Call of Duty 1

Mar, 14 2009

Call of Duty 1 is the original Call of Duty game created, based on Quake III: Team arena. Released in 2004, Call of Duty 1 was a new era of FPS gaming. The game was based on 9 real-life historical battles; The battles of Normandy, the Bulge, Stalingrad, Warsaw and Berlin, and the special operations on Eder Dam, Bavarian Alps, Dulag III and Siegfried Lane.

What made Call of Duty 1 different to the multitude of FPS WWII games on the market at that time was that the developers seemed to get it ‘just right’; there is a great emphasis on making the game as user friendly as possible, by not having a large amount of keys to be pressed to carry out an action, or struggling to open doors, for example. It also pulled together the best parts from each WWII FPS on the market at that time, and put them together to make one ’super-game’.

The amount of detail in terms of how injuries were represented in the game were greatly stepped up from other attempts – the characters in the game will reflect the damage done. For example, if the character gets shot in the head he won’t survive, but if he gets shot in the shoulder he can be seen actively aware of this by clutching it, or by limping.

Gameplay

Gameplay for Call of Duty 1 seems to be centred on single player enjoyment. The campaign game format starts with the player being Private Joey Martin in Camp Toccoa, swiftly moving on to Ste. Mere Eglise before finishing that section of the campaign in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont.

With the American section of the campaign over, you take the place of a British non-commissioned officer, Jack Evans, capturing Pegasus Bridge. From then on you become a Russian conscript soldier, Alexei Ivanovich Voronin where you take part in the Battle of Stalingrad. Finally, the players take on a series of ‘final missions’, one for each country featured above, in order to finish the game.

There is a multiplayer mode available to the player, but it’s not as advanced as the future versions of Call of Duty, due to their being more capabilities available to the developers.

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