Customer Reviews for Call of Duty 2

Call of Duty 2
by Activision

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Video Game Reviews of Call of Duty 2

Customer Review: mouse and keyboard only but great graphics and fun
Summary: 4 Stars

Bought this recently when trying to expand my library of shooters for pc. I play battlefieldd 1942 and star wars battlefront. Both are good. This game is good too and fast paced especially online. The graphics are very good. Even though the newest version just came out for those who dont have a new computer capable of handling COD4 give this one a try. You can't use a controller easily with it and can't map all the controls though.

Customer Review: COD Fan
Summary: 5 Stars

Overall this game is really good.The games gameplay is good,but some of the levels have waves after waves of German soldiers come to the same spot and start shooting at you,unless you eventually move up to where they're positioned.But you dont have to worry to much unless you like the difficulty on hard or on veteran.the includes the basic WWII weapons and vehicles,such as the British Lee-enfield bolt action rifle,Russian PPSH submachine gun,and the American semi automatic M1 garand, and those are only a few of the weapons.Also has alot of vehicles such as the Sherman tank and the German halftrack.The enemies AI is about average,but your allies are kind of dumb to tell you the truth.this game has 24 levels, 7 American,7Russian,and 13 British.I would recommend this game to anyone who likes QUALITY first person shooters.

Customer Review: Polished but slightly worn.
Summary: 4 Stars

I dearly loved the original Call of Duty as well as its expansion pack. Call of Duty 2 takes its predecessor, turns graphics and intensity up to 11, dials back the user interface to make it more console-friendly, and sticks you in the war.
The gameplay is excellent stuff, standard WWII FPS fare in all respects, with hordes of enemies and many weapons. My one an only beef is the (console-driven) reliance on save points; it is absolutely impossible for the player to save their progress, because all the saving is handled by the game. This is a terrible idea in my opinion as it forced me to spend many more game hours fighting my way through some intensely difficult situations over and over again instead of saving my progress as I do in other, "proper" FPSes.
Oh well. You'll find sniping missions, tank missions, antitank missions, the whole gamut. Finally getting to play in North Africa is a treat.
This is enjoyable stuff. Just keep your patience about you and be ready to play some sequences over, and over, and over.

Customer Review: When a console port goes wrong
Summary: 3 Stars

For the record I have always preferred Call of Duty to Metal of Honor. The weapons in CoD~1 were responded better, the graphics and maps seemed better to me. I knew from the first second I opened this box that I had made a bad mistake and didn't trust the negative reviews here: HALF the game manual was blank. That might be okay for me since I've played FPS's since DOOM but still... from there things got worse. At least the CD-key was intact.

I'm sad to say that CoD~2 does not live up as a sequel. At first glance the graphics are better, the AI seems better and everything is a notch up but the PC version of this game is simply a Console Port for a game obviously designed for the X-box et.al. it ignores everything that a PC offers over a console (like quick saves)

This game has about as much to do about WWII as the 1980's coin operated game "Duck Hunt" had to do with duck hunting. The game "cheats" - clear out a 5 man post and wait 5 seconds and 5 more men appear, and again and again and again until you advance to that spot and the game autosaves (or you run out of ammo and die) There is no flanking or tactics or careful house clearing here. If you clear a spot and do not advance far enough before you die (again) then you have to repeat the procedure ad. nauseum. Clear some trenches and backtrack and hand grenades "magically" appear from a nearby trench that you have already cleared to blow you up. Each Zone contains at least one "insta-kill" spot where every single angle is covered and there is no way to advance except by throwing a smoke grenade - oops - you DID save a smoke grenade for later right? Because killing everything does not work, 5 seconds later more bad guys magically appear on the 3rd floor of a building where all the staircases are blocked...

You are almost at a disadvantage to using your own weapons, if you swap out everything for German weapons then at least you collect ammo laying on the ground as you advance. Or, for the truly morbid, just coax 10 of your squad mates to a machine gun nest and pick up THEIR ammo... do NOT depend on your team members - you will be doing 95% of the killing yourself as they get crushed by tanks and walk single-file around a corner into a machine gun nest, or even worse - block the doorway as a grenade gets tossed at your feet. In a crowd of 20 the game ALWAYS shoots at YOU, as they don't even count as a distraction... It's no wonder the game fails automatically if you shoot your squad mates because otherwise I would have executed all mine at the very beginning of each mission (more ammo - yay!)

The "health" is the worst mockery of this game. Even on 'Difficult' nearly any amount of single shots is survivable. While slapping a band-aid/med kit on a sniper bullet hole might not be "realistic" for some, it's even less realistic to find the sniper by walking into the center of the town square, take a chest shot, duck, wait a few seconds until you have "calmed down" then stand up again to take another shot, then repeat as needed as a way to figure out where a sniper might be.... how realistic is that?

Needless to say - I love the old Call Of Duty and it's expansions. This "sequel" left me wishing I had waited for the price to drop to 5$ And furthermore, I won't be buying CoD 3 (or 4) - because I hear it has a really nifty segment that forces you to row a rowboat using the control keys... um, yea.