An intense game that will strap you to your seat for hours upon end. No game like it for the Xbox 360 to date.
Call of Duty2 is the “sequel” to the much-loved Call of Duty for the PC. Surprisingly it has come to the Xbox 360 and this is no small rip-off port of a PC game but a well-honed game that you WILL want to play for hours upon end.
Call of Duty2 is a World War II First Person Shooter. Call of Duty2 also has a nice single-playe game that cne go from easy to hard in nothing flat. Throughout the single-player you will be playing as three great nations. You will be playing as: Russia in the great snowy city of Stalingrad, Great Britain in the African front, and the United States in the French nation and rushing the beaches of Normandy yet another time. With three great nations to play, they all combine to make three different campaigns which all make a total of twenty-seven missions. The Russians go through three fronts all with sub mission in them, but while playing as these Russians don’t just think it will be a slaughter fest of Russians, but you will be taking down German command posts and defending city hall from a German offensive. Now as the British you will be not only going through desert raids and killing Germans left and right but you will be trying to escape a town from a German assault and doing a flat out tank battle. As the Americans you will be moving from the beach to scale the walls of Du-Hac and take over a town, just in turn start rushing to the beach in a last minute defensive. You will also be stopping mortar strikes and defending an outpost from a German attack. Aside from the missions in the game there is no general story besides staying alive and defeating the Germans to end the second World War. The fingers will be bleeding when you finish this story especially if you go onto trying it on veteran mode for the achievements.
Before each front of each countries mission you will be shown actual clip of war footage and read through the soldier’s diary. Then the action starts and it will be intense, the Germans are also relentless and if you hide back they will spring around corners to take you and they won’t stop coming. Besides from killing of German soldiers left and right you will have to destroy airplanes, tanks, howitzers, and call in either air strikes or naval barrages to destroy boats which changes up the game in a pleasantly nice way. Now what you will be killing all the Germans with is up to you. You can either stick with the two guns you’re given at the beginning or you can take guns either from fallen comrades or enemies. There are also spots in the game when they will give you certain weapons because trust me you will need them at that time. At these times they give you certain weapons be ready to either defend or do a full scale assault. When they do these defenses and assaults it really changes the game from just run and gunning to now you have a real objective and you don’t want to see your comrades get gunned down before you eyes. Now with all these people one screen at one time sometimes it will get chaotic but it also makes this game stand out from other World War II shooters and it is what makes this game great.
The single-player may seem a little short unless you do the extremely hard veteran mode for achievements, which will take you two to three times longer than the normal mode. Now to get out of this single-player style of run and gunning Germans you can go online via Xbox Live and play with up to 8 other players in deathmatch or objective games. With a new update to Call of Duty2 it makes playing in online so much easier and fun. With the more automatch system of grouping in Call of Duty2 you won't want to see the style Perfect Dark Zero took one bit. You will be able to choose what maps you prefer so then you won’t (sometimes matters about what others prefer) play the maps you hate. While playing Call of Duty2 online it can feel like an all out brawl and can get intense, but then you will have some slower games were every person gets a sniper rifle and finds a hiding spot and sits. With these two very different strategies during game you will find that certain maps are better for sniper or all out machine gun, yet even on a sniper map if you work out your smoke grenades and move from house or corner to corner you can always gun people down nicely with a Thompson. Now if you think 8 people isn’t enough for a multiplayer game just wait you will end up to loving it and if you still don’t then you can always get friends with Xbox 360s and play a system link game of up to 16 people.
With these single-player and multiplayer being this good you might think that the graphics are poor or the sound is. You will find yourself to be wrong (you can still have a different opinion though), Call of Duty2 pulls out some nice character models that you may mistake for being real and the best looking down the barrel of your gun to aim I have ever seen in gaming. Plus the sound doesn’t let up, with gunshots being heard from distances in a city to the explosion of a tank and even the guns shooting and bullets whizzing just pass your helmet. To also make this game seem more realistic when you get hit your screen will turn slightly red and then when you get hurt bad enough you screen will blur and being red all over, and that’s when you find a good hiding place to recover. Yep there is no life bar and no med kits in Call of Duty2 just a somewhat regenerating health with nice effects. But when you want to see a screen blur you need to get a tank to shoot right next to you so you start moving slowly, cant hear except a loud ringing, and a extremely blurred screen. With all these good effects and realistic sounds you will feel like you’re in the action of these intense action game.
All in all Call of Duty2 is the fastest most intense shooter for the Xbox 360 to date and it doesn’t seem to be letting up any time soon. If your tired of World War II shooters or you think a port from the PC to Xbox 360 will suck then go rent it. If you love shooters and don’t mind it being the 100th World War II shooter made then it is a must buy even if your going for the PC version they are both close to each other just a different controller.
Call of Duty2 gets a good score for being a good game, go check it out!