just go to best buy, they had a pile of em when i picked it up yesterday

I picked one up today at Bestbuy also, and they had a ton of them. I think the guy mentioned might have some money riding on this game, and he's drumming up the hype accordingly. Either that, or stores (other than bestbuy, which by 2 reports thusfar, mine included, has plenty of copies) are getting low supplies.

I thought this game would have mediocre sales compared to all the other games coming out, but I guess if it actually did sell out, it's all thanks to the amazing Beta that showed off the fantastic gameplay that COD4 has to offer.

Still though, I think I could walk into ANY store in town and pick up a copy if I still needed one.

A Circuit City near DC had several console copies on Tuesday, as did a Best Buy I went to. However, for some reason only the Best Buy had the PC version of the game, but they had a deal where you got a free copy of Behind Enemy Lines on DVD with your purchase...joy.

I really get confused when I see posts like this. I have never, ever had trouble finding a copy of a game on release-day. Maybe it's just because I have 3 (count em') gamestops near my house.

the game is awesome!

Period.

If it doesn't AT THE LEAST pass Gears of War for 2nd game played on Major Nelson's little LIVE activity thing I'll be sincerely SHOCKED and AWED!

Good thing PC users can just use Steam :)

Haven't played any Call of Duty games yet, maybe I should. heh

I will do my part to help the situation by not buying a copy. I'm so selfless.

"inadquate" supply?? how about an "inadequate" supply?

@Clack: lol

Uhh out of stock wtf? I just bought mine at my local Best Buy. They have the game cages at the registers, So I tell the girl i wanted COD4, she calls someone, the person opens the locker and there's like 100 COD4s there.

I seriously don't know why these are flying off the shelves. I just finished level 3 and they need to tighten up the graphics a little bit...

An interesting title, but I buy my games for the single player experience, which I hear this sorely lacks. I like the sound of 'experience' in multiplayer, other titles should take note.

I like the Call of Duty series because of the epic single player campaigns that make you feel like you're taking part in something much much bigger than yourself. I remember the charge across Red Square and the storming of the Reichstag in the original CoD very fondly. For multiplayer I prefer the online-only titles like Team Fortress 2, Battlefield 2 or Day of Defeat Source, but I hear that CoD4 innovates in a lot of areas so I'm looking forward to trying it out. Overall can't until my steam preorder gets unlocked :)

One concern though... I hope they go back to historical wars... I'm concerned by the lack of defined countries beside Ukraine etc (it only gets called 'The Middle East'). The sweeping scale of the CoD single player is much more effective if you feel it's something that was experienced by real people and not pure invention.

WOW! The graphics and playability are superb-even better than GOW; run, swim, or fly-just get it!

Its not a lack of supply... its store policy in places like EB where they try and FORCE people to pre-order by making artificial shortages.

Hopefully soon everyone will use steam and crooks like EB will go out of business.

Yeah, this is yet another instance of the Nintendo Short Press - announce shortages -> increase and extend sales.

Rockband just did it, now COD. Its getting old so quick.

It didnt work the last two times, but I will get the COD4. I wont run. I wont dignify that sheit.

I got mine at Gamestop the day it came out. I like how the clerks try to give you a guilt trip sometimes for not pre-ordering it. The guy was like "well, we only have two copies left, one standard edition and one limited, that's all we have." He gave me this look as if it was somehow irresponsible of me to even ask if they had a copy in stock. I was just like "Good thing I don't want two copies then, isn't it?"

The Circuit City I work at has plenty, although we did sell out of GH3 for the Xbox 360 a few days after release.

"I just finished level 3 and they need to tighten up the graphics a little bit"

You're smoking crack dude, the graphics in this game are mind-blowing. Wait until you get to the part of the game where the nuclear bomb explodes and you get to walk around the fallout and witness the suffering...

I've never seen anything like it and I've been gaming for 20 years.

To those who played the demo. That was a Massive Chock-tease. We're to believe in it that there's some kind of -you know- WAR going on in Raghead Central...

...I just finished "Rainbow Recon: Advanced Call of the Warrior". Jesus, They could of just renamed it "TOM CLANCY: We can one up you Any day!" Hundreds of lives where to be toasted - but get this.. Nobody noticed. Saudi Arabia gets invaded by nasty US soldiers and no stick is made? The CAPITAL of IRAQ that is called..Al Başrah Gets nuked? Aping a sequence out of an REAL video with a C-130 in Afghanistan during the start of the war. But instead of "mosque" It's "Church".. And they even Ape "We've got a runner" line to boot.. have they No Shame? Did anybody in Infinity watch "BlackHawk Down"? Why the Hell are all those rotors SAGGING In Flight!?! This wasn't a Global conflict, it was all "shush shush" Recon Six affair, and Infinity does not have the balls to put Real Names or places except for Chernobyl in it to prove some worthless point. In case anyones wondering, the only reason why the city hasn't recovered is because the government's out of money. The final car chase was as infuriating as in CoD2, you aim at the driver and the glass is transparent steel?! Hinds are bouncing around while you're bouncing around and somehow you're given a RPG to hurt them? Note again to Infinity: Hinds have thickened frames that can withstand light arms fire as well as ANTI-PERSONAL propelled grenades. And here the MASSIVE kicker: The REAL BAD GUY is:... wait for it... A WHITEY!!! Yes, the Ragheads where still bad... But they where Played by the WHITEY Cossack!!!! Just like the film "The Sum of All Fears", it aint the Ragheads..Its All White NeoNazi time! And finally: the Epilogue..Oh my. A HUGE chunk of fuselage is blown off(twice)... And decompression doesn't occur, which of course would "eject" anything not bolted to the frame in half a second and plunge the plane into a quick spin to the ground..no no. Let's steal a little HollyWeird action to end this whole sad affair. Man I'm glad I just rented it.
Europe and America for the most part somehow lost some balls in these last few decades. Ragheads kill 4 THOUSAND PLUS Americans in the last few decades, and what have we been doing? Whining and moaning and bitching about how insensitive we are to the DAmn spotted Owl! Tree-huggers should be weeping over all those millions of pamphlets and decrees "shaming" those naughty Ragheads.