Call of Duty World at War

Call of Duty World at War (CoD:WaW) is a first person shooter (fps) that places you in some of the most gruesome battles of World War II.  In this game you play in two different campaigns that are contained in one single player storyline.  In this game you either play as a American soldier that is engaged in battles in the Pacific with the Japanese Empire.  The other soldier you play as is a Russian soldier fighting the German army on the Eastern Front (Russia/German territory).  The combat systems of the enemy are different depending on who you are fighting (The German soldiers will fight in a more defensive matter, where the Japanese will charge and try to overwhelm you).  The starting missions of the game take place more towards the beginning of the war but after the first few missions the game jumps to battles that took place in a more later period of the war towards the end of the war in the closing months.  The game tires to capture the essence of what the war would be like with men getting limbs destroyed by near by explosions along with just getting shot

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I feel that COD: World At War was the last of the fps that focused on World War 2 it seems to mark the end of a genre.  Due to the fact that after this game the COD series took a more modern day approach to their games with such titles as Modern Warfare, Ghosts, and Black Ops.  World at war also contains  multilayer that allows people to play in matches against other players in such games as death match, team death match, and capture the flag.  I'm not really sure how many people still play online since the game is now dated by 5 years.  Waw also introduced the feature Nazi Zombies which was the beginning of the CoD Zombies Feature.  Call of Duty World at War will always be one of my favorite games and that is in all due to the single player storyline that allows you to experience the battles of World War II.

JV