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MEGamers Review of Call of Duty: World at War

MEGamers writes: "At the end of the day, what Treyarch did is take a perfectly blend recipe, add a little salt and pepper and release it as a full game. Call of Duty: World at War feels like it's nothing more than a mod to the acclaimed COD4 title. For now, we can't help but, agree that the flamethrower is the game's only poster child."

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buy a ps35627d ago

yes it feels like COD4 but I'm OK with that I mean i still played COD4 allot shortly before world at war was realest. and if it is a little better that COD4 give it a 10/10 because that is what you gave COD4 when it was released.

The Dark Knight5627d ago

when will cod 4 fanboys just stop b!tching.... yous are like a virus

TheIneffableBob5627d ago

I thought Call of Duty 4 was a pretty average game, but World at War is just bad.

The Dark Knight5627d ago

Both are the same damn game! everyone keeps saying cod 5 is cod 4 but crap... how is that possible?? if its the same then yous are calling cod 4 crap?

RussDeBuss5626d ago

its the same engine and plays the same and is on rails like cod4, but cod4 had a good story and the way it was told made u feel part of the game, cod5 i didnt have a clue what was going on half the time, it was just a run and gun experience, completly forgetable.

gta28005626d ago

Same engine, same game play, same graphics, etc, etc. However, it's still not the same thing. One of the reasons COD4 was a hit and this is just one of the reasons, is because it was a modern war game. Not a typical world war game we kept seeing. Personally, that's one of the reasons I liked the game. I love the middle eastern portion of the game when you're fighting the terrorists. I love the modern weapons(Javlin =), jet/chopper air strikes, M-16's, etc, etc). I'm pretty sure if Treyarch made this a modern war game it wouldn't receive as much criticism, maybe none at all. Until then, I'll be skipping WAW and I'll wait for Infinity Ward to released COD5.

InMyOpinion5626d ago

Is that the actor from Brokeback Mountain in your avatar?

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Another One5627d ago

is what feels like CoD4.5. I haven't played campaign, but from what I hear, it's better than CoD4. But since CoD4 was fairly good, I guess number 5 can't be bad.

Kleptic5626d ago

uh...no...its not better than cod 4 in any real way...its like a WWII expansion or something...visually, its worse I thought...character models and animations seem off...death animations are almost completely broken (gravity and physics just seem screwed up, a body goes from standing to flat on the ground in like .1 seconds)...and the game has some major script bugs...

spoiler...

when trying to enter the reichstag towards the end of the game, whatever was supposed to trigger your ally shooting the pillar, which would then collapse and break the barbed wire blocking the steps...wasn't happening...I would just kill everyone, and my objective wouldn't change...and I just stood there...had to replay the entire level for whatever reason...

either way...the guns are pretty lame...and the entire game is 'been there done that' if you played any WWII game before...which you should have...

the game is ok, no better or worse than any of the other WWII CoD games...and easily better than BIA:HH...but Jack Bauer himself couldn't save this game from mediocrity...i'll have forgot about it by next week...

wibble5627d ago

and COD4 is really just COD3.5?

and COD3 is just COD2.5?

and COD2 is just COD1.5?

and COD1 is just Pacman with guns?

and pacman is just pong?

and blah blah blah..

PainisCupcake5626d ago

CoD3 just sucked if you played either of IWs previous CoD PC games, CoD3 was 0.25 at best.

gta28005626d ago

I don't think that's a fair comparison. COD4 was built on a different game engine than COD3.

PainisCupcake5626d ago

They couldve used the CoD2 engine maybe instead?

Slinger4205627d ago

World at War is one of the bloodiest and darkest war games out. Anyone that says the game isn't great is just a hater. The amount of polish in the game is insane. The only problem is the questionable a.i. but everything else is great. I still prefer COD4 multiplayer though.

Kleptic5626d ago

high polish?...ground textures looks like trash...particle effects have all kinds of clipping problems...animation looks hand drawn...and death animations are absolutely laughable...

lighting is ok...but is probably very above average...its just that I have been playing the killzone 2 beta for the past 2 weeks like non stop...which makes other game's lighting look a little...childish...

the loading screens are awesome...and yeah, the game is definitely gorier...but even that seem like its trying to hard...

******SPOILER********

the ending made that very clear to me...your Russian guy getting popped just before planting the flag, and your commander coming over and literally gutting the German that shot you in slow motion summed the game up overall imo...which I think reflects a lot of immaturity from the developers...the gore is never used to create a good atmosphere of how horrible war is...its used for ra ra action movie crap...I always thought I would prefer a gorier WWII shooter, thinking it would make the game more realistic...and now i realized I was totally wrong...as the gore wasn't used in the way it should have been...and the tamer action focused original CoD's seemed to fit better...

I didn't have the same thoughts on CoD 4...as its a fictional story, not really recreating anything...and yet its far less bloody than world at war...there is blood spray and stuff...but nothing like the world at war's direct rip-offs of several movies (Enemy at the Gates...the shooting the bodies in the center fountain...that is the THIRD time CoD has ripped off this movie...its getting old...let it go...)...or the guy being tortured and then having his throat slit at the opening of the game...

its poor taste imo...as i mentioned earlier...treyarch wasn't using the gore in a way that it should have been...they should have shown less of it actually happening, leaving more of the gore for you to discover after the terrible stuff happened...which could actually build tension or a feeling of 'it really must have sucked to be there'...instead they try to use it in a way that results in no emotion whatsoever...you know nothing about the people being tortured, it just shows you...just to show you...yeah, that stuff happened...but the developers could have very easily used it in a way that didn't seem so 80's war movie'ish...

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65 Year Old Gamer Racks Up Ridiculous Stats After Playing 1 Game for 15 Years

A very devoted fan of Call of Duty: World at War racks up incredible in-game stats while playing regularly for the past 15 years.

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franwex289d ago

Well, he definitely got his money’s worth.

Abnor_Mal289d ago

Same as Shirley Curry playing Skyrim for years. In the next Elders Scrolls game they should have her in the game as some form of npc.

andy85289d ago

She is, I read she will be a character. Not a dig in any form but I hope she's alive when it releases

Relientk77289d ago

That's over 7,000 hours geez. What crazy stats

nitus10288d ago

Actually it is very easy to up the number of hours you have been playing a game. Basically all you need to do (assuming you have a PS4 or 5) is to place the console into stand-by without exiting the game, so if you do this a one hour gameplay actually becomes a 24 gameplay or longer.

boing1288d ago

What? So the game is still runinng when you put it to sleep? What?

EvertonFC288d ago

It's actually sad not an achievement but hey we need the full story details.

Knushwood Butt288d ago

There's someone on my friend list that has more than 6200 hours on Uncharted 4.

vTuro24288d ago

7k hours over 15 years isn't that crazy. The fact that he's been playing the same game for 15 years is more impressive.

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anast289d ago

And then you got people that want to finish a game every week.

Rhythmattic288d ago

Nailed what is the Spectrum... For good and bad, Quality or Quantity..Or the unreasonable to reason for. ;)

jznrpg288d ago

Of course you will hit a ridiculous stat after 15 of anything.
My main character for Everquest had over 500 days played in the first 6 years of the game. I was young then and had a lot of time on my hands. I don’t think I could duplicate that again until I retire and not sure I could match it if I tried.

EvertonFC288d ago

500 days in 6 years is nothing lol, you do realise how many days in a year right ?

poppatron288d ago

I might be getting the maths wrong here, I think 500 days in 6 years works out at an average of just over 6 hours every single day. For 6 years. That’s pretty serious

EvertonFC288d ago

Edit: wrote this early this morning, I understand it's lots of hours now lol at myself 😂🤣😜

RedDevils288d ago

The only way to achieve this, is by having no life outside of video game lol.

Outlawzz288d ago

Strange choice of game but hey that's some devotion. Congrats to them!

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Call of Duty: Vanguard VS World at War Map Comparison

Gamespot : Call of Duty: Vanguard launches with 20 multiplayer maps, three of which are actually remakes from 2008's Call of Duty: World at War. Let's take a look at how the maps have changed with this side-by-side comparison.

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RebDomine2891d ago

waw is the best with no feminism or black. it's a real ww2 game

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Ranking The Top 10 Call of Duty Games Of All-Time

Andrew says: "The intrinsic values of COD are the following: memorable campaigns, meticulous multiplayer marathons, and lobbies populated by screaming 12-year-old kids that think puberty is the evolved form of Jigglypuff."

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