Call of Duty: World at War

10 Review to this product

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  J. Washburn
  November 21st, 2008 on 12:17 am

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  I have been reading all the other reviews over the past few days and some of them made me wonder if the game was worth it or it was gonna be a dud. I was really worried about the aspect ratio in the coop mode. I was worried about the online play. I was worried about the scoring system. I was worried that a game I really enjoyed, Call of Duty 4, was going to be tainted by a bad game. WoW was I ever glad to be wrong.

  Let me tell you about Call of Duty: World at War.

  Its realistic. Its honest. Its brutal. Its massive. Its haunting. Its chaotic. Its mind-numbingly astonishing. Its everything COD4 introduced and everything COD4 could not be. It hits home. It makes you appreciate the terror our men faced during those times. It makes you realize that war is not pretty, its evil and sick; and the landscapes, buildings and natural surroundings are just as deadly as the people that hide in them.

  For those of you who have ragged on this game I think your nuts. The controls are the same. The ranking systems are similiar. The coop play is amazing. The single player story line is terrifying. The maps on multi player stay with you long after you stop playing… the belfry that you can snip from, the cat walk beside the giant water tower that you can hide on, the tanks, the bunkers, the assylum and its haunting rooms, the air field, the normady beach, the cliffsides, the jungles…

  I was playing last night on one of the online maps. I was running away from this guy and I had ditched him and found a small hiding place to make a stand and ambush him. As my heart slowed and I gained my bearings I started looking around… thats when I realized I was in a room with bars on the windows and a broken wooden door not far from me. I started examining the room. I looked up and thats when my heart stopped. I saw a long set of pipes that trailed the ceiling and at the end of each set of pipes was a sprinkler or a shower head… I was in a gas chamber. I was standing inside a chamber that was recreated from images out of a WWII concentration camp.

  World at War is incredible. It is beyond imagination. I am floored and I am left without anything more to say than – WoW.

  Buy this game. If you loved COD4… hold onto your SixAxis controller cause your gonna be blown away.

  Happy Hunting and as you play, remember those who have embraced the slumber that they will never be awakened from… who sacrificed their life so you could have the freedom to play a game like World at War.

  Never Forgotten! Always Remembered!

  Edit:

  It is December 22nd and I am reviewing what I previously wrote and I must say that I am even more impressed with COD5 than I originally was. I went back and played COD4 the other day and I was dissapointed at the lack of colors and suspense and at how ‘sandbox’ the levels are. I have fun with COD4 but to be honest there is just something about COD5 that hooks me.

  I must admit that I am fairly new to the COD franchise. I recall playing COD3 I believe or possibly COD Big Red One. But I was not impressed. It was fun. But no high replay value. The WWII stuff was cool but not so much. The game was cheesy and hard and I was not impressed with the COD franchise at the time. When I played COD4 I was really impressed. When I played COD5 I was hooked and I am now a believer in the COD franchise.

  I do not want to spoil too much for anyone but here are some small tips. Go online and try the Co-op campaing modes with your buddies. Or rather go head to head with them in a coop competition to see who gains the most points at the end of the session. COD5 is brilliant and I do not regret a day gone by for having bought it. While you are playing look around the maps, use teamwork that you will need to achieve victory against your opponent. I have to admit that I truly enjoy all of the maps. Each map has the perfect place for every kind of player and ever kind of player class. The only problem is others know those perfect spots too but occasionally you find your sweet spot.

  So. Once again. Happy hunting and I will look forward to seeing you on the battle field.
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  Michael G. Lustig
  December 4th, 2008 on 11:39 pm

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  COD WaW is way different than COD4. The first thing you notice is the grainy (almost Sepia) quality of the graphics. That said, the cut scenes and the graphics are better that COD4. Unlike anything made by Ubisoft or Unreal (IMHO their games blow), this games smokes all of the competition.

  Cooperative play is an interesting new feature to the COD series. You can play in split-screen mode with another player. Basically, it’s solo mode for two (if that makes any sense). If your comrade is injured, your have to find him and administer first-aid otherwise you both die. I have 2 HDTVs and 2 PS3s and sprung for a second copy so my son and I can play cooperatively. It’s really cool playing zombie in cooperatiive play. Oh yeah, don’t forget to get your raygun in the second level. Check youtube for some good glitches — especially the one on the second floor in zombie mode (bring a flamethrower and an LMG). Cooperative play on a smaller screens just doesn’t work.

  I completed solo play in Veteran mode and it took about 20 hours. Yeah, you get killed a lot and it takes forever to complete a mission — but that’s the point. War isn’t running into a room full of enemies and hosing them down with your machine gun without getting a scratch. It’s about tactics, planning and killing the enemy without getting yourself killed. In Veteran mode, you have no choice other than to plan your moves, use the terrain to your advantage and proceed cautiously. Simply put; it’s hard to survive. For some reason, I completed a level where you clear out the artillery from the Japanese caves but it doesn’t register as a checkpoint so I got stuck and couldn’t continue. If you get stuck like I did the download a saved game from the Internet (for free).

  Other reviewers said they completed the game in under 10 hours. I doubt it can be done that quickly unless they’re playing at the Rookie level. No way at Veteran level.

  There’s some cool new fetures too: you can drive and fire a tank, and then there’s also a flamethrower. The tank is OK and the trick is to hang back and take out opponents one at a time — using the landscape as cover against other tanks. If you’re up to flaming-up the enemy and watching them burn (some burning much more energetically than others), then this is a ton of fun in a sick kind of way. In story mode, I’ve done entire levels with only the flamethrower despite its limited range (even though I was packing a LMG too). This is possible because Activision programmed in a feature that the enemy doesn’t shoot at you until you get close when holding the flamethrower. You can prove this by switching to another weapon and you instantly get shot at. It’s a bunch of fun to burn down trees too. A word of caution: You can burn yourself up if you walk into the flames.

  In Veteran story mode, ammo conservation is always an issue. While your teamates seems to have an unlimited supply of ammo, you don’t. Swapping your weapon for an enemy’s drop is an option but not in all cases. For example, you don’t want to drop your sniper rifle for a machine gun. You’re better off locating enemies using the scope and picking them off using a lesser weapon that you have a bunch of ammo for.

  Online play is good once you level-up to some decent weapons. Keep in mind this is WWII so there’s no lasers, night-vision and barely any scoped weapons. Automatics are slow and not too accurate. It takes several body shots to drop a target. I find myself going for head-shots because a single shot does the job. There’s a new level called Bootcamp that you can play until Level 8. There’s a glitch that you can exploit to level-up more quickly. Once you’re in Bootcamp you can stay there indefinately as long as you don’t leave. In other words, you can level up to 44 in about 8 hours in Bootcamp.

  This game is rated M for Mature. The rating is justified because there is some pretty graphic material and language. For example, when you step on a land mine your legs get blown off. This is way more intense than COD4.
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  John Bell
  December 19th, 2008 on 1:40 pm

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  They did a good job with this game, its pretty much the same as COD4 so calling it COD4.5 would have been more appropriate, but since COD4 was so good then they did a good job not taking two steps back like they did with Resistance 2 (in my opinion). Played both games and COD5 is a lot more fun to play with far better online maps. Cant fathom why some reviewers are saying Res2 has taken online multiplayer to the next level, I still think COD is the current benchmark, maybe COD6 will take it to the next level as I dont think gamers will accept another copy of COD4.

  All in all this is just as good as COD4
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  Robert Neville
  May 7th, 2009 on 10:06 pm

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  No words can explain how awesome the new Nazi Zombie mode is. I play This mode more than Online And Campaign combined, and for a good reason. If you buy this game, I highly suggest getting the map pack for the sole reason of Zombie Vurruckt, the new Zombie field. If you liked COD4, then COD5 is all the same fun with a BIG plus… NAZI ZOMBIES!!!!!
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  Zero34
  July 15th, 2009 on 6:51 am

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  The single player is definately better than Call of Duty 4(and that’s a fact). IMO, Treyarch made COD4′s engine look way better in this game. They added more detail in everything like the water and soldiers. Multiplayer is the same. I like the 7 kill streak and getting the dogs. They’re way better than the chopper cause the dogs run almost everywhere, while the chopper flys around, and usually justs freezes in one spot. All in all, it’s a great game in the CoD franchise.
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  Chadwick
  July 24th, 2009 on 3:29 am

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  After playing CoD4 I was worried about CoD going back to WWII, but I am happy to say that I loved it. This in my opinion is one of the best WWII games out there, with its graphics, coop game play, and Nazi zombies. This game looks like CoD4 does graphic wise. The addition to coop is something that I think should have been added long ago, but it is a lot of fun to play with up to four people. The Nazi zombies took me be surprise when I heard about it but I found it to be a lot of fun. So this is a good addition to the CoD franchise, and should be played by anyone to likes any of these games.
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  Vito Skywalker
  August 9th, 2009 on 1:44 pm

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  I’ve been playing video games since the late 1970s when “Pong” was all that was available. Throughout the years, I’ve owned many video game systems, including the Atari 2600, Colecovision, Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Playstation, Xbox and now a PS3. I’ve played many different games over the course of those years and nothing, and I mean NOTHING, compares to “Call of Duty: World at War.”

  Simply put, it is the best video game ever created, and it keeps getting better. Since it was released in late 2008, Activision has offered several downloadable upgrades that provide additional map areas and additional games. There are so many aspects to this game that it never gets boring. It can be played in a solo mode where the player battles through various WWII battleground sequences as either an American or a Russian, it could be played online in various “versus” modes, and then there is the “Nazi Zombie” modes which lie in their own world apart from the other offerings of this title.

  My favorite way to play World at War is online in the “Free For All” mode, which pits up to eight individual players against each other in various WWII scenarios, all fighting for first place by trying to get the most kills.

  It is difficult to explain to somebody how great this game really is with words. It is something that needs to be played to understand its neverending greatness.
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  Varnis54
  October 26th, 2009 on 8:31 pm

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  I never used to play Shooter type games. In fact, I HATED them before I actually came across this game at Connecticon 09. I sat down and started to play it. I could NOT put down the controller. I actually sat down and played it for a few hours. It was an amazing game. The controls feel so natural and the how accurate they are with the design of the game amazed me. It was the best game I have ever played ever since the new gen of game systems have come out! I played it on the Xbox 360 at connecticon, and I learned the controls instantly as if I played it before and never have. I loved the game on the 360, and hope its the same on the PS3 as that’s what I own at my house. I got Call of Duty 4, and was disappointed at how quickly I was able to beat it. I played it for a few hours and it was over. I suck on online, so I wont be playing it online that often. I hope this game isn’t as over as quickly as Modern Warfare.
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  Steven M. Shearer
  November 7th, 2009 on 10:58 pm

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  It’s only natural to try and compare this to COD MW, but really this is just a nice treat to hold us over until COD MW2. This is a great game and worth the money. Very interesting and worth the money.
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  Rod Danan
  November 16th, 2009 on 2:07 am

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  Call of Duty: World at War is the best game i have ever played hands down. No matter how many times i played the campaign it never got old. Nazi Zombie sessions often go for hours with the fun I have. Online multiplayer is the funnest and competitive ranking system. The maps are great and though a bit predictable, it stays fun. Many people told me that COD4 Modern Warfare was better so traded mine in to get it and im sad to say I was disappointed. I was annoyed of the COD 4 story line as soon as I finished it. The lag on the servers was unbearable and I couldn’t look at it. I sold it immediately.

  Now I’m going to buy the game again because I still haven’t played a game as fun as this with such replay value. Both modern warfares cant compare with this one even though its WWII. Don’t make a mistake that I did and get and keep this game forever. ITS THE BEST! Sounds, texture, dialog, and imagery makes you feel the war (especially with surround sound ). Amazing work.