• Summary: Call of Duty 2 lets players experience four individual soldier stories as they overcome insurmountable odds in multiple campaigns. Players have the freedom to follow each of the four storylines through for the ultimate character-driven experience, or they can engage in the historic battles chronologically for quick hitting action. Infinity Ward has also expanded the scope of combat to deliver a truly realistic battlefield experience. Squads now have the freedom to take on a variety of mission objectives, on expansive battlefields that allow for multiple paths and the ability to utilize actual combat tactics like outflanking and fire and maneuver capabilities. Call of Duty 2's new engine and A.I. technology set the stage for authentic squad combat and astonishing action. Concealment can be key as battlefield smoke or even deployed smoke grenades cloud visibility. Weather effects such as the dusty sandstorms of North Africa and whiteout blizzard conditions of Russia, for example, will keep soldiers glued to their bunkers. The team has also employed a state-of-the-art Battle Chatter System that brings the action to life as squad-mates bark out context-sensitive updates in real-time to players through an advanced A.I. system. [Activision] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 62 out of 64
  2. Negative: 0 out of 64
  1. 100
    Instead of feeling like a stale retread or losing steam halfway through, it manages to be a blast from start to finish.
  2. 100
    With familiar and entertaining gameplay, a slick overall presentation and multiplayer that still proves to be a worthwhile distraction Call of Duty 2 may very well be in the running for the 2005 action game of the year.
  3. For those who can tolerate having their brain beaten numb by it, the game entails often enthralling, occasionally awe-inspiring sights and sounds. But little is there that's new compared to much that needs renewal. [Christmas 2005, p.96]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 65 out of 90
  2. Negative: 15 out of 90
  1. 10
    After many Call of Duty games, I have to say that this is still the best Call of Duty in the market. The campaign is not so full of itself like our modern CoD games, it's just a simple World War 2 shooter with you playing as the three major Allies (Russian, Britian, U.S.). The campaign itself plays out wonderfully, very fluid and memorable quotes from Price. The multiplayer is mostly why I write this review now. This has the multiplayer that the current CoD games should have sticked with. Instead of grinding your profile in order to get better weapons, all the weapons are available to you right from the start, each having their ups and downs, but a very balanced set of weapons so that you don't have to worry about a overpowered weapon (which happens a lot in the current CoD games). The original maps were very well layed out, making camping a lot less viable than in the current CoD games. Though this game is very old and not many play this anymore, I decided it would be right to write a review of my favorite CoD game and hope the best that they can bring back the way multiplayer used to be. Until then, the CSS is still very active so there's that. Expand
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  2. JohnD.
    6
    While the flashy graphics and new features make the game look a while lot better on the box, playing it shows how it really did little to improve the experience. It makes you feel like your in a war movie, but in that lies the problem. Movies are never as realistic as they aim to be. The seriousness of the situation gets blown away by the lack of realistic weapon characteristics and unrealistic game play. You will be constantly saying "Theres no way anyone could do that in real life" However, it does appeal to those younger who either don't care about realism or are there to just play. But then it puts into question, why make a WWII game if you chose to ignore so many of the characteristics of WWII? Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. SabrickSkunks
    4
    1. rehashed game play: I've played this game before, many many times in many different scenerios, congratulations on the slightly better graphics but it doesn't warrent another game. 2. regenerating enemies: the bulk of the enemies you kill will be regens that spawn in random locations, you kill more people in this game than serious sam and quake 4 combined. 3. unrealistic game play: (i remember when i saw the G4 special on this game. the word that would not stop being repeated was "REALISTIC" im affraid that was a lie, here is why a. you kill literally HUNDEREDS of enemies in the first level alone, no real WWII ground soldier did this. The number of enemies you have to kill makes each kill cheap, uninspired and fake. b. enimies are idiots, they run towards you with guns a blazing and make no effort to stay alive like a real enemy would c. you can walk, run and even jump up and down while looking through your scope on your gun d. maybe the biggest failure of all: no health. when you get hit enough times you start breathing heavy and then you have to lay down for 4 seconds and your good to go. keep in mind it takes 20-30 shots to your body before you get to that point. so you can be shot 1000 times and still be fine e. too many other things to list, bottom line: this is just another WWII game and makes no effort to do something different, please stop making these games. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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