10 years ago today....

Iced_Eagle said:
MoH was very popular for a while. MoH:AA was the best in the series IMO.

However, the developers behind MoH:AA (studio was called 2015; game was published by EA) knew the type of game they wanted to make which was a historical WW2 game told in a more cinematic fashion, however because they were contracted to work on an existing franchise they couldn't make the complete game they wanted. Most of the devs at 2015 then left and formed Infinity Ward to work on the WW2 shooter they wanted to make with Activision (because ATVI wanted to get into the WW2 arena in a big way, which EA was dominating with MoH and BF1942). Call of Duty was then born, and the rest is history.
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Hah, thanks for the explanation.
 
"The man with the rifle shoots, the man without the rifle follows. If the man with the rifle dies, the man without the rifle will grab the rifle and shoot!"

That Stalingrad scene was amazing.
 
Josh7289 said:
Jesus, it's only 10 years old.
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Sorian said:
Like a high percentage of the fan base.
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I hated this game for crippling the MOHAA community... Still the most fun FPS multiplayer experience i've had.
V2 Rocket, I will never forget you!
 
Oh, Call of Duty. You were once so young and full of promise.

I shivered as I embarked with the 2nd Ranger Battalion at Pointe du Hoc at Normandy. I fought with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment to repel the germans, using their own Panzerfausts. I fought with my red comrades in Stalingrad. I sweated in the tanks with the 7th Armoured Division in North Africa.

Now you're all grown up, with your own life, providing for yourself and your family. I don't get to see you that much anymore, and in many ways we've grown apart.

Nevertheless, there'll always be a place in my heart for you, however you choose to live your life these days. The memories, the joy, the triumphs. Can't be erased.

Happy birthday, you son of a bitch.
 
Bombless said:
"The man with the rifle shoots, the man without the rifle follows. If the man with the rifle dies, the man without the rifle will grab the rifle and shoot!"

That Stalingrad scene was amazing.
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I know its fallen out of favour with the fps fan these days, but I've always preferred WW2 shooters over any other kind. It's more interesting to me than some guy who something something nuclear something something zzzzz
 
The original CoD was amazing for its time. Especially the massive MP maps and 50 player s&d.

Have to say its really gone downhill.
 
Man, I loved COD1. Surround sound, I even borrowed my research lab's Radeon 9800 Pro to play it in all its glory. The Normandy stage was unbelievable, so vivid.
 
Call of Duty 2 had a really fun campaign.

Well, the Russian and British parts were fun. American part was kinda boring.

Or was that Call of Duty 3? Can't remember, it's been a while.
 
It feels really weird to think of this series as a WW2 FPS. Since the blow-up of MW, it almost seems like a WW2 CoD now would be an antithesis of the series...
 
Call of Duty 2 is still my favorite in the series and one of my favorite games of all time.

The missions, the writing, the set pieces. It wasn't cinematic like the future games, you actually felt like a grunt on the lines and no one gave a shit if you died or not. You weren't the sole survivor for a few seconds of a nuclear bomb or the president of some small country.

I've wanted to replay it on PC (I got it launch day for the Xbox 360), but I'm not a fan of double dipping unless it's less than 10 and man, Activision has an iron fist on that $15-20 range.

Toxi said:
Call of Duty 2 had a really fun campaign.

Well, the Russian and British parts were fun. American part was kinda boring.
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This is exactly it. I happily replayed the Russian campaign several times. I wish it had been longer, instead of a prequel/very extended tutorial.

I would play it ever winter until I moved to Florida, because there was something comforting in playing the game with a landscape of snow around you.

The British missions were not as fun, but still a ton of fun, but the American levels were mostly eh.
 
GooeyHeat said:
What? I thought this series started with Modern Warfare?

I never played this game, but my dad did a lot. I think he was bad at it, but maybe not. Who knows.
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I mean it is no shame to think that, but it is just a fitting comment on CoD given how old the average CoD population is.


Loved the original CoD.. man 10 years ago.. I played way too gory games for my age bak then.
 
Yeaaaahhhh I remember when I liked this franchise. The first game really was fantastic. Second game was pretty solid, too. They were definitely the loudest, most chaotic single player shooters out there at the time.
 
What surprised me back then (and no one could even guess that the series would evolve to what it is today) is that this game completely blew the (very strong at the time) Medal of Honor franchise from the map.
 
Is it a bad thing that the first COD taught me more about world war 2 than high school? That's an american education for you haha. The first Russian level really sunk it in my tiny teenage mind with how brutal WW2 was. I researched the war myself after playing the game.
 
The first CoD was pretty awesome.

The first part in Stalingrad, without a rifle, holy shit.

Of course since then we've seen so much scripted shit, that playing something like that today wouldn't make any sense, but at the time it was pretty sweet.
 
I loved Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and never played the original Call of Duty.

But Call of Duty 2 is one of the three best games this entire generation and one of my absolute favourite FPS games ever. I think it's #2 with only Rainbow Six 3 (Raven Shield) surpassing it personally.

I completed it on Xbox 360 and is thinking of getting the PC version used for like $5 after playing the demo.
 
Wow. I actually remember reserving this at Best Buy and getting it on release day. Played the hell out of the demo prior to release day. Such a good game. I actually played this competitively for a while.
 
I still remember the day this came out. Everyone was playing MoHAA and RTCW and once this hit, everyone moved over. The game was absolutely phenomenal in every way. SO many hours in multiplayer. Man the PC first person shooter genre was on fire back then.
 
Man I played so much CoD1/UO when i was a kid. The game just blew me away and trashed MoH/Day of Defeat. Anyone remember the multiplayer map where it was a snowy forest area with a ravine across the map with bunkers on each side of the ravine, everyone hiding with snipers? Nowadays all CoD maps are corridor labyrinth with no sense of map layout where you always get shot in the back.
 
I remember playing the first one with a 56k modem and being really good at leading all my shots to compensate for lag, good times
 
CoD 3 was the game I played the most from the series. CoD 2 was my first. CoD4 is my fav. Looking forward to Titanfall.
 
COD: Black Ops II is probably the worst game I've ever seen. The Strike Force missions were just infuriating.....applying RTS design to a FPS game. I don't even know how I passed those missions and that was on Easy mode.
 
i played through cod on veteran recently, the port version that came free with the MW2 CE.

that last level, where you are a soviet fighting to the reichstag, was just infuriating. it literally takes only 10 min to finish if you can plow through, but on veteran you just can't. probably took me 40 min to do it.
 
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