My first FPS and Call of Duty game, so I'm probably biased. The gameplay still feels very modern and fluid despite the game being nearly 2 decades old at the time of writing. There's a lot of missions which admittedly lack variety besides just shooting enemies and blowing stuff up. However, said shooting feels great that you don't mind doing solely that for the entirety of the game's runtime.
Where Call of Duty 2 improves over the first game is its larger scale, less scripted missions, more refined gameplay, and regenerating health as opposed to health kits. The larger levels like Demolition, End of the Beginning, and Hill 400 really makes the battles feel like the large scale engagements they were meant to depict, something that even current CoD games can't replicate.
The Back-2-Fronts mod really elevates the experience even further (even if it can kill some of the original vanilla style somewhat).
Where Call of Duty 2 improves over the first game is its larger scale, less scripted missions, more refined gameplay, and regenerating health as opposed to health kits. The larger levels like Demolition, End of the Beginning, and Hill 400 really makes the battles feel like the large scale engagements they were meant to depict, something that even current CoD games can't replicate.
The Back-2-Fronts mod really elevates the experience even further (even if it can kill some of the original vanilla style somewhat).