Jul, 08 2009
Call of Duty 4 is a genre redefining game of epic proportions. The story mode is nothing short of linear, but, while you cannot effect decisions or outcomes to any capacity, you will still be on the edge of your seat throughout.
Mar, 18 2009
Today is the day. You marked your calendar with the countdown, you planned your entire week around today’s big event, and you made absolutely sure you have all the cash you need-somewhere around ten bucks. Today is the day “World at War” new maps debut.
You absolutely, positively will be the first among all the cool gamers to purchase the Call of Duty: World at War new maps. You will settle for nothing less; you accept no other options. Absolute victory will be yours.
The World at War new maps pack includes three new maps for the living including Nightfire, Station, and Knee Deep; the pack also features one new area in which to battle the zombie hordes. “Zombie Verruckt,” like all the new maps, is designed for use in the game’s regular multi-player. Unlike the other maps in the pack, Zombie Verruckt allows teams to take their best shots against the undead, struggling for survival against enemies.
You and up to three of your closest brothers in arms can prove your skill in this latest creation of the Asylum multi-player map. Although , it probably seems obvious, you will have the most fun if you play with either two or four people, because the game will start you on opposite sides of the map-the familiar-looking two-story building with the big courtyard in the middle. You will defeat zombies all around until you rendezvous at the middle of the building…or die.
Of course, playing defensively, you want to survive with your brains pretty much uneaten and functioning. Playing offensively; however, the objective has changed. In the game’s early stages, just like before, you will kill zombies and earn money for new weapons; in this game though, as you brutalize the bad guys, you will get keys to open the doors that lead you to “the generator.”
Now, you have two objectives: Sure, you want to reunite with your buddies, but you especially want to get to the generator that controls lots of high-powered zappers and a host of vending machines, which dispense super powered colas that deliver all kinds of special weapons and properties. Using the zappers to your advantage, you can take out whole groups of zombies in one huge blast-great efficiency and nice ammo conservation. You don’t get as many points for blasting a bunch as you receive for killing them one-by-one with a gun; however, you get a great effect and you live longer. Seems like a fair trade to me.
Getting to the generator obviously doesn’t end the game, but if you can get that far on the World at War new map pack’s the first day, the rest ought to be just a walk in the park.
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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Mar, 14 2009
The second part of the Call of Duty range is Call of Duty 2. Released in 2005, the game hasn’t aged much and is still great fun, and a great game to play!
Gameplay
Single player follows the same campaign-style setup as many games of its time, with the player being able to play as Private Vasili Ivanovich Koslov, Sergeant John Davis and Corporal Bill Taylor.
The three main campaign settings that the player takes on are set in North Africa, Battle of Normandy with the finale in the Crossing of the Rhine. The North Africa campaign sees you playing as the British soldier, Sergeant John Davis, fighting against the Germans taking on their HQ and strategic points they hold. The Battle of Normandy part of the campaign allows the player to take part in D-Day at the assault of Point-De-Hoc, and goes on to destroy strategic points in the German line-up. The final main campaign section, the Crossing of the Rhine (playing as an American), which is another round of anti-German fighting, it would seem, that ends with you having to defeat 2 German Tiger I’s.
Single player mode is relatively easy to complete in the easiest setting, but when you increase this you have to get a lot more tactical in order to win the game, or you just get blown away!
Multiplayer mode isn’t as great as the later versions of this game, mainly due to the capabilities not been in place when it was released. None the less, it does feature a useable online-multiplayer system for PC gaming and for Xbox 360 gaming. Here, players can choose to be American, British or Soviet soldiers to take on other players, on many different maps available from the campaign locations featured in single player mode.
Popularity
Call of Duty 2 has been met with good reviews from the gaming community, with the following excellent ratings:
A rather amazing figure released by Douglass C. Perry stated that 77% of people that bought an Xbox 360, also bought Call of Duty 2!
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