all games are not created equal

Call of duty 4: Modern Warfare, even though I do not have this game, I still got to play it on the ps3 over the summer, And this game won everything. From realistic features like shooting bullets through walls, to customizable features like switching scopes out on sniper rifles.  It was like everything i ever wanted about a fps in one DVD.

Not only did they come up with a very very nice story for call of duty 4, but they perfected everything with a thrilling multiplayer, which begged you to play more of it because of the nice little prize you got for killing people... rank-up's.

Call of duty 2: this game also took everything I loved about an fps and put it on a CD. but not so much as call of duty 4. This game has a very intense storyline about ww2, its historical accuracy is nice along with its real life footage of the war made it epic. the journals before every mission kept you entertained while the game loaded.

The multiplayer still keeps me entertained because well I don't have cod4 and its a very very nice multiplayable experience.

overall cod4 is like cod2 but modern and has more realistic features and an original storyline. thus making it better. but everyone still loving both the games.

Battlefield 2: This game lacked 1 thing that could have made it a win for me, and that would be a storyline. There are only 2 modes, Scrimmage, and Multiplayer, don't get me wrong, the multiplayer was great, but with the addition of punkbuster it made things ... kinda ridiculous, having to go download patches, and sometimes not even working, punkbuster ( a program created to help keep out hackers and inappropriate behavior ) would most the time kick me from the server. was a pain the the butt. The map sizes were huge you need a vehicle sometimes to get around ( which is probably why they had vehicles in the game play )

Call of Duty 2: This game has a storyline, a nice long historical storyline about ww2, The multiplayer blew my mind because it was simple, DM, TDM, CTF my favorite game types. and the maps were a perfect size for any amount of players. there were no vehicles, and if you did see one outside of the storyline then you probably weren't able to drive it, just hide behind it as it burned. Call of Duty 2 also had punkbuster, but i only choose to enter the servers that DON'T have it. though it does sometimes result in me not being own by a bot.

on another note one of the many reasons I avoid punkbuster servers is because I keep getting errors , even when I do update to the latets version, and I dont have the time or patience to fix it.

Although most of you are probably thinking "but you LOVED F.E.A.R 2" and yes this is true. But the multiplayer is very questionable.

Call of duty 2's multiplayer is more enjoyable than F.E.A.R. 2's multiplayer. And its interesting that the CoD2 community is still very strong, on xfire.com they're most the time 3rd on most played. F.E.A.R 2 isn't listed on the top 10. lol.

anyway. yes fear 2 multiplayer does look a lot nicer than CoD2 but just because a game looks nice doesn't mean it will be enjoyable. CoD2 looks very nice if you have direct x 9 on. lol.

Ok so this is my first review and lets get the ball rolling. Battlefield 1942 and Call of Duty: 2 are both WWII First Person Shooters that received good reviews.

            Battlefield 1942 features many of the most famous battles in all 4 theatres of World War 2 (Pacific, European, North African, and Russian) and a choice to fight as any Either Axis or Allies, depending on nation-specific battles (for example, UK-Germany in Battle of Britain and Italians-American in ‘Operation Husky’)

            Call of Duty 2 only features campaigns in 3 theatres (North African, Russian and European) as the Allied force but raked in excellent reviews and had a very wide following.

 

Gameplay:

            There is no set storyline for the single player campaign in BF: 1942 it more or less throws you into a battle as the selected Nation as you capture or recapture territories (similar to that of Capture the flag) While it lacks story driven gameplay the battle’s aren’t linear and boast a whopping 21 maps in itself and more with the 2 expansion packs included. As in the sense you can make you way pretty much anywhere around, to an extent for if you wander too far out you come into a ‘red zone’ where you will die after a certain time. The player is given a choice of 5 infantry types, Scout (sniper rifles and binoculars), Assault (automatics), Anti-tank (rocket launcher), Medic (Machine gun with med packs so that you may heal your fellow allies), and Engineers (Un-scoped rifles, the ability to heal Vehicles and mounted weapons, Landmines, and C4). The multiplayer is essentially the same as its singleplayer, featuring the same maps as the Single player. except the ai in the singleplayer is replaced with other players connected to the server, although there is the option to play with both AI and connected players together. The game allows you to take control of all vehicles and mounted weapons, such as machine guns, shore guns, and anti-aircraft guns. The vehicles list everything from Tanks, Aircraft Carriers, Submarines, and Aircraft. BF: 1942 shifts the FPS genre from the usual lone fighting machine player and attempts to make it more of a cooperative team effort. Since its map are rather large and open exploits such as botting are seen very much, and most of the servers are PunkBuster protected the chance of encountering such exploits are slim.

            In Call of Duty 2 you play as a soldier in the Red army on the eastern front, then The British in North Africa then Europe, then as an US soldier in Europe. Call of duty’s storyline is moving and tells the story of a soldier In each of the allied nations and expresses dramatic situations of war such as being over-run by the enemy, discovering Prisoners, running from a big ass tank that broke through the wall, and having to retreat after a hard fought battle, you become attached to the fate of the soldier. The storyline covers up the fact that the gameplay is linear in fashion, with minor exceptions in the fact that opportunities present themselves where you can achieve objectives in a selective pattern. The multiplayer is fast paced and intense, allowing you to choose from a list of weapons (which in most cases are nation sensitive and range from scoped rifles, shotguns, semi-automatic rifles, to automatics), and features 13 maps. But with the Release of ‘Radiant’ players can make and upload their custom maps thus, creating an almost infinite amount of new maps. Though with everything good there exist bad, as with BF’s servers CoD uses PunkBuster, which in personal cases seems to suck kicking you sporadically, and when you play a server without it the exploits come and kill the fun. Even so the multiplayer proves a very fun battle arena and will keep me coming to kick Gene’s but for quite awhile.