User:N7/M1911/WAW

Campaign
The Colt M1911 appears in some of the Marine Raiders missions as the player's standard sidearm. The M1911 is a good weapon to draw quickly if the player's main weapon runs out of ammo. The player receives the Colt M1911 in the missions "Little Resistance", "Hard Landing" and "Breaking Point". Sgt. Roebuck will sometimes draw his Colt M1911 in the campaign. It should be noted that pistols in the campaign have much higher recoil than their Multiplayer counterparts, as well as a restricted rate of fire, which hinders their effectiveness.

Multiplayer
The Colt M1911 is one of the available sidearms, along with the Nambu, the Walther P-38, the Tokarev TT-33, and the .357 Magnum. As with all pistols, the Colt M1911 is best used as a last resort weapon. It is the default Second Chance pistol. Like all other non-Magnum pistols, the Colt M1911 holds eight rounds. The base damage and multipliers of the Colt M1911 are exactly the same as the Nambu, Tokarev, and Walther. The M1911 only differs from these pistols in minor characteristics, such as reload time and accuracy of the iron sights. Choosing a pistol in World at War is purely a matter of personal preference, and no pistol can definitively be declared better than another.

Nazi Zombies
In Nazi Zombies, players always start with the Colt M1911. It's a decent weapon for the early rounds, but even then it sometimes requires an entire magazine to kill a zombie. However, if console commands are used to spawn this gun in Zombie mode, it has much higher damage.

In Der Riese, the Colt M1911 can be upgraded by using the Pack-a-Punch Machine, turning it into a re-skinned M1911 with the name "C-3000 b1at-ch35". The weapon fires rifle grenades instead of regular rounds, and has a six round magazine. It is similar to the Dirty Harry, but somewhat weaker. The upgraded version causes lethal splash damage, and has a much slower fire rate than the regular version.

Trivia

 * The M1911 In World at War (DS) is silver, unlike the traditional black in most Call of Duty games.
 * When the player upgrades the M1911 in Der Riese, and has no other weapon, he will pull out a second one instead of having no gun.
 * It has the same firing sound as the Nambu, TT-33, Walther P38, and .357 Magnum on the Wii version of the game.
 * The numbers and letters in the name of the Pack-A-Punched version of the Colt M1911 reads "Biatches", a slang term for bitch.