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.
08/11/2007 at 09:09 Dan says:
Oh, that just made my day!
08/11/2007 at 09:20 Bobsy says:
Okay, NOW I want to play this.
08/11/2007 at 09:29 Nick says:
That almost makes up for the price tag to single player length disparity.
08/11/2007 at 09:37 Freelancepolice says:
Please tell me this is in the 360 version :P
08/11/2007 at 09:43 drunkymonkey says:
…roll on Christmas.
08/11/2007 at 11:01 oryly says:
I’m considering getting this game just for this mode.
08/11/2007 at 11:02 Rayme says:
Here; a trailer for this cheat that was put together at IW:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/27503.html
=)
08/11/2007 at 11:07 KindredPhantom says:
LOL
08/11/2007 at 11:08 Rayme says:
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. =)
08/11/2007 at 12:26 Evo says:
Brilliant! :D
CoD4 has gone further up in my estimations :D
08/11/2007 at 12:34 Thiefsie says:
LEARN TO DRIVE
08/11/2007 at 13:03 Kast says:
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).
08/11/2007 at 13:08 Elyscape says:
Okay, I’m getting this game now.
08/11/2007 at 13:12 GibletHead2000 says:
Someone needs to turn this into a mod for Team Fortress, methinks. (Should include big handlebar moustaches for all characters)
08/11/2007 at 13:18 Man Raised By Puffins says:
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.
08/11/2007 at 13:32 Thiefsie says:
Needs Benny Hill music imo.
08/11/2007 at 13:46 GibletHead2000 says:
Or rope. For the level with the trains on it.
08/11/2007 at 13:56 muscrat says:
WoW I suddenly feel an urge to buy the game
08/11/2007 at 14:33 Dracko says:
Best collection of unlockables since GoldenEye? Might very well be, if only for this.
08/11/2007 at 14:53 Pete says:
Not that this need restating, but that really is wonderfully inspired.
08/11/2007 at 15:13 Leelad says:
Fantastic, just missing Bill Bailey.
Also did I see that sniper round get carried by the wind and hit slightly off target?
08/11/2007 at 16:11 Phil says:
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.
08/11/2007 at 16:21 Schadenfreude says:
It wasn’t that much of a cheat mode though really. All you had to do was press ‘T’. More of a feature ;D
08/11/2007 at 16:23 Brant says:
The title of this post does not lie!
08/11/2007 at 16:48 Rev. Stuart Campbell says:
I hereby award all involved a billion trillion Excellence Points.
08/11/2007 at 16:52 FaceOmeter says:
This is absolute genius, and may have just sold me the game, which I wasn’t that interested in…
08/11/2007 at 17:04 heavyness says:
reason #545786 to play this game.
all around, best game on the 360 to date!
08/11/2007 at 18:49 Chris says:
Okay, that’s just friggin’ hilarious.
08/11/2007 at 23:37 Ben Hazell says:
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.
09/11/2007 at 00:25 Janek says:
Ragtime: The new Bullet Time?
09/11/2007 at 04:40 malkav11 says:
IK+? What’s this now?
09/11/2007 at 07:32 WCAYPAHWAT says:
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.
09/11/2007 at 08:52 Matt says:
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.
09/11/2007 at 20:24 Phil says:
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.
10/11/2007 at 23:18 TychoCelchuuu says:
All they need now is a version of the orchestral score, only played on a piano like that old-timey music.
08/12/2010 at 17:55 No Nonsense Muscle Building review says:
HA, love the cheat! gonna try it out tongiht!