Here's my review of Call of Duty World at war. First of all I want to say it is a good game so don't let the rest of the review throw you off. The game starts off with the basic premice Japanese Bad. You Good. Now Shoot at them. No tutorial level for new players. No even hint at to what you are supposed to do. And because, I have the need to play through on Veteran the game devs decide "Well, let's knock this little prick down a few pegs. Think you can play through on veteran. Alright, every enemy has 50 granades and needs to use every one." Now the granade indicator is nice but, when there are five granades you don't have time to get away or throw them all back. It got to the point where I didn't need my own granades I'd do fine throwing them back.
Now controls, if you've ever played a FPS these are fairly intuitive. A for Jump, B for Duck, right trigger to shoot etc. Your character is fairly good on health and speed. But, one part that throws me off is the fact that when you are about to die you can just hide and your health comes back. If they really wanted to Impress me they'd put in a medic system like in the medal of honor series.
Level design is good, and as far as I can see it's accurate. But, the problem is everything is too dark, even with the brightness turned all the way up. Yes I know that war isn't all sunny but, don't the Japanese and Germains have to see also? I mean at least a flashlight would be nice.
Finally, Multiplayer the reason you buy a call of duty game. Plenty of servers mean that you will always find one open. Good levels well designed. Except for maybe Roundhouse, It's way too small for a tank. That brings me to this, I love the tanks, they give a whole new group dynamic you didn't get with the helicoptors. Speeking of which I could have done without the dogs, they get really annoying especially because, of their immense damage.
But, all in all apart from a few flaws Call of duty is a good game I give it a 4/5 and maybe a thumbs up sticker.