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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Screenshots

Call of Duty: Finest Hour PlayStation 2 Sarge is brief but to the point in his plan of attack

Call of Duty: Finest Hour PlayStation 2 Using machine-gun nest to fend off enemy attack

Call of Duty: Finest Hour PlayStation 2 Enemy Panzers version US Shermans

Call of Duty: Finest Hour PlayStation 2 Wehrmacht infantry coming out of the barracks

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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

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User Reviews

Decent alternative to MOH, but is also very flawed at times.	PlayStation 2	Big John WV (27209)

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Critic Reviews

TeamXbox	Xbox	Nov 16, 2004	8.8 out of 10	88
PGNx Media	Xbox	Nov 22, 2004	8.5 out of 10	85
4Players.de	Xbox	Dec 11, 2004	78 out of 100	78
GameZone	GameCube	Dec 06, 2004	7.5 out of 10	75
Fragland.net	GameCube	Feb 21, 2005	74.3 out of 100	74
Game Over Online	Xbox	Dec 07, 2004	70 out of 100	70
GamerFeed	Xbox	Nov 24, 2004		60
GamePro (US)	GameCube	Dec 09, 2004	3 out of 5	60
GameDaily	Xbox	Nov 24, 2004	6 out of 10	60
Boomtown	Xbox	Dec 14, 2004	6 out of 10	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.

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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)

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