Call of Duty

Another game which is a soldier game is Call of Duty (COD). I had finished the single player game a long time ago but had never played it online.

Now I did.

Well.. of course the graphics are much nicer but I had a culture shock from Enemy Territory (ET). ET is arcadish, whilst COD is much more realistic - one headshot and you're dead. This is ok in Team Deathmatch (though the immediate spawning is not welcome) but in Search and Destroy, where you have to wait for all your teammates to die to play again, it was a bit daunting at first. Then when I got better, and sometimes outlived the others, it became bearable.

Team Mates
The fun came when 4 of my ex-degree students joined the fray. We set up our own Ventrilo server and started playing on our own servers - then we started joining the public servers and coordinating our efforts through Ventrilo. Great fun!

Call of Duty: United Offensive
Greater fun came our way once we switched to the expansion pack. After a couple of patches (100+ Mb) we had jeeps, tanks, and new weaponry coming our way.

My first team run was with Sentix, admin of our playreaction servers - a great and respectable player.

I also got my buddy Brokklu into it (after a birthday LAN party in which we gave him an Altec Lansing headset and involved him into the game by playing all the party on it).