Marcus Mattsson

Oh my god this game sucks. I'm guessing the Wii-conversion is to blame, but that doesn't justify it.

Just look at those hands.

First of all we got the graphics, naturally it can't be even close to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions, no one expects that, but the result on the Wii just looks like a poor conversion… which it is. Compare it to games like Zelda: Twilight Princess, Resident Evil 4 and Metroid Prime, all running on a GameCube, and you will really start realising how crappy the graphics are. All right, next:

THROW IT, THROW IT FOR GOD'S SAKE!

One of the things I was looking forward to when I purchased Call of Duty 3 was the use of Wii Remote gestures in the game. The first encounter is fine, some German wants you dead, he grabs your rifle and then you have to shake him off and give him a nice punch with the rifle-butt, controls respond nicely, but it's only downhill from that point on; as a default option you throw grenades by pushing the D-pad, it's also possible to throw them by doing a throwing motion with the nunchuck, me wanting to get everything out of the game I quickly enabled this, and subsequently blew myself up 10-20 times before disabling it again. It just doesn't work, I'm waving the nunchuck like a maniac, the grenade fuse counts down, and the 'nade blows up in my hand. Once in a while it does throw it, apparently whenever it's feeling like it because I'm doing the same motion over and over again. It's even harder when you have to pick up a grenade from the ground and quickly flick it back at the enemy. The next frustrating thing is preparing explosives to blow up whatever needs to be blown up. First you have to insert the fuse by thrusting the nunchuck forward, no problem, then you turn the nunchuck to screw the fuse into place, still no problem, but then you have to pull out the pin by pulling the nunchuck back, in nine out of 10 situations you have to pull atleast five times until anything happens, also, in most situations bullets are flying around your ears because your retarded teammates can't hit anything, which means you'll be dead before the pin is pulled. Other than that the gestures seem to work fine so far, when driving you need to hold the controllers as a wheel, which is pretty funny.

Lastly I'll just explain the latest mission I played, because it made me turn of the console and write this. You're supposed to plant some explosives around a factory, fine, I plant the bombs, die a couple of times because I can't pull the pin, finally make it and now I have to defend the factory from the German reinforcements, I start shooting enemies, sometimes it seems like you can't hit soldiers from some angles, may just be my lack of skills though. Then a tank rolls in, surprise surprise, I need to pick up a Panzershreck and blow it up, but the Panzershreck is no where to be found. I'm looking at a nice big crate but it's closed, i shoot at it, punch it, nothing happens. I run around a bit, looking for the rocket launcher while my teammates are frantically screaming at me because they're too stupid to pick up the fucking rocket launcher themselves, and suddenly the crate is open, but now I can't pick the weapon up, I have to crouch down and very slowly aim at different spots on the weapon while trying to time pressing the minus-button when the "Press the minus-button" message suddenly appears for a second and then disappears again. I finally pick it up, shoot the tank and then have to protect a soldier who's supposed to plant some more bombs or something. Now this would've been a piece of cake if the god damn controls wouldn't suddenly have gone insane. It's like the worst lag you've ever experience, impossible to control anything and when you're able to shoot the rifle keeps shooting for a couple of seconds. And this is not the first time this have happened, I'm not saying this couldn't be the controller's fault but so far I've tried to Wii Remotes, both with plenty of power, and it's still happening. While aiming into the sky and running towards a squad of German soldiers I die and have to do everything all over again.

I'm probably still going to complete it though, because apart from the mentioned annoyances it's pretty entertaining.