Call of Duty 2

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ON OTHER PLATFORMS: PC, Xbox360

GAME INFO
publisher: Activision
developer: Infinity Ward
genre: Shooters

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
PIV 1400, 512MB RAM, ATi Radeon 9200 / GeForce 4

ESRB rating: T
homepage:
www.callofduty.com

release date: Oct 25, 05 (released)

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ACTIONTRIP'S REVIEW It's settled. Done. The only development team that should ever be allowed to make WWII shooters anymore is Infinity Ward. The best way to clear a flooded market is to let the guys who know their stuff monopolize it...

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Call of Duty 2 Files

DEMOS	size	date
single-player demo	656MB	Sep 26, 05

PATCHES	size	date
v1.3 patch	37.4MB	Jun 08, 06

v1.2 patch	32.6MB	Apr 11, 06

v1.01 HTT patch	5.5MB	Dec 23, 05

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Call of Duty 2 Previews

»	Apr 22, 05 Call of Duty 2 First Look I am not the most pathetic person in the world. Really. I somehow manage to find an impossible connection between the game I'm writing about and the crazy train of my thoughts that had long ago abandoned the tracks of sanity. » MORE

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Call of Duty 2 News

»	Apr 08, 2010 EA Wants Infinity Ward Boss Well, who doesn't? According to a former Infinity Ward employee (ah, their number ever increases as time goes by), the sacked studio founder Vince Zampella is a "visionary. » MORE

»	Oct 07, 2009 Activision Never Wanted 'Modern Warfare' At some point in gaming history, the market got flooded with WWII based games - shooters most of them. It was time for change. Gamers knew this. Certain developers knew this. » MORE

»	Jun 02, 2009 360 Game Digital Distribution Starts in August Microsoft announced that Xbox 360 titles will soon be available to purchase and download. "We're launching full retail games on demand [this year]," said Microsoft general manager Mark Whitten. » MORE

»	Jun 23, 2008 Call of Duty 6 Heads Into Space? Look, nobody gave an official word on Call of Duty 6, so don't get excited yet. Infinity Ward did, however, let an interesting little detail slip pass. » MORE

Apr 22, 2008

Infinity Ward May Want CoD Back
Next-Gen.biz cites an ex-Activision Underground employee who claims that Infinity Ward -- creators of Call of Duty, Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare -- recently prompted a renegotiation of their contract with parent Activision in an effort to become the sole developer of the first-person shooter series.

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»	Dec 08, 2007 Call of Duty 5 Set in World War II? I sincerely hope not. But according to a job opening at Activision-owned development studio Treyarch, the next CoD game might (emphasizing the word 'might') return to the WW II setting. » MORE

»	Nov 05, 2007 What PC Gamers Play the Most These Days Things haven't changed much. Not according to GameSpy's list of top game servers. After all these years, people are still into the same classics. 1. Half Life - 38,821 servers, 131,490 players 2. » MORE

»	Apr 16, 2007 Most Wanted Multiplayer Games In my desperate search for interesting news, I came across GameSpy's list of top-20 multiplayer titles currently played by geeks everywhere. So, take a gander, if you're interested: 1. » MORE

»	Feb 27, 2007 Top 10 Best Selling PC Games (US) NPD releases a top-10 best selling PC games chart (for the US territory) for the week of February 11 - 17, 2007. Check it out: 1. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack - Vivendi $38 2. » MORE

»	Dec 08, 2006 New ATI CATALYST Drivers ATI/AMD has released the latest set of their CATALYST drivers. The most notable change in this release is full support for software-based CrossFire for Radeon X1900 owners. » MORE

»	Nov 07, 2006 Activision's 2nd Quarter Net Revenue up 45% Activision's 2nd Quarter Net Revenue was up 45%, from a projected 130 million dollars to an actual 188.2 million dollars. I bet they're feeling pretty happy. » MORE

»	Oct 12, 2006 Activision to Sell Call of Duty Titles and Gun over Steam Activision is jumping on the Steam bandwagon. The games they're going to start offering are Call of Duty, Call of Duty: United Offensive and Call of Duty 2, along with the poorly selling Gun. » MORE

»	Sep 12, 2006 Call of Duty 2 Sells a Million Copies on the 360 I've heard good things about Call of Duty 2 on the Xbox 360, but when I recently got my MacBook Pro, it was out, and I needed something to play, so I got it there. » MORE

»	Jun 12, 2006 Top-selling PC Games in May And here are some of the culprits for the drop in sales, so to speak. The top 20 best-selling PC games for the month of May: 1. Guild Wars Factions-NCSoft 2. » MORE

Jun 08, 2006

Call of Duty 2 Patch
The ladies and gents over at Activision and Infinium Labs have released the latest patch for Call of Duty 2. In short, the patch fixes some multiplayer game and level issues, raises the gamestate from 16k to 128k and addresses the PunkBuster GUID issue where players were not being assigned PunkBuster GUID's of exactly 32 characters.

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»	Apr 11, 2006 Call of Duty 2 Patch Good news from Activision. The Call of Duty 2 (PC) patch is ready to go. This update includes PunkBuster support and two new multiplayer maps: Rhine and Harbor. » MORE

»	Mar 23, 2006 Call of Duty 2 Patch Status It looks like the PC patch for Call of Duty 2 is still some ways off. Bluesnews is reporting that the status of the patch was downgraded from "soon" to "upcoming. » MORE

»	Feb 28, 2006 Top 10 US (PC) Check it out, NPD Group released an almost-Sims-free list of the top 10 best selling PC games in the US, for the week ending Feb. 18: 1. Star Wars: Empire at War - LucasArts 2. » MORE

Feb 22, 2006

Call of Duty 2 Ads Banned in the UK as Misleading
This is very interesting in a way. Eurogamer is reporting that the UK-based Advertising Standards Authority has ordered Activision to cut TV ads for Call of Duty 2, as they were showing pre-rendered rather than in game footage from the game.

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»	Feb 13, 2006 Oh Lord of Darkness, we summon the Console Watch Here is Console Watch Such a moving experience Smapdey is your God Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy Announced: This time you get to control vehicles too! Was the original any good? It seemed to have sold quite well. » MORE

»	Jan 25, 2006 US Top 10 (PC) According to NPD Group, here are the 10 best selling PC titles in the US, for the week ending Jan 14. 1. World Of Warcraft - VU Games 2. The Sims 2 - Electronic Arts 3. » MORE

»	Jan 19, 2006 Last Year's Best Selling PC Titles According to market research conducted by NPD Group, 2005 U.S. retail sales of PC game software reached $953 million, as opposed to $1.1 billion in 2004 (which is actually, a 14% decrease). » MORE

»	Jan 11, 2006 Sims 2 Tops the Charts The NPD Group has released the latest list of the top-selling PC games in the US for the week ending December 31. Holiday shoppers ruin New Year: 1. The Sims 2 - Electronic Arts 2. » MORE

»	Jan 04, 2006 Top selling PC Games in the US Something you've all anxiously been waiting for. The list of the top-selling PC games in the US for the week of 12/17/05 (courtesy of NPD Techworld). Thanks, VE3D. » MORE

»	Dec 21, 2005 That's Four 'Sims' Titles Too Many Ah, no news update would be complete without NPD's precious best-seller lists. Here we go: the top 10 best selling PC games in the US for the week ending Dec. » MORE

»	Dec 16, 2005 Xbox 360 Sales Data for Everyone to See The NPD group has released its Xbox 360 sales data for the month of November. Bear in mind of course that these summaries are only based on data from mid-to-late November, given that the console was launched on the 22nd of that month. » MORE

»	Dec 13, 2005 Top selling PC Games in the US Ensemble's past efforts are paying off with interest, given the stellar sales of Age of Empires III. The list of the top 10 best-selling PC games in the US for the week ending Dec. » MORE

Dec 12, 2005

Activision Responds to CoD 2 Fans' Strike Threats
This is pretty bizarre news in a way. You'd expect Activision to offer topnotch support for one of their most important franchises. Eurogamer is reporting: "Activision has responded to Call of Duty 2 fans who threatened to shut down servers by embarking on a 24 hour strike.

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»	Dec 01, 2005 Top-selling PC Games Look at this from a bright side, at least the original Sims are not on the list any more. 1. Age Of Empires III - Microsoft 2. Civilization IV - 2K Games 3. » MORE

»	Nov 15, 2005 New NVIDIA ForceWare Drivers NVIDIA releases new ForceWare drivers to coincide with the launch of the 512MB version of their flagship card, 7800GTX. These drivers also improve performance in Quake 4 and Call of Duty 2. » MORE

»	Nov 09, 2005 Civilization IV Tops Sales Charts in the US Week ending Oct. 29. It looks like Civilization IV takes the top spot if we consider the overall number of units sold. 1. Age Of Empires III - Microsoft 2. » MORE

Oct 31, 2005

PC Games "Getting Their Place Under the Sun"
It boggles the mind that bigger game retailers haven't done this already, but at least it shows that PC gaming is being taken more seriously. From The Chicago Tribune (registration required to read the full article): "Many [GameStop] stores have demo kiosks for consoles such as the PlayStation 2 or Nintendo DS so gamers can try before they buy.

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»	Oct 25, 2005 Spike TV Video Game Circus Spike TV Video Game Awards, if you still have any shred of respect left for our industry I strongly advise you to gouge your eyes out rather than watch this show (I deliberately won't mention when it airs). » MORE

»	Oct 19, 2005 Nvidia to use Call of Duty 2 as Bait Nvidia and Call of Duty 2 are teaming up. Nvidia announced today that it had won the rights to bundle Call of Duty 2 with its graphics processors. The deal makes Nvidia the preffered platform for Call of Duty 2. » MORE

»	Sep 28, 2005 Mornin' Gamers are mostly jaded. I fall into that category too, especially when it comes to WWII shooters. However... I really enjoyed the Call of Duty 2 demo. » MORE

»	Sep 27, 2005 Call of Duty 2 Demo Benchmarks AMDZone has put up some Call of Duty 2 demo benchmark numbers. They tested this puppy using a beast of a system and two top-of-the-line video cards, an NVIDIA 7800GTX and ATI's X850XT PE. » MORE

»	Sep 26, 2005 Call of Duty 2 Demo! Well, well, well... this was a cool surprise! A few hours ago, the gents at Activision sent us this 656MB single-player demo of Infinity Ward's upcoming WWII shooter sequel, Call of Duty 2. » MORE

»	Aug 29, 2005 "Band of Brothers" Stars in Call of Duty 2 I got a press release from Activision, announcing the lineup of Hollywood stars that are going to be lending their voices to the characters in Call of Duty 2. » MORE

»	Aug 03, 2005 Call of Duty 2 (PC) Shots More new shots to come out of the Activate Asia event - two new shots from the PC version of Call of Duty 2. » MORE

»	Jul 12, 2005 New Call of Duty 2 Screenshots Activision sends along two new Call of Duty 2 screenshots. The one in the awkward resolution is an Xbox 360 shot and the other one is from the PC version. » MORE

»	Jun 29, 2005 Call of Duty 2 Shots Activision has released two new screenshots from Call of Duty 2 (they are oddly dated June 13th), depicting once again a scene from the Point du Hoc landing. » MORE

»	Jun 13, 2005 New Call of Duty 2 Shots Activision has sent us two new shots from Infinity Ward's upcoming WWII shooter sequel, Call of Duty 2. These are stills from the E3 presentation. Check 'em out. » MORE

»	May 31, 2005 Call of Duty 3 Info Even though Call of Duty 2 isn't even out yet, Infinity Ward is looking for a Senior Programmer "interested in creating cutting edge games on both the PC and all of the new next-generation console platforms. » MORE

»	May 19, 2005 Great Games Galore! (G3) OK, you folks don't want to miss this. Our hands-on reports on some pretty kick ass games. Well, some are anyway: The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction HANDS-ON PREVIEW F. » MORE

May 18, 2005

E3: First Day Impressions
This place is a goddamn ZOO if ever I've seen one. This is probably the biggest crowd at E3 I have ever seen. There are so many sweaty, fat people and just total freaks that the whole place looks like an inside of a monkey cage, rather than a civilized trade show.

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»	May 10, 2005 New Call of Duty 2 Shot Activision sent us a single new screenshot from Call of Duty 2. Yes, I know it's a World War II FPS, but I'm really giddy about this one. Sort of like how Smapdey feels around women with PMS. » MORE

»	May 09, 2005 Rise of Nations 2 to be... different... Rise of Nations 2 is going to come out, and apart from the fact that it will be a strategy game, and have the same name as Rise of Nations, not much else will be the same. » MORE

»	May 06, 2005 Quake 4 and Call of Duty 2 This Year According to this blurb on Yahoo, we're gonna be playing Quake 4 and Call of Duty 2 before the end of this year. Both titles are expected to be released for the upcoming holiday season. » MORE

»	Apr 20, 2005 Awesome Looking Call of Duty 2 Shots Activision sent us three Call of Duty 2 shots; they are high-res and really show off the features of Infinity Ward's new proprietary 3D engine, which if I may say so, looks bloody superb. » MORE

Apr 07, 2005

Infinity Ward Working on Call of Duty 2
Activision sends word that Infinity Ward is hard at work on developing the sequel to Call of Duty. Here's what they had to say: The sequel to the award-winning Call of Duty™, Call of Duty 2 is powered by a proprietary new engine featuring striking new visuals, advanced A.

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