By Alec Meer on November 8th, 2007 at 9:06 am.
There are many good things about Call of Duty 4. This is the best. Throughout the game, you collect various pickups, in the guise of laptops containing enemy intel. Collect enough and you can unlock hugely silly cheat modes, such as grenades becoming cluster bombs or the colours being inverted (which is really not pretty).
The real prize is ragtime mode, which turns everything sepia, speeds the game up by 20%, mutes all the sound and then adds a frantic 1920s plinky-plonk piano soundtrack. Modern Warfare becomes Buster Keaton movie:
Apologies for sniper-o-vision: this is just a particularly well-suited moment for this most wondrous of cheats. It’s not entirely clear, but it’s me finally firing a bullet that makes everyone scarper. Be sure to watch the jeep as it leaves to the right near the end of video.
You can play the entire game like this. And oh, I will.
Oh, that just made my day!
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Okay, NOW I want to play this.
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That almost makes up for the price tag to single player length disparity.
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Please tell me this is in the 360 version :P
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…roll on Christmas.
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I’m considering getting this game just for this mode.
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Here; a trailer for this cheat that was put together at IW:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/27503.html
=)
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LOL
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Freelancepolice: Sure is! All platforms have it. On 360/PS3, though, you’ll probably want to set your look sensitivity to low and put the difficulty on Easy, if you want to give it a serious playthrough. The speedup (1.7x) can make the game rather brutal, even on Normal. =)
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Brilliant! :D
CoD4 has gone further up in my estimations :D
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LEARN TO DRIVE
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Oh… YES. This coupled with the fantastic intro sequence might just cause me to buy what seemed to be an mostly soul-less game (judging by the PCG review).
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Okay, I’m getting this game now.
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Someone needs to turn this into a mod for Team Fortress, methinks. (Should include big handlebar moustaches for all characters)
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Thats an actual playable mode? Awesome, I’d assumed it was just IW dicking around when the trailer went up on Gametrailers.
Also remove all weapons and force all players to engage in gentlemanly fisticuffs.
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Needs Benny Hill music imo.
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Or rope. For the level with the trains on it.
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WoW I suddenly feel an urge to buy the game
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Best collection of unlockables since GoldenEye? Might very well be, if only for this.
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Not that this need restating, but that really is wonderfully inspired.
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Fantastic, just missing Bill Bailey.
Also did I see that sniper round get carried by the wind and hit slightly off target?
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The IK+ cheat mode that involves the combatant’s trousers falling down while they stared at you in mute, abject, embarrassment , must surely still rank as ‘best.’ This is a close second though.
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It wasn’t that much of a cheat mode though really. All you had to do was press ‘T’. More of a feature ;D
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The title of this post does not lie!
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I hereby award all involved a billion trillion Excellence Points.
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This is absolute genius, and may have just sold me the game, which I wasn’t that interested in…
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reason #545786 to play this game.
all around, best game on the 360 to date!
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Okay, that’s just friggin’ hilarious.
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I just finished.
Now I need to work out how much more finishing I need to do to unlock this mode on the 360. I guess there had to be some decent motivation for wanting to run through the whole spray pray rollercoaster again.
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Ragtime: The new Bullet Time?
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IK+? What’s this now?
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To be honest, when i first loaded the game up, I was wondering for a moment why they had previews for STALKER.
Oh, and when you unlock cluster bombs, for gods sake, take cover.
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IK+ is the greatest beat em up of all time! Well maybe not but I liked the game a lot once upon a time.
International Karate plus was a three man free for all fighting game. Pressing “T” made a random combatants trousers fall down. Though that was never as impressive as getting a double KO with a double split kick to lay out bothyour oppponents at once.
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Marvellously IK+ was also one of the few games on the Amiga with a fully functioning sense of the humour (like COD IV, just to prevent myself going completely off topic).
I’ll always remember typing “shit” into the keyboard whilst playing, the game responded with something like “What horrible language, any more of that and I shan’t play”, typing ‘shit’ again caused the game to restart. This was enough for my ten year old self to almost laugh himself to death.
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All they need now is a version of the orchestral score, only played on a piano like that old-timey music.
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HA, love the cheat! gonna try it out tongiht!
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