After playing the demos, I bought Call of Duty last Thursday night. Saturday night, I finished the single player game. Absolutely kick ass.
After the first night of playing, I was impressed, but not amazed. After moving deep into the game, I am amazed. The game is fantastic and a must have for any FPS player. This is the first single player game I’ve finished in years.
The game takes you into World War II as one of the Allies. You play scenarios from the American, British, and Russian vantages. The Russian scenario is the longest and the best, taking you from Stalingrad to Berlin. There are several different types of missions including simple assualts, commando raids, even tank battles. The V2 level was the hardest & funniest one for me to finish. I consider myself a good FPS player, but the V2 level was HARD. The spy mission on the Battleship Dornitz is also superb.
The goal of reaching the Reichstag (German Parliment) is palpable after going through all three missions and I could feel my heart racing as I burst into the main hall of the building.
Inside the Reichstag, the final battle.
Victorious over the Third Reich, waving the flag in the heart of Berlin.
I haven’t played the Multiplayer yet, but there looks to be several game modes that don’t involve pure deatmathc style carnage, more like RtCW with team objectives. I’ll give it a try and report back.
Technically, the game is perfection. Based on the Quake 3 engine, the game is fluid and smooth with clean animation. The weapons are fairly balanced, but the sniper rifle is a bit too precise of a shot. I could hit targets with the scope at a distance and never miss. A little more weave would make it more challenging. The sounds are fantastic and add to the immersiveness of the game. I wouldn’t suggest playing with the speakers up or the neighbors will be calling the police. The first Stalingrad level is utter madness and the sound brings the chaos over the top.
I anxiously look forward to any expansion packs for Call of Duty. Too bad it will be months before I see them.
I finished it in about 4 hours, playing on the “second to highest” difficulty setting. We’re playing multiplayer nightly now…look for the Augustknights server (although tonite most of us are scrimming another team in BF 1942.)
What was your favorite level?
What happened to “rationing it out”?
omg, wait so are u at any point alone in any of the missions, or do you always have team mates?
Cool. I’ve been wanting to get back in gaming, and lately have been feeling the need to shoot stuff a lot. Looks like it’s finally time for me to pick up: a) Call of Duty b) A Radeon 9xxx c) A better sound card
My favorite levels are the Take/Hold of the 4 story house as a Russian, and the Take/Hold of the bridge as a Brit. Stalingrad is right up there too…it was so scenic running across that big square. I’ll be playing this again on Max difficulty, I think.
To answer the other guy’s question – yeah there is some solo work. Maybe 2-3 levels of soloing.
How do you get to Stalingrad without dying in the boat… I’ve tried several times but cannot move or shot while sitting in the boat so I just die when they come by to shoot. Any ideas.. you must have gotten past it somehow.
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every were they sell call of duty and even other countrys can it be in english or not?
duck down when you are in the boat (ctrl by default) and you will not be killed before reaching the shores of stalingrad 🙂
How do you make it to the truck in stallingrad, OMG
ROFL. Truck is piss easy to get to… just run. =P
Im just past the sewers =D
How do you get a rifle in Stalingrad? I made it to the top over and over, but anytime someone with a rifle dies in front of me, the rifle is not there. I can’t pick one up from someone. I’m just running around with a strip of bullets.
just follow your buddy until he shoots some germans from who you can then steal the rifle
just follow your buddy until he shoots some germans from who you can then steal the rifle
just follow your buddy until he shoots some germans from who you can then steal the rifle
hello i just wonder if there is call of duty 2?? i really enjoined that game but i think that it was too short because it took me like 3 hours with breakes to finished and i really was pised off that i had to pay $59.99 for this pice of shit. THANK YOU YOUR FRIEND!
The Stalingrad level is perhaps the most amazing gaming experience EVER. Unbelivable, the game is very good till this point then it just goes off the scale. Worth £30 for that level alone.
I have just bought Call off duty and i have to say its out of this world, it worth every penny if nor more.
i have just reached Stallingrad level (utter chaos!!)
What do i do???? please…!
I can’t get oyt of the boat at stalingrad I duck with Ctrl but nothing happens and I die ..
The battleship is the Tripitz, sister to the Bizmark. Not whatever the hell you called it
i’ve tried about 30 times to get to the truck in stalingrad
those machine guns mow me down every time
is there a trick to it?
cheers
This may seem simple, it may be related to the boat in Stalingrad, but I can’t get out of the back of the truck when the Germans chase me down the road. I can duck, but I can’t jump! It says hit , but nothing happens. I tried re-assigning the “jump” button, but it doesn’t work! I am missing something really easy here??