Call of Duty: World At War Preview
Call of Duty returns to battle, this time in the World War II-era Pacific Theater.
Although the series returns to the World War II era, that doesn’t mean it’s any less exciting. In fact, World At War looks even more brutal than Modern Warfare.
World At War takes place in the Pacific theater, where the Axis battles it out with the Allies. During a recent demo, we saw the Japanese-American campaign, where you start out the game as a prisoner of war being tormented by a vicious commander. He walks off and mutters something to his colleague, who proceeds to attack a fellow POW. He puts a cigarette out in his eye before shooting him in the head, splattering blood on a nearby wall. He then comes your way to kill you, but another soldier stops him and cuts you loose. A few seconds later, you acquire a machine gun and go on a rampage.
In this introductory level, Treyarch shows off the massive amount of work that went into the game. The water effects look amazing, with ripples standing out in the moonlight and shimmering with impact from your bullets. You’ll have no time to admire it, though, as enemies come at you from all sides, and Kamikaze soldiers charge you with everything they have. The animation is just as impressive as in Call of Duty 4, with enemies collapsing once they’re hit with bullets and environments that can be torn apart by gunfire and explosions. Fire a machine gun at the walls of a hut, for example, and chunks fall off.
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