C.O.D. World at War > COD 4 MW
User Rating: 9.5 | Call of Duty: World at War X360
The COD 4 style multiplayer set in WWII was enough to entice me into buying COD WAW, and I decided to buy it and bring it down to Seattle to play with a friend over his birthday weekend. The addictive multiplayer is everything I thought it would be, but what I wasn't expecting was the best single player campaign in C.O.D. since COD 2. I see far too many people offhandedly dismissing this game as 'good but not as good as COD 4.' I have to disagree. The W.A.W. campaign was simply outstanding and the delivery of the story was much more mature and less tongue and cheek than previous games, which I think is fitting considering the primal and visceral nature of the subject matter. The russian half of the campaign is by far my favorite and I really loved the dynamic between yourself, and the old russian soldier who leads you from a pile of forgotten corpses, to complete victory on the roof of the Riechstag. As I was playing through the sniper, gunboat, and riechstag missions, I was overcome with the feeling that I was participating in something historic and epic in scope, which is something the fictional story of COD 4 just never did for me despite being a great game in its own right. I have to say my expectations were fairly low with Treyarch after the dissapointing COD 3, but I have to hand it to them... they made an incredible WWII shooter that dethroned COD 2 as my all time favorite, and for that they have earned my respect. 
