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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 ps35652d 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 Knight5652d ago

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

TheIneffableBob5652d ago

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

The Dark Knight5652d 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?

RussDeBuss5651d 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.

gta28005651d 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.

InMyOpinion5651d ago

Is that the actor from Brokeback Mountain in your avatar?

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Another One5652d 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.

Kleptic5651d 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...

wibble5652d 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..

PainisCupcake5651d ago

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

gta28005651d ago

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

PainisCupcake5651d ago

They couldve used the CoD2 engine maybe instead?

Slinger4205652d 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.

Kleptic5651d 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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Looking Back At 2008, An Unbelievably Incredible Year Of Video Game Releases

Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."

ChasterMies19d ago

Some of these low paid video game “news” writers weren’t born before 2007.

just_looken19d ago

Here here

Those that were around before 2000's i am sure are like me that think we entered a world of non readers or those that follow without question.

I can not wait to see fallout 3 a goty game even though it was about water with non content until you add the dlc/updates then you got the performance/crashing

CrimsonWing6919d ago

I don’t think anything can compare to 2023

lucasnooker19d ago

1998 - the best year in gaming! Metal gear solid, crash bandicoot 3, medievil, half life, ocarina of time, thief, tenchu, resident evil 2, Spyro, tomb raider 3, oddworld abes exodus, banjo kazooie.

It was a different breed of a gaming era. You’ll never understand what it was like back then. The aura of gaming, it was different!

KyRo19d ago (Edited 19d ago )

I second this. Gaming was a lot more varied and fun than it is today. I'm 35 so getting on compared to some here but I got to see all the changes from NES up to now but I've never felt so disappointed in any generation than I have this current gen. I was expecting more from this generation rather than prettier versions of games that came before it. Game mechanics have become so refined that alot of games feel the same and has done for a while now.

Maybe it's time to have a break for a while. I love gaming but I don't feel I get much fun in the traditional sense out of it anymore.

CrimsonWing6919d ago (Edited 19d ago )

Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2, Abe’s Exodus, and Ocarina of Time are the only things from that list that I liked.

Here’s the 2023 game releases that I personally liked… and big releases that I didn’t care for:

- Dead Space Remake
- Wo Long Dynatsy
- Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Diablo 4
- Fire Emblem Engage
- Hogwarts Legcay
- Street Fighter 6
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Like a Dragon: Ishin
- Octopath Traveler 2
- Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters
- Final Fanatsy XVI (actually ended up not liking this, but it was still a big deal release)
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
- Lies of P
- Mortal Kombat 1
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Starfield (Ended up hating this one, but big release)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (I’m an old-school Zelda fan, but didn’t really enjoy this game)
- Alan Wake 2

I mean, honestly I’ve never seen a year of major IP releases like that, ever.

Profchaos19d ago (Edited 19d ago )

Isn't it just a generational thing realistically.

I've been gaming since way back and I some of my favourite games go as far back as the late 80s for me each generation has a year or two of game changing releases one after another before an inevitable dry spell.

I kind of agree gaming had a different feel games hit different because we didn't have the internet nothing got spoiled and you really had to put in the effort to beat a puzzle which could set entire groups of people looking for a solution. But most importantly games were experimental and not as cookie cutter as today even basics like controls were not universal today r2 is shoot l2 is ads garunteed you can't deviate from that in a shooter back then it could of been square, R1 or R1 and circle nothing was standard.

But as time moves on a new generation picks up their controller they are going to be interested in different things that PS1 demo disc with the t Rex blew our primitive 16 bit brains back on launch but to kids today it's laughable.
The new gen of kids coming into to hobby seem to value different things to us there seems to be a huge focus on online play, streamers, gaming personalities, and social experiences, convience of digital downloads. To me I value none of that but that's ok like my parents not liking the band's I would listen to its just the natural cycle.

Gameseeker_Frampt19d ago

Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.

2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.

just_looken19d ago

It still amazes me we got over 7 rockstar games ps2/ps3 but 3 for the ps3/ps4/ps5

Dragon age 1-3 and mass effect 1-3 in 7ish years what a generation.

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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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franwex314d ago

Well, he definitely got his money’s worth.

Abnor_Mal314d 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.

andy85314d 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

Relientk77314d ago

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

nitus10314d 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.

boing1313d ago

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

EvertonFC313d ago

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

Knushwood Butt313d ago

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

vTuro24313d 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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anast314d ago

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

Rhythmattic313d ago

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

jznrpg314d 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.

EvertonFC313d ago

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

poppatron313d 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

EvertonFC313d ago

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

RedDevils313d ago

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

Outlawzz313d 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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RebDomine2916d ago

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