Call of Duty: World at War (Xbox 360)

Every winter the various computer game publishers battle it out to see who will be number one. In the 3 months leading up to Christmas around 2/3rds of games sales occur. Therefore, for a lucky few games that capture the audience's attention they can sell millions of copies. In 2007 one of the biggest winners was 'Call of Duty' (CoD), a long running series that took a chance and moved into the future with its fourth instalment titled 'Modern Warfare'. In 2008 Activision were desperate to cash in on the games success and they surely did when 'Call of Duty 5: World at War' outsold even its predecessor. Do great sales mean great games? With a reversion back to a World ...  Read the complete review

This is an Xbox 360 game released last year. It sells on amazon at time of writing for £28. So, Call of Duty, the venerable first person shooter game series, has returned to the Second World War. Call of Duty 4, 'Modern Warfare', had been set in the present day and allowed you to play out all your dirty neocon fantasies by murdering Arabs. I think the decision to go back to good old WWII was met with a disappointment by a lot of fans. Not me, though - I've loved a good World War shoot 'em up ever since Wolfenstein let you go head-to-head with Hitler and his robotic exoskeleton... Unfortunately it doesn't live up to expectations, or at least the ...  Read the complete review

I can hear the enemy approaching, they are close. A tiny bead of sweat begins to trickle down my temple and in the back of mind, I hope that gravity takes it away from my eye. I can't afford to be distracted, not now, not when I have come this far. "Wait!!" was that movement in the bushes ahead or just leaves falling from the trees? I am already frozen in place but now even my eyes turn to stone and I hold my breath. I see the muzzle of a gun poking through the bushes and the curve of a helmet. I raise my sights slowly and take aim, I only have one shot before I give my position away, gotta make it count. I'm ready for the shot, I am ...  Read the complete review

Call of Duty: World at War-The Finest Hour or the Big Red One? Let's be frank-Infinity Ward are pretty much the only developer who can make the Call of Duty series the Game of the Year. At best, Activision hires a development team which can make a great, not brilliant, Call of Duty game. At worst, they completely balls it up. Thankfully Treyarch, the developer of Spider-Man and Call of Duty 3, didn't balls up unlike Spark Unlimited's Call of Duty: The Finest Hour (and they haven't gone much further since). So when they announced Treyarch would develop CoD5, I had some hope. Unfortunately, I lost hope when they said it would be in World War II. No disrespect to ...  Read the complete review

I got this title about 3 months ago and have played it quite a lot in that as it is a good game and played for roughly 1 and a half days! The game is great but not fantastic. The main problem is with this game is that there are hundreds of World War Two games and people want something different apart from Nazis and Hitler. They should make games based on other wars like modern ones and even World War One. I do really only play the game online as it is brilliant online as I don't really like the story mode that much. The game online is really good and a massive number of people play the game all the time. There are normally thousands ...  Read the complete review