So...I got a 2 week break from school for no reason in particular and I've got nothing to do right now, so what better way to spend those 2 weeks than to go through every call of duty game, well I could think of some, many if given enough time actually.
But I do think that call of duty is kinda overhated, not like it’s some great series or anything but I do find myself enjoying a lot of them despite their many many flaws and it is interesting to check out a series that changed so dramatically so many times yet is also ‘the same every year’, like how does that even work?
How can a series that spawned ww2 shooters, modern shooters, futuristic shooters, one semi scifi weird one and some more shit be “samey”? Well let’s find out...also i should say that I won’t be able to play mw2019 since I don’t own it and can’t pirate it unlike everything before bo4 (also no bo4 review, no sg to speak off in that one + we all know its shit) and lets be honest, pirating a COD game isn’t as much of a crime as it is to sell them for prices this high even after so many years (every cod game after and including bo2 is still 60$ with bo1 also being 40$ even though its like 11 years old)
So yeah let’s actually start this review now.
Call of Duty is a decent ww2 shooter...thats it.
Well ok there's a bit more to be said, it's one of those games thats kinda janky and painfully outdated in certain parts but it also has its own little charm that makes it enjoyable even if me and my friends were laughing more at the game than with it a lot of the time.
Let's start by saying that there isn't much to be said about the story, it's just really forgettable but I found it funny when motherfucking Captain Price himself showed up as a main character in the story, being featured in basically every mission in the middle section before being killed off screen which is kinda weird and more than a bit funny when you think about how he's basically the most known character from this whole series and it's not particularly close, yet he dies in the first game he's featured in. Obvs different Cpt Price but still I like to imagine that it's the same guy from the mw series and he just doesn't age at all for some reason.
The story is split between 3 campaigns, you play as, yup you guessed! Americans, British and Russians. The only 3 that matter to video game devs wanting to make ww2 shooters though I guess at the time it was fresh to see 3 different pov's in a ww2 game so I'll excuse it.
There's a bit of variety between close and long range combat in the story to keep it a bit fresh but that doesn't mean that you won't just use the mp40 the whole way since its the only gun you'll find ammo for consistently outside of like what, 2 missions? Both of which being the ones in which you drive a tank.
Nowadays playing through the game feels like going through a checklists of cliche things that happen in ww2 games but at the time I assume the game felt a bit more fresh when it came out and it's clear the devs knew what they were doing since they're the same guys behind the old Medal Of Honor games that I’ve heard are like at least ok.
The level design is mostly tight, levels are liniar in fashion and the game kinda turns into a corridor shooter whenever you enter a building but it is fun to just go rambo on everyone since there’s a chance enemies will drop health packs which should keep you at full hp while everyone in the room and the next room are spraying everything they got at you.
Speaking of which, I actually like the fact that your health doesn't regenerate and u have to rely on health packs, makes certain situations more tense even if I desperately missed it when I had to defend an area for 4-5 bloody minutes with like what, 5 med kits?
The game was turning into max payne during those where I just F5'd my way through that shit since checkpoints don’t come around often during these painful ‘defend the area’ parts.
Gunplay is pretty good, the guns feel nice to use, especially the snipers. Also it was clear the game wasn’t meant for 120 fov because you can see that a lot of the reload animations are just the dude taking out and putting back his clip with set fov, no reason to mention this other than me and my friends finding it hilarious.
Game is like 4-5 hours long, pretty short but there’s also little filler in the game’s missions I guess so it’s excusable. I’d say the best campaign was the British one and I’m not saying that only because of Cpt Price though it is mostly because of him. Just felt like that one had the most memorable missions though you’d be forgiven for not even noticing that you fight for 3 different factions throughout the game as there isn’t much difference between them in the game, at least between the American and British, with the Russians you can see how much more aggressive they were and how they would willingly kill one of their own doing something as simple as trying to retreat.
The ending is pretty much identical to the one from WAW but you aren’t the one...ugh let’s not spoil WAW since that one's really good and worth playing, carrying the thing to the top of the building or whatever. Real specific on my part.
Anyways, that’s all I had to say, I enjoyed my time with the first COD game though it’s more interesting in the context of what the series became rather than as it’s own game, if you get what I mean.
But I do think that call of duty is kinda overhated, not like it’s some great series or anything but I do find myself enjoying a lot of them despite their many many flaws and it is interesting to check out a series that changed so dramatically so many times yet is also ‘the same every year’, like how does that even work?
How can a series that spawned ww2 shooters, modern shooters, futuristic shooters, one semi scifi weird one and some more shit be “samey”? Well let’s find out...also i should say that I won’t be able to play mw2019 since I don’t own it and can’t pirate it unlike everything before bo4 (also no bo4 review, no sg to speak off in that one + we all know its shit) and lets be honest, pirating a COD game isn’t as much of a crime as it is to sell them for prices this high even after so many years (every cod game after and including bo2 is still 60$ with bo1 also being 40$ even though its like 11 years old)
So yeah let’s actually start this review now.
Call of Duty is a decent ww2 shooter...thats it.
Well ok there's a bit more to be said, it's one of those games thats kinda janky and painfully outdated in certain parts but it also has its own little charm that makes it enjoyable even if me and my friends were laughing more at the game than with it a lot of the time.
Let's start by saying that there isn't much to be said about the story, it's just really forgettable but I found it funny when motherfucking Captain Price himself showed up as a main character in the story, being featured in basically every mission in the middle section before being killed off screen which is kinda weird and more than a bit funny when you think about how he's basically the most known character from this whole series and it's not particularly close, yet he dies in the first game he's featured in. Obvs different Cpt Price but still I like to imagine that it's the same guy from the mw series and he just doesn't age at all for some reason.
The story is split between 3 campaigns, you play as, yup you guessed! Americans, British and Russians. The only 3 that matter to video game devs wanting to make ww2 shooters though I guess at the time it was fresh to see 3 different pov's in a ww2 game so I'll excuse it.
There's a bit of variety between close and long range combat in the story to keep it a bit fresh but that doesn't mean that you won't just use the mp40 the whole way since its the only gun you'll find ammo for consistently outside of like what, 2 missions? Both of which being the ones in which you drive a tank.
Nowadays playing through the game feels like going through a checklists of cliche things that happen in ww2 games but at the time I assume the game felt a bit more fresh when it came out and it's clear the devs knew what they were doing since they're the same guys behind the old Medal Of Honor games that I’ve heard are like at least ok.
The level design is mostly tight, levels are liniar in fashion and the game kinda turns into a corridor shooter whenever you enter a building but it is fun to just go rambo on everyone since there’s a chance enemies will drop health packs which should keep you at full hp while everyone in the room and the next room are spraying everything they got at you.
Speaking of which, I actually like the fact that your health doesn't regenerate and u have to rely on health packs, makes certain situations more tense even if I desperately missed it when I had to defend an area for 4-5 bloody minutes with like what, 5 med kits?
The game was turning into max payne during those where I just F5'd my way through that shit since checkpoints don’t come around often during these painful ‘defend the area’ parts.
Gunplay is pretty good, the guns feel nice to use, especially the snipers. Also it was clear the game wasn’t meant for 120 fov because you can see that a lot of the reload animations are just the dude taking out and putting back his clip with set fov, no reason to mention this other than me and my friends finding it hilarious.
Game is like 4-5 hours long, pretty short but there’s also little filler in the game’s missions I guess so it’s excusable. I’d say the best campaign was the British one and I’m not saying that only because of Cpt Price though it is mostly because of him. Just felt like that one had the most memorable missions though you’d be forgiven for not even noticing that you fight for 3 different factions throughout the game as there isn’t much difference between them in the game, at least between the American and British, with the Russians you can see how much more aggressive they were and how they would willingly kill one of their own doing something as simple as trying to retreat.
The ending is pretty much identical to the one from WAW but you aren’t the one...ugh let’s not spoil WAW since that one's really good and worth playing, carrying the thing to the top of the building or whatever. Real specific on my part.
Anyways, that’s all I had to say, I enjoyed my time with the first COD game though it’s more interesting in the context of what the series became rather than as it’s own game, if you get what I mean.