The game covers the division's part in the North Africa Campaign, the invasion of Sicily, the landing on Omaha Beach in Europe and moving east, and eventually crossing the Siegfried Line into Germany. Army's 1st Infantry Division, which goes by the nickname Big Red One due to their unit patch which features a large, red number one.
It is a side-story of the original game Call of Duty 2, which was released on PC and Xbox 360 in the same year.īig Red One differs from other games in the Call of Duty franchise in that it focuses on a single Allied formation in World War II: the U.S. Call of Duty 2: Big Red One is a first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch and High Voltage Software and published by Activision for GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
