NOW PLAYING- MY BRAIN ABOUT TO EXPLODE!
So last night I installed Call of Duty World at War on my new u-beaut epic mofo PC I recently got at work. I played the first couple of single player levels (up to the first Russian section). Jesus it is pretty and well made and well put together. I never hated Treyarch’s Call of Duty 3 like so many others (I thought the SP was OK but the multi was excellent) but I had my doubts about the most recent entry to the franchise being as good as CoD4.
My doubts (in the Single Player) so far have been assuaged. However I cannot give any impressions of the online Multiplayer since a charming bug means I can’t make an online profile. Even the Day 1 patch hasn’t helped. I was hoping I wouldn’t need to get this game twice (on PC and 360, as I had with CoD2 and CoD4) but I want to play the multiplayer sooooo badly. I could go and get the 360 or PS3 version for Multi, but I only want to level up once, not 5 times, like I did with CoD4 (I only got as high as level 50 on 360 and 35 ish on PC).
I am one of the few people on the planet who still loves WWII as a setting for games though only CoD and MoH (with RtCW and BF1942 in the past) being the games I ever played much of. I did however despise EA’s two Pacific Theatre set episodes (Pacific Assault and Rising Sun). They were the epitomy of crap games. So when Treyarch, so characterised as being hacks, pulled this one out of the hat, I can’t help but be impressed. A pity the Quantum of Solace game isn’t getting as good review scores as this one.
The other game I started just as I wrote this were the first few levels of Little Big Planet. So far its a complicated version of Braid but I had a hard time putting it down. I can’t see myself making all that much in the way of levels myself but the child-like joy it evokes is great. Game of the Year? no. But a welcome change of pace in a year of shooters and music games.
Expect us to focus test LBP and CoD WaW in the next few weeks. Hell, you can expect us to Focus Test anything you see with Now Playing a tag on the right side of the screen.
