The perk and ranking system makes a comeback here, with players being ranked to play with other players of a similar skill level.The multiplayer modes include classics like capture the flag and team deathmatch. Join the multiplayerMuch like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, World at War’s multiplayer features a player progression system and multiple game modes. Additionally, the game’s score is truly epic, making everything feel like a true Hollywood blockbuster.
This mode allows up to four players to defend a house against an endless horde of undead nazis. Reich of the living deadThe best new addition to the Call of Duty formula comes in the Nazi Zombies mode. The first killstreak calls forth a recon plane to reveal enemy locations the second level is the classic airstrike finally, the third killstreak unleashes a group of fiery dogs on the enemy team.
Having said that it's surprising to note that it's the Soviet campaign which provides the game's outstanding moments, but we'll come back to this.The other thing people will have been talking/worrying about is the developer itself. Although Japanese adversaries change the combat dynamic slightly - popping out of camouflaged foxholes, sniping from trees, charging with bayonets - in the end you're doing the same thing you've done to the Nazis hundreds of times. While Treyarch tries very hard to make the Pacific missions as distinct and individual as possible, they don't succeed. Most of the discussion has been on how different this new scenario would be - essentially, would it be as refreshing as the modem setting that proved so popular in Call of Duty 4?The answer to that is a positive no, unfortunately. This turned out to not be so much of an issue, with the setting being a return to the Eastern Front, specifically the Soviet fightback from Stalingrad, that most incredible of military encounters.World at War also marks the introduction of a new theatre into the Call of Duty recipe book, the exotic dish that is the fight for the Pacific. First of all, there was the return (unwelcome for some) to World War II, a scenario that raised eyebrows and elicited sighs of disappointment from people fed up of fighting Nazis in the fields of central Europe.
In fact the level of brutality on show - Japanese soldiers getting their limbs blown off, Nazis viciously executing the dying and wounded in Stalingrad - makes the whole experience grittier than ever, certainly more so than any previous Call of Duty game.All this happens in the same graphics engine as COM. From here, you assist in escaping the island prison and returning to the pillowy bosom of US territory, before being shipped out to help the war effort.Like the death of your character in COM, this particular sequence isn't what you'd expect from a big-budget consumer-friendly title. You realise you are next but luckily, rescuers (primarily in the form of Kiefer Sutherland's Sgt Roebuck) storm in and prevent your death in the nick of time. Refusing to answer his questions, the private has his throat savagely slit by your captors. Certainly, WAWhas a lot to do to convince the doubters, who could easily opt for one of the many other big-name titles coming out in the run up to Christmas (a lot of which will already have drained the bank balances of potential customers).You start off captured by the Japanese, watching an American GI being tortured and brutalised by a sadistic guard right in front of you.
Amazingly, WAIVs gaming pariah is actually damn good fun. I can hear the collective groans - on-rails turret missions aren't exactly flavour of the month in the gaming world. You can see why they've added it - to break up the on-foot action and prevent it getting samey - but you can't help feeling this was a decision made late in the development process.This isn't the case with the other 'interlude' section, a turret mission above the Pacific Ocean. In fact, this level is probably the least interesting part of the game, feeling tacked on and out of keeping with the rest of the Soviet campaign. Despite occasions when your surroundings look like they've been shrink-wrapped, the only stage that really lets the side down visually is one where you take control of a Soviet tank rolling about the Seelow Heights outside Berlin. There are some lovely little touches here and there, like the barrel of your gun being spotted with rain in certain levels.
The game's engine does a good job of handling the more epic battles, with smoke, explosions and corpses flying about all over the shop. Some of the set-pieces are on a par with the original COD'S Stalingrad level, especially when you're working your way through to the Reichstag in Berlin. Such morality plays a much heavier part in the Soviet campaign, as Treyarch make sure to highlight the intense savagery of the struggle between the Soviets and Nazis. You can rescue said survivors if you like, but you risk giving the Japanese planes an opportunity to break through. At one point you even land on the water and are given the task of preventing kamikaze bombers destroying your fleet while floating survivors plead to be hauled aboard.This is where one of the game's moral moments rears its head. You are constantly being ordered into different areas of the bomber, moving quickly through the inside of the giant plane in order to take up positions on each of the turrets.
You'll find yourself virtually impervious to damage, apart from grenades and flamethrowers. You certainly won't get the most out of the battles when you can take ridiculous amounts of punishment before finally carking it The larger battles are meant to be exercises in intense action, but when you can survive so easily, they lose most of their impact. It doesn't really matter too much, but it can still lead to a few moments of "Am I meant to advance now or what? You might even advance too early and get rinsed by a sudden wave of enemies.If you're after anything resembling a challenge, it's best to steer clear of the easiest difficulty levels. It was the same in COD4, but is more pronounced this time out Sometimes the battles seem to progress without any input from you, while at other times, if you don't take the risk and advance yourself, your squad will remain stuck where they are forever. Rank DissentionThere's a strange aspect to the missions that sometimes grates a little.
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