It's a well-tuned and exciting familiarity, but it doesn't make any notable leaps. This kind of action, and most of the other weapons, will feel familiar to anyone who has played a World War II shooter before.
Still, in between the burning, stabbing, and gibbing, there is a lot of crouching behind cover and picking off enemies with your trusty rifle. Explosions and gunfire will cause enemies to lose limbs and copious amounts of blood, making World at War a sight more violent than Modern Warfare. The Russian campaign is slightly more predictable, but it remains vigorous throughout and ends in a spectacularly satisfying way.
These raiders snipe from the treetops, or pop out of holes and charge you with merciless determination this aggression makes the American campaign feel uniquely tense. You wield both in the American campaign, using them to enthusiastically dispatch enemies in trenches and fend off the aggressive banzai raiders. How you ultimately feel about this message will depend on your personal disposition, but suffice to say that the elevated emotional timbre makes for an exciting campaign.Īlso exciting? Bayonets and flamethrowers, the two standout new weapons in World at War. The message is, by nature, a conflicted one: Though you may feel like an action hero, you are actually participating in the most horrid of human endeavors. This grim sobriety is further enforced by the actual WWII videos, photos, and statistics presented in stylish interchapter cutscenes. The vengeful, spitfire Russian pumps up your adrenaline to intoxicating levels, while the grim, determined American provides a sobering influence. Throughout each level you are accompanied by a superior officer who sets the emotional tone through well-acted dialogue. The first few levels are a hard scrabble as you and your fellow soldiers try to gain a foothold for your country, while later levels are suffused with a sense of hard-won momentum as you fight bigger battles and push closer to your enemies' capitals. Though the emotional tone eventually rises toward triumph, you never quite forget the fate you nearly met. Weaponless and surrounded by the enemy, you get a taste of the despair many soldiers are never rescued from.
Though you'll alternate between them every few levels, the campaign feels like one solid progression, thanks to the adept pacing.Įach soldier's journey begins at a low point. In the campaign, you split time between two soldiers in two offensive theaters: the Russian push out of their homeland and into the heart of Germany, and the American struggle to wrest Pacific islands from the Japanese. The most salient difference between World at War and Modern Warfare is the WWII setting. Now Playing: Call of Duty: World at War Video Review By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
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