With all the Call of Duty weapon guides finished I figured it would be good to compile all the reviews in one place for easy access or in case you missed one. Each post contains a thorough review of every single weapon and is extremely useful for choosing the best weapon for your needs. If you don’t want to read through everything just scroll to the bottom for the bold bottom line of the review.

Call of Duty 4 Pistol Class Review

Call of Duty 4 Light Machine Gun Class Review

Call of Duty 4 Sub Machine Gun Class Review

Call of Duty 4 Sniper Rifle Class Review

Call of Duty 4 Shotgun Class Review

Call of Duty 4 Assault Rifle Class Review

Please leave your comments here or in the individual post and let everyone know what you think. It might also be interesting to compare weapons across classes to see what conclusions you can come too.

Next in our series of Call of Duty 4 weapon reviews we have the Sniper rifle. Sniper rifles are unique and amazing weapons because of their long range and one shot, one kill ability. All of our hard numbers come are coming from our Call of Duty Weapons Stats Chart, the damage multipliers are particularly important here. Using the chart we see that all sniper rifles do 70 damage and have a damage multiplier of 1.0, 1.1 or 1.5. For snipers the golden rule is the one shot kill, anything less and you might as well be using an assault rifle. So what multipliers do we need to meet this golden rule? A 1.0 multiplier will never one shot kill an enemy unless he was previously afflicted damage. A 1.1 multiplier will one shot the enemy if you are using the Stopping Power Perk. Finally, a 1.5 multiplier will one shot the enemy without the use of Stopping Power but if Stopping Power it is equipped it will one shot an enemy equipped with Juggernaut. These numbers might be a tad confusing now, but they will be become more clear and useful as we review the weapons. Without further ado here our analysis and review of all the Sniper Rifles, scroll to the bottom of the page for the short version.

M21 – The hands down best sniper rifle for hardcore matches because players start with 30 health instead of 100 health. The M21 does 70 damage with relatively poor damage multipliers, but for hardcore it is still easily enough to guarantee one shot kills no matter what part of the target you hit. The higher damage values of the other weapons just aren’t needed. It also has an incredibly low recoil which means you can spam 4-5 shots in the target area with reasonable accuracy. Read more

This is probably the most important piece of Call of Duty 4 related strategy information out there. Knowing exactly how the weapons work on their most basic level is the key to making smart weapon choices and in turn improving at Call of Duty.

This chart is totally up to date with the latest game tweaks, and the information comes from the actual program files of the game. Do not trust the in game bar graphs that are supposed to display the weapon stats, they are totally wrong. Be sure to look at the damage multipliers as well as the initial damage for each weapon, when you multiply the two you get the final bullet damage. Last updated September 18, 2008.

Click the thumbnail below to view the chart. Read more