Here’s a question to you Call of Duty World at War people:

How many game hours (according to the CoD clock) did it take for you to get through the ranks and reach the first prestige?

What game modes do you play to earn the most experience points? I see that Headquarters, Team Deathmatch, and Free for All are the most popular of the regular “core” difficulty level.

As a below average player I’ve been playing 26+ hours and I’m only at level 52.

I found a picture of the new Call of Duty World at War prestige badge medals . It looks like CoD WaW has less variety than Call of Duty 4. The new badges mostly look like stars although I do like the eagle badge for Prestige 5.

Call of Duty: World at War — start earning your prestige badges now. Buy it at Amazon.

I don’t know to whom to attribute these but they’re all over the web. I found this one from the PS3 Forums.

See Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare Prestige badges

See Call of Duty 6 Modern Warfare 2 Prestige badges

Unbeknownst to me, the prestige medals and badges in CoD 4 are based on actual medals awarded in the military.

Good side-by-side Version: What the real life call of duty 4 prestige medals look like.

Or, the lazy man’s way, a crappy alternative version of the video embedded below. The guy that owns the good video does not allow embedding.

Less interesting video comparison I suggest a better video

OK so it’s chump time. I thought I was satisfied with prestige 1 so I stopped playing. Lately I’ve been getting a lot of shit at work because I stink at the game. Anytime we play a round of headquarters the team I’m on will get a big old doughnut. Perhaps a result of not playing it 2 hours every night. Also possibly a function of poor strategy and not respecting the kill/death ratio.

Now that I haven’t played CoD at home in at least a month it feels like time to dust off the PS3 and see if I can handle powering up in Prestige 2 zone. I’m sure I’ll totally stink but it’s time to work on pumping up the kill/death ratio. My typical k/d ratio in a game of headquarters was a pretty miserable 1:2.

The medal above is from a package of CoD 4 medals that downloaded from artistpavel.