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A winner - even a few years later

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is getting a little long in the tooth, but is still great. Compelling, lots of replay value, and just simply fun.

A perfect choice for someone that wants to play action games but doesn't have the very latest and greatest system or video card. If your system struggles with the modern games, this one is definitely worth a try.

one of the three best games i ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

a very equilibrated game, with lot of game thrill & entertainment, Three different points of view on the same war on the allied forces, three kind of different weaponry and equipments, simply magnificent.

You can really feel like you are part of the action!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

What I really enjoy about this game is how realistic it is! There are a number of great missions that you go on that are based on historical events. Also, you really do feel a part of the actions. For instance, when a bomb explodes next to you, the ground shakes and your controller shakes as well! The game is also rather challenging. Often times it is hard to see who is shooting at you so you have to be very, very careful not too move too quickly or expose yourself to gun fire. One wrong move and you are dead!

I would strongly recommend this game to any fan of shooters...or any fan of good games in general!

Extremely frustrating save system

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: February 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I would love this game if they would just fix the save system.

I feel I have no control over the game and that I'm not really interacting with this environment because my only goal is find the next save point. I'm not permitted to play out the game how I want to.
In the traditional game saving system, I would have a sense of accomplishment by being able to save whenever I had performed well. This system takes that away. It only saves by my finding a secret save spot. No thrill there at all.

And it wouldn't be so bad if, upon getting killed, I would instantly start the game play again. Instead an extremely annoying philosophical message appears for a number of seconds. They disrupt the flow of the action to the point where I just don't enjoy this game. I have all the expressions memorized at this point. Why the !@%@@ did the designers impose this on us? I would really like to know.

I refuse to buy the other versions of Call of Duty unless I can confirm that these problems are fixed.

Ugh!

Fun for Everyone

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Call of duty 2 is one of the most funnest game I own. It has an awsome single player exsperience with a cool tactical edge. It also has online play that would even intrest the casual gamer. Another good thing is you could have an old computer and still play it. Over-all, Call of duty 2 is sweet. So if you are looking for a good FPS at a low cost, Get this game!

What happened to # 3?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of the Call of Duty series. As a PC gamer I'm pleased that Call of Duty 4 is available, but what happened to COD 3 for the PC gamer? I feel as if the gaming industry is turning into the movie industry, meaning games made for 15 - 25 year olds, thus I give COD 5 stars, but I hope in the future I hope Activision doesn't forget about the PC adults.

mouse and keyboard only but great graphics and fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Bought this recently when trying to expand my library of shooters for pc. I play battlefieldd 1942 and star wars battlefront. Both are good. This game is good too and fast paced especially online. The graphics are very good. Even though the newest version just came out for those who dont have a new computer capable of handling COD4 give this one a try. You can't use a controller easily with it and can't map all the controls though.

COD Fan

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Overall this game is really good.The games gameplay is good,but some of the levels have waves after waves of German soldiers come to the same spot and start shooting at you,unless you eventually move up to where they're positioned.But you dont have to worry to much unless you like the difficulty on hard or on veteran.the includes the basic WWII weapons and vehicles,such as the British Lee-enfield bolt action rifle,Russian PPSH submachine gun,and the American semi automatic M1 garand, and those are only a few of the weapons.Also has alot of vehicles such as the Sherman tank and the German halftrack.The enemies AI is about average,but your allies are kind of dumb to tell you the truth.this game has 24 levels, 7 American,7Russian,and 13 British.I would recommend this game to anyone who likes QUALITY first person shooters.

Polished but slightly worn.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I dearly loved the original Call of Duty as well as its expansion pack. Call of Duty 2 takes its predecessor, turns graphics and intensity up to 11, dials back the user interface to make it more console-friendly, and sticks you in the war.
The gameplay is excellent stuff, standard WWII FPS fare in all respects, with hordes of enemies and many weapons. My one an only beef is the (console-driven) reliance on save points; it is absolutely impossible for the player to save their progress, because all the saving is handled by the game. This is a terrible idea in my opinion as it forced me to spend many more game hours fighting my way through some intensely difficult situations over and over again instead of saving my progress as I do in other, "proper" FPSes.
Oh well. You'll find sniping missions, tank missions, antitank missions, the whole gamut. Finally getting to play in North Africa is a treat.
This is enjoyable stuff. Just keep your patience about you and be ready to play some sequences over, and over, and over.

When a console port goes wrong

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: June 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

For the record I have always preferred Call of Duty to Metal of Honor. The weapons in CoD~1 were responded better, the graphics and maps seemed better to me. I knew from the first second I opened this box that I had made a bad mistake and didn't trust the negative reviews here: HALF the game manual was blank. That might be okay for me since I've played FPS's since DOOM but still... from there things got worse. At least the CD-key was intact.

I'm sad to say that CoD~2 does not live up as a sequel. At first glance the graphics are better, the AI seems better and everything is a notch up but the PC version of this game is simply a Console Port for a game obviously designed for the X-box et.al. it ignores everything that a PC offers over a console (like quick saves)

This game has about as much to do about WWII as the 1980's coin operated game "Duck Hunt" had to do with duck hunting. The game "cheats" - clear out a 5 man post and wait 5 seconds and 5 more men appear, and again and again and again until you advance to that spot and the game autosaves (or you run out of ammo and die) There is no flanking or tactics or careful house clearing here. If you clear a spot and do not advance far enough before you die (again) then you have to repeat the procedure ad. nauseum. Clear some trenches and backtrack and hand grenades "magically" appear from a nearby trench that you have already cleared to blow you up. Each Zone contains at least one "insta-kill" spot where every single angle is covered and there is no way to advance except by throwing a smoke grenade - oops - you DID save a smoke grenade for later right? Because killing everything does not work, 5 seconds later more bad guys magically appear on the 3rd floor of a building where all the staircases are blocked...

You are almost at a disadvantage to using your own weapons, if you swap out everything for German weapons then at least you collect ammo laying on the ground as you advance. Or, for the truly morbid, just coax 10 of your squad mates to a machine gun nest and pick up THEIR ammo... do NOT depend on your team members - you will be doing 95% of the killing yourself as they get crushed by tanks and walk single-file around a corner into a machine gun nest, or even worse - block the doorway as a grenade gets tossed at your feet. In a crowd of 20 the game ALWAYS shoots at YOU, as they don't even count as a distraction... It's no wonder the game fails automatically if you shoot your squad mates because otherwise I would have executed all mine at the very beginning of each mission (more ammo - yay!)

The "health" is the worst mockery of this game. Even on 'Difficult' nearly any amount of single shots is survivable. While slapping a band-aid/med kit on a sniper bullet hole might not be "realistic" for some, it's even less realistic to find the sniper by walking into the center of the town square, take a chest shot, duck, wait a few seconds until you have "calmed down" then stand up again to take another shot, then repeat as needed as a way to figure out where a sniper might be.... how realistic is that?

Needless to say - I love the old Call Of Duty and it's expansions. This "sequel" left me wishing I had waited for the price to drop to 5$ And furthermore, I won't be buying CoD 3 (or 4) - because I hear it has a really nifty segment that forces you to row a rowboat using the control keys... um, yea.

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