Call of Duty: World at War is a first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, and PlayStation 2. It is the fifth installment in the main Call of Duty series. The game is set in the Pacific theater and Eastern front of World War II. The game shipped in North America on November 11, 2008, in Australia on November 12, 2008, and in Europe on November 14, 2008.
The story focuses on the final battles of World War II in the Pacific and Eastern Europe involving the United States, the Empire of Japan, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany. It is told from the perspectives of a Marine Raider and a Red Army soldier, and is based on several historical battles, including the Makin Island raid, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Peleliu, and the Battle of Berlin. The multiplayer portion of the game contains various game modes, and contains a leveling system that allows the player to unlock additional weapons and rewards as they progress, which was originally implemented in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. A new feature to the Call of Duty series is the co-op mode, which can support up to four players online and two offline.
Plot
The story mode features two campaigns, one featuring the United States Marine Corps battling the Japanese Army in the Pacific, and the other following the Soviet Red Army advancing on Berlin.
The American campaign is focused on Private Miller of the U.S. Marine Corps, who is captured by the Japanese while scouting Makin Island. Miller is about to be executed when he is rescued by Corporal Roebuck, Sergeant Sullivan and other men from the Marine Raiders. Miller joins Sullivan’s unit in a series of incursions through the islands under Japanese control, including Peleliu, where Roebuck is promoted to sergeant after the death of Sullivan. This action culminates with a battle in Shuri Castle on Okinawa.
The Soviet campaign is focused on Private Dimitri Petrenko of the Red Army, whose unit was defeated and executed by German forces in Stalingrad. Along with an injured Sergeant Reznov, he takes revenge on the Germans by sniping numerous Nazi soldiers and the so-called “architect” of the massacre at Stalingrad, General Amsel. Three years later, Petrenko and Reznov meet again on the Eastern Front, advancing through the countryside and taking the German town of Seelow before participating in the final battle in Berlin where they storm and help capture the Reichstag.
The third playable character in the campaign is Petty Officer Locke, a weapons operator on a PBY Catalina, who is playable only in the mission “Black Cats.” Locke’s squadron makes a midnight raid on a Japanese merchant fleet transporting supplies for the Japanese force on Okinawa, and later rescues the survivors of a destroyed U.S. fleet
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