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A first-person shooter game with challenging infantry battles and tank combat missions during the war

A first-person shooter game with challenging infantry battles and tank combat missions during the war

Vote: (1,802 votes)

Program license: Paid

Developer: Activision

Version: 1.3

Works under: Windows

Also available for Mac

Vote:

Program license

(1,802 votes)

Paid

Developer

Version

Activision

1.3

Works under:

Also available for

Windows

Mac

Pros

  • Diverse and challenging missions to keep you going.
  • An iconic game that influenced the later series.

Cons

  • The game fails to innovate or do anything new.
  • The graphics look terribly outdated.

When Infinity Ward released the first Call of Duty game, the raving reviews and enthusiastic opinion of gamers brought this title to the top of the gaming market. Critics and gamers all converged to agree how this game differentiated itself from the crowded WWII genre of the time. In fact, Call of Duty 2 breathed new life into a genre that had been going stale for quite a few years. The visceral and fast-paced action struck a chord with the gamers who liked games with competition.

How Call of Duty 2 Stacks up to the Original

If you liked how the original game felt, you will almost certainly take pleasure in the sequel which remains true to its core strengths. The game enhances its sense of being a soldier within the middle of a violent and bloody war machine. Unfortunately, as said, if you like the first Call of Duty game, you will most likely enjoy the second one because this title fails to break new ground with its release. The core mechanics and the first-person shooter gameplay remains unchanged, which has always been the biggest complaint among many opponents to the Call of Duty franchise. Instead of buying a new game, it feels more like you've bought downloadable content.

The Campaign

Like with the first title, Call of Duty 2 offers a campaign where you step into the boots of several different soldiers to fight under different Allied factions. In the beginning, you start as the private in a Russian Army. Your goal? You must defend the Russian cities of Stalingrad and Moscow from the attack of the Germans.

Once you have passed through the first mission with the Russians, you can start with the British campaign. With most of these levels, you fight on the sands in the North African deserts. You fight and die next to the Desert Rats. In the final mission for the British, you get sent over to Caen, France. Here you have been ordered to bomb the hedgerows and houses. After you have played as the British, you take on the American campaign where you're a corporal fighting on the shores in Europe. Call of Duty 2 doesn't take you to Utah Beach or Omaha Beach, which was common, but instead, you must scale the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc.

The game has 10 different missions, and each of them has been broken into several stages. Should you decide to play the game at regular difficulty, it takes about one hour per mission. You can also choose to up the difficulty for a more frustrating and tactical gameplay. Overall, it's a good game, but it fails to innovate, which has often become the problem when a franchise grows too big. They stop taking risks.

Pros

  • Diverse and challenging missions to keep you going.
  • An iconic game that influenced the later series.

Cons

  • The game fails to innovate or do anything new.
  • The graphics look terribly outdated.