I paid 60 dollars for the COD Vanguard campaign so you don't have to

Call of Duty: Vanguard is a painfully average WW2 movie starring Hobbit Man and Laura Bailey. The cinematics look very nice and the graphics on the climbing sections are fabulous. And you also get to fire a gun up to 5 times over the course of the campaign!
twitch me on watch
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[@Jooglesberry]

imagine hiring an actual russian to play a russian

[@silentdrew7636]

Can't we just get Walter Koenig?

[@scoutman66]

Why do that when you can give Ron down the street 60 dollars to do a bad Russian accent

[@Ahmadabdal_]

Wait Russians exist? I just thought that they were the made up bad guy for call of duty

[@DecidedlyNinja]

That's just way too hard when you only have a few tens of millions of dollars budget [/sarc].

[@Jooglesberry]

@@scoutman66 they're going with well known popular voice actor, not ron down the street

[@scarecrow2097]

Apart from the barrels of bugs, am loving how the niche hunting revolver shotgun that had less than 100 pieces made is used by the army of every nation in this game.

[@superfamilyallosauridae6505]

and the IJA guy is hip firing it in all directions when ambushed

[@godsteeth1574]

And the japanese soldiers using STG's with acogs and suppressors

[@scarecrow2097]

@@godsteeth1574 stgs with acog like scopes and suppressors is probably a modification you could see but a Japanese holding it and generally any stg before 1944....no

[@maxsomerjoki8147]

@@scarecrow2097 Definitely not you would never see anything like that what are u taking :D because there are zero things that are accurate in this game I’m pretty sure they made it on purpose

[@scarecrow2097]

@@maxsomerjoki8147 the stgs had a short ZF4 optic and big ass thermal scope who's name I can't pronounce (zielgerat1229 or whatever) designed for them, they simply never became standard issue attachments. The game used the fact a handful of experimental attachments existed during ww2 and decided to put them on everything.

[@Evangrand]

Man I remember the days when you’d buy cod FOR the campaign

[@N_4747]

I remember the days when cod games weren't reskins of the last one

[@socrative9810]

@Scarlet Dani mw2019 campaign was good af though

[@derth9230]

@@socrative9810 yup but it started to decline a bit before that though mw 2019 was revolutionary

[@R-SXX]

Always a highlight for me when renting was a still a thing; never bought a cod, just rented it over the weekend and had a blast

[@Hippie_Holmes]

I legit played the wii version of waw for hours never touched muiltyplayer

[@tythedrunkenthird-gendarkt3795]

“Formations just slow me down.” So will a court-martial.

[@nikolairostov3326]

I saw a WW2 training film and I’m pretty sure they aren’t letting fly a plane after saying that.

[@xenon3990]

@@nikolairostov3326 Hes *just that good*

[@danielbold6167]

Said by a true Johnny America

[@Aredel]

@@nikolairostov3326 so does death

[@RaginCanadian-gx2zl]

Gotta love how every military char in cod just does whatever they want with zero respect or discipline for chain of command and their fellow soldiers who might get fucked over.

[@civilprotection3114]

The way the Germans talk is the most generic evil guy talk.

[@stringbones9360]

Which is fair, since it IS the SS

[@coh2conscript851]

They ARE the Nazis tho.

[@r4y256]

@@stringbones9360 well they can still be interesting even though they are ss, they dont have to be generic af

[@wilhufftarkin8543]

I'm German and their German accents aren't even correct and when they speak German it sounds completely wrong, too, lol.

[@kloa4219]

SS officer: muawhahaha, I'm going to steal candy from baby!

[@VRichardsn]

"Formations just slow me down" A Grade writing right there.

[@echodelta2172]

Real WW2 pilot: *dies in a ball of flame because leaving the formation makes you an easy target*

[@VRichardsn]

@@echodelta2172 Spot on. Of heroes is the cemetery full.

[@huggniceman4975]

Right up there with "Aww, no more Nazis to kill" just completely cringeworthy. Could have said something about crushing the fascist reich or something, they could have even ripped a line directly from Reznov in WaW, lord knows they didn't care to pull most of this game from other games.

[@youtubecreators384]

What the hell does that even mean? "Formations just slow me down"

[@DekkarJr]

@@youtubecreators384 Means he's not a team palyer :3

[@brianwalsh1339]

“Objective updated: spend time with your family” Christ, that might be as bad as “press f to pay respects”

[@G59forlife.]

Meme it to oblivion

[@VSGhostface]

underrated as hell but probably worst

[@EustaBAracer]

I use "Press F to pay respects" almost every single day.

[@TarantuLandoCalcuLingus]

@@EustaBAracer me too but nobody catches it lol

[@mahmoodalmahmood7014]

Its sludge hammer game after all. Every cod they made is not good as the other studios

[@shadowwarriorshockwave3281]

1:52 “we’ve had one world war yes but what about Second World War” fucking killed me

[@melochin8237]

I just can't take the story where they drafted Merry into SS seriously

[@unluckymonkey4382]

I love that meme

[@homeygfunkoffacherryfruitl4971]

The Great War and the Not-As-Great But Still Pretty Alright War.

[@sirshotty7689]

melo chin or the time Pippin got conscripted into the Red Army

[@literallyme26]

I was mentally prepared to have all authentic representation of WWII butchered. I was prepared for the multiplayer to have goofy-ass guns, I was prepared for the ethnically diverse and modern politic-idealized campaign. But then I saw Japanese soldiers with STG-44s. I wasn't prepared for that. There truly is no hope for these games anymore.

[@warcrimeconnoisseur5238]

It was as authentic as Iron Sky, my great grandfather would laugh at the depiction of WW2 in this game, especially about the Germans and Russians

[@johnkhandjian3998]

Don’t forget the Type-100s being issued in Berlin

[@suzuplaza]

imagine caring for a historically accurate video game lmao oh boy this alerted the g*mers

[@hiranmaydas4921]

@@suzuplaza there are plenty of games that do that. Hearts of Iron, Post Scriptum, Hell let Loose, Rising Storm Vietnam, etc. And those games are still more fun than whatever "authentic historical games" AAA studios spit out.

[@Nolant.]

Cod is the bottom of the barrel of gaming

[@CertifiedNEETClassic]

It's not just assets and mechanics! Now they're copying entire scenes! Truly groundbreaking! Edit: D-Day is D-Day and stuff, it's history, I know. But I was more specifically talking about the bit that's literally just the Farah and J-12 hide-and-seek but done worse.

[@walnzell9328]

And entire storylines and character backstories. The Soviet woman is just Lt. Tanya Pavelovna from CoD: Finest Hour. Separated from her family. Taking her father's sniper rifle. Hunting Nazi officers with great vengeance. Living only to see the reich fall.

[@BrownEyePinch]

They just put assets from cold war all over

[@wilhufftarkin8543]

@@valentinlopatko COD1 American campaign copied Band of Brothers, COD1 British campaign copied The Longest Day, COD1 Soviet campaign copied Enemy at the Gates and COD WAW copied another scene from Enemy at the Gates, lol.

[@rileyoakley7196]

Well that’s what happens with these retarded 1 year cycles instead of actually putting time and effort into it

[@granit8902]

@@valentinlopatko i think the vanguard midway mission copy a scene from midway2019 movie too

[@walnzell9328]

Their way of balancing guns with extended magazines is to reduce the damage of the gun. So the PPSH-41 becomes a pea shooter with a drum mag.

[@Winasaurus]

mg42 must be spitting cold air then.

[@walnzell9328]

@@Winasaurus It does.

[@Mach-2-Fishbed]

@@Winasaurus Cold air actually managed to kill plenty of Germans. It's more like a gentle summer breeze. Except it's on a hot, humid day that just makes it slightly more worse by just blowing warmer air at you as an insult.

[@MerchantrRe4]

Thanks for giving me another reason to fucking hate Sledgehammer

[@sethmullins8346]

Despite the cartridge it actually shot being a rival to .357 magnum irl

[@RedRocky54]

That opening Stalingrad attack was beautiful. Mid-1942 with T-34-85s from 1944, He-177 bombers that were so plagued with issues they were almost never used (instead of the main German strategic bomber, the He-111), dropping bombs that land horizontally in defiance of the laws of aerodynamics and general bomb design. And the Stukas, oh boy the Stukas. Not only did they use a model of Stuka that was first introduced _after_ the Battle of Stalingrad(Ju-87G), it was a model that _removed the MGs_ to instead carry a pair of 37mm anti-tank guns, and was exclusively for hunting tanks. And they have them making strafing attacks against infantry using non-existent MGs. Not to mention the G model also couldn't carry bombs lmao. God bless modern WW2 CoDs.

[@SpooksCabooks]

I read this entirely wrong at 2am and thought it was complementing then i re-read and was like WAIT A FUCKING SECOND

[@isaiahcampbell488]

@@SpooksCabooks It's day time here and I was about a quarter of the way through and then the sarcasm hit me like a brick. Lol

[@echodelta2172]

Dude, I recognize your frustration and had the EXACT same criticisms...COD ALWAYS picks the Ju-87G bcuz WAAAAOOOOWWW BIG GUNS!!!1!!1

[@RedRocky54]

@@echodelta2172 The best part, that I only noticed after skimming through the full streams, is that they have the early-war cockpits too. Even in the 1945 Berlin. So it's not even really a G model, they just stuck the guns onto a Ju-87B.

[@theguylivinginyourwalls]

Don't forget the Dauntless, a dive bomber, getting into a dogfight with Zeros, a highly agile fighter plane with the turning radius of a fucking quarter. Reminds me of them using P-47s as bomber escorts in WW2 instead of the Mustang. I get that it's CoD, and it isn't supposed to be all that realistic, but it'd be nice if they at least _tried_ to give a shit about being accurate.

[@901Cardinal]

SHG: “We wanted to make an authentic WW2 experience!” Vanguard: X-Ray vision stealth, Michael Bay set pieces, Shitty on rails plane section, generic plot. Cod WAW: “Put me back into that disc drive baby.”

[@parjai97]

Lets go ArmA

[@ssww3]

Waw was the best cod WW2 game

[@comradekenobi6908]

@@ssww3 they should remaster it

[@ssww3]

@@comradekenobi6908 yeah

[@GreekPele]

@@ssww3 I beg to differ *ahem* Call of duty 1-3

[@gagefisher4785]

"What if we just charged people $60 for a WWII reskin of MW 2019?" "Get this man a raise right now!"

[@wetstinkysocks490]

At this point I think I feel like players deserve a purple heart for how many bullshit WWII games we've all had to play though now lol

[@Furzkampfbomber]

...and then fire him. He is way too intelligent to work in this company.

[@BobotPlayzBobotRebel]

A downgrade too, just proves IW struck gold with MW19

[@Enkabard]

"and fire 100 QA and customer service employees, we on the roll baby!"

[@grootsyt]

that's literally what WAW was, although much better

[@mustacheman4476]

My favorite part of the game was when the bionicles fought with you in the pacific theater

[@xQuandaleDinglex]

A fellow BIONICLE FAN!?!? IN THE WILD!?!?! I guess destiny brought us here. ✊🏾

[@emperormajorian112]

@@xQuandaleDinglex UNITY, DUTY, DESTINY

[@theduxabides9274]

UNITY, DUTY, DESTINY MARINE!!!!!!

[@tylerclifford1503]

I would like your comment, but then it would be 421 likes instead of 420👌

[@goobertfroobert5572]

7:00 the quality on those fingers is like... Insane, it's like Half Life 1 levels of detail.

[@TR33ZY_CRTM]

And it only took them 23 years to reach that level of detail

[@grummanf14tomcat40]

Half life 1 had better detail

[@wilhufftarkin8543]

@@grummanf14tomcat40 Jokes aside, Half-Life 1 had much better AI. Seriously. A 23 old game has better AI than many games today.

[@Winasaurus]

Actual mario 64 bowser hands. Shows where the effort is when the campaign has things like that yet multiplayer has a million variations of absurdly detailed versions of weapons, I wonder if that's got anything to do with microtransaction skins, hmmmm....

[@wilhufftarkin8543]

@@Winasaurus To be fair, the hand is clipping into the ground, that's why it looks like that.

[@dhzudhzvszbzbs]

Thank you for your sacrifice

[@ttvclapedkid9637]

It wasn't a sacrifice

[@organicleaf]

@@ttvclapedkid9637 was it suicide then?

[@ttvclapedkid9637]

@@organicleaf yes

[@AC-hj9tv]

o7

[@intelismynameandregretismy5541]

COD: "We showed the true diverse nature of World War 2!" Also COD: *Completely forgets that the Chinese, Indians, Polish, French, Greeks, Canadians, New Zealanders, Brazilians, South Africans, Yugoslavs, Ethiopians, and Mexicans also participated.* Also COD: *Makes the American pilot into a bootleg Top Gun protagonist rather than the obvious choice of a Tuskegee pilot which could both provide an interesting commentary on segregation in the US military, and be a more historically accurate & interesting depiction of a black man than Arthur Kingsley.* Cheers.

[@caleb0peyton]

The character you start out as, Nowak, is in fact Polish. That’s the dude who gets his skull smashed in by the Nazi officer. Edit: I’ve been told the character Novak is actually Czech.

[@Camo-un8ee]

@@caleb0peyton ain't that lovely, the polish character gets killed ruthlessly by the German, ain't cod just complex

[@renanvinicius6036]

Bro they could make a campaing about the "Cobras Fumantes".

[@Sterge08]

@@caleb0peyton I think he’s from Czechoslovakia

[@caleb0peyton]

@@Sterge08 I hadn’t thought about that. The languages are so similar.

[@williamlydon2554]

“I know it won’t be incredibly accurate, but how bad could it be”? *Character runs with weapon held up like modern warfare* *STGs used by Japanese in 1943* “I stand corrected.”

[@jonathanpinckney9227]

Seriously?

[@jacaredosvudu1638]

Dont forget Nambus and Brens issued in Berlin and AS 44's in 1942-43

[@smitty1626]

@Hanrry Oliveira tbf the campaigns are borderline just minor fan service. It's ALL about multiplayer for cod, which still isn't even good.

[@sethmullins8346]

@Hanrry Oliveira You know, I have a secret to not being disappointed in cod games I stopped fkn buying them

[@huggniceman4975]

Not to mention a Garand with a drum mag (which, why do that in the first place) still pings when it goes empty even though the thing that pings is not there in a drum mag. They didn't even bother to google what a gun is apparently.

[@gabrieldavis4434]

This looks like the most bland campaign yet. CoD, PLEASE stop doing annual releases.

[@Artiljerjia]

@donkey Kong country master or just relaunch support for those games with minor updates

[@superbeavers7645]

@@Artiljerjia That won't work for the Playstation users

[@CrispyGFX]

Stop buying them every year and they'll have a reason not to.

[@stevem4783]

@donkey Kong country master given that Black Ops 2 was the best game in the series I'd absolutely love that as long as they didn't change a thing

[@ssww3]

@donkey Kong country master mw2 2022 is coming

[@tdg710]

"Relive history" they said in their advertisements. Relive history by putting a micro red dot on an STG 44 in 1944. Cool story.

[@noluvfray9171]

🤣🤣

[@avery4670]

Grandpa comes to tell you about his experiences in World War II, and he tells you, "Yes sonny, I was storming the beach of Normandy with my M1 Garand (which by the way, had an EOTech HHS I Holographic Hybrid sight, a guerilla warfare foregrip, drum magazine that somehow still pinged, a cheek riser, and grip tape)."

[@lapantony]

... all the while being in the Pacific in 1943

[@johnsoapmactavish9921]

@@avery4670 Also how he had anime cat ears and dressed as Levi from Attack on Titan all while T-bagging Naz1s

[@lambda-m1676]

@@johnsoapmactavish9921 You mean Enemy Team?

[@hoilst]

"It's gonna be three more CODs before they're choose-your-own adventure FMV games" - truth. The amount of bits that aren't actual gameplay are astounding.

[@mdd4296]

except in cyoa fmv games the player actually has agency

[@hoilst]

@@mdd4296 True. True. It really sucks that game developers can't figure out a way to create a decent narrative in an interactive medium, and instead tend to crank out acting simulators like COD - you know, where your action is to hit your cue and nothing else.

[@fromulus]

The midway flying mission drove me fucking insane, it was so excessively difficult to move the plane.

[@a2e5]

It just doesn’t roll!

[@edin5317]

What do you expect its a dive bomber

[@SecuR0M]

@@edin5317 Actually good controls.

[@smittywjmj]

@@edin5317 The SBD Dauntless actually had excellent maneuverability. "Swede" Vejtasa famously claimed three Zeroes killed in his Dauntless during the Battle of the Coral Sea.

[@mr.s9783]

Y'all remember WaW's Black Cats mission? That was a goodie.

[@onearmedbandit84]

2:07 'You shall play a crucial role in our vore effort'

[@echodelta2172]

STAHP

[@handlethisshitainttwitternigga]

Terrible, vile and genuinely atrocious.

[@SolidRaiden2655]

@@echodelta2172 NO!

[@amphal4467]

*critical* role, that's the whole joke

[@Dr.Oofers]

*stop*

[@funa8843]

kid: mom can i get Wolfenstein? mom: we have Wolfenstein at home the Wolfenstein at home:

[@Noelle_Holiday]

Ironically enough, Wolfenstein is way more historically-accurate than this game despite taking place in an alternate universe.

[@Kat-ci8kl]

All I'm trying to figure out is how they have a STG 44 in 1942 and why it's in the Pacific theater

[@mrbubblestea]

WaW was a fairly accurate take on WW2, they even had the Russians and Allies fighting on different fronts. The Japanese had Japanese firearms, the Germans had German firearms, the Russians had Russian firearms, and the Allies had our own. That game came out over a decade ago at this point. Vanguard is such a step back in terms of quality control. The gameplay itself is fine, but to put MODERN SHOOTING STANCES in a WW2 game? The Japanese carrying STG44s? The complete lack of unrealistic behavior from the main character(s)? The CONSTANT need to seem like they're trying to "start a conversation" versus just making a game set in WW2? It's fucking upsetting. Sledgehammer truly doesn't understand how to make a good CoD at this point.

[@thatperformer3879]

Wokeness can’t create, only destroy.

[@dickyarya8204]

Timestamp of the stg?

[@LONEWOLF109]

It was originally meant to be an alt history game but apparently they did not do to good of a job telling people that

[@keldonirving1697]

The problem is how fucking "woke" this game is. There are many issues, but I'll name a few. First: You said it yourself. Nothing matches with the time period essentially. (Edit: sorry wrong comment. There is another comment saying how there were like 1944 guns being used in 1942 and other shit like that) Second: There were like no women in WW1 and 2. It's unrealistic. Also, in WaW, there was not a single women present in the game. It portrayed war accurately. (Not trying to sound like an incel, but oh well.) Third: This game literally stole other games' mechanics. You got the focus vision from hitman, and assassin's creed climbing mechanics. Fourth: Back to WaW, there were some racist comments on both sides. Thats how war is, basically dehumanizing the enemies. I'd be surprised if there was even a goddamn swear in this game, let alone racist comments. (Not saying I support racism, I'm saying I want the game to actually be realistic) Although I will say that I enjoyed advanced warfare. I thought the game was fine.

[@andrealves2630]

CoD 3 had fantastic historical accuracy, with the exception of the SAS missions. Of course its about a single battle (the Falaise Pocket), but it was pretty impressive for CoD standards

[@YouJustAmazeMe]

Feels like they want to make movies more than a game

[@XMJ3904]

Shitty movies at that

[@banditoshockydrugs4627]

@@XMJ3904 some good and some bad , the mw franchise was great , same about the black ops franchise (only bo1 , bo2 , bocw and waw)

[@dubiouscollector9763]

That Steiner eternal monolog at the brink of death was so painful and it was all speed up!

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

It would've been so much more cathartic if Steiner had begun to do his monologue and act all smug, and then Laura Bailey just immediately kicked him off the roof in the middle of his sentence

[@DetectiveMekova]

If they wanted to do something different with the era then they could've chosen the Polish Guerilla fighters during Nazi Occupation, or the Indian Army during the Invasion of Ethiopia against the Italians, and the entire African theater. There's a whole freaking potential story arc in the African Theater waiting to be told, like how the British soldiers were often prejudice against the Indians, but overtime they all got along due to the comradery. Imagine playing as an Indian soldier experiencing some of the prejudice during a small tutorial/bootcamp section where you are tasked with racing to race down an obstacle course against a British soldier. If you win, you get a dopamine hit via an achievement and idk an attaboy. If you lose then you get a "no hard feelings" and a pat on the back.

[@nathanbrisebois8756]

I would frickin love an Indian Campaign or a Chinese campaign fighting the Japanese in China. There are so many lesser known battles and fronts that are super cool and interesting. COD should be doing that, instead of shoehorning in modern shooter mechanics, weapons and attachments. So much content, so many fresh stories and options for story writing and character development. All COD really needs to be is a good WW2 shooter, that's it. Keep the gimmicky stuff for the modern titles, I want historical accuracy with extreme attention to detail and more battles that aren't D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Stalingrad, etc. Some of my favourite WW2 games are the ones with some lesser known battles, or games that take one of those overly used battles and put some kind of fresh spin on it

[@derth9230]

@@nathanbrisebois8756 FINNALLY SOMEONE TALKED ABOUT AN ACTUAL GAMEPLAY OF A CHINESE CAMPAIGN

[@canthi109]

@@nathanbrisebois8756 Also in 2 CHINA! You can play a Comunist china soldier and a Koumingtan one

[@rfichokeofdestiny]

Yes, but that would require actual thought, historical research, talented writers, and most importantly of all: time. That would delay the annual excretion of this shit sandwich that somehow continues to pump money directly into Bobby Kotick’s pocket.

[@bruhman5829]

@@nathanbrisebois8756 holy fuck I would love a Chinese campaign, or an Indian one too. or one in africa. really i’m just tired of playing as Mr. Action Movie One-Liner

[@ToonamiT0M]

"What about second world war" absolutely got me. That line was beautiful.

[@drollyrancher7020]

In this mission 5:47, Japanese use Stg-44’s along with type-100’s. I get that the campaign wants to give you automatic weapons but cmon. 95% of the Japanese military carried Arisaka’s

[@alessandromigliorini3435]

A Raygun maybe? 🤣🤣 "Accurate history"

[@UmiZoomR]

Who cares?

[@MRB2580]

@@UmiZoomR People paying $60 for a WW2 game. AAA devs can't get basic shit right.

[@M4V3R1CK_13]

@@alessandromigliorini3435 that raygun on waw campaing was an easter egg you heathen. also the thundergun on black ops 1 campaign

[@alessandromigliorini3435]

@@M4V3R1CK_13 Yes

[@jamiearmstrong3487]

Doesn't feel like Stalingrad. Played W&W for hours, that mission was rich. The opening for Polina was alright, but didn't feel any connection to her, or anyone in this game to be honest. Reznov was great, and the sniper engagement was wonderful. This one, utterly boring. Then when you see the city... No one is out there, its just silent. The ending of Stalingrad was using a Soviet unit to flush out a German commander, assassinate him, then run from Panzer fire. Don't want to remark on the rest but - Aussie stuff was just boring, especially the little base-raid. Paratroopers and casemates, had potential but just forgettable, anything is I can't care to remember.

[@Winasaurus]

COD needs to remember that giving me 5 seconds with a characters family and then killing them doesn't make me care *cough cough* New MW Campaign *cough cough* There's a reason peoples favorite characters in this series are just engimatic badasses introduced by talent, not a sob story. Price, Reznov, Soap spring to mind. Even Mason, Woods and Ghost to an extent. And Reznov's introduction is one of the best. Showcasing his extreme skill and knowledge about combat, and with a really interesting set piece of the sniper fight and escaping the flamethrowers. Meanwhile here and in MW campaign it's just like "Chat with family for 5 minutes, family die, get weapon, fight, ???, like the character" but obviously doesn't work. Also in terms of what they ripped from other games, the "stealth around and stab the guy 3 times" thing is taken straight from that mw campaign. It wasn't even that long ago and they're copying it.

[@FrenchyJr]

Waw Stalingrad was heartbreaking and also terrifying, it was so damn good cod can never make another good one, waw will always be good

[@GreekPele]

@@Winasaurus I mean the Ghosts campaign was pretty good and the entire story was based around one family.

[@dustypirate28]

@@Winasaurus I would have been more interested in Reznov’s intro if it wasn’t a blatant plagiarism of the intro sniping scene from Enemy at the Gates. They came back this game with another rip-off by stealing the same department store setting in Stalingrad. Truly a creatively bankrupt franchise.

[@Winasaurus]

@@dustypirate28 Thing is at least if you've never seen Enemy at the Gates, Reznov's intro is interesting because it twists the gameplay. You're not just sniping, you're timing your shots and trying to get collaterals, you're counter-sniping while changing positions, you're running away from impossible odds. The new campaigns rip moments from other things but then go on to not make them interesting in gameplay terms either. Having a father figure killed and then the younger character having to avenge them as a loss of innocence thing is a gimmick that has existed forever. MW Campaign does it in a boring "do it 3 times" boss fight with crappy stealth. Last of Us does it with an interesting raid on a camp as Ellie with unique gameplay due to her keeping her knife and a holdout section. Basically, ripping off is fine so long as you do it in an interesting way.

[@maybetomorrowmaybe]

"You shall play a critical role in our vore effort!" I had to do a double take at 2:08

[@echodelta2172]

too much internet...

[@reapordeath]

Accents, SON! Can you speak em?!

[@sakkra93]

Like a classic 1950s British war film!

[@BrownEyePinch]

Its basically the free demo level of a video game, but they charge $60 for it.

[@terragthegreat175]

the whole appeal of WW2 games is feeling like a real soldier. Making your MC a member of a super secret spec ops team just kills that. It's much less interesting imo

[@ilikemoviesandmore]

9:39, always nice to have your main character commit horrendous war crimes, makes them so relatable.

[@dustinakadustin]

I'd love to see a video where they switch games every time a war crime is commited😂 include Battlefield Hardline cause as a police officer you can just unload on surrendering suspects and it's apparently okay😂

[@SomeOne-vf1rs]

Idk. While most people might not follow through with setting a nazi on fire, a lot of people would like the idea of setting a nazi on fire. Them being nazis and all... y’know. And aside from that it’s a dumb action game and not some deep experience condoning any of this or painting a realistic picture.

[@georgevelis4651]

if one war crime was acceptable then it's definitely burning a Nazi alive

[@dustinakadustin]

@@SomeOne-vf1rs depends if the story is trying to take itself seriously and tell a meaningful narrative. If there's disconnect between how the character acts and what they say they believe in or are fighting for its jarring and bad storytelling.

[@SomeOne-vf1rs]

Dustin Caldwell Yeah definitely

[@stanleysmith7551]

8:10 'Kick him off the building please' Character: checks his covid pass. 🤣🤣

[@Andriej69]

Never let Twitter make a COD campaign

[@tobiasgerhardt7604]

What

[@AFGuidesHD]

0:44 I agree. I loved her normal voice (like 10 years ago when she wasn't in literally everything at the time) but her accents are trash

[@rinothename5563]

Yeah activision or sledgehammer could've hire the Metro voice actors/actress.

[@lightmetro7508]

@@rinothename5563 which just so happen to be the sake actors for the Russian enemies in the MW and black ops games

[@kabbablabba4073]

does this game actually end with you and your squad committing a war crime against a defenseless captured enemy lmao

[@jameswolf3302]

i mean, why not? it's WW2, let's do some war crimes, It's nice to commit war crimes

[@dianabarnett6886]

World at War did it better. Treated it like the horrific thing it is, and it gave the player the option to stand by and watch, participate, or intervene.

[@_viken]

Who cares about the war crime though, the character they do it against is the replacement Fuhrer. He isn’t some regular young German man.

[@thatperformer3879]

@@_viken And that’s exactly the point, these SJW’s wanted to play out their fantasies in this game. Believe me in their minds they probably were thinking about conservatives when watching that guy burn. Just because the man was very evil, does not automatically justify an equal course of action in the way the narrative presents it. Like the guy above me said, WaW actually makes you question the ethics of war crimes, as opposed to being forced narratively to commit one in this game and the writers telling you to enjoy it. That’s sick. If I were to replace the Nazi with any other group you’d attack me for it.

[@andystegall7407]

@@_viken If you don't understand the irony of it then that's the problem. If the argument is "who cares, they're Nazis they deserve it" replace the word Nazis with Jews. The point is, if you're going to brutalize and torture a group of people that brutalized and tortured a group of people, how is what you did any different than what they did?

[@pumpkinlord1117]

06:15 STG44 on an island in south-east-asia in the hands of an american while the gun didnt even got invented yet. This gun travels through time and space i guess.

[@Gruntvc]

It's like Sledgehammer and Activision looked at Battlefield V and said, "This is great, let's do that too!" History repeats itself again. The last good WW2 CoD was 2008's World At War, heck even Black Ops 1 had a better WW2 level than Vanguard's entire campaign. Not even gonna bring older WW2 CoDs into this, they'd annihilate Vanguard. Can't believe they actually gave your characters super powers like X-ray vision, bullet time, and aim botting. Lame. Infinite Warfare had the last great campaign. MW Reboot had a few decent levels too. Sledgehammer makes the worst CoDs. Wanna know what's really sad about this soulless corporate AAA game? Once great devs like Ravensoft and Highmoon worked on it. Sad...

[@fritzy.]

And 2042 looked at MW19 and said "What if we copied that?"

[@Gruntvc]

@Fritz, Yeah, why couldn't they copy Warzone? That's free to play. Dice/EA are charging full AAA prices for 2042 and its got season pass baloney and no single player. Even Halo Infinite's multiplayer is free to play...

[@fritzy.]

@@Gruntvc Its legit MW19 with BF shit

[@Jormyyy]

RIP High Moon, I'll forever miss them making Transformers games.

[@burnttoast26]

@@fritzy. All 2042 does is make me think of 2142 and make me sad about how EA killed it.

[@saschaberger3212]

Man that campaign looks pathetic

[@NexusKin]

Give me COD2 and World At War anyday over this.

[@derth9230]

@@NexusKin heck i'd even take 2017

[@dickjohnson9996]

5:29 "I don't wanna do the stealth" -Every gamer ever, unless I'm SPECIFICALLY playing a stealth game.

[@collectibletaco7797]

Yeah exactly, unless it is a stealth game or the stealth mission is really good, I don't want to play it

[@ieuanhunt552]

If Cod vanguard wanted to make a unique campaign why didn't they show lesser known battles. I want to play as a Chinese conscript during the battle of the hundred regiments. Or a G.I in monte casino. Or a Desert Rat in Libya.

[@80krauser]

Or how about a partisan in Greece or Yugoslavia? A stealth mission by Polish resistance delivering something vital? Or one of the OTHER Asian countries dealing with Japanese occupation? Fight through the jungles of Indo China alongside Ho Chi Min? Or the Philippines or with the Indian army?

[@drmaulana2600]

fuck that normie shit, let me play as that korean dude that fought for Japanese, Soviet, and German and later captured by allies in Normandy.

[@emunuddles]

Or the French holding out at Dunkirk til the English were evacuated

[@sentrygun9978]

Or the soldier named Semen Hitler

[@danshakuimo]

@@drmaulana2600 Lol you would need an entire campaign just for that one guy

[@stevesmele755]

Gotta love an stg-44 assault rifle made in 1944 being used in Japanese occupied islands in 1943

[@huggniceman4975]

"Our first year film students worked very hard on this script!" That killed me. And it's so true, the dialogue in this game was complete shit.

[@MH-tr4kn]

I love how clean and uncluttered Stalingrad is

[@baron8576]

Call of Duty 2 is still the best WW2 CoD alongside World at War and at this point nothing can change my mind.

[@maxsomerjoki8147]

Definitely COD2 was a masterpiece

[@NexusKin]

I'd even take Call Of Duty 3 over this trash.

[@saintmuerte13]

"Take it seriously, our first year film students worked very hard on this script" fucking got me.

[@elijahkrewson6665]

The most filler of COD games to be released in recent memory. This definitely has the feeling of, "We just need *something* in the market until we can get the big studio to make the next one, again."

[@throwawayaccount1869]

I just noticed how the "good guys" in this game are way more brutal than the "bad guys" Germans killed the girl's brother in one shot, but the girl stabbed a guy, left him to bleed for 10+ minutes, gave him head trauma, and then finally kicked him off a building in 30 minutes.

[@SCPKing1835]

but uhhh... the Holocaust?

[@throwawayaccount1869]

@@SCPKing1835 In the video game, not irl

[@SCPKing1835]

@@throwawayaccount1869 they shot dozens of innocent civilians, you literally see that in game

[@QTZALCTAL]

They also pour gasoline on ONE GUY and LIGHT HIM ON FIRE Burning to death is one of the most brutal ways to die and these """"Good"""" guys did it to an unarmed man

[@roadkill.highway]

@@SCPKing1835 if the good guys were in their place they would’ve done the same but instead they would’ve shot their arms off and left them to bleed to death

[@RiverKinn]

"objective updated: spend time with your family" made me laugh out loud

[@julienmattel7949]

The fact that british paratrooper didn't managed to capture the Merville battery truly shows that they didn't do any researchs

[@Ikcatcher]

That moment when Battle For The Pacific looked more entertaining than Vanguard

[@NexusKin]

Yeah, and that was a budget History Channel licensed game from all the way back in 2007.

[@Kommradable]

The German guns in the pacific grind my gears so bad I’m slipping

[@huskycruxes7232]

Vanguards campaign feels like a prologue to a story they haven't finished writing.

[@hydrophilicchristopher9874]

Don’t worry. You’ll see the glory of the rest of it with the seasonal updates

[@MistahFox]

2:07 "You shall play a critical part in our vore effort." Uhhhh.......

[@mayuzanevideos]

I was actually worried she wasn't going to kick him off the roof after all that dialogue. At least we have that.

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

It's official: COD WAW was the last WW2 game that was accurate.

[@knightmareza9478]

It wasn’t totally accurate either. Replayed it recently and spotted a King tiger in the scene where you snipe the general. It had its flaws, but at least they seem like they tried

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

@@knightmareza9478 and actually cared too.

[@average7.62enjoyer]

@@knightmareza9478 or that tank level where your lone T-34 can just wipe a whole panzer corps by itself lol

[@Saxton_Hoovy]

@@average7.62enjoyer Considering you do the same as infantryman in every game what's the difference.

[@Dr.Oofers]

@@knightmareza9478 WaW was back in the day when Infinity Ward and Treyarch had passion in their games. The comparison between Vanguard and WaW is… depressing. Same goes for comparing Black Ops 1 to Cold War.

[@leonardogermannsanna350]

Gotta love that the father survived a firing squad execution enough to tell his dramatic last words at 3:32

[@cybergames3436]

Remember when games had good stories?

[@Kirbyoto2098]

Call of Duty games? No, absolutely not.

[@burnttoast26]

There are still good stories in other genres. Wrath of the Righteous had a pretty good story.

[@johnpanicker7590]

...when

[@Mr.Scott86]

@@Kirbyoto2098 I mean black ops 1 and 2 were pretty good in my opinion, same with waw and the MW trilogy

[@Ikcatcher]

What kinda fucking games have you been playing to make such a general statement? You’re making it sound like ALL games nowadays don’t have good stories

[@wolfsoldner9029]

1:12 The actual controversy in that scene should be that the black soldier made fun of the raping of German women during the Rhineland occupation.

[@drippless4173]

Instant sub for calling out how shit veteran in CoD is. I mean it’s not even like the ai is better you just take more unavoidable hitscan damage.

[@NexusKin]

I remember playing COD Black Ops on Veteran, and all the enemies literally had aimbot accuracy where they could hit you if you were even a millimeter out of cover.

[@derth9230]

@@NexusKin good times

[@sovietfartbanger1480]

Well wait till you suffer grenade spam of waw veteran 😭😭

[@bug9657]

"Is this the best looking flamethrower in a game" Far, far from it, my friend.

[@nikolairostov3326]

It’s looks cool, but not realistic at all.

[@NexusKin]

World At War had a much better flamethrower in every way.

[@wilhufftarkin8543]

I didn't really expect much, but I was still disappointed. MW2019's campaign was good and Cold War's campaign was really good (for a COD campaign), so I didn't expect this one to be SO bad.

[@FoxtrotSierra951]

2:10 I’m not sure I want to play a critical role in anybody’s “vore effort”

[@emptyhusk702]

I remember SHG saying games take years to research every detail for accuracy and authenticity. What a bunch of clowns.

[@Sirmisfits1]

This game’s campaign makes cod ww2 campaign look like the Mona Lisa in comparison. At least in the cod ww2 campaign it was going for a more of a movie style presentation but at least the character don’t try to make cringy one liners or make them look like psychopaths for enjoying to kill people, I even go as far to say cod ww2 campaign had some soul into it and it tried to make you feel sorry for the people fighting in the war.

[@Journey_to_who_knows]

"THERE'S ALWAYS A GODDAMN TRAIN" - Arthur Morgan

[@mattc7420]

4:24 if a real pilot said this, he would immediately get arrested.

[@SCPKing1835]

court martial speedrun any%

[@mr.s9783]

The campaign in this game looks painful.

[@hussien04]

Every thing in this game is painful

[@nogoodgreen3274]

Thank you Oboe, i didnt want to buy this and you have solidified that opinion for me. Thank you for enduring this boring game for all of us.

[@FreakingSpies]

I am so glad I just found this channel you deserve so many more subscribers, you're halarious.

[@Melchizidek777]

"I've killed more of you than I can count" x doubt

[@dianabarnett6886]

"I don't know. I can count awfully high."

[@_viken]

The real life Russian lady had the most recorded kills for a sniper and for a soldier in recorded history, so yeah, she does. If I remember correctly, it’s around 304-316.

[@lovrom7671]

@@_viken Take that number with great care. Soviet propaganda had no limits, really.

[@_viken]

@@lovrom7671 While that could be the case, we can say that about any nation and how they record kills.

[@mikzpwnz_3199]

*"Gas Gas Gas" starts playing*

[@INeedJesus4sure]

When Polina said that the Germans are "all the same" she wasn´t critizing the Nazis, she was critizising the the writers of CoD.

[@TROY2048]

call of duty now is like if friends had 40 seasons

[@BigBadBalrog]

I've never felt more in tune with another soul than the first 10 seconds here

[@Cyro_2235]

1:06 German Paratroopers of the Luftwaffe in a Submarine............. Nobody. NOBODY in the process of making this game ever opened up a history book!

[@SCPKing1835]

a fucking wikipedia article would've been fine, but no

[@quakeSanchez]

Thanks for suffering on our behalf. P. S. Fingerless "tactical" gloves in the winter of 1942? Get out of my face, whoever made that decision.

[@danielbold6167]

Call of Duty 2 did the same thing.

[@ImperatorOfficial0]

5:11 As a Romanian, I see you are a man of culture

[@AC-hj9tv]

Based Romania

[@SturmgeschuetzIV]

This is the first video I ever saw of you in november. Now I nearly completed watching all of your stuff and read into Bionicle Lore and bought some Hitman games.

[@jxpd7898]

I love the massive difference between the bland gameplay graphics and super ultra detailed cinematics

[@chasetoyama8184]

“Formations just slow me down” -Every Ace Combat protagonist ever

[@randomperson2797]

Day 512 of trying to get Oboe to do a Skyrim Sigurd RP I think COD needs to end at this point, at least on the single player front, they’ve done everything and at this point there’s nothing left to do, unless... CALL OF DUTY: Medieval Warfare

[@jacaredosvudu1638]

WW1,Korea War,Gulf War,Dominican Civil war,Afghanistan war from the 80's ,other battles and fronts of WW2 that AAA companys tend to ignore ,a shit ton of civil wars the US intervene,the Philippines colonisation and the list can go on

[@jacaredosvudu1638]

But Medieval could be cool But probably they are going to do something unthinkable with it

[@grxzy7950]

The easiest way cod could make ww2 feel fresh is to just allow you to play as Germans, Japanese, Italians, Turkish etc etc etc. You don't always have to be on the allies side to tell a compelling story.

[@collectibletaco7797]

Turks never saw combat....

[@grxzy7950]

@@collectibletaco7797 incorrect

[@grxzy7950]

@@youfeelittoodontyou6921 or even just those committing the crimes. We never see a cod where the US or Japanese commit mass rape but always see the 1980s cliche of a good guy. Not that I want to see a mass race or genocide but just play the field and stop glorifying a war fought to feed the war machine.

[@collectibletaco7797]

@@grxzy7950 Where did turks fight during WW2 then?

[@hallu4696]

@@youfeelittoodontyou6921 the thing is that plot has been overdone in the entertainment industry too

[@krispinwah2784]

6:41 genuinely, unironically thought you were playing the first Call of Duty for a second there. What the fuck are those visuals

[@tama7026]

"Treyarch didn't make this one" lmao Dude i just wanted CoD WaW remaster :(

[@TwiggyBoy]

7:02 that hand model......This is a AAA game btw

[@rinothename5563]

I think its just him lowering the graphics? I see in the beginning parts of the video there were frame drops so maybe he lowered the graphics to run it smoothly.

[@_viken]

He definitely lowered the graphics.

[@MerchantrRe4]

Somehow the Highest rated game of 2021, fucking bullshit it is. Forza Horizon 5 is a better game

[@QueenYeenOfAberdeen]

You know I thought the campaign would be the only redeeming quality with how it promises multiple fronts and what, clearly I was mistaken.

[@jameswolf3302]

i wasn't really that disapointed at the game except for the short campaing, weapon attachments in the campaing, Germans using shotguns, Japanese using weapons that are not japanese and having stalingrad not being a total chaos(it does feel a little like Stalingrad, it just doesn't feel like WaW Stalingrad, sure, post total chaos stalingrad still had some chaos, but it was more like a sniper city full of smoke and dust in the air, with a few firefights going on, but the sky in the game is almost totally clean). Im not a person that's easy so impress, in fact, it's very hard to impress me, but it's not really that hard to make me satisfied, but something has to be complete shit to make me dissapointed.

[@mrmike-ss8gq]

"never start with the head the victim gets all wozzy... see!" lmfao, i subscribed and like the video right after that!!!

[@jeremygreynemo2762]

Ok that arma impression is as savage as it is accurate

[@collectibletaco7797]

Man, 100 meters, front Man, 100 meters, front Man, 100 meters, front Man, 100 meters, front

[@chrystalriver570]

6:05 “no torture scene this time boys” continues to wacth flame throwers torch people and enavetably the order being shouted was torch her

[@randobandobby6443]

Alright you got me good with the "do not trust Laura Bailey." bit. good job.

[@frontierjustice2816]

Can I just say the sniper ADS looks like you’re trying to aim through a child’s magnifying glass??

[@dinosaurstwice4959]

“But what about Second World War?” Banger

[@koshizmusic]

Never seen your vids before but just to be perfectly clear, they're great, but I subbed based on the reference at 04:11 alone. 😂👍

[@jaded3160]

I finally watched this mans content after not watching it for months, good content still after awhile ngl.