COD4 beta US only?

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The Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the upcoming first-person shooter from Infinity Ward, will be getting a public beta test this month. Like the public beta for Halo 3, it will give gamers the chance to sample an incredible-looking game, while simultaneously allowing the developers to test their network code, optimising it long before it goes on sale. It’s win-win!

Here’s the bad news: the beta test will be confined to the United States. This has been confirmed by a representative of Activision Australia. Australian gamers will miss out. Gamers in New Zealand will miss out. Europe? The UK? Forget it. The beta is exclusive to the 360 version, too. Oh well.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare preserves the epic scale and advanced AI the series is renowned for, but updates the setting to the present day. When it eventually becomes available in Australia you’ll be able to use over 70 different modern weapons and gadgets, including the M249 SAW and the Claymore directional mine. The attention to detail is amazing, with the actual performance of the human eye modelled to make low-light and night vision scopes as realistic as they’ve ever been in a video game.

Highly realistic depth of field, rim-lighting, character self-shadowing, texture streaming, and physics-enabled effects will deliver visuals that border on the photo-realistic. Character classes will be highly customisable, and a built-in experience point system will unlock other goodies. It’s a solid package – you can see why we’re disappointed.
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If true anyway round this, like using a US account?
 
My US account still works fine, though maybe that's beacuse I only use it for demo's and vids. If I tried to download something from the video marketplace I'd expect it to get blocked pretty quick.
 
WHAT A LOAD OF ****!

If thats true, cod4 can shove their modern nonsense up their arse. I'm sick of games companies ******* over europe. I'll buy a copy second hand just to make sure they get nothing from my sales.
 
slambo69 said:
WHAT A LOAD OF ****!

If thats true, cod4 can shove their modern nonsense up their arse. I'm sick of games companies ******* over europe. I'll buy a copy second hand just to make sure they get nothing from my sales.
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thats a bit of an overreaction isn't it? its just a beta, and a multiplayer beta at that. Im sure plenty of companies have done beta's in other countries before.
 
Wonder who it is restricting it if it is MS or InfinityWard.

As gutted as i am, the fact is it is a beta, it isn't a right tbh. If they said multiplayer was only included in the NA version of the retail game, then yeah i'd spit a dummy out.
Beta's to me are a case of, if i get it then bonus, if i don't oh well.
 
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