North American gamers may remember the Call of Duty 4 beta invite fiasco last week, a clusterbleep that had a happy ending, with everyone who registered getting into the multiplayer sample. Gamers in the UK will apparently have to jump through a few more hoops though, with retailer GAME doling out entries to those who pre-order the title.
We don't know if there are other ways to get beta entry in the UK, the retailer just refers to themselves as the "exclusive retail partner in the UK and Ireland." We've emailed Activision for clarification, we'll let you know what we hear back. If you're worried about getting in though, you may want to act fast: According to the GAME email, the UK enters the fray on Sept. 7.
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Reader Comments (16)
Posted: Sep 5th 2007 10:40AM modifiedbears said
There were lots of people from the UK playing yesterday around noon.
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Posted: Sep 5th 2007 2:10PM (Unverified) said
lol yaa theres allready people from the uk,germany, france playing...so whats the big deal?
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Posted: Sep 5th 2007 10:48AM aStagnantSleep said
Everytime I play now, it's with brits...I dunno how
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Posted: Sep 5th 2007 11:03AM (Unverified) said
A lot of the Brits and other non-US people I've played with (French and German so far) have been pretty vocal about how they've managed to get into the beta. On the one hand I don't really care but on the other it really pisses me off.
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Posted: Sep 5th 2007 11:07AM (Unverified) said
i went to the website, signed up, recieved beta code. that was on monday, and i live in wet wet scotland
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Posted: Sep 5th 2007 12:07PM (Unverified) said
same with me. being playing ever since. set to be a great game
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Posted: Sep 5th 2007 12:48PM (Unverified) said
never mind - got it, now going through annoying sign-up process
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Posted: Sep 5th 2007 2:11PM mt1 said
Errrrr Nope http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=82776 here aswell
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Posted: Sep 5th 2007 5:22PM BananaBoat said
The invite process was truly a cluster...beep, but sadly it doesn't stop there. Every day for the past week, we've been getting a show stopping error (Downloading Game Settings) that they supposedly fixed days ago. I'd love to play me some beta goodness, but with the bug, it's too much of a hassle.
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