Call of Duty: World at War

[chieftain mike]

Set in the pacific, Call of Duty: world at war is based on the call of duty 4 engine,so it will probably be as good or better looking than cod 4. It is set to ether break new ground, or piss everybody off. If you want to debate the developer or the (yet again) setting in WW 2, this is a good place to do so.

 

[The Wooster]

Convince me where the hell the glory is in a a war that claimed 70million lives. Also try glorifying war in front of my grandpa who is a holocaust survivor. As Yahtzee has said time and time again America is on about WW2 too much. Why couldn't they make another cod 4 style game that would of tottaly kicked massive ass. Cod4 is an excellent game that they could have improved apon and made an even better game after that.

COD4 was just ww2 with modern guns. Which middle eastern country can go troop for troop with America? Where was the asymetrical warfare? Where was the peacekeeping missions? COD4 missed a chance to be something very important and instead took the safe route.

 

[Ruffythepirate]

I sort of lost interest in the COD series after number 2, I don't know why, perhaps because it was all the same over and over again (but I don't know that since i didn't play nr3). I reclaimed my interest when COD4 came out, and I still occasionally play a multiplayer game or two. I think COD4 was great, and when it comes to COD5, well, if they can make a WW2 game that is not COD1 and 2 all over again, then kudos to them. I just don't want to dismiss it before I've played it, and then again, I think getting my hopes up about its' greatness might be a little dangerous.

 

[wgreer25]

Activision is using COD:WAW to pay Infinity Ward the money they deserve to make COD6. COD5 will suck. WW2 is over, and does not need to be relived again, and again. There are plenty of modern arenas to fight in.

 

[ElephantGuts]

Activision is using COD:WAW to pay Infinity Ward the money they deserve to make COD6. COD5 will suck. WW2 is over, and does not need to be relived again, and again. There are plenty of modern arenas to fight in.

What I find interesting is how you called the game COD: WAW and COD5 within two sentences. Unless you have access to some information no one else seems to, COD5 has not yet been announced. COD: WAW is that and simply that. If you insisted on counting every single COD game in the numerical sequence, we'd be up to around COD 7 or 8. Obviously we are not. COD: Finest Hour or COD: Big Red 1 just had subtitles, and no one calls them COD3 or 4. Why insist on trating WAW differently?

That's right, there's no reason. So stop it. COD5 will eventually come out ( from IW, one can assume), and if you're going to call WAW COD5 then there will be two COD5s. And we don't want that, do we?

 

[Baby Tea]

I think it'll be slightly different, what with it being the pacific theater and all, but it'll still be crap by comparison to COD4. Why? One word that should be a curse or something: Treyarch. COD2 was an awesome breath of fresh air into the franchise, and I had (foolishly) high hopes for COD3...and they were dashed upon the rocks of disappointment. DASHED I tell you! Infinity Ward's move into modern warfare was a brilliant idea and it (Obviously) paid off. And now what? Now we jump back in time to WW2 all over again, led by the crap-tastic Treyarch. Hurrah. I love WW2 history as much as the next guy, but seriously...even I'm getting sick of WW2 shooters.

... COD4 missed a chance to be something very important and instead took the safe route.

COD4 missed what chance? They chance to use a gaming platform as a political soap-box? It's a game, not a commentary on foreign policy. It's meant to be fun, not debated in some current world affairs class.

 

[Blazing Angel]

being one that hasn't played CoD4 i cant sayu much about which game i like better. oh well the CoD people have done a great job at making games in WW2 timeline and i think it would be great if they continued doing so.

 

[Trogd0r]

I think it'll be slightly different, what with it being the pacific theater and all, but it'll still be crap by comparison to COD4. Why? One word that should be a curse or something: Treyarch. COD2 was an awesome breath of fresh air into the franchise, and I had (foolishly) high hopes for COD3...and they were dashed upon the rocks of disappointment. DASHED I tell you! Infinity Ward's move into modern warfare was a brilliant idea and it (Obviously) paid off. And now what? Now we jump back in time to WW2 all over again, led by the crap-tastic Treyarch. Hurrah. I love WW2 history as much as the next guy, but seriously...even I'm getting sick of WW2 shooters.

Woa, you sure hate Treyarch, was COD3 really THAT bad?
With the COD4 engine and the two year development cycle
instead of an 8 month one (COD3), I am still interested, but I hope they don't mess up the story.

 

[Baby Tea]

I second baby tea. COD4 was what it needed to be: a good shooter. A lot of people decry the game for not being as "modern" or "real world" as they had hoped, but those people seem to be expecting their video game to turn into C-SPAN. It's a game, not an essay on foreign policy.

Hurray! Someone else who thinks modern media can be simply entertaining without having some deep message about the state of the youth/the country/the government/society/the world!

Woa, you sure hate Treyarch, was COD3 really THAT bad?
With the COD4 engine and the two year development cycle
instead of an 8 month one (COD3), I am still interested, but I hope they don't mess up the story.

You think time could make a better game...but then you look at games like Daikatana (If anyone else remembers that one) or even Spore and see that...time doesn't always help.

And yes, COD3 was bad.

...And yes I hate Treyarch. Ruin a great shoot franchise will you?! AUGH! TEA SMASH!

...I'm sorry, I just had a bunch of coke and peanut butter cups...I'm a tad wired.

 

[HuCast]

Convince me where the hell the glory is in a a war that claimed 70million lives. Also try glorifying war in front of my grandpa who is a holocaust survivor. As Yahtzee has said time and time again America is on about WW2 too much. Why couldn't they make another cod 4 style game that would of tottaly kicked massive ass. Cod4 is an excellent game that they could have improved apon and made an even better game after that.

COD4 was just ww2 with modern guns. Which middle eastern country can go troop for troop with America? Where was the asymetrical warfare? Where was the peacekeeping missions? COD4 missed a chance to be something very important and instead took the safe route.

the asymetrical warfare and the peacekeeping missions were all over the game, dude.CoD4 is NOT like WW2 because its not nation against nation-its 'the good' vs. 'the terrorists'.Its marines, sas and speznas fighting together against a local warlord/dictator and not The us, gb and russia fighting a war against Iran/Syria/Irak

 

[HAwkeyezs]

Im a fan of the CoD series BUT after CoD 2 (PC CoD2) I seriously lost interest in the game as i found it totally pants and a huge let down after CoD:UO, in every way apart from the graphics.
I did feel they revived the CoD games with the modern war approach, but i don't mind them going back to WW2 there is a slightly different angle of "japs" instead of nazi's which means different ways of fighting if the AI works the way they claim it will.
But i'm hopeing they will bring back the vehicles and flamethrowers as i reli enjoyed those and for the sake of the glitches with them i had a LOT of fun with the... after all that why we play a game to have FUN and not to moan about the setting.
But im hopeing they will manage to revive the lost WW2 feel they had in CoD2 after a big letdown but who knows.

Also im hopeing they make the game a bit farer for the PC games ou there just with bigger maps ect.

 

[Count_de_Monet]

CoD needs to take Battlefield's route and get out of WWII and stay out. BF1942 was great, the expansions were great, but BF2 was better and BF2142 was pretty good (I wouldn't say it was as good as BF2). I never played Bad Company but I watched my brother play it and it looked great plus it broke new ground for the series by introducing a destructible environment.

That's why Battlefield is such a great series, it started with a good game and has continued to build upon it's original success by bringing new and different things to the table with each release. Call of Duty, on the other hand, stagnated between the original and CoD4 and and I doubt it will come out with another gem for it's next game. Sure, they added vehicles, but I really don't think they helped enhance the game at all and I was glad that CoD4 went back to infantry combat.

 

[chieftain mike]

Wow. you all say that COD3 was a bad game. I think that I should play the game so I can have a opinion on the matter.

 

[ElephantGuts]

Activision is using COD:WAW to pay Infinity Ward the money they deserve to make COD6. COD5 will suck. WW2 is over, and does not need to be relived again, and again. There are plenty of modern arenas to fight in.

What I find interesting is how you called the game COD: WAW and COD5 within two sentences. Unless you have access to some information no one else seems to, COD5 has not yet been announced. COD: WAW is that and simply that. If you insisted on counting every single COD game in the numerical sequence, we'd be up to around COD 7 or 8. Obviously we are not. COD: Finest Hour or COD: Big Red 1 just had subtitles, and no one calls them COD3 or 4. Why insist on trating WAW differently?

That's right, there's no reason. So stop it. COD5 will eventually come out ( from IW, one can assume), and if you're going to call WAW COD5 then there will be two COD5s. And we don't want that, do we?

Infinity Ward said that they are working on COD6.

World at War is COD5. Deal with it.

Well first of all, pics (or links) or it didn't happen.

Second of all, I'm wondering if I should kill myself or you for saying that. Do you see the number 5 anywhere in the title? No. Can you think of any other COD game, hell any other game, that did not have a number in the title but was still counted in the numerical sequence of the series, and that number was skipped as if it was used? Don't bother thinking, I'll be nice and give you the answer: no.

I'm leaning towards killing myself just because I don't want to go hunt you down, but then again you did piss me off...

I'll see what I can do. Though if I have to pay someone to find and kill you, I'll charge you the expenses.

 

[Medic Heavy]

I did this very intersiting experiment on a hardcore COD4 server on the PC. and for this experment i would ask people ever 2 or 3 hours if they were gonna get COD:WAW and i came up with a rough estiment that every 1 out of 20 gamers on this " Hard Core Server" were getting COD:WAW. Witch surprised me immensly.

 

[Jumplion]

I'm going to give Treyarch the benifit of the doubt and actually give them a god damn chance, god damnit! God Damnit! God. Freakin'. Damnit!!

Who knows? It could be good despite all you doubters, granted i've never played a Treyarch game before, but it's still unreasonable to just assume it will be crap. I mean, people liked Uwe Boll's Postal movie didn't they?