Continents erupt in flames and hails of gunfire as war breaks out on an unprecedented scale. This is World War II, where a massive conflict rages on two fronts: Europe and the South Pacific. Answer your nation's call and travel to distant lands where you'll take part in devastating battles that gripped a generation and laid the foundation for the world as we know it today. Do you have the courage, the cunning and the commitment to fulfill your duties and see the war through to its harrowing end?Prepare for global conflict presented in all its terrible grit and immediacy. In Call of Duty: World at War, you assume the role of a U.S. Marine or a Russian soldier in the waning days of the Second World War. Travel to the far reaches of the conflict, from war-plagued Berlin to the dense jungles of the Pacific theater, as you confront enemies who refuse to contemplate surrender or retreat and who fight all the more desperately ~ and more dangerously ~ knowing the end is near. Employ the weapons at your disposal, including a flamethrower and other new infantry and vehicle-based weapons, and fight to complete your mission as battles explode around you with all the terrible chaos of real war.
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Everybody keeps giving this game bad reviews because it takes place during WW2. Hello!? You knew that before you bought/rented the game!! If you didn't want to play another WW2 shooter, why did you decide to play it? Anyway, when I first started playing this game I wasn't really into it much. The guns were really hard to use and didn't like the addition of tanks. By the way the tanks are nearly indestructible. As I started to play the game more and more I started to like it. You'll have to level up a little bit to unlock some decent weapons but that just makes it more challenging. People need to stop comparing the game to COD4. COD4 was and still is the best multiplayer war shooter out there. The two games take place during different times and I think people got used to the M16 and the M4. Hello people!! Those kind of guns didn't exist back in WW2!!! GET OVER IT!! At least there were still automatic and semi-automatic weapons. The best sniper rifle I have ever used however, is in COD5. The PTRS. One word, AWESOME! Anyway, long story short, buy the game. AND STOP COMPARING THE TWO!!!
What's great about it: New weapons, co-op mode
What's not so great: Single player way too easy, multiplayer buggy, tanks