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another nazi shoot em up....and yes, its very good.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 57 / 67
Date: November 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge fan of world war 2 first person shooters. I've been with the genre since the begining of medal of honor. since then, not too much has been more impresive to me than call of duty. It was a wonderfual game and still is. Call of Duty 2 was even better. Does this new game maintain the stellar streak the series is on? in a word, yes. Although, it is alot more of the same. But then again, why mess with a great formula? Call of Duty 3 works because it is exactly what the original game was built around, sheer intensity....and also alot of fun. But then you might say, well i've played COD2, are you saying its the same? Yes and No. The basic mechanics are the same and the few newly added gameplay elements do little to nothing for the overall game so in escense. Yea, its the same game. But this time around the levels are bigger and look o so much prettier. Honestly, these are some of the most amazing visuals on the xbox 360. I dare say it puts my beloved COD2 to near shame. The lighting and texturing is beautiful and the explosions are heart stopping to behold. The life like graphics are complimented by a brilliant musical score. Oh, and if anyone should wonder about the ingame soundeffects, just pop in a previous call of duty game and imagine it amped up even more. Seriously, the battlechatter has never been so nicely integrated. COD3 is yet another amazing world war 2 game that will certainly keep veterans of the genre happy and content, meaning on the edge of your seat. The newly implimented rag doll physics and destructable enviroments will make sure you stay there too. I reccomend this game to anyone and everyone who has played a world war two first person shooter and enjoyed it because what we have here ladies and gentelmen is the latest and greatest, the best that money can buy.

More of the same with Major Enhancements

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 26
Date: November 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Yes, the single player mode is pretty much more of the same Call of Duty with few additions. The graphics of the game overall are definitely amazing. The multiplayer mode is where the game really shines. You should buy this game just for multiplayer. It is a MAJOR change from COD2. It's definitely one of the deepest and most fun online games to come along in awhile.

EGADS, man! Where for art thou Infinity Ward????

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 31
Date: November 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Man! What's the f#$%ing deal with companies handing over their biggest game franchises to second and third party developers??? Haven't they ever heard the old saying, "Dance with the one that brought you???"

This game is horrible, and if you say otherwise you're in bad need of therapy because you're so desperate for a video game that you've convinced yourself this is worthy of your time.

Or maybe your time is truly that worthless...in which case you should contemplate drastic measures.

First off, the game is VERY linear. "Call of Duty 2" truly felt like an open battlefield, whereas this one feels like a ride at Disneyland. Sure the scenery is beefed up and beautiful, but how about those character animations? The mouths aren't synched to the dialogue, and they do that mindless hand-waving thing when they talk...just like all cinematics did back on the PS1 and N64.

The AI is horrible. In Call of Duty 2 you couldn't just hold your crosshairs in the same spot and wait for the idiot German to pop up in the same place so you could plug him. In this one you CAN---but you just don't care to.

Also---"IT'S GLITCHERIFFIC!" I shot a German and he flew straight up into the air, completely off the top of the screen! I snuck up behind another German and hit him with a melee attack----the friggin' dude did two front flips and flew like twenty yards. Mind you, he was in the standing position the entire time. Not unlike tossing an action figure across the yard.

This game left a stale taste in my mouth, and really just pissed me off. Call of Duty 2 was 360's only killer app. If nothing else these people need to realize that once you have a great game---all we really want as gamers is a great big expansion pack! They could've added 12 more hours of additional content to Call of Duty 2's campaign missions and I would've paid $60, cash on the barrelhead son.

Way to go jacka@@es. ...

Fun for a while but buggy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 22
Date: November 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is the last TreyArch game I'll buy without renting first.

It's so buggy that it distracts from the fun you're able to glean from it. It's not something you'll want to play over-and-over-again.

Things that will annoy you:

Enemies can shoot you through walls. But don't worry: all you have to do is aim at the general area of the muzzle blast with a grenade, and you'll take care of them.
You can be prone behind a brick wall, out of the line-of-sight, and they'll still kill you.
You can get stuck in things, and can't get out. I had to drop a grenade once just to dislodge myself.
If you're prone and get shot, the game might you out of the line of fire, automatically, but then again, maybe not.
Machine gun action is different from CoD2. In CoD2, you aim and kill; shoot from the hip and you're likely to miss. In CoD3, you'd better learn to shoot from the hip to kill.
Things like to hang in the air: shells, dirt, etc. But as bonus, you can move them around if you like.
I've seen frying pans get stuck, quivering in a window.
When you regenerate in CoD2, you're never exactly sure how you will be confronted. In CoD3, you don't have to worry about that: it's the same every time.

Overall, there are enough amaturish bugs in this game that you'll think you're playing something from the early 1990's.

Bug hunt

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: February 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Would have been a lot more fun without the [...] bugs such as not being able to move over random bits of terrain, stupid allies who get in the way at the most innappropriate time, or leave you to take on the whole Wehrmacht yourself. CoD2 didn't have these problems, and this is supposed to be better? I've heard that a different team was involved in the production of this version, and it shows. I've completed this on veteran, but don't have the same sense of acheivement I had when I'd finished CoD2 - where defeating the enemy was more important than defeating the bugs. Hope CoD4 is better.

A step back from CoD2

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 14
Date: November 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

So after playing this game for a good while, I can genuinely say it's darn near completely unenjoyable. I've not played the multiplayer yet, so this is only for single player. First off, this game would be considered linear even on the N64. All too often, I find myself travelling through hallways with German soldiers in buildings lining them, and find none of these buildings accesible. I'll see an object to take cover behind, a wall, an area inside a building, and I'll head towards it and find myself blocked by an invisible wall, which obviously is a path to a quick death. This actually happens a lot, which is rather unfortunate. Those stupid command options still pop up directly in your view during fights: "switch *** for *** weapon," "Press X to ***." These are extremely annoying, and something I would've hoped they would change from the last game, at least move them down an inch or two on the screen. Cut-scenes cannot be skipped, which actually is exceptionally annoying when you load an old game, because it shows the cut-scene from the last level, then for the new level.

All too often you'll find yourself looking over a rather expansive landscape, but instead of having you fight across it, the designers have you sit in a window and shoot German soldiers for x number of minutes until the air or armor support arrives. The makers also seem to have tried to hide the linear nature of the game by making it more dense and deep looking, but this definitely only hinders the gameplay. It's to such an extent that at points it's completely unclear as to where you're supposed to be headed in a level, simply because so many ways SEEM viable, but rather are protected by the aforementioned invisible wall.

As these game designers stumble into next-gen gaming, I figured they would at least begin to build games of less a generic, Doom-ish style. But rather, they've levelled the graphics up several notches and then let the gameplay slip away. Personally, I don't care that leaks spring from wine barrels and grass is individually rendered now, because the game fails in being enjoyable in almost every way.

As far as I can tell, this is the most beautifully rendered wave attack game I've played. Just that.

Get it for the multiplayer!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: November 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As many of the past reviews has stated, the single player campaign is somewhat of a mixed bag compared to it's predecessor, Call of Duty 2. However, if you are mainly interested in this game for it's multiplayer features, you will find Call of Duty 3 a very worthy purchase.

I've played through the single player campaign and spent quite a few hours playing the multiplayer. I did have more fun with COD2's single player, but COD3 single player was still a blast. You still get that non stop action, with tons of soldiers around you that give you the feeling you are just another soldier among many, and not Rambo whos going to kill everyone yourself, but still makes you feel that you are making a big difference in the struggle.

I did wish there were a couple more scenarios where you operate the tanks. There are quite a few scenarios where you drive a jeep. They are pretty ho hum. Feels like the jeep is on rails. I think COD2 had a better balance and quality of vehicle missions.

Now for many FPS shooter fans, the single player is just an introduction to the main attraction, the multiplayer. And this is worth the price of admission. I've been playing online shooters for over a decade now, and COD3 online has been one of the most fun. With 24 people in a game, it really does feel like a war, not just 2 squads going against each other.

The classes seem pretty balanced and each offer their own unique gameplay. It's rewarding to revive fallen players and have them thank you. It feels good to pop a cap in a players head from many yards away as he's rushing for your flag. It feels nice to blow up a tank with the bazooka, as well as seeing another player get blown up by a mine you placed around your base. Lot's of variety will bring longevity to the game.

Even with many players, I have rarely experienced lag or disconnections. The maps are well designed and are just the right size, and so far the online community seems great. Definately far less immature gamers than you'll find in Halo 2.

Bottom line is, if you're mainly interested in the multiplayer, you can't go wrong with this game.

One Step Forward - Two Steps Back

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: December 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of the Call of Duty series on PC, and decided to try COD3 on the 360 to benefit from the multiplayer content. To keep things short and sweet, I expected more from Activision and this franchise. Pros: Visually the game is great, a big step forward over COD2 on 360, very impressive effects and explosions. Soundtrack is top notch also, and the noises of battle are realistic. My opinion is that this game does not come close to the PC titles in terms of immersion, game play, and especially polish. Cons: COD3 has a strong beta feel, and will sometimes freeze if you select certain paths that may not have been intended by the developers. It is also somewhat common that your character will get hung up on terrain or objects in the environment, and be unable to get free. Since checkpoints are often few and far between, and because you can't bypass cut scenes, this always results a system restart, languishing through a lengthy cut scene, and then re-playing 10 minutes of the level hoping you will be able to avoid the glitch. These are all testing issues, and clearly Activision has fallen short here by releasing what seems like an unfinished product. If you love COD and can tolerate the omnipresent feeling of beta testing a pre-production game, don't hesitate to buy COD3. If you want a polished game and get frustrated over system hangs and glitches, avoid it.

Disappointing gameplay.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: December 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I caved and bought this for the 360 since it seems that the developers aren't willing to make a PC version.

I'm finding the game to be buggy...

I'm only on the 3rd mission and the game has locked up on me about two times per mission so far. Restarting the game is painful since you're forced to watch, in entirety, the long cutscene that precedes each mission before you can jump back to whatever checkpoint you last made it to. (My understanding is that cutscenes are covering up loading of the level in the background, but even after the level loads, it would be nice if they then let you then skip.)

I also keep getting stuck on terrain. Keep away from hay bails next to barns. And don't try and walk between a blown up tank and a hedge hog. Dropping a grenade at your feet often helps dislodge you; if not, you need to restart.

I'm unhappy with the gameplay as compared to COD2.

As soon as they spot you, it seems enemies focus most of their firing on you seem and mostly ignore your squad mates. It's as if the Germans have put a contract out on your head or something. This differs from COD2 which made a successful attempt at making you feel like a small part of a huge epic battle, with the enemy shooting at everybody, not just you.

Graphics are pretty good, except that metal surfaces are too shiny. All the soldiers, both friendly and especially enemy, look like their wearing white helmets because of the huge reflections on them. Germans are easy to spot and target because of that, though.

You can't just sit back and pick off the enemies as they'll usually continually respawn. You need to advance. The only way for your squad mates to move forward and help you out is for you to advance forward enough to cross some invisible line. Doing so causes the enemy to stop spawning in that area, and triggers your squad mates to move forward. In fact, in many parts of the levels, you don't really need to shoot at anything. Just can run forward and use cover until you trigger the enemy spawning to stop and then your squad will move in a take out whatever Germans are still around.

Also, don't try and vear off the rails this game has you on. In COD2, you could often separate from your squad and help them out by flanking on your own the enemy position they were approaching. COD3 will punish you for that, though. If you vear off, fixed MG emplacements focus on you and will usually shoot you right down. So if the game tells you to 'stay behind the tank for cover', then stay behind it for cover. Trying an do something just a bit different, and the game will slap you for it. Even if the game doesn't take you out, vearing off will usually cause you to miss crossing the invisible lines. i.e., there might be two acres of pasture for you move around, but if you try and move up through, say, the 20% to the far right or the 20% to the far left, then you'll miss the triggers that cause the enemy to stop spawning, even if you make it all the way foward where you need to go.

What the hell?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 17 / 31
Date: November 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Seriously....I was waiting quite awhile for this game to come out because its predecessor is freakin sweet. It was all I use to play online. After purchasing this game and playing it for all of 10 minutes I quietly put it back in the box and have not taken it out since. Online play was non existent. Everytime i clicked on a game it said it didnt exist. It was ridiculus. Letting someone else create this game instead of Infinity Ward was a giant mistake. This latest edition adds nothing to the series. Do not purchase this game....there are many better games out there.

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