Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 | UnRemastered, UnRebooted | 2020 Review

[@Patrician]

Please bear in mind that I had 35 subscribers when I uploaded this video.

[@Kyle-rq1sr]

Shows that you had quality from the start. Man I'm getting Deja vu here.

[@runawaytruckstudios2255]

Glad for your success man

[@theta_clips]

I'm actually a bit curious now that you've left this comment. Would you be interested in having a discussion about this and possibly revisiting it?

[@BasedPajeet]

well i don't agree with your take regarding the game but i like the video regardless. this game is still better than what the diversity hire gaming industry comes up with in 2021

[@smith6752]

no

[@yewtewbstew547]

They kinda had to go with the whole US/UK spec ops hunt rando arms dealer in Brazil thing, because the only realistic alternative was that the bad guys bought their arms from the US/UK themselves lol.

[@512TheWolf512]

DOESN'T REMIOND YOU OF RECENT EVENTS!?

[@samlund8543]

Which is exactly what they went with in the reboot 😂

[@makkapetanovic6838]

ok I literally busted a gut laughing at how you talked about the payoff of the wall climbing, this is great stuff man

[@completelyroundoak]

*nut

[@Sanscripter]

Brazilian favelas are heavily armed. This is unfortunately true.

[@AbsoluteRedemption27]

Verdade.

[@flaviomonteiro1414]

Verdade...

[@AbsoluteRedemption27]

@@flaviomonteiro1414 Eu sei pq moro em uma aqui em realengo kkkkkk.

[@nnk_ll2]

Tem armamento pesado, mas não uma guarnição toda de soldados treinados com fuzis de assalto Toda a odisséia pelo mundo nesse jogo foi pensada primeiro sobre bases de "quanto conseguimos chocar a audiência sem chocar a audiência?", como sempre: chacina uns russos, invade a América Latina (não importa onde) e poe o resto nuns pontos famosos do Oriente médio que a gente ja fez virar terra arrasada, urra É difícil colocar em palavras o abandono com o qual a vida de todos exceto americanos é tratada na subserie MW

[@AbsoluteRedemption27]

kkkkkkkk calma vey foi só uma piada (faz sentido oq ele falou tho)

[@Shilnath]

The reason why I like the campaign of MW2 even today is because it feels much like a bad 80s/90s action movie cranked up to 11. Nothing makes sense, but there's plenty of fun action to see and engage with, as long as you don't even bother to question it. Pure mindless fun, if that's your cup of tea. I don't think anyone plays a Call of Duty game for any sophisticated reason. If they say they do, they're either lying to you or themselves. Spot on review, by the way.

[@BenLJackson]

They won't re-remaster the 2nd, it's forgettable. They will probably remake it as a sequel with huge retcons, considering the last MW barely got half way through the original's first plot.

[@UnchainedEruption]

I don't think you give the writers enough credit. The first Modern Warfare was well-written, and I think the third one was better written than #2, though it was quite derivative of the formula by that point. The second one I completely agree though, is quite nonsensical, but that's okay because the set pieces--like the burger town, the gulag, the oil rig, and most of all the White House are truly awesome. MW2 was really a game where they knew what locations and set pieces they wanted first, then half-assed the script to get the characters there without much thought as to why.

[@PANCAKEMINEZZ]

"I don't think anyone plays CoD for sophisticated reasons" We gonna ignore WaW?

[@timedraven117]

@@UnchainedEruption "The third one was better written then #2" you're likely misremembering. I played all three back to back in the last six months, and I can state with certainty, 3's story was trash, like worse than 2, like only a tenth as good. I'm not even exaggerating here, its *bad* and I urge you to replay all three back to back like I did to understand what I'm trying to say. I do agree the setpieces were great, I just wish that the Infinity Ward writers put a single slide in that says "Two weeks later" and "1st Ranger Battalion redeployed on General Shepard's request". That way at least the timeline doesn't feel like people are teleporting.

[@Jacka1376]

Past Patrician here underestimated russias use of heavily outdated firearms

[@kieranitefm1129]

The SAS wasn't disbanded. Task Force 141 is a joint task force under the command of Shepherd and Price. Just to answer your question about Soap

[@ALostBadger]

I thought the campaign was solid until I watched this video. Apparently my head canon had taken the place of the actual story. Since you touched on shooting games attempting to be edgy, it’d be great to see a Spec Ops: The Line video. A game that at least gives a good attempt at touching on more serious topics besides “What would a fun set piece be?”

[@luisxindria]

Good attempt? Man that game is so pretentious that it even makes bioshock look genius, he would look like an hypocrite if he say nice things about that game after making an entire intro talking about the importance of choice in videogames

[@messer7450]

@@luisxindria while I do appreciate that game, it is very very pretentious however it is

[@zoisantonopoulos7999]

@@luisxindria is this a troll comment?

[@jedgrahek1426]

The campaign is solid. Just because a reviewer is negative about everything because that's what works for them, doesn't invalidate your experience, memory, perspective. What's going on probably is that both perspectives are true: the campaign is well constructed and enjoyable to play through, with a story full of engaging twists... but if one is looking for things to criticize, they abound, because it is ultimately a dumb CoD game with a dumb CoD plot.

[@Trakesh]

@@jedgrahek1426 "Just because a reviewer is negative about everything because that's what works for them, doesn't invalidate your experience, memory, perspective." Yes it does if your experience, memory and perspective is wrong.

[@ozarkfannumba1906]

This was actually a well thought out review. Good job.

[@LalaGrell]

The bit at 21:48 about the incoherent nature of the Russian plan feels a whole lot different now.

[@aleksandersokal5279]

Americans you shoot in MW2 are Shadow Company, a mercenary group. TF141 is an international spec ops task force working under Shepherds command. Just FYI, they are a totally different group.

[@UnchainedEruption]

Even if they are mercenary they're still working for the U.S. gov't.

[@aleksandersokal5279]

@@UnchainedEruption As contractors, but not soldiers, there is a huge difference.

[@DigitalApex]

@@aleksandersokal5279 Thank you. Google "Blackwater" for reference.

[@mikhail5002]

at 11:33 you can see the name of a shop written in Russian, "Myxa" - it literally means "a fly", as in the insect, not as in the verb "to fly", which the airplane next to the word implies.

[@jupitard]

MW2 is historically significant because it marked the beginning of two things: The slow death of quality AAA games, Megacorp game companies openly treating their customers like stupid children. _Not Balanced For Lean™_

[@Mirage5892]

The skit over the name had me both angry and laughing at the voice line of "modern warfare' and its frequint inclusion

[@sqike001ton]

IRL the British SAS use colt Canada M16 family copies. they don't actually us the SA80 family weapons

[@Patrician]

Not surprising, if given the choice I would make that choice as well.

[@CallsignWulf]

C8SFW last I checked.

[@sqike001ton]

@@Patrician yea they didn't like the accuracy and ergonomics of the SA80

[@BIaziken2]

I could be wrong but I think Task Force 141 is supposed to be an international group, not just an American one.

[@Chance57]

I always thought is was a NATO anti-terrorist group. It certainly didn't strike me as american only since you can see the Canadian flag on some NPCs.

[@Str8UpBustasGem]

@@Chance57 yeah, I believe it's a joint task force (hence the task force moniker) made up of either NATO or select UN forces, designed for counter terror/black ops missions. Shepherd is in charge because the Americans probably put a lot of money into the task force, hence why they're only using American weapons and so on.

[@disguyovaheere8140]

you're not wrong, in fact is not american at all. its originally a branch of the SAS. dumb video maker is dumb

[@r.w.9631]

@@disguyovaheere8140 no your wrong

[@disguyovaheere8140]

@@r.w.9631 *you're wrong im right, get fucked 141 is british sas

[@nopepope2510]

The point about no American civilians on the American soil struck me so much. It's so scummy, like... it's ok to gun down this 3rd or 2nd world pleb but don't you dare even think about scratching the superior denizens of 'the land of the free'. It actually makes we want to puke.

[@LunaTomArwen]

Go puke wah wah baby

[@LunaTomArwen]

@@chuckchuckster8704 how are you calling me triggered when my comment was implying the OP was triggered?

[@Stryker1297]

@@LunaTomArwen but he wasn't triggered. He's just agreeing that the point in the video was valid, and something a lot of people (himself included) hadn't considered. Frankly, I didn't think about it as a 12 yr old playing the campaign over a decade ago either.

[@nopepope2510]

@@Stryker1297 yeah, it's ugly but in the end it's just not worth it being 'triggered' over some more or less conscious biases showing in a simple war shooter. And what the hell is with this being 'triggered' anyway? It's not like when people use a bit hyperbolic language to show their discontent they are nervously shaking irl 95% of the time :) unless pointing out someone is triggered is in fact a goal to make them really triggered ;)

[@LunaTomArwen]

@@nopepope2510 That's more or less my point. Overall its not that deep. It's just an american arcade like shooter, Yet these guys are treating it like its some sort of educational piece we should critique and learn from, It's confusing

[@frostsoul4199]

i still never understood how people felt like Shepherd's betrayal had any baggage behind it. growing up as a kid who played the Black Ops games instead, i wound up having two games i grew up with in the CoD series that actually had a good story. when i got MW and MW2 i felt like the story was really weak compared to the Black Ops games and all the scenes that were supposed to be emotional left me blank faced. i barely even remember any of the details from those games, let alone what the actual story was.

[@bennygerow]

13:44 facts!!! 30:52 I just realized that this is copy pasta into Warzone.

[@alpharedhed4446]

It’s a remaster of the map lol

[@LonelyKnightess]

Aren't the guys you fight at the end super spoopy mercenaries and not Task Force 141?

[@Patrician]

I don't remember mercs being in MW2 but you're probably right. Post 911 devs are too scared to make the US military enemies in a game

[@brunoactis1104]

@Withnail Spec Ops is the exception to the rule.

[@trefthergom3085]

Having a nice retirement, Panzer?

[@nnk_ll2]

@Withnail Spec Ops is developed by germans, from what I'm able to gather only USA studios are this heavily affected by their American exceptionalism Except maybe Ubisoft

[@monsterkitty6921]

@@Patrician They're not mercenaries, really. They are a part of the US Army, just being funded via General Shepard.

[@Joeyboy1398]

dude, that explanation about the guns around 16:20 is so amazing. this video is so quality, and from two years ago as well. gg man, I hope you get the exposure you deserve

[@OuroborosChoked]

Wait, who would believe that the Russians would nuke their own army currently engaged in an invasion? That's asinine. "Yeah, let's invade first, _then_ do a high-atmosphere atomic detonation to EMP *our own guys* who landed with non-shielded equipment. The Americans won't be expecting _that_ ."

[@slyapbg]

something something 2022, something, GUESS THAT'S WHAT RUSSIA WOULD ACTUALLY DO ;))))))))) something

[@Xpwnxage]

When I discovered your channel thru a 12 hour Oblivion retrospective I could have never known I would also be finding the best Call Of Duty content on KZbin.

[@aelius3805]

The Russian paratroopers in this universe probably did expect the invasion to be a one way trip. If they don't care about their civilians they probably care even less about their soldiers.

[@heinrichb]

That's great and all, but how did they magically make it to America with their MiG-29s which simply don't have the range to get there and without anyone spotting them? That's even sillier on the East Coast. And no, Russia does not have enough air tankers to pull anything like this off. This is just stupid on its face. But it gets only worse in MW3 with bizarre keypoint invasions of specific European cities with no other military action outside of that.

[@aelius3805]

@@heinrichb Eh, Call of Duty uses Michael Bay logic. Explosions and set pieces come first.

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

Nah they just liked Red Dawn

[@thejake1453]

Interestingly, back when the game came out you HAD to shoot civilians in the no Russian mission. I tried to do it without shooting anyone and the bad guy busts you too early and kills you and you lose

[@thejake1453]

@KZbin User yeah they're fucken immortal

[@gloriouspacenoid]

The part going after the Russians' plans has such a funny new meaning after this year...

[@saltyshrimppasta]

I was always under the impression that Shepherd’s general motive was to start WWIII to prove “US Superiority” after losing his mind when the nuke went off in CoD4. I think he was supposed to be the US counterpart to Makarov, but the game never actually makes these points in game to my knowledge. His whole speech about there being “no shortage of volunteers, no shortage of patriots” was just saying that recruitment rates were going to skyrocket as a result of Russian aggression. This explanation is literally no better than what is already in game, but this is what I remember it being about at least.

[@___SourR34___]

He wanted to redeem himself as a war hero since his reputation before was of being the guy who sent 30k men to die. But yeah, him being a US Army General but still being responsible for a bunch of Marines is dumb

[@UnchainedEruption]

@@___SourR34___ So his solution is to kill a lot more marines...makes sense.

[@cruznix4741]

Can we take a minute to appreciate how Ramirez is the most productive/ competent/ busiest super soldier in the entire army 🤣😂😂

[@lillyclarity9699]

*shoots dog "just like old times"

[@SevIsKill]

I'm actually surprised you didn't touch on the airsoft mags used on the player models during that gun rant. Like, it's really jarring to see that, even more so in the remastered version which didn't fix it. Also apparently Shadow Company is just a PMC that's under Shepard's command but it's not like that fixes the problem of why the hell are these guys fighting for him when he shows complete disregard for their health and safety

[@completelyroundoak]

@Isaiah Comfort US soldiers had no idea what on earth Agent Orange would do to them in even just a few years time. It was a chemical weapon generally only understood by the labcoats who engineered it and a select few politicians who approved it. The men who handled and deployed it didnt kniw what they were doing to themselves. There is absoultely nothing difficult to understand about firebombing your own comrades. Agent orange was just an orange fluid doused over the jungles to try to flush out men from the tunnel systems while bombing a supply depot full of your own men in the vain attempt to kill two men who may have already been killed by the C4 trap he laid inside the compound. I get what you're trying to say, but these examples simply dont reach the scale of openly killing your own men in THAT moment.

[@redline841]

@Isaiah Comfort Because we aren't anti-semites. The US Army's mission is to defend the nation of Israel at all costs

[@jacobusmarch9524]

@@redline841 amen brother thank you for your cervix

[@IbenPlaysYT]

10:14 "It's like a movie." - "No, no, shut up! They think that's praise." 😂😂

[@UnchainedEruption]

Well it was praise before that became commonplace for videogames like it is now. I think criticizing that in hindsight is stupid.

[@omoroburns2172]

oh boy you wanna talk about a game that pushes the craziness further for even weirder set pieces you only have to look at the next entry mw3 I feel like the game tones down the edginess and goes for epic action movie which is probably better in the long run.

[@Kuszu]

Hey! Great content. Maybe will you make an ArmA series review? Best regards, sorry for bad english - not native :)

[@Patrician]

I thought about doing a video on one of it's campaigns for fun.

[@legodude19999]

@@Patrician id love you to do that

[@snarken9074]

The Glock 18 is a real, fully-automatic machine pistol developed by Glock. :)

[@immenseangloid4168]

I often wonder if COD is a product of American gun culture. You never get this stuff in England. In our classic media (ignore the new garbage) guns are a rarity. Comedy is what we are good at it would seem (E.G Only fools and Horses, Monty Python, Faulty towers, ect). The only time you see this massive, ridiculous "blockbuster stuff" is in completely different generes, like warhammer 40k (wargaming/strategy).

[@folkishappalachian6827]

4:54 seals and green berets can be TAD (Temporary Assignment Duty) to UK special units and vice versa, very rare but it happens, particularly to act as a liason on operations for the other countries interest The Five Eyes countries all do stuff like this.

[@Momohhhhhh]

I only played this game when I was in middle school so I apparently never internalized how shitty this story was. It's a joy revisiting it now; thanks for the breakdown.

[@Xpwnxage]

I replayed the campaign last year for this and MW1. And yeah I was blown away by how stupid the plot was. I still had fun playing it though.

[@edwardteets876]

“No Russian” meant don’t speak Russian. They wanted everyone to believe the Americans did it

[@GreyTide]

"Maybe it was Magito." Fuck. That Conviction refrence hit different.

[@PenumbranWolf]

In light of recent events I find the commentary on Russian tactics and battle strategy hilarious.

[@arshiaaghaei]

The reason Shepherd turns against 141 isn't cause of the nuke, it's cause he knew about the no Russian. Pretty sure that nuke was actually in his favor, so he could blame Makarov and get the blank check. Also you don't kill 141 members in the final three missions, you kill Shadow Company who are pretty much Shpherd's secret fanboys. Also Shepherd's motivation was that he didn't want to be known as "The general who got 30000 soldiers killed in a nuke" and he wanted to be "The general who stopped a world war" MW2 is not perfect by any means, but the MW trilogy and the Black Ops trilogy (Starting with WAW) are the best COD ever got. Thing is you're expecting too much from a franchise that never was the most logical in things it did especially the gunplay.

[@medlicotheunremarkable]

I'm fairly sure Kamarov ends up leading the Czech resistance in the third game when Russia also invades all of Europe after an open biological weapons attack. The Russian president is also kidnapped by Makarov after Makarov infilitrates his presidential plane with dozens of soldiers/mercenaries/plot devices. It's wild.

[@keyboardstalker4784]

It’s like a bad Tom clancy novel.

[@Jereb343]

​@@keyboardstalker4784implying there is such a thing as a good tom Clancy novel

[@keyboardstalker4784]

@@Jereb343 like an even shittier bargain bin knockoff of a Tom Clancy novel.

[@corwyn-corduroy]

I've seen a few of your videos in the last few days, and I've got to say, I really enjoy how you go into the gun options and their real-life counterparts (or similar) when it makes sense too! The videos overall are great too, good job 👍

[@JohnLothe]

Your channel is great. Love your expositions.

[@tacticalmanatee]

Somehow I had never realized that Shephard went after Price and his men because they literally nuked the US Not sure how I overlooked that for all these years. I guess I got used to not overthinking MW plotlines because they were obviously stupid.

[@csabaszabo6859]

I thought he went after them because they were about expose his involvment in Makarov's plot.

[@zezblit]

A fellow RLM connoisseur I see

[@tommyzvdo]

ENDLESS TRAAAASH

[@DigitalApex]

I genuinely appreciate the gun rants. As an avid viewer of Forgotten Weapons and Brandon Herrera, thank you.

[@CasualKraken]

You assessment of the patriot act is *chefs kiss*

[@stayniftyGuyFaceMannPersonDude]

That RLM, "endless trash" meme is very much appreciated. Thank you sir.

[@randomnpc5777]

I still don't understand how people see shepard as a villain when he's not.

[@nagger8216]

He straight up helped Makarov orchestrate WWIII my dude. Allen died because Shepherd was the one who leaked the intel he was CIA, and the only reason Allen was recruited in the first place was so they could find an American body at the airport and further put blame on the US. Like, why else would Shepherd be wasting his time trying to recruit one frontline soldier for an undercover op he clearly wasn't qualified for unless he wanted to get him killed? There's probably at least a dozen different people Shepherd could've gotten that were way more qualified, but he wanted the most expendable guy possible. And if Makarov's entire plan was to have everyone blame the US, then you'd think the last person Shepherd would send would be an American.

[@N3MAID3S]

Turns out 21:44, from what we have seen in 2022 so far, i'm starting to believe that is actually how the russians would do...

[@VietTran-IAMV]

You deserve to have more views and subcribers bro :))))

[@rendurai]

Hey dude. Just want to let you know. Favela drug dealers in Rio have RPGs. Brazilian here

[@ryangrandinetti2939]

still one of the greatest games of all time

[@sureokk]

My first Call of Duty was Cold War. I'm not sure there will be a second. I was a Medal of Honor fan growing up so it's not like I'm immune to bro tier shooters.

[@UnchainedEruption]

Medal of Honor is a lot better than Call of Duty though. Medal of Honor was also about trying to honor veterans, besides when it first came out that style of scripted, linear level design was actually novel and commendable to pull off in a game. Even its sequels typically tried to innovate with different theaters of WW2 or different gameplay like Airborne or the squad mechanics in Pacific Assault. Call of Duty even its WW2 days was just endless MoH Allied Assault clones. And after CoD 4 the series ditched any pretense of caring about honoring veterans and immersing you in real conflicts for bombastic Michael Bay movies.

[@lumptydumpty6992]

I remember flipping out when the blue screen happened in the campaign because I lived next to Prince William county outside of DC. I thought it was a real warning for a second, until I realized my xbox was not hooked up to the internet

[@hiddengemgamers9376]

Great video.

[@RobPaulson88]

I mean, the implications that terrorism was used to instigate a justified war is not a bad take, but I doubt the developers were going that direction

[@12ealDealOfficial]

I've watched a couple videos of yours and thought, "Good channel!" I was particularly impressed when you trashed Oblivion's quest design and cited the gentleman who wrote the Dark Brotherhood arc. But I didn't become a subscriber until this video, when you mentioned how unrealistic the weapons are. Your depth of knowledge is surprisingly multifaceted, to such an extent that even what was in plain sight all this time went completely unnoticed by me. Excellent work.

[@garconvoute3024]

Russian war tactics actually check out in retrospect. No supply lines, no support, can't hold, very little foresight in general.

[@cheezburgrproduction]

I was waiting with bated laughter for another Shepard “Modern Warfare” for far longer than I care to admit and was never disappointed

[@Chance57]

19:52 Soap confirmed to weigh 1000lbs? The car crumbles, suspension and all.

[@АртёмДубравин-ы6у]

A very lovely review. I love the No Russian mission despite everything because it got blown out of proportion in Russian and post-soviet republics press so much, it basically started a huge government level debate on banning video games, much like US had after Mortal Kombat came out. This thankfully went nowhere but it was really fun to watch. Everyone was so damn pissed off, literally rivers of tears.

[@RobotDinosaur]

First video of yours I've watched, glad to be here. I knew you'd have good taste when I'm subcribed to half of your other recommended channels. :D

[@ZeSgtSchultz]

You piss3d me off with the Shepard audio clip. I'm not even kidding.

[@nagger8216]

5:29 Actually 4 lol. Soap, obviously, there's that Russian president's bodyguard that Makarov executes, Frost dies in the diamond mine helping Price rescue the Russian president, and Yuri dies at the very end.

[@matthewallen9707]

The intro felt like I was being punished for wanting you to make this video... And I was into it...

[@hotdogvan3399]

I've not stopped thinking about the mess this campaign is since playing it more than a decade back. Some of the points you bring up, but so many more. The Navy suddenly bombing the gulag while you're in it because "The Navy doesn't care about one man in a gulag at this point", despite all the effort of coordinating this rescue with TF141 in the first place. Why is the Navy using F15s? Why are the Russians using Little Birds at the oil rig? IW already had access to Russian helicopter 3d assets to use instead. What exactly is Shephard's role? The guy wears a army uniform, and seems to be associated with the Rangers, but then he's also recruiting Allen into the CIA and briefing him, while simultaneously running both TF141 as well as Shadow Company? The timeline also makes no sense. All of this is supposed to take place within 6 days. Allen is a Ranger on Aug 10 and deep undercover (No Russian) by Aug 12th. Russian paratrooper boots on the ground by the 13th. Soap calls Nikolai from the favela, without prior warning, and he apparently shows up within hours? And how does Nikolai have access to a variety of US aircraft? Surely the Russian and international intelligence communities know who Makarov is, right? He's not some nobody. And they can see him right there on the CCTV footage at the airport, he's not even attempting a disguise. They should be able to verify his nationality within an hour or so. etc.

[@max7971]

That “unrealistic Russian tactics” segment made me smile. Life imitates art.

[@highjumpstudios2384]

To be fair. There's not a lot of small unit tactical things you can do to assault across a flat piece of farmland other than cover your advance with an artillery barrage and maybe deploy some smoke.

[@ollieanon4341]

The rest of the video is like a payoff for making it thru the unwatchable modern warfare gag

[@ThisisKyle]

That was indeed my pet project that got shot down.

[@Calhounlaw12]

This is such a good video. so entertaining though I personally really liked the game. Really want to see reviews of all cod games on this channel, surely mw3 review would be a great thing.

[@buckadillafilms]

I remember the campaign because we could never afford to pay for xbox live 😂

[@PyramidHACK]

Wow, you're pretty based. I like you.

[@PyramidHACK]

@@henrycrabs3497 Urban Dictionary: based. based. A word used when you agree with something; or when you want to recognize someone for being themselves, i.e. courageous and unique or not caring what others think. Especially common in online political slang.

[@KyleClyne]

Losing my shit at all the "modern warfare" list 😂

[@Awesomewithaz]

Only reason I ever liked this game was my dad playing with me and I was 13. So yeah killing skull dude meant cigar guy had to die.

[@DatManShark]

21:49 - 22:33 going based off of russia's current performance and plan in 'Unnamed country' I think they did a very good job a portraying the russians.

[@Setsuna012]

Gaz died during the first modern warfare.

[@stevemcqueen8677]

skull mask man's death was tragic either way

[@curtisj6641]

I remember MW1 and 2 fondly, but I realize that it's just nostalgia, because I was 10 when CoD4 came out. If I went back and played them, I'm sure I would have a soured view of the games.

[@stevebutters306]

Thank you for the gun nerd rant! The Russians using ancient AK-47s donned with shitty airsoft furniture made zero sense, and the flood of random NATO weapons that are generally obscure in the first place really bothered me when I first played campaign on this.

[@connorross123]

To tell the truth, I didn't even know the FAL was a NATO weapon until I got into firearms many years later. I think it was a lot of "well bad guys are carrying this so it must be Russian" I saw in video games, combined with being in a flavor of 7.62

[@12ealDealOfficial]

Technically they're all carrying airsoft weapons in the Modern Warfare games, which is hilarious. First noticed the magazines didn't have any bullets modeled on them, but they have the little feeders. Then I realized how many little gaffs like that are right in plain sight. Even the thumbnail has a smooth faced cylinder on the revolver. Like an airsoft gun.

[@honeybadger6275]

Lol ironic given its nicknamed "the right arm of the free world"

[@MrJinxmaster1]

I remember battlefield 1's cold open, through a 1/4th size window

[@Setsuna012]

How can they focus the " next generation " when they changed characters and settings to push propaganda.

[@moondog9717]

your mistake was treating it like a video game instead of a government mandated predictive programming war simulator for zoomers. you should have realized this when you had to defend a McDonald's from the spetsnaz

[@drifter402]

You think that's bad? You should see the cold war campaign. It might be the first game that really disgusted me.

[@l33t9r0u93]

35:40 the fact that i'm not sure if you're saying bullshit or actually recaping is saying something about these plots....

[@sigma6656]

15:41 That's really funny XD

[@LukeTEvans]

the russians reacted to modern warfare 2 by making a snowmobile robot that can shoot a handgun just like the ai in the snowmobile mission

[@Milktacheable]

surprised Pikachu submarine part fucking kills me.

[@keith3278]

I know that crazy Shared Universe theory was said at the end of the video, but if it actually exists could someone link it so I can read through the whole thing myself.

[@LuiDeca]

22:36 my least favorite part of any cod campaign... i'm not sure if this still happens (the last cod I played was mw3 and you bet it was like that)

[@Grey8270]

31:27 he actually survived he shows up in Modern Warfare 3

[@Junkyardproduxtions]

This is a fair analysis. You like Dishonored and I like CoD4, let's call it even lol. Your video has actually inspired me to try out DH1 again and after that I'll probably revisit CoD4 lol

[@blindfirestar2601]

You mention liking two betrayals from halo 2 if you ever wanna do a retrospective I will definitely watch and enjoy it regardless of your takes

[@channelname5345]

I was 9 years old when this game came out and I played it. This is one of my first introductions to what war is and I thought it was 100% realistic, particularly the first few missions.

[@theendofmyropemydude]

Boy the section complaining about how unrealistically stupid the russian army AI was aged poorly😂

[@slyapbg]

why

[@sigma6656]

13:38 Weapons of mass destruction is kind of a misleading term. We did find chemical weapons, traces of ricin and a bunch of chemical weapony kinds of things, at a chemical plant in Sargat during operation viking hammer. Apparently chemical weapons fall under the umbrella term "weapons of mass destruction" so technically we did find some. Even knowing they were manufacturing chemical weapons, I still think the Iraq war was a waste. I feel the same way about Syria and iran, sure assad is an asshole but it really isn't our problem. If there was an iran/syrian chemical/nuclear attack on western soil that would definitely suck, but i feel like that should be the barrier to entry on something like an invasion.

[@sigma6656]

@8Man Is it surprising? I think we've learned from modern times that all medias and journos are either incompetent or intentionally deceptive.

[@tadferd4340]

Chemical weapons we knew they had well before it was used as an excuse for an invasion. Plenty were used in the Iran-Iraq war. There was a huge political push (in the White House and Pentagon, not citizens) to kill Saddam Hussein in the USA. It was seen as a strategic objective. Everything was just an excuse to make it happen.

[@sigma6656]

@@tadferd4340 Looking back, i gotta wonder what things would be like if that hadn't happened. Maybe their reasons were just, and we'd all be looking at mass chaos if they hadn't managed to kill him and destroy iraq. I don't know enough to say either or. I hope one day in the future we get a chance to learn about all the shady conspiratorial fuckery that was going on at the time. Regardless, it was a huge waste of money and life, which seemingly has not borne any fruits.

[@tadferd4340]

@@sigma6656 Yeah, it was definitely a shitshow. MIC made out like a bandit though.

[@Maggerama]

So caustic and sensible, just as I love it!

[@TheWicked696]

The 18 is a real gun that is full auto lol

[@jedgrahek1426]

This is the only game of the series I've played, just the campaign once, and I've seen acquaintances play multiplayer of various ones... I actually had fun playing through the campaign, just because it was so harshly on rails, it was unlike anything I had ever played before, so it was fun to give it a go and get through it... and of course 'No Russian' was a total surprise to me so it was extremely effective... I still feel like it's vastly more interesting than the dumb "little kid with balloon" scene and others I have seen. Never had any interest in playing multiplayer or any of the others, but it was fun to have experienced this one. edit: This is a great video, subscribed I would say that, taken on its own and not examined in the context of the larger story or previous shock value moments... false flag attacks are sickeningly common and effective if you simply look at history. And yet people are always disinclined to believe them to be what they are, for all kinds of human factors. I think there is value in reminding people that this is a common tactic of those who wish to start wars, and especially considering the era in which it came out. Would've been better a decade earlier but hey it's something. I honestly don't get why everyone only talks about it as a shock value or civilian killing simulator scene... the actually shocking point of it is the false flag attack, and the pure evil and cynicism behind that, and how easy it can be to provoke large scale military operations by killing a crowd of civilians and then saying "the terrorists did it, we have to go get the terrorists". Fucking Goldeneye lets you murder civilians all you want... that's nothing special in an FPS. A false flag attack in a realistic modern day geopolitical setting is. And if MW1 had a false flag attack already also then obviously nevermind, lol. But seriously the only other game I can think of that has a real false flag event as a major plot point is fucking Tactics Ogre, which is a masterpiece of realpolitik writing... not for a snes game, but for any videogame, to this day. That's why I can't write off that mission as just shock value. Even if the writers of MW2 had no intention of that being part of it initially and that's just how the plot ended up, I still respect them for leaving it in a game directly tied to general war on terror zeitgeist. edit 2: you actually believe that 9/11 had nothing to do with selling the wars to the nation? Were you in a coma during those years? I get what you're saying about the Patriot Act, but to make this clean division and say "those wars would have happened anyway" is utter nonsense, and is flat out misrepresenting history; whether you're misrepresenting it that much to yourself, or just so you can glide easily and falsely over the subject at hand, only you know. But what you say about the relationship of 9/11 to Iraq and Afghanistan is a laughable distortion of history.