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Review at IGN (http://pc.ign.com/articles/661/661230p3.html)
8.5/10, "It looks great, it sounds awesome, and it provides both meaty single-player and multiplayer."
Their main complaint was the regenerating health system.
I will probably pick this one up...anyone else? And when you do, post some impressions!
Too broke, already bought FEAR and Civ IV... between that and rent money, I don't think I can actually afford to eat. Good news is, with Civ IV I probably won't feel like taking the time to eat anyway.
creeping death
25 Oct 05, 21:24
I will be getting my copy Thursday night (best buy) so I should have some impressions ready to go by Friday.
CD
Too broke, already bought FEAR and Civ IV... between that and rent money, I don't think I can actually afford to eat. Good news is, with Civ IV I probably won't feel like taking the time to eat anyway.
Oh great, I forgot about Civ 4....have you played much of it? How is it?
Gamespot gives it an 8.8/10 (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/callofduty2/review.html)
The good: "Excellent presentation; Aggressive enemy AI; Makes you really feel like a small part of a bigger war; Varied campaign; Fun multiplayer"
The bad: "Performance can chug at times"
Oh great, I forgot about Civ 4....have you played much of it? How is it?
Don't have it yet, it's coming in the mail soon.
Patrocles
26 Oct 05, 12:01
Review at IGN (http://pc.ign.com/articles/661/661230p3.html)
8.5/10, "It looks great, it sounds awesome, and it provides both meaty single-player and multiplayer."
Their main complaint was the regenerating health system.
I will probably pick this one up...anyone else? And when you do, post some impressions!
wow! sounds like a winner. perhaps some mods will be available to make the game realistic?
Got it today and played for about an hour in the Russian "Winter War". I like it. The health system is a change, no more Health Bags to look for and grab, just take a brake from the action to catch your breath and LIFE!!! I got the DVD Collector's Edition at $60 from EB Games...well no new games for awhile!!!
BigMik1
Nice Try Astros!!! Damn you Chicago!!!
Being overseas it will take our PX a few days to catch up (at least that's what they say) before it's in stock. Question before I plunk down a good portion of my allowance from the minister of finance (wife): Are the tanks operable? Bonus points for anyone that throws up a screenshot!
creeping death
27 Oct 05, 18:25
All right I am ten minutes into the game and so far so good. Playing as the lovable russians. The guns feel different than before which I think is good, lots of noise and action all over.
I had to break to eat dinner but will give a better review as time goes on...shoot i will be up until midnight tonight.
CD
doomonyou
01 Nov 05, 11:35
Is this out for PC and Xbox? What are the reqiurenments for PC? I hope my old 128 mg video card can handle it! :laugh:
Patrocles
01 Nov 05, 12:06
Got it today and played for about an hour in the Russian "Winter War". I like it. The health system is a change, no more Health Bags to look for and grab, just take a brake from the action to catch your breath and LIFE!!! I got the DVD Collector's Edition at $60 from EB Games...well no new games for awhile!!!
BigMik1
Nice Try Astros!!! Damn you Chicago!!!
yeah, i read about the health system in Overseer's review link...rather odd imho (iirc the reviewer called it somefink like "Halo Health" due to it's striking similarity to the fps game Halo)
I just picked it up last night, and the graphics are very nice. I only had time to start the training. I can see a lot of time being spent in this game. My girlfriend isn't going to like this. In the last month I have picked up Diplomacy, Civ 4, AoE3, CoD2, DoW: Winter Assault, and Football Manager 2006. There might be others in there as well.
From what I understand tanks are operable in this game as they were in CoD: United Offensive.
Regenerating health system, lack of domination, Base assault, and behind enemy lines game types? You're killing me here! You really killing me.
These all seem like stupid design decisions to me. This sounds like 3 steps back in search of progress.
C.M. Ansley
01 Nov 05, 21:32
Jon, I keep tryin to corner you. Where ya been?
Siberian HEAT
03 Nov 05, 01:45
I've been playing COD2 for a few hours now. I already enjoy the single player MUCH more than I did for Quake 4. While I cringe at the thought of anything being lifted from Halo, I think the health regeneration "effect" actually helps keep the gaming moving along at a good clip. The days of resource gathering in FPS's should be long over...including health packets. Now, all you have to worry about is your mission, hitting the enemy, and avoiding his grenades and fields of fire. :D
Another thing that seems everyone is doing these days is having soldiers scream the same battle cries over and over and over. :hush:
No word yet on multiplayer as I am going through the single player missions...although I will say that the Russian campaign is tragically short. Seems like I had it done in a couple of hours max.
The PX here still hasn't gotten it. They keep saying any day now, guess when I loose patience and order it they'll stock it the next morning. Really makes me reconsider preordering from now on.
doomonyou
03 Nov 05, 12:32
Can someone give me the PC requirenments? I want to make sure my old machine will play it.
Siberian HEAT
03 Nov 05, 12:37
Requirements (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp;jsessionid=DMQEYWDWBNQHRKC4D3KVAGI?sku Id=7334627&type=product&tab=4&id=1118845328567)
doomonyou
03 Nov 05, 18:27
Thanks Brian, looks like I can play it!
jayedub7423
04 Nov 05, 18:16
sure the game looks great, but my system does not like to run it in DirectX9 mode. i even turned the textures down to normal, but the game still ran crappy, and the the game looked terrible.
but, i run it in DirectX7 mode with everything maxed, and it looks great, and runs smooth as butter.
guess it's time to upgrade, my 5900 ultra and barton 3200+ cpu just aint cutting it any more.
creeping death
05 Nov 05, 05:37
Is anyone else having these issues with Call of Duty 2...
1) The game has frozen up on me 10 times in less than a few days worth of action.
2) I cannot get online to play. (all settings checkout and firewall is OK)
Other than that I just started the American campaign and scaling the cliffs at Point Du Hoc is kinda cool.
CD
If you're having freeze ups check to make sure you have the latest video drivers. I've seen a lot of talk on forums about COD:2 and driver issues. I think with the smoke this thing is murder on video cards, even with the demo my fan on my 850 kicks in fairly quickly.
Haven't heard about the getting online problem much. If I do catch some traffic I'll post it up for you.
Jon, I keep tryin to corner you. Where ya been?
School started and I have had way less time on my hands. I do the occasional xanga update, but I have had way less time on my hands.
C.M. Ansley
05 Nov 05, 12:55
School started and I have had way less time on my hands. I do the occasional xanga update, but I have had way less time on my hands.
I'm in the same boat. I took a little break from the forums to get adjusted to school, but now I'm back. Good to see you.
Is anyone else having these issues with Call of Duty 2...
1) The game has frozen up on me 10 times in less than a few days worth of action.
2) I cannot get online to play. (all settings checkout and firewall is OK)
Other than that I just started the American campaign and scaling the cliffs at Point Du Hoc is kinda cool.
CD
In addition to the latest drivers (especially Nvidia as 81.85 or the 81.87 beta drivers have changes for CoD2 apparently), I would make sure you have good airflow in your case, and add fans if needed. I was having a problem with my system freezing for a couple of different games, and upgraded the fans, added a couple more to the case, and added a pci slot fan under the 6800 GT. Since then I havent had the system lock up. I havent done much in CoD2 yet, besides shoot teddy bears and bottles, so I don't know how my system will handle CoD2 when it really starts pushing. I will say the graphics I have seen so far are beautiful.
It will be pretty amazing to see what comes out in the next couple of years, once PCI-express, and dual-core cpus, and people have physics processing units, and possibly SLI connected video cards in their system. Now we all just need fibre to the curb and we will be set!
Excellent game, got it and beat it last weekend. Hoping the German Front Mod gets "ported" to it, as is said.
The health system, though unrealistic, heavily lifts the frustration of all those freakin' quickloads from the earlier parts in the series. Helps the dramatic music and such go along more smoothly, too. ;P
Multiplayer doesn't seem too promising, though, thus my hoping for the GFM to go well for it.
I've been slowly playing this at friend's now and then. At first I was very turned off by the game, but as time has gone I've warmed up to it a bit though. Also strangely, at first I thought the health system was an interesting change and not a bad idea - however, I've decided it actually leads to more game-y-iness-ism or something.
Now, I don't have to worry about whether health is coming. I can jump out without regard to the consequences as long as I remember to duck back in before I get to the critical point. Rinse-wash-repeat. Before I had to be careful about how I approached something since I didn't know how much stuff I would go through before I'd find health. Now just jump out and do it. Unless I really jump out too far, it's extremely easy to get back to safety and heal due to the nature of the combat in the game (since it almost always occurs along set lines).
sure the game looks great, but my system does not like to run it in DirectX9 mode. i even turned the textures down to normal, but the game still ran crappy, and the the game looked terrible.
but, i run it in DirectX7 mode with everything maxed, and it looks great, and runs smooth as butter.
guess it's time to upgrade, my 5900 ultra and barton 3200+ cpu just aint cutting it any more.
Your chip is fine just upgrade the card and get a gig memory.
Another thing that seems everyone is doing these days is having soldiers scream the same battle cries over and over and over. :hush:
I think every single Soviet battle cry involves the word facist....
madDdog67
28 Nov 05, 09:18
I'm playing the Russian campaign over again...I had inadvertently installed it on the OS's partition, so I moved it. Now, I can't get my saved games to work. Oh well, I wasn't that far into the game anyway.
This is a pretty intense game, all things considered, and with the health regeneration , a much different game from Far Cry, where I have pounded the keyboard in frustration at having beaten 3 or 4 of those God forsaken mutant thingies with the rocket launchers, only to have that last little *sliver* of life taken from me before I could reach the next save point by some grunt I didnt' see lol.
CoD2 does certainly seem to work the new system to it's limits, though. I'm really thinking of going SLI with another 6800GS, but the thought of having to shell out another chunk of change for an SLI approved power supply has me balking, at least until after Christmas.
It was realy intense, especially the american campgain. On my computer it ran way better than fear and half life 2, maybe i'm just lucky :cheeky:
I played this game for the first time this past Saturday down at the CyberCafe, just to try it out before buying. It was fun and exciting, but after a while I started to feel like Sgt. Rock or Sgt. Fury leading the Howling Commandoes. You get the crap kicked out of you and you just lie around a bit and you are off again. Does the regeneration effect go away on the harder settings?
One reason I may not buy it is because you can't play the Americans out of the box. This is one complaint I have with PC games in general, I pay a big chunck of change for one and you can't play the part of the game you really bought it for without first grinding through a bunch of other levels first, to un-lock the part you really want. Unless you have a cheat code, which I do not.
My specific hesitation on this game is, however, the regenerating health. It simply isn't realistic, of course, and after I got a feel for the game I was charging around into battle without fear, taking out huge masses of Germans without dieing that often.
And can you ever play the Germans? I think that would be better than playing the Commies.
Feldwebel Crin
07 Dec 05, 11:15
IAnd can you ever play the Germans? I think that would be better than playing the Commies.
Ignorance is bliss. Playing the Germans would be great, though.
I personally like playing the Russians, but does it HAVE to be Stalingrad? I like how the game finally referenced to Moscow, but I remember more battles than just the two. I want to play in the desperate battle for Cholm. Or the Korsun Pocket, battling the snow and endless mud as well as the enemy. What about a campaign in the Winter War? Budapest, Minsk, Brest, Warsaw, Konigsberg. There isn't just Stalingrad to play in. One more winter streetfight and I'll go mad. :blab:
British Tommy
11 Dec 05, 11:44
Well it was nice to see a good campaign with the British forces! most games concentrate on the American forces far too much IMHO.
But the important bit with COD is the online games. Does it match or beat COD-UO? :hmmm: I would say a big no.... so far.
I'm looking forward to the FKs server mods as they did wonders with UO.
MomoJak00
12 Dec 05, 14:46
I've played through the demo... about 8 times. :D
I can't wait to get the full version.
I have played it albeit in Easy Mode as I am unused to first person shooters. In one scenario you get to crawl through an elevated pipeline to reach a train station. I do not know why you are given two bots to acompany you here. Not a third of the way there, and they simply cannot resist opening fire on a German half-track. Admittedly they get the lot, but shortly afterwards they get their quietus from an MG42.
Thus it is better to lag behind them after their initial screw-up; at least they draw the MG's fire, thus serving as what Comrade Lenin would have called "useful idiots". One other thing, when I started this scenario I had a scoped Gewehr 43.
I needn't have bothered, although it is useful at the end of the scenario. (You can virtually eliminate German MG post C with it and a machine pistol if you pick the right firing point.) My complaint is this though. At one point, from an open end of the pipeline you can see the station house. From there you can drop the MG42 gunner very easily. You can also eliminate a half Section of German Infantry and three Mortar Crews with it on your way there.
I should think in real life, given such support the Infantry you are trying to marry up with would if worth their salt, at least deploy smoke and storm the station house. At any rate, I shouldn't like to hear what any of my former Regular Army CSM's (Company Sergeant Major, equivalent to a US Top Kick) would have to say if any troops under their command stood around like stale bottles on such an occasion! I know bots aren't people, but sheesh!
Other than that I rather enjoyed playing it. Did anyone else experience the same thing?
Casey
PanzerCommander
04 Jan 06, 19:32
Ignorance is bliss. Playing the Germans would be great, though.
I personally like playing the Russians, but does it HAVE to be Stalingrad? I like how the game finally referenced to Moscow, but I remember more battles than just the two. I want to play in the desperate battle for Cholm. Or the Korsun Pocket, battling the snow and endless mud as well as the enemy. What about a campaign in the Winter War? Budapest, Minsk, Brest, Warsaw, Konigsberg. There isn't just Stalingrad to play in. One more winter streetfight and I'll go mad. :blab:
Well, maybe it's because it's the most memorable battle in WWII for the Russians(other than Kursk) I have COD 2 BRO, great game(just, not what I was expecting)
your Allies are kinda idiots(in a way they are "smart") but they don't even follow you into a Battlefield full of German soldiers(even if you can kill them all at once) I remember charging 16 Krauts and I didn't even take a single bullet(of course my men were cowering in the corner).
Stalingrad was in COD too...why the hell did they put it in COD 2 also?
Stalingrad was in COD too...why the hell did they put it in COD 2 also?
It's the only thing that happened on the Eastern front. Obviously.
PvtJohnson
05 Jan 06, 19:15
It's the only thing that happened on the Eastern front. Obviously.
Kinda like how only D-day and the Battle of the bulge were the only things that happened on the western front.
Dont like the game at all.
Constant enemy respawn ruined the whole thing for me.
The game forces you to rush through the levels as taking your time just means coutless hordes of enemy.
PanzerCommander
07 Jan 06, 15:43
Dont like the game at all.
Constant enemy respawn ruined the whole thing for me.
The game forces you to rush through the levels as taking your time just means coutless hordes of enemy.
Well, what would a War be without almost infinite men? seeming(even though it's only tens of thousands) or millions in one battle.
Kingdaddy
10 Jan 06, 17:18
Call of Duty 2 was a real let-down for me, a diehard CoD1 player. Aside from problems like infinitely re-spawning enemies in the single-player campaign, the multi-player game had less than the original version of the game. The original COD plus the expansion gave you a game with lots of maps, vehicles, several types of multi-player games, and the occasional interesting mod that actually enhanced the game. (The custom insults are funny for the first five minutes, and then they get pretty tired.)
In short, most existing CoD players would compare it to the state of the art at the time of the expansion. Unfortunately, CoD2 dropped the vehicles and many multi-player modes, rehashed some of the old, old maps, and added a couple of fairly blah new ones. For fans of the multi-player game, CoD2 set back the clock to the original game, added a better graphics engine (which, for Yours Truly, is a lot less important than the multi-player options), and somewhat new "storylines" for the single-player campaign. Speaking for this consumer, that's hardly a new full version of a product worth $40-$50.
Plyed through COD2 on my new computer with dual 7800 SLI. While visual ok, the game was way too short and the health system is even worse than the excessive first aid kits in the first one. The narrow range of battles covered seems to show they think their primary market doesn't know anything that wasn't in a major US picture.
Respawning enemies, regenerating health packs...ech. Dam you , graymatter, for ruining my favorite series Damn you all to hell!!!
Respawning enemies, regenerating health packs...ech. Dam you , graymatter, for ruining my favorite series Dam you all to hell!!!
Dam = a structure built to hold back water flow in a river or other body of water.
Damn = profanity
:p :laugh:
Dam = a structure built to hold back water flow in a river or other body of water.
Damn = profanity
:p :laugh:
Well...if they um...ran into the dam, they might die and go to hell, see. I meant to say that.
Patrocles
04 Feb 06, 14:08
Respawning enemies, regenerating health packs...ech. Dam you , graymatter, for ruining my favorite series Damn you all to hell!!!
bummer! hey, can CoD2 be modded to make the game more realistic? ditch the healthpacks, reduce enemy spawn numbers, increase weapon realism, etc...
Gen_Electric
06 Feb 06, 12:02
bummer! hey, can CoD2 be modded to make the game more realistic? ditch the healthpacks, reduce enemy spawn numbers, increase weapon realism, etc...
Yes, there are several mods out that do that. Run speed is slowed, weapons are tweaked; crosshairs eliminated, and realistic gameplay is the norm. I don't like to play much on normal servers anymore. Try to run and gun on these servers and you will be kicked. :D
MomoJak00
16 Feb 06, 23:48
I snagged a copy of CoD2, and I'm fairly impressed. It's quite a bit of fun, even if it isn't Call of Duty 1. The more open-ended structure is an improvment, but a few of the weapons feel just plain nerfed.
But the spilt-screen is fun. Good for a couple friends and a pizza, I'll say. :smoke:
great game, I'm glad i got it, and the collectors edition dvd helped me get through the "repairing the wire" level, because i always ran out and shot before i listened to the cmmdr. giving the orders or reading the subtitles.
:horse:
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