Call of Duty WWII has the series returning to its roots, but also once more playing too safe to have any impact. Offering a derivative campaign that fails at developing characters and themes, and a bunch of multiplayer modes that any series veteran will have already played hundreds of times, the game’s lack of ambition is the only thing that ends up standing out in the package.
The campaign is centered around Ronald Daniels, a farm boy from Texas – who is as interesting as that sounds – who goes to war against the Nazis because he wants to live up to his big brother’s tough attitude. One day, when he was just a kid, his brother was being bitten by a wolf, and Daniels [...]