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Intense and kind of educational

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am not a real computer geek and have a very limited knowledge of games. But for anyone who simply wants to sit down and let off some steam, this is the game for you. Its only real problem is that is goes by pretty quickly but you'll become obsessed with the online play. The great thing about the game is that it really showcases the intensity of battle and the incredible level of Stalingrad is almost an anti-war statement on its own. I sometimes wish games like these, although intended for fun, should also be educational. If you're going to do war, show every aspect of it. A game that shows soldiers dealing with cold, hunger or killing civilians would be an incredible experience. The game also lets everyone know that Tom Hanks wasn't the only victor in WWII. But I wonder how Germans feel that the game uses them like aliens or monsters. Well, enough over-analysis. This is a great game especially for those just starting out in PC gaming.

They Answered Their Country's Call of Duty, You Should Too

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm a very avid Battlefield '42 and 'Nam gamer. I love taking my Tommy Gun to the Germans or flying a Huey Gunship over the Ia Drang Valley. I thought I had experinced all the great war games that were available. Until I played Call of Duty.

From the moment I stepped foot on the shores of France as part of the 101st Airborne Division, to when I led a band of Russian soldiers against a strong Panzer Division in Berlin, this game truly kept me on the edge of my seat. The life-like appearance is absolutely incredible. It's the only game I've played that I feel like it's 1943 and I'm boarding a German battleship to capture secret Nazi documents. Whatever country you play as, US, Britian, or Russia, you'll experience a new level of WWII gaming that is certainly unimaginable. This game is so realistic, you can see the courage of the soldiers on the battlefield. You see fear on soldier's faces and the celebration of victory on the ground of Nazi occupation.

The Captain of your company is shouting orders at you to get down before you are cut to your knees by opposing MG-42 machine guns situatied in the building behind the wood fence. Russians are screaming at you to grab a anti-tank gun and take out the half-dozen Panzer tanks firing at your position. So many things are going on around you that you have a hard time taking it all in.

My final word is this: Call of Duty sets the standard for not only WWII games, but FPS games in general. If you purchase one Computer Game this Holiday season, it should be this one. Hands down.

Best 1st person Shooter since Quake 3 arena

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The reason I gave this game a 5 star rating is because it is very good a recreating the history in WWII. Not only does it have one of the best story line plot's but the action is non-stop, the Russian Campaign that features "The Battle of Stalingrad" is the best fighting experience ever, you start off as a soldier coming across the river, and all your given is a 5 round case of bullets. You have to make your way to an experienced Sarge. Later during the Stalingrad battle you become a sniper taking out commandeer's behind enemy lines. The American Campaign is more action, in one level you have to get in a car and drive through nazi infested fields. The varity of weapons at your disposal is amazing but ammo is limited if you pick up a gun you did not start off with (i.e. The MP-44, it is hard to find ammo for this gun)At times you have to fight off nazis invading a church (part of 1st level) and at the same time watch your back as a tank is rampaging through the streets.
Bottom Line.....
Buy this game, it is very historical, shows the reality of the feeling you get in being in war.

One of the best games I've ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Call of Duty 1 is one of the best games I've ever played on PC. I have both Call of Duty 1 & 2 and both of them are excelent! The missions in COD 1 are very intense. The sound effects are wonderful! I would say that COD 1 has a slightly better campaign than COD 2 because you get to go into a Nazi headquarters on the Elbe Dam and also go on a ship & plant explosives. The Nazis speak German & for the most part, it sounds pretty realistic! The music adds a lot to the combat and gets you into the game. The graphics are a little outdated, but still looks very good. My only complaint is that the game is a little too short, but the gameplay is great while it lasts! I suggest you buy COD 1 & 2 like me. I didn't regret my purchase!

Cheap fun multiplayer war action

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've actually only played single-player for about five minutes just to learn the moves on this game and the rest of the time have gone online for the multiplayer, which is great fun.

Like Vampire Bloodlines, I recently bought this at the reissued price of $20 AUD and it has already earned it's price in hours of entertainment.

Great that the servers still have quite a lot of players online, despite this game having been out a while, and the action is certainly addictive and quite intense.

It's as realistic as it needs to be and has a good atmosphere. Definitely one for Saving Private Ryan fans.

Realism blended seamlessly into PC

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

While I have only played the demo (put out by PC Gamer in the Dec 03 Edition) of this game I can already say that this game is by far the most intense and visually stunning FPS on the market. The fact that you can only carry a limited amount of weapons adds ever so much to the realism of the game and that's not even including the visual effects and invigorating sound that is packaged with the game.

The graphics, while hardware intensive, will literally draw the player in and recreate a World War II battle with textured walls, lifelike enemies (and allies), and an extreme attention to detail that's hard to find even in todays games. The sound is also jaw-dropping if you have the hardware to handle it. My 5.1 Surround Sound system had a field day with the veritable cornocopia of sounds that were meant to help recreate one of man's most epic struggles.

The only downside is that the game is very hardware intensive and even managed to freeze my system when I set it to the maximum possible specs and my machine is no meagre plaything. I'm packing an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (128 MB DDR), Athlon XP 2800+, 512MB DDR RAM, and a Seagate 120 SATA HDD. All I had to do was drop the setting of one category to "High" instead of "extreme" and it worked beautifully so I don't consider that a problem large enough to warrant a 4 star instead of 5 star rating.

If you want a gritty, realistic, and visually gripping FPS then I highly recommend buying this game when it is released (Nov 4, 2003). One of the few games I'll spend a full $49.99 on without 2nd guessing myself.

Are You High?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 26
Date: November 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Everyone has given this game 5 stars based on the demo, and frankly I don't get it. I'm no curmudgeon, and I enjoy any good video game. But this one just doesn't cut it.

There are two extremes from which to approach the game: ridiculously easy or insanely hard. I started playing on the easy level and, at first, it was fun. Then I realized that I was playing a "realistic" military shooter and, although I was on mission 5, I hadn't died. Not once. I had so many hit points, and some helpful person had scattered so many health packets, that there was zero tension. So I went back and set it to "veteran" and the whole thing fell apart before my eyes. Because once you crank the difficulty level up, which basically cuts your health points to the point where you die after one or two shots, you see all the flaws in the game.

The AI become crack shots at unbelievable distances - I finally quit after being taken out three times by an emplaced MG42 on full auto at 1000 yards, through a hole in a brick wall. The enemy always shoots at you, not strategically at your team. And they cheat horribly - guys who haven't seen you pop out of doors with their guns already pointed at you. The cheating is made obvious by the fact that the particles don't sort correctly, and the enemy will shoot directly at your current position even when you're hiding behind a wall. Your squadmates, who are supposed to help you, cluster up and shiver together like frightened sheep. It is up to you to do _everything_. On easy this isn't so bad (even if it is boring) because of your bottomless health reserves. On veteran it becomes a chore, because one or two shots will kill you and there's _no_ health. So leading every charge means you die about 5 billion times per level. It doesn't help that the game freezes up every single time I die, and I have to wait a full minute hearing the sounds chop and repeat until it senses my F9 keypress to reload.

Why are my squadmates so idiotic? They will go into endless cycles where they stand, crouch, go prone, stand, crouch, go prone, drawing continuous enemy fire and then dying. They leave themselves exposed to doors and windows all the time, even turning their backs on enemies. They will shoot at someone until he ducks, then promptly forget about him, leaving him to pop up and kill you. They have the worst aim I have ever seen. If there is a single sniper on a level he will destroy your entire platoon unless you personally hunt him down and kill him. On one level a squad mate was manning an emplaced machine gun and could not hit a single enemy soldier across an open field.

There is a glut of "you are the hero!" WWII games out there. The team aspect was supposed to make this game different. And once again a game's biggest draw turns out to be all hype. I don't get it. I don't care if someone in the unit is so good they steal some of my kills - at least I could then depend on them to cover my flanks and sweep houses. The guys on your team will run right past houses without sweeping them, leaving enemy soldiers to pop out and cap you in the butt. If team AI is such a problem, why not make the whole game networked co-op? It would be a heck of a lot more fun to have 10 people going up against these scripted events instead of a bunch of Barneys you have to corral and babysit.

I was also annoyed by the fact that the game mechanics are completely visible, much like the overhyped "Medal of Honor", because both are so heavily scripted. If you don't know you're supposed to advance the next event won't trigger and everyone will sit around. Which is funny because you're not the commanding officer! You're a grunt. Why doesn't the commanding officer move to the proper area and call you over? An additional source of pain is being forced to play the training mission every single time you start a new game. Does anyone alive not know how to interact with a first person shooter?

The damage model is also wonky. On mission two you have to take out some emplaced weapons with explosives (a mission which is so much like the one in "Medal of Honor" that DreamWorks could claim copyright infringement - right down to the glowing boxes on the guns). The second tank is behind a wall. Put the explosive on the tank, back up and hide behind the wall, and the explosion pierces the wall (without damaging it!) and kills you. Why? Because they aren't doing proper collision checks on the explosion. This also happens occasionally with grenades. The emplaced machine guns aren't any more powerful than the hand-held ones. And several times I fired a burst from my Thompson into a German soldier's chest at point-blank range only to have him grunt in pain then shoot me dead.

I will say that when I first started playing it, and the enemy suddenly opened fire on my platoon with MG42's and artillery, it was pretty cool. But one cool moment does not make a great game. The graphics are nice, the sound is exactly like "Medal of Honor" so it's good. But the rest is extremely lame, frustrating, and tiresome. I recommend you get it and play it on easy if you like pretty but uninspired first-person shooters. If not, this one is a miss.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Really Great game don't listen to people who says its waste of time, they probably only played it on greenhorn which is super easy and fast, play it on its hardest mode and you'll get your moneys worth and put you first person shooter skills to a hard test.

Move Over MOHAA!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Run, don't walk and buy this game! If you loved MOHAA you will like this one even more. Better graphics/sound and ability to lay prone and crawl. Plus you get to shoot down dive bombers with anti-aircraft, and engage enemy tanks in a running field tank battle. Re-enactments of scenes from "Enemy at the Gates," is very cool. Best FPS in town!!

Great Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have to admit that I waited abit before I bought the game but boy was it worth it. I already have Medal of Honor and Battlefield 1942. This game is a FPS so it's more like Medal of Honor. But what a difference. For one thing, it's not as taxing on your computer as MoH. The graphics are better, the sound effects are better and I like the realism much better. The action was smooth and fluid, not like MoH which really drained my system (2 ghz P4, 256MB RAM, ATI 9700 128 MB RAM).

You can really get into it. It was neat to see the paratroopers fall out from the sky and land. The monster fire power of the flakpanzer really came alive as the sound and light lite up the sky.

Another neat thing that makes this game stick out is that soldiers don't disappear once they are killed. It's not that I am sick or anything but in real life, when people are taken down, they don't appear.

I really enjoyed this game and I'm sure that they are working on a sequel, which I would buy.

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