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Call of Duty

Review by blizzardwolf

"One of the Best WW2 Games Since BF1942 or the Medal of Honor Series!"

I got Call of Duty the first week it came out. I was extremely impressed by the two demos that included two levels of the American Campaign. If you don't believe me go to any site that you can download a demo. Also, if you want to try out for yourself instead of reading this reviews, go download a demo, get 'em both for that matter.

First off,

Story 9/10
Story isn't much of a problem with these kind of games. But the story is you don the boots of three soldiers, an American, British, and Russian. All three campaigns litterally show a lot of promise, and I mean some amazing sequences but we'll go on with that later. As an American you are Private Martin, a British, Sergeant Evans, and as a Russian, a conscript Russian peasant named Alexei.

Graphics: 10/10
This game's graphics doesn't need a very good video card to run. I have a Radeon 9000 Pro, it runs like a beauty, lighting and shadows are very dark light they always are, fire emits light at a good range, lens flares look real and blinding, there are even facial expressions on soldiers, especially some of your Command Officers. They will look so real, they look just like a true human.

Also the models look real, you will barely see any imperfections on the models except one or two things. Nothing looks like an oversized arm stapled on a 2 foot dummy. And you know how that will look.

Sound: 10/10
This is nothing like what you've heard. It's like candy for your ears. MG42's make the loudest noise in the game next to the tanks rolling by on it's tracks. The sounds are loud, real, and you can even hear some bullets ricochet pass your ears, and you know how that feels in most games.

Each gun has it's own sound, you can hear the ping of an M1 Garand crisp and clear, the cock of a Thompson after you empty out an entire clip, and the voice work has been done extremely well. You'll hear your squad mates say ''Take Cover'', ''Grenade! Get down!'' ''Flank Right!'' ''Flank them!'', the voice acting is so good, you'll feel like your in a war with your own comrades, and soldiers, even if the characters you play as can't talk, you'll still listen to your C.O's and your squad mates debriefing you.

Gameplay: 10/10
There isn't much to say about the Gameplay. It's amazing! Even if the Scripted Sequences make some of your squad mates invulnerable for the entire mission, or for a time, you won't notice much since your gunning down the Germans with your Thompson or their MP44/Stg44. The A.I is great! Your squad mates will lean around corners, give cover fire, chuck grenades, they'll even whack some of the Germans when they get close enough. The Germans are also very intelligent, they will do the same exact thing as your squad mates, but with extreme precision, you'll feel like you in a real war, sometimes they miss like all soldiers, sometimes they'll act like seasoned veterans(which most of them are) and put a bullet between your eyes. It's variable. Their may be a bit of frustration here or there, but the fun factor is more than enough to counter that frustration factor unless your playing at Veteran or Hardened level.

Multiplayer: 0/0
This isn't much of a true factor, since all I've been describing is the Single Player. They multiplayer is pretty decent. There are a lot of exploits in the game, including the clipping, which you can see a good head or arm through a wall. Which gives you the rather unfair advantage of shooting their arm and getting an instant kill. There are also some weapon balance issues such as the PPSH spitting out 10 rounds in 2 seconds and killing a man within 9 rounds. Plus, sniping in this game is WAY too easy, it takes half the skill you would need to snipe in another game to snipe in this game. Overall, the multiplayer is on par, but if I had to score it, I'd say good, since it is fun after all, so if I had counted this, it would be 7/10.

Overall: Average that out and we get the grand total of 9.75 which I round up to 10/10(Excluding the Multiplayer)! Of course there are some flaws here or there, but not enough to actually decrease the Game's Score.

I can't say much more other than a few words, Buy it!

Reviewer's Score: 10/10, Originally Posted: 11/16/03

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