Anyone else picked this up?

Incredible single player, and quite terrifying too. Nothing like walking through an empty field to have ten Japanese banzai pop up in camo and charge you.

Got it the day it came out. The single player was amazing, although it could be difficult at times. I really liked playing as the Russians while they invaded Berlin.

The Nazi Zombies level is very fun. Nothing beats fighting masses of zombies with a flame thrower and shotgun.

Just finished the SP, and its great. Those Japanese just keep coming out of nowhere. Good thing theres that flamethrower.

The Nazi Zombie mode is amazing. Doesn't seem like anyone plays it for PS3 though, I left my ps3 running for 30 minutes and there were no joins. Is it like this on other consoles?

Yeah, I caved immediately after saying I wouldn't get it. Have a strange problem where it won't start unless I disable my modem's audio device, but I got it in the end.

So far so good, though I'm only on the second mission. Feels good to have my Garand rifle back, I missed her so.

Yeah, I caved immediately after saying I wouldn't get it. Have a strange problem where it won't start unless I disable my modem's audio device, but I got it in the end.

So far so good, though I'm only on the second mission. Feels good to have my Garand rifle back, I missed her so.

Just wait until you get your hands on the flamethrower :love:

I might get it when the price drops. Have to say I'm a bit suspicious of any Call of Duty game not made by Infinity Ward, though by most accounts this seems to be Treyarch's best effort to date.

Bought the game and have only played online thus far. It's just like Modern Warfare except not as good. Many of the maps are way too big, which really slows the game down, and in general the quality of the game just can't match the incredible COD4.

Plus, I think I just liked the the modern weaponry as compared to WWII stuff.

All in all, not a bad game at all. I am enjoying it. It's just that Modern Warfare was (is) one of my all time favorites.

I'm glad the maps are larger, the ones in CoD4 were a bit small at times.

Just wait until you get your hands on the flamethrower :love:

I have a couple of times, and I've just entered an American mission where I have to flush out mortar crews with one. Lovely fun, but slows my PC down something awful.

Well I recently played through it while trying to help a friend unlock Nazi Zombie mode, I can't help getting the feeling that FPS WW2 is running out of interest since I've been killing German or Japanese soldiers since 1999 in either MOH, Call of Duty or Battlefield

It really needs something special, I just can't put my finger on it

Starting from the German, Japenese, italian, Finnish and french point of views perhaps?

A Finnish campaign certainly would be different. And at least the swarms of countless enemies against you and your fellow soldiers who apparently have brain damage from all the times they've hit their head against a brick wall for the sheer entertainment of it would actually make sense.

Or from the Axis campaign. Playing a campaign where you're inevitably screwed, and just trying to survive instead of trying to pull off some crazy mission with incredible odds that you somehow manage to succeed in, despite being a guppy in a piranha tank.

My younger brother got the game for the Xbox 360 a couple of days ago. He's been playing it almost non stop since then.

I wish I could get this. :(

I think WW2 shooters are an overused genre, but so long as people are willing to play and American game studios feel macho enough, so it will be.

I wish they had a WW1 shooter though, no-man's land charges would look/be fun. :D
Although trench warfare may leave you scrambling for cover from arty/defend against crapload charges/tend to your feet.

Well I recently played through it while trying to help a friend unlock Nazi Zombie mode, I can't help getting the feeling that FPS WW2 is running out of interest since I've been killing German or Japanese soldiers since 1999 in either MOH, Call of Duty or Battlefield

It really needs something special, I just can't put my finger on it

Getting them out of Normandy and Stalingrad would be a start.

Well, there is only one mission in WaW that takes place in either of those places.

With the exception of Battefield1942, are their any WW2 FPS' that take place in Italy fighting Italian soldiers? Or Germans fighting French soldiers? Or just playing as the Germans for campaign?

Well, MoH: Airborne has you fight Italians in the first mission. There is one FPS where you can play as Germany, but its kind of old, and I forgot its name. Call of Duty 3 has French fight Germans, but you don't play French or Germany, you're just a British paratrooper. :p

I have it on PC. I just need to wait for my new laptop to arrive tomorow before I can play it. I played the beta on Xbox and was not impressed however especially after playing COD4 again.

A Winter War FPS might be interesting, but I doubt it would sell well.

I think the world could stand a Korean War shooter. It would use a similar weapons set but a somewhat different setting and types of battles. Plus you could play as many different countries of the UN coalition or the Chinese/North Koreans.

I would've bought this but for a) the sad state of my exchequer and b) the general dissatisfaction I have with the glut of Second World War FPSes.

The game is pretty fun. The only things that annoy me are
a) Endless enemy respawning. This is so damn stupid, no matter how often you kill an enemy, he will ALWAYS be replaced by a respawn. I'm fine with enemy respawning if there's a limitation to it, but this kind of crap just stretches the game.
b.) Confusing missions. Sometimes I just don't know what th hell I'm exactly supposed to do, and that's mostly because I can't understand what the AI players voices are saying. It might be realistic that I can't understand them during a firefight, but it's unreasonable to make their voices incomprehensible when they are telling you something crucial.

I find one of the greatest weaknesses of the Call of Duty series is leaning on endless respawns at a lot of critical points in maps. Sometimes it works well, and sometimes it gets really hackneyed. What's worse is sometimes the events are so scripted that the AI doesn't change attack paths and then it's just a duck shoot versus your limited ammo.

The first CoD usually had limited enemies. I remember reading about CoD2 and the devs wanted to make it so players had to advance, as when you advanced the enemy spawns were pushed back. However the problem with that is in CoD4 where the enemey respawns at a rediculously fast rate and many times I found that if I actually tried to get soem cover and shoot them before advancing like in Modern and indeed most warfare, they would respawn by the time I could then advance, otherwise I'd have to run up and hope they don't kill me.

yea infinate respawning turned me off about COD games big time

Infinite respawning did make me question whether the Reichstag did in fact have a cloning machine inside of it.

Maybe in Wolfenstein :mischief:

But yeah, I highly doubt the Germans had over 50,000 men in a 'division'. (Seriously, I once camped at Pointe Du Hoc in CoD2, and I stayed in the same place for a few hours. I didn't count, but it was in that number at least)

Maybe in Wolfenstein :mischief:

But yeah, I highly doubt the Germans had over 50,000 men in a 'division'. (Seriously, I once camped at Pointe Du Hoc in CoD2, and I stayed in the same place for a few hours. I didn't count, but it was in that number at least)

I did the same thing on GoldenEye on the N64 on the Runway level a long time ago with infinite ammo and invicibility cheats, and after at least an hour I had something like 1500 kills. Amazing how many men that building could hold.

yeah I didn't really notice it until the Reichstag level as my tactic prior to that would be classified as a constant series of Bonzai charges

I did the same thing on GoldenEye on the N64 on the Runway level a long time ago with infinite ammo and invicibility cheats, and after at least an hour I had something like 1500 kills. Amazing how many men that building could hold.

Apaprently someone played one of those levels with cheats for over 6 hours and they still didn't end.

I just got CoD: WoW, and its pretty good. I just finished the campaign, and it was pretty good. (Infinite respawns are problematic though)

Also, the Castle level on Okinawa, that last part I didn't check my objectives so I focused trying to kill infinite Banzai charges before realizing after 5 deaths I needed to airstrike the East Building. :p

I also complain that there are too few servers on right now for multiplayer. :(

Also, the Castle level on Okinawa, that last part I didn't check my objectives so I focused trying to kill infinite Banzai charges before realizing after 5 deaths I needed to airstrike the East Building.

Same here. I really had no clue what to do until fighting endlessly for about 10 minutes.

Bought it yesterday, played it to :breaking point"(its towards the end of the American campaign I beleive) and then took it back the same night. Its . .. .. .. .iing call of duty 2.5, except it cant be, becuase Call of cuty four was already 2.5, so I dont know what the hell to call it.

2.5? How the heck?

Its Call of Duty 2, just with a few new bells and whistles.....just like call of duty four was, so I guess this makes it Call of Duty 2.7. Get it now?

Freakin 1.1 patch failed to download, so I have to redownload from another place.

Also, I get kicked by Punkbuster, for no god damned reason.

And there's almost NO multiplayer servers...

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Somehow I forgot, but for those who want to play as germans in a WW2 game, i highly recommend this game.

Red Orchestra is also a good game for playing soviets vs germans

yes agreed. Red Orchestra is a great game, but it can very highly depend on the people you are playing with and it also takes patience. Where most games are like war movies, RO is like war.

Well, two rants:

Why is Co-Op so bugged? I mean, 3/4 of the games you can't join for no apparent reason, and 1/8 are full by the time you click on them. And even if you load, there's a 25% chance that someone will have a different version from you and crash the server.

Secondly, have you ever tried the Vendetta Russian Sniper level with 4 people co-op and headshots only? Its complete chaos and makes no sense.

With the exception of Battefield1942, are their any WW2 FPS' that take place in Italy fighting Italian soldiers? Or Germans fighting French soldiers? Or just playing as the Germans for campaign?
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault's second expansion, Breakthrough contains missions into Italy (though after fighting in North Africa of course ;) )

also to, Company of Heroes.....

That's an RTS, not an FPS.

Fuuuuuuccckkkk....I cant even tell the difference these days.

Just to brag, have gotten level 3 prestige, and am about to go to level 4. And I only got the game the Monday before Thanksgiving.

Well, I got this for 360 over the weekend and finished the SP campaign today. It was shorter than I would have liked, but it was a lot of fun. The flamethrower is hours of fun, but the Berlin levels are awesome. Sniping Germans in the Reichstag was my favorite part of the game. Some of the Peleau missions were just plain annoying. Holding back banzai charges is fun once, but it really gets old.

One of my favorite guns of the game was the Browning. That thing was fun to take the Japanese to town with. The Garand was awesome, especially with the attached launcher. And the shotguns, much fun. The flamethrower was very useful in Okinawa while you climbed that hill, burning down the grass and finding a few Japanese was oh-so-much fun. But most of all, the Japanese in the trees were the best to shoot down.

I actually hated that Okinawa mission with the hill, although it was very pretty.