How do you react to the following statement:
Playing Call of Duty: World War II’s multiplayer beta feels like a modernized version of Call of Duty 2.
As someone who’s played every entry in the series since its PC debut, I mean it as a very strong compliment. But I also recognize that fans of the more recent, ultra-sci-fi Call of Duty games where jetpacking, wallrunning, and high-speed motion define the combat might be turned off by the deliberate downshift in gears that Call of Duty’s return to World War II represents.
Being back in the 1940’s European Theater of WWII means your boots, as Activision and Sledgehammer have repeatedly reminded everyone, will stay planted firmly on the ground. No player-drivable vehicles are in sight, but the familiar “PWING!” of an M1 Garand rifle firing and the staccato bullet-spray of a Grease Gun took me back to the Call of Duty 2 days in the very best of ways.
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Playing Call of Duty: World War II’s multiplayer beta feels like a modernized version of Call of Duty 2.
As someone who’s played every entry in the series since its PC debut, I mean it as a very strong compliment. But I also recognize that fans of the more recent, ultra-sci-fi Call of Duty games where jetpacking, wallrunning, and high-speed motion define the combat might be turned off by the deliberate downshift in gears that Call of Duty’s return to World War II represents.
Being back in the 1940’s European Theater of WWII means your boots, as Activision and Sledgehammer have repeatedly reminded everyone, will stay planted firmly on the ground. No player-drivable vehicles are in sight, but the familiar “PWING!” of an M1 Garand rifle firing and the staccato bullet-spray of a Grease Gun took me back to the Call of Duty 2 days in the very best of ways.
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