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Multiplayer review

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 22
Date: January 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

What hasn't been said about Call of Duty's single player? It is undoubtedly one of the greatest PC gaming experiences I have ever had, but this review deals solely with the multiplayer, which I have found to be one of the most frustrating, aggravating, and assinine experiences. It's obvious that very little thought or consideration went into the design of the multiplayer.

First of all, it doesn't matter what style of play you prefer, if you want to do well in CoD multiplayer, then you must be a sniper. All weapons, except possibly the submachinegun, crumble beneath the awesome might of The Sniper Rifle. The Sniper Rifle that is perfectly accurate with no bullet drop. The Sniper Rifle that has slow, almost imperceptible scope drift, even when standing up, and has a scope as steady as a rock when crouched or prone. The Sniper Rifle whose bullets are magically more powerful than other guns that fire the same round. The Sniper Rifle that makes sniping as easy as clicking on stuff in Windows. If you can point and click, then you too can be The Sniper.

Every map, save for the indoor ones or Carentan, quickly dissolves in a pixel-hunting Sniper Fest. You will experience many hours of sheer bliss hiding behind a rock, waiting for the enemy snipers to move a few pixels of their bodies out from behind their rock so you can dispatch them with a click of the mouse, or take great delight in picking off the foolish morons who did not choose The Sniper Rifle. Forget about such things as "going prone" or "managing breathing," in Call of Duty multiplayer, Sniper Rifles are like deathrays. No matter how much you bunny-hop or try to sidestep, you will get picked off from a distance by an unseen foe with frustrating regularity. In fact, there's no real reason to use the unscoped rifles or even the light machine guns, as you can just can run into the open, zoom in, pick off the enemy with childish ease, and then retreat behind cover and snipe some more. In this game, you'll get sniped with such frequency that you'll wonder if everyone is secretly using an aimbot.

On maps where snipers are less common, if you wish to do well, then you must choose The Submachinegun. It too, like The Sniper Rifle, is magic, as it can easily be fired while both running and hopping. Don't bother using the sights, just spray and pray and you'll probably get a random headshot that kills your oppponent instantly. Particularly offensive is the Russian PPSh, which possesses and extremely high rate of fire and a huge magazine, yet those who carry it move faster than those with any other weapon! There are other irritations as well, from grenades that are so weak as to make them utterly useless, to the fact that ammo is measured by rounds remaining instead of magazines remaing, which combined with the ridiculously fast reload times makes it extremely easy to simply spew rounds at your enemy with no regard to ammo conservation or accuracy. This isn't World War II, this is Quake with slightly less advanced weapons. When a player can get a kill/death score of 62/2 by simply sniping all day long, something's wrong. If you're thinking of buying CoD for multiplayer alone, then forget about it.

It's just Medal Of Honor with a different title

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 33
Date: December 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It is an EXACT copy of Medal of Honor Allied Assault and the expansion packs that followed. Don't waste your money.
They didn't even try to make it orginial. It is just the same old, scripted mission action repackaged.

I enjoyed the game. I liked it...but I did not think it was worth my money.

There are some new things that are nice...but that list is so short, it is still not worth $40 or $50!!!

DON"T BELIEVE THE HYPE>>>>>>>>

Download the demo or borrow a copy from a friend and TEST DRIVE it first people.

If you like it...then buy it but don't rush out because of the overhyped 5 star votes in here!!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

U.S. soldiers died for this?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 72
Date: April 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I's still shocked and horrified that games like this are still making money. Are they ever going to make a Schindler's List game. They already made ones on Vietnam and Desert Storm (Odd that the sequel appeared BEFORE the second gulf war, do they have soldiers die from roadside bombs or panic killings at check points yet?) and so on but this is just trashy 'Greatest Generation' banter that's overstuffed uber-patriotic garbage. When is this going to stop!?
First off, most of this is too much a carbon copy of war movies like 'Saving Pvt. Ryan', A Bridge too far, and Enemy at the Gates.' and its more than obvious they did no research while making this movie. Granted, it may seem trivial to have an actual historian work on a video game but it serves the point that its just propaganda trying to cash in on a country of wannabe generals.
Second, the Russian sequence is by far the worst, it plays frame for frame 'Enemy at the Gates' with no real variation. Besides, the Russians didn't shoot small squads retreating from a bad charge, they just shot deserters trying to leave the area of combat, it's highly over-exagerrated. Also note that commissars gave warning shots up in the air before training weapons on their own soldiers giving them an ultimatum. In total 10-15,000 died in such a fashion compared to the 20 million the Germans killed.
Not to say that's the only area of crap, the British segment where two guys take out an entire German destroyer just wretched. When the hell did that ever happen? Oh, and then they whisk away in a plane smack in german territory with no resistence?
In conclusion its no better than any of those lame contra games where one man takes out an entire army but worse it profits from the sacrifice of veterans, pfeh.

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.

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