Call of Duty

My new hard drive is finally being used, but not how I’d like. Despite my best efforts, and the use of some otherwise reliable hard drive companies’ software, I was not able to convert my new drive over to the boot drive (C:) with a valid image of the original hard drive. The closest I came still dropped a bunch of product activations, registrations, and file associations. I would have had to also reinstall Microsoft Office and Microsoft ActiveSync. It occurred to me that in the past when I got a new hard drive I started with fresh installs of everything… so I’ve never even had to try this before. Oh well.

As I was saying, my new 250 GB backup storage device :-| is being used to house my games. I finally got around to installing and playing Call of Duty 2, an FPS set in WW2. The graphics are incredible! My system isn’t top-of-the-line for gaming machines sold today (I have an AMD64 2.8 GHz – 1 GB RAM – Radeon 9600 Pro), but this game’s graphics are fluid as gasoline. caltropsI’ll throw on here some of my own screenshots when I get into some fun areas. I just started and I’m a Russian soldier defending Moscow from the oncoming German assault. This has some special meaning for me as I was in Moscow about a year and a half ago and got to see the WW2 monument they have their marking the high-water mark of the German advance. This picture on the left is the best one I could find of it. The article I grabbed this pic from had the following excerpt:

Anti-tank Hedgehogs :: a memorial to Moscow defenders. Erected in 1966 on the 23rd km down the Leningrad highway. The authors are architects A. Mikhe, A. Agafonov, I. Yermishin, and engineer K. Mikhailov.

The hedgehog is what they called these caltrop-like devices you see three of. They were designed to slow advancing tracked vehicles (and they worked pretty well). Way cool stuff!

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  1. Posted June 24, 2008 at 9:28 am | Permalink

    I thought that this game was very fun to play and that i would recamend this for anyone who likes war i guess! I had fun playing it and will probably go on it again! I t was a long game but it was very fun! If you have not tried this game then you should, if you don’t know what game it is it is,Call of Duty, an it is sooooooooooooooooooooooo cool!

  2. gladi8or-666
    Posted December 9, 2008 at 8:40 am | Permalink

    I love call of duty, but not as much as duke nukem that game rocks more than def lepard.

  3. Ger
    Posted April 18, 2009 at 5:54 am | Permalink

    The anti-tank hedgehogs were also known as Belgian Gates, I visited Normandy a few years ago and went to most points of interest, St Mere-Eglise, Omaha Beach, Pointe-du-Hoc, all breath taking, just imagining the events and slaughter that took place there.

    I love the Call of Duty games (Alongside the MoH ones also, but CoD is far better game wise), spent many hours playing them and working my way through difficulties! Fun times.

  4. boogidy boogidy
    Posted June 4, 2009 at 11:50 am | Permalink

    how do you play?

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