Call of Duty: World at War (Nintendo DS)

Call of Duty: World at War (Nintendo DS) is a first person shooter video game for the Nintendo DS created as a Nintendo DS version of Call of Duty: World at War. It is technologically heavily based on its predecessor Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Nintendo DS). Although it's very similar to it in a visual aspect, being developed by the same designers, it features many changes, including a new game engine, better AI, the addition of minigames, and its own award system.

Summary
Set during the height of World War II, the Nintendo DS version of Call of Duty: World at War focuses on events that changed the course of the war. Throughout the game, player will take control of Pvt. Rook of the United States Marines, Pvt. Dawkins of the British Special Air Service, and Pvt. Dimarkurato of the Red Army.

American Campaign
The American campaign tells the story of Rook, a new member of the USMC, as he participates in the effort to defeat Japanese forces and take over Shuri Castle.

Levels

 * Boot Camp
 * Into the Jungle
 * Silence the Guns
 * On the Water
 * Beach Landing
 * Bloody Nose Ridge
 * Into the Darkness
 * Dangerous Waters
 * Castle Approach
 * Storm the Walls

Overview
The story starts with the player in control of Rook in an USMC boot camp. After completing several training activities, including basic weapons training and an obstacle course, he is then sent off to Guadalcanal, near the South Pacific Ocean. There they are tasked with eliminating enemy artillery guns. The team successfully destroys the guns, and get sent on a new task: to take over a Japanese airstrip on the island of Peleliu.

Rook's squad then is deployed to the island via landing crafts, with Rook defending the craft using the mounted M2 Browning Machine Gun. The team successfully lands on the island, though accompanying squads took major casualties, leaving the task to Rook's squad. Rook's squad manages to capture the airstrip, which leads them to their new task, to find the Japanese cave system in the nearby mountains.

After ascending to the mountains, the squad discovers the caves system, but not before taking casualties in a fierce battle. The three surviving members enter the cave and destroy artillery guns found there, and retrieve Japanese intel, which results in a promotion for Rook. The intel allows American forces to conduct a theoretically successful assault on Shuri Castle on Okinawa Island. Once gain, allies will arrive at the island by landing craft.

Now with multiple squads to assist, the team proceeds towards the main gates of Shuri Castle, while eliminating enemy mortar teams, and clearing out enemy supply caves and bunkers. Rooks squad then enter the castle, but are encountering heavy enemy resistance. The teams proceeds towards the west and east wings of the castle, where they take out anti-air cannons located there. Friendly air support arrives and attacks the castle, leaving the enemy and the building itself severely weakened. This allows Rook and his team to clear out enemies easily and proceed to the rooftop, where they raise the American flag.

British Campaign
The British campaign features Dawkins of the SAS, as he assists in pushing German forces back towards Berlin.

Lifting off from a British airfield, the British campaign starts with the player in control of Dawkins in an Avro Lancaster, a British bomber. Dawkins and his team take out several German depots, but get shot down. The crew parachutes out and land in a farming district, and clear out Germans there while escaping. The team is then sent to take out German supply line running through a small village, as well as taking out an AA gun there.

With supply lines taken out, the British move to deal with another issue, German armor in the nearby town. Dawkins and his squad swiftly move through the town and eliminate the German Panzers. Dawkins and two other soldiers are the sent to the Rhine Forrest in the far north, where they're supposed to retrieve a supply drop captured by Germans. The team recovers the supplies and uses the tank from the drop to eradicate the Germans in the nearby town. With most of their efforts failing in the area, the Germans resort to sabotaging a dam in the south.

The British team arrives at the dam, but are too late, as explosive charges have already been planted along the dam. Dawkins, defended by his allies, move to disarm the charges, then use a nearby AA gun to take out German bombers trying to bomb the dam. The Germans the set up as last stand at a small war torn village, and bombard the advancing British with mortars in an attempt to drive them back. Dawkins, leads the charge and eliminates the mortars and the remaining Germans, pushing German forces back towards Berlin.

Russian Campaign
The Russian campaign allows the player to take control of Dimarkurato, a private of the Red Army, as he participates in the Battle of Seelow Heights and assault the Reichstag.

After pushing Axis forces out of Russian, the Red Army decides to go on the offensive, attacking Germany in different areas, including the town of Seelow Heights. From this point, the view changes to the eyes of Dimarkurato, a private of the Red Army participating in the Battle of Seelow Heights. The assault starts with Dimarkurato in control of a ML-20 artillery cannon, which is used to take out buildings containing German artillery. The team then proceeds to the wreckage to eliminate any survivors of the attack.

Side Arms

 * M1911
 * Luger
 * Nambu
 * Webley Mk IV revolver
 * Tokarev TT-33

SMGs

 * Thompson
 * MP-40
 * Type 100
 * PPSh-41
 * Sten
 * Lanchester Submachine gun

Rifles

 * M1 Garand
 * BAR
 * Walther G41
 * Type 99
 * SVT-40
 * STG-44

Sniper Rifles

 * Springfield
 * Type 97 rifle
 * Lee-Enfield
 * Mosin-Nagant
 * Kar98k

Grenades

 * Mk 2 Grenade
 * Stielhandgranate

Other

 * Panzerschreck
 * M1919
 * M2 Flamethrower
 * ML-20

Trivia

 * The DS version was well received over its predecessor, receiving an 8.3 from IGN.
 * The DS version of the game also has a few similarities with the console versions of the game, being Wi-Fi multiplayer, and a few others.
 * In a preview from IGN,they said that Wi-Fi was going to have a create-a-class, however, this option is not present in the final version.
 * There is no Nazi Zombies mode unlike the console and PC versions.
 * The DS version and the PlayStation 2 version have a British campaign, however the other consoles and the PC version don't.
 * In the American campaign the player can see a recurring character named Pvt. Miller.
 * If the player melees an ally, the ally will melee him back and kill him.
 * Reload animations are included in this game, unlike Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Nintendo DS).
 * Oddly, all of the sniper rifles in the game share the same 3-D model, their HUD icons and gunshot noises the only difference. The 3-D model appears to be a scoped Lee-Enfield. Every sniper rifle in the game is reloaded incorrectly, as it shows a magazine being inserted (the player cannot actually see a magazine being inserted, but the player's hand movements make this obvious).
 * This game removes secondary grenades in favour of more primary grenades. (The player can pickup a German Stielhandgranate while keeping the Russian RGD-33 Grenade, giving him 10 primary grenades in total)

Video
thumb|left|360px|The trailer for Call of Duty World at War (Nintendo DS)