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Pretty incredible!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: June 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I would rate this game 4 1/2 stars. The single player mission is awesome. Has to be one of the most intense FPS games ever. The graphics were very good, the sound effects were very good, and the gameplay was excellent.

Most of the levels in the single player game were short, but very intense. You were fighting the enemy almost every second of the game. There was very little rest. The enemy AI was pretty solid though not as good as some other games before it (i.e Half-Life). Between defending a bridge, taking out attacking airplanes at an airfield, and defending many other positions, this game was a real challenge. It took a few times to fihure out what to do to beat some of the levels, but was hooked on the game. There is definitely 12-15 hours of game time on the single player mission which is pretty good for an FPS.

As for the multiplayer, it is pretty good, but not great. As in the single player mission, you can aim down the sight of your gun which makes you move slower, but aim better. The aim for the weapons is very hard. Moving, you have a very wide area where the shots are gonna spray. It gets better if you quit moving, even better if you are crouched, and even better if you assume the prone position. But because of the bad aim of the SMG, I believe that is why most every game at least half (usually more) of the players use rifles and sniper guns. As for the maps, there isn't anything special about most of them. There 4 or 5 real good maps but there 4 or 5 maps that when they come up, the players either ask for a new map or leave.

There is also a considerable amount of lag. I am running this on a P4 2.8ghz, 512 ram, 128meg video (NVIDIA Geforce FX) card, and using DSL, and after I downloaded the patch (I recommend this as there are only about 100 or so servers left you can play on without it), now I can't log into a game. They have Punkbuster and I get in a game and after 1 or 2 minutes, it tells me it can't load some PB file. Not sure what that is (guessing something to do with punkbuster though my game menu tells me I have it loaded), but it has become very frustrating. Still, when you can get on a game, it isn't too bad. There is Death match and Team deathmatch, plus they have a game called Retrieval (which is just like to Return To Castle Wolfemstein), Search & Destroy (which is just like Medal of Honor's objective match), and Behind Enemy Lines. Behind Enemy Lines is where you have a very small team of Allies who are vastly outnumbered and score points by killing the Axis player and staying alive. An Axis player who kills an Allied player then respawns as an Allied player to try to score more points. It pretty cool.

There is also an expansion pack coming out sometime around November I beleive, so there will be even more fun on the way. I would recommedn this game to anyone who enjoyed RTCW and MOHAA. You won't be dissappointed.

The best shooter ever made

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: August 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is an amazing game. However I should warn you that this by all means should be rated M, it's that realistic. So I got this game and I played the first level... It was so darn realistic that it scared me and I thought on returning it. But after that you get used to getting shot at and watching people die etc. So It's not so much one man army like in all 007 games and you have to work with your fellow troops, excpet for one british level. The guns are realistic and when you shoot the site moves around, so if you move the crosshare gets bigger and its harder to hitsomeone. The Russian levels are EXTREMELY realistic. On the first level you get a 5 round clip and no rifle and if you retreat the political officer or commisar will shoot you. There isn't much vehicle use like in Battlefield 1942 but you get to command a tank, ride in a french made car, and use flak cannons and an anti aircraft gun.

The multiplayer can get kind of strange. It portrays German bolt-action rifles as extremely effective and powerfull, causing you to get shot alot which is very dumb. They also use the crosshare movement as a sort of "spray" causing the bullets to go everywhere which isn't realistic at all, and the British Sten gun's site gets extremely wide when you move which I dont think anyone would be waving there gun around that much. So aside from some multiplayer problems this is a GREAT game I would reccomend buying it.

Way too short but has features MOHAA does not

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played Medal of Honor Allied Assault (MOHAA) and the expansion Spearhead. MOHAA made me love FPS war games. Call of Duty (COD) has a lot of things that I wished MOHAA had when I was playing it. COD allows you pick up any type of weapon in the game including the enemy's. It handles the supply of ammunition much better by letting you take the German weapons and take their ammunition as you kill them. MOHAA would give you Thompson rounds for picking up MP40 rounds and similar for the rifles. The stance feature is setup better. You can change from standing to crouch with a single button you don't have to hold it down as in MOHAA and you can drop to a laying down position, which MOHAA did not have. COD also has an improved aiming feature where you can look down the weapon site on all weapons not just sniper rifles. The only playability feature that COD did not have was stealth mode. In MOHAA you could sneak right up behind the enemy if the opportunity presented itself. Since a lot of the missions involved team movement you wouldn't be able to use this feature often; however, there were several times that it would have been nice to have.

I also like the game engine that COD uses. MOHAA also has some missions where you work with other guys on your side; however, the teammate AI was generally awful. In COD, your teammates actually act like soldiers. They use cover effectively and can engage the enemy without getting themselves killed (at least some of them can - the Russian troops just act like cannon fodder). They are useful they don't just get in the way as in MOHAA. However, they aren't always careful with their grenades (watch the shrapnel). The enemy AI has even improved over MOHAA. In MOHAA, the enemy would always react the same way (always). The Germans in COD sometimes take different routes (they do still spawn from pre-determined locations). They also use team-attacking tactics. This is very evident in one of the Russian missions where you are holding the building waiting for reinforcements. Holding the building against 100+ Germans for 4 minutes is hard on veteran difficulty (no health packs, more accurate enemy, more damage if hit) when all your teammates are wiped out. The AI attacks in groups using guys to draw your fire while they get better firing positions. And boy they are just waiting for you to run out of ammo and have to reload. Needless to say that took a couple of loaded saves.

One other thing I really liked is the historic battles. I use to play Close Combat (1 thru 5) and I recognized a lot of the locations in the airborne drops by the Americans and British. Other than the D-Day landings MOHAA story line seemed kinda generic.

The only reason I don't give COD 5 stars is the single player is way to short. I played on the highest difficulty and finished in less than 24 hours, MOHAA lasted a lot longer. I haven't played online yet, but I can't imagine it being much different than MOHAA. However, as I remember multiplayer is pretty addictive.

Medal of Honor 2?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you like first-person shooters set in World War II, then you'll probably like Call of Duty. It has very nice graphics, good squad combat, good level design, and runs well if you have an upper-midrange system like mine. And-oh yes-it's much like Medal of Honor.

If you've played Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, then you should have a good idea what Call of Duty is like. I would say that overall, though, Call of Duty is better because it doesn't have those ludicrously difficult sniper levels in Medal of Honor. Call of Duty lets you choose the difficulty level, and the easy setting IS easy as it should be.

I'm impressed with the graphics and level design in Call of Duty. The levels are laid out in such a way as to enhance combat and allow a bit of interesting exploration. Moreover. The levels have a lot of detail, and yet the game runs smoothly even at the highest screen resolution.

Well, it'll run smoothly if your system is at least as good as mine, and my computer is configured with a 3 GHz Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, and a 128 MB ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card. If your system is not so well endowed, then don't give up. You could easily set the graphics settings at lower levels to get smooth frame rates.

So why not five stars? My only beef with this game is that it's rather derivative of older games. There's not a whole lot here that other shooters haven't offered before. But that's not too bad because Call of Duty takes what came before it and refines it.

To sum it up, Call of Duty is a very good game that deserves a try from any shooter fan. I gave it a try, and I'm glad I did.

Suprisingly, a 5 Star action title, PURE FUN.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When I heard the advance press that this game was getting, I audibly groaned, "oh no, not ANOTHER World War II shooter, how boring." I am as jaded an FPS player as they come. After playing 'Call of Duty' I am happy to report that I have never been more wrong about a game in my entire life.

First of all, the pacing of the in-game action is fantastic and well thought out, easily rivaling Half-Life and Halo. You almost never get bored or frustrated. You move from one mission objective to the next, at an exhilirating pace, without getting overwhelmed.

Secondly (and most importantly), the game play mechanics walk the fine line between realisim and fun perfectly. Yeah, if you walk in front of an MG-42 for a split second, you're gonna get hosed (as you should), but it's not the frequntly frustrating ultra-realism of Ghost Recon. Just enough to suspend your disbelief and have fun at the same time. It's understandable why many game designers can't get this combo right, it's what seperates the classsics from the also-rans.

Finally, the designers of this game deserve an award for squeezing amazing performance and visuals out of the aging Quake III engine. I was frequently blown away by their attention to detail, the burned out European citscapes are at once nightmarish and breathtaking. It runs great on my mid range system, another amazing bonus. Grand Theft Auto III is the only other game in recent memory that has made me forget I was sitting in front of my computer as much as this one.

If you have any interest in first person shooters or World War II at all, put it in the shopping cart immediatley.

Not really what I expected

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: March 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Befored dismissing my review, please take a moment and read it, in case you're a potential buyer. I'll tell you both sides of the story, since all the reviews seem to be very biased, saying "Uhh this is awesome".

This game isn't bad, in fact the sound, the "You're there" feel, those 2 memorable missions, and how allies behave is really good. However it ends there.

The start is really good. On the first 2 missions you'll see a wounded being carried by one of his friends to a safer area right in front of a stationary machine gun, and some really well-thought firefights that will make you say "This is the best game ever".

However the game was downhill from there. Even on those 2 first really good missions, I always had to be the one who had to "Clear that building" "Knock that Stationary gun" "Place the explosives" etc. The game was so scripted to the point of being ridiculous. In fact, I've discovered that if you kill the machine gunner before he shoots the soldier and the wounded guy he is carrying, the soldier will just drop the still alive wounded and keep walking. If your teammates get killed, new ones will arrive, it doesn't matter.

Don't forget the massive backtracking you'll have to do just to "Martin, Find another Panzerfaust (A bazooka-like weapon) and destroy that tank!". It gets tiring. And the guy who says that stuff just refuses to die. I once turned around during a battle and saw him while a stationary machine gun was shooting at him, for a looong while. But he just didn't die. Another example of the abuse of scripted events.

The rest of the missions are really really lame. From the stupid car chases to the cake-walk British commando missions, to the boring russian missions (Specially the tank ride) where I could not stop thinking "Are we there yet". While I was nearing the ending, I kept hopes for a climax that I knew wouldn't happen.

Let me add that I was shocked by the complete lack of cutscenes. 0. None. Nada. Just completely unuseful mission brefings that consist of a picture that changes after a while, while a guy tells you what you are going to do (And you can't see the guy, only hear his voice)

The Stalingrad opening sequence is not that good, either. The environement looks truly bizzare. I don't know how to explain it. Besides if you move where you're not suposed to (Something easy to do) a magic shell will land in your head or a MG42 will hit you instantly.

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In conclusion, the only good reasons for why to buy this game is:

-The first 2 american missions
-The good graphics;Soldiers change their facial expressions while shooting. The reticle tells you your teammate's name/health when you look at him, etc.
-Good voice acting(That you'll hardly ever notice because of the neverending MG42 background sounds that won't stop even if you stop shooting and will make your ears hurt)
-The scripted sequence of the wounded being carried by his teamate. (That, if you look closely, happens in Stalingrad too)

These reasons are really good reasons, believe me, but 2 missions are not worth 30 dollars. Wait for this one to be in the garbage bin of your local store or you'll be wasting money.

OUTSTANDING, SOLDIER!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: September 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I played the DEMO, and it is the finest shooter I have ever played (the next best is Medal of Honor). The CALL OF DUTY team is the same group of guys that made MEDAL OF HONOR. These guys know fun and quality and fire on all pistons... if you like realistic shooters, DO NOT HESITATE.. buy this game on November 4th, 2003!!!!

Download DEMO at www.callofduty.com

And if you have not played the MEDAL OF HONOR series, BUY IT NOW... it is beyond belief good!

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

While I have not played all of the first person shooters out there with a war theme, I have played a number of first person shooters that were classics. All of the games seemed to miss something special, a combination that I was looking for which was well packaged and slick. Call of Duty is a no nonsense first person shooter presented from the view point of WWII. Without writing a book, I will agree with the previous reviews on the technical points and simply recommend this astounding game on it's own merits. If you want to feel what war is like, look no further. This is truly an amazing experience. It's a great piece of software that deserves the top reviews it is getting.

BEST WWII FPS SHOOTER!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok, i just want to say that i know nobody is probably gonna read this review. BUT, if they do, i want to say GO BUY THIS GAME. this game has an awesome single player campaig and BETTER MULTIPLAYER THAN HALO. and i have halo. but this game rocks and its not that pricy. so buy this game, and trust me if you liked halo, you'll like this.

WWII Arcade at its Best!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is probably the best WWII shooter made to date. Don't fool yourself, it's not a simulation--you can shoot one of the Krauts three times with a Garand and he'll still struggle to his feet and grab his weapon. That being said, it is one of the most intense, most immersive, and most fun shooters ever made. In one of the first scenarios you are dropped into Normandy as one of the pathfinders for the 101st AB in the wee hours of D-day, and the atmosphere is just unreal. You can hear the crickets chirping and other ambient sounds.

This game is still far from Operation Flashpoint (probably the most realistic FPS/simulation ever) in terms of realism, but it's several notches up the ladder from the old Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (there's actual blood this time). Don't think about getting this game for another second--run out and buy it now!! You'll not be disappointed.

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