By Sam Coles:
Now if I were to walk into a room these days and say
I like playing Call of Duty people would probably disregard my opinion about
gaming although I do play all sorts of games, but the fact I like to play game
where I can turn brain off for a bit makes me a casual. Call of Duty from a
technical and content aspect is not a bad game because they’ve always provided
consumers a full gaming package with singleplayer, multiplayer and a co-op
experience. I’m digressing a bit I’m here to talk about one of the best Call of
Duty games from the Xbox 360 and PS3 era and that game is World at War. World
at War was the last major World War II shooter released during that era and if
you were around during the period from 1999 to 2008 there was an over saturation
of that type of shooter.
World at War’s campaign tells a story that is fresh
compared to other shooters that are set in the era where they tell same story
from the European front, no World at War starts with a torture scene as you and
your fellow marine have been captured by the Japanese and I have to mention
that this game is really violent and gory. You play from the perspective from
two different countries, you play as the US marines in the Pacific fronts and
you play as the Soviets during the invasion of Berlin when the Soviets sent in
1 million soldiers to storm the Reichstag, the campaign is tense and exciting
and shocking with the gory content which I was surprised that it was rated a 15
at the time it was released, but I think they wanted younger audiences to realise
that war is hell.
The gameplay is similar to Call of Duty 4 as it runs
on the same engine as that game so you point and shoot and the enemies
generally die, but with the added effect with their arms exploding into meaty
chunks. Enemies have different tactics especially in the Pacific fronts where
they lay out traps on the ground or they will hide in trees and snipe you, this
can get tricky on Hardened or Veteran difficulty. This is where they start to
use famous actors to voice characters in the series with Keifer Sutherland and Gary
Oldman voicing in this game and Gary Oldman would continue to voice in Treyarch’s
next project Black Ops.
Graphically the game still looks really good even
the character models look great with wet skin textures showing when they emerge
from water to the veins showing up on the side of the head. The environments
look fantastic with war torn beaches to the bombed out and grey pallet of the depressing
streets of Berlin. The sound design is top notch as well with explosions
rumbling your sub-woofer if you have one to the soldiers shouting at each other
across the battlefield it’s great immersion and it feels like you are there.
There is multiplayer either competitive or
cooperative the competitive multiplayer is fun with the addition of tanks which
mixed things up a bit; it had the usual weapon loadouts and attachments. This
is World War II so there are few attachments you can have a grenade launcher at
the end of your M1 Garand or you can have a flamethrower as back up. I would
not recommend playing it these days because it’s riddled with hackers which isn’t
fun because it is a shame the game is a lot of fun. The zombie mode was fun at
the time, but if you know me I’m fed up with the whole zombie aspect where they
will insert it into popular culture when they’ve ran out of ideas.
Call of Duty: World at War is a fantastic game and
was a great swan song to the World War II shooter when people were moving onto
modern warfare. If you haven’t played it go get it! It’s cheap and easy to find
on Xbox 360 and PS3.
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