Game Reviews #23 - Call of Duty 2 - Call of Duty Month

Platform: Xbox 360
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Price I Paid: Free!

Call of Duty 2! The second game in the Call of Duty franchise I think, because they did that thing with Big Red One, but I'm playing the re-release on the 360. The story of this game followed three campaigns, the Russians, English and American campaigns all offer a wide variety of levels, weapons, characters and objectives to complete. Each mission has a different objective, connect the wire to a radio, destroy flak turrets or storm D-Day. I must say that the D-Day campaign for the Americans was fantastic, you storm the beaches and then get pushed back to a trench and then American troops just spawn in everywhere with tanks and jeeps.

Graphical wise, it was a previous gen game but made a little prettier for the Xbox 360, so nothing really that special. The Germans all look like bits of play-doh modelled into vaguely looking Wehrmacht troops. Guns and stuff have a large variety, you've got the English weapons, German weapons, American weapons, Russian weapons and probably some form of alien weapon.

In all Call of Duty game fashions, there is multiplayer. It's good. People still play it which is fantastic, but we've come a long way from Call of Duty 2 multiplayer, some better aspects in future instalments, some worse and they could learn a thing or two from Call of Duty 2.

One example of the future getting it right is customisable classes, with a variety of guns and weaponry to aid you in combat, fully customizable in any way you could possibly think of, attachments, camo's and that's about it.

I will give it credit for making a good Call of Duty storyline with memorable characters such as Captain Price and the guy who'll shoot you in the face during the tutorial if you aren't careful. The tutorial was actually pretty well made now that I think about it, shows you how to shoot and throw potatoes and then whisks you away into a mission where it actually gives some pretty good advice such as "Always keep your gun fully reloaded" and "Don't actually throw potatoes instead of grenades."

With all of that in mind Call of Duty 2 gets a 8/10