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Am I the only PS2 owner left? So Call Of Duty 3....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 19 / 27
Date: November 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Just to let you know, I have played and finished every Medal Of Honor & Call Of Duty game for both the PS2 and Gamecube. So how does Call Of Duty 3 stack up to the previous installments? Graphically it has some smoke and texture detail that is unmatched on the PS2. As far as overall graphics, it does fall below Medal Of Honor European Assault. Many of the levels are heavily textured, but it all just blends together and sometimes looks messy. The sound is great as well as the music. This game is STUNNING on the Xbox 360 and that is the version to play if you can. The levels are basically the same on every console version but the PS2 has a tough time keeping up and begins to show its age on this title. If you have a PS2 and like this series then pick it up. It's more of the same with some nice added touches (like hand-to-hand fighting, very crowded battlefields & smoke grenades). I will play it through and eventually re-buy it for the 360.....

this game is great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 19
Date: November 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is great.but you cant kill your own men sad...

not up to PC par

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i'm a huge fan of call of duty, united offensive and 2 on PC. however, COD 2 was disappointing in numerous ways so i was excited to be wowed again by COD 3 for ps2. unfortunately, nothing of the sort happened. things looked great at first during the training session.. then the game starts and i quickly realized 1. the graphics are a big problem. at first, they look great. the problem is when you start trying to shoot people, and realize that the graphics are blurry and it's hard to see. apparently they made these graphics for the 360 and ps2, but the problem is, ps2 can't handle graphics that good. in that sense, i'd take the graphics of COD 2 any day, a game which gives incredible distance graphics where you can spot someone far off. the second thing i don't care for is using the ps2 controls. i guess that's a matter of preference, but on the other hand, i was impressed with the controls for timesplitters: future perfect, resident evil 4 and urban chaos: riot response. to me, the weapons and moving here just don't "feel" good or fluid. in fact, they make me feel sick. the controls in COD 2 are probably the best in any FPS ever to date.

this game might be worth playing on 360 or ps2 if you like console controls, because i'm sure the graphics are a lot better. but i can't recommend it as a ps2 game. on march 26th, 2007, medal of honor: vanguard for ps2 will be released. it looks like an amazing game.. if it controls well, it will easily surpass COD 3.

sumwhat disapointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 21
Date: November 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game is not wat i had expected. i had bought COD 2 big red one last year and i thought it was pretty good but nuthin to the 360 version. but anyway i just bought COD3 yesterday and i wasn't really impressed. the graphics were no better. and the gameplay barly changed at all. there were a couple things however that were improved. one was the health. there was no health bar but instead u duck for cover when u can see the heart beats. another thing was that smoke grenades were put in this one and there is also the melle block thing that i liked. but aside from that nuthin changed. disapointing

Take a trip into a lackluster World War II

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: November 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

To be honest, I never really was a fan of those Army kind of games such as Medal of Honor, SOCOM or Call of Duty. While it is kind of interesting experiencing a history you weren't around for (or even your parents), it was never really something that I paid a large amount of attention to, preferring to play things such as RPG's or Zelda. Well since the stores didn't exactly have anything interesting, I thought "why not?" so I picked it up and while I don't regret trying it out, there's almost an air of "wasn't this supposed to be really awesome?"

Story: Not really a story per se, you're a soldier during World War II doing various missions after the Invasion of Normandy. To be honest I wasn't even following the story much since it was mainly "we gotta go here and take care of this and defeat that" and off I went.

Graphics: Coming out on XBox360 and then on PS3 and the Wii, the graphical qualities look nice enough but then you see the next-gen ones and you feel like these look tame but ultimately level designs have enough detail and there's enough lighting and textures to make the levels feel alive. Only thing is that your zoom for your guns almost cover your enemy so distant sniping makes it a pain since you can't tell if you're gonna hit him or not and whether you should re-adjust for the recoil.

Sound/Music: It's big, loud, epic, and surprisingly forgettable. Yeah it sounds Hollywood-caliber music but ultimately you won't find yourself humming along to this stuff which is a shame since it sounds like you should. Voice-acting is alright, certainly better than most games out there but it would've been nice if I could hear it half the time without having to adjust my settings.

Gameplay: The biggie for any game any there are parts which this game does well but other times it's just ridiculous and even frustrating. You get your standard weaponry found during that period but like I said in the graphics, using the scope sometimes covers your enemy. Enemies at times don't react like they should. I pumped an enemy full of bullets in his gut yet he just reacted like you shot him with a paintball and he got up and started shooting again. Not to mention they have sharp aim which makes you wonder why we even won the war since they're such sharpshooters, not to mention it's hard to see them at times and figure out if they're yours.

As with any squad-based games, the big thing concerns their AI: namely do you have to do everything yourself or can they manage on their own for awhile? And they're actually quite good, ducking when they have to and advancing when they have the advantage. A couple times though I noticed they would fire smoke grenades instead of the normal ones making it near impossible to see who I'm shooting at (which doesn't help since apparently Nazis have smoke-proof eyeballs.) Is it a fun game? Well it certainly is intense at times but it also can get frustrating since you're shot at from every which direction and you always feel like spinning all over figuring out who's shooting you.

It's strange that Call of Duty 3 is a launch title for both the PS3 and the Wii with it figuring that it was going to be one of the top launch games yet as one of the few for PS2 you feel like they dropped the ball.

Great game, too short!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: November 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Call of Duty 3, yet another game in the oh-so-dead-horse WWII genre. Seriously, I'm bored of WWII games. But of course since developers can't seem to get the other wars right (Notice all Vietnam based games and don't even get me started on the Conflict: Desert Storm series) I guess we're stuck with the Greatest Generation.

COD 3 is centered around the Normandy Breakout, a campaign led by the Allied forces to liberate France, and eventually (yet oddly not in the game) Paris. Throughout the game you will frequently run into French Maquis fighters (Otherwise known as the French Resistance). The game shifts you back and forth between the different Allied forces, from driving tanks with the Polish 1st Armored division, to performing raids with the British SAS. Hell even the Canadians get involved.

This game is incredible, the graphics, particularly in the human modeling and mouth movements, are pretty lackluster. The clothing and textures are pretty realistic, but you're usually to engrossed with the action to notice. Speaking of action, there is plenty of it. Though it can become very frustrating, especially when that enemy just won't die! You never seem to be able to find ammo for the weapon you're actually carrying, and always end up turning to the ever reliable, German MP40 machine gun. Trust me, you will carry this gun ALOT, it actually gets pretty frustrating. You also tend to get shot out of nowhere, by nothing, quite a bit. For example: There is a level where you use a tank as cover to clear a courtyard, yet all of a sudden you find yourself peppered to death by silent rounds from what appears to be the heavens. I even stepped back to look and found the ground being sprayed from left to right, back and forth, by bullets that were most definitely coming from nowhere. It astonished me because until then I just couldn't figure out who or what was shooting me!

Anyway, my chief complaint of the game is that it is just too damn short! I bought the game two days ago and had it hidden away for those two days so I could play Okami without being distracted. I started playing today around 12 noon and by 10 pm I had completed the game. Needless to say I was very disappointed that I had spent 50 dollars on a game that I had beaten in less than 12 hours.

Overall, if you need a war game fix and are very disappointed by the fact that they canceled America's Army: Rise of a Soldier for PS2, then pick this game up. But if you're like me and can beat it in a day, I say just pay ten bucks and rent it, finish it, and return it.

Still answering the call for the PS2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 16
Date: December 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

With the current gen system's life cycles dwindling down ever so much, it's nice to see that Activision ported Call of Duty 3 to the PS2. It's even nicer to see that Call of Duty 3 looks surprisingly good and plays nearly as good as it does on next-gen systems. You know the setting, you know the story. The only thing you may not know about Call of Duty 3 is that the graphics, while not without some hiccups, look pretty good for a PS2 game, and the sound and audio effects are simply superb. Seriously, this game has some of the best sound effects you will hear in a PS2 game. The online multiplayer is a blast to play too, but what really hurts the game is that the PS2 online play can get really choppy. That aside though, the single player mode is still very engaging and overall fun, but as a whole, Call of Duty 3 isn't really all that different from last year's Call of Duty 2: Big Red One for the PS2. That could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on the player, so fans who may be looking for something different from what they usually get may be a little disappointed. Not to mention that while the single player mode may be great, it is pretty short. All in all though, Call of Duty 3 is still an excellent first person shooter, and should definitely be checked out by all those who aren't looking to dive into the next-gen just yet.

Best Call of Duty to Date

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Some people have said some negative thing about this COD, but I think it is the best version to date. COD, The big red one, s*cked donkey b*lls. I played this one immediately after and it is leaps and bounds ahead. The computer players are much more advanced this time through. In COD BRO they got in your way and were so lame. In this one they actually save your a**!

To those who say this game sucks, here is some advice. Always play these games on the hardest setting. It will be the most realistic and most difficult. You won't be able to beat it in an afternoon. It will require patience and skill.

The only downside to the game so far is that you are often killed by "invisible" germans. They are hiding all over the place and it can get frustrating to get killed 5 times in a row in the same spot without ever figuring out why.

But the graphics are good and the game play fun, once you get the hang of it.

Call of Duty 3 ROCKS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks. The new feautures that it has is awesome. You can clear out an entire room with the butt of your gun. Also this game has online multiplayer for up to 24 people. Another thing, the trench gun. In the past Call of duty games we never got a shot gun. now we do the trench gun is awesome. Buy it or rent it NOW

Very good game !!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'll have to admit, that this game is truly a very cool game in my view and one of the best of 2006. This game beats Call of Duty 2 graphics wise, however, unlike 2 and sticking to a solid story line, Call of Duty 3 moves you to different battles so that you can get a full effect of WWII. The game does have its frustration points (like all new games do), however, with time, you pretty much will learn all the new stuff very easy. This game gets a solid A+ in my view and is highly recommended !!

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