IGN World at War Hands-on Preview

[Spawndemon]

IGN has also posted up their preview for Call of Duty: World at War today. They have also included some new footage. Check it out:

The action starts off quietly, though, as the squad infiltrates through the swamp, only to come upon a crashed US Navy plane. A squad member climbs up to the cockpit to check the condition of the pilot only to discover that the body is booby-trapped with a grenade. As soon as it explodes Japanese soldiers, heavily camouflaged with branches and leaves, erupt out of the brush and the fight is on. There's lots of running people through with bayonets, point-blank gunfire, and chaos.

Get through the ambush and it's time to move out of the swamp into the grassland. The flamethrower comes in very handy at this point, since there's plenty of tall grass for Japanese soldiers to hide in. No problem; just burn it down. Also take out those trees where snipers like to camp. If you have two players, you can both have flamethrowers, which makes quick work of the jungle, but you have to be careful of where you point that thing. The flamethrower makes short work of grunts, and it is a bit disturbing how realistic it is. Guys melt when you torch them.

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To read the rest of this new hands-on preview be sure to visit here.

[CptainCrunch]

Re: IGN World at War Hands-on Preview

That looks pretty good. Seems a little slow on the action for some reason. I like the fight sounds and everyone yelling.

Crunch

[JoMaMaz]

Re: IGN World at War Hands-on Preview

OoOoOo, love the knife kills! "Feels" good. Also, you don't lunge 50ft forward when stabbing someone.

[Kodakk]

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Did the Japs even shoot at the player? It seemed like they were all running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Unless this was at the "beyond easy" difficulty, the lack of difficulty portrayed in this video is uninspiring.

Not impressed

[L3adcannon]

Re: IGN World at War Hands-on Preview

Well, at least WaW has proper ragdolls, not the ass****ery CoD4 has.

[Lt.Hanley]

Re: IGN World at War Hands-on Preview

CoDWaW= CoD4 but in WW2 add some destroyable areas some co-op and you got. Any one else feel the guns sounded a little weak too?

[Dan2k3k4]

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Thats the 360 version and usually console gamers need to have easier AI PC should be alot harder

(well just a guess, but it sounds logical that console versions are easier because you can't aim as fast/good compared to PC)

[CptainCrunch]

Re: IGN World at War Hands-on Preview

Any one else feel the guns sounded a little weak too?

Yes, but Ive only played CoDs 1 and 4 and have always thought that.

Crunch

[Lt.Hanley]

Re: IGN World at War Hands-on Preview

I thought overall that Cod1 and Uo had the best gun sounds. Personally to me these one suck hard though.

[AJED (G.Drew)]

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Did the Japs even shoot at the player? It seemed like they were all running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

They didnt get a chance to stab/shoot the player since they got owned by the BAR, i counted at least 2 guys bayonet charging the player.

[Mavrik347]

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I had to stop it tbh, the gun sounds were just annoying me, the irritating player just sprayed and prayed with his irritating paint ball sounds crossed with a stapler.

Sure it ain't PS3 and not a 360? The button in the middle of the screen looked like an X to me :/

[imported_Whiskey]

Re: IGN World at War Hands-on Preview

Sure it ain't PS3 and not a 360? The button in the middle of the screen looked like an X to me

The 360 controller also has X, Y, A, B buttons and corresponding icons on-screen. And from checking a few quick YouTube vids, it looks like the PS3 "X" icon isn't blue. The Xbox360 icons are required to be coloured the same as the controller buttons when shown on-screen.

[Piemaaan!]

Re: IGN World at War Hands-on Preview

the X button is blue :o

but mostly with weapon pick-ups and what not, we use the red/orange 'Square' button.

[Dan2k3k4]

Re: IGN World at War Hands-on Preview

PS3 uses coloured icons meaning X is blue, not the background around it. It's 360 since they use white text with colours as the backgrounds...

>_> /back on topic