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anyone here getting world at war??? it looks good but i don't know whether to get it or not

Me... I plan on getting it when it comes out. I love the Call of Duty games, and this one looks great so far. Some people criticize it for being set in World War 2 again, but I don't care because there aren't many other real wars which you can make a shooter out of. Plus, we're getting a campaign in the Pacific this time.

i honestly reckon people will play it and i reckon it will be good but i reckon most people will wanna go back to cod4

I hope they pull of the pacific thing better than medal of honor Pacific assualt. But then again, all the other call of duty games has been great, and i doubt the world war 2 milk will go sour and unchurnable in near future

CoD5 Will Be Great As With The Previous CoD Games. I Am A King Of Shooters, I Completed All CoD GAmes In 2 Days Each. (King Of Shooters Is A Metaphor, I Dont Really Believe Im King. I Know There Are Better Players Then Me.)

I've been playing COD4 for nearly 17 days and somtimes play for over 8 hours straight. The sun has come up a few times and the kids have come downstairs whilst i've been playing...

Anyway.. COD5 does look very cool although the balance of the game maybe a problem with tanks and flamethrowers. I hope it works.

I'll be getting it

I recently finished the solo campaign in Call of Duty World At War, and I sum it up in one word: EXCELLENT. In my opinion, this is the best game in the series so far, which is saying a lot.

So a shooter can only exist if America was a) in it or b) won?

COD3 has a sequence where you use a Welrod... a single shot pistol with a hand screwing breech. I spent most of the game using the Enfields because accuracy on a Thompson is for s**t. SMG is NOT the be all and end all, and rate of fire is a good way of increasing tension in a game. Imagine how much more tense the Chernobyl Fairground rush would be if you could only fire three rounds a minute...

Or take WW1.. contrary to ill-educated popular belief, that conflict was not just 5 years of sitting in a muddy hole followed by ten minutes of getting shelled into oblivion, then made to walk into certain death. You could start by playing Gavrilo Princip, Arch Duke Ferdinand's assassin. Perhaps a level involving Naval Actions? Cavalry and Infantry skirmish at the outbreak of war... trench raiding across No Man's Land.. or maybe Storming the beach at Gallipoli.. or fighting with German OstAfrika Askaris? Then there's being a sniper, or even just taking on a rush (because if there is one thing that had a lot of Rushes, its WW1. Then there's the tank parts.. racing to keep up with a formation of Whippets, or duelling with Forward Batteries in a Mark 1. How about the (genuine and real) action by a crippled Mark 1 crew fighting off the Germans for near three days, with dwindling ammunition? Maybe you could go spotting for the Artillery in a biplane? (Like the Spectre sequence in COD4)... I dunno.. go read a book.. there is a shedload of material. Maybe you could even sit in a dugout and write poetry as a minigame....

Try an earlier period. Try patrolling Waziristan in a Rolls Royce Armoured Car, being sniped at by leery Muslim tribesmen. Take on the hostile tribes of the African Interior with a Martini Henry breech-loading rifle... Charge the Russian guns at Balaclava with the Light Brigade.

And that's just the actual WARS.

This is why the Doctor always beat the Cybermen.. lack of imagination. Be inspired already. Go look these things up, then imagine them as FPS.

In my opinion, World at War isn't anything special. Its set in WW2 which again is nothing special these days (given the amount of WW2 clones out there) and it doesn't really bring anything new to the table. Its basically just COD4 with vehicles. And being an ex-BF2 player I HATE vehicles. Sure, the co-op mode looks interesting but that alone really doesn't justify my 90 or so bucks. I'll be sticking with COD4 for now.

No, but being on the "winning side" in a war game gives one a better sense of accomplishment at the end. Call me unpatriotic, but I wouldn't mind playing as a North Vietnamese soldier fighting against Americans in an FPS. However, I'm not sure if anyone could get away with making a single-player campaign for that... if they have, the game must have passed under the radar.

Anyway, I'm not against FPS's based on wars other than WW2, just stating reasons why I thought some wars wouldn't work in an FPS. Maybe someone should make one set in the Soviet-Afghan War.


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Last edited by Cyberman on 13 Dec 2008, 3:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.

That was mainly walking around in jungle spots that looked exactly the same every time... and I think Medal of Honour: Rising Sun also had a sort of pacific story mode... so...

Sadly, a lot of games rely on the "American" link to provide sales. But it makes me wonder how much sales are harmed by the fact that the Germans are always the bad guys.

If films can have success with no Americans in them (in a character rather than actor sense) then why not Games? Titanic grossed millions, and had two Americans in it. Enemy at the Gates had no Americans in it.

Anything will work in FPS if it has decent suspense, action, and projectile weaponry. Its more about how well it is rendered. I've been having daydreams about WW1 COD since I posted the idea, and it just keeps getting cooler in my mind.

And shush you, before I delete you with my gold.

I've played it, and all in all, it was excellent, a combination of the best aspects of COD3 and 4 in my opinion, vehicles in multiplayer, other multiplayer aspects similar to COD 4 (i.e. the customizable classes etc.). Also, plenty of new stuff too, flamethrowers, a pacific war campaign, bayonets, the russian PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle (actually useless against tanks, but it f*cks up infantry). Only wish they had more playable sides, like in COD 3 (had the U.S., U.K., Canadians, and the Free Polish forces), COD 5 only has the Russians and the Americans. Why not include everybody from COD 3 and the russians.