Call of Duty: World at War | 
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| From: Activision Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99 Our Price: $13.95 You Save: $16.04 (53%)
Rating: 216 reviews Sales Rank: 370
Format: DVD-ROM Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP Genre: shooter_action_games ESRB: Mature Media: DVD-ROM Edition: Standard Autographed: No Memorabilia: No Number Of Items: 1 Batteries Included: No Age: 17 - 20 years Operating System: Windows Vista Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 33247 Model: 047875332478 UPC: 047875332478 EAN: 0047875332478 ASIN: B001AWBYRA
Release Date: November 11, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | 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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Product Description COD World at War PC
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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PC Call of Duty: WAW Review July 12, 2010 Prosper A. The game is great. To my surprise, the sound is also very good. I'm still trying to beat it so I can unlock zombie mode (the only reason I bought this game).
Really Fun all around shooter June 30, 2010 Scipio3 This is a really fun online game with a lot of lasting quality. I have spent A LOT of hours playing this game. The controls are more customizable than some other pc games, like battlefield 2 bc. The single player campaign is very short but the online gameplay is what this game is truly about. I just finished the single player campaign and while it is short it is a great single player. This game has a little bit of something for everyone. You can have pretty much any playing style and be successful, as long as you are skilled- snipe, run and gun, stealth whatever. Great game.
Dispite flaws the COD series moves ahead May 11, 2010 Tara T. I was in awe of the first COD, that received 80 game-of-the-year awards and though none of the subsequent iterations are as quite as good in terms of story and breath (COD2 comes close, imo). COD World at War takes you back to WW II again, but with many upgrades. There's a cinema quality to the missions that sometimes had me stopping and gawking at the quality of the visuals and amount of surrounding action. For example, in the Pacific missions you can see heat streaming off the ground refracting what's behind it. Bullets have more effect on what they hit, like pieces of cement chipping off when hit. NPC rendering is miles ahead of the first COD and is getting close to movie quality.
The action is frantic as in previous CODs though the game maps were a little too linear for my tastes. There are some complaints about problems running the game on a PC, but I experienced none (though I do have a beefy machine). I'm also patched up to version 1.5.
The game is short, but a lot of action is packed in and I can see myself replaying some of the missions. There are personal touches in COD WaW. More NPCs personally interact with you, like lifting you off the ground when you're wounded. The music and sound effects are typically COD high-quality.
My complaints are as follows: Being an XBox import there's no in-game saves, only check-points. This became very frustrating as I'd get half-way through a mission, then get killed and have to restart at the beginning. Enemy AI is spotty. Though they were good at flanking you and using objects to hide behind, I'd often find an NPC standing directly in front of me, gun pointed and just stand there until I shot him. Perhaps this was a function of the difficulty setting, though I played on the next to highest difficulty setting (Hardcore). Also, my squad mates would sometimes fire into a wall, or car, trying to hit the enemy.
Violence: the beginning cut scene depicts an American POW getting interrogated and then his throat is slit. There's a similar scene during the ending, though the roles are reversed. I found the former particularly disturbing and there are visceral cut scenes using real footage from WW II. Were these put in gratuitously or because the developers were trying to make a statement how insanely horrible war is? I suspect the latter. As video games get closer to movie-quality I think this will be more of an issue.
Overall, COD WaW is another fine game from the Call of Duty series.
COD ruined by the xbox live players May 10, 2010 JAD Like all the COD releases, Its popularity brings out the modders that think cheating is a legit way to win..
Didn't get past the intro. April 3, 2010 Cyrus Master (Riverdale, UT) 1 out of 7 found this review helpful
The introductory movie shows real news footage of people being thrown into a mass grave. The first animated scene is of POW torture. At that point, I turned it off and tossed the disk. I'm hardly a prude, but it just didn't sit right for me to this to be entertainment.
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