Call of Duty: World at War (PlayStation 3)
Manufacturer: Activision Part number: 83279
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Gamespot editors' review
Call of Duty: World at War (PlayStation 3) price range: $39.00 - $59.99
- Reviewed by: Chris Watters
- Reviewed on: 11/12/2008
- Released on: 11/10/2008
Call of Duty: World at War is a lot like its predecessor, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. In most respects, this is a good thing. The guns are tightly tuned, the tone is gritty and mature, and the action is exciting and fast-paced. It boasts the same addictive multiplayer system as Modern Warfare, and even expands the multiplayer possibilities by allowing four players to play through the campaign cooperatively. Like every game in the series before Modern Warfare, this Call of Duty takes place during World War II. World at War does an admirable job of spicing things up, but between the well-worn source material and déjà vu game mechanics, there is a pervasive familiarity to the game. Still, though World at War lacks the freshness that made Modern Warfare such a hit, it nevertheless provides a hearty, filling meal--one that shooter fans are sure to savor.
Bayonets are a brutal new addition to your arsenal.
The most salient difference between World at War and Modern Warfare is the WWII setting. In the campaign, you split time between two soldiers in two offensive theaters: the Russian push out of their homeland and into the heart of Germany, and the American struggle to wrest Pacific islands from the Japanese. Though you'll alternate between them every few levels, the campaign feels like one solid progression, thanks to the adept pacing.
Each soldier's journey begins at a low point. Weaponless and surrounded by the enemy, you get a taste of the despair many soldiers are never rescued from. Though the emotional tone eventually rises toward triumph, you never quite forget the fate you nearly met. The first few levels are a hard scrabble as you and your fellow soldiers try to gain a foothold for your country, while later levels are suffused with a sense of hard-won momentum as you fight bigger battles and push closer to your enemies' capitals. Throughout each level you are accompanied by a superior officer who sets the emotional tone through well-acted dialogue. The vengeful, spitfire Russian pumps up your adrenaline to intoxicating levels, while the grim, determined American provides a sobering influence. This grim sobriety is further enforced by the actual WWII videos, photos, and statistics presented in stylish interchapter cutscenes. The message is, by nature, a conflicted one: Though you may feel like an action hero, you are actually participating in the most horrid of human endeavors. How you ultimately feel about this message will depend on your personal disposition, but suffice to say that the elevated emotional timbre makes for an exciting campaign.
Also exciting? Bayonets and flamethrowers, the two standout new weapons in World at War. You wield both in the American campaign, using them to enthusiastically dispatch enemies in trenches and fend off the aggressive banzai raiders. These raiders snipe from the treetops, or pop out of holes and charge you with merciless determination; this aggression makes the American campaign feel uniquely tense. The Russian campaign is slightly more predictable, but it remains vigorous throughout and ends in a spectacularly satisfying way. Explosions and gunfire will cause enemies to lose limbs and copious amounts of blood, making World at War a sight more violent than Modern Warfare. Still, in between the burning, stabbing, and gibbing, there is a lot of crouching behind cover and picking off enemies with your trusty rifle. This kind of action, and most of the other weapons, will feel familiar to anyone who has played a World War II shooter before. It's a well-tuned and exciting familiarity, but it doesn't make any notable leaps.
World at War does make a leap for the Call of Duty series by offering two-player split-screen and four-player online cooperative campaign play. It's the same campaign as the single-player experience, though the number of enemies increases for every player that joins you. You can turn competitive scoring on and see who can earn the most points by killing enemies or reviving teammates, and this adds a bit of fun to the campaign and lightens to mood (it's hard to feel grim when there are point values popping up all the time). There are also special items called death cards in each level, and collecting these will allow you to enable a cheat for cooperative play (for instance, enemies die by headshots only or headshots cause enemies to explode). These add a little more spice to the pot, but the only tangible incentives are challenges. Completing these tasks (such as kill 100 enemies with pistols or take first 20 times in competitive co-op) will earn you experience points that go toward your multiplayer rank (co-op is not similarly ranked). Cooperative play is fun in its own right, but linking it to the addictive multiplayer ranking system makes it relevant in a whole different way.
Multiplayer battles are as fast and deadly as ever.
In case you missed it last year, the multiplayer system introduced in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is fantastic, and World at War has updated it to fit its WWII setting. The hook is experience points, which you gain by winning matches or completing one of the aforementioned challenges. As you earn these points, you'll rank up and earn access to new weapons, new accessories (like sights and suppressors), and new perks. Perks are special abilities that grant you a wide variety of bonuses, but you can only choose four (one of which is vehicle-specific). This introduces an engaging element of customization: Will you choose to toughen up by increasing your health and bullet damage, or will you go the stealth route and increase your sprint speed while becoming invisible to enemy recon planes? Perks are well balanced, and you have multiple save slots, which enable you to easily switch between your various pretweaked loadouts. This allows you to take full advantage of this deep, engaging system that is just as great this year as it was last year, albeit slightly less novel.
There are, of course, new maps, and the bonuses you earn for kill streaks have been updated (notably, the attack helicopter you earned after seven kills in Modern Warfare is now a pack of nasty attack dogs). There are also a few maps that support tanks, powerful additions that mix things up without being too dominant. Most of the modes remain the same, though some have received slight tweaks and Capture the Flag has returned after a hiatus from Modern Warfare. The most striking new mode is actually a cooperative game called Nazi Zombies, playable when you beat the campaign (or play with someone who has). This absurd game puts up to four players in a house that is being assaulted by the undead. Killing the fiends and repairing the barricades earns you points that you then spend to replenish ammunition, buy new guns, and unlock new areas of the house. Each subsequent wave brings tougher, faster, more numerous enemies, and the game inevitably ends in grisly death. Though the random weapon box, assorted power-ups, and skills of your teammates add some variation, each play-through is similar to the last. Still, it makes for some intense, frantic fun and provides a welcome, if slightly bizarre, change of pace.
By staying largely true to the formula that made Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare so successful, Call of Duty: World at War has ensured a proven level of technical quality, particularly in the multiplayer arena. On the other hand, one of Modern Warfare's strengths was its fresh approach, and by embracing a familiar setting and familiar mechanics, World at War achieves greatness but falls short of excellence. This is only a bad thing if you are expecting this game to top its benchmark predecessor. If, however, you are hoping for an exciting campaign, fun cooperative play, and engaging multiplayer action, then you'll find a lot to be happy about in World at War.
User reviews
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I believe they took a few steps back instead of forward
by eljefe1981 on November 15, 2008
Pros: The Pros are that it is still a Call Of Duty game and that it has online play.
Cons: Cons are the graphics are by no means up to par with the previous Call of duty. Also, the sound is a bit uncoordinated. Finally, the movement of the characters feel and look a bit too robotic.
Summary: Rent this game first before you by it. I bought it and I feel that I wasted my money on a game that if anything it should have been better ...
Summary: Rent this game first before you by it. I bought it and I feel that I wasted my money on a game that if anything it should have been better then the one before, but it ended up been worst.
1 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.
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An excellent game
by johnnydk on March 27, 2009
Pros: This game is good in both graphic and sound. A great gaming experience. Also, http://www.squidoo.com/playstation3shopping is a very helpful site, which I found, that introduces many great ps3 games at cheap price.
Cons: There is a short loading time.
Summary: Overall an excellent game.
Summary: Overall an excellent game.
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The Real Call of Duty: World at War Review!
by TropicalThunder08 on January 11, 2009
Pros: see summary
Cons: see summary
Summary: Pros: Enyone feeling like blowing apart piece's of zombies? well what about Nazi zombies? With really fun and intense gameplay, nazi zombies really makes you come back for more ...
Summary: Pros: Enyone feeling like blowing apart piece's of zombies? well what about Nazi zombies? With really fun and intense gameplay, nazi zombies really makes you come back for more zombie madness! You can get weapons like M2 Flamethrower's, Ray Guns (alien gun's from the 50's), and some really cool machine guns, shot-guns, and rifles! with tons of really cool and awsome weapons you'll always have fun dismembering zombies! :D
Online play is back, and who would have thought that killing poeple with guns from like 64 years ago would have been this fun! WW2 has never been this fun, and i really mean that! getting to roast people online with a M2 Flamethrower is actually preety cool to see. Online is NOT a let down, and if you think it is, well then your sadly mistaking!
Ok so the big question here is the campaigne and the weapons! their lots of weapons on COD5 (well atleast the cool ones :P) here's a list to show whatkind of family the guns come from and all the guns that you can use on Call of Duty: World at War
Rifles
M1 Garand
Mosin Nagant
Kar98
Arisaka Type 99
M1903 Springfield
M1A1 Carbine
SVT-40
Heavy Sub-Machine guns
Browning Automatic Rifle
MP-44
PPSH(drum mag.)
Light Sub-Machine guns
M1A1 Thompson
MP-40
Type 100 Sub-Machine gun
Sten
Light Machine guns
Browning M1919A6
MG-34
MG-32
FG-42
Type 92 Heavy Machine gun
Sniper Rifles
Kar98 Scoped
M1903 Springfield Scoped
Mosin Nagant Scoped
Gewehr 43
Shotguns
Trench gun
Double-Barelled shotgun
Sidearms
Knife(not used as sidearm slot)
Katana(not sure if its used as a sidearm slot)
Colt 45
TT-33
PO8 Luger
Nambu 14
Walther P38
... These are all the weapons and the M1A1 Carbine is a special gun, but dont worry you can unlock that weapons we you rank online!
WW2 has NEVER looked this beautiful! Every pixel is at work on this game and the sound is just amazing! it's so real and so vivid, sometimes you might even forget your playing a game!
The controls respond REALLY quick and are perfect and preety much easy to remeber! Yay.
...Time for the negative of this game
Cons
Their should be more levels for the Nazi Zombie's! (for PS3 and X360)
It would of been cool if Hitler was the boss of the Nazi zombies, but sadly we don't get to blow off his head.
The game could of been a bit longer, but hey im not rellay complaining. You might just findyourself trying to beat it fast enyway because you might just want to unlock the Nazi Zombies. (in order to unlock Nazi Zombies, you need to beat story mode on eny diffaculty level.)
overall, this game really deserves a good score, so im hear to give it just that!
I give Call of Duty: World at War for Playstation 3 ... 9.6/ 10 -
Don't waste your time!!!
by dcan428 on January 11, 2009
Pros: It's a "good" world war 2 game but that's about it. Graphics are what one would come to expect from a WWII shooter but a step back from COD4.
Cons: If you are tired of the world war 2 scene then stay away from this game. Treyarch pretty much copy the path Infinity Ward paved for them and slapped it onto a world war 2 video game. Even I could have do that!
Summary: There is a reason why Infinity Ward moved on from the WWII era, I think the rest of the game developers should follow too.
Summary: There is a reason why Infinity Ward moved on from the WWII era, I think the rest of the game developers should follow too.
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COD5 BETTER THAND COD4???
by hockeyman_99 on November 29, 2008
Pros: Co-op in single player missions.
Online display is a tad better and more graphical then cod4
Much more realistic than cod4.
vast, detailed maps
Very fun!
Tanks
dogs
hiher ranks
more leading tacticsCons: The guns arent the greatest
graphics are not beter, maybe even worse than cod4.
Dissapointed how its back to the "based on wII"
snippingSummary: I have both cod5 and cod4. Cod4 is maybe a bit better. However, if you played cod4 for a long time now it has gotten very boring. And cod5 just ...
Summary: I have both cod5 and cod4. Cod4 is maybe a bit better. However, if you played cod4 for a long time now it has gotten very boring. And cod5 just a great game to play to continue the cod experience. But, Cod5 is much more realistic then Cod4. The big problme is that it goes back to world war two. The game play is a bit better than cod4, especially online. But the I kinda miss the modern warfare. The vast maps have many buildings, broken planes, and other blownup and damaged materials to run around and hide in. The snipping isnt that great in cod5, but still its cool. There are many more reason i can expand on and such, but i prefer not to. I definetly recomend cod5. Although, the price is a bit expensive. $60.00(CDN).
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Better than COD4!
by peteyboy84 on November 17, 2008
Pros: All the good of COD4 with extra tweaking, more realism and even gore thrown in. If you're a fan of WWII then this is the best in the genre. CO-OP Campaign is AWESOME! IMO, better than COD4 in all areas.
Cons: Some of the levels in the pacific are too detailed and colorful from the flowers and foliage, which makes it a little tiring on the eyes in multiplayer. That's about it!
Summary: If you're a fan of WWII then this is the best in the genre. IMO, better than COD4 in all areas. More customization and ways to play the game.
Summary: If you're a fan of WWII then this is the best in the genre. IMO, better than COD4 in all areas. More customization and ways to play the game.
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Waste of money
by matthewdds on November 16, 2008
Pros: The maps are larger but there are only 8 maps...***...
Cons: 1) The maps are either way to small or way to large. These maps aren't fun to play on compared to COD4... 2) There are only 8 maps, 3) This game is much darker and the old WWII weapons suck to use
Summary: Don't buy this game, instead buy COD4... The online playing for COD4 is much more fun than World at War. The weapons on COD4 are soo much better to ...
Summary: Don't buy this game, instead buy COD4... The online playing for COD4 is much more fun than World at War. The weapons on COD4 are soo much better to use and the maps are 10 X better!!! I honestly think I wasted my money buying this stupid game.
Why can't the makers of these games make a COD with a lot of maps? The only reason I like these games is because of the online play! World at War online play sucks!!! -
Same ol' engine, different maps and weapons
by macresources on November 13, 2008
Pros: Smooth, lifelike graphics in new settings; multiplayer co-op modes adds a new twist to the game play; more data on play and community
Cons: Same old platform that lacks the excitement of COD 4; little innovation; use of profanity by characters in the game, which was not in the earlier version (parents beware); just not enough breakthroughs to warrant the $65 (plus tax).
Summary: I was disappointed in the game play; the new guns are hard to control; air strikes and choppers are now artillery strikes and guard dogs; you can get in a ...
Summary: I was disappointed in the game play; the new guns are hard to control; air strikes and choppers are now artillery strikes and guard dogs; you can get in a tank with a teammate riding shotgun on the machine gun turret. There is also use of the F word by characters in the game (and I don't mean online players). This surprised me when my 11-year-old was playing it and the expletives was loud and clear. In co-op mode, you can team with 3 others online to complete missions. The maps are large more not all that creative. Essentially, it's COD 4 dressed up in a different period. RENT IT FIRST BEFORE YOU BUY IT. YOU MAY FEEL IT'S NOT WORTH THE $65.
2 out of 5 users found this user opinion helpful.
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THIS IS THE BEST WWII GAME EVER.
by prostacker on November 24, 2008
Pros: THE STORY IS GOOD. THE NAZI ZOMBIE MODE IS GOOD.THE RUSSIANS ARE BACK! THE SOUND IS GREAT. THERE IS GORE! IT'S 4 PLAYER CO-OP ONLINE AND 2 PLAYER CO-OP OFFLINE! THERE IS A FREAK'N RAY GUN IN THE NAZI ZOMBIE MODE!! YOU DRIVE A TANK ONLINE AND OFFLINE!
Cons: IF IT WASNT ON ANY OTHER SYSTEM BESIDES PS3/XBOX 360/PC THEN IT WOULD HAVE GOOD GRAPHICS. IF IT WAS 4 PLAYER CO-OP OFFLINE.
Summary: THIS IS FREAK'N AWSOME!!!!
Summary: THIS IS FREAK'N AWSOME!!!!
0 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
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No new game here. They took COD4 and RUINED it.
by Sheldonsjunk on November 21, 2008
Pros: The graphics and the sound. The game still looks great. While you're dying over and over again, you can look around and marvel at the detail. Sounds really good, too. Crank up the surround sound and you'll think you're watching a good war movie.
Cons: Everything else. No split-screen multiplayer, online or connecting xboxes. Character movement (running/walking) is too fast and ruins the build of the game. Online, spawning is out of control. If you play FPS online, you know what I mean.
Summary: If you care about campaign or CO-OP modes then maybe you enjoy this game for a bit. However, they promised to focus on Multiplayer and then took several steps backwards....
Summary: If you care about campaign or CO-OP modes then maybe you enjoy this game for a bit. However, they promised to focus on Multiplayer and then took several steps backwards.
Without the ability for online split-screen (they KNEW we wanted this), you won't be able to play online with your mother, brother, friend, roommate on the same xbox. Nor can you link up several xboxes and play against each other. While it says linked multiplayer 2-18 players, they really mean ONE person for each Xbox and each game. They're either completely ignorant of what makes a FPS fun, or they only care about making everyone own a copy of the game. I can be sympathetic towards trying to please everyone and not getting things exactly right, but this is inexcusable.
So, while I'm sitting there playing the game alone, is the game good enough to look past these mistakes? No. It's the same game with a new face, a face that's been tweaked a little bit for the worse. At first I thought the excessive dying was related to a big learning curve.
No. I've realized two things, though. They increased the movement speeds to a point that ruins the build of the game, making most of your guns useless unless you can find a way to be cheap. This isn't fixable. In addition, the spawning (online) is ridiculous. Killing a guy means, that the next second he can appear behind you. Every death you risk spawning in the sights of the other team (or even the guy who just killed you!). This could be fixed I believe, but I doubt it.
The result is a game that allows very little strategy and TON of frustration and goes further by making you play the game alone. Maybe next time they'll get it right. I doubt this, also.0 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.
Specifications
- Manufacturer: Activision
- Part number: 83279
Product Basic Spec
- Platform Playstation 3
- ESRB rating Mature - Blood and Gore,Strong Language,Intense Violence
- Genre Action
- Elements Action - first person shooter
- Context Historical
- Number of players 1-4 Players
- Difficulty Variable
- Offline modes Cooperative
Game
- Developer Treyarch
- ESRB Mature
- ESRB descriptors Blood and Gore,Strong Language,Intense Violence
- Release date 2008-11-10
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