Call of Duty 3 – The game we missed
It’s no secret that from ancient times the most popular game platform in our area is a PC. Actually, for this reason, a lot of good games passed by “us”. For example, Call of Duty 3, about which my today’s blog will be.
What is Call of Duty?
Years go, times are changing, but one thing remains constant – Call of Duty. Yes, we can talk about the quality of specific games for a long time, but nevertheless, the franchise is still on the go and is still popular. But she for a minute, imagine, very soon she will hit 20 years.
For all this time, “we” participated in different military conflicts and saved the world several times. The last decade was dedicated to the wars of modernity and the future, both nearest and distant, and there were only two games about the second world – WWII and Vanguard .
Eh, before everything was completely different … We can say that the setting of the Second World War just made Call of Duty known in wide circles.
What was the key to success? Everything is very simple: pseudoralism, cinematography, variety of gaming and non -game situations.
Unlike the science fiction shooters a la Half-Life, Doom or Quake, Medal of Honor (everything began with her) and Call of Duty looked “more natural”. You understand, getting used to the role of a soldier of the Soviet Army is much easier than in a silent scientist.
An additional factor that popularized the games on the theme of VMV was military films of those years as foreign – “Save the ordinary Ryan” and “Enemy at the Gate”, and domestic, such as “saboteur”.
For a long time everything was good and successful, but at some point the players began to get tired of the setting. Well, it is impossible to play “the same thing” every year. “You need to change something”-I think this is exactly what Bobby Kotika said key employees of Infinity Ward after the release of Call of Duty 2 .
By the way, about the second license plate Call of Duty: years later, it seems to me that the key to her success was in many ways a non-cinema and that same cinema. Still, even the addition of United Offensive was more diverse.
However, this is not so important, t. To. Still, it is Call of Duty 2 that is the “swan song” of shooters on the theme of World War II. Yes, after it there were others-Medal of Honor: Airborne and Call of Duty: World at War, for example, but in my opinion, they didn’t look convincing that now now.
The same unanimified diamond
So, while Jason West and Vince Zampella in his “Workshop” prepared a “new evolution” in the Juper genre, the pause was supposed to fill the game from Treyarch-another Call of Duty on the theme of World War II.
The new part even received a serial number, although before that the studio issued mainly additions. And even more unexpectedly and surprisingly, she never reached the PC – the only number.
Why this happened? Honestly, I don’t even know … Perhaps the point is some kind of temporary exclusivity, which, alas, has become constant. Of course, there is an assumption that Activision did not want to release another “same” Call of Duty, especially since it was objectively weaker than the previous one. However, this non -argument with a bang fails, t. To. In 2008, World At War exit.
Okay, it’s not so important. Let’s better talk about the game.
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One of the largest mysteries in my childhood was “why, after Call of Duty 2, a fourth part came out at once” … and none of my surroundings knew the answer. Only then, after years and with the advent of the Internet, did I learn the whole “bitter truth”. The verdict was cruel-exclusive consoles of the 6th and 7th generations.
In principle, I can’t say that I was very upset: then I was already interested in shooters about the Second World War. Still, at one time, I played enough in them. Actually, that’s why I forgot about Call of Duty 3 for many years.
But with the advent of PlayStation 3 in my life, interest resumed again.
“Play or not to play,” I thought. Of the few reviews that I found, it was very difficult to add a full picture. Some said that this was almost the worst Call of Duty in history, others were less categorical in their sayings. It was clear: you won’t play – you will not recognize.
And now, the game is already on my console and is ready to launch.
Not particularly special
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So what is the game offering us? And she offers us a fairly standard menu for Call of Duty of those years in the form of several campaigns, but with some delights – instead of Soviet, Canadian and Polish are represented. A very correct solution, in my opinion, is in this way something is introduced at least partially new into the setting already familiar to all of us.
Another so -called innovation was that the game is completely devoted to one event – the Falez operation.
As a result of the success of the Cobra operation, American troops advanced from the Norman bridgehead south, southeast and Brittany, while the British and Canadians put pressure on the Germans at Canadian. Adolf Hitler ordered the commander of the German troops on this front to Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge to counterattack near Morten, at the same time not allowing the troops from any of the other sections. During this offensive (Operation Luttih), the remains of four tank divisions (all that was able to collect von Kluge) could not provide proper onslaught on the 1st Army of the United States. Moreover, the German troops were covered from the flanks, which put them in an extremely dangerous position. Using this, on August 8, the commander of the Union forces, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, ordered his armies to advance in order to unite in the Fales -Shambaa area. 1st American from the south, the 2nd British and 1st Canadian armies from the north began to surround the Germans who did not leave their positions until August 17. On August 19, the ticks of the allies closed in Shambua, but their forces were stretched. The 1st Polish Armored Division blocked the exit from the encirclement of the encirclement was attacked from both the West and the East;Through her positions, German troops broke through for two more days.
On August 21, the exit from the boiler was completely closed, there were about 50,000 German soldiers inside. Although a significant part of the German troops managed to get out of the environment, their losses in manpower and technology were irreparable. Two days later, the allies took Paris, on August 30, the last German units crossed the Saint, thereby marked the completion of the Operation Opertlord.
So, the question “why, instead of individual scenarios of the allied mission, are not worth it”. As for me everything is very harmoniously filed. By the way, there are 15 of them.
When playing for Americans and Canadians, we will storm some fortifications for most of the time and clean the firing points. For Poles, the game offers to take control of the M4 Sherman tank-one of the “heroes of the war” along with our “thirty-fourth”. British is devoted to tasks in the rear of the enemy. By the way, I have a number of questions to her.
The problem is that there is a fiercely arresting stealth or at least half -strostels, and instead I am again “running and shooting” here again. Firstly, this would make even more diversity, and secondly, it is more realistic, t. To. SAS – intelligence, not assault detachments. In any case, Call of Duty 3 would only benefit.
So for what is worth playing?
Get ready! Aim! PL!
Get ready! Aim! PL!
Get ready! Aim! PL!
Get ready! Aim! PL!
As mentioned above, the third number of the series is largely a completely standard, unremarkable shooter, but a logical question arises: “Why did your humble servant spent his precious time on writing a blog about such a game”?
But why. The fact is that in addition to the “compulsory program” and pokatushki on technology, the game is able to offer us a completely new game experience. The phrase “on the fingertips” is the best suited here.
Speaking in more detail, some of the actions in the game were tied to a gyroscope and accelerometer. For example, to give the fascist between the eyes, you need to simulate a real blow to the gamepad. At first it is very unusual, but over time it really delivers.
Further – more, standard buttons, familiar to us, also did not bypass. Now, in order to bring a mortar or artillery gun, you need not only to move the steel back and forth and left and right, but it is necessary to really twist the “fungi” by hourly or counterclockwise. At that moment I was just stunned. Immersion is simply at an unreal level. And note, for this it was not required to feature adaptive triggers, “petals” or something else. As they say, everything is brilliant – just. You just need to think a little.
And what is there with graphics?
4K very strongly transforms the game
Let’s just say, play PlayStation 2 and the original Xbox I still do not advise, t. To. Visually, everything is sad there, and the frame rate is also greatly lame.
With PlayStation 3, the situation is somewhat better: SubHD perception (1088 × 624), two-time AA and 30 FPS (often sags). I went through this version. In principle, plus minus is normal. I did not notice some very very hard brakes, and plus minus is played well. On the Xbox 360 everything is about the same, except that the game has a little lower than the resolution (1040 × 624), but at the same time 60 frames (yes, also with subsidence). If you have a sewn box or a bad, and you have not yet played this game, then try, at least for these gameplay innovations.
But perhaps the best Expirence from Call of Duty 3 can be obtained by playing on the consoles Xbox One and Xbox Series. “Younger” s will offer you Full HD, and more powerful X – full -fledged 4K. And all this is good in 60 frames.
Yes, of course, new more clear textures and rich effects to “get” it anywhere, alas, it will not work, but increased resolution, in any case, will make the picture more attractive.
But unfortunately, there is one small nuance: on the Xbox One and Xbox Series, there will be no buns tied on a gyroscope and an axelorometer, t. To. Games go in reverse compatibility mode with the Xbox 360, where in the gamepad simply neither one nor the other was brought. In all other versions with PlayStation 3 are identical.