I recieved my beta key for CoD:WaW on saturday night. For the sake of this blog i'll just call it CoD5. initial impressions: It's a reskinned version of CoD4. it's as if Activision handed over the "blueprints" for CoD4 to Treyarch and said here make this but make it seem different. Everything in the multiplayer is virtually the same and somehow not as good. Blasting someone with an M16 1 year ago was definitely more fun then than shooting someone with an SVT40 now. UAV's are replaced by Recon planes, Airstrikes have become Artillery strikes, and the once feared Helicopter has become a pack of Attack dogs that run around the map seeking out enemy soldiers. Trust me, the implementation is much less impressive than it sounds. Other changes are things that seem meant to satisfy message board whiners for CoD4. Having been an active member of the CharlieOscarDelta.com message boards, I can honestly say that a lot of the "changes" in CoD5 seem oddly similar to the "inifinity ward, please fix this" minorities that complained about the last game. If it was broke (which there wasn't a lot that was in CoD4) they tried to fix i and if it wasn't broke they tinkered with it. Again this is my impression of the BETA build and i'm looking foward to seeing how the finished product turns out.