Shoot Shoot Shoot. Hide. Shoot.
Just before Christmas I bought myself a copy of Call of Duty: World at War. I hesitate to use the word reluctantly, but it’s probably the most accurate. Obviously like everyone else who owns any kind of gaming platform I absolutely adored COD: 4 and knew full well that going back to World War 2 for the sequel wasn’t going to be anywhere near as interesting as the modern setting. Hence the reluctance.
I still bought it, thinking something along the lines of “Well considering COD: 4 was so incredibly good, this will still be ok, I guess” and to an extent I was right. It is ok. Average. If I’m honest, kinda boring.
Bizarrely, I’m sure that if COD:4 never came out that I’d be incredibly impressed with World at War, but when playing it there’s always that niggling feeling that as lovely as shooting people in yet another ruined European town with a crappy bolt action rifle is, it just doesn’t compare to clearing a TV studio full of insurgents with a fully automatic assault rifle whilst receiving air support from a Cobra Gunship. The irony of this though, is that if COD:4 hadn’t come out I wouldn’t have bought World at War at all.
Gheyy.
Kickass.
Like I said however. I was fully expecting not to enjoy World at War as much as the previous game so when it turned out that I didn’t I merely shrugged and went back to finishing my Carphone Warehouse level in LittleBigPlanet.
What did surprise me is that on Christmas day I was given a copy of Resistance 2 and upon playing it I still found myself unfavorably comparing it to COD: 4
Resistance 2 is good, the concept is brilliant and I really enjoyed the first game. It’s better than the first one by miles but I just don’t find myself being really compelled to play it as I did with COD:4 and the thing that really gets me is I don’t know why. World at War has gay weapons, thats fine. But there is just something about Resistance 2 that makes running around a spaceship shooting aliens with lasers less fun than going to a hot country and shooting foreigners.
I’ll update later when I figure it out.
