Been there,done that,yes but this is in new style!
As in the the original game,also in Call of duty 2 campaign you will play as three soldiers in diffrent factions.First you will play as a Russian private and you will battle the invading Germans in Moscow and Stalingrad.After you beat the missions in the Russians campaign you will drop off as a soldiers in the British army,most of the time you will battle in the sand-swept deserts of North Africa alongside the Desert Rats against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel`stroops.The next campaign is the American`s.Here you will be doing a D-day landing,but not in the Omaha or Utah beach,but in the Point Du Hoc as a American Corporal.If you think that climbing sheer clifs is extreme,that you have to feel how it is climbing them with artillery and machine-gun fire raining down on you.
If you play the game on easy difficult,you wont really experience the hole athmosfere,so if you want to experience the hole game better than you should play on the harder difficult level.You will have be more carefull,you wont just ruh off and try to do something,instead you will play like you were in the real life and the life is important to you.
The missions its self are diffrent form each other.One memorable momebt in Russian campaign is crawling through raised pipeline to sneak behind German lines and into a fortified factory building .As you make your way to the factory you snipe Germans down and they spot you fast.They start to shoot up the pepeline and its really cool how the bullets are making holes in the pipeline.In the British campaign in Nort Africa you do like participate in night raids of small Tunisian towns, climb up to the top of spires to call in artillery on enemy tanks, and even drive a tank yourself.The American campaign has also got some moments,like climbing the cliffs in the Point Du Hoc or sniping at German mortar crews from the top of a grain silo.So there is some diffrence and you cant say that the missions are al the same.
The objectives you will make are going to be from A-B-C and so on.Most of the time you will be clearing houses and holding positions until reinforcments come.The singleplayer is all-in-all a very nice experience,but the the reall thing why you buy this game is the multiplayer.
The new "tricks" i talked about are for the singleplayer and the multiplayer very helpfull.One new feature is the "hold breath"abbility,with it you can easly kill a foe without missing him once or twice.The second new feature is that there is no life meter,just when you get cought in a heavy fire or you get a shot frequently your screen will turn red as if blood were splattered across the screen and if get shot once or twice more you will die,so you got to hide behind a object to spare you life.Now there is no healt-boxes and packages that weren`t realistic,but with this action they made something unrealistic,that when you get hurt if you just hide behind something your life will full up to you maximum health,and you will be like new.
And the third is the "shellshock" effect if a granade hits you or you are cought in a heavy fire you will not hear well and you will be like droged.What is simply cool.Oh are there is no running,not in singlerplayer not in multiplayer,what is like in the original,but im not sure why did they do that.
The mutliplayer mode is now even better from how it was in the original,and it was really great but now its almost perfect.Lots of new maps been addet including three of old ones,but sure in a lot better graphichs way.The old maps are Carentan,Brecourt and Dawnville that is now named as St.Mere Eglise.The new are some maps in France,Russia and North Africa.There are also the Thrench and the Greas gun.The Thrench gun is like a shotgun and the Greas gun like a silent uzi.Also i found out that the pistols are now much stronger and you can easly kill a foe with it if you know how to.Like in the multiplayer of the original you have combat modes that are versy interesting-Deathmach,Teamdeathmatch,Capture the flag,Headquarters and for me the best Search&Destroy.For every of this combat modes you really need a good tactic to be the best,or be the worst.The "Killcam" is also here,its a camera that shoes you from your foe`s eye`s the few last seconds of you life before you were full of bullets.
The new maps are also a little smaller,so you will get to fight in seconds,the smalles map is think is St.Mere Eglise,but its a cool map that you allready know from the original.The smoke granades are outstanding,the graphichs of the smoke is really superb.And the granades dont have "coock off granade"feature.
Speaking of granades,the smokegranades are in singleplayer and mulstiplayer very usefull.Smonking the fiedl in front of a machine-gun nest or a snipers nest.And its really looks fantastic,and also its a real cool experiance runing through the smoked fields.
Gameplay-Like all the WW2 shooters just with new style!
Sound-the sound is one of the key factors of Call of duty 2,and its superb
Value-Yes,like in the original the multiplayer has tons to offer and so is the singleplayer.