Story mode
The story mode is told in a variety of scene scenes and war footage. I didn't find it very engrossing and it didn't draw me in as much as COD4. Firstly all the main characters look very similar and I found it difficult to tell them apart. They weren't really as interesting as Price and Gaz from COD4. Secondly the story didn't really flow so well either. It seemed more like playing in episodes of a war drama rather than a film like plot. But maybe it was intentional.
Game play
Well it is very much identical to COD4. The controls are the same. the guns however are different. Your arsenal this time consists of mainly bolt action rifles and sub machine guns. But the newest and best addition has to be the flamethrower. It downs enemies very easily and is fun to use. Tanks are also driveable in one level of the game and it helps break things up a bit, but there aren't as many game play changes as COD4, Like less rail shooting for instance.
Multiplayer
There is Co-op this time around, on and offline. You play through the Campaign and try to beat each other by scoring more points than your friends. You score points by killing enemies and so on. This is a definite one up over COD4.
Competitive Multiplayer
If you played COD4 multiplayer to death then you will feel right at home here. The menu layout is the same as are the ways the perks and create a class system is layed out. There are new perks this time around, including ones for your Tanks to use in multiplayer. Guns are upgradeable again in the same way as COD4. There are a few new modes also including the mode known as "War" This like a King of the hill sort of game, where you go around and capture bases etc.
I find it a real shame that Treyarch have simply copied and pasted the online system from COD4 and just re-skined it, they haven't even tried to improve its faults. It suffers from all the problems that COD4 suffered from, e.g. Server issues, host disconnects etc. Hopefully this will improve but it is still a major annoyance.
Overall
COD: Waw is everything you were expecting, the same great game play, with addicting multiplayer but now in WW2. You get exactly what you pay for, but it's a shame that Treyarch didn't really use any imagination and didn't really add anything new and ground breaking to the game. But if you loved COD4, you will definitely like this!
8/10
