Call of Duty 2: Big Red One is a first-person shooter that has a single-player story mode and a multiplayer mode. The player takes on the role of a soldier protagonist in specific missions during World War II from the perspective of the American 1st Infantry Division. The player can crouch and lie prone, and is able to scale low walls and other obstacles. Two firearms can be carried, which can be swapped with those left on the battlefield, and both fragmentation and smoke grenades can also be carried. A gun's iron sights can be used to aim more accurately. A compass on the heads-up display (HUD) shows both allies and enemies, and objective markers to indicate locations the player must reach, areas to defend, or enemy cannons or tanks that the player must plant explosives on to disable. Emplaced weapons such as machine guns and flak cannons are available in some locations to take out enemy forces. In addition, some missions place the player in control of a tank. It is also important for scouting, though most of the game takes place in personal, close combat situations reducing the importance of this tactic.
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The Story is that you follow one man "who is a member of an important group of soldiers known as The Big Red One" throughout his journey throught World War 2 battles. This isn't as big as the previous games due to us only following his story "and his brother's for one plane mission" but since it focuses on an important group, it makes sense to follow one guy, and also it's a side game, so they can get away with some things being less. Although I don't like how the intro to the game spoils the death of one of the soldiers, or the tutorial for also spoiling who won't make it to that point, or how they simply to an excuse to have you control a tank, and a plane. They both felt very forced, and shoved in.
The Characters are much better than previous games. They show more of their personalities in this installment, and make me care if any of them die. Even one's introduced later have a moment or two.
The Graphics are a huge downgrade from every past game. It's looks too cheap, like they cut the budget in half.
The Gameplay has you first person shooting axis soldier's throughout North Africa, Italy, and Western Europe. Now the gameplay is unfortunately far inferior to past games. I mean the grenade timer was good, and I can excuse the return of Medic kits due to this game being made around the same time as Call of Duty 2. But the subtitles aren't always right. There are no famous quotes if you die in a level. the bullets you fire didn't always come out of where your weapon is. Your squad seems to love having multiple Corporals, and Sergeants. But also the AI for both sides have never been worse before this game, with allies not shooting soldiers right in front of them, or charging into areas where they could get shot just to stand face to face with an enemy, and Axis soldier's failing to shoot them, or never shooting at us while running. Even the multiplayer sucks. It is also has inferior graphics, and the worst thing about multiplayer is that the movements of players isn't smooth, it's makes it harder to actually aim properly at others, and the ability to rise in ranks depending on kills you get isn't worth all that. Thus making it no a lesser version of previous multiplayers at best, and terrible at worst.
The Music is nothing impressive, I am not going to praise a soundtrack that I feel any composer could have done.
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One ends up disrespecting how the World War 2 soldiers fought by telling us that one of there best strategy's was running in front of the enemy in plain sight to kill them without being killed themselves.
I don’t remember much about this game but me and my Dad loved playing it together and that is good enough for me.