The veteran cause.
Call of duty was a diamond in the rough, It was as good as Medal of honor and yet more intense by a hundred fold. In the game you play through three different campaigns; The Russian, British, and American battles through Africa and Europe respectively. The gameplay is extremely fun in my opinion. For the best game experience I would suggest playing on veteran, even though I think I had several minor heart attacks and strokes due to dying so many times. There were many aspects of this game that I loved, the enemy AI for one, the germans definitely give you a run for your money and will often work in teams to rush your lines, keeping you pinned down, or raining grenades down on your position preventing you from moving. The aiming system of COD2 is a little tricky if you never played the original. You literally use the scope, and or look down the barrel of the gun and through the sight. It feels really realistc, sometimes that reality can lead to some pretty frustrating parts of the game. If you get shot, your aim is thrown off and your shots go wide. If you are aiming to intensely enemies will often sneak up from the side or behind. From there they will either shoot you to death, or, beat your skull in with the butt of their rifles. One of the more important aspects of the gameplay in my opinion is the use of grenades. Smoke grenades proved to be an advantage in several instances because it covered the advance of friendly NPC's. However, it also had its downsides when you could not tell who you were shooting at until they got to close, often getting killed by the enemy, or accidentally killing one of my own. Frag grenades were extremely useful for clearing out rooms and machine gun nests. Again, reality can suck. If you don't cook the grenades long enough, or keep the enemy down by using covering fire, the enemy can and will pick up your grenade and throw it back to your position. I lost count how many times I was fragged by my own frag. However, your friendly NPC's will pick up enemy grenades and throw them back. The environments of the game can also work to your advantage, pay special attention to red fuel barrels, they are usually ironically placed near large enemy choke points or heavily guarded enemy positions. You blown those things up, and it'll usually take alot of enemies with them. Even though they flame up for a few seconds, sadly giving enemies time to run away.
There are a ton of weapons in this game. From the classic Thompson machine gun, or the Gewher 43 german assault rifle. There are to many to list here, but there are guns for everyone. If you are an in your face combat kind of person, there are usually enough assault rifles and machine guns to go around. If you are a sniper, you are a snot nosed coward and I hate your guts (seriously). And last but not least we'll move on to the actual visuals of the game. This game pulled out all the stops when it came to the look of the game. You really feel like your fighting through Algerian towns and the deserts of north africa, or to the bombed out villages and cities of France and Russia.
My reviews usually suck and jump around the page a little. But I have so much praise for this game that It just seems like I can't make any sense. If you like WW2 shooters then I highly recommend this game, whatever the cost.