Call of Duty: Game of the Year Edition (PC)

One of the ways that CoD exceeds MoH is the idea that for the majority of the game you find yourself fighting as part of a squad. With the exception of one or two levels (such as the dam level, and boarding the Tirpitz) you find yourself fighting alongside your team-mates, laying down covering fire, lobbing grenades left right and centre or manning heavy artillery pieces and driving tanks. It's so much more realistic and makes you feel you are right there in amongst the action. It's also more realistic in the way you can only carry 2 weapons at a time (usually a rifle and a MG) plus your pistol and grenades. Selection of weapons is good with all guns having different characteristics, some you'll prefer over others.

Favourite levels include defending Pegasus bridge as a Panzer division and a platoon of German soldiers advance upon you; being a raw Russian recruit scrambling under heavy enemy fire into the ruins of Stalingrad; and the climactic struggle to take Berlin.

Overall the graphics are beautiful, the sound immersive and the gameplay stimulating, so much so that as soon as I completed it the first time, I went straight back and started the game again. And I've not even tried the multiplayer yet!


Just about all you can ask for   February 19, 2006
 8 out of 8 found this review helpful

Where do I begin. For those of you who were hooked on the original Medal of Honour, this is just as good in every way. Althought there is more of an arcade feel to to game compared to EA's offering, once a skirmish begins you feel as though you are actually there pulling the trigger yourself.

This is by far one of the best games I have ever had the honour of purchasing when there are increasingly more rubbish wannabes available on the market.


Call Of Duty - One of the best!   March 1, 2006
 16 out of 17 found this review helpful

I actually bought the Call of Duty Deluxe Edition . which also includes the United Offensive Expansion Pack! This game is superb! I have only just bought it, however I wished I had bought it sooner as the game is so much better compared to the Medal of Honor series which I originally only owned. The game consists of 3 campaigns: The American Campaign, The British Campaign and The Russian Campaign and all have a pospective outlook on World War 2. The American and British Campaigns involve the D-Day landings on Normandy and both are based on being dropped behind enemy lines before the landings and securing key positions i.e. bridges, towns etc. Whereas the Russian Campaign starts off with you being a Russian peasent being forced to fight by Stalin himself. The campaign starts off by taking the city of stalingrad (now Moscow I think as Red Square gets mentioned) and then moves onto the invasion/liberation of Warsaw in Poland.
The Graphics are top notch on this game, the storylines are superb and you really feal as if you are in the action as the germans seem to like shooting at you more then your computer- generated army mates!
This game is a must have, however buy it from dvd.co.uk as you get the expansion which has loads more missions to keep you going for a long time!
I give this game 9/10


Blood, Sweat, Tears and one hell of a game   July 26, 2005
 7 out of 7 found this review helpful

Call of Duty follows the War-time lives of three ordinary men thrust into a terrible War of nothing more than blood, sweat and tears (as the great Sir Winston Churchill once said). The first man is an American airborne soldier, I think it was the 101st airborne division, although I cannot remember. The second man is a British paratrooper who, I presume, had been in the Army for some time, as he was not a private. The third is a young Red Army conscript, who finds himself a rather good shot with a rifle.

What i really love about Call of Duty is the variety of missions you get. You drop behind enemy lines, hurtle along heavily-guarded hostile roadways in 'a French tin can' (!), snipe enemy snipers, as a fellow comrade as bait, destroy bridges, rescue British officers from a top-security POW camp and take on a whole panzer division with nothing more than a handful of men and a few panzerfausts! Then there is the multiplayer mode, which is again very good fun. There are many different scenarios, including your classic Team Deathmatch, Behind Enemy Lines and retrival, which is really great.

I play a lot of 1st person shooters, including of course Medal of Honor, but I simply cannot think of one single other 1st person shooter that even comes close to Call of Duty. It is simply outstanding and I give it 10/10.

I also reccommend Call of Duty: United Offensive (the expansion pack), Medal of Honor Pacific Assault and the new Battlefield 2.