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Before it was a giant, larger than life, love it with a passion or hate it with even with
even more passion, Call of Duty was simply a great World War II shooter. It was the first
game created by the new company Infinity Ward, who was made up of many teams member that
created the excellent Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. Well you know the story, Call of
Duty went on to become a smash hit, but in an attempt to remember where they came from,
they released the original with HD graphics.
Call of Duty Classic is a World War II shooter. It features three separate campaigns, each
designed to give a different perspective of the War. You start off as an American paratrooper
fighting behind enemy lines in Paris. Then you play as the British, and finally as member
of the Soviet Red Army fighting in the Battle of Stalingrad. Each campaign has plenty of
missions all designed to show the destruction of war. The Soviet campaign offers some of
the most memorable moments, as you start with only bullets and have to wait for a comrade
to die and take their rifle.
If you started playing the series around Call of Duty 4, the gameplay will be familiar,
but also very different. It is still a squad based FPS. You will be running around the
battlefield, helping out your squad mates and aiming down the sights to take out the
Nazis. The big difference come from the fact you have a life bar. This leads to more thought
out and careful shooting.
There are two issues that come from playing this on consoles today. First off, the game
is seeing its age. While the HD updates does help with the environments, you will still
see plenty of murky textures and washed out faces. But that is not nearly as problematic
as the controls. The game was designed to be played with a mouse and keyboard, and playing
it with a controller just doesn’t feel right. They are functional but its like watching
a bootlegged copy of a movie, it just isn’t as crisp as it is meant to be.
Call of Duty has also come to be known for its multiplayer and sadly this one disappoints.
It only supports up to 8 players, which makes the matches not have nearly enough combat
to remain interesting. Leaving this a mostly single player experience.
If you are interested in seeing the roots of the series, this is a convenient way to
see it. But it doesn't compare to how good playing the original on a PC was.