Call of Duty: World at War

I played this game a lot as a kid growing up, mainly played it on my old ass PS3. WAW has aged incredibly well compared to other older CoDs imo, while I prefer Black Ops 1 for it's Story and Zombies, without this game, we would have never gotten that game's Zombies. I've yet to replay this game's Story, but from rewatching it on YouTube, it's still amazing. I'd argue that WAW's Story is not just a CoD game, but also a Horror game too! I have been replaying Zombies however, and I still love it as much as I did back when I was a kid. Should you buy this game in 2025? Absolutely! Make sure to wait for a sale tho, paying full price for a game from 2008 is madness!

One of the best Call of Duty games of all time in my opinion, bar none. From the campaign, to the soundtrack, to the sheer amount of FUN I've had playing this on my Xbox 360 back in the day with my friends - this game is my absolute favorite COD game ever. It's a shame that the multiplayer servers are no longer active on Steam, but I'd still recommend this game to anyone that wants to try out the older COD games and is also a history buff, as this game is widely known for being based on the events of World War 2. For $20, it's certainly not a bad game by any metric - and it goes on sale quite frequently, so if you ever wanna give it a go I'd say it's worth it.

This game is so good id rather get ra*ed by shit ton of grenades on veteran and being stuck on one lvl for 5 hrs than play 2 mins of vanguard...

IMO top 3 CoD's of all time. The grainy feeling of the old school playstyle is just unbeatable.

A classic, banger game. Always a fun time to come back to this game

Easily top 3 Call of Duty games. MW2>WAW>Black ops 1. The Halo style co-op campaign was so fun back in the day.

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Amazing game. Genuinely the most harrowing game ive ever played.

SPOILER: Also when i saw Reznov i thought i was seeing things lol

Honestly the game may be good and all that you expect from a shooter, but the graphics suck on the PC and it's not even playable with a controller, so I thumb it down for the mechanics. World at War can be easily finished compared to future iterations of the franchise and it feels like it's the one where the story is least intense. We know it's World War two and the developers did not bother with adding new content to it.

nostalgia for sure, i remember when i first played this game when t came out it was fun.. the original nazi zombies.. only downfall is.. steam over fucking charges for it just like every other old game. you can literally get it for free on xbox.. money hungry selfish rich people like usual of course. on top of that the price of new games in store is cheaper than what steam charges. but yes its a good game. if you never played it you will enjoy it!

7 / 10

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Graphics

☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don’t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

Gameplay

☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead

Audio

☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ Vincent van Gogh

Audience

☐ Everyone
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Elder

PC Requirements

☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi

Game Size

☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it

Difficulty

☐ Just press 'W' / Point and click
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

Grind

☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

Story

☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

Game Time

☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

Price

☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended to buy
☐ You could also just burn your money

Bugs

☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game is the definition of Bugs

Controls

☑ Perfect
☐ Needs improvement
☐ Frustrating
☐ Just breaking your hands do the same

Multiplayer

☑ Top
☐ Good
☐ Connection issues
☐ Missing completely

Replayability

☐ Unlimited
☑ Playable multiple times
☐ One-time only

Innovation

☐ Groundbreaking
☑ Refreshing
☐ Repetitive
☐ Enough is enough

Immersion

☑ Fully immersive
☐ Exciting
☐ Superficial

Support / Community

☐ Helpful
☑ Neutral
☐ Frustrating
☐ "Git Gud pal"

7 / 10

Worth it if you wanna play the campaign, but in 2025 there are a many better ways to play Zombies and alt tabbing is broken without some modification.

Hands down one of my favorite games in the Cod series, Treyarch was able to create an outstanding game full of the horrors and cruelty that WWII was plague with while telling a story in a war torn setting. With battles such as the Battle of Okinawa and the Battle of Stalingrad, getting to blast enemy's with an M1 grand or mowing down Nazis with a PPSh. The multiplayer might not be as active or safe as it was back in 2008, I highly recommend using Plutonium when it comes to playing multiplayer. Lastly this was the game that kick started the zombie mode for future Treyarch games, I have played a lot of Nacht der Untoten back in my 360 days with Der Riese being my favorite. I would recommend this game highly for anyone looking for a WWII shooter or shooter in general.

Where subtlety goes to die screaming in a hail of mortar fire. Congrats, you’ve unlocked ‘War Is Hell: The Theme Park Ride,’ complete with a Soviet sergeant who yells louder than my upstairs neighbor and a checkpoint system designed by Satan’s intern. Enjoy mowing down waves of enemies who apparently cloned themselves from a single Nazi, because quantity over quality is this game’s middle name. The story? A+ for making me feel like a war criminal. Gameplay? Hold ‘W’ and pray, baby. Also, thanks for the flamethrower—nothing says ‘historical accuracy’ like turning soldiers into human marshmallows. Still, 10/10 for making me fear tall grass after that sniper mission. Play it once, then never speak of it again. (P.S. The grenade spam alone could fuel a drinking game. Spoiler: You’ll lose.)"

Story is captivating and really does a good job of selling you on the illusion as if you really were in the shoes of the characters both Dimitri Petrenko and Pvt. Miller. The audio and visual effects are a masterpiece and the Environmental Storytelling is a kiss from god as it truly immerses you into the game. Its accurate portrayal of how gritty and unsettling World War 2 was is just amazing. And its attention to historical detail without going overboard to the point where it feels unrealistic or inauthentic to the real life war it wants to portray is an added bonus. All World at War does is show you an authentic World War 2 and doesnt hold back no matter how difficult or uncomftorable it is even adding things like war crimes and swastika's to show you that this is history wether you like it or not it doesnt hold your hand or wash away the uncomftorable truth that is war

Still plays great all these later. The mod community is great. There are some issues when trying to play online multiplayer, but what can one expect. When you are able to get online or join a server it is a blast. Nazi Zombies is still infinitely playable and the campaign is a nostalgia bomb for the ages.

Good game. The best campaign that exists in the Call of duty series. Great zombie mode. Bloody and brutal portrayal of World War II.
8/10

Great game wish I could just play normal mulitplayer like on xbox.

best ww2 game there is great multiplayer if you find a good server and zombies is just amazing what i love is waw is not very hard on low end pcs and modded maps mostly have good quality to but since its not made by the devs you cant really count it and a little suggestion for modded maps my favs are das herrenhaus and hanoi

An OK game, only worth it if it is on sale. The single player is quite short and is more like a series of battles rather than a flowing story. There are two campaigns that the game alternates between: US marines in the Pacific and Soviets on the advance to Berlin. As with some of the previous Call of Duty games, a few of the levels owe a lot of their plot to memorable scenes from war films (the Soviet campaign starts with the fountain sniping scene taken from Enemy at the Gates, for example) The Soviet campaign felt more disjointed then the Pacific campaign, as the Soviet campaign jumps quite heavily through the timeline. The Zombie defence game adds some more game time, especially if played with others - although it can be played alone. I didn't bother with multiplayer, so I've no idea if it is any good. The single player can be completed in under 8 hours though.

Gritty , fun campaign w/ lots of enemies.

The start of cod zombies as well as modded zombies mixed with a amazing campaign and very fun multiplayer, do yourself a flavour and play this game at least once

Multiplayer - meh
Campaign - Great!
Zombies - Fantastic; great alternative to BO3 Zombies, faster for lower end PCs and with Plutonium runs like butter!

The first CoD game I ever played and personally, its probably my favorite CoD game. Its great to play campaign, solo, or with friends. Def approve

Very fun. I like the bolt-action rifles the most, especially the Mosin Nagant.

I played on the hardest difficulty, I played mouse and keyboard, I played solo, and I broke at least one mouse.

Fun for everyone. 10/10.

fucking badass espesially with mods on zombies. head to cod repo for custom zombie maps

The best Call Of Duty ever released.

Black Ops and WAW were my childhood games. Coming back and playing on the 360 servers in 2025 is just as fun as 16 years ago.

Got this to play the original zombie maps and it did not disappoint. So many good memories!

This game was basically my life back in 2008 over on the Xbox 360. So many hours spent gaming with friends killing zombies and each other

The campaign was brilliant, too. Planting that flag on top of the reichstag at the end of a veteran playthough was the crowning achievement of my life back then

classic game. campaign and zombies still holds up. wish i could play this game for the first time again. 5/5

Shit pricing and Security issues aside, honestly a REALLY fun game in terms of MP and it's Campaign (Oh and highrounding zombies wink.), would, recommend people to only pick this up for sale with the bo2 deluxe bundle (you get bo2 and this).

Please do, use Plutonium to play this, though.

Just finished the game and it is really good recommended to play this game it is about 7 to 10 hours long but I completed in 5 hours (told by the time) and I have lots to do but it is really fun time playing this game and lots of really awesome moments and lots of time in the multiplayer and campaign.

7/10

Loved the story and love the zombies, especially the capability for modding.

A classic masterpiece, gave me a slight culture shock due to how brutal and uncensored this game is compared to any recent games/cod
I used to play this when i was around 6 y.o
glad i'm able to play it again with my bf

Great game but unfortunately cant recommend because there are security risks associated with all Call of Duty games!

Hacking
RCE exploits

Serious stuff.. shouldnt be sold on steam. And i hate saying that, but its true.

Nice game, a bit old but gameplay is very fun and the campaign is very well done

Best Call of Duty hands down. Everything about this game is S tier. Single Player. Multiplayer and then the surprise that comes after beating the campaign.

Best call of duty there is by far! The realism in this game is anything beyond in terms of a war feeling.

Lacks achievements, lacks cloud saves, lacks polishing (terrible controls/camera movement), not many Zombie maps (thus why BO2 is better) and it crashes on me sometimes, forcing me to shut down my computer. Just not a good game nowadays, but was before.

10/10 A+
This is a solo review. No multiplayer just solo campaign and zombies.
Campaign difficulty: Hardened and collected all 13 death cards.
One of the best Call of Duty's stories every made. Just shows you the true horrors of war. My only complainant is on hard the AI would throw 3 to 4 grenades at once and the grenades spam is none stop!
Zombies started here and all 4 maps are amazing. Even with the first map not having any perks and the first 3 not having pack-a-punch they are still fun and can keep you entertain for hours.
World at War is currently $19.99 with all DLC but I still would wait for a sale that makes it $9.99 or under.

Great game from the Golden Era of the Call of Duty Franchise. A good place to start campaign wise.

this games really fun and good on the first time playing. But after that for me atleast it isnt really that fun to play after u played it the 1st time

Another great game In the franchise and imo the best WW2 cod game In the whole series. Just like the last game (cod 4: mw1) the game here has lots of great and fun gameplay with great guns even if the hit registration can be a little questionable at certain times, awesome characters, awesome missions, etc; multiplayer can fun to hop in from time to time, and of course i can't forgot about the first introduction of zombies and is again imo one of the best zombies to play. Overall a great game.

story mode fun

Very fun, Classic Cod game, And introduced the zombies mode

still the best of the ww2 as far as campaign goes. I wish more games had Taiko drum music. To get it to run I needed to toggle both low res mode and compatibility mode. Meaning set it one way, start game -will crash. Go back into windows compatibility change setting again. Click when game menu sound starts. nivida takes over resets game to hirez like normal. Next time you start the game, it will crash at start. re do the compatibility setting. 2x.

What I miss from the old cod games. This delivers. More traditional, straightforward multiplayer. Still players and servers. Co-op campaign. Buy this if in sale.

It's 2025 and this is still one of my favorite multiplayer games of all time if there are people playing. During the days and particular nights there are people playing along with bots. I think a new wave of fans can be cultured pretty easily if the community who still does play would be more inclusive. There is 100% a reason that this game kicked off Nazi Zombies. This is probably the only game that has real names and models of guns. You actually learn about each of these from the game since developers tried to capture the character of each weapon as best as they could. This is something that can't be done today since there's licenses to use brand names and models. There are some servers with bots and waves of people in and out from time to time. Stick around and find out why this game was so popular. My favorite things are the real weapons with real sounds that were recorded for each. The physics feel just right to me. World War II is the coolest war to model a game after. The weapons aren't too modern and the sound of headshots turn me on. For me it's really all about the feel and this game had the best in my opinion to this day. Gamers these days don't get lost in feel and the illusion a game tries to put on people. Some of what I like can be overlooked. Wait until you get back at someone with a little bit of unlocked martyrdom.

Okay so here's the thing about this game right? And it's what surprised me the most when I replayed again.
It is genuinely one of the best FPS games I've ever played to this date. Second to none, I'd say. I was initially surprised when I realized this fact because it's Call of Duty! You know? The most MAINSTREAM FPS franchise to ever exist? How did Activision/Treyarch manage to make something so special out of THE FPS. Like the first thing you think of when you hear the word "FPS". I cannot fathom what they were thinking when planning this game out. Actual geniuses.
Really the only thing that slightly irks me are the somewhat inaccurate guns. That's really the only major issue I have with this game. But again the inaccuracies aren't even that severe. 16 year old game and it somehow bests all the titles that followed it in the franchise. Well, maybe not for Black Ops 1 and 2. Those were really good as well. I liked them. But that's enough rambling on my part.
DO play this game. Buy it if you can, either that or beg your parents to buy it for you because you're a caca with no money and no bank account. Or just get it gifted to you by a fellow friend of yours. I don't know. But just play it. You won't regret it all. Take it from me.
t. played over 60-70 FPS games (can't remember) in his entire life.
Zombies is cool as well but I always die at round 20-23 and I don't like that