Though set outdoors, it feels like close-quarters combat much of the time. They'll play dead and wait for you to walk into the middle of a trap. In the game, Japanese soldiers swarm out of the brush, erupting out of spider holes to charge straight at you in an attempt to run you through with their bayonets.

War tends to be a savage affair, but the Pacific and the Eastern Front were especially so. You will see some more familiar spots with the bombed-out cities and farmlands ofthe Eastern Front missions, but it's still well done. This provides some interesting new battlefields set on sun-bleached coral atolls in the Pacific. Instead of serving up Normandy and D-Day for what would have been the umpteenth time for World War II shooters, the game covers the island hopping campaign in the Pacific as well as the Red Army's reversal of the tide at Stalingrad all the way to the Fall of Berlin. Video Review - Watch or download here (HD available).It certainly helps that World at War focuses on the less popularized theaters of World War II. There's a solid single-player campaign, co-op play, a huge multiplayer suite, and even a fun, silly mode featuring zombies. Treyarch did the somewhat-maligned Call of Duty 3, but the studio looks to atone for that by delivering a game with an impressive amount of content. This has caused no end of grumbling from fans of Modern Warfare's contemporary setting, as well as the fact that this installment was done by Treyarch, a sister-studio to Call of Duty-creator Infinity Ward.

If you've been living in Antarctica the past year and haven't heard, then yes, World at War returns back to the series' World War II roots.

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