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Buggy Multiplayer--Too short single player

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: April 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a game with a lot of potential that falls apart when you actually play it. The single player game is a lot of fun, but isn't any longer than most expansion packs. Definitely not $50 worth of game time. It can easily be finished in a few days, and the character actions are very predictable and repetitive at all levels.

The multiplayer game could be the most fun, but it suffers from some very serious bugs, particularly in timing. The game seems incapable of keeping all the players in synch. Instead, certain players will seem superhuman, because they move incredibly fast and can't be shot, yet they appear to shoot you even when their weapons are pointed 45 degrees away from you. If your frame rates are good, the game plays fine, but if your frame rates drop off, it becomes impossible to hit anything, because you're firing behind the image rendering.

I would save my money and try a different game.

Great effects, medium entertainmet, LOW SKILL

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 23
Date: November 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have played a few games in my time. This game is SO not worth the money. You would be better off renting Saving Private Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, and Enemy at the Gate. (The story line follows them almost exactly) The movies will leave you with a good memory...."Hey, good movie!" you'll say. The game on the other hand will leave you saying....."I don't just want my money back...I want my TIME back!" In fact, A Bridge Too Far is LONGER than the amount of time I spent on the game. Granted, the effects were better, but....TOO EASY. Skip it...or borrow it from me....I can't (in good faith) sell it. Lesson learned.

Couldn't install it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: January 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I really wanted to play "Call of Duty," but I wasted a couple of hours trying to install it without sucess. Activision's technical support was useless. Their instructions said to do some really weird stuff to my PC that involved several reboots.

My PC is new and easily meets the hardware requirements for CoD. So why can't Activision make something that installs and works like most other software makers?

A total waste of my time and money.

Here are the install instructions that Activision emailed to me:

Follow the below instructions carefully, in order to modify your computer in order to adequately ensure that it is configured correctly for the installation of new programs. Note that the below assumes you are logged into Windows with an administrator level account. I would highly suggest printing out these set of instructions, as they will be much easier to implement if the instructions are handy. The below instructions require rebooting a few times, so having a paper copy of the instructions will make things much simpler.

Restart Your Computer by Using a Clean Boot Procedure:

When you start Windows, typically there are a number of programs that start automatically and run in the background that may interfere with the installation of the game. These programs may include antivirus and system utility programs. When you perform a clean boot, you prevent these programs from starting automatically. You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure.

To restart your computer by using a clean boot procedure, follow these steps when you are using Windows XP.

Note: You may experience a temporary loss of some services functionality when you follow these steps. Restoring the settings restores the functionality, but may result in the return of the original error message or behavior.

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type msconfig, and then click OK.
3. On the General tab, click Selective Startup.
4. Under Selective Startup, click to clear the following check boxes:
* Process SYSTEM.INI File
* Process WIN.INI File
* Load Startup Items

5. On the Services tab, click to select the Hide All Microsoft Services check box, and then click Disable All.
6. Click OK, and then click Restart. Your computer will now reboot and restart cleanly booted.

(Note: Clean booting entails preventing ALL non-essential programs/services from booting with Windows. To be clear, ALL means ALL, and NOT "All except for my anti-virus, firewall, instant messaging, and cd-emulation programs", which many people seem to interpret it to mean. When clean booting, do NOT make any exceptions for any program. The purpose of clean booting is to ensure that these exact type of programs are not running. Making exceptions for these types of programs defeats the entire point of the clean boot.)

When your computer reboots back up after the clean boot procedure, do the following:

Reinstall the installation InstallShield software.
1) Click on the Start button.
2) Click on Run.
3) Type C:\Program Files\Common Files into the text box and press OK.
4) Right-click on the InstallShield folder, and choose rename.
5) Change the name to InstallShieldOld.

Verify that you have the correct permissions for the C:\Windows\Installer folder. Follow these steps:
1) Click Start, click All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Windows Explorer.
2) Click Folder Options on the Tools menu.
3) Click the View tab.
4) Click Show hidden files and folders.
Uncheck Hide Protected Operating System Files.
Uncheck Use Simple File Sharing.

(Note: You may want to reverse changes from step #4 after finishing this verification process, as not to risk accidently deleting essential system files at a later time)

5) Locate the folder C:\Windows\Installer.
6) Right-click the Installer folder, and then click Properties.
7) Click the Security tab.
8) Click System, and then verify that the Full control check box is selected.
9) Click Administrators, and then verify that the Full control check box is selected.
10) Click your user name, and then verify that the Full control check box is selected.

Reregister the Windows Installer
1) Quit all Windows programs. (If you completed the clean boot procedures from above, this should already be the case)
2) Click Start, click Run, type msiexec /unregister in the Open box, and then click OK.
3) Click Start, click Run, type msiexec /regserver in the Open box, and then click OK.
4) Restart your computer.

At this point, you've restarted your system twice. Once after clean booting, and again after reregistering Windows Installer. At this point once again try to install the game.

If the game continues to fail to install, do the following:

Turn off Auto Insert Notification. (XP Pro only)
1) Click the Start button > Run.
2) Type in the field: gpedit.msc and click the OK button.
3) Highlight System from: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System.
4) Highlight Turn Off Autoplay.
5) Right-click and select Properties.
6) Click Enabled.
7) In the drop-down menu next to Turn off Autoplay on: select CD-ROM drives.

Delete all files in the Windows/Temp directory
1) Click Start, click Run, type %temp% in the Open box, and then click OK.
2) On the Edit menu, click Select All.
3) On the File menu, click Delete, and then click Yes to All.

Do a complete ScanDisk
1) Click the Start button > Settings > Control Panel.
2) Double-click the Administrative Tools icon.
3) Double-click the Computer Management icon.
4) Under Computer Management > Storage, highlight Disk Management.
5) Select the C: drive.
6) Right-click and select Properties.
7) Click the Tools tab.
8) Under Error-checking, click the Check Now... button.
9) Checkmark all the Check disk options.
10) Click the Start button.

Do a complete Defrag
1) Click on the Start button > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter.
2) Select the C: drive.
3) Click the Defragmentation button to start. A defragmentation may take awhile depending on the size of the drive and amount used.

Put your drives in PIO mode (you can later use these same instructions to reverse this change and place your drives back into DMA mode.).
1) Right click on the my computer icon on your desktop and select properties
2) Click on the hardware tab
3) Click on the button that says device manager
4) Click on the plus next to "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers"
5) Right click on "Primary IDE Controller" and select properties
6) Click on the advanced settings tab
7) There are two lines in here that say "Transfer mode" (one under device 0 the other under device 1)
8) Change those drop down menus to read "PIO Only"
9) Hit ok at the bottom of this window
10) Repeat steps 5-9 for the "Secondary IDE Controller"
11) Close the device manager and reboot your system

After your system reboots, once again attempt to install the game.

If you have multiple drives and are installing from a DVD-Rom drive, try installing the game from a regular CD-Rom drive or CD-R/RW drive. If the game failed to install initially with a CD-Rom or CD-R/RW drive, try it with your DVD-Rom.

Check your video/audio cards!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: December 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have a 1 year old,and a 3 year old computer,but i have to upgrade the video card,and possibly the audio cards before it will run.It looks great,with positive reviews,but it's gonna cost me.I might just get an X-Box.

Can Not Be Played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 44
Date: December 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game requires a video card that is not in the Windows ME computer. This game can not evn be played on our computer. I think this is ridiculous! If I would have known this I would have never purchased it.

Some battles in WW II were not as long

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 37
Date: June 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As I continue to try and load this crummy software on a brand new Dell series 2400, I am continually amazed by the ignorance and the arrogance of the people who write and design today's computer software. They remind me of the people I work with: always trying to show that somehow they are smarter than all the rest of us. In 20 years of PC use of all types and brands both hardware and software this is the first time that I have not been able to get a lousy PC game loaded and able to use. Activison's Call of Duty should fire the A** H**** who worked on this project. When you load a piece of software today, most of the job can be done by just following the instructions. Well I have followed the instructions and I have been asked to put CD #1 in then CD #2 in and finish the installation. Then it says you have the wrong CD in the drive, then the other is placed in and guess what, that is the wrong one and around and around we go! I suppose there is something embedded so that people cannot copy their precious software and spread it all over town, Well brother, you couldn't give this one away!

Combat Intense!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is Saving Private Ryan in a video game.

Multi-player is awesome. Supporting up to 64 players! Thats two platoons of axis and allies blasting away at each other. Get this game!

High on horsepower, yet predictable...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game will be a blast, don't let the 4-Star rating deter you from buying it. I plan to buy it when it comes out in a few weeks, without a doubt. It plays well, the controls seem to be a snap, the graphics are sexy. I suspect that you will need a pretty high-powered machine to get the most fun out of it, so low-end users should think carefully. It ran well on my P4 3.0 GHz machine. I use a NVidia 5200 FX card, thus not the highest end one. The AI seems pretty smart, knock one guy off of a machine gun nest, and another will look, then take his place and try to pick you off. When I played on "Greenhorn" level, it was not very tough (natch...), so first time FPS shooters shouldn't find this too tough. Your teammates are handy, and don't seem to stand around like tools too often. In fact they were a bit too helpful on the lower level, making me feel like I was being chaperoned or somethin'. The higher levels will make you more grateful, rest assured. The only real beef I have with the game is its obvious linear layout. Lots of open doorways, but only the ones that herd you in the direction you are supposed to go seem to be unblocked. This is very similar to MOHAA, where there was always a burning tank or something to keep you on the path. I know it is impossible to write a game without doing this, but it has gotten a little cheesy. I wish game designers would open stuff up a bit... Anyhoo, this game is one to put on the must buy list, based on the demo. Just hope the other 23 levels are a tad longer...

Update... I finally got around to buying the game. Incredible visuals, exciting (if linear) gameplay. I stand by the original four-star review as I think the game is too linear and dang short. On regular difficulty, I fininshed the American campaign in 1h 38m. That is *one third* of the game in less than two hours. That being said, I am a veteran hardcore gamer from back in the day, so I would expect a rookie to take longer. Do I feel cheated? No, not really, because the whole time I was gobsmacked at how stunning the visuals are. The game is immersive and compelling. Buy the game, enjoy it, but don't expect it to last the whole weekend. I dunno what the veteran level is like. Probably tons harder, but still... I decided to play it on regular difficulty so that I could see what the default levels were like. Tough at times, but not too tough.

There are a few (very few) AI gripes... Sometimes, if you don't do things in the right order, you can see some odd behavior by the otherwise very astute AI. For example, I was playing the first of the British scenarios, the night assault of the bridge (Pegasus Bridge-Night), when suddenly I had run out of enemy soldiers to shoot at. My guys were just standing around like smacktards. I got into the trenches and was looking for someone to kill, when I noticed that my goal icon on the compass had moved a bit. I checked my objectives and found I had to run back to the other side of the bridge and eliminate any remaining forces there. Hard to explain by typing, but the point is that as soon as I crossed some invisible trigger line, a bunch of soldiers popped up out of the (ahem) "empty" trenches that I had just been running around in. No biggie really, but it is clear that there is some serious scripting of events and that some things have to happen in a certain order or there will be odd lulls, etc. Otherwise, the AI is about the craftiest gang of targets since NOLF and NOLF2.

Rant over. Go buy the game and enjoy the spectacle. Just don't blink on some of the levels or ya might miss 'em... :-P

Awsome and Life Like

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: August 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I played the demo of this game on gamespy, it is so0o0 awsome and life like. U got the M1 Carbin, M1 Grand, BAR, Tomy, KAR, STG, really kewl guns. Its awsome. The only thing i could think of thats negitive with this game is that you cant play online:-( that sucks. O well this game is still kewl.;-) There are 24 levels in this game and u have a team. i would recomend this game 100% even though i just played 1 level.

Demo review of Call of Duty

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: September 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Having experienced the Demo let me explain it this way, for those who haven't or can't try it out:

It's like the middle section of MOH:AA (especially "bocage" scenario, AIwise) with the men fighting beside you only much better graphics and a little better AI. And also while that part of MOH:AA only lasted a few levels, this game promises that the entire game will be like that. Unfortunately much of MoH:AA was basically like a bond/spy type game, and not unit fighting. Call of Duty is unit fighting, and I expect it to be a big hit. I now plan to not buy MOH Breakthrough or Pacific and to just get Call of Duty instead.

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