Call of Duty: Finest Hour

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Description

Call of Duty: Finest Hour is the first CoD game on the consoles. The story spans through three different fronts in the Second World War through three soldiers' viewpoints. Basically, the game is a heavily scripted, story-driven action game where the main focus is on the action and the dramatization of the war and the people in the middle of it all. One of the defining features if Call of Duty-games is the mood they set and the accurate reproduction of the actual WW2 battlefields and operations. As well as the usual range of WW2 weaponry, in CoD:FH there are also vehicles in which one can drive around, blasting the enemies to bits in the process.

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Alternate Titles

• "使命召唤：决战时刻" -- Simplified Chinese spelling
• "Call of Duty: Le Jour de Gloire" -- French title

Part of the Following Groups

• Call of Duty series
• Call of Duty universe
• Middleware: RenderWare
• PlayStation 2 Greatest Hits releases
• PlayStation 2 Platinum Range releases
• Xbox Best of Platinum Hits releases
• Xbox Platinum Hits releases

User Reviews

Decent alternative to MOH, but is also very flawed at times.

PlayStation 2

Big John WV (27218)

Critic Reviews

Kombo.com	Xbox	Dec 05, 2004	8.6 out of 10	86
Worth Playing	Xbox	Dec 07, 2004	7.9 out of 10	79
BonusStage.com	Xbox	Nov 29, 2004	7.6 out of 10	76
GameZone	Xbox	Nov 19, 2004	7.5 out of 10	75
IGN	PlayStation 2	Nov 16, 2004	7.3 out of 10	73
Gaming Target	Xbox	Feb 03, 2005	7.1 out of 10	71
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands)	Xbox	Dec 13, 2004	70 out of 100	70
GameSpot	GameCube	Nov 18, 2004	6.6 out of 10	66
Jeuxvideo.com	Xbox	Dec 01, 2004	13 out of 20	65
Xbox World Australia (XWA)	Xbox	Dec 17, 2004	55 out of 100	55

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Trivia

German version

In the German version terms like "Nazi" or "Third Reich" and all references (except Roosevelt in the outro) to war participants were cut out, e.g. Mussolini, Hitler and Montgomery were removed. This includes voice acting, in-game posters and video sequences. Other cuts involve a change in the first eastern front mission where a "kill" was translated to "besiegen" (defeat) and all voices in the making of videos. Additionally all swastikas were either removed or replaced with iron crosses. A detailed list of changes can be found on schnittberichte.com.

Related Web Sites

• Call of Duty: Finest Hour @ Spark Unlimited (product page on the developer's website)
• Call Of Duty: Finest Hour - The Contract (A deconstruction of the contract between Spark and Activision for the game, on Gamasutra)