Share this article: Digg.comFacebookGoogle BookmarksN4GGamerblipsdel.icio.usRedditSlashdot.orgStumbleUpon Been playing this since Tuesday. At least it succeeds in pulling off the WWII setting in single player, and the graphics and sound are incredible, but nowhere near 4 for me story and gameplay-wise.
The multiplayer also feels off - the weapons aren't balanced right. Maybe it'll take getting used to, but why bother when 4 is so much better. It's almost worth buying for co-op alone, though. This review is pretty much spot on with the feeling I got from the multiplayer game. I'm not the least bit surprised its score isn't comparable to CoD4. It was good, sure, but just not as good, and what it did well was due to a solid engine.
As an aside, I often wonder what the world would be like if WWII had never happened. The available games catalogue would surely be cut in half for a start. 8.5 is still a good score, its just not the score of a Game I'll pick up on day 1. I have too many to play through still and the fact that I havent even been on the demo/beta yet tells me all I need to know.
Roll on the January sales. :D meh, I just can't seem to get myself in the least bit interested in the Call of Duty series these days. Its too many scripted set pieces that break when you don't do them the way the game wants you to, and it just feels like a step backwards in gaming to me. I never even got around to finishing CoD4; I just got bored of the game and ended up spending my time trying to break the enemy respawns. Which in itself was sort of fun, if completely missing the point... What happened to the "world at war is better than modern warfare?" That was on this site about a week ago, who gave that reveiw? Good on Treyarch for managing to make a pretty decent game even if it is purely a cynical mining operation contracted to them by Activision. Sadly, the fact that it IS cynical mining of the CoD brand & an unwelcome return to WWII means that I have absolutely no desire or intention to buy or play this.
Meh. There's some places I'm sure the enemy respawns infinitely, so you'll run out of ammo eventually if you don't press forward :)
@$$johnman$$: That wasn't a CVG review. Err... obviously :) So this game's out for more than 1 format?
Why does this review only state Xbox?
Are there any differences? Surely the Wii version doesn't look as good? - but is the control mechanism better?
Is it me or is this site massively MS biased? Even down to the labelling of multi format titles?
I even clicked through the "Playstation" section of the site - then the reviews - to find the PS3 review - but that brings me back here - which to all intent and purpose is the Xbox review?
C. This is a constant problem, and often works the other way too. If I were to guess, I'd suggest they have no function to label a game 'multiformat' or 'for PS3 and Xbox 360'. That's certainly the impression you get anyway. I'll be buying it soon-really think I'll enjoy it. But I know it will have all those Treyarch things that I hate in them. I'm against vehicles in WW2 games (especially online...), and the dogs online also sounds ridiculous. Still will get though. £27 at asda, it'll make a good xmas present for my bro, my mate and me :) :shock: On which system? I agree with the reviews content, but giving it a lower score than Far Cry 2 is just insane as it is way better than that.
Yes its true that its pretty much the same as the last game, but that was one of the best games of this generation and so in that respect the review score is harsh.
Imagine if they took the same policy with the Zelda series? Twilight Princess would've got about 7. 'Vehicles ignored'? Brilliant. I hate tanks in online games! Agree with the tank comment - vehicles can make or break a good map.
If you need a vehicle to get to the fight it is too big (and there is never something speedy around when you spawn).
If the map is too small, it just causes chaos as you just get run over or hit by a shell.
You then have to re-spawn with a bazooka to get rid of the thing.
'Suppose it adds a bit more realism to the battle but any strategy or tactics go out of the window.
WAW looks like a post-Xmas purchase IMO. If they can fix the guns and dogs, they've got a sale.
COD, Halo and Gears tends to attract different types of player but I wonder if COD5 takes much of COD4 players in long run. Both, I wanted it for the PS3 but it was sold out, I got the very last copy for 360. What was funny was seeing the pc version for £35 The multi player is growing on me, can't wait to get to rank 14 and start playing on the headquarters mode. :D :D :D »I've got 3 Asdas down my way and all 3 had sold out by 11am so i took the advert i'd seen in the paper to gamestation and they sold me cod for for the same price as Asda plus gamestation do ten day returns I'm not wanting to cause any problems here I liked cod4 (apart from the lifers online with their split second head shots) single player it was great (especially shock and awe) World at war I liked very much single player was good online is more stable as the lifers didn't move over (they must have a thing for the towel heads) so personally I would give them both a 9/10. Even the reviewer still has has his cod4 boner I think :lol: peace people :D
Not long finished world at war by the way and I didn't play Nazi zombie mode much but what I did play seems like a ton of fun. I bought this at the weekend and haven't been able to complete it yet I can see why everyone thought this wasn't going to be very good because Treyarch were doing it and think they were right to fear the worst.
Multiplayer is an exact carbon copy of COD4's and they haven't broke it so thats all right.
It's the single player where they just can't live up to Infinity Ward. Your teams AI is so daft they would rather stand in your line of sight shooting at nothing getting in the way for an enemy to sneak past them and kill you. Then there's the first level with all the grenades getting thrown your way in a corridor they call a jungle that's not wide enough to side step out the way, you can't back up far enough because your so called team mates get in the way leaving the only other option of running out into no mans land to meet instant death. Oh the joy.
Also if the sniper mission is trying to cash in on the sucess of All Ghilled Up then they missed the point as that level was beatifully crafted the AI was more help than hinderance and the crawling through the grass unseen and taking out enemies simultaniously was a thing of beauty. Being told on the new one that a sniper is on the top floor to the (bang im dead) left doesn't help. Maybe finishing your sentence before I get a hole my head might of helped just a touch. where COD4 made me wish every game had a sniper level I realise that only devs as good as Infinity Ward or other decent devs that can make them fun and not looking at 4 little windows and hopinng that he'll run in from the side I'm looking at as the hint I get from the useless hunk of Ruskie thats tagged along only comes when I already had a hole in my head. Bad level design in my eyes and although the shootings the same the level design and AI is not even in the same league as COD 4.
Rant over folks I just got a touch wound up last night with it. Johnman was right, Dajmin. There was an article amounting more or less to how WaW was going to be the best thing since sliced bread within the past week. That article seems to have plum disappeared since this one was released. What a coinkidink! Or not.
This review only firmens my resolve to not purchase WaW. I loved CoD4 and if Infinity Ward produce CoD6 with a contemporary setting I'll buy it in a heartbeat. Until then thank you, but no thank you. There have been many great WWII PC games and I've enjoyed a number of them yet in my opinion going back to the WWII era was a step in the wrong direction after CoD4. I remain a committed "No buy". to be honest I didn't play MW enough to compare since i got stuck on corporal at that bit where you have to wait for the helicopter and only rented it for a week, but otherwise WAW is in a league of it's own among all previous WWII games and is a good template to base an FPS around, the multiplayer is solid, Cooperative is a nice touch and campaign is difficult but not impossible. it spins the ball in a new direction but doesn't fix what isn't broken. i think the game is ruined by the bolt action rifles as if u take one with a decent amount of power, remove the scope and take out the stopping power perk, CHEST SHOTS KILL IN ONE!which means that there is no longer the split second rush of godliness as u take a headshot, at long range under pressure simply beacause there is no need to which means there is no balance when u suffer the pitiful reload time and poor hip accuracy of the guns close up. there inst any piont in gaining headshots anyway as u can't get camo for ur guns, which SUCKS. so if there is any sense in u people, u will go now and reopen ur cod4 box |