Activision makes another shooter... just great...

User Rating: 7.4 | Call of Duty 2 X360
By DJ_Nario | Review Date:
XBOX 360, a console that can handle nearly as much as the upcoming PS3. It is obvious that it's 3.2 GHz processor can manipulate real-looking textures, but it's also obvious that it's not the console that makes games good, but rather how well or how much effort the company puts into the game. Activision is famous for making games with good gameplay (ex. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater) but also making games with bad graphics. With this being said, I would like to present a review for one of those bad games for a good console. This, my friend, is one of those games.

Gameplay - The way the actions have been made are incredible. Throw smoke grenades, shoot down people, etc. Very basic, yet at the same time, fits with the style of the controller. Sniping down enemies hasn't been this fun since Goldeneye!

Graphics - Introducing yesterday's graphics, today! Seriously, the only good-looking textures in this game are the human models and the tanks, but even those have problems. Observe: turn on the game, go to multiplayer, and look at some sandbags (The ones used for protection). Stay about 30 feet from them. Now, keep your eye on them and walk very slowly to them. Eventually they will change detail, but not in the way you'd think them to. IT ABRUPTLY CHANGES. That's not good. If Activision has such a great budget to make hi-def, false-advertising commercials for games like these, why can't they actually look good!?

Sound - The composition of the music works fine and seems to fit the mood of where you're playing, any time. As for the SFX, however, sometimes I wondered if these were real SFX or not, because some of these make me think of what I heard back in games 5 years ago.

Value - Activision makes yet another shooter; a shooter that has fun multiplayer and a good sinple player mode, but it doesn't compare up to what the XBOX 360 "can" handle. I am very critical on consoles and how much they can work, trust me; this game doesn't cut it for being "next-gen".

Reviewer's Tilt - If Activision really has a ka-zillion dollars in the budget for making a game, they should at least put some effort into making "good" commercials for the game (ie: In-game screens instead of false-advertising with pre-rendered junk). This is next-gen we're talking about, not current-gen. I swear, this really makes me NOT want an XBOX 360.

Overall: Don't believe what everyone says about this game and how life-like it looks; it's horrible.

Score: 7.4 - Good

A bad game on a good console... just like all the other games for it... (Excluding Kameo, PDZ, and Retrospective).

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