Over call of duty 3 stays to its roots of haveing the games classic fast paced single player campaign with loads of action on screen and great effects. The only problem with this, is the battles that you take place in are not very widely know and sort of lame. The game looks and sounds great, much better then past games. But where the game doesnt cash in is in its multiplayer. Cod2 was known for great online action where you could easily get into a game and get into it for hours. Unfortunately amping up the players in this one to 24 doesnt make things better, and the vehicles can be rather boring. It feels to much like a pc shooter now with just trying to add as many players as possible. The level designs are incredibly weak, and i dont know why they didnt take the maps from singplayer and put them into multiplayer. And the final part, the weapons. They sound great and all sound powerful, but are incredibly unbalanced. The Allies have an easy advantage with guns such as accuracy and stopping power. The axis guns sound strong but would be more useful as bb guns. Also leading to the teams being unbalanced with 16 players on allies and 6 on axis. If your planning on a great multiplayer expierience, cod3 isnt it. Single player however is this games strong point but could have easily been better.

When i had call of duty 2. That was cool. I also thought that Battlefield 2 was cool with its mutiplayer and vehical setup. But I dreamed of some how combining them to make what I see in call of duty 3. Great work creators

THis is obviously one of the best Call of Duty games up to date , but will it be enough to beat the rest of the new FPS games?

Call of Duty 2 came out as a launch title for the 360 and went on to become the best-selling 360 game. This firmly stated how superb the game was and that WWII first-person shooters still have something to offer. Now, almost exactly a year since the release of Call of Duty 2, we have the nerve-wrackingly intense Call of Duty 3. Call of Duty 3 focuses on four different armies as they try to defeat the German war machine in France. They are the British, Polish, American, and Canadian armies. Yes, there is a Canadian army and they did kick ass in WWII. The story ties them all up in cinematic pieces that feel right at home in this hellish war. And more remarkable than the cinematic graphics are the in-game graphics that look just as good. I was expecting more of a slight texture or resolution increase, but what I got was a complete facelift. This game truly shines amongst the other 360 games and shows you why you paid $400 for you new system. The area around you blurs when you aim down your sights, the pieces environment fly into the air after each grenade blast, and the amount of things happening on screen can give you a sensory overload. And the sound only adds to the visceral visual detail. Each explosion is loud and thunderous, every blood curdling scream (whether from your teammates or the Nazi you just shot) fill you with adrenaline, and the gun effects are perfect, especially the shotgun that silences everything around it. The only real complaint in the audio portion of the game is sometimes the music goes from John Williams to standard action movie cheese. However, it never interferes with gameplay and can be remedied through your own custom soundtrack. The gameplay, as I said, is intense. Yes, Call of Duty 2 was intense, but this is just plain nerve-wracking. In Call of Duty 2, you had a certain safety feeling. You could go to a box or wall, crouch, cover your flank, and pick off enemies in front of you. In this game, you no longer have that secure feeling. Enemies can come from anywhere at anytime and no one area is a safe zone. You will find yourself running from cover to cover evading the enemy while trying to take down the guys in front of you. Some places are somewhat safe, but you learn very quickly in this game that the developers are not trustworthy (and I mean that in the best of ways). They will throw overwhelming odds at you, blow up your only cover, and leave you in your chair soaking in your own sweat. Any safety you have ever felt in a shooter is gone. Particularly in the level called The Mace. That had me yellin Oh S---! more times than I care to admit. However, it is not a ridiculously hard game. The health regeneration and nicely placed checkpoints leave you to be still nervous in the game environment, but not frustrated. There are some problems in Call of Duty 3 that make it just a notch below Call of Duty 2. First off, the character movement isnt as fluid as it is COD 2. Moving your character is a little jerkier and you cant do a quick hop over low walls or out windows as you could in COD 2. Secondly, there are some glitches like people flying 7 feet into the air after shooting them with a rifle and getting stuck on small pieces of rubble. These glitches are very rare, but they do happen. And lastly, your friendly A.I. will often get in your line of fire when you aim down your sights and are about to kill an enemy. This is made worse by the fact that killing a teammate makes you start over from the last checkpoint. Overall, if you loved Call of Duty 2, buying this game is a no-brainer. It might not be as good as Call of Duty 2, but then again, what WWII shooter is?