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 dramatisation 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 which one can drive around, blasting enemy to bits in the process.

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Alternate Titles

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

Part of the Following Groups

• Call of Duty series
• Call of Duty universe
• Graphics Engine: RenderWare
• Historical conflict: World War II
• PlayStation 2 Greatest Hits releases
• PlayStation 2 Platinum Range releases

User Reviews

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

PlayStation 2

Big John WV (27242)

Critic Reviews

Next Level Gaming	Xbox	Nov 16, 2004	93 out of 100	93
Sliced Gaming (GameBiz)	Xbox	Dec 03, 2004	88 out of 100	88
GameZone	PlayStation 2	Nov 16, 2004	8.7 out of 10	87
1UP	PlayStation 2	Nov 17, 2004	8.5 out of 10	85
Daily Game	Xbox	Nov 23, 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
Jeuxvideo.com	PlayStation 2	Dec 03, 2004	13 out of 20	65
GamePro (US)	Xbox	Dec 09, 2004	3 out of 5	60
X-Box Gamer	Xbox	Dec 19, 2004	12 out of 20	60

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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)