When I started playing Medal of Honor: Allied Assault back in the early 2000s, the M1 Garand rose to the top spot on my favorite weapons list, tied with Quake 2's railgun. It's a great help, and I earned several kills by paying attention to my teammates' involuntary teamwork. Good: Location barksĬoD:WWII introduces some automated voice chatter, in that teammate characters will bark out the locations of enemies they spot, eg, "They're coming through the library!" It's the concise tactical information you'd want a teammate to actually shout out, but this being Call of Duty, I muted all real voice chat by my third round so I wouldn't have to hear anyone screeching into their mic. I've hardly mastered any of them, but the ease at which I understood all the threats I needed to adapt to in any given section speaks to a clarity of vision in the design of these maps.
Each area is purpose-built to create problems and provide solutions depending on your equipment, and I caught onto at least a dozen common scenarios within a day of play. There's always someone camped at the end of a certain hallway in the apartments on Aachen, for instance, and the area near the armored truck on Gibraltar is great for playing hide-and-go-seek and provides coverage of a few popular entry points (see that in the gif above).
To elaborate, here are a few of the things I really liked about CoD:WWII-followed by a few things that sucked, including one problem that must be addressed if CoD has any chance of a PC revival (opens in new tab). I'm much more interested than I was before the beta, though. You can get both Day of Infamy (opens in new tab) and Rising Storm (opens in new tab) for less than CoD's base price, for instance, and both are very good multiplayer WWII games. Whether it's set in the future or the past, Call of Duty is still old fashioned and overpriced. That said, I'm not necessarily going to recommend CoD:WWII when it releases next month. Plus we get the deeply satisfying ping of an M1 Garand ejecting its clip again. For those of us who can't score midair quickscopes (opens in new tab), stripping all the futuristic junk from CoD's already hyper-fast shooting is a boon. There's no zipping from one side of the map to the other, no jetpacking into windows to score a quadkill. It may only be half-a-second, but there's more time to think in WWII. I had answers for hopping SMGers and quickscoping snipers that I didn't feel like I had in Infinite or Advanced Warfare.
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