Just finished CoD WaW, and like all of the Call of Duty PC games, I enjoyed it quite a bit. My only gripe is the length, which was short, even for a Call of Duty game (CoD 4: Modern Warfare actually took me more than 3 days to beat).

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Beyond that just a few remarks. The graphics looked great with my new video card, and the gameplay was fast-paced, brutal, and fun. New to the series are severed body parts, flamethrowers, and lots of language which make the game earn its M rating but add a new level of realism to the statement that “war is Hell.” Call of Duty says enough about the second world war to be reverent without getting in the way of gameplay with overly sanctimonious characters (I’m looking at you, Brothers in Arms). Other than that the game was a blast, and if I can get the online play to be a little more stable, (I always have problems with PunkBuster) the public servers look to be plentiful and full of players.

Oh and the tank mission was kind of lame. And I haven’t played the Nazi Zombie level yet but I hear it’s great. I hear the standard game reviewers bitching and moaning about WWII being played out, but I feel like one real exception to this is the Call of Duty series. As far as I’m concerned, as long as they keep doing new campaigns and updating their gaming engine, they have the gameplay mechanic down and frankly CoD 4 was the weakest in the series so far because of the switch to modern warfare. Call of Duty is straightforward FPS awesomeness and they should keep it up.

It’s one thing to gripe if a new series is doing WWII, but Call of Duty is doing it right, so as they say “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.”