Call of duty: World at war review

Storyline

Call of Duty World at war is one of 2 call of duty games set away from the modern warfare franchise and is developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. There are two main characters that you play throughout the game Private Miller and private Petranko, Private Miller is a U.S. Navy soldier fighting the Japanese army and Private Petranko is a Russian red army soldier fighting the Germans.

Gameplay (Single Player)

The gameplay is very slick and when I played it I didn’t notice any glitches or moments of freezing during the game. Also, the characters are very life like and believable considering it came out in 2008. Some of the levels are a bit too short and it could have been more beneficial for some of the levels to be combined that involved the same main character. However, sometimes the rest of your team would get in the way and would be a hindrance rather than a help. I also found that both main characters stories started off the same way weapon less and surrounded by the enemy which I must admit was a little disappointing considering how well the game was hyped on release.

Weapons

On the weapons side of things it was a lot better and kind of showed me what the weapons were like in World War 2 which is where the game was set. My favourite weapons were probably the bayonet, deployable machine gun and flame thrower because they delivered the most damage to the enemy and therefore gave me the most satisfaction.

Graphics

The graphics in world at war are very impressive and look very realistic. It actually made me feel like I was in a real war!

Gameplay (Multiplayer and zombies)

In world at war Treyarch introduced a new element to the game called Nazi zombies which is unlocked at the end of the game. This is probably the hardest part in the game; it certainly caused me the most stress! For those that haven’t played world at war before Nazi zombies starts off with you just having a pistol and you can buy guns with the money you earn from killing zombies and rebuilding barriers, there is also a room that can be unlocked that contains a “Random Box” which as you probably guessed by the name gives you a random weapon (Some good, some bad) Zombies is by far the most enjoyable part of the game. The online multiplayer is obviously a huge part of the game but to be honest I don’t think it lived up to the expectations set by Call of duty 4 so I didn’t really play a lot of it sorry.

Final opinion

My final opinion of this game is that it is OK but not as good as I thought it would be after playing Call of duty 4 to be honest I didn’t think that call of duty’s standards would go down but seeing as it wasn’t developed by infinity Ward I wasn’t really that surprised.

I rate this game 7/10