Call of Duty 2

How Call of Duty felt before Modern Warfare. By Kyle Hoekstra.

Old games, new perspectives RELEASE 2005 DEVELOPER Infinity Ward PUBLISHER Activision LINK callofduty.com It’s 2005 and I’m strapped into the back of a truck, driving once more into a North African town in the level The End of the Beginning in the demo for Call of Duty 2. Ahead, El Daba is masked by desert haze and a grave instrumental underscores the nervous energy of boys from the 7th Armoured Division. Suddenly fighter planes are swooping above, the tank ahead explodes along with the Tommies who were riding it, and your driver swerves to avoid the wreckage as it chugs smoke over the landscape. This is the kind of non-interactive, bombastic spectacle which would define the series – not always to its credit. But here, as I replayed the demo…

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