![]() Other than your best friend, Zussman, and your commanding officers, most of the cast fails to stand out to really drive home the game's message of loving and caring for the rifleman beside you in the trenches. Josh Duhamel is this year's token familiar face in the game, with a few other what's-his-names to be seen and googled too. The problem is you never get a feel for most of these soldiers despite the game's admirable efforts. ![]() Over the course of the game, you'll get to know about a dozen different characters, many of them fighting alongside you in your troop, while others come in to assist throughout your adventure. ![]() The story is meant to display the siblinghood of fighting not with but for the man beside you. From there the story unfolds in ways that you could have predicted from the pre-release material. History buffs know this day of infamy all too well, so it feels more like obligation than innovation for Sledgehammer to begin here. ![]() It's been years since a major studio put us on the scene in history's greatest conflict so it's immediately nostalgic, if still a bit tired, to bring the boats to shore and charge at the mounted guns a few hundred feet away. It opens like seemingly all western front, Amero-centric stories do: on the beaches of Normandy. Borrowing heavily from the genre touchstones like Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan, the WWII story mode just couldn't help itself. It seems to now be a franchise mandate that every release splits up its offerings into three areas: campaign, multiplayer, and a third mode, typically zombies. Call of Duty: WWII, like the past several iterations, is really three games in one. ![]()
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