Try to play the game when only head-shots count. After you beat the campaign you unlock a co-op zombie mode that's more horror movie than war game, and you'll find death cards hidden around the campaign that unlock game modifiers much like Halo's skulls. Treyarch also showed willingness to be silly with a game franchise that is often overly serious. It's not worth arguing over the first complaint, but the single-player game is certainly fun and better than competent, and co-op is a blast. Gamers are going to skip World at War for two reasons: because it's set in one of the most overused settings in gaming history, and it was developed by Treyarch. At least in the Pacific missions, the countryside is often more interesting looking. Expect to man turrets, take out fortified positions, and kill wave after wave of enemy soldiers. The second half of the campaign deals with the Russian battles, and feels much more like the Call of Duty we're used to-albeit with the voice talents of Gary Oldman taking over for Kiefer. While the presentation and story-telling remains top-notch, the gravelly voice of Kiefer Sutherland was more of a distraction than anything else I kept waiting for him to scream that THERE'S NO TIME.

The controls are the same as they've always been, the game relies on a lot of scripting for those big set-pieces and cinematic battles, and you'll often feel like you're fighting the entire war yourself. The single-player game now features levels from the Pacific campaign, which is a much-needed change of pace, but you'll recognize everything else instantly.

The result is a game that's very satisfying overall, but nowhere near the revelation that Call of Duty 4 was.

World at War, which doesn't have the number '5' anywhere on the box, doesn't do much to push the formula forward the game simply brings the series kicking and screaming back into World War II while ripping off many of the things that made Call of Duty 4 great. Accepted wisdom states that only Infinity Ward, the team behind both Call of Duty 2 and 4, can make an outstanding CoD title. It was developed by Treyarch, the team that gave us the mediocre Call of Duty 3. Platform: Xbox 360 (Reviewed), PS3, PC, Wii, Nintendo DSĬall of Duty: World at War was supposed to be horrible.

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