CALL OF DUTY 2 REVIEW



Another world war 2 based shooter, same stuff of killin' every jerry that moves, so should u play this game, hell u should cuz its call of duty 2! The original call of duty was one of the best games of 2002, it got worldwide recognition for its immersiveness and game play, it didn't do anything new, but whatever it did, it made a brilliant job out of it, it was the best WWW2 shooter ever, about a year later, an expansion pack call of duty- united offensive came out, it had new missions, but nothing else. Call of duty 2 promised to make the gaming experience even more better, frankly there wasn't much to improve upon, but the developers have definitely succeeded in doin' what they said.

You start of as a Russian soldier in the aftermath of the battle at Stalingrad, for those of you who haven't played the original call of duty, don't worry; You have a basic tutorial in the beginning of the game to explain u all the basics. you will notice that the health bar has been done away with, when you are at critical health the screen turns red and you will have to take cover to regain your health this saves a lot of frustration of going back to collect those health packs and adds to the realism. I played the game on rig with a 6600 GT 128 MB and 1 gig ram initially the auto detect set the res. to 640x4480 with no AA and AF but I found that you play the game just as well at 1280x768 with 4XAA (anti aliasing) and 4XAF (antistrophic filtering), I suggest you keep cranking up the settings until you stop getting playable frame rates. the graphics look awesome u can see the snow falling real time and the water looks brilliant too, but the best part is the smoke and the explosions, the smoke effects are probably the best seen on a PC game and explosions look real enough to make u feel right in the middle of the war, the sound effects are awesome too.
now to the game play, anyone who has played call of duty before knows that nothing beats this game when it come to game play
when you play this game you don't feel like you are playing a game you fell like a real soldier right in the middle, although the is quite linear and monotonous, you never feel that, hats what makes this game so great, its the realism you feel, you feel the grief the anger when you see one of your comrades dying trying to cover you. The AI of the game is brilliant too, your team-mates will always lead the way and you never feel stranded with a bunch of morons, they cover you, throw in grenades at the right time and do as they would in real life, and the enemy is real smart too, if you think you could just go to the front and shoot everybody to hell you are in for a lot of reloads, the Germans take cover intelligently and have a knack of always landing their grenades in the right spot, luckily you have a grenade danger indicator which shows you the direction of the incoming grenade so that you take some cover, the game also has extensive use of smoke grenades, as I said before the smoke looks very realistic and you are gonna need it when charging at an MG-42 machine gun.
the campaigns are divided into 3 parts starting with the Russian campaign which has you fighting in the cold and snowing Russian towns, crawling through pipes and sniping enemy snipers, and then you have the British campaign where you sight in the much hotter environment of the Sahara deserts, the game looks gorgeous in the missions in these missions, a fair part of the campaign is blowing up panzers as a tank commander, its great fun, and finally the American mission show cases the d-day landings on the beaches of Normandy and the fighting through the towns in France, it probably the toughest part in the game.
the only con in the game is probably the lack of different missions like air missions, but that is a minor glitch the game is sure to keep u glued to ur PC for hours, my suggestions stop reading and buy the game.

Pros= brilliant game play, cool graphics, and the pleasure of killin' lots of jerried
cons= a bit linear maybe but honestly, any decent gamer wouldn't give a damn about it. Must play game.

Rating 9.5/10.

-Amit Patnaik