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The World War II buff in me really feels like I'm obligated to own it and play through it, but the gamer in me is saying "WHY THE FUCK DID YOU BUY THIS." I mean the first one was fun, I paid 20 bucks for it, played through it twice and ok yeah, Call of Duty. More or less Medal of Honor with teamwork. So Call of Duty 2 is on sale at Best Buy and I snached it up for 29.99, and I'm sort of regretting it. Sure, it's fun, sure it's intense, sure, it's loud.
Having my hand held through 95% scripted missions sucks some serious dick.
The game advertises it's self (and I quote) as "where, through advanced A.I., the player's squadmates as well as enemy troops alike call out updates in real-time based on the ever-changing battlefield conditions."
Ever changing my ass. If you don't "Move forward" before the rest of your team does, you can fight respawning krauts until your ammunition runs out if you decide to. The same battle, over and over and over.
Fine, the calling out of updates may add to the above-average sound design and atmosphere of this game, which I find more than appealing. But of course the "Advanced A.I. is going to call out updates" when what it's calling out is SCRIPTED and guaranteed to happen no matter how many times you play through the fucking game. More Germans coming up over that ridge you say? Well I might be mistake, but I believe after I shot that last tank, the same group of Germans came over the same ridge the last time I played this.
It's so shamefully obvious too, it's not like they're even trying to hide it. At least Doom3 had some scripted stuff that you weren't exactly sure if it was A.I. or a script.
I realize this game is obviously made to appeal to the 14 year old casual Xbox kid who thinks war is awesome. I also realize I am not that type of gamer anymore. Had I played this say... 8 years ago I would have been utterly stunned. Hell, the box even quotes Computer Gaming World lol as saying "It's almost too intense." But that is some serious bullshit. It's not at all intense when you're quite literally "going through the motions"... just noisy. It's really about as exciting as doing a 100 lap race around that oval track in Gran Turismo 3 & 4.
Sigh. I regret buying this game.
6.5 / 10
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