In CoD1, submachine guns were great for room clearing or close quarters combat, but they were worthless at medium and long ranges. Add on the heat-seeking lock on melee turbo mode, the Bayonet Charge, and close quarters combat with rifles loses any sense of frenzy as it turns into who is quickest to press the melee button for an instant kill without having to aim or be next to the enemy. In CoD WW2, all of these factors are negated due to attachments such as reflex scopes, reduced recoil, extended magazine capacity or whatever other attachments you use to make killing easier, such as quicker aim times or rapid fire. The M1 Garand in CoD1 is hard to use the iron sights obscure your vision, recoil is high, and only eight bullets in a magazine leave little room for error. But even using the same weapons feels very different between CoD1 and CoD WW2. For starters, CoD1 had a prevalence of bolt action and semi-automatic rifles, which makes the combat so much more challenging compared to everyone running around with fully automatic weapons. The frenzy continues, dancing around evading each other’s melee attacks until one of us finally connects and lands the killing blow.
In the confusion, I manage to cock my rifle for another shot, but I miss again. Down the street, someone with a Thompson starts firing at us, but at that range their submachine gun is ineffective, allowing us to run for cover. He swaps to his pistol to finish me off but manages to miss all seven bullets in his magazine due to our frantic dashing and dodging. I start trying to whack him with the but of my rifle, but there’s no lock on for melee, and I’m unsuccessful. We both have bolt action rifles, ill-suited for this close quarters combat and unable to continue firing. He returns the shot with his rifle and hits me in the arm, but it’s not enough to drop me. I see an enemy as I turn a corner, panicking and firing a shot but missing off to the side. Shooting people used to be harder, but it was also wacky and not as hyper-competitive.ĬoD1, to me, is running down the streets of Carentan with a rifle at my side. Despite being comically ridiculous, all of this Call of Dutyness directly contradicts what made CoD1 so fun. Sound familiar? In CoD WW2, you can play as a black female commando in the German army with a reflex sight on your silenced-rapid fire-extended-mag MP40. While I have enjoyed playing it, as I have with many others, I was quite disappointed to see CoD WW2 was mostly the same as every other recent CoD game its World War 2 setting is practically cosmetic and does not reflect its gameplay.
I was excited about the newly released CoD WW2 as I thought its gameplay would be more reminiscent of the originals.
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As such, I wanted to attempt to explain why I think the original CoD multiplayer with the United Offensive expansion was such a masterpiece and why all the newer multiplayer iterations of the series have lost what made CoD so special to me. I have so many fond memories playing CoD1 over LAN with my friends and brothers, and even to this day my friends and I sometimes play it at LANs and have a great time doing so.
Call of Duty (CoD), as a franchise, has become a bit of a joke, associated with vulgar teenage boys and dudebros, yet it was one of my favourite games growing up. When you think of Call of Duty, you probably think of 14-year-olds abusing each other over Xbox Live.