Call of Duty: World at War
Fair · Shooter · 2008
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $6.13, only fair at $19.99.
- Length
- 7h
- Value
- $2.86/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Call of Duty is back, redefining war like you've never experienced before. Building on the Call of Duty 4®: Modern Warfare engine, Call of Duty: World at War immerses players into the most gritty and chaotic WWII combat ever experienced.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $9.79. It has been discounted 89 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. No sale on record has reached $6.13, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Value puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games closest to it, Call of Duty®: WWII ($59.99, scores 16) and Call of Duty®: Black Ops ($39.99, scores 51) both come in lower.
The press gave it 83; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 24 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 3,280 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
7 hours to finish it, 26 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.
Players
433 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This is ♥♥♥ GREAT! -Gets killed a bunch of random times -Gets to fly in a PBY-5 Catalina -Gets to mow down a bunch of imperialist Japanese soldiers with a M1919 Browning 50 Cal. -Gets to experience war crimes 10/10 would get PTSD again!
Despite the game being censored in Germany and the entire Zombie being removed, as a German you still pay Full price regarless of an entire gamemode being removed.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Call of Duty: World at War scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/10090/call-of-duty-world-at-warThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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