Call of Duty

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Summary: WoW
Review: This is much better than Delta Force Black Hawk Down! I played DFBHD with buddies online it were okay. But this one is much better. Lucky I have a good faster computer to play this game smoothly. So far the better multiplayer online game I ever played. Now I am currently asking my buddies to get this game! Graphics, gameplay, and everything seem so perfect on this. Map and mod tools are kinda hard for me to use and couldnt understand how to make map and mods! It would be nice if someone out there know how to make it (make Gijoe vs cobras in Call of Duty!) If you know anyone that are planning on to make one. Pls let me know. [e-mail]

PS: Looking forward to play it with buddies online!

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Summary: The best I've seen for PC...
Review: I should qualify my review by stating that I'm not a kid, and I wouldn't even attempt to play at the 'hard' skill levels...
...I downloaded the demo on a whim and I was hooked immediately. CofD takes the best from recent war films and gives you a chance to live it out on your pc. The game is split into three campaigns, one following an American soldier, then a British SAS soldier, then a Soviet grunt. The American campaign's early levels play like they were taken directly from Band of Brothers, the HBO miniseries and earlier book. The early Soviet levels feel like something directly out of Enemy at the Gates. I've never seen anything like this for pc. Particularly outstanding were a night battle to eliminate anti-aircraft batteries in France, and the multiple levels that took place in Stalingrad. Indeed, the Soviet levels are pretty incredible, with some of the best AI and squad level urban combat ever seen in a video game.
Regarding pure technical matters, I felt the graphics were exceptional, particulary the urban scenes. Frame rates and motion were about the smoothest I've ever seen, indeed smoother than Medal of Honor even with full effects. Also, I'm running a decent but not an incredible machine: 2.66ghz P4 with 1024MB RAM and 128MB Ati Ratheon 9000 video. Games usually run decently but not incredibly on my machine, but CofD was just incredible.
If you are in doubt, just download the demo and you'll be hooked... but in my opinion this is the best historical first person shooter game ever developed for PC. It was incredible.

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Summary: one sweet game
Review: This game has everything!great sound great graphics great scripted events the ai is incredible instead of standing out in the open just waitin to be shot they hide behind stuf and come up with a plan multiplayer is sweet i recomend this gem to any shooter fan buy it today you wont regret it!!!

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Summary: it's ok
Review: Ok this game is ok, it not bad but its not the best game out there, it is really easy and some levels are boring.The one thing i hate the most is the multiplayer, it sucks, I havent played a better game than Battle Field 1942 online, now thats a great game!

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Summary: It's OK
Review: I neither love nor hate this game. It's not the type of game you can play for hours and hours and forget about time. As fun as certain scenes in the game can be, others you just want to get past as soon as possible. The game play is fun, but it's your typical 1st person shooter: fast-paced but little strategy involved. Being the Russian soldier is funner than the American or British. If you enjoy 1st person shooters, you will enjoy this game. If you prefer more strategy-based games, look elsewhere.

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Summary: a great game.....at the same time, a great disappointment
Review: This game is actually way~better than 'medal of honor'

As a private of 101st Airborne, you feel like you are a member of 'Easy Company' in Band of Brothers when you destroy four '88's in Normandy.
Capturing the bridge of Caen canal as British Airborne is also great....although using 88mm flak right next to the bridge was pretty funny...rather silly

By the time when you sabotage 'Tripitz' you will start to feel a little confused....IF YOU ARE A SERIOUS WWII BUFF!

Not only the mission itself is pathetic but you see these Kriegsmarines (German Navy) holding....MP44! Really? I am not sure....

Not only that, there are tons of WAFFEN SS troops 'in the middle of Wehrmacht! (German Army)

By the time when you become a Red Army soldier in Stalingrad......you get shocked.....not because the game is so realistic....but you can see Waffen SS officers commanding Wehrmacht infantry... at the same time Mark IVs stand right next to them with beautifully painted 'ambush scheme'

They applied this scheme in late 1944....and this battle was in 1942
NOT EVEN A SINGLE DIVISION OF WAFFEN SS HAD AN ACTION IN STALINGRAD!

Overall, I would rate this game pretty high.....but if you are addicted to WWII, you will definitely feel some sort of disappointment due to their incorrect historical appliance

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Summary: Great Game
Review: Really Great game don't listen to people who says its waste of time, they probably only played it on greenhorn which is super easy and fast, play it on its hardest mode and you'll get your moneys worth and put you first person shooter skills to a hard test.

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Summary: Great effects, medium entertainmet, LOW SKILL
Review: I have played a few games in my time. This game is SO not worth the money. You would be better off renting Saving Private Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, and Enemy at the Gate. (The story line follows them almost exactly) The movies will leave you with a good memory...."Hey, good movie!" you'll say. The game on the other hand will leave you saying....."I don't just want my money back...I want my TIME back!" In fact, A Bridge Too Far is LONGER than the amount of time I spent on the game. Granted, the effects were better, but....TOO EASY. Skip it...or borrow it from me....I can't (in good faith) sell it. Lesson learned.

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Summary: A Must Have Game for War Gamers and FPS Fans
Review: The second you turn this game you are absorbed into its amazing game play. The auto-run menu is the nicest I have ever seen. When you start off the American campaign, you are alone and scared, luckily you aren't expected to do much. The game starts off slow but quickly gains speed when the airdrop starts. Playing thru Call of Duty is like reliving "Saving Private Ryan" and "Enemy at the Gates."
The American campaign is squad based combat missions and it includes a action packed ride in a French "tin can" thru German lines. If you loved the squad based action then you won't be too happy with the British campaign, though you do start off with a squad you quickly loose them and work thru half the campaign alone. However, even though you are alone you aren't expected to accomplish things that a whole army couldn't usually do. Then you reach gaming AI heaven when you reach the Russian campaign, I don't want to give too much away about this part of the game except that be ready to run and "Not one step back."
Over all, the single player is very worth while and might be worth buying the game on its own over. However, the game doesn't last long, it's only 8 hours in length, it seems much shorter because you can't stop playing.
After you're done with single player you will want to try your hand online with 64 other players. This is where the game really shines. The online game play really focused on team work, and you will notice that when playing there are a few players who will be barking orders, and guess what people follow them. The online is like a new counter strike. The game offers various modes of game play, such as the "Search and Destroy" which is like counter strike, in which you have to place a bomb on the objective. Then there is the usual death match and team death match. Also there is a new mode called "Behind Enemy Lines," which you have to play to understand.
Now to get to the bad stuff, there is nothing bad in single player except that it is too short. The multiplayer is extremely off balanced, you will hear people complaining that there are too many snipers, which there are, the game prides itself on realism but doesn't limit the number of positions, which the CoD team are planning to do. Other than that the only complaint I have is that some people are smacktards and don't use team play, and because of them we loose, but when u get a few of your friends just hook up Roger Wilco and you should be good.
Overall this is a must have game for any fan of war games or first person shooter. If you don't have the internet or only 56K I wouldn't bother getting it only because there isn't too much value to be gained from it. If you have cable, run out and get it.

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Summary: Any game that makes you duck is good.
Review: Call of Duty is one immaculate game. I have been playing CoD now for about a week and I just beat the last level, Berlin. I too have read reviews for this game and some hit the nail of the head others missed and hit their own fingers. This game has one thing that all other WWII games attempt but can never actually accomplish. Realism. Now all the other games have realism controls, Ex. shadows, blood, gore, that kind of stuff. CoD has none of this. The game does not make the game less violent, and lets face it, war is violent. Soldiers on the front cannot make the enemy they shoot magically not sprout blood.
Now lets get down to the real review. The actual game play is very satisfying. The levels are never too complicated or too simple. That is one great thing about this game. Your in the middle of a firefight and you think "this is so incredibly easy" and all of the sudden a tank pops out and you must destroy it. Or vice versa. The game does not make rash changes in play like one second your doing something, the next second your doing completely different thing. The highlights of the game play in my perspective was the first campaign. Fighting as a 506th paratrooper, you relive what the brave men did that morning. I have read many reviews saying the Soviet levels were the best in the game. No offense but they did not appeal to me as much. I think the D-Day level better represented the games main idea of the whole game. The D-Day level was nearly all squad fighting with a few exceptions. The Stalingrad levels were more you surrounded by unknown soldiers while you trail a Sgt. At sometimes the Soviet games were squad-based but the squad members tended to run out and charge more. Maybe the Soviets were braver and more war-crazed than we (U.S.) were. And yes, I do know that they were pretty much forced to do this but there were no Commissars watching us or Stalin breathing down our backs.
Oh yea back to reviewing. The game had a fresh feel to it that hopefully all other games will try to use. The squad based fighting was really great and they did help not just shoot you in the back (Medal Of Honor, morons!) The feature that made me say "whoa" was the fact that blood misted into the air when people were shot.
Another important thought, don't write a review if you make fun of a good game, you'll look stupid. I read one review where quote "the paratroopers looked like midgets running across the field attacking the guns. Well since no one else has I will. That reviewer was a _ _ _ _hole that doesn't appreciate what the men did back then. I would like to see him run straight up with 100 extra pounds of gear on while being shot at.

Pros:
Game play (exc ellent)
Graphics (Stalingrad was amazing)
Sound (get a good pair of speakers or headphones for this game)
Weaponry (I haven's seen any one else mention this, but they sounded very realistic)

Cons
Game length (yes it was a little short but 11 hours is not bad (Medal Of Honor Breakthrough , Spearhead, duh)
British Levels (The British levels except Pegasus Bridge, were rather boring, they did more than commando, highlight that maybe next time?)

Finally, this was a great game. Buy the game and keep playing it until you can't stand it. Then, take a break and play some more. And if you're cheap, wait the price WILL go down.