| kowenicki said: I usually agree with Edge.. but I cant see 6/10 for COD WaW, I just cant. It is every bit as good as COD4, its the same frickin engine, better graphics, improved multiplayer, co-op and better single player... how can it be so much lower in the scoring? Makes no sense. |
Kowenicki, I would have to disagree with you here. In my opinion, Call of Duty: World at War is worse than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare in every way (I don't play multiplayer shooters, so I wouldn't know about that part).
It tries to build up a game very similar to COD4, but it doesn't succeed to emulate the quality. In COD4, the first thing you saw was a first person execution. That really caught my attention. There's no story or gameplay element at all in World at War that has as strong impact as that scene, and Modern Warfare had more of the same quality. The supposedly dramatic scenes in World at War feel like thrown in solely for dramatic effect, and are all over very, very quickly. The weapons were more fun in Modern Warfare, and the setting was less familiar and more fun. Also, the singleplayer campaign in MW had a good structure, and you could often see why you were doing this mission, and how it connected to the last one. In WaW you are thrown around with no semblence of structure, only fighting one battle after another.
Yes, the engine is the same. I would still call MW the more beautiful of the two games though. It just looks better to me. World at War simply does not have the same feel of quality work as Modern Warfare does.
Add to this the fact that I didn't even enjoy Modern Warfare all that much, and you might come to the conclusion I think that the 6/10 might even be too high. And you would be right. Myself, I'd give it a 4/10, possibly a 5/10. The only time I really enjoyed myself was when the germans actually retreated, and I got to shoot them in the back.
I am really interested in reading why they gave Mirror's edge a 5/10. I thought it was the most innovative and esthetic game I've played on PS360. I would give the game an 8/10, and I plan on buying it for PC when it is released.
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