Are you ready for some more war action?? WELL ARE YOU?? PUNK! Because if you aren't then
  best pack your bags and head for a small coral island some place. Finding the demo of Call of
  Duty, I thought I'd give it a bash and take some snaps along the way. The more astute of you may
  realise that I have used the shareware version of hypersnap for these screenshots you see here.
  While hypersnap shareware is good it puts that annoying "pay me now" message in the top Left corner
  of the screen and also chooses to include the mouse pointer in every snap. Yeah...Great. That aside
  Lets get into the demo and what it shows of the game. Not so many screenshots this time around,
  I'm really trying to cut down on article production time to get them done in a reasonable amount
  of time.

  The very first thing you notice is how EXTREMELY this game looks like Medal of Honour Allied Assault.
  As soon as I started the demo I could have been in a mission pack for MOH:AA without any trouble
  whatsoever. Immediately you can see that a lot of effort has gone onto producing this game. A lot!
  You begin the game a small way away from a town with planes fying overhead getting shot down by the
  anti aircraft guns situated in the town. To get the outlying buildings of the town you have to run
  hell across an open field getting pummelled with enemy gunfire and bombs from above. The field
  is full of craters and also has some dead cows strewn about that you can also hit the dirt behind
  to get some Goddamn cover. You go through the mission with a squad of men, but you only look out
  for yourself. The other guys are computer controlled. However, you wouldn't realise it. At NO
  point was I left shaking my head at stupid computer controlled guys doing suicidal things which is a
  very nice change. The guys will even tell you what to do. Shoot that guy! Clear out that upper
  Storey! The mission flowed extremely well with absolutely NO AI isuues that I could see.
  You are the lynchpin for the squad. The guys will keep laying down a blanket of covering fire,
  thats right, COVERING FIRE, until you are able to clear out the cowering enemy, stuck behind
  a half ruined wall. Call of duty uses the concept of covering fire to extremely good effect. I
  Don't think I've yet seen a game that uses coving fire as a tactical playcard you can use to progress
  through the level. The suspense it creates is fabulous. You yourself are stuck behind a small piece
  of wall, with bullets hailing all around you. Your squad begins getting some covering fire into
  action and you dash out with a grnade in hand. Fling the grenade over the bad guy wall, switch to
  machine gun and start the hell shooting until you can duck behind something.




  Your eventual mission is to fight your way through the town in this manner so you can plant some
  explosives on the Anti Aircraft guns spewing a hail of fire into the sky. This was one of the most
  Awesome sights in the game, watching the tracer bullets fly from the AA gun into the night sky in a
  storm of yellow hell that lights up the whole goddamn countryside. Added to that is the thumping
  sound made as each round is fired off into the black yonder. If you have a decent 5.1 speaker system
  capable of a little noise then prepare your ears for this. But don't get too close to the goddamn
  things when they're going off. Your ears will die!


  Like MOH:AA. Call of duty uses the Quake 3 engine. Albeit HEAVILY modified. You will instantly
  notice the feel of the engine as soon as you crank the game. All Quake 3 Engine games have that
  certian feel that the engine itself gives the game. It's something that I really can't explain, but
  it's like you have a feeling that you know the engine that made the game. Like you never mix up
  between games built with the Unreal engine and Q3 egine. They just look and feel different. Hardcore
  gamers will know what I mean. After a recent spate of games such as Unreal 2, the textuing used in the
  game actually starts to look a little tired. We've seen SOOO many games like this now. The textuing
  is as good as any game out there, certainly on a level with MOH:AA or any Q3 engined game for that
  matter. With the possible exception of Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast. Take a look in the Jedi Temple and
  you'll see what I mean. So the texturing is about as good as the Q3 engine can make it which, admittedly
  is beginning to look tired. Time for the DooM III engine to hit town. However, it's not the eye candy
  that makes the game.
However there is some EXTREMELY good lighting effects used in the game. I've
  already mentioned the AA guns lighting up the night sky. But also you will notice the doomy orange
  glow that escapes for buildings that are on fire. Really something to behold. I suspect that the
  whole lighting engine has had some serious work for the creation of this game.




  The geometric complexity of the game is about what you'd expect from any Quake 3 engined game. Kinda
  blocky. But only Kinda. The level designers have really worked with the engine in this respect and
  only produced environments that the egine can handle. Which are nothing to be sneezed at by any
  means. It's no DooM III. But neither is it Renegade. Geometric complexity is again, about the level
  you saw with MOH:AA.

  Call of duty is goung to make it's mark with gameplay. It is very easy to see that the game has been
  made with gameplay as it's chief drawcard. All aspects of the game are a very high standard, but nothing
  we havn't seen before. The difference will be the gameplay. You are harried along through the missions
  without a thought of being able to get bored. The game adds an element of tension and rush as you craftily
  work you way through the level. You are able to aim using the iron sights on the weapon you carry. You
  put the gun right up to your eye and peer down the length of it with the baddy stabbed by that little marker
  on the end of the barrel and pull the trigger. This will greatly improve your accuracy and is good for when
  the enemy fools poke their heads out to shoot at you. Tactical elements like this are what adds so much to
  Call of duty. Make no mistake it is a VERY good game. I made it through the demo in about 15 minutes and
  was left wanting more. Many demo's I simply delete after about 5 minutes with a disappointed shake of my
  head. Not this time. If you enjoyed MOIH:AA. Call of duty is for you. If you are sick of Q3 enine
  war games, at least try the demo. You'll get sucked in.

Graphics 8.0 / 10
Level Design 8.5 / 10
Sound 9.0 / 10
Enemies 8.0 / 10
Detail 7.0 / 10
Gameplay 8.5 / 10
Addictiveness 8.0 / 10

OVERALL SCORE 57.0 / 70

               81.43%

REVIEW SYSTEM

AMD Athlon Thoroughbred A 2200+ (1800mhz)
LEADTEK Geforce FX 5900 Ultra Graphics card
1024mb PC 3200
200 gig Western Digital Hard Drive 7200rpm
ABIT NF7-s Revision 2 Motherboard.
Soundblaster Audigy 1 Sound Card