Back2Fronts is an extensive mod that will overhaul your Call of Duty 2 game to a next level. This mod brings more variety, intensity, realism and battle-like experience. Try new weapons, fight new enemies, fulfil new missions and explore new options. Mod is SP and MP friendly (although primary part is SP).
This video shows a CoD1 BAR animation and model imported into 3D program and rendered.
Call of Duty 1's hands look better than the CoD 2's hands.
The sleeves are a little weird.
If you could only see behind it. In fact Cod1 hands are horrible - low detail geometry, bad rigging/binding, bad UVs, bad everything...
Cod2 hands are much more handy. It would be quite easy to reskin the CoD2 hands for CoD1 skin but I won't do that since CoD1 doesn't have normal and specular mapping.
I just meant that the CoD 1's texture of hands looks more realistic, or at least to me. But agree about the low detail geometry. Look at the thumb on the MP-44 video. It's too thin. :)
The largest problem of CoD2 hands is that the fingers are badly binded (= "attached to body bones").
This makes some moves nearly impossible to make - for example you can't make Cod2 thumb touch the lower part of index finger without awfull deformation of the whole hand model.
I was fighting with this problem for example in the MP-44 animation :-) That is probably the reason why IW changed the binding in CoD4...