If military based first person shooters was never your type of game - buy this one! But I still have a wish list...
Now, that being said, there are a number of things that I hope will improve this already great game in the next installment in this series (or even with downloadable add-ons?):
1) Add Co-op play - especially split screen. Chasing your buddy locally on split screen is not that great - resistance: FOM and ghost recon have co-op modes, so lets get it in the next COD4... please!
2) Let me customize my character's appearance - even a little bit. Gamers like to customize, as if I really needed to state the obvious.
3) I hate the way the knife attack is implemented. It is really an "old school" thing - it is incredibly unrealistic. Many games have much better stealth attacks and melee. The instant running kill you can get is cheap. Basically you can run around and win every match by using the instant kill of the mighty carving knife... leave this in "old school" and replace it with a better system.
4) More custom class slots, please - I think it's 5 now? - well make it ten. And allow the customs classes to be used offline too. Just unlock them for all users offline - why not?
5) Weapon cameos - let the secondary weapon use it too, and let all the weapons get to gold. What's with the gold uzi, AK47 and dragonov only? Who's side are we on anyway!!?? A couple more cameosalong the way would be fun, too, for all those dang headshots you need to get.
6) IMPORTANT - why can't I shut off the people using mics? A MUTE button for that is essential - I really don't want to listen to some idiot kids using foul language. I cannot imagine why there is no mute available.
7) Tinker with the game modes a bit more - find ways of steering thing to more organized group play. The issue is that all the action takes place in the middle of a wide open map, which tends to result in a sort of "team free for all" unless you are lucky to find an organized group, which is rare.
For example, a cool way to improve team matches is better placement of the objectives, or even locking out parts of the map to force certain areas to be fought over that normally would be ignored. If you have played you might have noticed there are some very cool areas on the maps that just get ignored because they are so far off center - you could basically get tons of variety on the same map by more careful objective placement, or adding some temporary fences to force you to use new map areas.
Hopefully - with the experience gained from this release - some refinement of the game modes will occur in the next release (or download!)
8) Allow custom set-ups to be shared and played, and still gain experience points. Why not just allow someone to join the "private" matches and list the rule changes? Oh, and add a "no instant knife kills" rule for me...
Also - add a penalty if the "host" quits early - there seem to be a number of people who quit while they are ahead to get a cheap win.
9) Improve the online interface - mainly to allow a couple friends to stay in a group. Everytime the "host" quits the group gets fouled up. There are definitely some technical issues that need to be ironed out.
10) Of course, add MORE MAPS, MORE WEAPONS, MORE MODES, MORE GAMES, more, more, more!
11) Wall hugging action would be nice. rainbow 6 vegas does that very well, and it would be great if it could be implemented.
OK - that would be about enough to make a solid 9.0 game into a crazy 10.0 perfect as far as this reviewer see it, anyway. I am not worried about the length of the single player if they make co-op maps (I guess why not so you could try them single player, too) and more robust, focused action on the multiplayer modes.
This game is a very exciting step up from the WW II COD franchise. Go get it and play it if you are looking to try a little FPS combat action!