Modern Warfare 2: Atmosphere Through Sound

[@3Black.1Red]

5:15 "The melancholy score of Hans Zimmer..." Small correction: Lorne Balfe wrote the majority of the music in this game; Hans Zimmer mainly contributed to the main theme.

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Didn't know that! Thanks, I'll pin this!

[@someguy2272]

tbf that specific track in that part of the mission was made by Hans Zimmer

[@myles9404]

Fine I’ll play the campaign again

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

As god intended.

[@annemccormick2561]

Jesus loves you john 3:16 fear THE lord he died for your sins so that whoever believe in him will not perish but have eternal life and escape hell no one will enter heaven by living a good life but though true faith in him we will be saved We've all sinned and deserve hell but jesus paid the price

[@Alfonse-dm6ht]

​@@GingerRunnerGaming Mind Changing It God

[@Joe-fi7qz]

Theres something so distinctive about the campaigns through COD 4 to Blacks ops 2. They have a clear identiy with their set pieces, characters, places etc and a certain bravodo that has been matched by anything else since. Feels like ever since BO2 (with a few exceptions) campaign has just been a flavourless meal with some cool moments mashed in between but nothing of any real substance. Any way sorry for the yap session nice vid bro.

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Exactly. CoD4 to BO2 had an actual world they fleshed out. Infinite Warfare I think also did a great job of this (may be a future video). The modern entries may be more "realistic", but it's like in their attempt to be serious they don't stick the landing.

[@Alfonse-dm6ht]

​@@GingerRunnerGaming Nah They Are Too Marvel Tier

[@TheNobleone-d9f]

It’s because straight white men made the games, now we have a bunch of liberal hipsters making them

[@Chrisey96.]

There's a video of all the background radio chatter in of their own accord, and that video is 15 minutes long. It just goes to show the amount of effort they put into it all for something you only hear a few seconds of.

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Yeah that channel posted a few videos of it, just full on conversations that you only hear pieces of in the game. They went all in on the atmosphere for sure!

[@HragFarraGaming]

and it shows how it went from bad.. to worse right before Captain Price detonates the nuke over Eastern USA. That was a great and chilling video.

[@JP73RS]

5:54 nerd moment: "Broken Arrow" has multiple meanings in the military, including a code phrase and a term for nuclear weapon accidents: Code phrase During the Vietnam War, "Broken Arrow" was a code phrase used to signal that an American unit was in danger of being overrun by the enemy. The phrase was used to summon all available aircraft to provide immediate support to the ground forces. Nuclear weapon accident "Broken Arrow" is also a term used to describe an accidental event involving nuclear weapons, warheads, or components that does not pose a risk of nuclear war. This includes incidents such as accidental launch, detonation, theft, or loss of a nuclear weapon. Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents known as "Broken Arrows". Other terms used to describe nuclear-weapon incidents include "Faded Giant", which refers to an accident affecting a nuclear reactor, and "Empty Quiver", which refers to the theft or seizure of a functioning nuclear weapon.

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Yup! When I researched this back in 2009 I was kinda surprised there were so many different meanings for it over time!

[@ghosthand3737]

"THEY ARE EVERYWHERE" Still gives me chills, it's so helpless and deadfull, pretty good video, bit of advice, would have spended a little longer in the post EMP Washington section, the absolute silence bronken only by the sound of heavy rain and the soldiers speaking with lower tones absolutely makes that one of my favorite section in the game, it's so eerie, could have woven it a little more in the video, overall pretty good regardless.

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Good point! I did replay the game for this video and should have thought of that lol "What about those guys inside?" "What about 'em?"

[@Alfonse-dm6ht]

​@@GingerRunnerGaming You Can Hear Them Banging The Door

[@Mechfan666]

It is telling that we still remember this game 15 years late (oh god i can't believe its been that long) but some stuff made only a few years ago has already faded into obscurity. I know that being forgotten quickly is the fate of most games, but I feel like its happening more to newer ganes. MW2 was hardly a perfect game or campaign, but it had good enviornmental storytelling and I couldn't even tell you the last game I played that matched it.

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

I think my personal favorite MP games are MW2 2009 and Titanfall 2. Campaign wise it's a toss up between Doom Eternal and Titanfall 2, but on atmosphere stuff it is hard to beat games like MW2 and WaW.

[@Alfonse-dm6ht]

​@@GingerRunnerGaming Try Playing The Exodus Misson Espeically The Part Where Before You Reach The Arcadia Gated Community Between Thr Bridge And The Checkpoint

[@rjlamons2272]

That mission where your pushing with a wolverine is actually one of my favorites in the game. I played both the og and remastered version and would clear out as many enemies as possible so I could go through all the houses, you see dead civilians all throughout the houses, all of the rooms are basically a mess. Going through it felt so surreal, its like, "This is such an unthinkable scenario, and yet here I am looking at it, in a setting that's so eerily familiar yet foreign." You could really put yourself in the shoes of the civilians there, could you imagine you're walking your dog or with your kids then all of the sudden Russian paratroopers in a country so far away start landing on your doorstep? BTR's and tanks are rolling down your street that you've walked so many times, its wild. There's lots of small moments from that mission I like, for instance in the very beginning you can see a civilian in a car speeding out of the combat area between the US and Russian troops, also once you cross that bridge there's a big house at the end of the street that you have to clear, Russian forces are dug in and you can see they've cleared out the place as the family that lived there is dead I think on the patio outside. Near the end you see how even throughout the chaos the house where the HVI is located, a Russian soldier is digging through his fridge completely oblivious to all that is happening around him. Its actually such a surreal mission and one of my sleeper favorites of the game.

[@metalicfilmz]

I love that you fully appreciate the OG 2009 MW2 instead of the remastered

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Yeah it wasn't even a question that I had to get the gameplay from the OG one. It's what I played when I first experienced the game, so it's what should be used (remaster do be lookin' crisp though lol)

[@Alfonse-dm6ht]

The New On Feels Waterdown As Most Remasters Are

[@ryana6961]

@@GingerRunnerGaming OG one has significantly better sounds. The remastered version loses a lot of grittiness in the sounds of the guns and even comms.

[@colonel1003]

Most American game ever made. God no video game mission will ever top Whiskey Hotel. And one small little detail I love is that in MW2R, Extraction Point continues playing after you light your flare

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Extraction Point goes hard. "We've got less than 2 minutes until they flatten the city, we've gotta' get to the roof and stop 'em!"

[@colonel1003]

@ABritishguy2006 perception, only an antagonist to the Brits you play in the game but your highest ranking commander when you play as the Rangers and Price is another antagonist of the Rangers since he’s the one who launched the EMP

[@colonel1003]

And Shepherd’s initial ambition was to have revenge for the 30,000 Marines killed in COD4

[@johnblicky5966]

You described the whole scenario perfectly. I still remember playing it as a kid and once i heard in the intro “THEYRE EVERYWHERE” i jumped off my bed so fast controller in hand ready to get on the game to save America lmfao

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

USA USA USA lol

[@johnblicky5966]

@@GingerRunnerGaming yessir lmao 🇺🇸

[@Alfonse-dm6ht]

Peak Voice Acting

[@DtheMan247]

The fact I lived in Prince George's County made the emergency broadcast part surreal. Love the atmosphere.

[@extremeheat9283]

Man i played this game when it initially came out. Was in middle school i think. Never paid any thought to how deep the voice tracks were until now. Amazing. Makes me want to go play it again.

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

I didn't start looking into them more until I was 19 myself lol

[@Strelnikov403]

The brief, 10-second Cpl. Dunn joke @ 7:48 just earned you a sub LOL. Loved this video, the sound design in MW2 has also stuck with me over the years and I'm glad someone finally put it to words. This channel is gonna blow up, I can already tell.

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Thanks for the kind words :) and yes, I've thought about this topic an unhealthy amount haha!

[@pledgebigmike2977]

A nuke detonating in orbit to trigger an EMP that causes the entire air force over DC to crash on the player's squad is the coolest deus ex machina ever. I will die on this hill.

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

100%. "HOLY SH************T!"

[@edgarbanuelos6472]

I would like to see a Call Of Duty that retells the invasion but from different points of view. Maybe you're a police officer on patrol or an off-duty national guardsman or hell even some Redneck, in line at some convenience store when you suddenly hear the jets and the radio chatter. And suddenly you have to fight on the street with nothing more than a pistol or a squirrel gun. This can go so many exciting routes.

[@AbaddonGamin]

IDGAF WHAT ANYONE SAYS THIS IS THE BEST COD AND FOREVER WILL BE

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Yup. "ENEMY AC-130 ABOVE!" *YEEOOOWWWWWW BOOM* *pom pom pom pom*

[@Alfonse-dm6ht]

History Is Written By The Victors Lets Get To Work

[@Dannamal-hc8pu]

I love how they took the concpet of the movie "Red Dawn" and pumped with steroids. Modern Warfare 2 was and still is such an awesome campaign. Especially the Washington D.C. missions.

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Steroids, creatine, protein, all the goods.

[@cred7862]

MW3 nailed it on New York, in my opinion. I live in NYC, and it was always really cool to fight in places you'd usually see on a daily basis.

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

I did love that fight. When playing MW3 I almost forgot "Oh yeah the US is still fighting the Russians" lol

[@Redofreko]

COD4's grounded nature is unmatched to me but MW2's Russian invasion missions will always be some of my favorite set pieces in all of video games

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Agreed. Hit close to home, literally.

[@tieradlerch.217]

I miss Call of Duty when they did campaign like this, a global scale war and they did more with the sounds not just the graphic upgrades

[@alpolo007]

Exodus was such a fucking good level.

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

I admittedly had a lot more fun on the re-play, lazing the choppers >:)

[@Alfonse-dm6ht]

Coup de Grace Was Perfect

[@valorairsoft-mrrjc4562]

This is such a great video man. Good job!

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Thanks!

[@Gagarin_001]

1.2k and 50 subs? No way bro this video is too good

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Thanks lol

[@evansahlstrom2602]

I think you did a great job with this vide and was surprised you had so few subs yet! I really think you could take content like this to the next level buy tying it into more topical or relevant things happening in the present day. Tying this back to how the Peoples Republic of China is on the rise today and is preparing for War with the US would be the cherry on top and could make for some great thumbnail material!

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

My next video does loosely talk about some current events...

[@Alfonse-dm6ht]

What Wholsome Comment

[@Gigaveld]

great vid, you deserve so many more subscribers

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Thank you :)

[@nicotine_twoshot]

are you a really popular or just really really good channel going undercover? cause this is a top tier video!

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

I've just been making Titanfall gameplays for a while, always wanted to do more essay like content if I could make something of it. Maybe I'll play some more games for content lol

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Also thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it :)

[@Alfonse-dm6ht]

Real

[@panzerinvictus]

how are you this good at video making and only have 76 (now 77) subs? you deserve so much more

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Tbh I got quite lucky with this...they say a video is written three times, the first draft, the revision, and the edit. I had some good friends look this over for the revision, and I had a lot of ideas pop up during the edit. We'll see if I can do this twice :)

[@panzerinvictus]

@@GingerRunnerGaming for sure, great content man

[@Alfonse-dm6ht]

Real

[@ReFr4ct1oN]

If you want to see something similar to this story ark but even bigger - play World in Conflict. It has a pretty good storyline for an RTS game

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

I haven't played an RTS in ages, I may give it a try lol

[@theloreoverseer7106]

The term “horrors of war” exist for a reason…

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Indeed. War should always be a last resort for this exact reason.

[@someguy2272]

mw2 is so good

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Basically a life raft for surviving the 2008 recession.

[@nicholascauton9648]

Modern Warfare 2's campaign is probably my favorite campaign out of any CoD game ever. And this story arc of the 75th Ranger Regiment sells the atmospheric audio and voice acting extremely well. It even introduced me to the 75th Ranger Regiment for the first time ever back when I was playing this in high school back in 2009. While this didn't quite give me nightmares about a foreign invasion coming to our home soil, that did get me thinking: If it were to happen, even neighborhood gangs will take up arms just to defend our streets. No doubt U.S. troops definitely will participate in defending our home soil. That much cannot be questioned. But I think realistically, almost EVERYONE would participate in the defense. Whether it's you or me, our parents, our siblings, the police, the SWAT team, street gangs as I've mentioned earlier, it's not too hard to imagine prison guards releasing inmates and arming them just to participate in the defense of the country against Russian or Chinese invaders. After all, it's pretty likely that's happening right now in 2024 on Ukrainian soil. Apart from soldiers and police, gangs are also shooting Russian troops at all hours of the day and night whenever they see them.

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Yup. No one wants to invade the US.

[@Alfonse-dm6ht]

​@@GingerRunnerGaming Ay The British Did

[@nicholascauton9648]

@@Alfonse-dm6ht That when we barely started on the path to becoming a superpower. But if we're talking right now, no country would ever be dumb enough to want to invade the U.S. home soil.

[@alpolo007]

Oof that POV.

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

You mean the FOV? I can't play a PC game on console FOV, that's blasphemous!

[@shlinkt8449]

Whenever I play this mission I think the Russians are doing more of a, "Break everything and leave" more then they are actually trying to occupy the US, They know they can't actually win a fight on American soil with paratroopers. They're trying to draw attention from their push on Europe in MW3

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

This is most probable. Then again though this game also makes the assumption that the Russian military has the same strength as they did in the 1980s and then some haha!

[@KILLSWITCH14FP69]

Would've been even more emersive with civilians in the area helping you fight the enemy with just some rag tag airsoft gear for camouflage and Russian gear like helmet and body armor they couldn't afford themselves scavenged off the enemy

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

I would agree with you, but the reality of civilians trying to fight alongside their military is that they are completely uncoordinated. The difference between a rag tag militia and a military is discipline and coordination. Allied civilians, armed or not, would be a massive hinderance and risk to military ops. That being said, you'd certainly see people at minimum defending their homes and fleeing to your established lines if they think they'll be safer.

[@evanmeany7646]

Nice vid ❤

[@mickeymike7490]

I’m the 100th subscriber 😎

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Thank you lol, be sure to check my latest upload!

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

My next video essay on the CoD4 and WaW sniper missions is now live: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4u6Z3iGZ5iNhZI

[@Twilby_ig]

How is this so small

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

As in, why is the video so short? I prefer shorter content for editing purposes, in my opinion if you can't make a point in 10 minutes, you're writing too much, and the audience will likely make your video second monitor content. If I'm going to edit something, I want the audience to watch it, not just listen :)

[@mbtenjoyer9487]

👍

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

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[@Bigmellow_]

No, i like the new cod campaign. They have women ops on the field. It really makes me feel hype. Like when that chick saved us in vanguard. We need more games like that. This is just toxic.

[@1261A]

ragebait

[@Maki-qw8he]

Stupid comment lmao

[@bubbles190]

You aint gettin invaded bruh..

[@GingerRunnerGaming]

Those nightmares are like 1 dream out of 10,000. Believe me, I know the US ain't gettin' invaded anytime soon...

[@Alfonse-dm6ht]

Cant Never Be Sure On That....

[@Phillip_Graves]

Bro the borders wide open...WYM?!?