Playing the Forgotten, Lowest Rated CoD Campaign

As the penultimate classic CoD, we take on Call of Duty: World at War Final Fronts - blind & on Veteran of course. This often forgotten PS2 counterpart of the beloved World at War is considered one of the worst campaigns in the franchise by any who even remember to include it in a ranking.
*Correction: the lowest rated CoD so far. Congrats MWIII.
Edited full game commentary playthrough.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Final Fronts history
1:41 - Basic Training
4:59 - Tokyo Express
8:10 - Betio Assault
12:09 - Betio Airfield
16:55 - Codename: Forager
21:03 - Mount Tapochau
25:14 - Ettelbruck
30:19 - The Race to Bastogne
33:10 - The Relief of Bastogne
38:00 - Battle of Bure
41:05 - The Rhine
44:03 - Braunau am Inn
48:11 - Typhoon of Steel
53:54 - Shuri Castle
1:00:31 - End
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[@Sedan57Chevy]

I was the broke PS2 kid who wanted world at war more than any other game...even more than modern warfare. Compared to the other PS2 cods, I felt like this was actually pretty decent, taking inspiration from real world at war and adding its own spin on things. I would definitely play a remaster/port of this game, as it has some pretty good missions. Seeing it brought up to the same graphical standards as the actual world at war would've made it pretty awesome.

[@Tysandifer]

Na old COD is still better

[@alonelylokimain3710]

​@@Tysandiferyour stupid asf for saying that considering this is made by the same team as the "old cod" unlike the ones after

[@Heytherefuckface]

Same I was so confused when months later all my buddies were talking about Nazi zombies and I was so confused.

[@Tony-cn9ro]

Feels. I felt I missed out on WaW though eventually I got to play it. I must have replayed this campaign like 5 times lol.

[@thatontariofarmer]

Same. This was the "we have CoD at home", but I played the shit out of it when I was 10-11 years old

[@The1of1000]

The real value to this game is that it was rated “T” as opposed to the regular WaW’s “M” rating. An absolute godsend for us kids who weren’t allowed to play M-rated games growing up, but wanted to play CoD.

[@luckydude29]

You aren’t kidding, thats why when I finally got a PS3 i played Battlefield Bad Company for lord knows how many hours. It was the only battlefield game rated T.

[@TheHabsburgJaw]

All cods on the PS2 were rated T I believe because of how low poly the graphics were. It was more of a PG/PG13 version of a war movie. Because it just physically couldn't be that graphic. It wasn't until WAW on the PS3/360 that we saw actual gore in a cod game. I still remember the first time I blew the arm off of a German soldier in the Stalingrad mission.

[@johnclay2716]

I've always been puzzled at one kind of nutcase parents wouldn't let their kids play certain video games

[@jonny-b4954]

My parents never cared about any of that. Only nudity, but even at like 12 and 13 they stopped covering my eyes for nudity in movies.

[@theorett21]

@@johnclay2716trust me as one of them, the kids of said parents grow up equally as puzzled lol

[@laughsxgiggles]

Now we know where Roebuck, Polansky and Miller were between Makin and Peliliu. Would be cool if someone remade these missions with a WaW mod.

[@shortsotera4933]

This is like the expansion pack for WaW Regular I’d like to see the remaster of this masterpiece and also the remake of WaW

[@joaogomes9405]

At the same time, they don't really seem to be the same Roebuck, Polonsky and Miller. None of them look anything like their regular WaW counterparts, and Roebuck starts as a sergeant instead of a corporal who gets promoted after Sullivan dies. They sound the same at least

[@shortsotera4933]

@@joaogomes9405 ah yes Final Fronts didn’t have Sgt. Sullivan Roebuck was a sergeant from the start not like the OG

[@shortsotera4933]

But at least we know what happened in western front when Dimitri and co push from east

[@TundranTiconderoga]

@@shortsotera4933 The weird thing is Sullivan is in the game, they just call him Turner for some reason 3:09

[@nicholasbates7826]

I had no idea there was a next gen version of this game when I was a kid. It wasn't until like 2010 when I played the PS3 version. I was blown away at the differences

[@Masked_SVincent]

When I found out they even had a zombies mode I was blown away

[@Rebelo....]

​@@Masked_SVincentlmao i wanted to have waw because of zombies but i only had a ps2 at the time and my parents bought me the ps2 version and i was so fucking confused as to why i didnt have zombies in my game 😂😂 old times man...

[@broncofan4686]

@@Rebelo.... same I then googled why it didnt have zombies and someone in a forum told me I had to beat it on veteran lol... I grinded for hours and when I finally finished I was so depressed there were no zombies

[@Rebelo....]

@@broncofan4686 lmaoo you got fooled bro 😭

[@aztec0996]

I miss when call of duty games were like this and provided some historical context and the feeling of being part of a larger moment in time

[@vincethebanana]

Yeah but don’t you want to play is Nikki Minaj???!?!???!?

[@deloreandmc88]

meow, dude@@vincethebanana

[@Zee3xten7ed]

lmao 😂

[@TheStrayHALOMAN]

But Nicki Minaj tho?

[@fulytomahawks6116]

This feels like a world at war prequel and I’m all for it

[@WYDRetroYT]

I think it is idk

[@ianhines2302]

No it isn’t, Polonsky is a Pvt in regular WAW but here he’s a Corporal. Also Roebuck was only a Corporal under Sullivan at the beginning of WAW where as here he’s already Sergeant during training.

[@travismeta3727]

More like a reimagining of the original game

[@tylerfreal6472]

they got bust down in ranks @@ianhines2302

[@alansilvero]

It appears to be more of an expansion to big red one, using the same engine and everything, with only minor changes like the weapon model and voices. The only addition is the Pacific missions, but there aren't enough of them in the game.

[@kipper8320]

i played this game all the time as a kid but no one seemed to have heard of it. awesome to see you cover it i'm about to get all nostalgic :)

[@JustASideAccount]

Same brother. _👍_

[@AnonEMus-cp2mn]

On the subject of VAs, the British squad leader in COD: Finest Hour was voiced by a member of AC/DC, and said the line "Get ready to break, ready to dash!" as a subtle reference.

[@garrettramsey643]

Brian Johnson the lead singer in f AC/DC

[@adamir-magnumCZ]

The 6th Airbourne in Bastogne mission is something of a hidden gem The atmosphere and music, the snow, the pacing and situational context, variety of encounters and rapid transitions between loud shootouts and tense quiet moments, what a standout As for the rest of the game... yeah, what a bore

[@DJeMo]

And when you watched the series band of brothers around this time, it was something else indeed

[@AnonEMus-cp2mn]

It was very tense music for a cold winter atmosphere. Had the same vibes as Operation Little Saturn from COD: Finest Hour Edit: Found the soundtrack: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2rZY4CtrtZsgdU

[@rubenlopez3364]

@@DJeMoThe lads of Easy company have done the Red Devils a great service!

[@adamfreeksack0314]

The Braunau am Inn mission would be almost good too if not for the insta kill grenades being thrown behind doors

[@aaronhancock3127]

I was one of the few kids in high school that thoroughly enjoyed Final Fronts and replayed it multiple times. I was raised on Medal of Honor, so this was the first CoD game I ever purchased. I knew from my conversations with friends that the 360 version of WaW was something totally different, but I still enjoyed this game nonetheless.

[@saimalishahid1406]

Yea this was a game that I couldn't get enough of when it came to replaying

[@chandlerwhite6529]

I remember getting the hand-me-down PS2 from my cousin, renting this game from Blockbuster for the weekend, and being so pissed that this wasn't the World at War my cousin let me play at this house. This video definitely unlocked some sort of core memory.

[@rubenlopez3364]

Trying to find Nazi Zombies on the PS2 version was another type of disappointment

[@chandlerwhite6529]

@rubenlopez3364 Oh man! Another one unlocked. Dang dude.

[@BlackLotusVisualArchive]

I remember getting this after I got the actual World at War for the PS3 just because I was curious to see how the PS2 one played. I ended up realizing the single redeeming quality were the soundtrack songs that didn't appear in the regular World at War

[@willie-jn9cz]

AND MILLER HAS VOICELINES

[@rubenlopez3364]

That soundtrack has real Gems that should’ve been put in the PS3 version

[@ayyyyph2797]

Fun thing about the flamer: If you hit the head hitbox with it, they'll die like getting a head shot from a normal gun

[@wareaglewelly]

That's wild, I always thought I remembered playing the actual World at War on the PS2 but it was this game the whole time...Didn't realize until I saw you shoot the helmets off the dummys. Brought back all the memories at once.

[@MikiSuzuki2000]

COD World at War was something I saw a friend's dad playing when I lived in the States. I was just a kid and it scared the hell out of me. When I returned to Japan, I found out it was the only game in the COD series that was banned in Japan

[@roderickstockdale1678]

Naturally right lol

[@thekommunistkrusader3921]

yeahhhhh the flame throwers, agains the Japanese, gore and general brutality was semi understandable, I don't agree with it regardless

[@MikiSuzuki2000]

@@thekommunistkrusader3921 What scared me more was the sight of him playing the game while screaming at the top of his lungs...

[@thekommunistkrusader3921]

@@MikiSuzuki2000 omg that's just so much worse 😭

[@MikiSuzuki2000]

@@thekommunistkrusader3921 Right? He must have been on the battlefield at that time😓

[@TheAV2X]

S0ur, watching all these old CoD videos like this one and finest hour have just been simply, amazing. thank you for making these and letting me relive my childhood brother! cod will never be the same again.

[@StrukeTheDuke1294]

This game....... Definitely different than world at war lol. It's crazy how much Cod big red one sound effects are used. Only played through it once. Really appreciate you bringing this to light not a lot of people know this exists

[@no-barknoonan1335]

It reuses the Big red one engine as well as a lot of the models, textures, and animations. Those things I don't mind too much, I wish they'd ported this to the original Xbox as the textures were always worse on PS2 cods, the OG Xbox always had more power under the hood and that version would be more worth replaying if they'd ever made it.

[@alansilvero]

I noticed the way the enemy AI was behaving and moving, and if it weren't for the new gun models, you'd easily mistake this for the big red one.

[@perkypears]

i remember playing this game as a kid and being really confused about how zombies mode wasnt in it. i beat the entire campaign on veteran mode thinking maybe thats how. and it just never appeared. i didnt learn until a few months later that this is a different version of the game without it and i was extremely upset as i did not have a ps3/360 for years

[@Thelegendaryedward]

I've been looking for this comment cause I had the exact same experience, beating it all and wondering where my zombies mode was

[@perkypears]

@@Thelegendaryedward i played it on my cousin's xbox and i thought the zombies thing was super cool! and all the kids at school were talking about the cool new game with the zombies. it was the thing everyone was talking about with this game so it was disappointing that the game with the same title didnt have that

[@gavinmackey2776]

Same

[@homeworldful]

Oh boy honey, new CoD upload. This might make me pull out my DS copy of MW2 and play through that, haha. Side note, I applaud the effort you put into subtitling your videos (through youtube and the video itself!) Gives it that extra layer of polish that, while simple on the surface, makes me genuinely excited to watch your new videos.

[@S0ur]

Appreciate it brotha ❤️ Yeah, the captioning of long videos can get pretty boring lmao, but there's always someone to say they appreciate them being there so I'm happy to fix them up. Feels right when the videos are less frequent, may as well take the extra step.

[@HLGAM3R]

"Don't worry sweetie. Just try your best and they'll see how well you're doing." Me, trying my best: 42:54

[@dx-ek4vr]

He'd fit right in with XCOM

[@mirraculous_]

Did you really edit in the subtitles by yourself? Wow the dedication is insane

[@bign._.007]

Aphex twin pfp go hard

[@St_Rizla]

​@@bign._.007half life lol

[@Bellbeing]

THIS EXISTS????? oh this is gonna be great

[@Shepenstein98]

My parents got me this for Christmas when it came out. I loved it.

[@haydeng3541]

This just triggered a memory I had forgotten. In elementary school, my friend bought me this for my birthday, since I used to have a PS2. Thing is, my PS2 had broken, so I ended up trading it in and using birthday cash and/or gift cards (can't remember) to get black ops 1 for the Wii lol. I had completely forgotten this even existed since then

[@vicboss8418]

I appreciate that you added some in game subtitles +1

[@hamsolo8227]

i haven't heard the voice of the sergeant since that era of games, idk if it was just the mic quality getting better that has made any other work of his unrecognizable to me, but every time i hear his voice in these "older" games it peaks something in my brain

[@Masonrytodger]

I actually hooked my PS2 up and remembered why I got into geographical history, politics, and military history. It was my first cod game I got since I didn’t get a PS3 till 2011. Some of the things you mentioned are just broken because of emulation but others are strange occurrences or broken AI I’ve never experienced. I believe this is a forgotten gem like Roads To Victory

[@__TK___]

Every time I hear Sgt. Roebuck yell I think Big Boss is yelling at me on MSF

[@jhanluisorta2519]

My aunt bought this game for my cousin back in the day, I remember that he got it for Christmas. At first when he started it, we were pretty amazed how we were fighting on the pacific theater (or maybe mostly me). I thought to myself how violent this game was and how cool it felt using the flamethrower for the first time in a game. By you playing this game you reminded me all of those levels were I died so many times and had to peak around corners to survive the tense situations. Now that time has passed and after many playthroughs of my younger self enjoying this game, I'm glad somebody played it to remind me of those memories from the past.

[@JustASideAccount]

I remember playing this but I couldn't remember what COD game it was. Thanks for bringing back the memories brother! _👍😙👌_

[@chinua2584]

Utterly fascinating. I can pick out a bunch of stuff from at least CoD 2, buildings, houses, doors, voices, sounds. There are so many things blended in here form 360 WaW that it almost feels like an internal beta build got published.

[@skxlter5747]

I remember playing this year's ago on PS2 when i couldn't get a 360, i treasured it for what it was and i thought it would've been like the next gen version lmao

[@VVAZI]

I didn't even know about this game. Great video as always!

[@lucasragnarsson3810]

i've played this when it first came out and as forgettable as it may be i still loved spending time on this game

[@jordansharp3588]

I’m new to your content and I love all the cod play throughs! Appreciate all the work u do!

[@S0ur]

Thanks!

[@caiolucena6397]

I from Brazil and was the kid that always had the older generation console from the group of friends, and this was not only my first Call of Duty experience as it was my first PS2 game, i also remember to this day the first and second words i learned from english was because of this game, it was Hold and Swap, nowadays i have played most of the games in this series (from 1 to Cold War) and learned how to speak and write in english thanks to the incredible campaings this games provided over the years, thanks for taking me down memory lane.

[@guilherme35373]

Quase igual eu, com 6 anos não sabia nada de inglês e fiquei quase 1 ano sem conseguir avançar do treinamento, não sabia que tínhamos que atirar nas maçãs para avançar kkkkk. Meu primeiro call of duty, extremamente nostálgico.

[@caiolucena6397]

@@guilherme35373O pior foi que eu fiquei preso na mesa, eu n sabia como pegar o M1 na mesa, por isso que eu aprendi Hold, não sabia que tinha que segurar o quadrado pra pegar, e eu fiz o pulo do Super Nintendo pro PS2, esse jogo parecia magica de tão incrível que foi a evolução gráfica de um para o outro.

[@Cody1075]

YES!!! I was really hoping you'd realize this strange game existed and play it! Thank you, I'm super excited to watch this 🥰🤭

[@ww32]

I was so confused when you said this was a Rebellion title, I was like "hold on I'm %100 World at War is a Treyarch title." But I guess that's how obscure this strange spin off is.

[@syahmikadira6832]

Grew up with these PS2 COD games with Final Fronts being my first COD & overall ahooter game I had. Looking back, ever since I've played the 3 other PS2 CODs(Finest Hour, 2: Big Red One & 3), I've always thought of this as being the weekest of em but I always have a soft spot for this game as not only as this was the first COD & shooter game I had, the game being set in a historical WW2 setting was what actually "kickstarted" my passion for learning about historical stuff so not bad game for impressing an impressionable 7-year old. Edit: also idk if you'll ever see this comment but if by chance you do, there is another "forgotten" COD game which I think was not on the timeline of COD games you showed at the start of the video. COD: Roads to Victory from 2007 which was the only COD game released on the PSP but even back then I could remember the controllers being quite janky & some of the hitboxes, especially for explosives, were very inconsistent.

[@roninn4746]

What was great about this game was that BOTH Roebuck and Polonsky surviving was canon. That scene in WaW where you have to pick to save one or the other is just a cutscene in Final Fronts

[@Jarnsmidur]

Thanks to this series, legit become my favourite youtube channel. And ngl, would love to see you play through the old Medal of honor games 🤣😅

[@187.RareMusic.Gaming]

Bro your videos literally helped me finish modern warfare remastered 100% that pesky counter mvp challenge was my last 1... im nearly up to 31000 melee kills.

[@daddydobson200]

I grew up on the call of duty games on the Nintendo DS, would be hilarious to see u play those

[@JS-gc7kf]

Haha as a kid, I used to replay some of the checkpoints all over again in a couple Pacific missions just because the IJA banzai charges would make me laugh very much

[@primarchicarus7099]

This was probably the first game I ever played. But I didn't have a memory card so I had to play the campaign all over again each time. That first mission is imprinted forever in my brain.

[@justfriendsgaming6151]

Hello fellow RoachDoggJr enjoyer

[@primarchicarus7099]

@@justfriendsgaming6151 my kin

[@rajabouzeid8801]

That was my first game too, and to be honest , I still love it. My favorite game on PS2 would probably be Medal of Honor: Frontline tho.

[@marcussmith9804]

@@rajabouzeid8801same. Medal of Honor Frontline was my first game ever. And my favorite ps2 game as well.😊

[@VERsingthegamez]

Ive had this copy for most of my life and yeah it truly is the most cod of all time.

[@carymnuhgibrilsamadalnasud1222]

Why can't they make remastered version this game?

[@hunterhaynes8595]

I remember playing this and LOVING it at the age of around 8 or so. I then went to a friends house and seen his dad playing World at War on an Xbox 360 and it all looked so different. I was in aww at how different the campaign actually was. I then bought a copy for my PS3 and the rest is history, but I still have a big heart for the PS2 version of World War 2, because in my young mind it was amazing.

[@happycreatedinc]

Always a good day when s0ur uploads

[@danielwhite1233]

I like that it’s still Keifer Sutherland as Sgt. Roebuck but they have Brian Bloom narrating as Miller.

[@fredherbert7920]

44:11 I remember seeing this soldier as a kid and always felt so bad for him. 1945 Germany must've been absolutely apocalyptic.

[@KatYote]

I'm excited to see you doing cod 3 I used to play it on Wii back in the day

[@FrancisMarcosGaming]

I remember the first few times i played this game as a kid, i had absolutely NO IDEA what the British narrator was saying in those three briefings. 😂

[@Psyclonknight]

Why did they let that guy say bastogne like that and leave the spelling mistake in and then immediately get it right at the start of the mission lol

[@jakekoehler1]

41:45 the halftrack doing a 360 was HILARIOUS!

[@Snekkxvii]

This was my second call of duty game and I still go back to revisit it frequently. I think I still have most the mission dialogue memorized. I’d love a remaster

[@99suvres]

Awesome, enjoyed as always! 😀

[@Ordealux]

I remember playing this at a buddies house, when I told him about the actual WaW campaign, he had to go get it from a bargain bin and play it because the whole time, he thought WaW was Final Fronts. I found the Bastogne tank mission, and the entire game toward the end to get frustrating, but it's still nothing compared to how angry United Offensive made me.

[@murk_52]

Damn that PS2 startup hits hard

[@Honorableterror]

Watching this was awesome. Brought back a lot of memories I forgot.

[@TheRageLivesOn]

that is indeed Steve Blum voicing that one character you mentioned

[@hoffman_id]

I remember this, similar yet different, waw pc got soviet, the ps2 got the brits, each has its own charm, really loves the little music after completing each level

[@TayloredOutdoors]

I remember being so psyched for this game coming out been saving all summer to get this game and didn’t have a 360 or ps3 yet. My mom got the game for me on her way home from work and picked me up from the bus stop, which she never did. Got home and started the game up and after playing the tutorial I went and looked up the trailer for WAW and it looked nothing alike. I beat the game in less than 3 hours and my mom took the game back and returned it. I got an Xbox for Christmas that year and she got me the real world at war.

[@fifthcolumn388]

I can’t help but notice that this game shares almost every sound effect, HUD elements, and even some voice actors with Call of Duty 2: Big Red One, which is awesome for me because that was my first CoD that I really played a lot of on the OG Xbox. I’m actually impressed they seem to have gotten more voice lines out of Kiefer Sutherland for a PS2 spinoff of WaW, and that they faithfully aped the style of the core game in the cinematics. If this game had come out two years earlier it would have been better remembered.

[@TrashPlanet2020]

I grew up with this game and still remember it very fondly! It was one of the few PS2 games that I had that still worked (thanks young me) and I loved it so much I used to record myself playing it through my VCR, as it acted as a medium to use it on my old ass TV.

[@Shepenstein98]

I remember going to Walmart with my dad in 2008. We walked through the electronics department and I pointed out 'Final fronts" and told him I wanted it. He said maybe next time. I was so disappointed. A couple weeks later it was one of my Christmas presents and I was beyond excited. The narrator talking about being a Virginia miner and part of the blue ridgers fascinated me because I'm from Virginia in the blue ridge mountains. 😂 10 year old me played this game until my PS2 gave out. Whenever I see something about this game I always think about our trip to Walmart and getting in Christmas of '08. Thanks dad.

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

Had a World at War strat guide. Read the book, especially the Nazi Zombies section, WAY too many times. Wanted game. Only had the PS2. Told father. Father bought game. Started playing. Thought it was weird that none of the missions lined up with the book, even though some characters were the same. Didn't give it too much thought. Beat the campaign. No Nazi Zombies. Visibly confused. Find out that Final Fronts is weird spin-off thing. Want to preform ritual to curse developer. Can not do so because same developer made Sniper Elite V2. That said, it was an interesting idea to take a game, rework the stories, and then release it on the PS2. An interesting thing that I thought really showed the difference in hardware capabilities was in this game, the flamethrower just felt like a weird machine gun considering it didn't actually set anything on fire whereas the World at War flamethrower would actually light things on fire that would then burn and become charred. Another interesting note is the reuse of CoD 3 German voices. Also, it actually makes sense for you not to pick up too much ammo from an enemy's gun since you're taking the ammo from the gun, not their person. Also, that guy was not actually Tank's VA.

[@saimalishahid1406]

This game is a pillar of my childhood!!!!! Such an influencial game for me in my younger days and is part of why I'm si interested in a large part of the history I usually consume. It forever has a special place in my heart.

[@thedarkman111112]

so this was my second call of duty game I ever played. didn't remember this until I watched you play it and it was so familiar.

[@collectiontime7341]

I remember playing this back in an Internet/gaming shop in Thailand when I was a teen. Back then the ps2 was still the predominant gaming console across most of Asia, or it seemed so. So it makes sense they catered to the PS2 as well as there was still a sizeable market share. I enjoyed it, seemed like a throwback to the old console CoDs like CoD Big Red One etc. Bit janky and goofy here and there but was fun

[@Winasaurus]

I know different platform versions of games without significant changes probably aren't worth really covering, but the Wii version of World at War has always been an ironic favorite of mine. It even has co-op, and in true nintendo fashion, it's a mario galaxy style "little brother mode". The first player plays like normal, and the second player essentially plays it like a rail shooter where the first player controls their movement. Imagine a marine giving another one a piggyback ride, it's basically that in game form. I just wish it was an option for more games because it's such a funny concept.

[@RSparrow3936]

Crazy, I just finished uploading my last parts for the World at War original. Including the last part of the Pacific Campaign when I saw a spider and took like 4 minutes to kill and set its corpse in fire. I think I did play this, I do remember this stuff

[@Gameprojordan]

This was pretty infamous when it came out. People were constantly laughing about how bad it was compared to the 360/ps3 version

[@tzardnickolasthelitromanov]

You know, I find this version abit more endearing in a certain way. (Atleast from a story perspective) Theres alot more character to the *american* ((pacific)) slient protag in this version Than there ever was for the 360/PS3/PC version of WaW here. like, You never got introduced to who Miller *even was*. You kinda just get plopped into him after roebrucks narration of Carlsson's raid, when he ((once again Miller)) was about to get-got by the IJA officer. ((Edit: Hell, Roebruck Feels more like *thee main player character* here than you do as a matter of fact, especially now hearing *Miller's narration* of the missions))

[@pleasedwaffle3593]

This was actually my first cod, and I loved it when I was younger. I almost completely forgot about it. When I got the 360 version I didn’t even realize it was a different game and just assumed I dreamed this one up lol.

[@claiminghawk]

I remember finding this game among the many games that I had for the PS2 as a kid and playing this gave good context to the original WAW since I played the game as a teenager but had it since I was a kid

[@stefanoristicano6902]

This game has the same vibe as Shellshock ‘Nam 67 wich was developed by eidos. Colour palete is somehow similar to me, textures are granulised/pixelised but one thing that gives it away is Polonsky character. In Shellshock there is character named Polonsky that later spirals out of controll and is named Psycho and is voiced by the same voice actor.

[@blackdevildog6416]

All of the training events were taken from Call of Duty 3. Not the actual course itself, but the basics including the yellowed window frames on a barn. It made the game more welcoming to me, because I really enjoyed Call of Duty 3.

[@AD-poop_]

Hey S0ur have you ever played Brothers in arms?, there is 3 of them, they are WW2 games and they are really good, if you haven’t played them would you consider playing them? road to Hill 30 then earned in blood then Hells highway

[@S0ur]

Perhaps at some point, although I've played a whole lot of WW2 games in a row 😂 Maybe after a bit of a break with some of the modern stuff.

[@Some_Guy6]

@@S0ur No modern stuff. Just ww2 stuff, you're on a roll, no reason to stop now. Stay in momentum.

[@walnzell9328]

25:29 I'm pretty sure this cutscene is made using the opening cutscene for the second to last mission of Big Red One as a basis, and then changing some animations and camera angles.

[@thegreathadoken6808]

I didn't even know this existed. So these were the characters in the 'next-gen' World at War campaign. Kiefer Sutherland played Roebuck, I believe, but here they have a soundalike.

[@IQsveen]

There are a great soundtrack and nice voiceacting in this game!

[@Mori_Meteora]

I got this game along with the Finest Hour/Big Red One combo when I was 10, never had a 360 or PS3 until I was 13 and couldn't play M rated games, so this port was perfect for me. That was when I was 10 however. Then I got the 'actual' WaW when I was 14 and never played this port again, until a few months or so ago. I had such a rough time playing it on the PS2 almost a decade later that my eyes started to hurt because of it lol Also the input lag was really brutal with such a blurry screen and aiming with a PS2 controller, I don't know how 10 y/o me beat it.

[@Flashyface]

Honestly haven't played this game so I can't give my cohesive thoughts on this, the fact it includes a british campaign ain't too surprising considering WAW had that planned and them scrapped very late into development. Also If you got a XBOX One or Series X I'd recommend playing COD3 on that instead (Xbox 360 emulation is also janky and has lots of visual bugs right now so that can get thrown out the window). PS3 Emulation is decent but the FMVs bug out and go too fast if you uncap the framerate (their important to the game actually) and the PS3 port is way more glitchy and has weird janky motion controls. and the last gen versions look bleh, XBOX 360 was the main version that was used for development aside from the original Xbox.

[@S0ur]

Good info, thanks. I don't have any xbox stuff unfortunately, so I'll just have to try a few things and see what works best

[@Flashyface]

Also be warned, COD3 is one of the most unforgiving with it's checkpoints (Especially The Forest's last section, borderline unforgiving) Also Enemy AI can just aimbot you through walls sometimes, So expect some bullshit deaths )which I've had my fair share of).

[@S0ur]

Hah, well that sounds good, looking forward to that then.

[@mikep3180]

This was my very first call of duty game, for me back then it was the best game I had ever player. I vividly remember not having a memory card and my progress being deleted every time I shut off the ps2. I used to leave it on for hours and hours on end until I came back from school so I didn't lose any progress

[@Bubbadew]

i’m 20 but I remember hearing my dad play this game and mention that Roebuck was the same voice actor from monsters vs aliens if y’all remember that movie, and some other stuff. I always thought this was World at War the OG one, but it’s amazing that I remembered all of this instantly, specifically the mud transition.

[@xjennipaige17x]

Found your channel from a comment on another channel called oTradeMark from 11 years ago, literally about as long as I’ve been alive 😂

[@probablybears]

Honestly, this looks like the kind of stuff I played as a kid. Reminds me of the PS2 Medal of Honor games. I could see myself playing this, even these days.

[@iLLLeyezzz]

I think the snow missions where my favorite the environment, The music, The characters, Just hit so different especially on the one where your in that one town with the British

[@saadkhaion9234]

Yoooo finally finding this childhood game!! I start thinking I was crazy or my brain making it but no... It's TRUE!!! So glad for this fr

[@Reddog-lv5nt]

at the start of the game I heard the narrator who is Varric from Dragon age and I immediately imagined a dwarf with a crossbow running through and causing mayhem across the pacific front

[@kitpalencar5165]

What's interesting is how most of the models and sounds are from older cods. Lots of cod2 stuff. The audio for the Sten is from the mp44 in cod1.

[@dmoney3737]

absolutely loved this game, first played it in maybe 3rd or 4th grade, and looking back on it now, there’s a clear answer as to why im still not giving up on joining the marines😂

[@reececaldwell722]

This just unlocked a memory. I totally played this. As soon as u entered the training mission I remembered. I think I played on psp (?) if it was on that? If not I guess I played on ps2. Wow I can’t believe I forgot I played this, or that it even existed.

[@bradpitre5611]

I know these long-form videos aren’t great for channel growth and monetization but please never stop bringing us these videos. Your commentary wit and voice are exactly what I look for personally (and I’m sure others agree) in a long-form format, keep up the great work. Also you have to be nearly out of CoD at this point but please consider finding another franchise, nostalgic or not, to make content on, you’re great!

[@agenteordinario751]

Everyone gangster until Taylor tries to open a door

[@theeldonte]

Final Fronts was actually my first CoD game, I replayed it so many times throughout my childhood, turned out I later fell in love with it's big brother WaW.

[@Cody10069]

Did you played psp cod called roads to victory?

[@tommyp697]

2:25 “Second Division Marine Corps. Some soldier i was going to be” first sign the game wasn’t made with love

[@EvLee]

This is the first COD game I played, I remember my grandpa taking me to gamestop and getting me this... good memories. I always wondered where the zombies were...

[@overvieweffect9034]

I think this was the very last game I played on my ps2, while WaW was the very first game I played on the 360, which is pretty poetic in a way. back then I thought that this was not as good as the ps2 CoDs, but I still had fun with it, especially as a WW2 buff, so could play it again for nostalgia sake

[@jameswozny2701]

I was one of the kids who only had a ps2 as my family hit some hard times. Did a bunch of work on my parents farm and saved up pocket money to get this game. I absolutely adored it, and i think i played through the campaign over a dozen times in the first couple months of having it. Then at the beginning of 2010 i got a ps3 for my birthday, and i really cherished that console, as i knew how much better i had it with the proper next gen cods.

[@freakyguy210]

A Drifter reference? You got some style, brotha.