Call of Duty 1 Finest Hour is a first-person shooter developed for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube. It was released on 16 November 2004. It was the first console installment of Call of Duty, developed by Spark Unlimited and published by Activision. It was followed up by a sequel, Call of Duty 2: Big Red One, in 2005. It is the first console game in the Call of Duty series.
Although it is based on
the original Call of Duty franchise for the PC, it has a completely different
storyline and acts as a side-story/expansion of the main game. In the spirit of
previous Call of Duty games, it features six intertwined stories and battles
based on real events from the perspective of soldiers on each side of the
allied campaign (U.S., British, and Soviet).
The game's music was
composed by Michael Giacchino who previously worked on the original Call of
Duty and the Medal of Honor franchise. AC/DC singer Brian Johnson provides the
voice of Sergeant Starkey, one of the British commandos.
Multiplayer
Multiplayer
Finest Hour has no
online multi-player support for the GameCube, as it does not take advantage of
the broadband adapter. However, on the Xbox, Finest Hour is Xbox Live
compatible and through system links, has support for up to 32 players. This
game has online support for PlayStation 2 for up to 16 players per session.
Characters
Characters
Private Aleksandr
Sokolov is the first playable protagonist and one of the three playable Russian
characters in the game.
Lieutenant Tanya
Pavelovna is a Russian sniper. She is encountered by Sokolov, who takes on the
role of the second player character on the Russian front.Lieutenant (later
Major) Nikolai Badanov is a Russian tank commander who encounters Sokolov and
Pavelovna. With their help he secures a T34 tank. Badanov becomes the player's
character for the remainder of the Russian campaign.
Edward Carlyle is a
British commando serving in North Africa. He is in charge of Demolitions and is
the playable character for the entirety of the African campaign.
Sergeant (later
Lieutenant) Chuck Walker is a member of the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division
and a veteran of D-Day. His squad is tasked with clearing the German resistance
from Aachen and finally from the last bridge over the Rhine at Remagen.
Sergeant Sam Rivers is a
U.S. tank commander. Rivers is the playable character for a single mission only
in which his tank backs up American forces during the German Assault on
Bastogne. He is later seen again in the mission at Remagen but not as a
playable character.
OS:
98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7/8
CPU:
Pentium III 700MHz/Athlon 700MHz
RAM:
128 MB
GPU:
32 MB
HDD:
1.4 GB
DX:
DirectX 9.0b
