This is the worst Call of Duty game (that I have played) and particularly horrible on PC. Do not bother.
Multiplayer is broken. This game has unpatched remote code execution vulnerabilities, so playing multiplayer is a bit like playing russian roulette, but with every chamber of the revolver loaded.
Singleplayer is atrocious even for a CoD game. The level design consists of tunnels from A to B, with marginal cover. The characters are bland and the writing is poor, as is the presentation of World War 2. The gunplay is weak and crosshairs unreliable. The controls are the worst kind of zero-effort PC port tank controls, making entire segments of the game barely playable with mouse and keyboard (anything with vehicles) and some aspects of the game outright don't work (rotating collectibles, they didn't bother to implement it).
The game has major problems. Audio is completely broken on many people's systems with non-stop crackling audio. It's been a common problem since release and there is no consistent fix. I was able to reduce it to intermittent crackling audio by turning my audio interface down to 44.1KHz. It also has HDR support, but the implementation is so poor that you can barely tell it's there. The maximum field of view is still very narrow and designed for a console-like playing on a TV at a distance of 3+ meters experience.
Then there are the serious design flaws. Someone seemed to think they were shooting a movie, so they decided bucketloads of forced film grain was the way to go. There is no way to turn this off. Someone else decided to iterate on one of the worst mechanics of modern games: Quick Time Events. Maybe they thought they could do a better job, but if so they were delusional. CoD WW2 has the worst QTE system of any game I've ever played. These QTEs share the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ tank controls of the worst parts of the game, so those involving movement are often a nightmare to pull off with keyboard and mouse. They're trivial, but still more annoying than usual, with a gamepad.
The veteran difficulty was designed by someone who aspired to create The Division instead of Call of Duty. Enemies are damage sponges that often take entire clips to the face before potentially dying. It's the cheapest and easiest to develop way of handling difficulty, but also the most toxic to play. Particularly because the campaign missions have not been well-tested or polished before Activision shoved this game out the door. Most of the game is utterly trivial, even with the braindead teammate AI that makes Daikatana's teammates look like geniuses, but then some segments are nearly broken on Veteran and clearly received zero polish or attention before or after release.
Aside from all of that it's an ultra-linear, ultra-scripted campaign. The average shooter in the late 90s and early 00s had far more freedom of movement and was far less rigid in its requirements. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault legitimately plays like an improvement over this game. Every aspect of CoD WW2's campaign feels like a potentially neat concept that had to be hemmed in, with every easy shortcut to developing a bad game taken, because it had to be rushed out the door (at least) a year early.
Don't waste your money on this garbage. Play literally anything else.
