1 Minute Retro Review : Call of Duty World At War

The Call of Duty games have always been set during the war however when it was announced that Call of Duty 4 would be set in modern days gamers where happy because we were getting sick of the WW2 setting, after the big success of COD4 you can just imagine what we thought when we heard that the next COD game would go back to it’s old roots and the bastard child of the COD series Treyarch would be making the game i don’t think very many people were happy and it does show in the new COD game.

Again set during WW2 you either take control of the Russians who’s aim is to get to the Reichstag and the Americans who have to survive during a pacific assault.
Now the problem here is that this is the whole story and that the game feels just a disjointed as Call of Duty 3 the last game Treyarch attempted in the series.
What we have here is more like COD3.5 with the COD4 engine and a 4 player co-op mode added in just so it can make us feel happy and this makes us very unhappy as we have played this before and do we want to go through the same crap again, i think we know the answer to that do we.

The multiplayer side of the game remains the same as COD4 but again with a COD3 feel and like the single player this gets really annoying as this is supposed to be a new game not an add on pack and this is how this game feels.

Throwing some new perks and a few added extra things does not make a new game and i think thats how they planned it because they were concerntrating on the new james bond game instead of giving us a new experience like COD4 did.

It isn’t all doom and gloom though because it can suck you in a little and if you loved the multiplayer then this is going to put a big smile on your face plus when you finish the game you do get the fantastic zombie mode where you and up to 3 friends get to face off against wave after wave of zombies.

Overall
Not the step forward that we hoped but instead going back in time with a few added extra bit’s Call of Duty World at War feels like a game that has been done before and done better.
There are a few sparks of excellence but these happen few and far between plus the single player campaign can get so frustrating that you want to hunt down a member of Treyarch and smack him in the face for screwing up the COD franchise.

If you can be bothered to go through a WW2 game again then you might find this game worth your while but if like me and you couldn’t care less then you will be going MEH a lot and i mean a lot.
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