lesson. Granted it's very short and concise, but it helps to setup the game and it's many diverse and challenging levels.

You start out playing as a member of the Russian Army fighting with your comrades on the Eastern Front, from the Volga to Stalingrad. The missions can be somewhat difficult to finish, but the squad leader does give you instructions (just as if you were in the army) on what you need to do or where you need to go. "Blow up that building" and "Take out those machine guns" are typical fare. And most of the time you are a member of a "squad", so don't try to be all "Rambo" and try to defeat the Germans all by yourself. You will get slaughtered!

After you complete your mission(s) as one person, you are then placed in someone else’s shoes and get to fight the war from their perspective. Which also opens you up to using different weapons and driving around in tanks. But, this is not Grand Theft Auto. You can't go around and jump in vehicles and take off. Your tour of duty on the Eastern Front with the Russians takes a total of 8 sometimes-grueling missions. At least the game is very forgiving and lets you restart the mission at the last checkpoint.

After the Eastern Front, you are whisked off to North Africa to serve with the British Army in Tunisia. All of the buildings and backgrounds used in this game are simply amazing. There is a lot of rich and articulate detail to keep your attention. You will serve a total of 4 missions with the bulldogs. More neat weapons used by the Brits and a lot of blowing stuff up in these levels. G-D Save the Queen!

And last, but not least, you go to the Western Front to fight with the American Army. As in previous levels, you get more awesome weapons to shoot and tanks to drive. Some of the toughest battles will be fought with the Americans. A total of 7 missions await your shooting skills.

Call of Duty Finest Hour by ActiVision is available for the Playstation 2, Xbox and Gamecube. It is rated "T" for Teen and contains a ton of blood and a whole lot of violence. Since this game is based on World War II, blood and violence is to be expected. Total missions are 19 and 23 different weapons.

This game is Single Player only, but does offer multiplayer online broadband only and 2-16 players. Online gametypes are: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag and Search & Destroy.
Overall, this game was as close to perfect as they can get with very few technical glitches. Like one time I was crawling around on the floor and trying to climb a flight of stairs and my character just fell through some empty space to his terrible death.

This game was just so well balanced between missions, story, music and action that I had to give it a 5/5.

It's really an awesome game, so go ahead and get a copy.Read full review...

World War II Shootem up game

This game has lots of action but if very hard, some of the levels are extremely difficult. One of the levels took me 3 hours to beat and if you turn off the game, it starts you back at the beginning of the level. They should have introduced a quick save so if you got tired you can save the level and restart where you left off. Lots of action but extremely hard to beat. I finally finished the game and the last level it is you against about 200 germans protecting a bridge. Fun game but very difficult...Read full review...

A great game.

This game is a very good game. You can go into war as a Russian, British, or American. Some of the levels are hard to beat, but is still exciting and gets your adredalin up. Many guns are on the ground are better then the ones you have. If you like war games, then get this game. The only downside is that it has no multiplayer.Read full review...

Will never be a product better than this one in the market stores.

It has been years i wanted to purchase this item but i kept on taking care of my ritual life and not bother with it yet. Until I said I have enough I got to get this item as soon as possible before It no longer exists. This is my favorite games in the world. I am addicted to it and will make sure I put it as a jewel item in my home. Thanks for the store who offered it to me. I am pretty sure you and I know the value of it.
Thanks greatly for this.... RalphRead full review...

HARD TO BELIEIVE THIS IS WHERE IT ALL STARTED...GLITCHY, INCONSISTENT, FLAT

Controls are poorly placed, and there are no optional configurations to fix this, they are also very slow and sluggish. Many of the levels are extremely easy in the first half of the game, and seem impossible in the second half. The AI is terrible, especially your allies, they don't really do anything productive, and in one level you have to protect one and he will just run right into enemy fire. The graphics and scrolling sometimes look almost like previous generation. Compared to it's primary competitor Medal of Honor: European Assault it's like night and day, Finest Hour is closer to Medal of Honor: Underground for the PS1!Read full review...

call of duty

nice graphics, somewhat tough game play,but, one caveat...to those who get motion sick on some games....this may be one....i have no motion sickness other than some games....turok is the other game that does this to me...i play the game one section at a time, but otherwise nice gameRead full review...

Dreams you have as a kid

It reminds me of when I was kid wanting to be a real life Captain America and having my dream team of soldiers fighting to save the world. Thank you

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Cod finest hour for GameCube

Not the game that I ordered or even the system it’s for

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