Away from the scampering down side-streets and the more intuitive ways that Allies use cover, this means that there are far fewer moments in which everyone stands around waiting for you to cross an invisible marker and even, miracle of miracles, enemies that get shot by a hand other than your own. The Al of COD2 propels it above and beyond its predecessor since it brings a real feeling of organic battle - the activity of friend and foe alike don't need to be scripted anymore. Although, then again, there was a moment in the Russian campaign in which four Nazis did push forward down the opposite side of the street while I was otherwise occupied, unhurriedly chucking a grenade as they did so, at which point that was exactly what I said. and Far Cry 'and then they flanked me and I was all like 1111! This game ROxxors!' tirade. And don't worry, this time I'm not going to launch into another F.E.A.R. Not daring to stick my ahead above ground level once, this game is merciless, and far more so than the last offering.ДЄdding to the increased feeling of realism is the Al. It works wonderfully, and when I played through the fiendishly hard Pointe Du Hoc beach landing and cliff climbing level, I must have careered over it at least five times in markedly different ways before finally made it across - taking detours through bunkers, collapsing tunnels, gun emplacements, bomb holes, trenches and around ragdoll Germans doing backflips. More than ever COD2 sees Infinity Ward throwing the veil of faux-non-linearity over their levels - with different pathways, realistic street networks and gameplay that refuses to be relentlessly forwardpushing - often backtracking or having you pinned down in specific areas. Any other game would have a gaggle of Nazis mooching around at the end of a corridor -but here you can never tell where the boundaries of a map begin or end - you may as well be standing in real smouldering ruins in real locations. A farmhouse feels like a farmhouse, a beach feels like a beach, a battle raging through a town feels like a true 360-degree panorama of hell. Call of Duty 2 kicks this up more than a few notches. One of the many triumphs of Call Of Duty (silly traipsing around manor houses and dams aside) was that everything felt real. So I sit back in my chair, and slowly mouth the words 'Oh. When I do move I'm killed without ceremony, and

And there I stay, I simply don't want to move -despite my superiors screaming, 'Flank! Flank! and ever escalating chaos. Two minutes later, I'm cowering behind an upended cart, gunfire perforating my eardrums, and watching my comrades being cut into pieces all around me.

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