Initial Thoughts
I've enjoyed the Call of Duty games since the original. The way the story is told and the action unfolds via scripted plot points was always so well done it really sucked you into the gameplay. Then with Modern Warfare all that was taken up a notch in one of the best games I've ever played. So when World at War was announced I was skeptical... WW2 again? a different company making the game?. I held off playing for many months until I found a good deal on the game and noticed that everyone online was playing it.

Pro's
- Hearing Jack Bauer command you into action makes you really want to rack up the body count.
- The guns feel solid and the sounds really rock your sound system. I'm no expert, but they sound spot on.
- Multi-player is awesome... feels like it was made by a completely different company. The variety of game modes, rewards (or incentives) to increase in rank, and servers that seemed to match you up and getting you playing quickly.

Con's
- Now I played the single player in the hardest mode (as I usually play games), but this was ridiculous. The enemies all seemed to be super human snipers.. with any gun and at any range. They also seemed physic. Perhaps secret Nazi experiments to create super soldiers... or, more then likely, really shitty game design. I could walk around a corner, to over look a raging battle well off in the distance and constantly take a bullet to the head from a guy that would have no idea I was there. This happened constantly.
- The enemy can also clone itself endlessly. The game relies -heavily- on you making it to a certain point to make the game move forward. Basically unless you move to a magical point on the battle field the enemy will re-spawn forever, no matter how many you kill. It basically turned the game into a suicidal sprint forward, knowing that if you made it your guys would advance and the enemy would disappear. Not fun.
- My band of brothers are morons. They don't actually kill anyone.. they usually get in the way... and at one point actually sat on me, causing me not to be able to move as grenades exploded and killed me. They also seem to ignore a guy with a rifle standing two feet away. They don't shoot each other.. instead the enemy waits, ignoring the soldier in front of him, so he can shoot me.
- Speaking of grenades.. wow. Every soldier your up against has -perfect- aim and a unlimited number of grenades. In most battles there will be dozens of grenades exploding around you (and only you) by guys throwing blindly a 100 yards away... truly amazing. - You die instantly at save points. When the game does auto save and you re-spawn there.... a good portion of the time you will die instantly. This forces you to figure out what direction to push on the stick as the game loads in hope you might actually move out of the way so you can live for a few more seconds.

Conclusion
It's obvious that this game had nothing to do with the Modern Warfare series. And for that I'm thankful and very much looking forward to Modern Warfare 2. The single player was unplayable and I mostly finished it out of spite and that fact I paided for the damn thing. Multiplayer is great and look forward to leveling up even more (and kicking my cousins ass... finally).

Rating
2.5 of 5.0