A solid, fun, addictive shooter with looks and sound to match!!!
One thing that always puzzles me about the mass of WWII games is how do they come up with the ideas to make the game play good this millionth time around? More often then not, they usually don’t but the Call of Duty series always seems to make killer game play out of the same old WWII scenario.
COD 2 (IMO) brings the series into the next-generation with amazing visuals and the sound quality follows right along with it. The graphics in this game are simply gorgeous. The Russian campaign really impressed me with the snow flurries falling, the smoke and bullets flying all around you. The smoke in this game should be the new staple for how to do smoke in all games. Everything down to the wood grain on boxes and puddles on the ground is highly detailed.
The sounds of COD 2 are the best around in gaming period. The amount of pure chaos that can happen onscreen with everything blazing in your ears is something that has to be heard (especially on surround).
Without going on and on about this game, I highly recommend it as a “game to own”.
On a side note:
This game is a beast to run on a PC and can make even one of the best PC’s out there struggle. The 360 version (to me) runs VERY nicely. I have a pretty top end PC (AMD 4000, 7800GTX oc, 2 gigs OCA Platinum etc) and it has a hard time on that for some reason. I don’t think you are missing out on anything with the 360 version besides the mouse and keyboard.