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Another good addition to a great series

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Call of Duty titles give you the rush of war, heart pounding crazed adrenaline as bullets fly all around you. But to experience this in it's full affect you have to get online. The Xbox live multiplayer action is what sucks you up everytime in endless hours of battles. As to expecting more from this title, the Xbox version to me is great. Obviously from having played the Xbox360 title of Call of Duty it looks and plays even better. But the current version on the Xbox is still one I recommend to anyone who enjoyed the first Call of Duty.

Too Realistic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In Call of Duty: Big Red One the combat mechanics are amazingly realistic. Members of your squad are screaming telling you to move to different positions, your gun constantly jars while bombs explode all around you, and don't try to take on all the Germans yourself or you will have a fellow solider standing over you asking for a medic! In Big Red One you not only get to fight as a ground troop, but you get to man tanks, anti-aircraft guns, and be an airplane gunner. The great part is that these aspects of the game are also realistic. Planes explode in different manners, the gun fire sounds excellent, and so on. You will get to know your squad very well too. The story line is great, plus you get to listen to other chit-chat your fellow soldiers have. This game is a for sure buy...but I warn you, it realistic.

Lots of Fun, but Too Short

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed Call of Duty 2, but when I finished my final mission, I couldn't believe that was all there was. I really can't see myself going back in to play this over and over, as the missions are pretty linear and you don't have too many choices. The layouts guide you where to go for the most part and other than replaying it at a harder difficulty level, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of replay value, at least from my perspective. Great graphics and a lot of fun, but I wanted more and it seems like the game might be just a bit overpriced for what you get.

Looks awesome, plays fairly well, but feels so claustrophobic.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Call of Duty 2 Big Red One is graphically awesome, feels pretty immersive, and has good dialog and voice acting. What it doesn't have is freedom, freedom to move about and experience the game without being dragged by the hand the whole way. The levels feel like you are following a tunnel-maze, bringing a new definition to linear. The level designs are huge, but the bulk of them are just eye candy, with about 70% of the level inaccessable. You just feel so restricted. As for the action, it is good, but get ready to do lots of work yourself. The squad is there to make things seem more realistic, but their actual help is limited. COD2:BRO is much better than any Medal of Honor I've played, so do buy this if you like WWII stuff. If WWII isn't particularly your thing, just rent it, enjoy it, and move on to others.

Good but too short

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: December 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game one weekend. It was a great shooter as I expected. The voice overs and gameplay, not to mention the graphics and storyline were awesome. But I was disappointed that I beat it by the end of the day and had to go and rent another. If you're a fan of the COD or MOH series', its a good rent, but save your money and buy something that will take a little longer and have more replay value (I dont do online gaming)

Great World War II Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

So, I have been hearing from people how this isn't like the PC/360 version, it's too linear, blah blah blah. No it's not like those versions. It's a completely different game, for starters. I'm not going to go over in detail the background on the game's storyline, as several other reviewrs have already done so.
This game is a throughouly enjoyable shooter. The graphics are excellent, the weapons are rendered faithfully, and the overall gameplay is excellent.
The one thing keeping this from getting a five star overall rating is the fact that I was able to beat the game in under 10 hours, without using any cheats.
Where this game shines, however, is on XBox Live. That alone is worth the price of the game. There are your standard games, Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, but the one I find I play the most is team Deathmatch. This is closest you can come on the original XBox to actually being in World War II. Now, in three weeks, when my 360 arrives with that version of Call of Duty 2, I'll be there more. One advantage to the orginal XBox Live Call of Duty 2:BRO is that you can have 16 players at once, the 360, only 8. Until you can get a 360, this is one of the best shooters and Live games out there for the XBox

Lack of ingame saves kill all the fun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Don't get me wrong, this is a great game, but the lack of ability to save the game midway just kills the game completely. Its as if all XBOX games are crippled with this problem (Tom Clancy Splinter Cell is another example). Instead of being able to move forward, you end up playing the same level over and over again. Its just too fustrating.

Here's how it works, every time you die in the game you start all over from the last check point. This system works fine for games like Halo since the checkpoints are very frequent. However for COD, the checkpoints are very far from each other.

Also, you cannot save the game in mid-level and switch off your XBOX. In this case, the game will not start from the last checkpoint, instead it will start from the start of the level itself. So, its almost compulsory that you end the level before you switch off the console.

I know this does not sound like a big deal, but trust me, as you go through the game the checkpoints are spaced further apart just to increase the level of difficulty and its just gets plain annoying more than anythign else.

Other than this problem, the game is pretty good.

no exitement, nothing new, short!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game and thought that it would be pretty rad. I got into the 1st level and imediately was bored and unexited. I like games that capture me right away, and this didnt live up to that. I thought maby it would get better and found out that not only did it stay kinda monotoned but it was really short. The game difficulty dosnt seem to get any harder either. The last level is extreemly easy!! and it seemed like I had a lot of confidence walking through the levels, you never get that blinking red light last breath, low amo, with endless obsticles kind of adrenaline rush. If you want a GREAT game buy "BLACK" that game gets the heart pumping!

not for left handers

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: January 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you use a "lefty" controller layout (move right thumbpad, aim left thumb pad), you're out of luck with this game - there is NO option for a lefty layout. Call of Duty Finest Hour has this option, same with both Halo games and Medal of Honor.

Because of this I found the game utterly unplayable. Activision was no help at all, will not accept returns, places blame on Treyarch and will not answer if an upgrade disc will be available in the future.

It took me a good long time to develop finesse with the controller, I'm not going to re-learn and screw up my gameplay on other titles, just to compensate for what is essentially a screw up on Activision's part.

So, if you use a lefty controller config - don't spend a dime on this game.

Rent it first

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

So I played this game the other night and finished it the next day. The campaign itself is pretty varied. You fight in a lot of different places throughout which helps to keep it fresh. In some levels you will be driving a tank around the desert, in another you will be flying around in a B-24 Liberator manning the guns and dropping bombs. You can even call in artillery strikes at some points in the game. There is also a pretty wide range of weapons to use. Unfortunately the game does not nail down the feel of actually shooting the guns. The infantry combat can be pretty weak at times; it just seems to lack that visceral intensity that other Call of Duty games have. The AI in the game is actually pretty bad and makes the shooting even worse. Teammates can't seem to hit anything at all and like to get in the way a lot. They are constantly trying to shoot through walls to hit enemies as well. Overall the teammates are pretty useless besides just being extra targets for the enemy to shoot at. The graphics in the game are good. The fire and smoke effects (which you see a lot of) look pretty good. The characters, weapons, and vehicles look nice and have a decent amount of detail. While the levels are completely linear, they are actually designed pretty well and look good.

Overall the game can be pretty fun at times. Although it's clearly inferior to the original pc game, it's the best Call of Duty game on a current generation console by far. Since the campaign was pretty short and the multiplayer wasn't anything special, I would suggest this as a rental.

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