The high quality graphics of the game is great. Smoke grenades look like real smoke for once. The detail of the weapons and the soldiers uniform are sweet eye candy. Players fight to the sounds of shouting, dying men, sounds of gunfire in the distance, and a Hollywood quality music. Each game is separated by a cut scene from the military channel, describing the desperate situation you will soon find yourself in. In the 2nd Russian mission you will find yourself fighting off a horde of Nazi's who are charging your line. You can get a sense of nervousness and desperation as you find yourself fighting a superior German army. They really get your adrenaline pumping. Nothing can compare to the feeling you get when charging a Nazi line. You can tell that the developers of the game are fans of Enemy at the Gate and Band of Brothers type movies.

The single player........

What I don't like about the game is it seems to be exactly like the first call of duty. Just with more action and British tank missions that are over too soon. The tank missions are extremely easy as well. I was getting highly annoyed with the AI of both friends and enemy troops. Your buddies in this game will hurl themselves in front of machine gun nest. Sometimes they don't move if a grenade lands next to them. AND THEY GET IN YOUR WAY!!! This was my problem in one of the British missions where I found myself in the trenches being blocked by my own troops. The enemy throws a grenade and BOOM! I'm died. This because the game's AI goes by the "follow directly behind the player" thinking. Sometimes they won't even cover you. Their can be a Nazi standing right next to you bashing you with his Rifle. And your fellow soldiers will just stand there and do nothing. I can understand the  idea of having friends die all around you but this just gets repetitive

Speaking of grenades, the Germans seem to love them it to death. Every time you get in an encounter, the first thing the enemy will do is throw a grenade. THEY ALWAYS THROW A GRENADE FIRST. So you got to move back and run from the grenade sometimes into enemy fire. This gets frustrated, especially when your trying to aim your rifle on an enemy head

The multi-player......

Logged on to see a plethora of servers. Most of them empty with very few players playing online. If your looking for a multi-player shooter get Battlefield 2. This is not a worthy multi player. And it's a good reason why they are empty. The types of games you can play DM, Team DM, Headquarters, CTF, and Search and Destroy are the same thing as COD. I do admit however that same of the games are pretty fun. I love the Search and Destroy and Headquarters the most. Most of these maps are simply just old maps with improved graphics. I haven't played COD in 2 years yet when I got into these maps I had no trouble finding my away around the map. In HQ you find yourself fighting for turf and defending or capturing it from enemy players in typical Battlefield like tradition. My biggest beef with MP is that when it comes down to it, machine guns overpower everything. I played games just where I was using rifles and games where I was just using machine guns and you can guess that the games where I used the Thompson and the German assault rifle were games where I was always getting a higher score then usual. The trench-gun (Shotgun) is the most noob gun I ever shot. You don't even have to aim to hit your opponent with it. You find yourself getting killed with one or two hits from this gun.

Having said all this i have no idea why this game is winning awards from Gamespy and IGN...when its clearly just an average run of the mill shooter

Basically if you want to sum up my review in one line. COD 2 is more of an expansion pack then an actual sequel. Come on Activision, you can do better then this!
The high quality graphics of the game is great. Smoke grenades look like real smoke for once. The detail of the weapons and the soldiers uniform are sweet eye candy. Players fight to the sounds of shouting, dying men, sounds of gunfire in the distance, and a Hollywood quality music. Each game is separated by a cut scene from the military channel, describing the desperate situation you will soon find yourself in. In the 2nd Russian mission you will find yourself fighting off a horde of Nazi's who are charging your line. You can get a sense of nervousness and desperation as you find yourself fighting a superior German army. They really get your adrenaline pumping. Nothing can compare to the feeling you get when charging a Nazi line. You can tell that the developers of the game are fans of Enemy at the Gate and Band of Brothers type movies. The single player.... .... What I don't like about the game is it seems to be exactly like the first call of duty. Just with more action and British tank missions that are over too soon. The tank missions are extremely easy as well. I was getting highly annoyed with the AI of both friends and enemy troops. Your buddies in this game will hurl themselves in front of machine gun nest. Sometimes they don't move if a grenade lands next to them. AND THEY GET IN YOUR WAY!!! This was my problem in one of the British missions where I found myself in the trenches being blocked by my own troops. The enemy throws a grenade and BOOM! I'm died. This because the game's AI goes by the "follow directly behind the player" thinking. Sometimes they won't even cover you. Their can be a Nazi standing right next to you bashing you with his Rifle. And your fellow soldiers will just stand there and do nothing. I can understand the  idea of having friends die all around you but this just gets repetitive

Speaking of grenades, the Germans seem to love them it to death. Every time you get in an encounter, the first thing the enemy will do is throw a grenade. THEY ALWAYS THROW A GRENADE FIRST. So you got to move back and run from the grenade sometimes into enemy fire. This gets frustrated, especially when your trying to aim your rifle on an enemy head

The multi-player.... .. Logged on to see a plethora of servers. Most of them empty with very few players playing online. If your looking for a multi-player shooter get Battlefield 2. This is not a worthy multi player. And it's a good reason why they are empty. The types of games you can play DM, Team DM, Headquarters, CTF, and Search and Destroy are the same thing as COD. I do admit however that same of the games are pretty fun. I love the Search and Destroy and Headquarters the most. Most of these maps are simply just old maps with improved graphics. I haven't played COD in 2 years yet when I got into these maps I had no trouble finding my away around the map. In HQ you find yourself fighting for turf and defending or capturing it from enemy players in typical Battlefield like tradition. My biggest beef with MP is that when it comes down to it, machine guns overpower everything. I played games just where I was using rifles and games where I was just using machine guns and you can guess that the games where I used the Thompson and the German assault rifle were games where I was always getting a higher score then usual. The trench-gun (Shotgun) is the most noob gun I ever shot. You don't even have to aim to hit your opponent with it. You find yourself getting killed with one or two hits from this gun. Having said all this i have no idea why this game is winning awards from Gamespy and IGN... when its clearly just an average run of the mill shooter

Basically if you want to sum up my review in one line. COD 2 is more of an expansion pack then an actual sequel. Come on Activision, you can do better then this!