Call of Duty

November 6, 2003 October 29, 2003

Windows , macOS , Nokia N-Gage , PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 as Call of Duty Classic

Game mode

control

Keyboard , mouse

system advantages
preconditions

CPU: 700 MHz
RAM : 128 MB
Graphics card : 32 MB RAM
Hard disk : 1.4 GB of free space

medium

CDs , DVD , download

Current version

Client: 1.5 (Windows, Mac)
Server: 1.5 (Linux, Windows, Mac)

Age rating

USK

PEGI

information

No anti-constitutional symbols in the USK version

The game does not tell a coherent backstory. Rather, the player takes on the role of soldiers from various allied nations in episodes and fights in partly fictional but mostly historical battles. On the American side, they are involved in the great invasion of Normandy ( Operation Overlord ). As a British one conquers and defends the Pegasus Bridge ( Operation Tonga ) and sabotages the battleship Tirpitz . In the final campaign, you control a Soviet soldier who has to drive the Germans out of Stalingrad again - this scene is borrowed from the film Duel - Enemy at the Gates , in which you are also driven over the Volga to the ruined city on a boat under fire . The game ends when the red flag is raised on the Reichstag building .

The atmosphere in Call of Duty is rated as very good by some game magazines ( GameStar , PC Games ). For example, the sounds of the guns were recorded when the originals from the Second World War were tested. Call of Duty has won several “Game of the Year” awards.

Call of Duty has a multiplayer mode to play against and with other human participants on the network. In the multiplayer mode, the side of the Axis powers can also be played. The game modes are: Deathmatch (everyone against everyone), Team Deathmatch (two teams against each other), Search and Destroy (one team has to complete an order, the other prevent this order, such as planting and detonating a bomb, similar to Counter-Strike ), Retrieval (a team tries to steal an object and bring it to its base) and Behind Enemy Lines (an allied team competes against an overwhelming number of players on the Axis team and tries to survive as long as possible. The player on the Axis side, the an ally succeeds in shooting, exchanges roles with him). The maps are often variations of the single player missions. Therefore, it is also in the professional e-sports found range. The multiplayer mode of this version can be monitored by the anti cheat software PunkBuster , if desired .

Many of the developers come from the team that developed Medal of Honor: Allied Assault , which in turn is largely based on the film Saving Private Ryan .

United Offensive (add-on)

The Call of Duty - United Offensive expansion has been available since October 2004. In addition to new cards, it also contains new types of weapons, such as a bazooka for the Americans or the flamethrower for the Germans. What is particularly striking compared to other games in the CoD series is that you can control various tanks , jeeps and artillery pieces in multiplayer - sometimes together with several players. There are no classes, so a new country-specific weapon (German, American, English and Russian) can be chosen after each character's death. In this add-on it is also possible to sprint, boil grenades and - as soon as you have reached the highest rank - to spot targets in battle with the help of binoculars and to bomb them with artillery (which is then remotely controlled). There are a considerable number of game modifications ( mods for short ) that have been created by fans to expand the game itself.

For each new round, all players always start with the same rank. With enough kills you can be promoted up to five times, which above all brings more ammunition and ultimately the ability to call the artillery . All weapons can be selected at the start of the round - a few weapons (bazookas, flamethrowers, ...) can only be picked up while playing.

There are new multiplayer modes ( capture the flag : each team tries to steal the opponent's flag and bring it to its own flag), basic attack (each team must secure its own three bases and destroy those of the opponent at the same time), domination (five neutral flag points must be captured).

In the 13 new missions you play e.g. B. an American soldier during the Battle of the Bulge , a gunner of a British "Fortress Mk.1" ( Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress"), who (after his bomber was shot down over Holland ) joins the Dutch resistance and then goes to Special Air Service is promoted. In the following Russian campaign you play as a soldier who takes part in the Battle of Kursk ( Operation Citadel ). The graphics engine was changed and provided with new effects.

Call of Duty: Finest Hour

December 2, 2004

Xbox , PlayStation 2 , GameCube

Game mode

Age rating

USK

PEGI

information

No anti-constitutional symbols in the USK version

Call of Duty: Finest Hour is a game for the Xbox , PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube consoles . It was published on December 2, 2004. The Xbox and PS2 versions can also be played online. You can choose from the three major allied powers, the USA, Great Britain and the USSR. The campaign includes first the USSR in Stalingrad, then Great Britain in North Africa and finally the USA in Aachen.

Call of Duty 2

November 3, 2005 October 25, 2005

Windows , macOS , Xbox 360

Game mode

control

Keyboard , mouse , gamepad

system advantages
preconditions

CPU : 1.4 GHz
RAM : 512 MB
Graphics card: from ATi Radeon 9200 or GeForce 4

medium

CD-ROM , DVD-ROM , download

Age rating

USK

PEGI

information

Latest version: 1.3; USK version shortened

The sequel Call of Duty 2 was released on November 3, 2005 and was not rated for young people . The cost of developing the game was $ 14.5 million, with voice recording accounting for 8 percent of the budget ($ 1.16 million). About half a year after the Windows version, Call of Duty 2 for Mac OS X celebrated its German premiere at MacExpo 2006.

Single player mode

During the development of the game, the plot of the film Duel - Enemy at the Gates was taken as a basis, many situations and material-related events from the film were incorporated into the missions around Stalingrad.

The plot ties in with the stereotypical concept: This time four soldiers from three countries fight in a group against the Germans in the war years 1941 to 1945. As a young Russian private Vasili Ivanovich Koslov, the player recaptures Stalingrad. With the British Sergeant John Davis it goes then to the African continent to El-Alamein and Libya in a tank battle of the 7th Panzer Division, to Tunisia and back to the French Caen . In between, the player as British tank commander David Welsh takes over the control of a Crusader tank in the Libyan desert in two missions . The end is contested with the American Corporal Bill Taylor of the 2nd US Ranger Battalion on D-Day on the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc . Then you make your way to Bergsteiner Burgberg (Germany) and cross the Rhine .

You can play the game with both DirectX 7 and 9.

Multiplayer mode

The multiplayer mode includes the modes Deathmatch , Team Deathmatch , Capture the Flag , Search and Destroy and Headquarters .

Thanks to a patch, some cheats can now be proven and the players concerned are excluded from playing ("banned") on the servers. The lock is linked to the game's serial number, so it's not easy to bypass.

With patch 1.2, the anticheat software PunkBuster was integrated on the PC . Despite these countermeasures, cheaters are always finding ways to bypass them - so-called wallhacks (allowing you to see through walls) and aimots (aiming with the mouse, e.g. directly on the opponent's head) are used.

Call of Duty 2: Big Red One

November 17, 2005 November 1, 2005

Gamecube , Xbox , PlayStation 2

Game mode

Controller

information

USK version shortened

The game was released for the GameCube , Xbox and PlayStation 2 consoles in autumn 2005 and was not approved for young people. For the first time, the game breaks with the concept of its predecessor: In contrast to CoD 1 and 2, you are a soldier of a unit throughout the game: Fighting 1st , who are also called Big Red One because of their association badges . Similar to Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault , the missions are not timed linearly: At the end of the first mission in 1944 you are seriously injured, after which virtual life is rewound in your mind's eye until 1942. Here you start your career as a private in North Africa. After 13 missions in the desert and France, you finally end up in Germany in the last year of the war ( Siegfried Line ). Multiplayer battles can be played on Xbox and PS2 over the Internet with a total of 16 players on eleven maps. A short summary is shown on the news broadcast at the end and beginning of a mission. The voice in the English version belongs to Mark Hamill , who starred in The Big Red One . Various actors from the miniseries Band of Brothers - We were like brothers gave voice to the other characters in the unit.

Call of Duty 3

November 9, 2006 ( Xbox , Xbox 360 )
November 23, 2006 ( PlayStation 2 )
December 8, 2006 ( Wii )
March 29, 2007 ( PlayStation 3 )

Xbox, Xbox 360, Playstation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii

Game mode

Controller

information

No anti-constitutional symbols in the USK version

Call of Duty 3 was available from the end of 2006 for the Xbox , Xbox 360 , PlayStation 2 and Wii consoles , and from March 2007 also for the PlayStation 3 .

It takes place in occupied France , whereby in the single player campaign only soldiers of the Allies can be controlled.

The versions for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 have an online multiplayer mode for up to 24 and 16 players respectively.

One of the biggest differences to Call of Duty 2 is the ability to operate vehicles such as motorcycles, off-road vehicles and tanks (both German and Allied).

In terms of graphics and sound, the Xbox 360 version in particular has been revised again. One free and five paid add-on cards for online games are available through Xbox Live.

Call of Duty: Roads to Victory