Call of Duty 2 Hands-On Preview

**MIG-31** · Sep 25, 2005, 11:46 AM

During my recent Poland adventure, I attended Activision’s Call of Duty that was set up near Hitler’s Wolfschanze, his network of personal command bunkers, located not too far from the actual OKW (Germany High Command) bunkers. But we’ll get to that in another article.

Call of Duty 2 takes the phrase “don’t mess with success” close to heart. Even though it has a new game engine and is built from the ground up, the similarities to the original are clear in every respect. The movement code, the way weapons look, feel and fire, the reactions of characters to being hit – all the dozens of little touches we so loved about Call of Duty are present in the sequel.
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BWX · Sep 25, 2005, 03:26 PM

Looks great.. I like the "don't mess with it if it ain't broke" approach.. That is what makes COD games so great.

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The venerable Quake III engine has been retired in favor of an in-house custom job, featuring pixel shaders, bump maps and much-improved shadows and lighting. In an interesting twist, it seems that the new game engine is either capable of playing original Call of Duty maps, or – more likely - it wasn’t difficult to import them.

It would be so cool to convert the old games into the new gfx engine and play them..

[hobo]eclipse · Sep 25, 2005, 04:13 PM

yea the original COD is great and the expasion adds alot to the game, 2 is quite the looker with all the goods still there! The characters and the bumpmapping are excelent looking and i hope it plays well, thiss'll prolly be DX over openGL???

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anyone ever check out http://www.after-hourz.com/ for COD:UO custom multiplayer content??? sweet custom maps and vehicles for UO

BWX · Sep 25, 2005, 08:47 PM

COD2 movies at gamershell are cool too..

Sep 25, 2005, 11:46 AM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,854 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	Call of Duty 2 Hands-On Preview During my recent Poland adventure, I attended Activision’s Call of Duty that was set up near Hitler’s Wolfschanze, his network of personal command bunkers, located not too far from the actual OKW (Germany High Command) bunkers. But we’ll get to that in another article. Call of Duty 2 takes the phrase “don’t mess with success” close to heart. Even though it has a new game engine and is built from the ground up, the similarities to the original are clear in every respect. The movement code, the way weapons look, feel and fire, the reactions of characters to being hit – all the dozens of little touches we so loved about Call of Duty are present in the sequel. ________________ Preview: Firingsquad __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

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Sep 25, 2005, 04:13 PM	#3
[hobo]eclipse ...just bummin 'round Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,907 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	yea the original COD is great and the expasion adds alot to the game, 2 is quite the looker with all the goods still there! The characters and the bumpmapping are excelent looking and i hope it plays well, thiss'll prolly be DX over openGL??? ps anyone ever check out http://www.after-hourz.com/ for COD:UO custom multiplayer content??? sweet custom maps and vehicles for UO