Call of Duty 2

Call of Duty 2 is a Historic First-Person Shooter that takes place during World War II. Call of Duty 2 came out as the sequel of the game Call of Duty and it came out on November 15, 2005 for the Xbox 360 and PC from Activision and Infinity Ward. Call of Duty 2 is the second installment in the Call of Duty series.

Story Mode
Call of Duty 2 starts you off in the Russian Red Army as Private Vasili Ivanovich Koslov in a training mission during the Battle of Moscow called Red Army Training. After finishing the 'training' by beating back a German assault, soon the player takes part in house to house fighting across the city of Stalingrad. The battles in Stalingrad rage from December 1942 - January 1943, at a train-yard and ultimately, pushing back a heavy German counter-attack on city hall.



In the second campaign, the player plays as a British soldier, named Sgt. John Davis of the 7th Armoured Division. Davis is commanded by Captain Price, who was a popular soldier from the first game. There is also a Scottish private named Mac Gregor, probably in Davis's squad. During the advance from El-Alamein to Tunisia, and the fighting at Caen in Normandy, the character must take over many buildings, towns, and facilities and defend against counterattacks each time. The British campaign includes much armour as they are known as the backbone of the North African campaign. Throughout most of the missions the British will be covered with Crusader and Sherman tanks.

An addendum to the second set of missions has the player taking on the role of a British Tank commander, David Welsh. It is only one campaign (2 levels) long, but the player takes part in the 7th Armoured Division's advance across Libya, attacking the retreating Germans.



The last set of missions are set in the American campaign. As Cpl. Bill Taylor of the 2nd Ranger Battalion, the player starts off by playing a part in D-Day, at the assault of Pointe du Hoc, which was located four miles west of Omaha Beach. The Americans have no more than twenty feet of beach to charge up before having to climb ropes up a cliff to destroy artillery aimed at Utah Beach and Omaha Beach. On arriving at the top of the cliffs, the guns are discovered to be decoys. So the player then has to fight his way through German trenches and a French village to find the real set of guns. The remainder of the campaign sees the player taking part in the brutal fighting in Normandy and on Hill 400 under fire of German machine gun bunkers, artillery and Tiger tanks. Interestingly, a Panzer II is seen in Normandy even though they were almost non-existent by then.

The final mission is set amongst the Americans in Crossing the Rhine river crossing into Germany. In the last scene, Sgt. Randall receives a field promotion to Lieutenant and suggests to the Colonel that he should promote Corporal Taylor to replace the now empty Sgt. position.

The Pointe du Hoc mission in the singleplayer campaign. The end credits depict the dramatic rescue of Cpt. Price from German hands by American soldiers. After the credits end the words, "No cows were harmed in the making of this game" appear, as in the original Call of Duty. This is in reference to the dead cattle lying about in many of the Normandy missions.

Multiplayer
The Call of Duty 2 PC multiplayer server can hold a maximum of 64 players. On Xbox 360 the player limit is to 8 players on Xbox Live. There are a total of 13 official maps and 3 of these are remakes from the original Call of Duty with numerous other modified maps.

Call of Duty 2 for the Xbox 360 was a the most popular online game for the console for the first two years of its release.

The maps in Call of Duty 2 vary from Normandy, Africa, and Russia during the winter. There are two teams the Allies and the Axis and each team can choose a variety of weapons, depending on the map and which team is playing. Depending on the map, players can choose between American soldiers, Soviet soldiers, and British.

Call of Duty 2 features several gametypes, including deathmatch, team deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Search & Destroy, and headquarters.

Call fo Duty 2 multiplayer lacks drivable vehicles found in Call of Duty: United Offensive and the gametype base assault. This has been a major criticism with many, as it was felt that Call of Duty 2 should have been a continuation of where United Offensive left off, rather than from Call of Duty itself, although in fairness, United Offensive was an expansion pack, and not even an Infinity Ward product, as it was produced by Grey Matter.