I heard the call

I have discovered Call of Duty 2 and Im so glad I did. Its great fun. I wanted to get the game ages ago but with a 7-month old baby my finances need to be reined in slightly. I got Oblivion with the console and was happily playing that for a while. The problem I feel with Oblivion is that it is almost too big. There is almost too much to do in the game. It  is still great to play but can be a bit repetitive. Every cave and fort kind of look the same as do castle interiors but all the same its a good game to play but one I might dip in and out of when Im too tired for a shooter. Like COD2. Back on topic again, I like that. Im a couple of sessions into the game and almost finished Stalingrad on veteran. To be honest, and not wishing to blow me own trumpet, I havent found it difficult. There ae one or two sticky sections but other than that its easier than I thought. Much easier then Halo2 Legendary Im finding. Mind you I always was good at "Soldiers" when I was a lad. Picking up a branch for a rifle and scurrying through the bushes to ambush the enemy. Building bases in the undergrowth from which to launch attacks or sit in defence. Every summer the waste ground around my house would echo with the rat tat tat dow dow of shouted machine guns interspersed with arguments of :

"youre dead, I shot you" - "No you didnt, you missed" - "No I didnt, I got you" - "Naw, you just winged me, it was a flesh wound I could still have shot you back............"

COD2 is a fantastic game and you do get the sense of what WWII combat must have been like with bullets flying everywhere and snipers around every corner. I have to say though, I do like WWII shooters and those influenced by it. Im glad I went for this over Battlefield2. Not that B2 is a duff game but I hear it is better online than off where as COD2 is good offline and good on. Actually, I had my first online COD2 a couple of hours after I got the game. I enjoyed it a lot. Basically a couple of games of team snipers on a farm. It was very thrilling. I found it a bit difficult first time round to get my beaings but on my second or third game I got 19 kills which was very pleasing indeed.

A thought strikes me. Ive never been comfortable with realistic shooters. You know, where you kill other human characters in real setttings. I much prefer the "shoot the alien" games. Not sure why. Similarly in Knights of the Old Rebublic and Fable I can rarely bring myself to lean towards the dark side and do bad things. Its only a computer game I know but it makes my skin crawl. My mother would be proud!! The WWII games never give me a problem though. Perhaps its because the era is so far in the past now to be alien? Or perhaps modern combat is so different that the conflict of that time seems impossible to be real. Whatever it is, Im enjoying Call of Duty2 and roll on Call of Duty 3.

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