{"id":11617,"date":"2009-07-04T02:58:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T00:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2009-07-18T01:18:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T23:18:56","slug":"call-of-duty-world-at-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/04\/call-of-duty-world-at-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty : World at War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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“Call of Duty : World at War<\/a>” is the latest addition to my addictions collection.\u00a0 As I mentioned before, it’s been a while since my last gaming dive, so I don’t have much to compare this game to.\u00a0 But it stands on its just fine.<\/p>\n

It’s a first-person shooter, with the plot laid out during the World War II.\u00a0 Missions are switching back and forward between two characters.\u00a0 One is the US Navy marine, fighting the Japanese.\u00a0 And another one is a Russian private fighting the Germans.\u00a0 There is plenty of variety between the two setups.\u00a0 They cover pretty much anything you can think of from the top of your head – jungles, street fights, tank battles, air-planes vs. battleships, and so on and so forth.\u00a0 Up to the Berlin battle and sticking the red flag on top of the Reichstag building.<\/p>\n

There are a few difficulty modes that you can switch between to suit your gaming preferences.\u00a0 I like to walk through the missions on a moderate level, so that it’s not too easy, but at the same time not too hard.\u00a0 Once I get through the whole story and unlock all the missions, I sometimes try to replay with increased difficulty level.<\/p>\n

Once I passed all the missions a few times, I put the game away.\u00a0 Otherwise it’s getting pretty boring, isn’t it?\u00a0 Well, I almost made that mistake.\u00a0 Again, memories of my previous gaming experience were suggesting that nothing much changed in terms of networking, so on-line multi-player won’t be much fun.\u00a0 That’s how it was back a few years.\u00a0 And maybe with types of games that I was playing back then.\u00a0 To my surprise, not with Call of Duty.<\/p>\n

I decided to try my luck with multi-player and was very surprised at how well it went.\u00a0 Maybe because Call of Duty is not as dynamic as Quake III, or maybe because the game protocol works in a very different way, or maybe because of something else, which I truly don’t care much about, but the result is pretty good.\u00a0 Not that it just doesn’t lag bad enough to spoil a game, it’s actually working fast.\u00a0 Fast enough for me even to be able to snipe.\u00a0 To be fair, I still can’t snipe fast moving targets (e.g.: running soldiers and dogs), but I can shoot moving targets (e.g.: walking or crouching enemies).<\/p>\n

Also, I really like how the multi-player system keeps you in the game all the time.\u00a0 You start with something like a private uniform, and gradually make your way up the military hierarchy.\u00a0 Participation in games, killing enemies, destroying enemy machines, and the rest of the war stats count.\u00a0 The more damage you do and the least you die, the higher you move up the ladder.\u00a0\u00a0 While being promoted is all cool by itself, here you have extra stuff – more weapons get unlocked and more skills are learned, which you can later on combine and save to use in the game.<\/p>\n

Also, additional points are awarded for completing challenges while in multi-player.\u00a0 Challenges are like your personal goals.\u00a0 For example, kill a certain number of enemies with specific weapon, or from a certain position, run a combined distance of so many kilometers, fall so many feet down and stay alive, etc.\u00a0 This is one of those little unimportant things that keeps me coming back to the game every time I have some free time, and think about it when I don’t.<\/p>\n

What else do I like about it? Well, there are quite a few more things.\u00a0 For example, I like the teams are balanced, and how best players are always highlighted using different features (ranks, clan tags, clan tag colors, etc).\u00a0 I like that when you are killed in the game, they show you a kill cam, so that you know who killed you and how.\u00a0 This is very useful to get rid of camping, where\u00a0 a player finds a hidden spot on the map, hides in there and kills everyone and everything that happens to pass by.\u00a0 With kill camera everyone is practically forced to move around and change positions all the time.\u00a0 I like how the maps are built.\u00a0 They have plenty of space on one hand, and they give you a feeling that you are in the middle of action and enemies are everywhere around you on the other hand.\u00a0 I like the 40 second break between matches, and how matches are of a perfect length – not too short, not too long.\u00a0 And I like the quick re-spawn\u00a0 And I like how you can fight the battle from inside a tank, shooting a canon, or, on top of the tank with a machine gun.\u00a0 Or as an infantry, blowing up those tanks.\u00a0 And so on and so forth.<\/p>\n

In short, highly recommended for anyone who likes first-person shooters.\u00a0 Both the single- and multi-player modes are fun and there is plenty to explore, collect, try, and advance before you’ll get bored of it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

“Call of Duty : World at War” is the latest addition to my addictions collection.\u00a0 As I mentioned before, it’s been a while since my last gaming dive, so I don’t have much to compare this game to.\u00a0 But it stands on its just fine. 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