Not as ground-breaking as Call of Duty 2, but still solid.
User Rating: 7.9 | Call of Duty 3 X360
I will preface this by saying that Call of Duty 2 would be my pick for Game of the Year in 2005, so Call of Duty 3 had some big shoes to fill. Infinity Ward stepped aside on Call 3 and Treyarch stepped in as developers. They kept most of the basics in place, and added a few new segments in. If you played CoD2, nothing in CoD3 will really stand out. It has some "Wow" moments, but for the most part, it seems like a game we've played already. That would not be that bad, but I had a few moments where invisible walls stopped shots that should have been clean hits, or the hit detection was off from what it should have been. Likewise, a few times I was hit from around corners. These are not deal-breakers, but they keep the game from being on the same level, in my opinion, as CoD2. Multiplayer is very well done, when you can connect to a match. The 12 vs 12 matches work well, and you can remain in one game round after round. It just seems like I spend more time trying to connect to most matches than I don playing the game. In summary, if you played CoD2 and loved it, you'll probably like CoD3. If CoD2 was only ok, CoD3 will have nothing to convince you otherwise. Good game, but not great.
