Difficulty:

Hard

Time Spent:

10 to 20 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Rocks"

Call of Duty: World at war is a first person shooter set in World War 2. Players take on the role of two distinct characters. One is private miller as US soldier and his parts take place in two islands in the Japan area namely Palau and Okinawa. The other character is Dmitri a soldier in the Russian army and his parts take part in a verity of locations but he is up against the Germans while Miller is up against the Japanese army. This is more than likely the last WWII shooter players will see for a good long time as the tale has been told in many ways.

Call of Duty: World at war's graphics are really solid and look great. There is a great attention to detail almost all round from the character models to the guns and even the locations to some extent. The locations in general look fantastic and players can really tell that there was a lot of work put into them to help the locations look and feel authentic. However on the down side there are times in which surfaces in the locations look and feel flat but this isn't all that noticeable at times.

Call of Duty: World at war's gameplay is solid but is difficult as well. The core gameplay itself is pretty darn good but there isn't really anything new to players who've played other call of duties before. There is a good diversity in terms of guns that players will use over the course of the game and the AI is really intelligent. However the AI seems to be overly aggressive in that while the programmers seem to have been able to nail down the mind set for the enemies they seem to have made them almost too smart in a sense. The AI will more than likely kill players multiple times in a given level especially on normal mode and this probably will be frustrate players quite a bit.

Call of Duty: World at war's audio is really well done. The guns sound very authentic and match each gun perfectly. The voice acting is really good as well. Players may even recognise one of the voice actors from the lead character of the show 24.

Overall Call of Duty: World at war is a solid yet difficulty first person shooter that gives WW2 games one last hurah.