Christine & Mike

Let it be said, that I absolutely loved Call of Duty 2 (XBox only, I can’t attest for the 360 version.)  Not only is it one of the best first person shooter games ever, but it was also one of the first games I got with my Xbox nearly a year ago, when Christine bought it for me.

That being said, we bought Call of Duty 3 two weeks ago, thinking “Yea, the second game rocked, the third one can only be better.”  Damn, I wish that statement was true.

I sat down tonight to play some more of the game, thinking I had hours of play left, and so much more to do, and finish.  I was wrong.  Apparently, in 2 weeks, I made it through all but one level, the last one.  So, I sat down, and blew threw the level, in about 10 minutes.  The screen went dark, and a “Dedicated to” message came up. I thought “That can’t f*cking be it, seriously. That’s not the end of the game.” Wrong, again. That was the end of the game. 

Not only was it short (in total, it was less than 10 hours of gameplay), but it was so much easier than Call of Duty 2 (which, in my opinion, the level where you’re in the bomber, shooting down enemy airplanes is one of the coolest video game levels ever).  I felt extremely unchallenged with the third installment of the game.  Maybe I’ve just gotten so much better at playing video games in the last year? Doubtful.  I remember playing Call of Duty 2, and I must have dropped the f-bomb hundreds of times, on levels where you walk around a corner, and get shot in the face.  I dropped the f-bomb once during Call of Duty 3. And it was because I blew myself up with a grenade.

I felt unchallenged, I felt let down. I feel like I won’t give Call of Duty 4 a chance, should it ever come around. How depressing, a game that I fell in love with (Call of Duty 2), can so easily be turned upon, with an utter let down.  Though I only tried the game on “normal”, perhaps I should go back and try it on “uber-gamer” mode, and see how much I complain it was too easy.

To put relate how much quicker this game was to complete:

• We bought Call of Duty 3 two weekends ago, I’m already 100% done with the core objective of the game (given, it doesn’t keep a percentage for you, but I completed the game, I can count that as 100%)
• We bought Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy on the day it came out (September 12th, nearly 3 months ago).  Playing “Legos” nearly an hour every night for those 3 months, and we’re only 88.9% done with the game.  Yes, we’ve gone through and completed almost every level.  But with “Legos”, there’s so much more.  Hidden levels, hidden pieces of puzzles.  It’s so much more of a challenge. 

Yea, any moron can make a guy shoot a gun into another guy’s face. But can that same moron find 10 hidden Lego canisters throughout 18 levels based on kick-ass Star Wars movies? I don’t know, for sure.

Bottom line, I’m dissappointed with the new Call of Duty game.  I really hope that there’s another Half Life game released for Xbox, because as far as I’m concerned, I haven’t loved a video game as much as I loved Half Life 2, since the original Zelda for NES.  Now, that’s quality gaming. Viva la Zelda.

In an unrelated note, I want a Wii, now that I know what one is, and I can totally get excercise by having one.  Dear Santa…

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