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Just pretend the Covenant are Nazis and the Flood are Japanese, Halo is Morocco and you're there, dude! 

That said, you'd probably really enjoy the British campaigns in COD 2.  They're all in North Africa.

Can I pretend the Japanese are Italians, instead?

I probably would like it, but it'll be a while before I get to play.

reefdog wrote:

Can I pretend the Japanese are Italians, instead?

I probably would like it, but it'll be a while before I get to play.

I thought about saying Italians instead of Japanese, but the Flood seems much more akin to the Japanese "fight to the death" mentality than the "fight 'til dinner time" mentality that the Italians had during WWII.

Yes, I know, I'm being unnecessarily degrading to Il Duce's troops, but let's face it, they wouldn't have fought at all had there not been Germans with bayonets telling them what to do.  Mussolini just wanted to ride Hitler's coattails to greater power.  His troops were expendable so long as they got him what he wanted.  Did he really think Italy would have not eventually fallen prey to the Third Reich, had they been successful?  At least Japan had a continent betwixt itself and Germany it could think of as some sort of buffer to the Reich's strong arm tactics.  At least for a little while.

Yeah, I know. 

Oh, I forgot to mention, the Japanese reference is not well-suited to COD 2, as they never even come into the picture. 

I'm guessing that will be part of COD 3, since the war in the Pacific lasted longer than it did in the European/African theaters.  I wonder if allied troops will have to flame-throw into the caves of Guadalcanal.

Uh, yeah, since I was the one who began the thread you're sort of preaching to the choir.  However, like many conversations, this one has evolved to include other things.  You're welcome not to take part in it should you not find it to your liking.

Checkpoints! Fricken checkpoints!

I keep wanting to save and if I screw up, my only recourse is to suicide and play it all over. Damn tough for a WWII shooter......

Kind of wild that they would change such basic elements between 1 and 2. Is COD2 on a different game engine?

Last edited by user (2006-06-27 12:41 pm)

user wrote:

Checkpoints! Fricken checkpoints!

I keep wanting to save and if I screw up, my only recourse is to suicide and play it all over. Damn tough for a WWII shooter......

Kind of wild that they would change such basic elements between 1 and 2. Is COD2 on a different game engine?

Maybe I'm not playing at high enough a difficulty level.  I'm playing at whatever is two ranks above the minimum.  I'm not great at these games (see my earlier missive regarding keeping my head down), but find this level (a) challenging; (b) difficult; but (c) attainable on the second or third play-through.

On multiplayer games I go by (and don't steal this name from me, damn it--I beat on my brother for having done so--don't make me do the same to you!) "Julius Seizure" (he now goes by "Augustus Seizure", as his birthday is in August).  I'm the one getting head shot after head shot.

EDIT:  That should have read:  I'm the one receiving head shot after head shot.  Damn it...  I want to know where those shots are coming from.  And that replay thing doesn't seem to help me a whole lot...  Especially on the (apparently quite popular) map where you're in open fields with hedge rows and anti-aircraft artillery (or whatever they are)).  Anyway, I'll be the one lying on the ground with a head wound.

Last edited by VegasACF (2006-06-27 2:10 pm)

I agree. When I can just hit F5 to save whenever I want, I usually end up saving more than one time every minute.

With Call of Duty 2, I found it kind of hard to die due to the health-regeneration. The checkpoints were all I needed often enough.

Bat wrote:

It is on a new engine (CoD used a highly modified Quake 3 engine, the only version ever to work in shaders. The new one is advanced and is DX9, not OGL). I do wish devs would spend a bit more time putting in, or allowing for a PC port with, a more flexible save system, instead of shipping the console-type checkpoint save only type. It's nice to have checkpoints for when you go a long time forgetting to save, but also good to have quick and full saves available for revisiting favorite moments and/or goofing around, trying crazy stunts and so on (what happens if I... WAAH! Oh, that's what happens).

If you save too much, discipline yourself. Don't make me suffer too- I hate having to play 3/4s of a level to reach a favorite spot.

No idea what the engine is. I can say what it isn't and it is not a Q3 engine. I don't even think it's Doom 3. The heat shimmers in Africa suck. The Doom 3 engine does very nice heat shimmers and CoD2 doesn't have them. Well googling says it now has it's own engine.

Developed by Infinity Ward, creators of the award-winning Call of Duty. All-new, unprecedented enhancements from stunningly realistic graphics to seamless gameplay, thanks to the revolutionary COD2 engine, groundbreaking AI, and choice-based gameplay innovations.

If you play fast/easy you could hit a check point every couple minutes. Esp. once you've played through once and get an idea where they're at.

They put a demo out.

COD 2, I liked the way it plays, the first time through, I played at the middle (2nd) level, the regain health is OK, but I like a Medic/Corpsmen or Health Packs too!
I think there should of been more map levels, in each Theater of Area Opp's, for a longer game. I'll replay at the higher levels too!
The use of the Compass, to reach an objective while clearing an area to the next objective, and check point is great game play.
But I sure wish the binoculars were cleaner, and could zoom alittle while being used. The game plays flawlessly, on my dual 2.0 G5, X-800 card, 3GB ram.

user wrote:

I've been replaying at the highest setting and find myself skipping stuff out of frustration. For example, there's a tank in the Russian levels that you need to run up and place a bomb on before you can continue. BUT this damn thing has magical game knowledge of your location.

Because you can't take many hits from the Germans (who keep spawning in), you have to get to a protected spot so you can run up to the tank. However, with the tank's magic knowledge, it starts running up and down on the side of the map farthest from you. If you manage to get to that side, it moves away to the opposite. How the smurf did the Germans loose the war with THAT technology?

There have been two levels on Vet that sucked up a ton of time to complete. That was one of them. The other was on the English campaine where you're commanded to man a machine gun and keep your sector clear. Well with the AI's pin point aiming you get shot up sometimes instantly. If it weren't for the achievement points on XBL I too would've skipped these.

::SPOILER!!!::
How I finally beat that tank after two hours of dying.
1) Learn where you can and can not hide. There are many parts of that wrecked building the tank blast won't penetrate (mostly the corners and outer half walls). I chased the damn thing for a good half hour in the crouched position to figure these out. If you get hit hard stop at a corner and heal up. Problem is you don't run fast enough crouched to catch it.
2) Watch the tank for a bit. Chase it around like I did. It is easy to figure out and anticipate the big gun going off. Once it does run at it zigzagging the machine gun fire. DO NOT get behind or in front of it. It'll just run you over. Zigzag to one of the sides. I found the outer side easier because it causes the main turret to rotate towards you and you are faster than the turret movement. Place your sticky bomb and run for one of the outer half walls, duck!