pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/firstpersonshooters/" rel="tag"First Person Shooters/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/photos/call-of-duty-world-at-war/875226/full/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/world-at-war-imp-490.jpg" alt="" //abr /emsmallclick for the full, embiggened gallerybr //small/em/div This week, we had the chance to enlist into the span style="font-style: italic;"Call of Duty: World at War /spanbeta for Xbox 360, which features a handful of online maps to play. What follows is a back-and-forth discussion of our initial impressions after playing the game for a few hours.br /br / div align="center" div align="right" /div table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" border="0" tbody tr valign="top" td align="right" img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/waw-alex-150.jpg" class="imagepadding" /span style="font-weight: bold;"Alexander Sliwinski: /spanUm, isn't it just span style="font-style: italic;"Call of Duty 4 /spanwith a different setting?/td /tr tr valign="top" td bgcolor="#cdcccc"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="left" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/waw-ross-150.jpg" alt="" class="imagepadding" / span style="font-weight: bold;"Ross Miller: /spanMore or less, and I think that's a great way to describe the game: It's span style="font-style: italic;"Call of Duty 4/span, with a few differences. For example, instead of helicopters, you've got dogs. /td /tr /tbody /table /divpa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/14/joystiq-hands-on-surviving-call-of-duty-world-at-war-beta-xbo/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emJoystiq hands-on: Call of Duty: World at War beta/em/a/pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/14/joystiq-hands-on-surviving-call-of-duty-world-at-war-beta-xbo/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1341207/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=amp;fc=1amp;url=http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/14/joystiq-hands-on-surviving-call-of-duty-world-at-war-beta-xbo/" title="Linking Blogs"Linkingnbsp;Blogs/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/14/joystiq-hands-on-surviving-call-of-duty-world-at-war-beta-xbo/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=xMZKm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=xMZKm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=qxISm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=qxISm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/420497256" height="1" width="1"/

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pa href="http://www.positech.co.uk/"Positech Games/a released a href="http://www.positech.co.uk/kudos2/index.html"Kudos 2/a recently, so, yeah, have at. centera href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tigsource/2939940775/" title="kudos2 by tigsource, on Flickr"img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3197/2939940775_15ac9e103e_o.png" width="373" height="262" alt="kudos2" //a/p psubpictured: Amanda, my best shemale friend/sub/center The game#8217;s a sequel to their possibly-popular life-sim Kudos (which I think a href="http://www.positech.co.uk/rocklegend/index.html"Rockstar /awas a spin off of?). The main change to the sequel, to my knowledge, is that they hired an artist to vector them up some non-undead (which I guess would go back to being dead? It#8217;s a conundrum since the graphics are good and livin#8217;) graphics./p pAnd uh, that tells you nothing about the game, so, it#8217;s like the Sims only instead of having a family of people who pee themselves and catch on fire, you play from a first person perspective and spend all your money making your friends hate you because you go bowling too much./p pThe game, as sim games should, has a lot of charm, and it#8217;s easy to get hooked. It might seem shallow at first, with very little to do, but in the minimal span class="caps"GUI/span there#8217;s a lot of depth: Many activities do more than the basic #8220;You did this all day, you get 14 heart points#8221;, and you unlock new activities, make more friends, and piss more friends off with time./p pSo, yeah, check it out./p p(Thanks, iseregrail7/i!)/p

When you go to the supermarket, do you use paper or plastic bags to carry your stuff out? My family uses paper bags wrapped with plastic bags to carry the bags, though they keep the bags to reuse them for the supermarket and that's what we put our paper recycling in for the weekly collection.

P.S. Been awhile since I've done one of these, but ten awesome points for the first person to guess where this quote is from and who said it:

"Ugh. And I thought they smelled bad on the outside."

a href="http://assault.cubers.net/"AssaultCube/a is a free first-person-shooter. Set in a realistic looking environment, it's fast and arcade-like. Available for Windows, OS X, and Linux (a href="http://twit.tv/ww78"via/a) br /

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