IGN REALLY loves Call of Duty World at War!!
Now, I haven’t really given Call of Duty World at War a fair chance just yet. I’ve briefly played the intro, but that’s about all I can say about the game at this point, so I’m definitely not in any position to dispute the score awarded to the latest CoD game by IGN.
Amrit was already questioning the 9.2 awarded to CoDWaW (pronounced … well, cod-waw.), so I went to IGN.com to check it out myself. This is what I was greeted with:
No biggie, didn’t phase me at all. Then I continued to the main page, and was punched in the face by this:
Where the fuck do I click!? I don’t know if that’s a god damn advertisement, feature piece, or if Activision just smashed a dump truck full of money through the wall of an IGN boardroom and yelled “Eat dick and love it mothafaggaaaaaaaz!!!!” and the Fox/IGN folks went down on their knees and said “MmMmm it tastes rape-a-licious!” But I digress.
At least the review page didn’t wasn’t plastered with CodWaW banners. THAT would have been tacky.
I’m not debating whether or not the game is any good, or worthy of the 9.2. I am making note however, that a game’s review becomes highly suspect when you realize the advertising dollars going to a particular source of unbiased information. Just something to think about.
Looks like everyone’s falling in line over at IGN, there aint no Jeff Gerstmanns in that lot!
I don’t think I agree with that score, I would probably give the game an overall 7.5-8/10. Anything in the 9/10 range should be exemplary in a lot of ways and I just dont see that in World at War.
Sure the graphics and lighting are good, mainly because of the COD4 engine, 4 player co-op and it is a noteable step up for Treyarch but whereas a sequel like Gears of War 2 deserves its 9+ ratings, in my humble opinion, WoW does not.