Review contains spoilers
When i first played this years ago I remember not liking it as much as COD 4 and the other modern warfare games, but having replayed it today I can confidently say that this has shot up into my top 5 campaigns. Without a doubt the best WW2 era COD.
The campaign is split into two with the Pacific campaign where you play as Pvt Miller fighting through Japan and the Soviet campaign where you play as Pvt Dmitri Petrenko fighting during the soviet invasion of Germany at the tail end of WW2. Whilst I think that the pacific campaign is amazing with some great missions and serviceable characters the soviet campaign one ups it in almost every way. It has far better set piece missions, introduces Viktor Reznov who is one of the best characters in COD history and has a way better score.
The gunplay is really fun with the WW2 era weapons making gun fights feel way more stressful with the slower rifles compared to blasting through areas with full auto machine guns. Also has two vehicle missions with a tank mission and a plane mission which are a nice change of pace. Great performances as well in particular from Gary Oldman as Reznov. You can really see the blueprint for what they did with Reznov in Black Ops which is a cool thing to keep an eye out for if you have played BO1.
Couple small complaints, one of which will contain spoilers for the pacific campaign. First off I found grenades to be stupid OP in the fact that no matter how far away i was from them i would either take massive damage or die. Small nit pick but it can get annoying as gauntlets of enemies rush you time after time. One other complaint is that the end to the pacific campaign falls a little flat. For those who dont know you are given a choice to save either Sgt Roebuck or Pvt Polonsky. My problem with this is that Pvt Polonsky is literally just a NPC who doesnt have any form of character that is shown through either cutscenes or even in game. Since letting Roebuck die makes a lot more sense for the narrative it leaves you saving a character who isnt much of a character at all. It isnt too much of a problem as this is the last mission in the pacific campaign but i feel like they should of given more character to Polonsky to make that final choice a bit more difficult.
Anyway World at war is an extremely underrated COD with one of the most brutal and dark campaigns and of course introduced zombies mode which has become a staple of COD. Defo worth a revisit it has aged like wine
When i first played this years ago I remember not liking it as much as COD 4 and the other modern warfare games, but having replayed it today I can confidently say that this has shot up into my top 5 campaigns. Without a doubt the best WW2 era COD.
The campaign is split into two with the Pacific campaign where you play as Pvt Miller fighting through Japan and the Soviet campaign where you play as Pvt Dmitri Petrenko fighting during the soviet invasion of Germany at the tail end of WW2. Whilst I think that the pacific campaign is amazing with some great missions and serviceable characters the soviet campaign one ups it in almost every way. It has far better set piece missions, introduces Viktor Reznov who is one of the best characters in COD history and has a way better score.
The gunplay is really fun with the WW2 era weapons making gun fights feel way more stressful with the slower rifles compared to blasting through areas with full auto machine guns. Also has two vehicle missions with a tank mission and a plane mission which are a nice change of pace. Great performances as well in particular from Gary Oldman as Reznov. You can really see the blueprint for what they did with Reznov in Black Ops which is a cool thing to keep an eye out for if you have played BO1.
Couple small complaints, one of which will contain spoilers for the pacific campaign. First off I found grenades to be stupid OP in the fact that no matter how far away i was from them i would either take massive damage or die. Small nit pick but it can get annoying as gauntlets of enemies rush you time after time. One other complaint is that the end to the pacific campaign falls a little flat. For those who dont know you are given a choice to save either Sgt Roebuck or Pvt Polonsky. My problem with this is that Pvt Polonsky is literally just a NPC who doesnt have any form of character that is shown through either cutscenes or even in game. Since letting Roebuck die makes a lot more sense for the narrative it leaves you saving a character who isnt much of a character at all. It isnt too much of a problem as this is the last mission in the pacific campaign but i feel like they should of given more character to Polonsky to make that final choice a bit more difficult.
Anyway World at war is an extremely underrated COD with one of the most brutal and dark campaigns and of course introduced zombies mode which has become a staple of COD. Defo worth a revisit it has aged like wine
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@T0M196 Christ I could only imagine, I played on regular and it was horrific lol
Finding out that there actually was an entire co-op zombies mode after the credits rolled with my brother on Christmas day 2008 and that the others at school weren't keeping us going was an experience that seems way harder to replicate now with how prevalent leaks and datamining have become. Same with not only learning you can get out of the chair in Blops 1's menu but also that it had its own zombies spinoff and Zork gated behind doing so, that's 100% a contender for the best main menu of all time.
Also, as we get further and further away from 2008, I worry that the amount of people who know what an 11/10 soundtrack World at War has is probably shrinking.
Also, as we get further and further away from 2008, I worry that the amount of people who know what an 11/10 soundtrack World at War has is probably shrinking.
@ProudLittleSeal 100 percent probably has my favourite soundtrack of any COD
T0M196
3 months ago