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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I absolutely love COD WAW...coming from someone that has COD4 and was highly disappointed in it, I found that Treyarch really hit a Home Run with this title. The game is fast-paced, intense, dead on graphics wise, and in XBox live it is addictive. The only gripe I have with it so far is the multitudes of noobs that are going out of their way to find Wall glitches and map hacks(i.e.going under the map, etc.). It really takes the fun out of the game. That and people using Rifle Grenades in the beginning of the roun d and killing you with a blind shot all the way accross the map. Treyarch is releasing a Map Pack on March 19th 2009 though that is suppossed to 'fix' these issues. Let's hope that that truly is the case.
What's great about it: Multi-Player XBox Live is unbelievable, Graphics are dead on, and Weapons are very Real-looking
What's not so great: Too many noobs are going out of their way to find Graphics 'Glithes' which allow them to hide in walls or out of map