dvd home theater, video game consoleWhen someone imagines what a WWII first person shooter video game would include pictures of young Marines dead eyed but shaking from the idea of charging a beach covered by enemy machine guns comes to mind. Or young Nazi soldiers disillusioned by a drug addicted, sweaty mad man implanting blitzkrieg. And of course the nuclear mushroom cloud has been stamped into the head of every kid who has ever paid attention in history class. Gamers do not get to see any such scenes in Activision Call of Duty: World at War - PlayStation 3. Not say this is a bad thing, it works and works supremely. It actually makes the overdone WWII video game console scenario fresh again. Developers behind this game pictured choose to show new parts of WWII, not normally covered by history teachers or previous video games.

It takes gamers to a destroyed Stalingrad as the remaining Russians work hard to rid their country of German soldiers. The battle of the small chains of strategic islands in the Pacific is also a focus in this first person shooter. Spielberg and Tom Hanks are actually coming out with a HBO show piggybacking on this idea called Pacific.  

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The one thing a person who has never played this game would not expect is the whole side story based around surviving onslaughts of zombies. Scratching your head? Check out the video above. As a side note, “Shi No Numa” is one of the later zombie maps available for download online. It is a really cool mix of outdoor and indoor zombie slaying action.

Never before has wiping out hordes of advancing zombies with tommy guns, alien weapons and machetes been so fun on a video game console. Originally called “Nazi Zombies”, there has now been a list of zombie maps to play split screen or online. Even my girlfriend got into these mini-games. She had never played or wanted to play a first person shooter until I exposed her to the joys of “Nazi Zombies.” There is no winning in these matches. The goal is to go as many rounds as possible before being overrun. It get’s intense especially behind a DVD home theater.

I started thinking about how much fun this game is after visiting Northern Lites at http://www.northernlites.biz/ in search of new DVD home theater components. Amongst their well priced video game consoles and DVD home theater speakers, there was World at War. I will be playing this game until the disc wears through. It is that good.