Loner
04-17-2006, 07:19 PM
There is no doubt that when the original Call of Duty hit the stores back in ’03 it made waves in the FPS, War simulation genre. Call of Duty was a huge success and sold bucket loads of copies. It raised the bar in the world of cinematic quality in war games and since then other titles have had to up their standards to align and compete. So, a lot of time has past, Activision are back with Call of Duty 2. Has the wait been worth it?
For those who didn’t get to play Call of Duty, we are basically talking about a first person shooter set in WW2. You play through interwoven campaigns which see you as a British, Russian or American soldier fighting against the German army.This said Call of Duty was still a cracking romp and was accessible to all kinds of gamer’s not just hard-core war player.
Call of Duty 2 is very much like its predecessor you control an allied troop in various WW2 scenarios. One thing that has changed is you can jump from mission to mission instead of having to play through in sequence.
The damage meter works in an interesting manor. You can heal yourself by hiding away to recuperate, so if you take a head shot or two and your vision blurs and your peripheral sight turns red you can simply duck down behind a rock out of the line of fire and re-heal yourself. I am not too keen on this, and believe having medics or health packs is a far more realistic way to portray health issues, although, this does open COD2 up to many more players and not just battlefield aficionado’s.
You will pass through some recognizable setting including the American landing at Normandy and the taking of Stalingrad which does help with the realism of the whole thing.
The single player mission pans out well, and once you have completed this you have the added extra of multi-player mode which holds up to 64 players per server and features lots of maps, extra weapons and the usual game-play modes.
COME ON BUY IT
For those who didn’t get to play Call of Duty, we are basically talking about a first person shooter set in WW2. You play through interwoven campaigns which see you as a British, Russian or American soldier fighting against the German army.This said Call of Duty was still a cracking romp and was accessible to all kinds of gamer’s not just hard-core war player.
Call of Duty 2 is very much like its predecessor you control an allied troop in various WW2 scenarios. One thing that has changed is you can jump from mission to mission instead of having to play through in sequence.
The damage meter works in an interesting manor. You can heal yourself by hiding away to recuperate, so if you take a head shot or two and your vision blurs and your peripheral sight turns red you can simply duck down behind a rock out of the line of fire and re-heal yourself. I am not too keen on this, and believe having medics or health packs is a far more realistic way to portray health issues, although, this does open COD2 up to many more players and not just battlefield aficionado’s.
You will pass through some recognizable setting including the American landing at Normandy and the taking of Stalingrad which does help with the realism of the whole thing.
The single player mission pans out well, and once you have completed this you have the added extra of multi-player mode which holds up to 64 players per server and features lots of maps, extra weapons and the usual game-play modes.
COME ON BUY IT