We get it, we get it -- you're skeptical about Call of Duty: World at War because it's developed by Treyarch, those "villains" who "ruined" Call of Duty 3. Surprise -- it's good! According to the first review in European magazine PSW, not only is it good, but it's better than Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
"That's right," they write, "Treyarch has toppled Infinity Ward."
Strong words, especially when many consider Modern Warfare one of Infinity Ward's best efforts to date, if not one of the best games of 2007. PSW loved the game so much, they awarded it a perfect score, a 10 out of 10.
Granted, this is only one review -- and the first one of many -- so you should take it with a grain of salt. And while I'm not reviewing it (and I can't really say much about it), I will say that World at War is way better than you're probably expecting it to be.
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1:24 PM on 11.07.2008
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On the subject, I seriously doubt WaW is better than COD4. I hope I'm wrong, but zombie mode SCREAMED "we have an inferior product so we're just throwing in random shit at this point".
Treyarch makes crappy game
Infinity ward makes awesome game
Treyarch ctrl+c ctrl+v, throws in a little bit more, takes all credit.
The game may be better, but lets not say that Treyarch deserves most of the praise here...
NO WAY
I've been playing the beta for a week and a half. All I can say is IF YOU LIKED COD4, YOU WILL REALLY LIKE THIS GAME! It plays VERY similar. The differences include MORE PERKS, MORE ATTATCHMENTS, BETTER GRAPHICS, BRIGHTER AND DARKER levels, bayonets, bipods, TANKS, and DOGS.
I think it's geared a little more to the advanced COD4 playing crowd. Some of the guns(IE Bolt Action Rifles) are more difficult to use, but oh just as satisfying if not more than the modern weapons.
The level designs in the 3 maps I've played are amazing. Good luck finding a camping spot because EVERYWHERE you go you can be killed from two other vantage points. I feel this game is much more strategic.
Without giving a full review, all the little additions make a big difference. It's a very refreshing take on the COD4 engine and if you just started to get bored with COD4, this will bring the addiction right back.
Thievery gets you everywhere.
To prove my point the gave METAL GEAR SOLID 2 an 8/10, not because of the "crappy raiden bits" but because it was in Japanese, as they had imported it. I rest my case.
To be fair this game will just be like CoD4 play wise but the content will be different so I doubt they could make it a bad game.
LEAVE TREYARCH ALONE!
Does anyone know what happen to the Dead Fantasy series of animation shorts?
I've only seen two of them and I was wondering if there were any more squirreled away somewhere on the intertubes.
On topic: I've played so much CoD4 that I don't know if I can spend 60 bucks on a game that is too similar.
Awaits further reviews...
Why cant you talk about it? I assume a confidentiality statement? But isnt that a little well... late to be having those still?
The game releases in a few days and the beta has been up for a while and even just opened up to the public.
Shouldnt exclusive reviews and what not have already been granted by this point?
At this point, I hope no one paid a lot for that exclusive as this seems to be as least exclusive as I can recall in a while.
these jokers are silly.
No offense meant in anyway... It's your money. If you want the game then buy it, if not, then dont.
I just hope for logic's sake that you played the demo before you made that assessment.
Now a post apocalyptic CoD? Fall out 3 and CoD4s love child anyone?
It is certainly not impossible to be better then the game whose engine you are running on. It happens all the time. It might be impossible for the game to be more innovative then COD4.
If I made a game engine like say the Unreal engine and other games use it to build there games, is it impossible for them to be good games simply because they didnt make the engine?
GOW wasn't a 10/10 neither were GTAIV, Halo3 or COD4. So stop giving games 10/10 scores. What will you do next time when you find a game that you like even better than that game. By that logic you would either have to award it a 10.5/10 or you would have to extend the scale and give it a 11/11.
In addition, I noticed many instances where the level of interaction with the environment was more lacking in 5. For example, in CoD4, I could hide under tables, in archways etc, but in WaW I felt like every time I found an interesting object to hide in or around that should have had a "nook or cranny" seemed to be a solid object instead.
I'm not saying that the game will suck, or even that the multiplayer won't be better than 4's, I'm just saying that I can't tell from the beta. I like some of the new features, but unless it blows away 4 entirely, I'm fairly certain that I won't be spending money on it. Even though I loved 4.
Not only does it look worse than COD2, the performance is also far below COD4.
How does a game look and play worse at a lower framerate than another game? because it's crap.
Either way, I don't care how good it is, it's a genre (WWII shooter) I'm not a fan of right now. Especially so close to the release of Left 4 Dead, an FPS that will actually innovate and bring something refreshing to the genre, unlike WaW.
Yes, they used the same game engine as CoD4, and I'm sure they implemented features that were popular and worked from CoD4 into this game, but they did alot of their own work on it as well. The new maps are wonderful and I enjoy them more than CoD4 maps for the most part.
That all said the game has problems and doesn't deserve a perfect score from what I've seen in the Beta. Tanks I could have done without in multiplayer, single player sure. I can't really judge the graphics at this point because it is just the Beta I've seen, but they don't seem as good as CoD4, which is maybe due to them adding the whole being able to actually blow off body parts, so they cut back on the detailed textures to save on memory.
I don't have plans to buy the game immediately when it comes out, since I have Mirror's Edge pre-ordered I'm going to stick with that for now.
So where were all of you when Havok was licensing its physics engine for half the games out there? I think Havok deserves half the credit for like, every game built, ever.
I still prefer COD4's characters (captain Price should be in every game), but in every other way, WAW is superior in my opinion.
Really need to get a new game library sorted lol
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