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Call of Duty: World at War for PlayStation 3
Call of Duty: World at War for PlayStation 3 is a first-person shooter about the final years of the Second World War. You follow US Marines in the Pacific and Soviet soldiers advancing towards Berlin. Each theatre has its own character: tropical vegetation and Japanese defences give way to ruined streets and heavily defended buildings. As you follow your units, your objectives change from clearing positions to surviving an attack or supporting a breakthrough.
You aim down the sights, find cover and choose a different weapon at close range than when an opponent is farther away. The flamethrower plays a prominent role in the island battles. Enemies can attack unexpectedly from vegetation or concealed positions, so simply rushing forward achieves little. Battles alternate with sections in which vehicles or heavy weapons shape the situation. Checkpoints help you retry difficult passages without repeating the entire mission.
Alongside the story campaign, this original PS3 game includes separate Zombies battles in which you survive successive waves. The main campaign also supports cooperative play; locally, two players share a split screen and each needs a controller. Not every individual mission is a cooperative assignment. This description covers the original game's content rather than later map packs. Online features are not offered as guaranteed to work.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 3 games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Call of Duty: World at War for PlayStation 3 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Call of Duty: World at War
Treyarch developed Call of Duty: World at War, and Activision released it for PlayStation 3 in 2008. After the modern warfare of Call of Duty 4, this entry returned the series to the Second World War. The team used its predecessor's technology but chose different fronts and a bleaker presentation. In particular, placing the Pacific fighting alongside the advance through Europe defined this release's character.
The design also changed how you encounter enemies. Ambushes, concealed positions and sudden attacks are central in the tropical theatre, while the European chapters show larger street battles. The campaign gained cooperative support, an important addition to the main series at the time. The same assignment could therefore call for a different approach when a second player joined you to share covering duties, wait for one another or help each other during a fight.
World at War also introduced the Zombies component that later became closely associated with Black Ops. What began as a separate survival challenge grew into an extensive storyline in later games. Characters and themes from the military campaign also returned in Treyarch's subsequent work. On PS3, this original version shows how the team connected the historical shooter with cooperative play and an additional type of gameplay before Black Ops shifted the focus to covert Cold War operations.
Similar games for PlayStation 3
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on PlayStation 3 trades the Second World War for a fictional contemporary conflict. Aiming, checkpoints and switching between soldiers feel familiar. World at War uses historical weapons and two war fronts, adding cooperative campaign combat and Zombies. The original Modern Warfare campaign is single-player and focuses more strongly on modern special operations.
Killzone 2 has you land on the planet Helghan as Sev on PlayStation 3. You also fight in first person through a fixed sequence of story missions, but the alien war has a different atmosphere. Weapons and movement feel heavier, and the cover system helps you shoot from behind obstacles. This Call of Duty puts more emphasis on rapidly changing military action than on that weighty combat rhythm.
Resistance: Fall of Man on PlayStation 3 combines a war in an alternative 1951 with an invasion by the Chimera. Following a unit and switching weapons feel familiar. The main difference lies in the arsenal: alien weapons have unusual additional functions. The story campaign in this Call of Duty takes more recognisable military weapons and human opponents as its starting point.
Medal of Honor from 2010 follows soldiers on operations in Afghanistan on PlayStation 3. Its first-person combat, radio instructions and cooperation with computer-controlled teammates connect with Call of Duty. The campaign keeps its focus on one contemporary theatre of war. This Call of Duty switches more noticeably between different fronts, locations or perspectives, giving the sequence of missions a different rhythm.
Battlefield: Bad Company sends a group of undisciplined soldiers after gold on PlayStation 3. Both games combine shooting with scenes in which you follow a military squad. Bad Company gives more room to vehicles, wider combat areas and destroying buildings. This Call of Duty more often guides you along a predetermined route through tightly timed events and changing objectives.
