Mercanary57 said:
The fact that the game wasn't made by Infinity Ward is the most annoying thing about that game.
They pretty much ripped off COD4 and put in WWII mode. They even did it with the covers.
<spoiler=Call of Duty 4>
http://actualgameplay.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare-box.jpg
<spoiler=Call of Duty WAW>
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/Call_of_Duty_5_cover_art.PNG
See! They even copied some of the ideas of the levels. Remember "All Ghillied Up"? They took that and made it into one of their own levels. People keep telling me to get this game and I just tell them "Its the same exact game!"
Now that's not fair. Treyarch has no control over packaging and marketing, that's Activisions job. If they wanted to mooch off the success of CoD4 with similar box art, that's nothing Treyarch can be blamed for.
I think Treyarch has gotten more stick than it derserves. No, I haven't played CoD3, but I have read plenty reviews. It scores on average 7-8/10 and the only review I read that was not favourable made no sense, at all. It doesn't sound like a bad game by a long shot, I would give it a go if I could find a copy.
Sure, CoD:Waw is pretty much CoD4 with a WWII skin, but remember that it is Activison that owns Call of Duty, not Treyarch or Inifinity Ward, and I would be most interested in seeing the design brief given to Treyarch in regards to CoD:WaW. Has anyone considered that they made exactly the game they were comissioned to make? Don't forget that development on CoD:WaW began long before CoD4 became immensly successful and if I remember correctly, people were moaning about CoD4 not being in WWII. CoD:WaW being the fallback, maybe?
Anyway, to the original question, I find the weapon allpick to be most annoying, mostly because it breaks the immersion somewhat for me. It works for the most part in CoD4, because in any given situation today you can find pretty much all those weapons on all sides, anywhere in the world. But we are dealing with conventional standing armies, not the hodge podge revolutionaries in CoD4, and weapons procurement is much more tightly controlled in that situation.