Call of Duty® (2003)

It's Call of Duty, it's awesome.

this game is balls

sgt moody is a bellend

REALLY GOOD

cod

7/10

This game holds up well. Game is basic but its satisfying to play.
(VETERAN DIFFICULTY IS BRUTAL)

It did not age well. A boring game from the period between Medal of Honor and Modern Warfare.

very cool

Absolute Classic.

PEAK

Seeing this game makes it even more sad to see where the franchise ended up.

Good

old but gold

very cool game with very cool flag 19/44

the true call of duty

Solid Game FOR the time!

Nice game. Played it a lot when it first came out. Graphics are dated compared to modern games but gameplay is definitely nice.

A classic! - 21 years on and I still play it.

a timeless straightforward campaign. definitely one of my favorites

Oldie but a goodie

Very humble beginnings for the series, I surprisingly enjoyed the campaign though with it's flaws, and seeing where Captain Price from the Modern Warfare series originated from was awesome.

I recommend getting this game during a sale.

It will take around 4-5HRs to beat but man this brings back some great childhood memories. See where Call of Duty began with the original! It was alot of fun re-playing the campaign again.

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good game :)
health packs make me wanna sewer slide >:(
miss being able to shoot through wood :(

funny war game

The game is OLD, but GOLD! Like its successors "Call of Duty 2" and "Call of Duty: World at War" - its one of the only games that are well made for WWII (in my opinion these 3 games are the only good ones connected with WWII). The graphics are outdated for sure, however if you grew up with this, it hits different and still looks acceptable. It looks good for its time in any case! The gameplay is good, nothing too special, but its a classical WWII setting FPS. It's enjoyable and you learn a bit about WWII too. The storyline is interesting because some, if not most of it is about WWII. I love it! I would highly recommend playing this game! Overall I would give it 10/10.

I like the action

This is a classic what more can I say. The game still holds up to this day in my opinion. The health system is defintly dated and takes a moment to get use to or use to it again. The missions hold up well and give a good amount of the well known battles. COD 1 will always hold a key part of my childhood with COD UO and COD 2.

Childhood.

20 dollars is outrageous fuck activision

Very Well made and it is very accurate to what happened in real life unlike their newer games WW2 and Vanguard

best cod 10/10

This was like Medal of Honour, but way better. Started the ball rolling for a roller coaster franchise

Quick and enjoyable play through for old school COD fans!

old school for sure but its a fun little game blast from the past type game, worth it yes.

Great

The original and the best. I played this on GA ladders in competition.

Good COD game

10/10

COD 2 BETTR BUT SILL LETS GOOOOO

Neat little game, feels a lot more intense than most modern fps games. I like how straightforward it is. No collectables, no secrets, and very linear. Difficulty wise I think it's just right, relatively challenging but not infuriating. Gunplay is basic but satisfying with a variety of weapons from different countries to try out, recoil is also noticeable on the few automatic weapons which was refreshing. Graphics are very smooth for its time. The only issues I had were terrible frame drops in a select few parts of a select few missions and the game crashing a few times throughout my playthrough followed by the "Out of memory" error despite having plenty of memory available. Other than that though, it is a good game I would recommend playing.

One of my favorite old childhood games. The atmospheric war, espionage and rescue missions, along with graphics and good music, were done very well. There are a lot of weapons in the game that are pleasant and fun to shoot with. As for the gameplay, the goals and missions we have to complete are really interesting. Whether it's destroying tanks with a Panzerfaust, shooting down planes with anti-aircraft guns, driving a tank, espionage, rescue missions or blowing up important points for the enemy. The only thing I can warn you about is be careful if you want to play on the hard difficulty level...

well, it's pretty cool, but the worst thing about it is that there's no automatic health regeneration. not all the games at this time had this, but almost all Call Of Duty games have it now, and even on medium difficulty it was hard. like really hard. I only played it because I want to have all the Call Of Duty games for the timeline and lore. If it wasn't for these things, I wouldn't recommend this game to you

It's a well made game, I enjoyed it. Thank you!

A classic and a masterpiece to the end

Call Of Duty was developed by Infinity Ward and released in 2003.
This was the first episode in the franchise, which quickly became one of the best games of its genre.

The developers at 2015 Inc worked on Medal Of Honor Allied Assault, which was published by Electronic Arts.
A mysterious disagreement between the developers and publisher EA prompted 22 former 2015 Inc employees to found a new studio. Its name, Infinity Ward, quickly became inseparable from their flagship game, Call Of Duty.
It is one of the most cult WWII-based FPSs to date.

The game features three distinct campaigns, in which the Allies fight with strength,
honor and courage in the hope of annihilating the Third Reich.

In the American campaign, the player controls Private Martin of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
He is accompanied by Captain Foley,
whose name will recur in Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2.
After a successful parachute drop in the Normandy region of France,
he will gradually advance towards Eastern Europe, through Belgium, Germany and on to Austria.

In the British campaign,
the player controls Sergeant Evans of the 6th British Airborne Division.
He takes orders from the charismatic Captain Price,
who would later become the figurehead of Call Of Duty 4 and its sequels.
The British will be transferred to the SAS (Special Air Service) for large-scale operations in France, Germany and Norway.

In the Soviet campaign, you're the soldier Alexei Ivanovich Voronin of the 13th Guards Division of the Red Army.
You'll have to endure the tragic yet mythical Battle of Stalingrad,
then continue westwards to drive the Nazis out of the Soviet Union.
The Russians even chased the Nazis out of Poland and drove them back to their last stronghold in Berlin, Germany.
Victory would be sealed once the flag of the Fatherland was raised to the top of the Reichstag!

Funnily enough, in addition to the introduction of Price and Foley,
you meet various soldiers of varying ranks with names that will become famous later on.
I noticed, for example, someone called Woods, who we'll see again in Call Of Duty Black Ops,
a guy called Sheppard, very reminiscent of Shepherd from MW2,
and even a guy called Makarov,
who would come to prominence in MW2 and Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3.

COD's armed combat is realistic, and the action is intense.
Enemy soldiers know how to shoot by bending over, lying down, and hiding behind walls or under windows.
Allied bots have rather limited AI, but they know how to defend themselves against the enemy.
They can even throw back grenades thrown by the Krauts, something we can't do ourselves in the first COD.
The missions are diverse and varied, and basically quite classic.
For example, you'll have to:
Sabotage or destroy enemy equipment and infrastructure,
Dislodge mortar shooters, Capture enemy positions,
steal strategically important documents, free prisoners of war,
Hold a siege until reinforcements arrive, Snipe distant enemies,
shoot down Stuka planes with an anti-aircraft gun, drive a Tank and fight against German Panzers, etc...
The missions are numerous and exciting, but they are also a little too short, linear and often end abruptly.

To fight the Nazis, you'll have a wide choice of weapons at your disposal, all of which offer excellent shooting sensations.
Here's a list of those I was able to use on the battlefield: M1A1, M1 Garand, Kar98k, BAR, Lee-Enfield, Mosin Nagant, Springfield, FG42, Bren, Thompson, MP40, MP44, Sten, PPSh-41, Colt 45, Luger, Panzerfaust. You'll also have Grenades, and you can use field-deployed Machine Guns like the MG42.

Unlike all episodes from 2005 onwards, in the first Call of Duty, health doesn't regenerate on its own.
You'll have to find first-aid kits to heal yourself.
Another distinctive fact is that it's not possible to run in the game,
no doubt because the pack carried by the soldier is too heavy.
My Brother and I have noticed that the crosshair turns red when aiming at an allied soldier, to indicate that you can't shoot at them, while it remains white when aiming at a Wehrmacht soldier, which sometimes is counter-intuitive during the battles.
Allied soldiers' names gradually change from green to red when they are wounded.
There's no visual indicator of when grenades have been thrown, so you'll have to rely on their distinctive metallic sound.

The atmosphere is highly successful and realistic, perfectly conveying the horror and cruelty of World War II.
Flakpanzers pound the battlefield, mortars bomb relentlessly, bullets whistle in all directions, MG42 snipers spray Allied positions, while aerial combat and parachute drops take place overhead. Buildings are in ruins and in flames.
The fear of being hit by a missile or a stray bullet is omnipresent...

The music is very 1940s, some of it brilliantly underlining the action moments,
as in a great movie paying tribute to valiant soldiers.
At times, listening to them gives you an indescribable sense of nostalgia,
especially when you're about to get reinforcements from the allies.
The game may be graphically outdated, using the Quake III engine,
but it's not without its charm.
Character animations are fairly robotic.
There are a few minor visual bugs to be deplored.
The absence of swastikas in favor of iron crosses is a pity.
The game is fairly easy even on the highest difficulty levels.

The Call Of Duty franchise is making a stunning entrance onto the war FPS scene.
Its realistic gameplay and great atmosphere make it one of the classics of the genre.
It's a safe bet that should be recommended to as many people as possible.

I did not see Joseph Stalin in the game
0/10 Shit game

to fucking hard theres no way anyone beat this

Very solid game, holds up well, cut-scenes are broken on windows 11 tho. Soundtrack was surprisingly good.