amazing game, i never played this CoD before (i think i only tried the XBLA arcade demo version of this on xbox360 when i was 12 back in 2018-ish), i know this is the first CoD game in the series

PROS:

- amazing graphics (even on potato macbooks)
- cool gameplay
- great WW2 setting
- music is good

- the first level and dawnville demo are great before buying this game (highly recommended if you have never tried out CoD before for Dummies aka Gen Alpha people only)

- Captain Price from the Modern Warfare series made his first appearance in that game (which actually he's actually born in Soldier of Fortune 1 named "John Mullins" which is made by the same publishers of CoD)

- the gun designs peaked way better than CoD WWII & Vanguard


cons:

- levels gets very difficult in some missions unlike most CoD games nowadays (the only con i can say, that's all.)



9.5/10

While certainly riding off the success of Medal of Honor, Infinity Ward established with Call of Duty the ideal, affectless first-person shooter by rendering the scale and depth of World War II to the banality of a mouse-click, aided with graphics and audio to match its three front war. Mission variety suffers from sheer ambition in refining the shooter to where Nazis are dots to be aligned with the crosshairs, sans the two back-to-back tank missions of dwindling dividends, but the set-up for many of them, including the start of the Soviet campaign and its ironic "call of duty," justify more and more ventures into enemy territory without a single ethical question to the violence at hand. All said, the 2003 inception of a now established franchise lacks the dominating jingoism for rudimentary charm of its loading screen documents and slideshow cutscenes which steer the player into their next steps. From what I recall watching, the expansion pack is a superior effort in shaping this form to the recognizable storytelling which has (with MoH and Battlefield) defined the first-person shooter campaign, but a debut of this kind deserves its plaudits regardless.