CoD WaW Review

The most recent installment of the Call of Duty series (second most if your reeading this after Tuseday 10th November '09) the aptly dubbed World at War.

The Plot: Based during WW II you play as PVT. Dimitri Petrenko a Russian and PVT. Millar an American. The 2 soldiers you play as are fighting on 2 very different battle fields, from the streets of Berlin to the beaches on a remote Japanese Island. These offer very different ways of combat, for example in the streets you are mainly to conform to sniping and long range shooting a far cry from the Japanese fight scenes where you are mainly right up close to the enemy and are force to use melee alot more than I'd like to. 8/10

The Graphics: On the whole the graphics are pretty good, explosions and fire (from the flame thrower) is very crisp. The dark, dank German underground is very realistc and really makes you feel very immersed in the game. How ever at some points during the Japanese levels they can be a bit sketchy. 6/10

The Gameplay: Well depending on what difficulty you play on the game can either be a quick blast or a lengthy session. After you have finished the last level and completed the game completely you will be in for a rather pleasant (or unpleasant) suprise, you get launched into the CoD 5 mini game... NAZI ZOMBIES. Yes you heard correctly, zombies who are Nazis, in short you are a soldier stranded in a delapedated house (or one of 3 other maps if you choose to buy them) and are forced to fend off round after round of undead Nazi soldiers who try to kill you, and your main objective is to not die, couldn't be simpler. 9/10

The Sound: Suprisingly bad, the gun fire is very detached and dumbed down and the explosions (even though they could be 5 feet away they sound like they are several hundred feet away) are also detatched. The talk from other soldiers is rather good and brings my marks out of ten up, it's very clear and consise and you can always hear them. 4/10

Overall: Well with a rather good story line, just above medioker graphics, excellent game play and pretty crap sound, it's a suprisingly good allrounder. Definatly worth a buy (if you haven't already) I look forward to reviewing the next CoD.

A very respectable 8/10