Call of Duty 2

**Bob the Insane** · 11-11-2005, 16:36

Horses for courses I guess, personally I found lot of exciting moments...

While the US beach lands was not one of the hardest missions it was extremely historically accurate and I simple keep thinking "I can;t belevie people actually did this for real!"...

I remember climbing up Hill 400 and then defending it from counter attack, I remember in one of the pausing during the German counter attack thinking "I really don't want to be here"...

I found the missions to be much more militarily authentic in style, you are simply one of the troops (on point maybe, but no superhero) in a military encounter, try to stay alive and do your job. There is no real story thread to the game, just a group of events/encounters sometime base on real world events (some missions more losely than others)...

The health thing while not realistic at all, I don't find to be any worse a concet than magical health packs...

Well hopefully they will do an exapnsion worthy of UO for CoD2...

**jeffreyLebowski** · 11-15-2005, 20:27

i don't really get all the complaining about the health system. how exactly was running around picking up magical health packs that instantly heal you any more realistic than the current system? at least the new system keeps a nice abb and flow to the gunfights.

besides, if you're playing on the higher 2 difficultly levels, you can barely take 1 or 2 shots before dying anyways. you never get a chance to get back behind cover.

**Viking** · 11-16-2005, 22:07

Originally Posted by jeffreyLebowski

i don't really get all the complaining about the health system. how exactly was running around picking up magical health packs that instantly heal you any more realistic than the current system? at least the new system keeps a nice abb and flow to the gunfights.

Difficultness? There could be long between each of these “magic health packs”, and sometimes I had to reload(sometimes several reloads was necessary) to get past a point in CoD or UO.

UO was at certain places extremely difficult, and in a fun way. The graphics were good too. While the graphics might be better in CoD2, that`s not enough to save my gaming experience. The missions are way too short, and the new health systems is ridicoulous and typically arcade. MoH PA had a much better solution to this: you had too call a medic when you were down. Heck, if you turned the option on, you would even start bleeding when taking hard damage and your health bar would start decreasing until you bandaged yourself, wich took a few seconds, and could put you in serious danger. Oh, and I should mention that the medic did not only have to take care of you, but also your teammates, so you could die while waiting for him to get finished with the others.

I have not completed the game yet, and is unfortunately not looking forward to it. It`s a pity what they`ve done to Call of Duty.

If any expansion, I will not buy it otherwise SP have changed, perhaps back to what it once was. I`m begging there will be a new MoH with battlescenes from Europe.

**Kekvit Irae** · 11-17-2005, 00:34

Dont expect anything as momentous as the fall of Berlin for the ending of Call of Duty 2. The endgame left me wanting more, and not in a good way.

**Beirut** · 11-17-2005, 02:24

I'm going to pick up Brothers in Arms as soon as I can get to the game store. I tried the demo and it's very good. Great fire & movement action. Nice to be able to direct a tank and a squad at the same time. Really opens up a lot of tactical options. Excellent graphics too. I'm able to run BIA (demo) at 1024x768 but CoD2 (demo) only at 800x600.

I read that the new Brothers in Arms, BIA: Earned in Blood, has excellent AI. The enemy moves, retreats, reforms, fixes, and flanks you. I saw a video of it. Very cool.

The only bad part is the iron sight "zoom" mode, which bobbles up and down to simulate breathing, but acts more like someone having an asthma attack. Very, very hard to aim through the sites.

I played the CoD2 demo as well, while good fun and great to look at, it doesn't look as absorbing as BIA.

**Alrowan** · 11-17-2005, 13:18

heh im getting sick of this extra movment down iron sights. ive fired rifles in my time and i know for a fact it isnt the hardest thing to keep it relativly steady while breathing, in fact ive found breathing does nothing to the guns movment, rather the length and weight of the gun afect it more, as your arms tire from holding it out and up for extended periods of time

**Kraxis** · 11-17-2005, 13:42

Originally Posted by Alrowan

heh im getting sick of this extra movment down iron sights. ive fired rifles in my time and i know for a fact it isnt the hardest thing to keep it relativly steady while breathing, in fact ive found breathing does nothing to the guns movment, rather the length and weight of the gun afect it more, as your arms tire from holding it out and up for extended periods of time

Tell that to the skishooters... They need visible time to get the sight onto the target.

But I agree, in this case it is just not good. At least it should be pretty much gone when prone.

**Viking** · 11-17-2005, 19:14

Originally Posted by kekvitirae

Dont expect anything as momentous as the fall of Berlin for the ending of Call of Duty 2. The endgame left me wanting more, and not in a good way.

Doesn`t sound good.... Anyway, I am looking forward to try how the D-day landings work out on a different engine. It`s only the 2nd FPS game where you run ashore on the D-day rather than parachuting, right?

Originally Posted by Beirut

I'm going to pick up Brothers in Arms as soon as I can get to the game store. I tried the demo and it's very good. Great fire & movement action. Nice to be able to direct a tank and a squad at the same time. Really opens up a lot of tactical options. Excellent graphics too. I'm able to run BIA (demo) at 1024x768 but CoD2 (demo) only at 800x600.

I read that the new Brothers in Arms, BIA: Earned in Blood, has excellent AI. The enemy moves, retreats, reforms, fixes, and flanks you. I saw a video of it. Very cool.

The only bad part is the iron sight "zoom" mode, which bobbles up and down to simulate breathing, but acts more like someone having an asthma attack. Very, very hard to aim through the sites.

I played the CoD2 demo as well, while good fun and great to look at, it doesn't look as absorbing as BIA.

Sounds good, I might give it a try. There was nothing too exeptional with the original BiA, but it was good.

**Taurus** · 11-17-2005, 20:54

No complaints whatsoever in this game apart from the fact that I finished it the day I bought it but the replay value is good so it isn't all bad on that front.

Everything else though is amazing,no two missions are the same. CoD1 was amazing but this is on a whole new level. The AI is great, the graphics are stunning, and the atmosphere is mind blowing, there is nothing like defending a position outnumbered 50-1 with extrememly suitable music playing in the background, bombs going off everywhere, grenades expoloding all around you, ducking for cover from an MG-42...I could go on all day it's just awesome.

Truly excellent game and well worth the money. I advise everyone who has got it to play it NOW and everyone who hasn't got it to buy it and play it NOW

Overall Rating: 9/10

**Kekvit Irae** · 11-17-2005, 23:15

Originally Posted by Viking

Doesn`t sound good.... Anyway, I am looking forward to try how the D-day landings work out on a different engine. It`s only the 2nd FPS game where you run ashore on the D-day rather than parachuting, right?

Yes, but unfortunately, Point du Hauc is in no way the same as the beaches of Omaha or Utah. When you exit your landing craft, the majority of the time you spend on the beach is an in-game scene when your landing craft explodes and you are left stunned on the beach watching others around you die. Once you get control of your character again, it takes five seconds to reach the proper rope to climb (the cliff is FIVE FEET in front of you, unlike Omaha) with virtually no danger to yourself until you get on top of the cliff.
Dont go in expecting something as epic as the rush into Omaha as you did with MoH:AA.

Bleh, I am going to wait for modders to make a truely epic Omaha/Utah/Gold/Juno/Sword beach level. Come to think of it, isnt it about time the British and Canadians get their chance in the D-Day landings spotlight? Granted, Gold/Juno/Sword beaches were not as bloody as Omaha and Utah, but they were as strategically important.