call of duty: world at war

[Stick]

i just noticed COD:5 is announced and its back to WWII!


http://planetcallofduty.gamespy.com/fullstory.php?id=151558

[ferret]

Because there's never been enough WWII games!

[Stick]

not ones that take place on the pacific front!

[stormFury]

That's cool and all but I was hoping for more modern warfare =\

[smokeh]

i prefer the WWII games.

killing nazis and russians never gets old.

[Mountain_Dew-R-]

WWII has been whore'd out more times then doc. =P

[Evil Ernie]

This WWII re-visit is going to turn down a LOT of current CoD players...they should have done a Vietnam game like the Battlefield series did, only better and prettier. That or do a potential World War 3 thing

[Doc Wattson]

You all realize CoD 5 not only is made by a different team then CoD4 but started production before CoD4 was released, right? There is no way they knew how to react to CoD 4.

-Gary-

[stormFury]

The war in the pacific hasn't been done in games nearly as much as the eastern front so it won't be as much of a rehash as you'd think. If they're smart, they'll time the release with The Pacific on HBO (Spielberg and Tom Hanks' follow up to Band of Brothers). I'm not sure when The Pacific will air though. I've heard 'sometime in 09'.

[blue]

joint operations was a great game, wish cod would be more like that :P

[ferret]

joint operations was a great game, wish cod would be more like that :P

I didn't post, but like 5 minutes ago I was thinking the same thing... "Too bad Joint Ops didn't last...."

[blue]

hellll ya

reinstalledit a year + ago, and there was like 1 active server lol

[kael]

i had so much fun in joint operations. i just remember one of us flying around in the helicopter dropping us off to go fight. If you had a solid squad of 5-6 guys, you could totally dominate. Damn I could play that again.

[Mountain_Dew-R-]

What game is this?

[blue]

an old game from 4+ years ago...

incredibly fun - required huge servers with 50-75+ people.

[stormFury]

Lets all get it and play together! I bet its cheap now.

[Mountain_Dew-R-]

an old game from 4+ years ago...

incredibly fun - required huge servers with 50-75+ people.

Sounds interesting. Now that I'm home from work, I'm going to look it up.

[blue]

Lets all get it and play together! I bet its cheap now.

i bet its dead....

but id reinstall to find out.

[blue]

http://www.novalogic.com/games.asp?GameKey=JOCA

[Evil Ernie]

Honestly, a Vietnam game needs to be done again, just better. And in the MOTD in COD4 on the XBOX 360, the message from Infinity Ward is actually published by Lucas Arts...and idea on the connection between the two or has Lucas Arts taken over on publishing and pushed Activision aside?

[fushkkk]

I think that if this game is done right, it might be the new standard at which WW2 games are held - but with those types of expectations, it may not be able to do that.

It's not the same designers - just a different version of the same company(or department rather) that did COD3. Apparently, they have been working with the same engine as COD4 for about 2 years (they got a hold of it 1 year before COD4 came out), so that should be enough time to really do things right.

I think this game will be in tough because it is tough for all out action war addicts to go from automatic fire to the M1 Grande again - but you never know.

On the flip side, the pacific front will be a nice touch to the game, and I hope it works out. That side of the war really isn't covered too much in video games (not as much as Europe anyway) so that in itself could be nice and fresh. Either way, I'm looking forward to playing it.

[Doc Wattson]

World War, As Well (http://www.giantbomb.com/2008/06/25/world-war-as-well/)

posted by Brad Shoemaker (http://www.giantbomb.com/author/brad/) on June 25, 2008 – 8:10 pm
55 comments (http://www.giantbomb.com/2008/06/25/world-war-as-well/#comments)


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I don’t think I’m quite ready to give up Call of Duty 4’s endlessly addicting multiplayer just yet, but nevertheless, the Activision annualized release machine will trundle on later this year with Call of Duty: World at War. To their credit, they’ve at least favored a unique subtitle this time over the same tired sequel numbering, which was getting a little excessive year after year. They’ve also given the hardworking developers at Treyarch a chance to sleep occasionally, since the team has had a full two-year development cycle to crank out World at War. That’s positively languid after the sprint that apparently was Call of Duty 3’s ludicrous eight-month production schedule (http://kotaku.com/5018688/call-of-duty-3-needed-more-time-for-greatness). Happier developers make better games, right?
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The best thing World at War has going for it is a broad connection to Call of Duty 4, the excellence of which I don’t think anyone is brave enough to impugn. On the tech side, Treyarch’s new game is using the COD4 engine, so you know it’s going to look really good and run really smoothly. Activision reps at the Microsoft Games for Windows event where I saw the game also stressed that it will share control and design conventions with COD4, too. That sort of instant jump-in-and-play accessibility is good news for anyone (like me) who’s been playing COD4 online obsessively for the last eight months.
Not surprisingly, everything about COD4’s multiplayer that made it so good is going to show up in World at War’s online mode. Except the modern guns, that is. But you’ll get the persistent experience level, unlockable skills, interchangeable abilities–all that carrot-on-a-stick stuff that made it hard to put COD4’s multiplayer down. Treyarch is also borrowing a page from Halo 3’s playbook with a four-player cooperative online mode, and it’s nice to know your experience gained in that mode will roll back into the competitive multiplayer too.
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As for the single-player campaign, the jury’s still out. The demo Activision was showing off featured a nighttime escape from a Japanese prison camp followed by a few brief cinematic battles in the jungle. Nothing you haven’t come to expect from Call of Duty, but considering the series’ action has always been well-paced and exciting at the right moments, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The opening cinematic vilified your Japanese captors in a manner that seemed surprisingly un-PC; one of them puts a cigarette out on a fellow P.O.W.’s eye before savagely slashing his throat open. But hey, man, war is hell.
It was news to me that World at War actually does take place around the world, since you’ll play as a U.S. Marine fighting the Japanese in the Pacific Theater only part of the time. The other part, you’ll head back to good old Europe, where you’ll play as a Russian soldier fighting the Germans on the brutally cold Eastern Front. It’s not a stretch to think that the two campaigns will alternate missions back and forth, the same way the Marine and SAS storylines in Modern Warfare played out concurrently. No disrespect to the developers intended, but the more cues World at War takes from COD4, the better.


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[Doc Wattson]

That preview made me think that not buying CoD4 now with CoD5 coming out after the summer is a good idea.

-Gary-

[WangChung]

hopefully they fix everything wrong with COD4, in COD5.

[Stick]

WANGERDOODLE!

[WangChung]

sup dood

[Evil Ernie]

Wang, they won't need to fix it....different developer. The developer of COD5 made COD1 and 2. Infinity Ward made COD4 and too many people complained about the problems and glitches, not to mention the map exploits. Yet, Activision went with the original developer for COD5 just before 4 went into development, so it was already being made. If they had known the phenomenon that Modern Warfare had created, they said they would have stuck to the same theme of modern military.

[Canon]

COD4's single player is worth it regardless of the multiplayer.

[smokeh]

i think the multiplayer is worth it despite the single player...

[Tech]

is it just me or is ernies last post just a pot of gold for webspiders. lol.

[Evil Ernie]

I've got 85% of the game completed on VETERAN, with the exception of the last few levels. I beat GAME OVER on Veteran, that one was the easiest. The hardest? Mile High Club on VETERAN.....

[Riku]

The Mile High Club on Vetern is Madness.... Theres no way to even explain my feelings of how crazy hard it was for me to beat it.... 2 grueling days of replay after replay on it till finally i beat it lol

[Moto]

I gave up on trying to beat that level on vetern, the plane seems to blow up before i can get to the hostage most times, and then before i can jump.

[scab_ate_kim]

is it just me or is ernies last post just a pot of gold for webspiders. lol.
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