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World at War is borderline cretinous at times, yet it’s a blast that keeps you coming back for more. For all that Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway tried to create a realistic WWII experience with intelligent AI and realistic cover, it wasn’t actually all that entertaining. As an experience, though, it’s actually good, honest, slightly stupid fun. Take it apart technically and there’s still an awful lot to moan about, and rest assured that I will be moaning about all of it in a minute. In short, I thought World at War would suck.

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Thirdly, Treyarch’s last effort was the James Bond FPS, Quantum of Solace, and while I didn’t think it was a bad game, it didn’t make me think that the developer knew how to put together great FPS levels – or make full use of the CoD4 engine, for that matter. Secondly, it’s a World War II game, and despite the best efforts of Medal of Honor: Airborne and this year’s Brothers in Arms, I’m bored of those. First, it’s been developed not by Infinity Ward who did Call of Duty 2 and 4, but by Treyarch who did the messy Call of Duty 3. I know prejudice is a deadly sin in my profession, but I really didn’t have high hopes at all for this one.

Still here? Well, I have some shocking news for you. If this is likely to bother you, don’t buy it. Hell, it makes Pearl Harbour look like Letters from Iwo Jima, or It Ain’t Half Hot Mum look like Tenko. World at War makes Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway seem meek and apologetic. If they’re German or Japanese, they’ve got it coming is the prevailing mood.

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You’ll be amazed at the use of hard rock guitar on the soundtrack, not to mention gobsmacked by the insensitive use of real archive footage and the attitude taken to casual slaughter. Somebody appears to have confused the volume and violence controls and turned both up to max just in case.

FPS games aren’t known for understatement or restraint, but this is the noisiest, most over-the-top, gung-ho action game I’ve ever played. Kicking off with a sort of pop-art summary of the Pacific portion of World War II, it soon shifts into some gratuitously nasty scenes of Japanese PoW torture followed by righteous vengeance as the good old boys of the USA bring the pain to the villainous Rising Sun chumps. You know where you are pretty fast with World at War.

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The now familiar leveling system was also present, allowing players to unlock gear and weaponry as they honed their shooting skills on the battlefield.”’Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii, PlayStation 2 – PS3 version reviewed.”’ The result was unique strategies and a lot of fun for the returning players, as well as an exciting experience for the new ones.

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Here mechanics that were successful in the fourth title in the series such as vehicles, were brought into World at War and given a tune-up and further polish. The next great feature for this title was its iconic multiplayer. It brings with it some gritty gameplay and a lot of action in the main campaign. We join Private Miller, a Marine Raider, Petty Officer Locke from the US Navy and Private Dimitri Petrenko as they try to survive across several key battles that took place on the Eastern Front and Pacific. So many decisive battles took place across this period, that the developers had almost unlimited material to go through and pull those harrowing, real-life experiences from, and turn them into something that felt authentic. A highly provocative time in history, and one that still has impacts that can be felt in modern day society. World at War is set in the World War II era.

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