Current version:Xbox 360
Call of Duty 2

Call of Duty 2

Call of Duty 2 is a Xbox 360 shooter game released in 2005 developed by Infinity Ward. It centers on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, combat encounters, and area and route exploration, with controls and information arranged around the Xbox 360 wired or wireless controller's twin sticks, analog triggers, directional pad, and face buttons.

AI score · out of 10
8.3 / 10
View review
My list

Reading your list from this browser…

About this game

Call of Duty 2 is a Xbox 360 shooter game centered on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, combat encounters, and area and route exploration. Missions pace progress through enemy waves, routes, objectives, and weapon opportunities, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Aiming feedback, projectiles, hits, and danger zones need to remain readable, while HD video, DVD streaming, surround audio, HDD installs, and television-distance interfaces need to keep action, state, and text readable. The genre-specific limitation is that camera turning, aiming methods, dense encounters, and peripheral support can increase control pressure. Platform conditions also include disc and HDD installation, storage devices, controller batteries, video connections, resolution and frame rate, Kinect space and calibration, and retired online services affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.

Collected in series

Call of Duty is a military first-person shooter series spanning historical battles and fictional conflicts. You move between cover, aim and fire under pressure, whether following a cinematic mission or contesting objectives against other players. Different branches add their own emphasis, including cooperative Zombies survival.

Recommended games

Related game recommendations on this platform

Xbox 360

AI review

AI reviews are subjective assessments, not player ratings. See each review for its evidence and limitations.Published date:

8.3 / 10Xbox 360

Smooth 360 combat and split-screen, with small launch lobbies.

The Xbox 360 launch version of Call of Duty 2 preserves the Russian, British and American campaign, linking assaults and defensive stands through cover recovery, weapon-range choices and smoke screens. The controller offers quick iron-sight changes and separate grenade access, though it omits the PC version’s corner lean. Ten missions keep changing place and objective over roughly ten hours, even if the character narrative remains episodic. The direct 360 review confirms four-player split-screen with smooth motion. At launch, online rooms were limited to eight players, leaving some large maps thinly populated; that historic limit says nothing about current Xbox Live access. Documentary introductions, dense smoke and detailed HD environments give the fighting scale, with gunfire and squad calls making good use of surround sound. The tested 360 build stayed smooth even through crowded scenes, unlike the reviewer’s more demanding PC experience, while standard-definition output sacrificed some sharpness. These platform observations support an independent 360 judgment rather than a transferred PC score.

Strengths

  • Smoke tactics, three fronts and HD presentation work together.

Weaknesses

  • No corner lean; eight-player launch lobbies thin out maps.

Who it is for: Players seeking WWII pad shooting and local split-screen.

Play notes: 2005 Xbox 360 build only; current Xbox Live status is unverified.

View scoring basis
DimensionReview stateScoreWeight
Dimension

战役多样,本地玩法有用,线上规模受限。

Reviewed7.9 / 10Not provided
Dimension

战斗取舍明确,少一种掩体动作。

Reviewed8.5 / 10Not provided
Dimension

视听有效放大战场。

Reviewed8.5 / 10Not provided
Dimension

目标平台运行稳,显示模式有取舍。

Reviewed8.3 / 10Not provided

Review sources

Not provided

Core information

Developer
Infinity Ward
Publisher
Activision
Release date
2005
Platforms
Xbox 360
Content kind
Game
Release state
Released
Region
Worldwide
Official website
Not provided
Offline minimum players
Not provided
Offline maximum players
Not provided
Online minimum players
Not provided
Online maximum players
Not provided
Tags
3D GraphicsDodgeThird PersonExplorationWarFast-pacedLinear LevelsShootingSolo-friendlyReplayablePlayer versus EnvironmentReal-time Combat
Supported game languages
Not provided
Requires base game
Not provided
Standalone
Not provided
Age ratings
Not provided
Play modes
MultiplayerSingle player
Perspectives
First person

Release editions

Sources

Not provided