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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2008-11-14
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English

Features

• Le nouveau Call of Duty débarque avec un nouveau moteur COD4 amélioré
• un nouvel ennemi et de nouveaux environnements pour des missions encore plus intenses au coeur des combats !Affrontez un ennemi aux techniques de combats inédites : les soldats de la puissante armée japonaise sur les différents théâtres d'opérations du Pacifique !Call of Duty : World at War est le premier COD avec un mode campagne en coopération : jusqu'à 4 joueurs en ligne ou 2 joueurs en écran partagé !De plus
• le mode multijoueur est encore plus abouti : de nouvelles classes de personnages
• des armes évolutives et de nouveaux véhicules de combat !

Amazon.co.uk
Call of Duty returns, and to many people’s surprise, it’s going back to World War II. While original series creators Infinity Ward brought the series into the modern day, developer Treyarch are setting out to make the definitive historical first-person shooter.

The Soviet attack on Berlin features intense street battles

Take on the Japanese navy as you board a U.S. flying boat

World at War features the most realistic fire effects ever

The new ability to swim adds to both the story and multiplayer modes

The game is primarily set in the Pacific theatre and has a much more realistic, violent tone requiring less-linear game play than previous Call of Duty installments. You'll struggle to survive Japanese attacks without mastering new gaming skills, like swimming or how to use a flamethrower--a weapon that packs some punch in the fully destructable game world.

Also featured is a campaign on the Eastern front, where you take control of a soldier in the Soviet Red Army during the attack on Berlin in the closing stages of the war. The game also includes the series’ first co-op mode, while the competitive multiplayer mode aims to build upon the achievements of Call of Duty 4 and add to the game’s longevity.

Key Features

• Dual campaigns: Fight in two very different World War II battles. Take on the Japanese Imperial army in the Pacific, and liberate Berlin as part of the Soviet Red Army.
• Grim realities: Experience the most bloody and realistic combat ever seen in the series, as you witness enemy atrocities and wield horrific new weapons such as the flamethrower.
• Job with benefits: Revamped competitive multiplayer mode features useable vehicles and an expanded perks system from Call of Duty 4.
• Brothers in arms: For the first time, a Call of Duty game features a four-player co-operative mode that’s playable online or via a split screen option on the same console.
• Modern graphics: The game uses an enhanced version of the Call of Duty 4 graphics engine, with wood that splinters realistically when shot and fires that spread organically.

About the Developer: Treyarch
One of publisher Activision’s biggest internal studios, Treyarch have worked on many of the company’s best known titles, from the Spider-Man movie tie-ins and spin-offs to several of the Call of Duty sequels and the new James Bond game, Quantum of Solace.

Manufacturer's Description
Call of Duty: World at War completely changes the rules of engagement by redefining WWII gaming and thrusting players into the final tension-filled, unforgiving battles against a new ferocious enemy in the most dangerous and suspenseful action ever seen in WWII.

Powered by Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare technology, Call of Duty: World at Warbrings an uncensored edge to combat, as soldiers face the most harrowing and climatic European and Pacific battles in which an enemy, who knows no surrender and no retreat, will fight to the last breath, unleashing an arsenal of lethal surprising tactics. Peril and danger lurk throughout the battlefield as players combat the unknown risk of the new chaos of battle.

From the remains of Russia and the ruins of Berlin, to the beach and jungles of the deadly Pacific Theater, the volatile action takes on added depth as players employ new features that previously were only-available in multiplayer, including perks, rankings and online stats in up-to full four-player cooperative gameplay. New infantry and vehicle-based weapons, like the potent flamethrower, bring the battlefield ablaze.

Final Battles: Call of Duty: World at War forces players to survive the final climactic days of a world at war to thwart the advance of Axis powers on multiple fronts from Europe to the Pacific – delivering the hallmark Call of Duty cinematic intensity on a worldwide scale. Play as a U.S. Marine or Russian conscript across a variety of European and Pacific infantry, vehicle and airborne missions. An all new depth of WWII-era combat variety, from the tactics and weapons to the unique and varying locations that traverse the ruins of Western Europe all the way to the harsh, wetlands of Imperial Japan, immerses gamers into an adrenaline-filled, epic struggle.

Co-Op Campaign Mode: "No One Fights Alone" takes on new meaning as players can complete the entire single player campaign with up to four players online or two players via split-screen (both online and offline). Strategizing with others provides gameplay diversity, replayability and engagement. Complete unique co-op challenges to earn rewards and bragging rights.

Addictive Multiplayer: Call of Duty: World at War continues the addictive and leading class-based multiplayer action. The addition of vehicles to the highly-successful Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare multiplayer that already includes persistent experience, player rankings, upgradeable weapons, squad-based gameplay, map scripting, customizable classes and perks, brings a new dimension to Call of Duty online warfare.

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Customer Reviews

Good multiplayer
After having played cod4 to death (it was like a breath of fresh air) I was a bit worried about returning to the 1940's.

I needn't have been as the multiplayer game is brilliant. The maps are large and challenging and I'm having great fun, even though I don't set the world alight with my playing skills.

Single player wasn't a patch on COD4 in terms of realism, in cod 4 you really felt a relationship with your men (especially the brits) - it didn't really happen in this game for me, but still a good challenge none the less.

It lasts longer than cod4's single player anyway.

Purchase recommended.

LOCK AND LOAD MEN IT'S BACK TO WORLD WAR 2
Call Of Duty 'World At War' has come in for a fair bit of flack, even before it's release, mainly thanks to the game's return to the well trodden arena of the second world war and the fact that original developers Infinity Ward (COD 4 and the first PC COD) aren't involved. Whilst World At War isn't that revolutionary - it's still linear, set piece driven and the single player campaign can be completed in 8-10 hours - the game is visually and aurally stunning and one of the most intense and exciting first person shooters to hit the next gen consoles. New developer Treyarch have thrown in the kitchen sink, and then some, to hide the fact that 'World At War' is more an evolution than revolution. The game is split into two sections - battling against the Japanese in the Pacific and the taking of Berlin as part of a Russian unit. Along the way you'll encounter jump worthy up close and personal bayonet charges from do or die Japanese, get to wield flame throwers, drive tanks and bomb warships form the air. Not to mention rescue prisoners of war and tackle some of the most exciting sniping this side of Far Cry 2.
This is where the choice lays for descerning shooter fans this Christmas on the 360. Do you go for the non linear, go anywhere do anything, further adventures of Jack Carver in the equally great looking and hugely playable Far Cry 2 or do you stick with the more structured and streamlined Call Of Duty ? COD wins out on the multiplayer options but apart from that both games, for FPS fans, are a must. Hell, if you can afford it get both, after all this is the season for goodwill to all men (and a box of hand grenades).

PROS - stunning graphics, sound and intense action. Massive set pieces. Great multiplayer and online options. Great zombie bonus game (i kid you not!!!)
CONS - still very linear, short single player campaign, no better than COD4.

The best First Person shooter i have ever played
i've been playing games for over 20 years and while i know that doesn't mean i know best i can safely say this game is the BEST i have ever played!

Although made by a different company it follows COD4's course in both multiplayer and single player mode.

Multiplayer - Think COD4 with the original game modes and points system, new guns and new maps, the maps are stunning, very vast with mixed landscapes creating an entire new experience eachtime you play a map.
I was expecting the guns to be harder to use but it is NOT the case, being WWII theres no ACOG scopes or dot sights, instead there are weapon attachments such as glass sights, bipods, bayonets etc etc.
Instead of UAV you have a Reconissance Aircraft
Instead of Air Strikes with 5 kills you call in Artillary Strikes
Instead of Helicopter with 7 kills you call in Hounds/Dogs (Brilliant!!)

Basically it is every bit as good as COD4 online if not better!

Single Player - reasonably linear gameplay here but certainly not dissimilar to COD4. the sound and graphics are absolutly amazing and the gameplay is deeply intense thorwing you into huge armies which you you have to fight through very aggressively.... i could go on and on but put bluntly it is completely mental!
i would recommend this game to anyone at all, if you fancy yourself as a hardcore gamer then up the difficulty and i garantee it will make you tired!