I was frankly not expecting such an improvment on an already rock-solid game franchise.
User Rating: 9.6 | Call of Duty 2 PC
CoD has been my PC game of choice for years. As CoD2's release neared, I was excited but at the same time skeptical that they may try to "fix what wasn't broken" and corrupt the immersive gameplay (which gives CoD it's edge among all other WW2-era shooters) by trying to add too many new features or gameplay dynamics. CoD2 is absolutely everything I ever wanted in a WW2 shooter experience, but I never knew it until I played it. I never realized how much I appreciate amazingly high-quality models and texture effects. I never realized how much ambient chatter and yelling amongst the shredding sounds of bullets flying overhead added to the experience, and how how fluid body motion and kinetic reactions to gunfire make you really feel every squeeze of the trigger. Part of me is sad to say that CoD1 has been unseated from it's throne, but I'm equally as excited that it was done so buy it's predecessor from the same developers.
