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Greatest WWII game I have ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is awsome. The game has all of the qualities that a gamer can look foward to in a WWII game. There are a lot of weapons to choose from along with great graphics, and many maps. You can actually depend on your teamates in this game. O.K., I admit that they are not the best distance shooters, but they are very good at close combat. For example, there was a time when an American soldier meleed a German to the ground and the American just kept on shooting the German to make sure that he was dead. Your teamates don't die easy and there are some characters that just can't die because they are part of the storyline. Aside from the guns,the grenades are very effective when the Germans are hiding in small corners and you just can't see them. Just pull out the grenade and it will do the rest for you. Well, thats about it. I hope my review came in handy. Remember to buy this game if you don't have it already. You will get more out of the game than what you paid for. I guarantee it.

Bite sized but good fun.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Some reviews have knocked how "easy" this game is and it's brevity. Honestly, I play games for fun and entertainment, not to be overly challenged to the point of frustration. (Real life is frustrating enough, I want games that are fun to play!) If you are looking for a great WWII game that is done well but is done in such as way as to be managable to play, COD 2 is for you. I have the "collectors edition" which comes in a silver case and includes interviews from the real men who served in the Big Red 1 division, etc,....very cool. Highlights include: the sound quality, the sheer variety of missions and weapons used (anti-aircraft guns, panzerschreck, .50 cal, etc., playing with distinct squad-mates who have unique personalities, realistic and relevant intersquad "chatter". I have and enjoy Brothers in Arms but it involves a bit more strategy and planning to do well so I save it for when I have longer stretches of free time to play. If you want more of a run and gun type WWII game that you can pick up and play a mission through from start to finish in about 15 minutes, this is a good game for you. I am a fan of the Medal of Honor series but I think this beats it in the graphics, sound and realism departments easily. As for "replayability"...I anticipate running through the levels again on a higher difficulty level once I finish the game on "easy".

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.

Exceptional

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm relatively new to the XBox, and found this to be an amazing experience. In a way, it's a game merged with a history lesson. The more I played it, the more respect gained for those who fought the actual battles. Approaching the beach in the landing craft gives one a sense (though nowhere near that of the real experience) of what these guys actually charged into...amazing. This game requires strategy, planning and a lot of attention. Amazing environments and realism. Looking forward to #3.

Thank you, 1st Infantry.

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!

Am I missing something?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: September 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Or is this game just not very challenging at all? Don't get me wrong, I'm very impressed by the storyline, graphics, weapons, etc. But it just seems like it's a little too easy to finish this game. It just seems like it's really hard to die; there's so much available ammo, health packs, and direct hits from MG-42's, grenades, etc. don't really inflict that much damage on you. Does anyone else out there share these thoughts?

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.

What, this isn't on the PC???

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Where to begin. The graphics push the Xbox to its limits. The online play provides hours upon hours of fun (but get ready to play a lot on the Town Square map) plus you get tanks! And the story mode is great. However, the story mode is also where I take issue with it slightly. Call of Duty's selling point has been that you could fight through the campaign as different soilders of the allied countries. In this one however, you have to be american throughout the whole single-player. This can get repetative after a while.

So, if you have Xbox Live, deffinatly worth the pickup. If not, then you can only play it for the single player, as it lacks a split-screen option. Theres always system link but that is falling into disuse since LIVE came into existence. Hope this helps.

come on

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

COD can do better than that. This is the funnest game i have ever played but the game is way to short. If they could add 9 or 10 more leverls to this game it would be really fun. I have heard about the 360 version and how its long and all that but guess what i dont have a 360. I have heard that it is a totally different story also. Anyways back to the regular game. it has great grafics. top knoch missions. I advise anyone to get this game and the rest of the COD games. it doesnt have limbs flying off or any of that stuff. You learn a lot about WW2 and what happened but still buy or rent the game at your local gaming store ASAP or you will be one sad camper. Once again BUY IT

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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