

This is all gold-standard campaign fare, regardless of how many times we have done it before in games like Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and, indeed, Call of Duty 2.

Later on you are clearing out bunkers along the cliffs of Normandy, barreling through corridors with your stalwart M1 Garand, lavishing every spent clip for the nostalgia-inducing ring that accompanies each reload. Everything here has been seen before: the slow and steady creeping of artillery fire as you and the rest of your squad nervously chatter away your anxieties in a landing craft the moment the doors open and everyone in front of you is torn to shreds by machine gun fire diving into the water to safety, the crimson tint of the sea foam emerging into a wasteland of death and errant limbs, stupefied by the horrors unfolding around you being ordered to snap out of it by your sergeant and, finally, charging toward the beach wall and breaching it. The campaign starts off with perhaps the most iconic battle of the Second World War, the Invasion of Normandy.
