Call of Duty: World at War: Final Fronts

Overview

Call of Duty: World at War, Final Fronts is a first-person shooter video game for the PlayStation 2 console, released in November 2008. It is the counterpart to Call of Duty: World at War and features 13 missions in total, set in World War II. It involves the U.S. fighting in the Pacific and the Battle of the Bulge in Europe, as well as the British advancing on the Rhine River into Germany. Final Fronts was developed by Rebellion Developments and published by Activision. It was the last Call of Duty game developed for the PlayStation 2.

The gameplay is similar to earlier Call of Duty games; players can carry a total of two guns at one time, as well as grenades. Levels are played with a team of computer-controlled soldiers from both Britain and the U.S., that assist the player by shooting enemies and completing objectives. The missions range from infantry, infiltration, sniper missions, and large-scale assaults, to night fighting and tank assaults.

Final Fronts was not developed by Treyarch, the studio that developed the other console versions of the game. Rather, its development was outsourced to British studio Rebellion Developments. Due to the PlayStation 2's hardware limitations, the game was built using the Asura engine, as opposed to the id Tech 3 engine used in the other versions. Some voice tracks were recycled from previous games of the series, predominantly the German voices. The character Sergeant Roebuck shares an ingame model with Sergeant Mike Dixon from Call of Duty 3, although he is voiced by Kiefer Sutherland, who also voices him in World at War.

Call of Duty: World at War, Final Fronts received mostly negative reviews from critics. It has been criticised by some reviewers for poor artificial intelligence, which is evident when friendly soldiers push the player out of cover and into the enemy line of fire.

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Game details

Genres

Shooter

Developer

Rebellion Developments

Publisher

Activision Publishing

Series

Call of Duty: Black Ops

Platforms

PlayStation 2

Age rating

ESRB T

Modes

Single player

Yes

Local multiplayer

No

Online multiplayer

No

Co op

No

Age ratings

ESRB

T

PEGI

16

Release dates

Playable today

Playable offline todayYes

Single-player only, with no online features.

Online

Plays offlineYes

Credits

Publisher

Activision Publishing

Developer

Rebellion Developments

Released

2008-11-10

Age rating

ESRB T

Region

US

Time to beat

about 4.6 hours