User Rating: 8.1 | Call of Duty PC
By nunyerbiz | Review Date:
Good WW2 shooter, but nothing groundbreaking to be found here. Call of Duty is a very well made WW2 shooter, similar in many ways to the excellent Medal of Honor series. The single player game works it's way through three distinct points of view: American, British & Russian. The American missions start the game and are very well done. British missions are the middle third, and are actually quite weak. By far the low point of the game. The end series, featuring the Russians, makes up for this somewhat and ends the single player game on a high note. While the single player game is very well done, it's nothing extraordinary. As usual with these type of games, many missions feature you working with fellow soldiers to clear the level. While the developers defiantely did a good job of making your squad look like they're helping, they rarely are. While your squadmates do get the occasional kill, more often then not they shoot at the baddies at point blank range and miss. Also, any "mission critical" squadmates are basically invincible. They simply will not die. These aren't big deals, but it does chip away at the realism. It makes you realize that Call of Duty hasn't made any improvements as far as squad based AI, tactics or scripting. Your squad doesn't do any better than the Medal of Honor squadmates did two years ago. For every moment that you feel like your one soldier in a large scale battle, there are four or five moments when you realize that it's you against everyone else and the AI controlled squad mates are just window dressing. This really isn't a big knock on the game, as compared to similar games, Call of Duty does a good job. The problem is that it doesn't do a GREAT job. It's simply a well designed, compentent single player shooter. Definately deserving of praise, but not worthy of all the 9/10 and 10/10 scores it's getting from every direction. Multiplayer is a straightforward affair, the standard gametypes are all represented. The "kill-cam" is defiantely a great feature that should have been implemented by somebody along time ago. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem all that popular in the real world, as not many of the public servers have it enabled. The maps included in the game are all well designed and fun to play, but more of them would have been welcomed. Considering the relative brief single player campaign, more multiplayer maps would have been nice. Networking code seems very solid, and the game plays suprisingly well even with inconsistent ping times. Overall, a well done shooter and that's it. The short single player campaign combined with no real improvements on the genre keep this from truly being the 10/10 that everyone says it is. Still, it's a game that shouldn't dissapoint while it lasts. 8/10

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