I have a confession to make. Despite my general crankiness about the game industry, as well as my increasingly picky taste, I have a soft spot for a bane of the industry: World War 2 shooters. Chalk it up to the fact I am a history buff with a desire to compare in-game depictions of certain battles and weaponry to reality. This weakness has led me to play some of the worst Medal of Honor games, as well as to attempt to beat Call of Duty 3 on two different platforms (I finished neither). Finally the genre has provided a diamond in the rough.
When Call of Duty 2 was released on 360 and PC, someone decided to give gamers still using “old gen” consoles a consolation prize. A “bitch game” if you will. This came in the form of Call of Duty 2: Big Red One. Big Red One had nothing to do with the real COD2. Upon first impression, Big Red One looks like shit; something that developer Treyarch had dumped on the PS2 in order to squeeze some more money out of the franchise during the holiday rush of 2005. → Ask not what this post can do for you - ask what you can do for this post.