This review is gonna be mainly about the campaign, as I never played multiplayer much, and I was never into zombies, though I have played zombies in this a bit, it's pretty simple and gets boring pretty fast.
So the campaign. It's a good WW2 campaign, putting the player in the shoes of a U.S. Marine on the Pacific Theater, and a Russian soldier on the Eastern Theater. The story is just... y'know, World War 2. There isn't some hidden side story or something.
The characters are all mostly extremely forgettable and have little to no character development or emotion. The only character that will be remembered from this game is Reznov, who is what can be described as a sadistic and almost psychotic Russian Sargent, who you follow in all of the Eastern Theater missions.
I have mixed feelings on the pacing of this game. It is constant and relentless shooting, killing, and just pure warfare. In memory, the only three missions that differentiate themselves from the rest is the First mission with Reznov, where you fight and sneak around at Stalingrad, it feels like a not as good WW2 version of "All Ghilied Up", The tank mission, and the aircraft mission. The aircraft mission is literally just a shooting gallery where you don't even move around, just sometimes click F and move onto the next shooting gallery section. And this is kinda my problem with this campaign, is that it all just feels like one long shooting gallery. Whereas COD 4 each mission was different and the pacing let you breathe, this is just never ending, it feels like the U.S. missions from cod 4 before they got nuked, but it's an entire campaign.
I know I'm complaining a lot, but this is a good game. If you want to play a WW2 shooter campaign, I'd say WAW is one of the better options. But to think that people put this game above COD 4 is just absurd, it is not nearly as good as COD 4. An above average COD campaign, also the music is pretty cool.
So the campaign. It's a good WW2 campaign, putting the player in the shoes of a U.S. Marine on the Pacific Theater, and a Russian soldier on the Eastern Theater. The story is just... y'know, World War 2. There isn't some hidden side story or something.
The characters are all mostly extremely forgettable and have little to no character development or emotion. The only character that will be remembered from this game is Reznov, who is what can be described as a sadistic and almost psychotic Russian Sargent, who you follow in all of the Eastern Theater missions.
I have mixed feelings on the pacing of this game. It is constant and relentless shooting, killing, and just pure warfare. In memory, the only three missions that differentiate themselves from the rest is the First mission with Reznov, where you fight and sneak around at Stalingrad, it feels like a not as good WW2 version of "All Ghilied Up", The tank mission, and the aircraft mission. The aircraft mission is literally just a shooting gallery where you don't even move around, just sometimes click F and move onto the next shooting gallery section. And this is kinda my problem with this campaign, is that it all just feels like one long shooting gallery. Whereas COD 4 each mission was different and the pacing let you breathe, this is just never ending, it feels like the U.S. missions from cod 4 before they got nuked, but it's an entire campaign.
I know I'm complaining a lot, but this is a good game. If you want to play a WW2 shooter campaign, I'd say WAW is one of the better options. But to think that people put this game above COD 4 is just absurd, it is not nearly as good as COD 4. An above average COD campaign, also the music is pretty cool.