I'll deal with Single Player first: the story is fantastic. You follow three campaigns, the Soviet Union trying to defend Stalingrad, the British attacking North Africa and France, and the Americans, through the D-Day landings, France and on to Berlin. In those campaigns, you play the role of certain soldiers, and at the start of each mission you get their view on it. Anyway...the graphics are brilliant, and you don't need a particularly fast computer to run it on high quality. The smoke, explosion and blood effects are simply awesome. The sound is also fantastic. It feels like surround sound so you can tell where your enemies are and also hear artillery strikes that are far from you. The gameplay also follows the 'great' pattern. The use of cover is very realistic, seeing as almost anything can be used, and the AI knowledge is also good. And bashing an enemy with your rifle is possibly the most fun way to kill them ever.
And now Multiplayer: again, superb. There are lots of different modes to choose from, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag etc etc. Kill-Cam is also featured, and while it shows you march to your death, it also answers the annoying question of "Where the hell was he?"
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