Call of Duty 2

[Kekvit Irae]

CoD2 is a beautiful game, if extremely overdone.

Pros:

1. Finally, an African campaign!
2. Finally, a D-Day landing that was NOT Omaha!
3. The battleshouts ("Jerries, on the second floor!" "Jerry grenade!") and the new grenade indicator WILL save your life. I cant imagine how many times I was saved a reload by ducking out of the way of a potato masher. If this was CoD1, I would have been dead hundreds of times over.
4. AI is better. Germans now liberally use their grenades when you are pinned down or dug in.
5. The African Crusader missions were no longer just a linear pathway with enemies lining the roads. Now you are free to pick your path (with a LOT of open space), and one mission has you in a MASSIVE point blank tank battle, where friendly fire is common if you arent careful. I loved it much more than the Russian tank missions of CoD1.
6. German MG-42s + tight city street + rushing under the cover of smoke grenades = tactical satisfaction.
7. ALL tanks in the infantry campaigns now have points where you can place demolitions, instead of requiring you to run around and find a Panzerfaust. The downside is, you usually have to run in the field of fire just to catch the Tiger or Panzer to do so.
8. No more health indicators, and you regenerate your health. As broken as it may sound, it's actually quite balanced as you can now take much less damage before you keel over and die than you could in CoD1.

Cons:

1. Stalingrad. Again.
2. The defense of Moscow is JUST a tutorial! Wtf?
3. Smoke grenades, while lifesavers, can bog down your computer if you need to lay down a full line (4) of them. Mileage may vary, but this was taken at 800x600 with AAx4 with a Geforce FX 5600 Ultra.
4. The Russian campaign is nothing BUT Stalingrad.
5. The British tank missions are too damn short, and there arent enough of them!
6. Did I mention Stalingrad?
7. Only once did I hear a historical recount voiceover, during the victory screen after the battle of Point du Hauc. This displeased me, as I wanted historical recounts of the other battles as well.
8. MP-44s are almost virtually non-existant in Stalingrad and Africa. This annoys me to no end as the MP-44 Battle Rifle is my favorite weapon to salvage.

Bottom line: If you are a fan of CoD1, there's not much here to see that you havent seen already. If you havent played the original, this is a very good, if extremely short, buy.

[Kraxis]

No MP-44s in Stalingrad or Africa... How come? As far as I know around 0 were ever present at either place.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Wiki on MP 44's.

[Kraxis]

"The STG44 can still be found in action to this day in some places including Iraq, although not it is not currently being produced."


WOW!!! How the heck do they get their hands on them? And use them since they are bored for 7.92mm rounds (which haven't been produced since West Germany entered Nato).

[Kekvit Irae]

I mean in the game

[Kraxis]

I mean in the game

Exactly... Why should the weapon be there? Just because it is the best? No it fits very well that it isn't there. Cityfighting should be as problematic as it was. A StG44 would make it too easy.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I didn't much like it...

The health thing sucked, duck behind a wall and you regain all your health in a couple seconds? healing yourself with health packs was way better, they were limited and only in certain locations. There was none of this "shoot some enemies, get hurt, duck behind wall, heal, shoot some more enemies" nonsense. Pretty much the only way I ever died was from grenades. The grenades were also pretty annoying since the AI threw them every time, way to predictable.

None of the missions had an epic feel to them the way united offensive and some of the original missions did. There was no tension or suspense. There was a distinct lack of blowing shit up, like lighthouses and bridges with trains going across. What there was a lot of was running into a town with 8 or so soldiers to help you, and then clearing out about 6 houses one by one, completely on your own while your "allies" sat around outside.

Some of the british missions were cool, I liked fighting in the desert. The russian campaign was pretty boring except for the bit in the pipes, and the American campaign was terrible. You run out on the beach, get shot a couple times, regenerate your health, and then climb a rope in complete safety from which point it is just like any other mission.

The fact that you were always in full health meant you didn't have to worry about being killed by a couple bullets and the autosave feature meant when you did die you just started back a couple feet.


It didn't have any great moments and I never felt any emotion. Bleh.

I was dissapointed.