Big Red One was my first project as a game developer. I started at Gray Matter, where they had just come off of the expansion pack for CoD1, United Offensive. We later merged studios with Treyarch and focused our efforts on making a console version of Call of Duty. The design team was green, but motivated, and we worked really hard to get this game done in 8 months. Big Red One was released in November 2005 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and Gamecube. As a level designer at Treyarch, I would design levels on paper, build them out for gameplay, detail them out to completion (with the help of a fantastic art team), do lighting, optimization and bug fix for shipping. Every level shown is a product of the whole team, with many assets being designed and implemented by other departments such as art, fx, sound, etc. These are the levels that I worked on to some extent on Call of Duty 2 Big Red One.

PIANO LUPO Full playthrough video Part 1 My first Call of Duty map. Working on the PlayStation 2 was fun at first, until I realized how limited it was. There was a lot of work that went into optimizing this level to fit into memory. I worked on t his level from paper design to completion. The level is so long, the playthrough video is broken up into 3 parts. But, it's actually pretty good quality. Piano Lupo Playthrough Part 2 Paino Lupo Playthrough Part 3

TANKERS Full playthrough video   I was put on this mission after it had been blocked out, but it needed to go through a bunch of changes. I redesigned it on paper and started changing the block out. It was fun to work on a completely vehicle mission, you have to think about a whole different set of issues and problems to solve. I also had to come up with a decent destructible system, since the buildings in the player path were destructible by the tank. I worked on this map from (re)design to completion.

THE DESERT FOX Full playthrough video Part 1   I was brought on to this level to help finish it up. I did an environment detail pass on just about the whole thing. The Desert Fox Playthrough Part 2

OPERATION HUSKY Full playthrough video    This level was designed and built by my good friend Ryan Rutherford, who later went to work at Human Head and id Software as a designer on Rage. I was brought on to this level to help finish up the beach. I mostly just did an environment detail pass on the beach and a few other areas.

THE DRAGON'S TEETH Full playthrough video     Another level where I was brought on to help finish it up. I did an overall environmental detail pass.

Thanks to That Biscuit Dude for having all these great quality videos of this super old PS2 game! I don't think I would have recorded them myself.
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