Call of Duty: World at War

[MetalMilitia]

Here is my "review" I posted somewhere else (and some of it here):

First things first - I like WW2 games. I like the setting, the weapons and the history behind it all. The fact that the CoD franchise has gone back to this setting is no problem for me whatsoever.
Secondly I like shooters in general even the ones some people consider to be a bit crap (MoH: Airborne, MoH:PA all that good stuff).
Thirdly I have no problem with Treyarch. A lot of people have been bitching because Infinity Ward aren't developing WaW. I don't care - if the game's good, the game's good.

This game however is a bit of a problem for me - being that in playing about a hour of it I'm ready to delete it forever and salt the area of my hard drive it inhabited lest it ever appear there again.

Firstly the good things. The graphics are pretty good, stabbing people is quite cleverly done, the scripted sequences are okay-ish and co-op is a good addition - even if I haven't tried it I appreciate its existence.

Now the bad things.

1. Invisible walls. Enough said. Actually no, not enough said - STOP USING f**king INVISIBLE WALLS IN GAMES. For example at one point I was obviously supposed to attack an enemy camp. As luck would have it there was a watch tower just outside the camp which would've been a perfect spot from which to snipe... if there wasn't a 1 ft high collection of stones blocking me from getting there which you couldn't jump over.
Once I got into the camp I had the audacity to try and walk inside a building with an open door to retrieve ammunition or whatever. No such luck, there was an invisible wall covering the door.
I get that they can't just let you f**k off into the jungle but invisible walls are so lame, particularly when they're used EVERYWHERE. If you don't want me going inside a building - put a door on it, not some magical forcefield.

2. The AI is retarded. The AI is L4D is orders of magnitude better and it's SUPPOSED to be stupid.

3. The weapons sounds are pathetic. Things like the Garand sounding NOTHING like it's supposed to I could forgive as only war nerds would probably pick up on this. Having everything else sound like airsoft guns is unforgivable. CoD has always had rather dodgey weapon sounds but these are just terrible.

4. Running out of ammunition all the time. I don't know if I'm just doing something wrong, but I run out of ammo all the time in this game and have to pick up the jap rifle which sucks. A more minor point but irritating none-the-less.

5. The way the gun just hovers motionless on the screen. Again, people might call this nitpicking but it's so shoddily done I can't help but focus on it. How hard would it have been to just add a bit of bob?

6. The characters are annoying and have generic war-sounding names like belawski. I'm finding it difficult to articulate what annoys me so much about the characters. I think it has something to do with the way the game is constantly trying to tell me how bad war is as if I had no idea. The characters are always stating the obvious as well - get attacked by hidden solders someone will shout "THEY WERE JUST WAITING FOR US!", yeah no s**t that's generally how an ambush works.

I don't know - maybe the game gets awesome after the first hour but so far I'm not impressed in the least.