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2008

Call of Duty: World at War

Tonight at a glance

Platforms
PS3 · PC · X360
Mode
Single player · Multiplayer · Co-operative · Split screen
Age rating
PEGI 18
Violence
Strong
Frights
Strong

Why tonight?

  • It goes hard on violence and frights — not a wind-down.

The story

Call of Duty: World at War is a first-person shooter set during World War II, focusing on the Pacific and Eastern Front theaters. The single-player campaign follows two perspectives: U.S. Marine Private C. Miller fighting against the Imperial Japanese Army across islands in the Pacific, and Soviet Red Army Private Dimitri Petrenko advancing from Stalingrad to Berlin. The game features more graphic violence than previous entries in the series, including limb dismemberment and destructible environments. Multiplayer retains the leveling, perk, and killstreak systems from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. The game also introduced the cooperative Nazi Zombies survival mode, in which up to four players fight increasingly difficult waves of undead while purchasing weapons and unlocking new areas.

  • Action
  • Horror
  • Survival
  • Historical
  • Stealth
  • Warfare
  • zombies
  • world war ii - ww2
  • vehicular combat
  • bloody

The look

A few frames, chosen rather than collected.

Production

Players
75 / 100 · 978 players
Critics
80 / 100 · 7 critics
Developer
Treyarch
Publisher
Activision