OVERVIEW
Call of Duty 3 is (obviously) the thrid installment of the uber popular Call of Duty francise. The first COD came out on the PC a few years back and was praised for its intense WW2 action gameplay. Call of Duty 2 came out last year to PC and was a launch game for the Xbox 360. The game was also crittiacly acclaimed for the same fast paced WW2 action.
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Now, one year later, Infinity War (the creator or COD 1 & 2) has handed down the reignes to Treyarch (developer of COD United Offensive & COD2 Big Red one, cosole versions of COD2) for Call of Duty 3. All I have to say is that Teyarch should be given a medal for making a awsome game.

SINGLE PLAYER
The sinlgle player has the player take control of a Birttish, American, Canadian, and Polish soilder, (YES! The polish dream is alive) all across the France in the Normandy Breakout. What this means is that there is no more D-Day, no Egypt, nothing but France, and I have to say, France was hell in WW2.
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I havent completed all the levels yet, but I am afuly close and Im also afuly happy that I played this game. The first mission alone blew COD2 out of the water with about 100000 explosions in that level by itself. The levels are desinged very well and none of them seem simiar, which is good.

Some of the guns look quite different in COD3 then they did in COD2, which doesnt matter a whole lot but some people say they look too thin, I however do not. The gun models are very detailed and rather great looking. I was surprised about how much I just stood their picking up different guns just to see what they look like.

If you have played COD1 or 2 you should be able to jump right into the hard difficulty. But be careful if you do, when they say hard, they mean HARD. The different difficulties available are easy, normal, hard, and veteran. When you beat a level on veterian, you will be beyond happy.

Overall COD3 singleplayer is the best representaion of WW2 I have ever played.

MULTIPLAYER

Treyarch has redone multiplayer from the ground up to add 24 people to a game, classes, vechicles and new maps. And damn am I glad they did. WHen you get a 12 on 12 team battle game going online, you cant tell the difference between the super intense single player and the multiplayer.
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In COD2 the mutliplayer only allowed 4 on 4 play which dulled down to a sniper fest. COD3allows a whooping 24 people in a game, mixed with jeeps, motorcycles, and tanks and you get one hell of a multiplayer game.

The game modes are Battle and Team Battle, standard deathmatch and team deathmatch, capture the flag and single flag capture, headquarters, where you try to secure and cotroll a radio, and war. War is a very battlefield 2ish mode when there are 5 or 6 points on a map and who ever controlls all of them at once wins. The game modes are quite good.

There are 6 or 7 classes they each have a set of weapons. The classes are nothing new to videogames but they are a welcome addition. Also in OCD2 multiplayer the shotgun was a overpowered weapon, but now it takes 2 or 3 shots to kill someone rather than one shot.
Overall the multiplayer portion is just as good as singleplayer if not better.

OVERALL
BUY IT NOW!

Absolutely the best series on the market in my opinion. You can keep the futuristic games but I want reality killing. Consistantly this game delivers great graphics and awesome gameplay and COD3 takes it to another level.

Once you get to the castle mission let me know if you have seen anything like it before.

Great game!

Yea the castle mission is great but i had played alot of multiplayer games in that map and i though i was playing online.

Still havent taken it online yet.....i know, i know its great online now but I promised myself I would wait til i conquered the nazi scumbags again. The funny thing is we have dominated them year after year so now they make us beat them with the Canadians, French and Polish. Wonder who we will have to use in COD4......The Netherlands? At least Poland finally gets their sweet revenge for being the first country invaded and for taking a ton of punishment during that war.

I agree, COD3 has an excellent campaign mode and good LIVE support (unlike COD2).

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just picked-up the 360, gears of war, and cod3. i am not going to even open them until my new lg 60" plasma arrives. 3 dec. i hope i can hold out till then. i bought it for the kiddies but i can always find homework for them to do.

Great game, but the online portion will require some getting used to as they've change it to more of a Battlefield 2 type system where you pick your class, etc.
The integration of vehicles this time around was a great addition, as even in CoD 2: Big Red One for the original xbox had them.
Nice thorough review, by the way.

Some other problems with this game are the glitches. The enemies that can always see where you are, and my stupid teammates that leave me to do all the work. It's good game but these imperfections are a bothersome nuisance.

I find it fun to pick a AI person with you (in single player) and do your best to keep him alive. It can be pretty hard

I'm on the fence about this one. I enjoy it, but I'm having a hard time thinking it's a great game. I do enjoy the multiplayer, but the single player leaves me with a feeling of...ok. Let's do this again and again and again.

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