Also Available On: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Wii
Through the eyes of four Allied soldiers, Call of Duty 3 brings players closer than ever to the fury of combat as they fight through the Normandy Breakout, the harrowing offensive that liberated Paris and changed the fate of the world.
First thoughts
C.O.D has had its graphics tweaked; this makes it a lot better to the eye.
Well I have been playing this on the Playstation 2 and noticed an improvement from the other Call of duty games I had played before. The developers have made more of an effort in the storyline. In between the missions it shows a cinematic footage of what is happening around you and what the missions expects of you, this makes it seem more real somehow.
Playable armies include American, Polish, Canadian and British.
The setting has changed; Call of Duty 3 takes place during the Normandy landing. The game starts on June 6th at Normandy and covers the 88 days before Paris was liberated. This covers 18 missions to get to your goal.
I started of as an American solider, after a little target practice and to get use to the controls, I decided to start the missions.
I was then told to get in the truck to go to a hot point (not a washer) where our soldiers are being over run. You are sat there in the truck minding your own business when BANG!!! The truck has been hit by an enemy shell. You are then thrown out of the truck and land on the ground, where some of your buddies help you up, all this is happening while rockets and gun fire is going off all around you.
An officer is heard shouting orders at you to get behind a wall, bullet tracers and smoke is filling the air, and this bloke wants me to follow him into the battle. Not for me thanks ill stay here and get my rifle out and pop a few Germans off :)
There is a old church where snipers are hiding waiting for you to pop your head out, somehow you have to sneak around them and then take them out.....ah you think that's a bit better....Oh did I mention the tanks that come crashing through the walls :( Then a plane comes into view and crashes and the whole screen shakes.
After a while the smoke settles and you move up, then the new "Battle action" kicked in, waiting for me around a corner was a German. What's the "Battle action" I hear you ask...its a new way of hand to hand fighting, as in real life he just jumps out at you and you don't have time to get you gun up and shoot, so the clever people who made C.O.D have added his new ay of taking out your enemy at close range, it consists tapping the joypad buttons in combination, it was a good feature, Shocked me at first as I didn't read the book....I just wanted to get on with the game :)
Well I don't want to spoil it to much for you, but you get the picture.
Good improvement in the graphics, loads of realistic smoke and flames, the building come crashing down around you without a warning.
The vehicles are easy enough to handle after a while, and you have a good choice of weapons you can use and even pick up the enemies weapons if you running low
I would say 9/10 for the graphics, 9/10 for the sound, I played it through the sound surround it was like you was really there.
The game play I would give 9/10 nothing better than getting shut of a few Nazi's.
Overall I would give Call of Duty 3 9/10 it will keep you busy for a while :)
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