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Surprise! Call of Duty: World at War is a popular buy. According to the official Call of Duty Web site, the title has exceeded eleven million units sold since November 2008. But that’s not all: that hefty sales feat sits on top of the reported two million units sold of World at War’s first downloadable expansion, “Map Pack 1.”

By our calculations, the roughly eleven million owners of the game have collectively had around forty trillion grenades thrown at them and been tea-bagged at least sixty billion times. Sexy.

The second bit of downloadable content for World at War, “Map Pack 2” debuted on Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network June 11. We don’t have hard numbers yet, but there’s really no need to start counting: we have a hunch it’ll be a big number, like, in the millions or something.

Considering more units of Call of Duty: World at War have flown off store shelves than there are people in Mississippi, Arkansas, Kansas, and New Mexico combined, we were wondering: have you bothered to pick up Treyarch’s latest offering? Or are you the cool rebel?

[via Kotaku]








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RAB's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 02:17
RAB
were you always as buff as god or did you used to be a fatty?

you inspired me to start working out. your pecs could cut diamonds.
Kris S's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 02:23
Kris S
11 million? Impressive, it's still riding high in our charts (UK). Bionic Commando will catch up in sales though ;)
Rankcanine's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 02:24
Rankcanine
yea i got the game for christmas and i like it i havent played in the last month been busy with other games and map pack 1 was cool mostly for a new zombie map. i might pick up the next map pack alone just for nazi zombies.
mdkvamme's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 02:30
mdkvamme
11 million for all platforms? Last I checked CoD4 had 13 million for the Xbox alone, more than Warcraft. World at World is meh.
BlackSunEmpire's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 03:00
BlackSunEmpire
A feature that doesn't really get much credit when comparing WaW to CoD4 is the local server search. Playing anyone who isn't from NZ/Australia is a game killer for me. A fast ping might be about 200ms, and it gets much much worse.
Seanus's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 03:19
Seanus
I agree with BlackSunEmpire.
The local server search is pretty much the reason I play WaW over CoD4 for multiplayer mayhem. No love for games where the opposition sees me a good second and a half before I see them. I've come to despise the red/yellow bars. <_<
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 03:21
Darren Nakamura
I guess I'm a cool rebel? Really, I have just been waiting for Modern Warfare 2.
Rainbowblack's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 03:22
Rainbowblack
I grabbed W@W last month, been enjoying it's MP, co-op zombies. I was trying to hold out for Modern Warfare 2 but I just couldn't do it. its the only MP game i've been able to stomach
Mockingbird's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 03:49
Mockingbird
I refuse to play/buy this game for 2 reasons.

Treyarch made it. I still haven't forgiven them for blatantly ripping off Perks when they half-assed Quantum of Solace.

And because I only give my money to Activision once every 2 years: when IW makes a game.
AdamskiOwenov's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 05:11
AdamskiOwenov
I got it on the Wii, and enjoy it a lot. Nothing taxing, but still good fun.
CtMythic's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 06:33
CtMythic
There's a funny story behind this. I happened to be out drinking the night that World at War came out in the UK, and when moving between venues at about 1am I noticed that GameStation was open. Being quite inebriated at this point I wondered why on earth people would want to work at that time and went in with my friend to ask, turned out to be for the release of World at War, which we both bought because we felt sorry for them. I regretted that in the morning. So at least one of those 11 million sales was not really a planned buy, to say the least. Haven't bought any maps for it either, found the online boring and badly thought out. Which is the same as what I'd say for Nazi Zombies.
CRAZYAPE69's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 07:07
CRAZYAPE69
not bad for a crap game
harrmonica's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 07:17
harrmonica
you can teabag in waw??? sign me up!
Autumn's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 07:20
Autumn
Waw is as good as, if not better than CoD4.
Why do people still not understand that? Fanboyism within a franchise is so strange...
Volomon's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 08:21
Volomon
@Autumn There's a whole bunch of reasons why W@W sucks compared to COD4. I'll try to keep the list small. To many glitches, being stuck behind the world because of bazooka jump or crawling under the ground to shoot people, doesn't make for a competitive game. Arbitrarily throwing in perks because you can is a bad design decision such as flak jacket, really who uses that? It's only redeeming factor is that it was designed with access to COD4 and copied at the minimum what made COD4 fun.

If you totally ignore all the flaws, ya it's fun or if you don't care about competing and just run around Team Deathmatch style.

Another nice example would be those bouncing betties. Those retarded gold spikes that you can hide into the ground. It's 360 degree radius. Ya people like this game cause it's full of bullshit. It's just flawed in to many ways.

I proved this a while ago by taking advantage of every aspect and getting I think a 3 or 4 KD ratio.

Something I can't pull off in COD4 (1.8 is my highest).
JACK of No Trades's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 09:23
JACK of No Trades
@Volomon

CoD4 had the same glitches when it first released. The perks Treyarch added were because of bitching gamers. Cod4 didn't have enough perks so people complained. W@W had a great single player story & a better multiplayer.

Stop sucking on IW dick.
kavorka's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 09:25
kavorka
Still playing CoD4, just waiting for MW2.
lastdual's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 09:51
lastdual
I picked it up, and then promptly sold it after a few days. I'm not an IW snob and really wanted to like this game for what it was, but it just honestly wasn't that good, and I wasn't desperate or deluded enough to fool myself into thinking otherwise.
VWGTI's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 09:51
VWGTI
That's good to hear.CoD:WaW is an excellent game and it did well despite gamers eating IW's ass. I'd really like to see them expand on the co-op zombie mode or make a full fledged game centered around soldiers fighting zombies. That would be wicked.
DaedHead8's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 10:00
DaedHead8
Like Dexter, I'm the cool rebel. I swore off Treyarch's versions of CoD when they were first announced. Something about Infinity Ward having their game whored out by Activision made me sad.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 11:40
Holyetheline
I bought it, barely beat it on Veteran, and never played online mode... that's it. Sad, I know.
shit-polka's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 11:48
shit-polka
not even approaching buying world at war. I'm still waiting for the criminally high price of COD4 to go down to snag that, . I'm sorry I won't pay 60 dollars for a game from two years ago, let alone the same pricetag for another rattled-off WWII shooter. fuck world at war, man.
TheDreadHawk's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 13:05
TheDreadHawk
World at War was the single worst campaign story I have ever seen. I fucking hated it. Multiplayer was the same as COD4, but for some reason I could not get into it.
Bluj162's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 14:23
Bluj162
if i wanted to pay monthly fees i would buy an xbox and sign up for xbox live
Sir playedallot's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/16/2009 15:49
Sir playedallot
Does anyone know if theres going to be a GOTY edition because since iam living in germany iam not allowed to download the extra zombie maps!
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