Naff accents aside, it's about time we got to fight alongside the Red Devils at Pegasus Bridge. the second focuses on a British glider-borne unit during the same period, and the third shifts the action to Soviet Russia. The first follows a unit of American airborne forces in Normandy around D-Day.

Hence CoD is split up into three sections. The USA did a little bit of fighting in the war.

The first brownie point to be awarded to CoD is the fact that, unlike a slew of Yankee games and movies, it remembers a few more countries than just Call Of Duty is the product of 22 members (including all key personnel) of the team that brought us the stunning Medal Of Honor Allied Assault. If that isn't enough for you to make up your mind, then here's some more ammunition. It might not be the quantum leap we're hoping Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 are going to be, but it's the apex of the genre as it stands right now: the absolute generalissimo of current-gen shooters. It's the mother of all battles, the big push, the winter offensive, the blitzkrieg. Like a highly-trained commando, we're going to go straight for the jugular on this one: Call Of Duty is the best single-player first-person shooter on release.

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