COD: World at War scans and details

  • Posted June 9th, 2008 at 12:41 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Substantial details regarding Activision’s forthcoming Call of Duty: World at War have surfaced on the Internet today accompanied by the first scans of the game in action.

 


 
Below are some of the known details on the game, as reported by popular gaming forum, NeoGAF.

Gameplay:

-A flamethrower will be available in the game, and is apparently based off of the design and handling of the armament in Return to Castle Wolfenstein. This lethal weapon can burn the skin off of your enemies.

-The player is able to shoot through cover: “With enough bullets, the player causes enough damage to one of the walls to create a hole big enough to walk through.”

-The game allows you to swim for the first time in the series, although movement will be severely limited, with your character only capable of walking at half speed.

Co-op:

-The game will feature a four-player online co-op mode, in addition to a two-player split screen co-op mode.

-COD 5 incorporates a “metagame” scoring system, whereby your earn points to unlock special co-op perks.

-One demo showcased one player attracting the attention of an enemy tank, while another proceeds to climb on top and throws a grenade into its hatch, killing its occupants.

Other:

-16 players online up to any one time.

-Game utilizes COD4 engine: "Environments are very much destructible; it's possible to burn objects or blow them to pieces. Bodies and objects float in water. Impressive lighting."

-Lead development platform is Microsoft's Xbox 360.

-Two year development schedule

Stay tuned for more details as they become available.

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  1. kidkotic2001 | hotshot2001

    • 12:53pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 1

    Well anothe wak port for ps3. I will not be getting this since they are going back to WWII I am tired of games that go back.

  2. psycho_mantis | makaveli_71

    • 12:54pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 2

    the pictures look quite good but they could of pushed the multiplayer abit more than just 16 players.

  3. cybrdrac | cybrdrac

    • 1:07pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 3

    they think everyone will automatically buy this crap because people liked cod 4. i for one am not interested one bit. it sounds like a boring aweful port. hope they lose money.

  4. proog | proog

    • 1:21pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 4

    I hope Treyarch will go out of business. After enough shoddy games you kinda like seeing them on the ground. Dead.

  5. gradyj08 | irishgrit

    • 1:32pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 5

    the most successful game of year cod 4 then they go bak to ww2 that is insane oo a flamethrower how exciting

  6. -Raven

    • 1:43pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 6

    I just got goosebumps!! This is gonna be another AMAZING game! (Socom finally has some competition!!)

  7. Pudgieluv

    • 1:51pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 7

    Urghhhhh........ Please no more world war 2.. like wtf.. cod 4 was a relief.. big time.. so free and new aged.. not world war 2 again

  8. MrGunhappy

    • 1:53pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 8

    This is new, but the Pacific thing isn't, didn't PSU already do a report on it.

  9. Dave-The-Rave | Dave-The-Rave

    • 1:53pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 9

    I HATE COD4 FANBOYS WITH A PASSION !!

     

    "OOOhH NOES its gone back to WW2 !!!11"

     

    Jeez get over it !! It'll still be awesome, and if you don't think so maybe you should find another series !!

  10. Cesarcsrf | Cesarcsrf

    • 2:00pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 10

    i sayed and i say again the only thing who gone beat COD4 is COD6 (if it is by IW)

  11. Untildeath89 | willmakenewonesoon

    • 2:04pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 11

    Depending on the time it comes, and specially with the "lead platform 360", i think r2 and kz2 will overrun it.

  12. woodcock_ps3 | WALL-MARTshinobi

    • 2:19pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 12

    crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  13. Ninja-KiLLR | Ninja-KiLLR

    • 2:33pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 13

    i like ww2 alot but i im sure if i can go back after cod4. plus with soom, killzone, and resitance all this fall/winter i am gona be set in the fps area.

  14. Eve402

    • 2:57pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 14

    i thought they were finished with WWII. all other companies like Tom Clancy are moving toward games set in the near future

  15. hyperslug | hyperslug

    • 3:02pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 15

    while i understand why everyone hates this game already, i do have hopes for it

    - jungles!!! YAY!!
    - coop!! (+ splitscreen)
    - The cod4 engine !!!
     

     

  16. A_Ninja | Arabia_Ninja

    • 3:18pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 16

    i think i will skip this game ... i am done with WWII games .... specially when Resistance 2 ,Killzone 2 and Bioshock (maybe Crysis) are on the way for the PS3

  17. yungder | yungder

    • 3:32pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 17

    it will be a good game but they should have stuck with the "modern warfare" gameplan....

     

    PSN:  yungder

  18. bracomadar | bracomadar

    • 3:39pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 18

    Well, it's not as cool as a "COD: Vietnam" would have been, but it is jungle warfare, which is always a plus in my book.  Yes, it's another W.W.II game, but it's not going to be European urban settings where we're fighting Nazis, which is what I think has made the W.W.II FPS so repetitiously boring.  Maybe one day the gaming community will get some testicular fortitude and take on the task of making a good Vietnam era FPS.   Until then we'll just have to deal with a million different games set during W.W.II and Modern eras, as if America never had a Communist enemy.  I guess they're afraid they're gonna offend all these young gamers wearing Che t-shirts, or something.  My only advice to these guys making this is they just better be sure to include enough black soldiers on the Iwo Jima part to avoid offending Spike Lee ;)  

  19. ypaotroicn

    • 4:00pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 19

    how about we judge the game once it comes out :-D

  20. VaeVictus

    • 4:10pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 20

    The real title should be called CoD 5, nade spamming in the pacific, just as CoD 4 should have been called CoD 4, Modern nade spamming.

  21. gingo | gingo

    • 5:22pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 21

    psn id: gingo... those scans look really excellent and as long as this game plays aswell as COD4 i will have no complaints about it

  22. RagingStorm | RagingStormX

    • 5:39pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 22

    Ok....even though I am not getting this, why would they not follow in the foot steps of IW and have no lead developing platform.....and to think they choose the 360 for the lead. Pfft......I feel sorry for the cats that want this game.

  23. markwesker

    • 5:40pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 23

    i agree with most people i will not be getting this game no matter how good it is,im sick of fps for now except for resistance 2 i wanna see some rpg,rts games now.

  24. Dr_tee18 | Drtee18

    • 5:50pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 24

    here we go again. I prefer getting Killzone 2 instead of another WW2 FPS. they really are doing this I don't care how great the game is they need a lot for me to go back to the past with this granpa game.  I won't be buying this don't care how great the game is. come with something extraordinary.

  25. masta_js | masta_js

    • 6:04pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 25

    Does it say somewhere that it's a WWII it looks to me like it's about vietnam with the jungle and flamethower. COD rocks anayways!

  26. silent_assassin6

    • 6:09pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 26

    this game has potential.. although i think i might wait for cod6 in holiday 2009

  27. clemx2 | nuffin_long

    • 6:12pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 27

    "Lead development platform is Microsoft's Xbox 360"

    just shows you how much you can rely in treyarch.

  28. NoMercy666 | Ask me...

    • 6:37pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 28

    Hopefully, this will be good. It definitely won't be as bad as COD3, because it uses the COD4 engine.

  29. Xdeth | Xdeth

    • 6:56pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 29

    They are leading with the the 3fixme....Hmmm that right there tells me the PS3 version is getting the shaft. Or maybe it will be the Wii version as well...Oh well, I really have no plans to go back to WWII. Thanks but no thanks Activision.

    @Dave-The-Rave The problem with WWII is that it's been done so many times that most gamers are sick of it and want something new and fresh. I'm still waiting on someone do Vietnam justice and deliver us a good game for it. I think IW is the dev that could do it.  Also keep in mind that CoD was originaly supposed to be modern warfare. Activision is the one who made IW change it to WWII. I enjoed and loved CoD 1&2. All were asking is they change it up a bit.

  30. davin_g

    • 7:05pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 30

    the original cod finest hour had the greatest online play of any game i have ever played..it would be nice to get back to that...rooms didn't crash when the host left...you could mute people....kick laggers and glitchers...host your own rooms with so your friends could join you. the guns were responsive and balanced....no sniping with a mini-uzi or mp5 and one shot kills with sniper rifles and most importantly no grenade fests. hopefully they go back to that...set it in the pacific fine....there already is way too many modern/futuristic warfare games as it is...call of duty, medal of honor, and bia are the only ww2 games worthy of even mentioning...lets get back to when men were men and fought it out head to head and not tossing 3 grenades and then shooting 4 203s with their overkill kits...and get rid of the stupid juggernaut crap and marterdom.....a real war game...not this pussy sh!t cod4.

    oh and the game says 2 years developement time....so should mean sometime around winter 2009 to spring 2010....so keep waiting for your precious frag loving cod 6 modern queerfare for another 3 years.

  31. 1987rx7guy

    • 7:12pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 31

    @masta_js

     

    "Call of Duty 5 will be officially titled Call of Duty: World at War and will indeed take place in the previously rumoured Pacific theatre of World War II."

     

    ^ ^

  32. posas | posas

    • 8:38pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 32

    Looks like one beautiful game.   Treyarch and Infinity Ward are both good developers.  This is the Call of Duty 4 engine in a different setting and with VEHICLES. 

  33. Sithlord13

    • 9:10pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 33

     

    Well, maybe some of you forget, that BECAUSE of WWII, we re here talking right now. It was the last war that was fought for a noble purpose like freedom, unlike modern warfare that its only purpose is money, territorial control and political reasons. So please, have a little respect for those brave men that shed their blood so we can be here, talking rubbish. Thank you.

  34. Uncool | Admodistrator

    • 9:23pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 34

    That depends if they are planning on continuing COD4 style of noob gameplay on multiplayer. But then again they should recontruct it so that the balance is continuous throughout each playing field.

  35. kritikos8 | kritikos8

    • 9:41pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 35

    lead development 360??????? that sucks a good game wasted

  36. Sithlord13

    • 9:53pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 36

     

    If you think that modern weapons are better than the WW II ones, think again. When I was in the army (in Greece its compulsory to join the army for a year), I preferred to shoot with M1 Garand. It is much more powerful and precise weapon (if you can aim that is), than the Heckler and Koch G3 A3 that’s the official rifle of the Greek army.

  37. svtschmidt

    • 11:03pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 37

    Greece has an amry????  Learn something new everyday.

  38. Pablo0620 | Pablo0620

    • 11:03pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 38

    Why WHY WHY WHY TREYARCH for crying out loud havent they done enough damage. Ill give this one a rent maybe at most...depending on reviews. Make CoD whatever time you want JUST DONT LET TREYARCH DO IT

  39. sn-plazaskater | Pablo0620

    • 11:18pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 39

    this could be good...but if it fails then we always have resistance and killzone to look forward to

  40. Sithlord13

    • 11:59pm BST - June 9th, 2008
    • 40

    posted 4:03am - June 10th, 2008

    svtschmidt

     

    "Greece has an amry????  Learn something new everyday."

     

    Yes my friend, unfortunately it does. And every Greek has to join for a year.

     

  41. lancekain | ssj2k5

    • 12:33am BST - June 10th, 2008
    • 41

    Again 360 lead platform. God this is annoying! That inherently limits the games full potential and will likely crap out a port to the PS3. Even though Code4 ran well on the system.

  42. chomperbull

    • 1:10am BST - June 10th, 2008
    • 42

    i think we should go 2 war with china

  43. PROTOTYPE

    • 1:48am BST - June 10th, 2008
    • 43

    Guess I'm waiting for COD5... that is if they don't make that WWII as well.

  44. stennex | stennex

    • 2:40am BST - June 10th, 2008
    • 44

    I will wait till COD6 comes out. Why would i want to play a game based on so far back. Gimme something modern, something 21st century.

    PSN ID: stennex.

     

     

  45. stovich | TasteLikeBurning

    • 2:42am BST - June 10th, 2008
    • 45

    Originally, I was defending the decision of Treyarch making another WW2 game. But now with the announcement of the lead platform being the 360, to the can with it. Equal developing or don't FU(KING bother, motherphuckers!!!!!! Why are PS3 owners constantly & consistantly getting the short end of the stick?

  46. BlueDragoon0 | Lionheart0

    • 2:51am BST - June 10th, 2008
    • 46

    Better not be a weak port, I'm sick of them.

  47. chilledbreeze7

    • 3:57am BST - June 10th, 2008
    • 47

    Lead development platform is the 360! God those very words make me physically sick!!!

  48. richkaos | richkaos

    • 5:16am BST - June 10th, 2008
    • 48

    Resistance 2 for me, i dont want a sloppy restricted 360 port

  49. Y_Dawg | Y-Dawg

    • 12:21pm BST - June 10th, 2008
    • 49

    We're gonna be still playing COD 4 or by the time this comes out maybe KZ 2 Online. Treyarch r lame they r real stu'pid I mean, after seein how successful COD 4 was, why would u believe WWII would b gd to bring up du.mb a$5 Quite frankly I dont even think u will survive one season with tht franchise. Good Luck Treyarch (Y) PSN ID....Y-Dawg

  50. ScottPattison | Scottdotp

    • 12:49pm BST - June 10th, 2008
    • 50

    Ok Guys, Unite Together and 'Nade launcher' Treyarch

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