Everything GREAT About Call of Duty: World at War!

[@valkyriesan3623]

A little detail that is easily overlooked during the mission Burn 'em Out: some enemy soldiers will use Indonesian terms while burning and not japanese as a reaction, showing that while being Imperial soldiers they were conscripted from occupied territories. +1 Win

[@dustypluskrat7423]

Makes sense being in the mazes of trenches next to the airfield since those Indonesian conscripts, or foreign conscripts in general were used as auxiliary and construction troops.

[@FordHoard]

Also, near the end of the Pacific theater in the game, you see older and younger Japanese soldiers, and soldiers with glasses, showing that they were scraping the bottom of the barrel in recruitment.

[@robbyantonius2418]

What? I'm Indonesian and I didn't know about it. What do they say when they get burned?

[@valkyriesan3623]

@@robbyantonius2418 its just api and panas mangled it the screaming

[@robbyantonius2418]

@@valkyriesan3623 wow I never knew about that. Thanks for the info

[@TheMasterUnity]

Another awesome detail that wasn’t mentioned here: During the final missions of each side, the enemy changes. In Shuri castle a lot of the soldiers look younger and have glasses on, showing that “imperfect” soldiers were being let into the emperor’s army. And during Downfall, a lot of the soldiers are either in SS garb, or are wounded and bandaged. Showing you that this is literally their final stand.

[@fabiocosta3830]

I never noticed that detail on the japanese. But is indeed more obvious on the wermacht.

[@simple-commentator-not-rea7345]

It would have been even more appropriately grim for this game if some also wore civilian clothing and looked genuienly afraid and even rarely manage to land a hit on you even on Veteran difficulty

[@blu4390]

The soldiers at the Reichstag are mostly elite and experienced SS, like the LSSAH, at least inside the Reichstag. Before the mission, it was mainly regular Wehrmacht who were wounded and occasionally Officers who would fight on the front line

[@josephhughes2429]

@@blu4390 Yeah by the end of the war the SS were the last defenders of berlin, some were not even german but french

[@jeramysamarawickrama7633]

@@josephhughes2429 not only french but a lot of norwagian,danish and dutch ss as well

[@spearmintt1342]

Even when I was a kid I noticed that the very moment Sullivan hits the ground Roebuck's tag changes from Cpl to Sgt, and it felt like a good way to really punch in the fact that even Sullivan, the character who was supposed to have his shit together the most, was expendable to the cause and replaced in an instant.

[@GamingWins]

That's brilliant! I did not notice that!

[@janstraka8674]

The ending with 60 million dead. It reminds you, yeah we had a good time in a fun shooty game where we mow down hundreds of mindless AI lead drones who are designed to give you challenge but ultimately fail. But at one point this could have been it. Every mindless drone could have been a person with his life, story, loved ones. Every single "quick death" could and did happen to someone in there.... and it was only 80 years ago. And please, please let there not another one.

[@PeterMuskrat6968]

Thank Nuclear Weapons for that one. The only thing to keep man from killing man is the utter terror that Atom’s light could shine upon the world, and cast everybody into ash.

[@Drew-v2f]

We don't need WMDs to stop a WAR from happening all out again. The atomic bombs, were our ultimatum to stop Japan fighting and to give up. Remember what our grandfathers had sacrificed back then and today. We must preserve their history to keep the important things about them on paper.

[@someguy7629]

@@Drew-v2f Actually the U.S really used the bombs to test on real life humans and city's (there's a reason they where 2 different types) and to scare off the Russians who had now shifted focus on them after thier victory in Berlin. Neither the a-bombs nor land invasion was needed. Or do they still teach you that in America?

[@JohnDoe-wt9ek]

@@someguy7629 While the supplies were completely cut off and US Submarines were making world records in sunk tonnage. The Japanese were still defiant. Yeah, there was a HUGE schism within the Japanese High Command about whether they should surrender or hold out to the last, the Allied Command was essentially receiving no forthcoming result of surrender, in this case, unconditional. For the most part, Japan was trying to hold what little was left of its existing expanse of Empire. The US was having none of it. Japan was absolutely brutal, and the fact that so few people truly understand just how nightmarish the Japanese were compared to the Germans and the Soviets is telling. To give them any kind of inch would be essentially handing them a mile in which they could preserve some semblance of Imperialist Power. The Unconditional Surrender, and the use of the two bombs, was essentially the "We are NOT fucking around," And considering the last 10 years of Japanese aggression, by 1945, and the fact that their assault on Pearl Harbor was because the Embargo Ultimatum was for Japan to unconditionally leave China entirely, the US was faced with a country that was essentially trying the waiting game. Were the Bombs necessary? When compared to the Land Invasion that was considered should the Japanese just not accept any surrender, and the possibility of a complete destruction of a nation, with only two viable landing points on the Japanese Isles, and the preconceived projections of over a million lives, in allied forces alone, lost in initial 30 day estimates... And with the looming threat of the Soviets... It makes sense just how necessary said weapon became for Harry S Truman and the War Department. Despite the horrific level of destruction placed on display. They were well aware it could wipe out a city. The researchers told them it would. Einstein being among them. The fact remains that there was some serious issues arising that any physical invasion or display of overwhelming force would prolong the war, and give the Soviets time to expand further. By this point, the West was quite adamantly clear on how much of a threat the Soviet Union had become. Stalin himself was already planning on further western expansion. Berlin was not the final point of the Soviet Empire. The Nuclear Weapons were a warning to the Soviets. And by Stalin's death (which some rule as a possible assassination), Stalin was absolutely in the process of communicating with top commanders about the potential for a Third World War with the "Imperialist" West. Despite the fact that his commanders were, essentially, feeding him lies about the potential military might of the Soviet Red Army (to save their own skin, obviously)... Like it or leave it. This wasn't just some bullshit argument of "Drop bomb on Japan and make them surrender". There were immense geopolitical pieces at play that even YOU are downplaying, my dude.

[@JohnDoe-wt9ek]

@@Drew-v2f Its clear with Ukraine that nuclear weapons aren't necessary. When everyone recognizes no one wins, the option of nuclear weaponry no longer becomes a viable deterrence. No one, not even Potato Joe, would utilize such a weapon for the sake of "winning". Ukraine is showing that kinetic warfare between two powers on a near equal standing, with foreign involvement, is still capable and still a reality. We can have a WWIII, and Nuclear Weapons may be of such limited use (small yield or EMP oriented weaponry), that their fallout will be next to negligible.

[@Live4Freedom23]

Making it through Veteran difficulty was such a pain. The grenades... no one can carry THAT many grenades! But finally planting the flag at the end was worth all the times that I died to get there.

[@jonasbs86]

The sniper duel in Veteran was traumatrizing for me

[@Thebigem]

Aren’t you ever gonna Run out of Grenades?!?!? No, Because I run a Grenade Factory

[@brandonbrotherton9650]

Honestly the hardest part for me when I did my veteran run was the first part of the last soviet mission where your trying to get to the top of the reichstag the grenade spam when turn the first corner to take aim was so fucked I must have died there 30 times

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

Yessss I made it to the last mission and kept dying because of the Germans spamming endless grenades. You have absolutely no breathing room to regain health behind cover.

[@lordmentaletch3117]

I never had a bad time with the Russian missions it was the damn Shilage castle for me cause not only was there the grenade spam but while you dealt with that all you'd hear is BANZAIIIII and boom bayonet in your gut

[@ace_ofchaos9292]

“Perhaps ‘Heros’ need not question their actions” The way he says that is a subtle dig at dimitri. The idea that because you’re a ‘hero’ you don’t need to question if what your doing is right.

[@jacobrobinson787]

"In war, there are no heroes. Evil is everywhere."

[@AnthroGearhead]

*Do you feel like a hero yet?*

[@BananaHoovyJ.Rabbit]

​@@AnthroGearhead Spec Ops references are always appreciated

[@davidherene6365]

​@@BananaHoovyJ.Rabbit WaW came before Spec Ops and did it better. Too latd

[@BananaHoovyJ.Rabbit]

@@davidherene6365 Um. Okay?

[@bibleboiben]

Honestly This COD has the most memories, playing Zombies with my dad and Uncle, playing Multi-player with my cousin, using the Springfield regardless being the worst rifle in the game, I just love this game!

[@Fabolotti]

Springfield sucks!! Haha I have very similar memories as you my friend :) absolutely love this game

[@thejourneyman8890]

I remember going off with the PTRS in pubs. Thinking round 9 was good in zombies. Finding the death cards. Glitching them into zombies. Learning the death song of Nacht on guitar. I need to stop or I'm going to cry. Aging is pain.

[@EVANDANE777]

Me as well my cousin and I always would play nacht he sadly got murdered and this game and mw2 always reminds me of him

[@EVANDANE777]

@thespear2214 need more ppl like you ❤️

[@toucan6109]

@@thejourneyman8890 you can glitch death cards into zombies? o:

[@Sea_Enjoyer]

"This was a 5 minute mission" Laughs insanely in veteran mode PTSD

[@spadehaze1541]

Those damned MG nests and grenades.

[@thatdumbass8962]

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[@BlaireBlaireBlaire]

@@thatdumbass8962 this is incredibly wrong. you need atleast 20 more grenades to be accurate

[@mihaillalov9462]

Literally went to the comments to write this and saw u already beat me to it hahahah.

[@manager7186]

Anyone remember cod tbro

[@lewisconnell6840]

To me this is STILL the best COD game to come out in the last 20 years, the story, the atmosphere, the gameplay and the introduction of zombies, also that ending, the cutscene of the nuke going off (chefs kiss) perfect, an absolutely phenomenal game BTW for all those people who say the Nazi flag upsets you and offends you and think it can't be shown "History is written by the Victor, History is filled with liars" We cannot forget what happened, to stop something worse from happening which could in the next few years

[@BChainz1]

It’s not

[@lewisconnell6840]

@@BChainz1 how old are you cos your age will answer why you said no

[@JTtheMid]

I agree 100%

[@matthewthompson9632]

The fact that this cod came out way back in 2008 and is still easily a top three cod game is crazy

[@jjparks9263]

@@lewisconnell6840 he probably doesn’t know what waw is and thinks warzone is the best

[@zarna4549]

I remember being in the penultimate mission, before Chernov was killed, and playing in veteran, and it was simply impossible, I died every so often and I felt so frustrated. So I decided to go up to a building that had a second floor and keep the enemies at bay, but I knew that eventually I would have to go down and repeat the cycle of dying and dying and dying, but, when I am in the middle of the shots, I see Reznov and the others advancing while I covered them, and eventually Reznov asks me to go and the rest happens. I know it doesn't seem like a big deal, but when I play MW1 in veteran I was the one who had to move the story forward, until I passed X point nothing would happen, and then play WaW and I don't feel alone, I feel like I'm part of a group , that I am not the only one who is fighting. It is something I will never forget. Also, my God, the music in the final mission made my skin jitters, those chants while there were gunshots and explosions and Reznov kept screaming. Perhaps the best CoD in history.

[@mcbrians.8508]

i noticed that the enemies will only shower you with grenades if you hunkered down in one corner for a significant amount of time or if you started the grenade duel yourself. most of the time they will run out of grenades (there’s 3 grenades for each npc)

[@pointnclick22]

This game is astronomically underrated. I cant wrap my head around how people rate this as mid. It is a height of call of duty as a whole. Id say top 3 between BO2 and MW2. Those three games changed my entire young life.

[@kingpinavatar]

Because of nostalgia. With few exceptions the call of duty campaigns are usually pretty good. Infinite warfare and cold war both had outstanding campaigns but the only people that are gonna care are going to be younger people where it was one of their first call of duty games. Generally speaking people in their 30s fell in love with modern warfare to black ops, then early Gen z loving mw3 to infinite warfare, then the newest fans loving black ops 4 to cold War. There is some wiggle room of course but most people have like 1 to 3 games thay got them absolutely hooked on call of duty because cod will use the same formula for a bit then have a soft reboot that appeals to a younger audience.

[@M1lesJames]

Because it came out a year after CoD4, and a year before MW2. Also, while this is my favorite COD game other than those two and BO1, people in 2008 were kinda tired of WW2 games.

[@blu4390]

@@kingpinavatar infinite warfare bo2 and waw have amazing campaigns all for different reasons

[@iSpeed64]

I fall into the cod4, waw, mw2, blackops group as this was the golden Era. Waw, I definitely has the most fun in even though mw, mw2, blackops had more flair. I had countless hours in all of them but it seems like every time I think back to those days, waw pops up in my thoughts the most. Hell, its the only cod I've ever launched private games and just walked around maps learning every single nook and cranny. I'd do this sht for hours on end.

[@godfather53]

@@kingpinavatar Not nostalgia. Cod in the golden era were objectively superior to the new ones

[@general_pootis1506]

When I first played this game, me and my dad were really into WW2 history. We bought the game thinking it wouldn't be anything too out there. But I remember the first mission I played with him watching, when you watched the guy get flung up into the tree and blown up, then the Banzai charge, I looked at my dad and he had the most shocked expression I had ever seen. We finished the game 2 days later and we both sat silently as the cinematic rolled, and he said "Wow... that was way more intense than I thought"

[@garethlloyd4716]

Similar to me my dad never understood gaming but he was amazed at this and how educational and realistic on war it was

[@chancefoy6287]

Woah dude cool story

[@alexwashere1601]

23:08 I never actually seen this cutscene all the way through but man absolute chills. The music just building up and then silence is so fucking genius. I think it's time boot up WAW again and go through this fantastic piece of storytelling

[@spadehaze1541]

Fun fact, the lyrics of the main menu soundtrack are literally “Brave Soldier, Brave Soldier, Die with me.” Which makes it that much more somber and hard hitting. The soundtrack really carries from the background.

[@ShadowAndRoseS]

One small tibit. “Brav” means “Good” in the context of the song. “Brav soldat, brav soldat. Stirb mit mir….”

[@Spiralredd]

​@@ShadowAndRoseSthat honestly doesn't make it much better....

[@gibsonszafran8897]

I remember playing the game a few years after my grandfather passed away. He died when I was 11 so I never got the chance to tastefully ask about the war or his experience or how he felt about it in his elder years. He wrote a book I still can't finish. But this game in a way is a window to the questions I never got to ask. Things I'll sadly never know. A cushion for the few regrets I have. As brutal and as fucked up as the war was, that was the reality. His reality. Being Polish didn't help it either. Not a day goes by where I don't miss him. And this game is a solemn reminder that his experience was horrible, but his sacrifice at an age younger than I am, was more than needed and more than honorable. Love you Dziadek. Stanislaw Szafran (1923-2012)

[@lamolevi9357]

o7

[@mertoruk6714]

Did he publish the book or is it personal? o7

[@yanceyricks2601]

What was the books name?

[@KureijiDiamond]

o7

[@gibsonszafran8897]

@@yanceyricks2601 Hard Boiled Eggs and Polish Crepes in India

[@borisxanovavich4466]

I played Black Cats over and over again, each time getting a different number of survivors from the water. Best I managed was 7 on Veteran. The crew get more and more complementary of you the more you get, and it is implied that the wounds on the sailors becomes less severe the more you rescue. A small bit of dialogue that shows that your actions affect the lives of your fellow servicemen. Loved that mission.

[@mcbrians.8508]

I managed to save 8. The crew didn't said anything as if they're astounded. Like Desmond Doss lol

[@wattsnottaken1]

More small attentions to details. Why movies/tv and video game are so cool

[@grubbierspider5271]

I miss when Call of Duty wasn’t afraid of showing war as what it is: the darkest side of humanity. Nowadays it’s like they want to ignore reality for the sake of money.

[@aardvark5730]

And cater to kids

[@Krondon-SSR]

@@aardvark5730 tf you talking about xdddd

[@lewisconnell6840]

Remember when Black ops 3 came out and they removed all the Nazi flags from the remastered maps??

[@tommymaxey2665]

Oh boy here comes another wave of anime skins for $19.99

[@KommieKaze]

“Do you speak Japanese!?”

[@youngdave5277]

Such a under appreciated cod game. Coming out between MW and MW2 makes some people forget about WAW, we were spoiled for 3 years of great cod games

[@Samwwrl]

Cod4 all the way to BO2 will never be beaten!

[@fangsout305]

Yea. Every game improved on each other . MW made classes WAW made Zombies MW2 : improved classes and really good kill streaks BLOPs wager matches and really good zombies MW3: I sorta agree on the fact it’s kinda the runt of the bunch , but it’s solid BLOPs 2: the best of the bunch , zombies is solid and the best single player campaign and content

[@davidherene6365]

​@@fangsout305 nope not the best single player camapign. Bo2 is so overrated. Its an A tier CoD, multiplayer was good, zombies was atrocious. Campaign was great but nothing compared to WaW. WaW has the best storyline, BO1 then MW2

[@burgertanker7970]

17:05 Just wanna point out that Markhov (the commisar) is not voiced by Gary Oldman, but rather Dimitri Diatchenko. He played the dude who got eaten by ants in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Unfortunately he passed away back in 2020

[@loganicfilms1388]

Nooooo.

[@NickKiwiFreak]

I expected more love for "Black Cats". The soundtrack, the voice acting is SOOOOOO good

[@nobbler9165]

The soundtrack through the entire game is just too good

[@jjominol]

take out those fking pt boats!

[@Spiralredd]

I love that mission mainly cuz of how detailed it is. Moving from turret to turret and tackling different enemies on each on is a great touch

[@TheMulti313]

The beat rythm when you started shooting and switch gunseats are in my head rent free.

[@hipsternolan]

For those interested more in the conflict surrounding the Pacific theatre of WWII, I highly recommend Hardcore History's 6-part, 25+ hour long exploration into the motivations and cultural twisting of Japan and those directly involved. It might give a deeper appreciation to what WAW touched on regarding their depictions of fighting the Japanese soldiers.

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

Does it talk about unit 731 and the massacre at Nanking?

[@gergoszabo7168]

@@Lawrence_Talbot not so the ayaya country we have today am right ?

[@oliverhughes610]

@@Lawrence_Talbot Go listen it and find out.

[@Lawrence_Talbot]

@@oliverhughes610 It's 25 hours. I'm not wasting that much time to be disappointed. Almost every WW2 documentary skips over the brutality of Japan, even the ones dedicated to the Pacific Theater.

[@oliverhughes610]

@@Lawrence_Talbot If you think a 25 hour comprehensive analysis of Japan's role in WWII wouldn't cover the most infamous aspects of it, I don't know what to tell you. Honestly what you just said is shocking to me since those are the kinds of good clickbait topics that I would imagine would be first on the agenda, maybe second only to Pearl Harbor or the atomic bombs.

[@marcelladonyi2409]

At 16:48 you really hit the nail on the head, given how that asylum was reused as a zombies map which was named Verrückt, meaning insane in German.

[@Ch33seandWh1ne]

I was able to use WAW as the focus of a college essay about how you can use Video games to bring History to the masses in an accurate way. Reading through U.S. Army Military Historian records, the 1st Marine Division move in the game, exactly as they did in the Battle of Shuri Castle on Okinawa. Southeast to South, South to Southwest, Southwest to a Western approach around the Castle, to a final Northern assault on the citadel of the Castle. Their attention to detail in this game was incredible!!

[@TomakDunnski]

That's actually really interesting to know!!

[@fruitmidget2533]

On the other hand you then have Tiger IIs displayed in the first Russian mission, which takes place in Stalingrad. Its a minor detail, but as someone who is into tanks, I immediately noticed that inaccuracy.

[@vikingzeroone9647]

@@fruitmidget2533 At least WaW's modding scene can rectify that. Sure, Treyarch could've made it more accurate but I can imagine that - with the release for the game looming over - they couldn't be 100% accurate, so they made do with what they have.

[@justincummings8557]

How’d your essay go by the way

[@picklerick4208]

I'm really disappointed that this master piece hasn't had a remaster

[@kickapoondn]

Just play COD Vanguard! Lol jk that game is fucking awful. I wish someone would make a good ww2 game with current gen graphics.

[@doomedfleur12974]

They would censor it hardcore

[@dladdict6285]

@test account you can’t even have swastikas in modern ww2 games

[@dladdict6285]

@test account compare world at war to vanguard

[@SpacemarineHelldiver]

​@test account so people need to complain nowadays to get something they want? Lol that's tragic

[@McWhiteStar]

A game that has provided many memories similar to world at war for me was Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, it has many memorable scenes that pay a lot of respect to what happened in the pacific theatre.

[@hamstel4540]

Man reading ur comment makes me wanne replay Pacific Assault again

[@jacoblawrence2116]

The mosin nagant with iron sights will forever be my favorite cod sniper. The memories of dominating the map with that gun will never go away

[@alex_5569]

The details added are on point

[@raze06]

the biggest experience this game had on me was the battle of Okinawa. In the game you had to destroy Suri Castle. It was a place I physically visited and have seen the results of that attack. I was a Marine on Okinawa and was living the history of the USMC through this game. Will always be one of my favorites!

[@CrazyAlfYT]

I love how Reznov says: "For days I have crept through shadows like a rat, this place once echoed with conversations between friends and lovers...No longer" and not "We'll bring back the glory!" Just another reason as to why WWII felt like a bland game. It felt safe, happy and upbeat. Constant heroic music. Whereas WaW had menacing, sinister, and gritty music on both theaters, You are crushing the enemy, it sounds menacing rather than heroic. That's what it does, it doesn't say: "America is the hero the world needs." Also WWII put the "60 Million people died in WWII" at the start, biggest mistake WaW puts it after the final mission, you reflect and say "I thought it was gonna be a hell of a lot more". You shot down ships, burned crops, slaughtered endless amounts of German and Japanese Soldiers and it let's you think about it. How many soldiers did YOU kill? How many COULD you have killed? Do you want to kill MORE? It makes you question why you are tasked to slaughter anyone in sight. Why the need for such brutality. It doesn't shrink or waver from history, it embraces it. Molding in old war footage with game footage to blur the lines between what you're fighting, and what the fought. And that's why WaW is truly an awesome game.

[@calvinkopp1735]

And of course Gary Oldman is always a win!

[@NostalgicGamerRickOShay]

And yet the Stalingrad mission exposition is all talk, no show.

[@VERsingthegamez]

Was not expecting this but glad it's being covered.

[@jaybatchproductions5928]

So what you're saying is, "A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one"

[@batedbloom9596]

Back in days when ww2 actually involved ww2 *cough vanguard* seriously the main thing that gets me to love this game is it’s dark and gritty story and how it sticks to being a ww2 game in my opinion any game that is set in ww2 needs to stick with it and not do some silly made up story unless it’s meant to be a exaggerated take on it

[@JohnDoe-wt9ek]

Wolfenstein is a prime example Althist fiction that works. Vanguard tried to be Wolfenstein, without being Wolfenstein. And then they wondered why it didn't work at all.

[@Spiralredd]

​@@JohnDoe-wt9ek in all honesty to release that piece of dog shit and say it's WW2 is the biggest insult to the WW2 veterans ever. Battlefield V was closer to the real thing than vanguard was

[@vascoleonardo2368]

This game played an essencial part on who I am. The research and passion I developed for WWII because of this game still makes me surprised. And then, to see this incredible and respectfull analysis, with a profund tone all trough the video, it made my day, week and month. I think this was your best video until now and just wanted to try to explain the dimension of the experience you just gave me. Thank u!

[@plebastian2300]

I remember playing this as a 6 year old (way too young to be playing this) with my dad, who passed away just a couple years later right before I turned 10. He was a huge nerd for WWII so this was something he could enjoy just as much as me. I truly don't think I've ever had as much fun playing a video game since. The game wouldn't let you pick up on the mission you left off at in the co-op campaign mode unless you had played it through on the single player mode beforehand so, considering my age and my dads general confusion to most modern video games, we played through the first 3 or 4 missions over and over again and we never cared. I'm 20 now, watching this video in the same room I played this game with my dad 14 years ago is making me think through all of this again and I can't help but thank you. Not just for making a great video but for giving me another opportunity to remember these memories again.

[@ethanbrooks8476]

This comment made me sad then happy.👍

[@enigmabodylanguage]

World At War is a horror game, and is the only shooter that accurately portrays War as it actually is. It's terrifying, evil, disgusting and absolutely terrifying.

[@ConanNg-r9k]

WaW had no Hollywood heroism glorification propaganda unlike Modern Warfare. WaW is a war survival horror game with enemies monsters look exactly like yourself. WaW's end celebrates nothing but gives accurate and deserving emptiness after winning a war, as what it really was! Pointless futility!

[@clutchmctryhard3110]

Despite being a side character, Chernov's death and Reznov's reaction to it hit me right in my soul 😭

[@Spiralredd]

I felt more emotion towards that one scene than the entirety of WW2 And vanguard combined.

[@soulstalker4624]

A detail I love is that the T-34/85 soviet tank actually turns it turret to the back when smashing a wall, that's something usually done since the barrel is weaker than it looks, so it can get damaged

[@thelordofthelostbraincells]

( 0:18) man, brave soldat is haunting but beautiful at the same time, as if the angel of death is here collecting the recently killed soldiers

[@KingNoNamer]

I remember spending hours with my best friend trying to save Roebuck and the other character (forgot his name) from the Japanese. The amount of hours I spent just simply playing the campaign is ungodly. Not to mention then playing Nazi Zombies for an even longer amount of time. Jeez I loved this game

[@romanocheez7725]

Dude's name was Pvt. Polansky, they modeled Dempsey after him ;)

[@KingNoNamer]

@@romanocheez7725 ah right. I thought Roebuck was who Dempsey is modeled after?

[@romanocheez7725]

@@KingNoNamer Nah, the main difference between the two was that Polansky had Blonde hair

[@KingNoNamer]

@@romanocheez7725 you’re right. Like I said, been a long time since I played the game. Thanks for the reminder!

[@romanocheez7725]

@@KingNoNamer Gotcha, only reason I even know is because I just got finished with it! Just as perfect as the day I got it.

[@relent1225]

I guess I would add one more win to a tiny detail I loved which was the mini-map, in the form of a compass with north, west, south, east and every time you looked somewhere else it would spin and jiggle always pointing towards north and it showed how you had to use whatever you could in war and conflict because tying back to when the Americans where stuck with no supplies and the supply chain being blocked and all the wounded they had but could do nothing to help them with their injuries, it shows war isn’t and will never be just, it isn’t fair for any side

[@RoboLANE]

It's great too cuz that's Keifer Sutherland as Roebuck and Gary Oldman as Reznov both did FANTASTIC performances 👏

[@someguy7629]

I love how WaW had the balls to show the horrors of war. even the "good" guys did a lot of bad sh1t. EDIT : No, Reznov uses an SMG because he had his finger quite injured (and later removed) wich he tells you in Vendetta. You can see it removed after Vendetta Russian missions. Also, the merchant ships you all blew up? There's a high chanche there was a lot of allied prisoners on each ship you downed.

[@Spiralredd]

What I love is that they don't shoehorn any sob story for the guy you play as and instead make him just as vulnerable as everyone else. You aren't special cuz no one was. Not a single one of those soldiers was special. Sure some Got medals and such for good performance but no one was different than anyone. They all were held to the same standards. They were all fighting the same battle and all wearing the same uniform

[@H3lios227]

The oversimplified reference for punishing severely is awesome

[@vladioanalexandru4222]

12:45 you can glitch this part by jumping over some stairs earlier and killing amsel directly and then your camera won't be fixed. There you can see that reznov is just casually crouching underwater.

[@BobbyisYoda]

23:45 Back a decade or so ago my father knew an old WW2 veteran who was in a retirement home. He was the man who set up those microphones in front of Gen. MacArthur before he gave that famous speech at the end of the war in the Pacific.

[@vikingzeroone9647]

Shit, that sounded interesting. Any more stories your dad heard from the veteran?

[@eiskohl8575]

other neat details like the T-34 smashing through the Wall in the Berlin Alley having his turret turned backwards or the screams of "ghosts" in the asylum were also so great to see

[@Realninja7214]

The second one was a zombies map I don’t think that whole mode was supposed to be even a little accurate

[@A_Dragovich]

Spec Ops: The Line would feel like a logical "continuation" of the series of videos after WaW

[@ncrtrooper7246]

10:10 actually, Blowtorch and corkscrew is not just haha funny name, it was the actual name of a tactic developed by the marines in the pacific From chapter 10 of Tactics and Tactical decisions: "The tank-infantry team waged the battle. But in the end it was frequently flame and demolition that destroyed the Japanese in their strongholds. General Buckner, with an apt sense for metaphor, called this the 'blowtorch and corkscrew' method. Liquid flame was the blowtorch; explosives, the corkscrew."

[@reusablebelt1718]

Metro series and honestly Battlefield 3 campaign, I think you'd love them and have a lot to say both in designs, characters,stories and conflicts

[@christianlcastle98]

Metro would be amazing

[@DurtyDan]

This game and the Gundam Franchise do a lot to tell entertaining stories while still having a strong anti-war message. I'm glad they're getting more recognition.

[@Kieran2502]

Ah yes, the best and most well-rounded Call of Duty ever made

[@Spiralredd]

Ik its so solid and works not just as a call of duty game but a WW2 shooter in general.

[@tommymaxey2665]

I'm surprised this video wasn't a whole hour. Some other things I like about WaW is its a CoD campaign with multiple pathways and different options in missions. On Hear of the Riech you can run up to the 88s and plant the bomb, or you can use 2 panzerschreck rockets to destroy them. On Black Cat there is a high score feel to the mission. Try to take put more Zeros than your last attempt, save more sailors, and yes TAKE OUT THOSE FUKIN PT BOATS!!! On Hard Landing there is a section where you are assaulting a bunker. You can help provide smoke and covering fire for the friendly NPC with a flamethrower. If you don't he dies and you have to complete the job. I also like the player enacted destruction. On the mission Downfall you can take down the German eagle with a panzerchreck and see it collapse like the Nazi party itself. The wheat fields that you can chose to burn. The bunkers that you can destroy. On Blood and Iron there are so many things to blow up. It's honestly a great vehicle mission with multiple objectives to complete or not complete. WaW is with out a doubt my favorite CoD game (WaW, BO1, CoD4). So many layers to it narratively and gameplay wise. The game came put in 2008, I think I played WaW and CoD4 at a friend's house on his PS3 around 2009 or 10. And man as a kid seeing the opening to that game was pretty visceral. I had seen documentary and movies like Dirty Dozen before but this was in my face and unfiltered. No way anyone would do this again, they would all be to chicken to show even the real world footage of these events, let alone letting the player kill POW. I still talk to friends about how brutal this game was and how most kids now a days couldn't handle this. I mean in muliplayer if you played as the Wermacht and won the victory music would be the german national anthem with audio from one of Hitlers speeches. Now a days it's just Enemy Team vs. My Team. Gone are the days of fighting in a faction in a game taking place in a historical setting. WaW is one of the best games to ever come out and needs to be remember like the horrific events it's based upon.

[@youtubeuser9090]

I’m a kid and I played it for the first time this year despite it being older than me, it’s the best game I’ve ever played

[@youtubeuser9090]

I’m a kid and I played it for the first time this year despite it being older than me, it’s the best game I’ve ever played

[@YaBoyBadger]

I always love how detailed and passionate the scripts are on these videos, as well as voicing your opinions throughout makes it way more enjoyable to watch

[@_GeneralMechanics_]

Thank you for your opening segment, this may be a video game but it is still a brutally honest depiction of history. We're living in an age when people want to whitewash it, or avoid teaching about history without some 'patriotic' or 'tribal' bias. If you're only learning about the parts of history you like then you're not learning anything.

[@greenmt1100]

This was my first COD and I still think one of the best. So many good memories with online, the campaign and zombies with my buddies

[@MrJokerGenocide]

My grandfather fought in WW2 and shares a stark contrast to many other people's experiences in the war. My grandfather was forced into the Nazi youth as a young boy and would later transition into the army to help with the occupation of France and Denmark. It wasn't till his sister and 4 brothers were killed that he had a change of heart, afterwards he turned traitor and stole secrets to give to the French resistance, later the allies, as well as sabotage and probably even assassination. Though I never could know for sure before my grandfather passed. WAW at war hits me differently from my friends at the time because my family was essentially on both sides of conflict at one point or another. The brutality in this game hits hard because I KNOW my family was both an orchestrator and a recipient of what is depicted in Hollywood's favorite war..

[@sandorberenyi5015]

For me, one of the best moments in this game, is since we play a non-talking character as Dimitri. Some mission where they go down to the tunnels, Chernov sais "You hear Dimitri complaining?" Or something similar, now that little moment made the game 10/10 to 11/10

[@Boglim]

Don’t know if you played blops1 but during the snow mission where SAS commandos were brought in. Dmitri was one of those stuck in the gas chambers

[@sandorberenyi5015]

@@Boglim Never played but yes I know about that

[@Boglim]

@@sandorberenyi5015 it is sad but almost beautiful storytelling in a way

[@st.pattycakes2737]

This was the first game I ever played on my Xbox 360 and I just remember how taken aback I was on the second mission when you assault the beach. With all the excellent graphics at the time and the music, it really pumped you up for the fight ahead.

[@drunkstepdadproductions7857]

I beat this game on veteran mode and when you beat it on veteran mode you feel like a god and the feeling that your not a 1 man army is turned up to 11 in WaW veteran

[@PoisonMissile]

Another thing i liked about the cutscenes is that they aren't censored, they show people being killed in various ways. It just adds onto the brutality of this game, I wish games were still like this.

[@thelordofthelostbraincells]

True, nowadays you can't even suggest something like this because some cockroachs on twitter will have an episode about how violent and dark this is. And if this was made today, they would most likely censor everything and rewrite history. This game is the epitome of *"THEY JUST DONT MAKE EM' LIKE THEY USE TO"* As someone who is both into history and Warhammer 40k, I love this game, because it shows the darkness and brutally that's always there deep down within most of us were all monsters, war just forces the monster out

[@PsychopathicV2]

“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.” -Franklin Delano Roosevelt

[@Spiralredd]

Damn that's deep

[@true-dark-mind9681]

@@Spiralredd The exact same quote was used in Call of Duty 1 when you die or finish the mission

[@Spiralredd]

@@true-dark-mind9681 i didn't play call of duty 1 the oldest one I played was call of duty 2

[@Gro3n]

i've always thought Dimitri represented the Russian spirit during WW2; believed to have died often, but nonetheless survived and prevailed - and sadly saw too much horror and loss to come out of it unharmed. To slay a beast ...

[@Firealone9]

I 100% agree with best WW2 game ever made. This is Treyarchs Magnum Opus in my opinion. There is so much and love and care put into this game that it shows through. Although Black Ops 1 and 2 both were respectfully brilliant in their own right, I do believe they were lacking that certain flair for realistic dark, gritty warfare that WAW portrayed.

[@Rainman0505]

The way you covered this was amazing and i hope people who didn't get the chance to play this game or don't truly know what happened back then learned something from this such a powerful game

[@AjeetSingh-xq4yb]

The nostalgia is so strong right now. Cod 5 had a gritty, dark feel that no other COD has recreated. Both in campaign, MP and zombies.

[@patrickm1]

It's been a long time since I've heard someone call WaW "Call of Duty 5"

[@1997saks]

11:10 thought “enemy at my gates” would get a look in here, always has me flashing back

[@osedebame3522]

What I really like is that WAW lets you interact with that debate of "If we do what the enemy did to us we'll be just like them" and gives credence to both sides of the argument. Chernov is one side of it and does make his opinion of you in his journal before the last mission, but Reznov is also given prominence as well with his thirst for revenge given just as much attention and weight. The game for the most part doesn't preach to you about how evil Reznov is or how cowardly Chernov is and lets you make up your own mind and give your own reasons for your actions and I wish more games did this.

[@IQsveen]

I just love the voice acting in this game

[@matthewnichol73]

Kiefer Sutherland is the absolute man.

[@calmchugh2601]

I remember the music of this game being so poignant and somber at times it actually scared me. Of course I was 8 when I played it but still that’s some serious good work

[@nubnubdubdeh]

This cod is one of the only COD campagins I played more than 10 times with multiple people and I was young as hell playing it I loved every bit and its grittiness to the war

[@rileyjessup2414]

Fun fact in Black cats they also have different voice lines with different levels of satisfaction based on how many men they saved!

[@Deidrheamim]

The difference that makes WAW stand out compared to every other cod game is that in other cod games you feel like a badass, a hero fighting for a just reason But in world at war we aren't portrayed as some badass hero, we aren't shown our characters getting awards, or even their lives after the war. We were never shown that what we were doing was good, we never save any civilians, nor do we often even save our comrades. This game made us feel like an actual soldier, forgettable as we were only privates in the war. We were never promoted once just further showing we weren't some "hero" throughout the story. Not only this but the fact that you don't feel "immortal" in a sense, explosions are usually a 1 hit kill, you can instantly die to environmental factors such as a tank running you over, unlike in other cod games where you can get stabbed a dozen times, blown to pieces and walk out with crutches for maybe 3 minutes before slaughtering an elite squadron with a pistol.. In this game you are showed you are very much a soldier like anyone else. If theres anything to be taken from this game is that WaW showed us that in war, we do not fight for a "good reason", we aren't all going to be heroes. We are just regular soldiers following orders from people who, in WaW on the american side we never actually meet, and the only 'High up' in the russian side is the commissar who doesn't even address you, he addresses everyone. You are the same as the man next to you. You are just another gear keeping the war continuing with the bloodshed you cause.

[@TheGreedyWolf]

Another game that focuses on the brutality of war and what it does to the soldiers is called Spec ops the line. Its more of a modern setting but still gets the message across effectively

[@Cwillz303]

Beat it once. I’ll probably never play it again. Fucked me up… war is hell

[@Boglim]

White phosphorus. Willy Pete. Masterclass of a game

[@AnthroGearhead]

*Did i do well ?! Did i became the hero?!*

[@beerten202]

What i also like about the ending Is when macarthur said "a new world shall rise from the blood and carnage of the past" as soon as he said "blood and carnage" the hopefull music was replaced with a single bell as if we are walking in a huge cemitary where all the lives that are lost in ww2 were put to rest

[@colmcorbec7031]

Outstanding marines. Outfucking standing!

[@damienhouse7706]

I view the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a necessary evil. It was either that, or a full scale land invasion of Japan, which would have gotten thousands killed, on both sides. Evil, yes, but necessary.

[@PeterMuskrat6968]

Thousands? Count Millions. As he correctly pointed out, The Japanese Military would have kept fighting until the end. They would have armed every man, woman and probably child with grenades, Spears or rocks and forced them to fight. The civilian casualties alone would have been enough to turn Japan into a sparsely populated wasteland. Not to mention the potential for a Soviet invasion into Northern Japan. So the alternatives were… terrible.

[@Taz_XE076]

Good to see that people take history into account and not hindsight. Knowing what nukes are like now, not being taught about the Japanese and their atrocities, and distancing ourselves from our history has made the topic of Little Boy and Fat Man into "WE were the monsters" when it really isn't the case. Without the nukes Japan today would make the Sami people of northern Scandinavia look like a fully developed 1st world nation. The nukes did take a lot of lives, but it saved a lot more than we can probably imagine.

[@thekeyandthegate4093]

People love to forget that before the nukes, we were bombing japan to shit either way. Tens of thousands died in firebomb campaigns that left God knows how many civilians homeless. The nukes, no matter how you look at them, did less damage overall and did more to persuade the emperor to end the war.

[@The1trueJester]

Yhis game was my first experience with cod and remains my favorite to this day. I would love it if treyarch put this much love and attention in a WW1 setting Fantastic video as always, keep up the good work and stay awesome!

[@chocolatedumdum2]

WaW was one of my favorite cods. Up there with mw2 and I spent countless hours playing it during the Great Recession. Expertly crafted and often overlooked. So glad you brought this game back into the limelight.

[@TonedMars]

I loved the dark, sick, theme of this game. And when you first play campaign and see the realistic gore, that was truly epic

[@StrakanDocrusReakal]

One detail that i love is after you the russians execute those germans and the T-34-85 comes up to break through the wall, it turns it's gun around to face backwards, which is realistic since it would reduce the chance of damaging the gun, it's a neat thing that you don't always see in games.

[@terminallumbago6465]

A small detail but during the later Berlin missions, you could clearly tell that a lot of the German soldiers were either very young or very old, likely members of Volkssturm units hopelessly defending Berlin.

[@CrystallineFoxCF]

Blowtorch and Corkscrew is actually a very literal name for a mission, it's a tactic that the marines had for clearing out Japanese bunkers and making sure they were completely unable to be reused, especially because the japanese usually dug very extensive tunnel networks between bunkers to fortify whenever possible, blowtorch, being the use of a flamethrower to burn everyone inside, and then a satchel charge was thrown in, blowing up everything inside the bunker, and usually rendering every weapon and bit of ammunition useless, crude, but effective

[@BrotherHercules01]

I would add 2 wins just for the mp and zombies experience. Mp was just a thrill to play back then and enjoyable. Zombies had a horror like experience which was soon littered with hidden easter eggs and details to a story that you had to find in this game.

[@TheGoIsWin21]

World at War was the only game I've ever played where I organically found myself caught up in a sniper duel with a player on the other team that lasted most of the match. The two of us each had 3 kills and 3 deaths in the last half of the match because we were creeping around blown buildings and hiding from each other

[@alexandervugs131]

I love the positivety you bring to all these great games and pointing out all the good and scuttle details around them. keep Doing that great work.

[@ChrispyWebb]

Man the guy at gamestop never said anything about them graphic cut scenes in waw but he sure did attempt to stop my mom from letting me have gta 4

[@romekvanboxtel8617]

When I first encountered cod zombies after completkng waw for my first time. I nearly couldnt sleep for that day. But then it also became my favorite mode. Sadly like code zombies is just the remains of a shell that had so much potential

[@easiesteevee2532]

I've met Australian ww2 veterans. And yes, the Japanese did infact scream BANZAI quite a bit.

[@mediumcahonas]

Could you make a video on the mafia games they have wonderful story’s. The gameplay may not be the best sometimes but they are wonderful at storytelling.

[@alarrim29574]

Facts mafia 2 is just amazing

[@ftw4twcs]

Holy crap. I did not realized Chernov threw the flag on the side so we could still plant it. This always was my favorite cod game, but now it's def top 5 all time for me.

[@silck52]

I REALLY think you should cover Valiant Hearts: The Great War. Whislt its about WWI as opposed to WWII it really pulls on the same strings as WaW, it focuses on the human element, focusing on the stories of indivdual people as opposed to just, 'hell yeah shoot guns'. I think you'd enjoy the experience

[@HaloFTW55]

That is how you get emotional damage.

[@CNX625]

Banzai charges were a reminisce of the old WWI days. If you remember the movie Hacksaw Ridge, they depicted how a successful banzai charge looked.

[@UninformedThinker]

Perfect summary and review, this games campaign will always be the most incredible that I have experienced

[@TheLoraxshadenough]

Black cats is a win in of it's self. Everything about that mission is just chief's kiss. The soundtrack is absolutely beautiful, the mission just puts you into the shoes if the mariner crews and the vital role they played in the Pacific. Granted the whole mission is a turret sequence, but jumping from the front gun to the tail and then to the waist guns doesn't make it feel like one. It has fluidity and swapping from one turret to the next just feels natural from the perspective we play from.

[@davidanthony3177]

If you save Roebuck,instead of Polonsky, Roebuck will scream "YOU F*CKING ANIMAL". Nod to how the Japanese killed Polonsky sense less. And a fun practice for Keifer for his roll as Big Boss in MGS:Ground Zeroes and TPP

[@leonrussell9607]

Practice? He didn't speak in mgsv

[@davidanthony3177]

@@leonrussell9607 maybe just Ground Zeroes and TPP's Truth Record only

[@martind5653]

Just FYI conquering Reichstag as Russian is literally first CoD final mission. I actually went and played 1st game after WaW release and my first playthrough and I was astonished by the progress made in 5 years difference.

[@munanchoinc]

God i love this game and how it harkens back to the days of excellent WW2 call of duty games. The games were light on story but excellent immersion and authenticity. No anime skins or excessive microtransactions. Just simple and straight to the point action.

[@nastynate4916]

You should definitely also play through the Brothers in Arms trilogy. Where WAW encapsulates the horror and atrocities of ww2 from a broader perspective, Brothers in arms is very similar to that of Band of Brothers following this squad of paratroopers in the 101st through D-Day and Holland. It has more focus on the men as individuals and them as people and how the deaths of men who you consider your friends can pay a massive mental toll. Another nice thing about it is that the first game alone only takes place in the span of about a week and it’s insane how almost every detail in the game’s levels feel like they’re verbatim told from battlefield reports and includes very niche and specific events, people, and locations like Purple Heart Lane with Colonel Robert Cole and the destroyed tanks at Deadman’s Corner

[@The_Story_Of_Us]

To be honest, I think zombies are what really makes the COD games the hits that they are.

[@Crazyfrog41]

Except... The first 5 or 6 games didn't HAVE a zombie mode and the franchise was already more than popular before that... For every one person who says zombie mode was the reason they play COD I could show you another person Who says zombie mode ruined COD... Me personally, I think it was a good addition to an already excellent series!

[@WaHaHa25-04]

I can only say that, for my brain as an 8-year-old, I understood everything and although I didn't know what had really happened, I really understood the evil that a human being can do. And apart from that, he inherited a good taste for history from me.

[@heedneed-arcade5977]

I never played this cod but I damn well respect it. Also, Keifer Sutherland dudes! How was that not a win?

[@Dime_time333]

Gary Oldman just waltzin in with another stellar performance as Viktor Reznov.