Call of Duty: World at War

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Call of Duty: World at War From ACTIVISION List Price: $29.99 Price: $25.89 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Ships from and sold by SoftwareMI 84 new or used available from $7.00 Average customer review:

Product Description

Call of Duty: World at War changes the rules of engagement by redefining WWII gaming and thrusting players into one of the most tension-filled, unforgiving battles against a new ferocious enemy in the most dangerous and suspenseful action ever seen in WWII. Powered by Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare technology, Call of Duty: World at War brings an uncensored edge to combat, as soldiers face the most harrowing and climatic European and Pacific battles in which an enemy, who knows no surrender and no retreat, will fight to the last breath, unleashing an arsenal of lethal surprising tactics. Peril and danger lurk throughout the battlefield as players combat the unknown risk of the new chaos of battle. From the remains of Russia and the ruins of Berlin, to the beach and jungles of the deadly Pacific Theater, the volatile action takes on added depth as players employ new features that previously were only-available in multiplayer, including perks, rankings and online stats in up-to full four-player cooperative gameplay. New infantry and vehicle-based weapons, like the potent flamethrower, bring the battlefield ablaze.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1486 in Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Model: 047875332478
• Released on: 2008-11-11
• ESRB Rating: Mature
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Features

• Set in the Pacific Theater of World War II
• Powered by Call of Duty 4: Modern Wafare technology
• Includes perks, rankings, and stats
• Participate in up-to four-player cooperative gameplay
• New infantry and vehicle-based weapons

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Product Description

Call of Duty is back, redefining war like you’ve never experienced before. Building on the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare engine, Call of Duty: World at War immerses players into the most gritty and chaotic WWII combat ever experienced. Players band together to survive the most harrowing and climactic battles that led to the demise of the Axis powers on the European and Pacific fronts.  The title offers an uncensored experience with unique enemies and combat variety, including Kamikaze fighters, ambush attacks, Banzai charges and cunning cover tactics, as well as explosive on-screen action through the all new four-player cooperative campaign.  The addictive competitive multiplayer has also been enhanced with new infantry and vehicle-based action, a higher level cap, more weapons, and a host of new Perks, maps and challenges.

Features:

New Enemies, Environments and Tactics:  Face off against ruthless and tactically advanced enemies that will stop at nothing to defend their homelands, from swamp ambushes and tree-top snipers to fearless Kamikaze attacks.  Play as a U.S. Marine and Russian conscript across a variety of Pacific and European locations against the fearless Imperial Japanese and elite German soldiers in epic adrenaline-filled infantry, vehicle and airborne missions.

Co-Op Campaign Mode, Call of Duty Style: For the first time in the franchise, Call of Duty: World at War introduces co-op play, bringing fresh meaning to “No One Fights Alone”. Campaign co-op features up to four-players online, or two-player local split-screen, allowing gamers to experience harrowing campaign missions together for greater camaraderie and tactical execution. Co-op mode incorporates innovative multiplayer components such as challenges, rankings and online stats for deeper re-playability and multiplayer experience bonuses. Co-op mode also features Competitive Co-Op that will show who is really the best player on your team.

Enhanced Multiplayer: Call of Duty: World at War continues the class-based multiplayer action the series is famous for. The addition of vehicle combat with tanks rounds out the multiplayer experience, and features such as persistent stats, player rankings, upgradeable weapons, squad-based gameplay, customizable classes and Perks, have been further enhanced.

The Call of Duty Experience: Call of Duty: World at War utilizes cutting-edge technology including highly-detailed character models, self-shadowing, environmental lighting and amazing special effects to deliver jaw-dropping visuals.  Depth of field, rim-lighting and texture-streaming technology bring the adrenaline-pumping combat to life, while physics-enabled battlefields and fire that spreads through environments realistically immerses players into the harrowing and dynamic combat.

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Customer Reviews

Laissex Faire Lan Great for single-user online, very fun, but...... Requires online profile authentication for every mode of gameplay. This has usually been left alone for local LAN. They have put a deathgrip on local lan multiplayer which for the first time makes me consider using a modded exe. I have a 6 user lanparty room in my house where I play games with my kids and friends. COD4 was the greatest, The latest cod4 patch made you turn off punkbuster when hosting/playing with same key but still worked. this new game makes this sooo frustrating. I am certainly not a game pirate but disallowing local lan on same serial is a step too far to me. I will not buy six copies of a $50 dollar game, sorry activision. major fail. Why will you allow 4 player split screen on console, but not 4 player lan with same disk?????????????? Still waiting for a bug fix that actually works It's bad enough that Activision released this game and a 340 MB bug fix on the same day, but it still doesn't work for me and thousands of other folks who bought this game because they had confidence in the quality of the COD series. Activision has no useful advice on it's web site and there is no evidence that they are working on the release of another bug fix anytime soon. How can this be? How could they blow this so badly and not be responsive to customer complaints? It sure makes you wonder what the heck is going on with them. And it has become obvious that they place little value on the loyalty of their customers. This fiasco will cost them dearly. --------------------------------- Update July 2009 So here we are seven months later and I thought I'd give it another try. I installed the latest patches (1.5 patch is nearly one gigabyte) and the game loads but there's no audio. Spent two hours messing around with audio drivers and DirectX and still no sound. Spent a couple more hours searching the internet for a solution. The suggestion for XP users is, "DISABLE Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio device" in Device Manager. Of course I don't have that in my list of devices so I can't disable it. Oh well. It's bad enough I wasted money on a game that doesn't work, but how many hours have I wasted now trying to get this crappy thing to work? Activision ought to reimburse me for the game AND for the time I've spent trying to get it to work. Never again. Call of Duty is DEAD I rarely finish games as they
get repetitive and boring and sometimes just ridiculous and not worth
it. Games I finish are FEAR, HALF LIFE, CRYSIS and similar quality of
game. I have finished all 4 previous Call of Duty games and LOVED all of
them even United Offensive (it was too short). I was waiting for this
to come out, went out of my way to buy it on release day.

PROS
Graphics
are still great smoke, fire, etc.
Still fun as I loved the previous
ones so I guess that keeps me going

CONS
BORING - Turned from a
great mix of panic and close thoughtful planning, sniping and other fun
REAL game aspects to the epitome of Run n Gun which I DO NOT LIKE

WEAK
STORY- Let me repeat WEAK story line. I felt totally un-immersed

STUPID
AI - I mean dumb as a box of rocks.

PLANTED ENEMIES - You can
run in killing everything in sight but WAIT....if you do not kill those 2
guys required (Your squad acts as if they are not there) everything
waits for you to kill these lousy PLANTED ENEMIES

MEDIOCRE MAPS -
Instead of being able to use the terrain to your advantage and/or in
different ways (like Crysis) you are forced to follow linear boundaries
sometimes railed right into a massive firefight, run/gun or die, panic,
restart, race to use the most ammo

LACK OF SKILL NEEDED- Weapons
and ammo are plentiful so there is no strategy. Sniping? Rare if ever.
Sneaking? HA! Gone. Thinking and working the map & enemies? GET REAL

CONCLUSION
- What could have been another great installment turned into nothing
but a frantic run-n-gun, ammo a-plenty, stupid AI, lame story release to
milk the franchise.

I would buy CoD 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Pay attention suits that is another [...]bucks from one guy) if they were as good as the first. After this one? All future CoD releases will wait for the bargain bin.