Gewehr 43

The Gewehr 43 is a semi-automatic rifle which appeared in every WWII Call of Duty title up to date.

Singleplayer
The German G43 is their analogue to the American M1A1 and M1 Garand, and the Soviet SVT-40. It is slightly more powerful than the M1, capable of preforming one-shot kills to the head or the chest at any range, at the cost of decreased ammo capacity and somewhat higher recoil. It is not as common as other German weapons, and also not as powerful as their bolt-action rifle.

Multiplayer
The Gewehr 43 is issued to the German team. It is the same as the SVT-40, and more accurate and powerful than the M1A1, but with slightly less ammo than the latter. It is not as powerful as the M1 Garand, but with more ammo and slightly faster semiauto firing. It is basically useful in the same situations, however, at medium-long range.

Call of Duty: Finest Hour
A sniper version of the Gewehr 43 is found in the levels "Road to Remagen" and "Into the Heartland", it is necessary to use on the latter level in order to eliminate a machine gun nest at the end of the Remagen Bridge. It has 5 extra rounds and a higher fire rate than other sniper rifles, but suffers from a slightly lower damage. Its firing sound is the same as the Kar98k. It appears very thin and fragile in this game.

Singleplayer
This is still a fairly uncommon weapon, used by the Germans. It is slightly weaker in close range, but slightly stronger at maximum distance, and therefore is better suited to medium-long range combat. It has a fairly small magazine of just 10 rounds, but can fire quickly with only medium recoil, meaning that the player will likely be reloading fairly often.

There is a scoped version that does more damage than the "stock" version.

Multiplayer
This weapon is issued to the German team. It can kill in two shot to the head at long range or three anywhere else. Therefore, it is best suited to medium-range combat. It is a medium between the M1 Garand and the M1A1, and the same as the SVT-40.

Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
The Gewehr 43 in Call of Duty: Big Red One has a relatively decent accuracy and fast reload time. It is only found in the level "Crucifix Hill", towards the end of the game. Still, many players prefer the M1 Carbine over the Gewehr 43. It is still a weapon to help the player finish the level, if only for nostalgia.

Call of Duty 3
Practically the same as Call of Duty 2: Big Red One, but with a slower reload time. In the PS2 and Xbox versions of Call of Duty 3, the Gewehr 43 has the same skin as the Call of Duty 2: Big Red One version.

The Gewehr 43 is only found in the single-player campaign and is not in any of the multiplayer kits.

Singleplayer
The Gewehr 43 is first found in the level, Their Land, Their Blood. It is frequently used by the German Military, and dropped by dead German soldiers during the Soviet Campaign. It is a good alternative to the bolt-action Mosin Nagant.

Multiplayer
The Gewehr 43 is unlocked at level 7 in the Call of Duty: World at War multiplayer. The gun has rectangular iron sights and is similar in most respects to the Soviet SVT-40. The Gewehr 43 can be unlocked with a Rifle Grenade, however. Between the two rifles, the Gewehr 43 has slightly less visual recoil. Both have the same amount, but the SVT-40 bounces slightly when shooting. The Gewehr 43 can also attach a Suppressor instead of a Flash Hider, which offers vastly superior stealth capabilities. If a Suppressor is attached, the Gewehr 43 will reload using the same animation as if the whole magazine was emptied even when there are shots remaining, but this does not increase reload time because the reload is hastened, making it the same speed as without a suppressor.

Many players will be at a stalemate when attempting to find the best rifle. It is only up to preference if the player chooses the SVT-40 or the Gewehr 43, as neither, minding attachments, are very different from each other.

The Gewehr 43's recoil is extremely low. While the Aperture Sight makes the recoil more visible, it does not increase it. When aiming down the sights a player can fire as fast as they like without a noticeable drop in accuracy. For this reason, it is one of the most common guns used by players with modified controllers on the Xbox 360. Also because it has a maximum rate of fire of 1200 RPM, it is significantly superior to the M1 Garand, with its RPM max of 444. One should still consider its ammo capacity (10 rounds).

The Gewehr 43 is common in multiplayer, as it is unlocked early and is one of the easiest weapons to unlock the Rifle Grenade with. The SVT-40 is usually discarded after the Marksman III challenge as it does not attempt to equip a rifle grenade of its own. One of its flaws, however, is its rather low magazine capacity.

Nazi Zombies
It deals decent damage in Nazi Zombies and is found in the starting rooms of Verrückt, Shi No Numa, and Der Riese, availible for 600 points. The plentiful ammo and the low health of zombies during early rounds make it a good choice. Eventually it becomes a useless weapon and is terrible against hellhounds due to it being semi-automatic, agonizingly slow reload time and lack of power compared to an Automatic weapon or shotgun (Both of which being the best option for Hellhounds). After round 10, it should be traded off for another weapon. When Pack-a-Punched, its name is G115 Compressor. The presence of "115" in the Pack-a-Punched Gewehr is, like the upgraded PPSh-41's 115 round magazine, another reference to element 115 (Ununpentium). The Compressor is generally avoided upgrading due to lower magazine capacity and semi-automatic nature, but on the other side, it has a vast increase in damage, and ammo can be bought for it in between rounds due to it being possible to buy it off the wall, even with the power upgrade, it will still run out of ammo fairly quickly if not aiming for headshots.

Trivia

 * In Call of Duty 2: Big Red One the Gewehr reloading animation is the same as the M1 Carbine's.
 * In Call of Duty 2, the Scoped Gewehr 43 cannot share ammo with an unscoped one.
 * On the Wii version of Call of Duty: World at War, the Gewehr 43's empty reload animation is the same as the animation for when the player reloads it mid-magazine in multiplayer.
 * Also in the Wii version, the G43 makes a totally different firing sound than the console counterparts.
 * When a suppressor is attached to the Gewehr 43, the mid-magazine reloading animation is a sped-up version of the empty magazine reload animation.
 * Call of Duty: World at War does not feature a sniper version of the G43, unlike most of the previous installments.
 * In Call of Duty 2, the Geweher 43 doesn't have a trigger when it isn't picked up.
 * In Call of Duty: World at War, when the magazine is empty it still has cartridge(s) in it, this can be seen when reloading.
 * Many players mispronounce the name of this gun as "Goo-Ware", "Gooer" or Gev-hiar. The correct pronounciation is actually "Geh-Ver".