First off I would like to say that World at War (WaW) is a great game. It is well made and polished. There really are few things wrong with it. In fact to even list anything wrong with it would be hard for me, because the problems are small and to me very insignificant.
However, WaW just fails to draw me in. It fails to make me want to play it over and over. I find myself, as well as most of my friends, going back to Modern Warfare (MW).
Why? Mainly because World War II is a tired and OVERUSED setting for shooters. You can fill a chest with the amount of WWII shooters there are out there. When I found out that the nest game in the Call of Duty (COD) series was going BACK to WWII I was upset. I kept hoping and waiting for them to say, "Ha! Just kidding!". Unfortunately that never happened. COD went back to WWII. Now I am not saying that WaW is a terrible game. In fact its really quite amazing. The graphics are beautiful. The game play is great. The story is great. BUT IT'S IN WWII!
MW was by and large a perfect game. Sure it had it's faults, but it still draws in more than a million online man hours a week. Thats amazing. MW was, and still is, the best COD game that I have ever played. I had hoped that they would make a second one instead of the irritating WaW.
I think what really turns me off onto WaW is the multiplayer. It is boring. You can walk around for literally 2 minutes before you see someone. The weapons are terrible. There is ONLY ONE good gun in the whole game (STG-44). Personally I like mixing it up everyone once in awhile. Can't do that with only one good gun. The maps, while huge, are amazing. But like I said they are huge. They still only allow up to 12 players per map(in most cases). Thats not enough. Your kill count decreases greatly because the maps are too big. The levels are all same color and feel. This dark, depressing, WWII feel. Jst gets tiring to look at. And for some reason, I found myself getting bored and frustrated at the layout of the maps. It feels as if you have to walk a million miles to get to a close location. The avatars all look the same. Sure if you compared them to each other side by side you would see big differences, but in the game its hard to tell. I can't even tell you how many times I found myself shooting my own teammates because they looked like the enemy. In MW that rarely happened.
I feel insulted that Activision let it go back to WWII. MW brought countless amounts of people to the COD franchise. It's STILL the most played shooter on the market. So why, why mess that up and take it back to the most overused genre? You have lost my respect.
I've been paying WaW ever since it came out, even before with the Beta version. After all that time I am finding myself sadly putting the game away on the shelf and happily putting Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare in my PS3 and having a blast.
In short WaW disappointed me. Thankfully Infinity Ward is making a Moder Warfare 2!
However, WaW just fails to draw me in. It fails to make me want to play it over and over. I find myself, as well as most of my friends, going back to Modern Warfare (MW).
Why? Mainly because World War II is a tired and OVERUSED setting for shooters. You can fill a chest with the amount of WWII shooters there are out there. When I found out that the nest game in the Call of Duty (COD) series was going BACK to WWII I was upset. I kept hoping and waiting for them to say, "Ha! Just kidding!". Unfortunately that never happened. COD went back to WWII. Now I am not saying that WaW is a terrible game. In fact its really quite amazing. The graphics are beautiful. The game play is great. The story is great. BUT IT'S IN WWII!
MW was by and large a perfect game. Sure it had it's faults, but it still draws in more than a million online man hours a week. Thats amazing. MW was, and still is, the best COD game that I have ever played. I had hoped that they would make a second one instead of the irritating WaW.
I think what really turns me off onto WaW is the multiplayer. It is boring. You can walk around for literally 2 minutes before you see someone. The weapons are terrible. There is ONLY ONE good gun in the whole game (STG-44). Personally I like mixing it up everyone once in awhile. Can't do that with only one good gun. The maps, while huge, are amazing. But like I said they are huge. They still only allow up to 12 players per map(in most cases). Thats not enough. Your kill count decreases greatly because the maps are too big. The levels are all same color and feel. This dark, depressing, WWII feel. Jst gets tiring to look at. And for some reason, I found myself getting bored and frustrated at the layout of the maps. It feels as if you have to walk a million miles to get to a close location. The avatars all look the same. Sure if you compared them to each other side by side you would see big differences, but in the game its hard to tell. I can't even tell you how many times I found myself shooting my own teammates because they looked like the enemy. In MW that rarely happened.
I feel insulted that Activision let it go back to WWII. MW brought countless amounts of people to the COD franchise. It's STILL the most played shooter on the market. So why, why mess that up and take it back to the most overused genre? You have lost my respect.
I've been paying WaW ever since it came out, even before with the Beta version. After all that time I am finding myself sadly putting the game away on the shelf and happily putting Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare in my PS3 and having a blast.
In short WaW disappointed me. Thankfully Infinity Ward is making a Moder Warfare 2!