Some awesome play to be found
The good:
- Great graphics
- Great "death" animations (blood a little overdone though)
- Runs great on lower-end computers. Have a P4 3.0 OC to 3.9 MHZ with 8800GT and play on max everything @ 1600x1200 on a 21" CRT. I usually get between 30-50 FPS which is playable enough.
- Lots of drama and emotion in SP.
- Variety of enviroments is great. Really enjoyed the Pacific Campaign.
- Lots of difficulty levels. I went through on "regular". Maybe will try veteran later (but MP is where I always head to)
- MP is good as always and the reason I bought the game. Just getting into it now and have to re-learn the weapons and maps as I have been playing Modern Warfare for a year. Love the ranking and custom weapons systems.
The not-so-good:
- Why in multiplayer can you choose Russian weapons in the Pacific? Or visa versa. The weapons classes that you set up should be broken into 4 segments - Russian, German, US, Japanese. So if you want to play a Japanese soldier you should be limited to a Japanese weapon class. Duh. It kind of kills the realism to have a PPSH-41 in the Pacific! Or a Nambu in Berlin!
- AI in single player is poor at times. If you stop and look at what's happening, you will see enemy soldiers just standing out in the open looking stupid and asking to be shot between the eyes, Most of the enemy are "sitting ducks" and can be taken out en masse. Maybe this is just the evolution of technology. With faster computers we will get better A1. In Crysis I say the same thing - the A1 is only OK.
- Clipping and "floating" players while running.
- Tightly scripted and channeled SP. If Crysis and COD could be combined that would be great. I am tiring of SP that channels you and is so highly scripted. COD is great but very scripted. I would love to have a "sandbox" style COD. Wow that would be something else. Maybe someday.