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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 26
Date: November 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I appreciate the first reviewer's remarks, and based on them will not be buying this game, though I might have had I not been so informed.

You know, if you disagree with the remarks of another, the civil, sane, and logical way to let your differences be known does not include berating and baiting the person with whom you disagree. It saddens me that the reviews below disagree with the original reviewer in a hateful manner that seeks to do nothing but belittle and disrespect the beliefs of the reviewer and every other Christian. Appalling.

Why can't I kill friendlies?!?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: December 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I just finished Call of Duty: Big Red One and I'm steaming mad I spent any money at all on it. I'm glad I bought it as a greatest hits game for 20 bucks instead of the initial offering. The gameplay was bad. I was expecting advanced features from the previous Call of Duty, but it was same ol' same ol' here.

Note to whoever creates these games: Either create intelligent friendlies or allow me to kill them! More times than I can count I wasn't allowed to shoot at Germans because a stupid American got in my line of sight. That is the worst feature on these "squad" games. The idiots run around and just make it harder to maneuver through levels. If I was allowed to just blow them away, then that would be awesome. But don't limit the gameplay because they are so badly created. This feature became especially bad when trying to storm trenches. The worst part is that you can still get hit by German bullets, but you just can't shoot back!

Medal of Honor may overdue the heroics (which I honestly don't mind), but they have figured out that if you can't get a squad working, don't include it!

Don't waste your money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was disappointed with the following aspects of this game:

1) AI is not challenging. (I'm not a great player either.)
2) Your range of movement within the game is very limited.
3) Many times you get stuck at a level just trying to figure out what you are supposed to do after all enemy are gone.

My favorite games are combat games but this was a disappointment.

NO 2 PLAYER CAMPAIGNS

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The only reason my friends and I play war games is for 2 player campaigns and good multiplayer levels. THIS GAME HAS NEITHER DO NOT BUY

Adult gamer: Highly disappointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Having played and loved Call of Duty: Finest Hour, I was really excited about Big Red One. I don't purchase many games anymore, so I usually spend some time researching games before I buy them. I thought I had done my homework, but I was completely surprised. What was I so surprised about? When the game abruptly ended after only a few short hours of playing. I was dumbfounded when the credits began rolling. "That's it!" I said in disbelief. I can't remember the actual number of levels, but it couldn't have been more than ten. The PC and XBox 360 versions have 27 levels.

Furthermore, the replay value is low because the story is completely linear. You would follow the same path if you played it again. You could choose another difficulty level but. . . .

Putting my extreme frustration aside, the atmosphere created in the game is really good. Battles seem realistic with the combination of great graphics, sound, and appropriately-timed camera shake. So, if these are the things you're looking for, you should enjoy this game. I would, however, buy it used to avoid the sticker shock when the game is over before you know it.

Console version not up to standards

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 20 / 24
Date: December 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The console version of Call of Duty 2 entitled Call of Duty: The Big Red One is simply just not up to the standards of its PC cousin.
The best parts of the game occur in the new North Africa campaign. This is largely unexplored territory for video games and Call of Duty The Big Red One does a good job of giving you a view of what the North African campaign might have been like for the Big Red One. The campaign through Italy is also unexplored territory and these missions are quite fun, particularly the beach landing mission. The game also gives you the opportunity to control several different vehicles in the game, from a tank to a machine gun on a jeep to an anti-aircraft gun. This is a fun respite from just being a GI and gunning down Nazis.

However, the drawbacks outweigh the positives in this game and make it just mediocre. The game overall is too scripted. Unlike the PC version, this game has objectives you must complete in order because they're only given to you one at a time. The levels are also not very wide open, there are several paths you could take to complete a mission that are cut off to you by invisable walls. This is quite irritating, especially since there are tons of PS2 games out there now that don't force you into one path or one objective at a time.
Even the enemy AI is scripted too much. There were occasions I ran into rooms only to have the enemy inside not react. Other occasions I had to run to a door in order for the next section of a mission to start and the Nazis to open the door and pour out. This smacks of gameplay of a couple years ago.

One of my biggest gripes is that this game just is too short. They didn't bother continuing the game with the Big Red One's assault into Germany or its role in repelling the Nazi offensive in the Ardennes, one of the Big Red One's biggest successes in the war. This gives the game just a feeling of incompleteness. If they aimed to tell the story of the Big Red One during the war they should have told the complete story, not just half.

Overall, this game isn't a step forward for WW2 console games. It's got the same tired problems those of us that have grown tired of the Medal of Honor series have experienced for years. Unfortunately the advances made in its PC cousin do not appear here at all and make this just an ok game.

fun... but boring

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Don't get me wrong this game is near perfect. But this game is not as good as i thought it would be. i waited for 3 weeks 4 this. this is a good game but is lacking in many ways.
1. like from previous reviews,it;s tooooooooo short.
2. can be repetative. On g4 they said a.i. is strong. that is not true. they are weak!! the missions can be hard but they r always the same. the freakin nazis storm out of the same areas every time.
3. the missions are linear. same obl. same deaths.
4. the men in ure group are invincible and the one that do died are scheduled to do so.
5. missions can be boring often. its basically destroy this,kill them,get here and run. BORING!!!
i like the game but cant believe i presured my mom to take me and buy it. for that i am truly sorry.
this gets a three but i may have put a higher score.
wait for the price to go down and you wont be very dissapionted.

Limited

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I can't say this is better than version I. It is rather slow and it lacks the adrenaline rush of the earlier one. Also the music lacks drama associated with the historical theme of the game. I did not notice any new features to the game. Get it to complete the series but not as a stand alone game. I am not comparing this to the PC versions as I have not played them but I still feel that the MOH series overall beats COD.

A different WWII shooter in the future, maybe?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: February 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First, let me just say that I haven't played this game except for a little on the xbox360. But, and I'm in no way trying to be disrespectful, can't we have a WWII shooter that lets you play missions as the Germans? Even though I'm in no way sympathetic toward Nazis, it would be fun to play as the Germans because: 1) Overall, German troops had better weapons and armor than the allies, and 2) it's always funny to hear your comrades shout stuff in German. The main reason why I haven't bought this game, and probably never will, is that I already own the first Call of Duty for the PC, and once you've played on WWII shooter nowadays it seems like you've played them all. That's why programmers need to do something different with these shooters. The mere fact that this game was another WWII shooter where you can only play as the allies immediately turned me off to it, and I love FPS type games.

RENT, DO NOT BUY!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

For the price of $49.99 plus shipping and or tax, you'd expect a game to take someone a few weeks or at least a few days for the hardcore gamers. Call of Duty: Big Red One, took me only about 3 hours to beat on hard. Not saying that the game was easy, but that it was too short. Consisting of a mere 13 missions, Big Red One fails to deliver a game worth buying. Luckily for me, I received the game as a gift. But still, I felt sorry for the person who bought it for me, paying for full price for a game that isn't even worth the price of a greatest hit.

Still, the game play is above par. Big Red One's mechanics and controls are a step up, which make gameplay smoother and more enjoyable than Finest Hour. As for the missions, other than the fact they are too few in numbers, are rather fun but easy no matter which difficulty. Unlike Finest Hour, where the player is surely challenged by each of its missions; something you could imagine what the real soldiers experienced.

Like other console first person shooters, Big Red One lacks an offline multiplayer mode. Which is a big let down, seeing that not everyone has a network adapter (I bought my ps2 on launch) to play online. An offline multiplayer mode like the ones found on N64 games like Goldeneye and Perfect Dark would be a step up for first person shooter games such as the Call of Duty series.

In conclusion, Call of Duty: Big Red One doesn't live up to standards. While the game play is meaningful, it doesn't provide much replay value at all. A trip to Blockbuster or a visit to Gamefly would be wiser than dishing out a ridiculous $49.99.

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