Call of Duty: World at War gives you everything that you expect from a multiplayer frag fest, enjoyment of killing with the frustration of dying. The controls are the same as COD4, a various assortment of guns with strengths and weaknesses, and a alot of extras. The intensity of the game is still there, run and gun before you die. The levels range from German cities to a small fishing village in Japan. Everything that you expect from Call of Duty is still there but the multiplayer faulters on many fronts compared to its predecessor.
Let me begin with the most horrible part, spawn points, in COD4, when you died you simply spawned near a teammate away from the action. In COD:WaW, you are spawned near the action, majority of the time you are spawned in front or behind an enemy. There have been countless times where I was spawned with the recon on just to find out that I have been surrounded by 3 or more enemy combatants. There is a large selection of weapons in COD:WaW but being able to compete is difficult because the later levels have the better weapons. I remember in COD4, I started out with the M16 and was able to hold my own with level 30 people when I was level 10. Each weapon had its drawbacks but overall they were equal in my opinion. In COD:WaW, the later levels get the strong weapons and are able to have a distinct advantage. I’ll run around with a type 100 gun just to be ripped apart by PPSH with 5 bullets hitting me from far away. The PPSH is a weapon that get somewhere in the 40s. This weapon just rips apart enemies and I have not seen a weapon that can compare to it at previous levels.
Call of Duty: World at War is a great game and you should get it if you don’t have. The only thing I can say is be prepared for some bad spawn points. The creators of the game should just patch this up and no one will complain, but until then I will still complain abou the crappy spawn points.
