Call of Duty 2

Call of Duty 2 is a video game that consists of 3 releases

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The sequel to the smash hit original game, Infinity Ward returns to the familiar World War 2 settings. In this installment, players take control of four different characters, each of a distinct, allied nationality, as they fight though hordes of Nazi's on their quest to free Europe.

Overview

Call of Duty 2 is the second game in Infinity Ward's series, published by Activison. It was hailed as one of the best launch games for the Xbox 360 , and one of the greatest World War II shooters of all time. You play the role of several soldiers, each a member of either the British, Russian or United States army, and fight the Nazis in locations all across Europe, North Africa and Russia. Each of the game's locations are based on actual WWII battles.

Players are presented with a radar HUD in the bottom left of the screen which contains information such as objective points, enemy positions and direction of travel. Most of the objectives consist of things like placing a bomb on a pesky panzer tank, destroying a mortar, clearing buildings of Axis soldiers or simply reaching the next checkpoint. There are several instances where one can choose in what order to complete the mission objectives.

The player may carry two weapons at any time and up to 4 frag and 4 smoke grenades. At the beginning of each mission the player is often armed with a machine gun for close combat and a rifle for fighting at a distance. Either of the weapons can be swapped for weapons found strewn across the battlefield, some of the better equipment is often scavenged from the corpses of the Nazis. The player can also make use of a melee attack when in close quarters.

Call of Duty offers some degree of tactics which often combine a use of grenades with advancing to cover and using one of the three degrees of elevation (standard upright, crouching or crawling). The Player character is also able to jump which is useful for negotiating debris.

Much of the gameplay in COD2 revolves around reaching the next checkpoint. There are frequent examples of infinitely spawning enemies which can only be overcome by advancing to a certain position so that the friendly AI units take up a new postion. The inclusion of infinitely spawning enemies shapes the way the player will take on many of the challenges in COD2, running and gunning into the fray is often the only option available. Although this provides fast paced, action packed gameplay it can sometimes spoil the sense of realism the title strives to achieve.

There have been complaints about playing on the harder diffuclities getting caught in a save loop, or a sitiution where you die instantly each time you respawn, forcing the player to resart their mission. The campaign typically takes a little less than 10 hours to complete.

Campaign Locations

Call of Duty 2 has three separate campaigns each of which is split into battles which each have their own component chapters:

Russian Missions.

1: THE WINTER WAR. Private Vasili Koslov. Near Moscow - 1941
----- Red Army training
----- Demolition

2: NOT ONE STEP BACKWARDS. Private Vasili Koslov. Stalingrad - 1942
----- Repairing the wire
----- Railroad station No.1

3: FORTRESS STALINGRAD. Private Vasili Koslov. Stalingrad - 1943
----- Downtown assault
----- Stalingrad city hall
----- Comrade sniper

British Missions:

1: THE BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN. Sergeant John Davis. North Egypt - 1942
----- The diversionary raid
----- Holding the line
----- Operation supercharge
----- The end of the beginning

2: THE TANK SQUADRANS. Commander David Welsh "Fox Three" Northeast Libya - 1943
----- Crusader Charge
----- 88 Ridge

3: ROMMELS LAST STAND. Sergeant John Davis. Central Tunisia - 1943
----- Armoured car escape
----- Retaking Toujoure
----- Assault on Matmata

4: THE BATTLE FOR CAEN. Sergeant John Davis. Normany, France - 1944
----- Prisoners of war
----- The crossroads
----- The tiger
----- The brigade box

American Missions:

1: D-DAY. Corporal Bill Taylor. Normany, France - 1944
----- The battle of Pointe De Hoc
----- Defending the Pointe
----- The silo

2: HILL 400. Corporal Bill Taylor. Hurtgen Forest, Germany - 1944
----- Bergstien
----- Rangers lead the way
----- The Battle for Hill 400

3: CROSSING THE RHINE. Corporal John Davis. Wallender, Germany - 1945
----- The crossing point

PC System Requirements

As displayed on the back cover of the box (Please note that only the minimun requirements are given)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP.
CPU (Processor): Pentium 4 1.4GHz or AMD Athlon 1.4GHz.
RAM: 256MB (512MB Recommended).
GPU (Video Card): 3D Hardware accelerator card required. 100% Direct X 9.0c compatible 64MB. Hardware accelerator video card and the latest drivers.
Sound Card: 100% direct X 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card latest drivers.
HDD (Hard Disc) space: 4.0GB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 600MB for Windows 2000 / XP swap file).

General Information Edit

Game Name	Call of Duty 2
Platform(s)	Mac Xbox 360 PC
Publisher(s)	Activision
Developer(s)	Infinity Ward Pi Studios, LLC.
Genres	Add a new genre Action Shooter First-Person Shooter
Themes	Add a new theme World War II
Original US Release	Oct. 25, 2005 need a fuzzy date?
Original US Release	know the real date?
Aliases	COD2