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Call of Duty: World at War
Also known as World at War, WAW, Call of Duty 5, Final Fronts, Call of Duty - World at War, Call of Duty World at War
2008 first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch
Game data
Metacritic 83- Released
- 2008-11-11
- User rating
- 3.96 / 5
- Genres
- Shooter
- Platforms
- PC, Xbox One, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii
- ESRB
- Adults Only
via RAWG
Key facts
- Developer
- Treyarch
- Publisher
- Activision
- Director
- Corky Lehmkuhl
- Producer
- Pat Dwyer
- Designer
- David Vonderhaar
- Artist
- Colin Whitney
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Article
Call of Duty: World at War is a 2008 first-person shooter game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. It is the fifth main installment of the Call of Duty series and is the fourth entry in the series to be set during World War II. The game was announced by Activision in June 2008 and was released in November 2008, for PlayStation 3, Windows, Xbox 360, and Wii. Other games under the World at War title were published for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation 2, featuring different storylines and missions.
World at War's campaign focuses on the Pacific and Eastern Front theaters of World War II; its story is told primarily from the perspectives of US Marine Raider Private C. Miller and Soviet Red Army Private Dimitri Petrenko. The game's multiplayer component retains several key features from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007), such as the leveling, perk, and "killstreak" systems. Additionally, World at War marked the debut of the cooperative zombies mode, which would go on to become a mainstay in Treyarch's subsequent Call of Duty games.
