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[@Ramsker]

Quick Error correction: It was brought to my attention at 15:10 I misinterpreted this section as the Russian Army committing the hanging and completely neglected the Symbol on the note ( Apparently I can't see and got it backwards.) It doesn't make sense that Russians would call the German army traitors and use their symbol on the note. TL:DR Basically the German army hung their own for being traitorous and I made a fucky wucky thinking the russians did it.

[@Blind_Hawk]

It is also mistranslated from the devs (they mistranslated a lot of German). It says: "Verräter in das Mutterland"... what would mean "Traitor in the motherland" The correct or fitting translation or term would be: "Verräter des Vaterlands" -> "Traitor of the fatherland" I guess they used some weird translators.

[@jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378]

​@@Blind_Hawk Watch The Frosty 2 he makes a point about call of duty and it's misinterpretation.

[@Blind_Hawk]

ojkay @@jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378

[@leirex_1]

I was cracking my knuckles, ready to "UM ACTUALLY ☝🤓..."

[@Blind_Hawk]

@@leirex_1 same

[@coltonbarnes7861]

if you find a war game depressing, you know it done its job

[@Cybernaut76]

Yeah. War is really something we do not want to see outside TV news or video games...

[@ankokunokayoubi]

It should be. Few games actually achieve this as most games focus on romanticism of warriors, heroes and the war itself (but hey that's the fun comes that will sell so yeah put it on the games anyway!)

[@mitsvanmitsvanio6106]

@@Cybernaut76 I would say we do not want to see war in news either. TV, Movies and Video Games all the way.

[@Cybernaut76]

@@mitsvanmitsvanio6106 Absolutely. I do not envy veterans of WW2 or other wars nor civilian victims of wars such as those who had to endure sieges of Mostar, Sarajevo etc three decades ago. I was surprised to hear that there is a 80 year old gamer who was shot down as a F4 Phantom backseater over Vietnam six decades ago. Well, maybe facing war does not necessarily mean PTSD or "never again" mentality but I still prefer to pass because enemy fire or other circumstances IRL can mean our lives are forfeit.

[@mniakan754]

@@ankokunokayoubifeel like a hero yet?

[@ethandibiase2199]

There is also a 3rd "neutral" ending with Chernov in addition to the "good" and "evil" endings. If you do both good and evil deeds, his diary will read the following: "When he first spoke of Dimitri, Reznov told tales of a hero, someone we should all aspire to be like. At times, I have seen him show mercy, and at others, complete brutality. I do not understand him. Perhaps heroes need not question their actions."

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

the neutral ending is the one I kept getting because apparently one of the "good" actions you need to do is in the level Vendetta (you need to open fire on the german positions when you reach the sniper spot for killing Amsel)

[@MessengerOfMonolith]

​@@4T3hM4kr0nOh? I got the neutral ending in my 1st gameplay. I thought it was because i mercy kill the surrendered Germans in metro. At least death by bullet is way quicker and far less painful than burned alive right?

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

That's the ending I seemingly always get, no matter how hard I try to only do good.

[@Eskeletor_210]

Surprisingly I was neutral

[@zaja2418]

I do't know if it's just me, but I rather like the neutral ending above the others. 'At times, I have seen him show mercy, and at others, complete brutality' sums up quite well how complex human conduct becomes when at war.

[@ayylmaotv]

For me it's the audio that enhances it so much. From the sounds of gunfire and explosions to the screams of soldiers and the unsettling music, the audio contributes significantly to the game's tense and frightening atmosphere.

[@ScoutTrooperMan]

wasn't expecting seeing one of the most well known hazbin/helluva youtubers in the comment section of a world war 2 game ngl lol.

[@ttpbroadcastingcompany.4460]

Is it bad I read this in your voice?

[@Raisins328]

@@ScoutTrooperManme to bud

[@the_one_true_Klaus_Blunk.]

Oh hey, it's the funny hazbin drama guy :)

[@lendu382]

well this was unexpected...

[@acetrigger1337]

it legit feels like "World at War" was a fever dream made up by the Developers... it felt like they had it with the players, and just went as far as they could to show what real War looks like. and then they moved on, back to their Power Military Fantasy like nothing happened.

[@lilyschrodingy3600]

This was Treyarch's first actual foray into making a CoD game, so it makes sense it feels like a fever dream.

[@meb8839]

@@lilyschrodingy3600 You forgot about Call of Duty 3.

[@tabushka292]

True, but I feel like Black Ops is a worthy sequel to WaW. It's definitely not AS bleak and hopeless as WaW, but it still does a good job of giving you a similar experience. Loved this era of cod games, single player was actually worth playing back then.

[@dgurevich1]

@@tabushka292 The level I remember most in black ops is the Kowloon level. it's almost alien how that place is built, and it gives a very similar , yet different atmosphere to Stalingrad level of WAW.

[@Flashyface]

🤓erm achtually its call of duty 2 big red one but technically its the second as a year prior united offensive's developers would be merged with treyarch

[@t1ll316]

those Wehrmacht soldiers were hung by the Germans themselves for deserting, otherwise the slogan wouldnt even make sense

[@Fr0st1989]

Reznov even says "See how the Germans hang their cowards?"

[@patriot17764th]

​@@Fr0st1989 correct

[@the_babbleboom]

maybe those one in particular were done by the ingame russians because that text makes no sense in german. "verräter in das mutterland". the german word would've been "vaterlandsverräter", not "motherland", and "in das" makes no sense here. i don't even know who translated that for them, this wouldn't even come out like that in google translate, like how do you even fail that bad.

[@earlyhawk9243]

​@the_babbleboom this is game from 2008. Google translate was different back then. Why are you trying to present obvious error as a true fact...? Just...google hanging of germans at the end of the war

[@minikilla3568]

@@the_babbleboom Wouldn't it make sense to brand the sign with the Red Army logo instead of the bird the germans have?

[@johnsteves9158]

The Japanese part of the game was scary and made you genuinely care for your squad and gave you a sense of purpose for fighting the enemy and carrying on. The Russian part made you hate the enemy and put your own safety and sanity aside to beat the enemy at any cost. Most emotional COD Campaign ever imo. Loved the ambience of bo1 and the characters and decision making of BO2. Man treyarch was on another level in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Don't even get me started on the zombies *chefs kiss

[@MrCadet08]

I played this game for durring my down time when I was deployed....comparatively, I would rather have dealt with the bullets randomly flying out from the jungle instead of worry about random bits of trash containing an IED or civilians being friendly one second and shooting at you the next.

[@depressedcheems9961]

Ah yes, I much rather be in the war with like x15 the casualties, plus increased levels of torture on POW's. Bud learn about a war before you say you prefer one. The jungle was also trapped as well as corpses. @@MrCadet08

[@isntmypfpbeautiful5350]

​@@depressedcheems9961???? Man just said he was deployed. In real combat.

[@depressedcheems9961]

@@isntmypfpbeautiful5350 can you not read? He said he'd prefer being in one of the worst wars the US was in over our relatively minor time in the ME.

[@isntmypfpbeautiful5350]

@@depressedcheems9961 yeah no thats extrapolation on your part. He was talking about the situations themselves. I.e prefer being shot at from grass rather than having a "civilian" turn on you. Nowhere did he say "i would rather be deployed as an american on the pacific theater in ww2", especially since "civvies" turning could happen in any year, any timeframe

[@YAH2121]

CoD needs another "grunt" perspective game where you're just another infantryman on a battlefield. Most or all of them involve playing as Tier 1 special operators now

[@slicedtopieces]

Even Infinity Ward's CoD4 had you play as a couple of characters like that. It just seems like that whole idea has been abandoned for 'main characters'. It limits the plot and impact on the player if you know the player characters are always going to make it off the battlefield in one piece so to speak.

[@Trent-m6j]

​@@slicedtopiecesThere's an inherent problem with that in that you're insanely OP for balance's sake so that the gameplay isn't impossible, so it's really hard to have you coherently survive when the whole wave you're a part of aughta have been wiped. It's much more coherent that you're part of a small squad of hyper elite soldiers who also never die except in dramatic cutscenes, while tearing through many many lesser tier enemies. Like, it doesn't't really make sense that you're tearing through 1000 guys as a normal grunt fighting in a company of 100 grunts against another company of 100 grunts. The gameplay makes a lot more sense if you're one of a handful elite that just naturally outclass all the grunts they're tearing through.

[@dannydanumba]

RAMIREZ STOP THE RUSSIAN ARMY

[@vassilyvodka2638]

​@@slicedtopieces the good old days where you died in the middle of a nuclear tragedy or being betrayed by your C.O

[@SeahawkGaming-xp7bl]

@@Trent-m6j Special force missions make no sense. Grunts have more chances of surviving hot battles than an elite squad surrounded by an entire battalion of grunts - the latter will never survive irl. Elite training is useless when you are an elite squad surrounded by an entire battalion of grunts supported by tanks and air support. Special forces are only good until they get detected and surrounded by a regular army - in most cases special forces will flee unless surrounded.

[@Viddy3]

Actually, the Russians didnt hang the Germans. It was the Germans who hung the Germans, soldiers who they deemed as cowards were considered deserters and they made an example out of them.

[@viktoriyaserebryakov2755]

Translation said 'motherland' though. Germans referred to home as the 'fatherland'. Many Slavs were recruited into the Germany military pre Stalingrad, perhaps this is why they are hung up as traitors. Or perhaps it was a mistranslation.

[@warcrimeconnoisseur5238]

​@@viktoriyaserebryakov2755The Soviets didnt hang them, they had no time for such things, if anything they just executed them, it is probably a mistranslation, the SS did that to Wehrmacht and Volkssturm soldiers.

[@anhnguyenhoang210]

@@viktoriyaserebryakov2755 That sign was confirmed to be historically inaccurate. Only the germans, specifically nazis did that. Angry russians would just execute the germans and move on. It was demonstrated in the same mission when red army soldiers gathered the surrendered germans into a metro entrance and burned them with molotov.

[@aoki6332]

@@anhnguyenhoang210 yep like the Original Op said the German when they got deserter will hang them or anyone showing collaboration whit the Enemy it was common for example to hang people found of harboring jews in there home they just for some reason said Motherland and not Fatherland or Führer

[@Mike-tf1yx]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@anhnguyenhoang210this literally isn’t true at all😂😂😂 there are many many many accounts of Soviets executing Germans by hanging, one of the most famous being Amon goth who was hung and then his remains were thrown into a river.

[@reeseb5502]

I just love how w.a.w showed the true horrors of war instead of being some kind of bright game like vanguard. I will never forget the part in the first mission where the Japanese played dead just to ambush some marines

[@user-qb8yr4vb4u]

war games now honestly feel like nature simulators

[@thisemptyworm4677]

@@user-qb8yr4vb4u all to avoid backlash...

[@Elyseon]

The problem with war games is that they stopped trying to give a realistic portrayal of war and instead glorify it.

[@Garnansoa]

@@user-qb8yr4vb4u what

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

@@Elyseon well, to be fair, there's only soo many wars you can keep making video games about, and making 30 games about the exact same war would lead to stale ideas.

[@hellhounds04]

WaW was the first CoD I was introduced to. Elementry me was traumatized from how violent this game was, not to mention finishing the campaign at midnight and getting the Nacht cutscene. Playing it again after learning the history more in High School, I understand the hateful nature behind the enemy and what another country will do back. The World at War Campaign has such a grimm style compared to the rest in the series. There were no funny charming protagonist whipping one liners or some epic bad guy to hunt down and kill. Just soldiers getting their lives cut short while the rest try to survive to finish the task at hand.

[@erika_itsumi5141]

Yeah and that's why to this day it's still considered to be one of the best CoDs.

[@kritosrafel5962]

FUN FACT:in the main menu soundtrack, a female vocal can be heard singing in German, the lyrics translated as "Good soldier, good soldier, die with me, die with me, die with me." Edit:Wow ty for the 110 likes :)

[@tan2im456]

Brave Soldier

[@giovannicervantes2053]

​@@tan2im456either way it's death beckoning you to lay with her forever

[@kotenara10]

Looks like it's goddess Morrigan calling them out

[@don__clemenza]

why are you saying thank you for the likes?

[@seanbrennan5192]

I didn’t know that what she was singing, how fitting. What a great game

[@spynosocks]

he turned into pyrocynical and didnt go bankrupt well done ramsker this video looks really good

[@TheTrueRandomGamer]

Pyro if he didn't fall off.

[@dinarichyperborean1455]

@@TheTrueRandomGamer TRUE

[@bulgarianreaper6587]

​@@TheTrueRandomGamer Bruh what does that mean?

[@GunnySledge]

@@bulgarianreaper6587exactly what he wrote

[@Cappuccino_Rabbit]

​@@bulgarianreaper6587it means "Pyro if he was a good KZbinr"

[@ManleyReviews]

i forgot how brutal that menu sounded jfc

[@londonwatson7342]

Gives me chills every single time. To this day. I don’t expect we’ll ever see a video game as scary as world at war ever again, but one can hope. I don’t want generic hero-centric war games. I want scary, death, and gritty. I went to start the game up late at night, and the music itself makes me look over my shoulder just from her eerie it is. World at war is a horror game

[@randomshorts-e8v]

I can't understand how anyone could criticize the graphics or colors of a 16-year-old game and compare it to today's standards. It is an iconic game that, in its time, represented a leap forward in war games. Even Vanguard pales in comparison when it comes to narrative, storytelling, and overall immersion.

[@giovannicervantes2053]

Honestly i think the grime and older graphics help cause it just makes everything even more rough you dont see as much detail but you see the scars and lives in the faces all the soldiers at the reichstag are fucked up in some way the IJA troops start looking weaker and weaker until the men charging you are wearing corrective frames and are only working on fear and will alone

[@angeloh58d]

The graphic were so good for the time and still ad pretty good

[@baseballworldwide9439]

Unrelated but I wish people could apply this logic to social/historical issues

[@scottf5791]

Vanguard is a very very low bar

[@corioliseffect3604]

you know what would make this game more perfect. Adding the Soviet invasion of Manchuria campaign, where the Red Army fights the Imperial Japanese Army. Then the game goes full circle

[@thesenate1844]

Suprised we didnt even get one obscure multiplayer DLC map for it. They also had scrapped plans for US vs German maps, although a completely different faction to the marines, like the Army Rangers

[@ericolsen5592]

I feel like it would've detracted from the American side of the campaign. The Soviets didn't join that side of the war until the Japanese had lost most of their ability to fight anyway

[@corioliseffect3604]

@ericolsen5592 Ppsh and molotov cocktail vs banzai charge would be interesting though

[@EyePatchGuy88]

@@ericolsen5592 Still would've been cool to see more theatres, they definitely cut out the British fighting the Germans. Granted, it would definitely be quite grandiose seeing almost every major theatre on display, but it would still be fun nonetheless.

[@SCHMALLZZZ]

They had battles along the manchuria and mogolia border in 1939 ​@ericolsen5592

[@jonburgess1648]

Shocked how few views you have on this video with how incredibly well-made it is.

[@DeleteMyas]

I'm more shocked that people aren't saying exactly crying about what the clickbait title wants them to say. : |

[@Dr.Oofers]

@@DeleteMyas?

[@Demospammer9987]

19:00 - another neat fact is that in the latrines of the asylum (at least on the multiplayer version) you can hear a woman crying if you stand near one of the stalls. Likewise on Dome, you can hear the red army chanting "URA" if you fall into the central pit. WaW has phenomenal sound design in all 3 modes, which is part of why I still believe its the best CoD

[@AremStefaniaK]

when i think of codwaw its the black cat percussion hybrid darkcore

[@jpkiller2196]

Fun fact: the main menu music is in Latin. If translated it says “brave soldier, brave soldier, die with me, die with me”

[@DakotaofRaptors]

It's German...

[@drent102]

ah yes, Stirb mit mir, very latin indeed

[@TankTonk_TT]

it's German.

[@prikolica3567]

latin?

[@rhysmodica2892]

It's German.

[@offbrandbiscuit]

The bit where you spoke on playing linear or almost-linear FPS games and not thinkiny about how the people within the story perceive your actions hit hard. The first time I played Dishonored I was killing all targets and many hostiles because I didn't think about it. Having Samuel criticizing my violent choices at the end of it all shocked me because I hadn't stopped to think about what I was doing. The next playthrough I kept in mind all the bodies I'd have to step over and managed a better ending, and it genuinely never felt better than knowing I made a better choice

[@jeffreyfoley1009]

Bruh who the hell is Samuel?

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

And jot just does the game judge you for your behaviour, it also changes enemies. If you keep murdering everything, there will be more guards in later levels.

[@hazim9529]

@@jeffreyfoley1009 The boatman. In high chaos, he will alert the guards in the final level and you can kill him in cold blood. It's not canon though because he canonically died of old age.

[@hazim9529]

@@HappyBeezerStudios More guards, more rats, more weepers, more bloodflies, etc. Allied characters are also significantly more cynical than low chaos.

[@offbrandbiscuit]

​@@hazim9529 not always, I think that seems to be a rare occurrence and you have to have really really hit the peak of killing to get it to happen

[@AReservoirDog]

"One day it will be their land, Their blood, Their people" This line alone from Reznov in the context of the Stalingrad mission explains a lot of the brutality of Soviet soldiers against the civilian population of Germany. This game is was very deep with it's explanation of the Historical context of the missions you played, and for the Soviet campaign I believe they captured the emotional explanation as well. As an kid from America it was very easy to sympathize with the Marines during the pacific campaign after learning about Pearl Harbor & The Philippines. As a kid I knew the Soviets were our allies in WWII, and that they fought the Nazis. However I did not Immediately understand how they felt about the war until I had played this game a few times, and really listened to character's, and paid attention to their actions, and interactions with each other that I understood their desire for revenge, why Reznov encourages you to kill the Germans surrendering Infront of the subway entrance. The Nazis wouldn't have shown any mercy, and the Game shows this in the first scene as Dimitri where you are playing dead while your wounded, unarmed comrades are executed by Germans. However I also really like that the game has its own message that even though it was very understandable, it wasn't right or 'justified'. It may only be one line of dialogue, but technically the "Good" ending for the Soviets is Dimitri being praised by Chernov for being a true hero who fights the enemy with courage, but who also shows mercy to those who no longer pose a threat.

[@ForOne814]

Actually kind of realistic. I remember hearing a story from some guy's grandfather who was among men assaulting Berlin. Among their squad one man could just gun down hiding civilians out of the blue, or surrendering Germans, while otherwise he was just normal. When confronted as to why he was doing that, he said to piss off, none of their business. The answer was simple: one man was from Belorussia, the other was from Siberia. One had a home and family to return to, to live for, the other no longer did.

[@AReservoirDog]

@AshfaqurBF I literally just said that. It was revenge by a people who'd lost everything. If anything, I was saying it makes the Russian atrocites more understandable

[@EyePatchGuy88]

IMO, the canon ending is where you do both 'good' and 'bad', and Chernov ends with "I don't understand him. Perhaps heroes need not question their actions". It fits more with the sight shade of grey story telling in WAW.

[@NickPhillips-yf2re]

It’s a cycle the reason hitler did what he did, he blamed the Jews for why Germanys economy was destroyed. It’s a cycle of hate created by rich and powerful government. Similar to Palestine Israel, how can a country who knows what it’s like to be massacred go do the same to someone else, search up the al nakba, Palestinians massacred.

[@who8873]

15:10 It's not the Russians who hang them, it was germans. They punish deserters like that

[@TacticOwlVA]

I miss when Call of Duty was about war and horrifying historical events instead of anime guns and sausage grinder level slop micro transactions

[@seanbrennan5192]

The golden age of COD. Ahhh those were good times. What a time to be a kid

[@chrisk5983]

As a kid I thought this was the best game because it was all action. As an adult I love this because of how real it was

[@germanwarrabbit]

the stinger when you get to the W@W menu STILL sends chills through me while watching this i experienced it bro

[@ezchannelclap]

Most of the scenes and themes captured in WaW can never really been recreated again cod have tried this with WW2 and Vanguard and sorta captured them but did not at the same time due to them feeling too much like a movie

[@charlesgauthier8287]

It’s funny you say that because the cutscene from the first Russian mission where you wake up in a fountain surrounded by dead bodies is a pretty much a copy of the scene in the movie Enemy at the Gates when you meet the main character. CoD has gotten so bad that a cutscene replicating a movie feels less like a movie than the horrendous Micheal Bay-esque set pieces we get today.

[@ezchannelclap]

@@charlesgauthier8287 The scenes were based on photographs of the aftermath from the battle of Stalingrad the photo's specifically I believe are of Barmaley Fountain which was photographed by Emmanuil Yevzerikhin in 1942

[@Cookie82772]

The only thing vanguard captured was a giant dog turd

[@peezyorpj]

A new Brothers In Arms game could capture this very well.

[@theodorebear6714]

This is why I used to respect call of duty. I liked the part at the end of the russian plot where your character gets injured but a comrade helps you to plant the Russians flag over the reichstag in Berlin.

[@LeonTalksALot]

23:13 WHATTTT BRUH, how tf did Ramsker shout me out 7 months ago and I didnt even notice

[@Ramsker]

LeonTalksALot, more like "LeonListensABit"

[@Dwayne_LaFontant]

It would be banned because of how good it is compared to the other cods.

[@TheNinjaCoby]

WaW got it's notoriety because it did not try to be a good vs evil story. From a soldiers perspective, World War II was hell and they showed that. Soldiers simply followed the orders and faced the consequences all around them.

[@fetusdeletus9266]

Playing WaW to me never felt like playing a cod game, it felt like playing a slightly dramatized version of actual WW2 footage. The sound and visuals are definitely the sticking points of this game (because let’s be honest every WW2 game that tries to be true to the source has the same plot of shoot up the fascists) with the sound design making open firefights actually hectic with bullets whipping past you and explosions going off leaving you stunned and disoriented and then when the gunfight is over you’re just left with the eerie silence only punctuated by the sounds of your fellow soldiers and maybe some fires crackling away. Then there’s the visuals like when you shoot an enemy they visibly react and when maimed by an explosion or an MG42 they clutch their bleeding stump of whatever used to be there while screaming or as you said when they’re set on fire they run around screaming as their skin burns away before finally falling to the ground and lying still and it’s not like Half Life or other cods where they just rag doll after a bit. It all comes together to make the game feel like a horror game where everyone is simultaneously the monster turning people to red paste and the person who is soon to be red paste.

[@Kodeuk]

Cod WaW is the creepiest Cod game and the creepiest treyarch game. All use to the fact that the game at first is confusing, the main menu is eerie especially the music. The zombies were also scary because we don’t know behind the story of the zombies mode and everything was basically a mystery

[@IamJay02]

This game is the most realistic depiction of the horrors of war.

[@greycatofnobodys2007]

Beside battlefield 1, no other war game has come close

[@BTtheDumfuq]

The game that traumatized nine year old me

[@Vettel5.]

I played it first when I was 8 ,and when I played the mission Semper Fi I was so scared because of the intro,I shutted down the computer😂(5 years ago) Lucky me that my old PC is still working with this legendary game on it😊

[@tri-sapien6487]

I really wish Call of Duty would do stuff like this today. If only people weren't so sensitive today.

[@FoxiteClipChannel]

This game is about shooting nazis & the imperial Japanese, who would be sensitive to that? Other nazis?

[@tri-sapien6487]

@FoxiteClipChannel well games have been taking down the Nazi symbol and many things try to grt rid of swastikas, so yeah, apparently people can't handle other humans being bad.

[@seanbrennan5192]

⁠​⁠@@FoxiteClipChannelYeah I’m pretty sure when they re-released it they censored all the swastikas or something. People can’t handle anything these days, even historical accuracies

[@tangosmymango]

Fun fact: The firebombing of Tokyo had a bigger death toll than the death toll of both nuclear detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[@tomatoisnotafruit5670]

No it didn't, the Firebombing killed about 100k, the 2 atomic bombs killed about 200k altogether.

[@revbladez5773]

@@tomatoisnotafruit5670 The firebombing killed more than either of the atomic bombs by themselves.

[@walnzell9328]

Ever notice the sanitarium is empty in the Berlin mission? I imagine it was empty even before the Soviets arrived. Emptied with far less gunfire, but still with sufficient death.

[@wg4112]

Playing this game as a 10 year old did scar me, the first scene with the cigrette in the eye was really gruesome to me for some reason and i had anxiety around them for a few years

[@toxicman9128]

It was supposed to have that dark and gritty feel. It was probably the last FPS game that went for that “you’re just a cog in the machine, meat for the grinder. This isn’t war, this is a fight for survival” feel

[@jeefaldar4385]

Absolutely loved this video: just wanted to let you know that at 15:10, the hanging German soldiers were usually hanged by the SS and they would’ve used Vaterland (Father Land) instead of Mutterland, or specifically “Vaterlandsveräter”. I’m actually a little confused if whether they wanted to make it look like the Russians hanged them and therefore that’s why it’s motherland instead, which is the more typical Russian word for a homeland, but I’ve never come across that in my studies so I’m inclined to think the devs just got this one wrong 🤷‍♀️ I’m curious what you think tho!!

[@connorriley7511]

Your comment is 6 days old, he posted a pinned correction in the comments 2 weeks ago stating the Germans hung their own for being “traitors” so I don’t see the purpose of your comment other than wanting attention.

[@darkySp]

@@connorriley7511 Has it crossed your mind that he didn't see the pinned comment and just wanted to give his two cents ? Why do you immediately turn it to attention ? By that logic, your comment here is only to try and act smart and get attention, too.

[@connorriley7511]

@@darkySp you have to open the comments to comment on the video, the first thing you see is the pinned comment which says Quick Correction. If there’s a correction in the comments why wouldn’t you read it to see what the correction is when he’s literally trying to correct the person who made the video? Like I said done for attention. Your logic is flawed because my comment has nothing to do with me wanting attention it was just to call out the OP for fishing for likes, which is exactly what my comment does. It wasn’t meant for you or anyone else to read it was meant for the op. Idgaf if you like my comment or not or agree with me calling him out but that’s literally all my comment does is call him out. He obviously commented with the intention to make himself look smarter than the person who posted the video. He even stated in his comment “I’m curious what you think!” But didn’t bother to read the pinned comment? He doesn’t care what he thinks because if he did he would have read the pinned comment. But stay on your high horse and white knighting, comments sections need douchebags like you.

[@ericolsen5592]

"I'm sad because the motherland and fatherland are fighting again"

[@rexdarvog]

World at War captures the essence of brutality and horrors of war while 1000 grenades are thrown at you.

[@vitorferreirapecanha1767]

As a former non-English speaker, I would like to share the experience this game provided in my teenage years. Even though I didn't understand what was verbally said during the game and at the time and I didn't really understand the historical references, I could still feel the impact of that grotesque atmosphere, especially in the final phase in Berlin. It's overwhelming, depressing and nauseating. It's great now, with all the historical repertoire and understanding what is being said, to have a review of this game. For example, understand Reznov now, especially in the phrase "Look around. Do you think they will deny their revenge?" Man, how could they create a game so well-focused on the horror of war and now it's this shit? I imagine it's just to be sold, because the general public seems to show more sympathy for knowledge in a manichaean way that war is bad without wanting to be exposed to a small dose of the horror of war. I believe the core of this would be "Comfort"

[@cpl.johnmiller1518]

15:15 Actually, Waffen SS did those hangings since when the war in europe was coming to an end for the German forces & The De Fuher was Desperate

[@brendan9868]

6:59 Pretty sure my grandfather would’ve really hated someone referring to what he went through as “epic” That man saw some shit, especially when he went to help treat the wounded from the atomic bombs following japans surrender. He wouldn’t even tell my dad the full extent of what he saw, but what he did share was intense to say the least.

[@pokeczarelf]

Back when Treyarch had a massive gigantic balls.

[@QTops-oi9jd]

Going to sleep now, remind me to watch this when i wake up

[@dakotamanchier993]

Its been over a week, its time to wake up for milk that's kinda black and also to watch this video

[@dangotti3454]

You up yet?

[@datcap6289]

bro wake up

[@СергейДементьев-ы9р]

bros, i dont think he woke up

[@brannonwinchester7054]

Wake up

[@PixelatedFlu]

Yea Pretending cruelty doesn't exist and censoring everything doesn't do us a service when it risks deleting and forgetting history.

[@justsomeguy2743]

This games sound design is incredible you can identify every gun from the sound alone, when mortars strike on multiplayer it’s harrowing, the bark of the dogs coming to eat you, artillery strike harrowing as well, makes the game feel so immersive

[@one-metallica4156]

This campaign was one of the greatest of COD history. Especially when they used real WW2 footage for the cutscenes.

[@jabread8907]

played this game back in 2008 when it released, i was 6 years old; the last true World War 2 game

[@SeahawkGaming-xp7bl]

For anyone who says that Reznov saying molotov cocktail is incorrect is wrong is Reznov in an anti-communist. Yes he is a nationalistic Russian but he is anti-communist and that's why he is imprisoned in a Gulag in the sequel.

[@crimsonroz3]

i thought he was in vorkuta for witnessing the effects of nova 6 gas no?

[@SeahawkGaming-xp7bl]

​@@crimsonroz3I don't know about that. But Reznov is a Russian nationalist rather than a communist.

[@Rocky13Ray]

The sheer intensity during the missions was honestly pretty realistic. Japanese hiding in the bush and trees. Screaming and charing over and over and at any moment it can happen. How difficult it can be to progress. You just die over and over and over again, you alone. Just take in the feeling of how many guys would have realisticly died if they equaled how many times you died progressing.at times you are stuck in place and others there's is so much going. On you can't breath or think. Gun shots, explosions, constant grenades. It's wild dude. I love the game so much.

[@gotdrum6196]

I must also agree the blackcat mission did go hella hard with the music(switching positions in the aircraft while defending off the attacking fighters and meanwhile jamming to the music)

[@brandon_uzumaki8539]

This is so late but the first time I played waw was the first time I felt genuine fear playing any cod campaign. The mission where your manning a gunship helping your brothers in the ocean and then when the kamikaze pilots start appearing and everything goes into chaos I felt my heart rate increase and I felt like I was there fearing for my life praying that we manage to escape. I will never forget that moment.

[@zboy1152]

Believe it or not, World at War made me research WW2 endlessly True story.

[@snipingflute4346]

I’d argue the same for me. Between World at War for WWII, and Empire: Total War, for sparking a desire to learn about even further back, and Victoria 2, which sparked personal completion interest to connect that hole in between.

[@RholynjayLim]

We need more games that was really grounded, gritty and realistic that had balls to show how brutal a war/fight can be. But today games always sunshine and rainbows

[@fallensith]

Love your character model and the animation with it. Also love the format of the video hope you go far, very far on this platform.

[@peconi47]

there is another line at the end of the game where chernov says if youre a hero or not, if you kill some germans but not the others (like killing the ones with a molotov and not the ones in the house or vice versa) he will be confused and not know if youre a hero or not

[@Ww1whiz1914]

15:10 bf1’s storm of steel also has a similar goal, but we still end up just bayonet charging near the end constantly. I’ve only actually tried not to die once. Not including when I bought the game. 15:28 bruh. I just mentioned this.

[@gametyp900]

WAW is the game that still defeats the new woke-soft-COD games to this day. WAW shows what a war game should show to the player. And that is.....war, gore, blood, pain, tears, screams, terror and horror of the war.....and not some woke-soft-weapon skins-funny animations that are made for kids. We should consider ourselfes lucky that we have this game to this day. I will continue to play this game, because of how the society is today with it´s softness and wokeness in video games - "we do not want to show the brutal horror, because it is also meant for kids to play" - "you are not allowed to show this. it is not good. cancel him, cancel that. we do not want to see this. waaaaawawawa". Guess what, wokeness and softness-fans....when another war will break out, it will not care about your feelings or your softness or your wokeness. IT WILL NOT CARE! You will either survive or you will die. This is a simple rule for a war. Enough with this softness-wokeness bullshit! The new COD games cannot achieve this level anymore. Well, for a certain amount of time. I do think that one day the developers will go back to the WAW-level and deliver another good COD. But when will it happen?....I don´t know. A remake of WAW?.....No thanks. Because of the society and how the video game industry changed, the remake will remove the gore level, the terror and horror of the war etc. And instead of making a good horror war game, it will look like My Little Pony-Version of WAW. No horror but a lot of fun and softness. Do you really want to spend your money on this garbage?....It is a rhetorical question, but the answer is up to you.

[@87_nightmare]

"But when will it happen?....I don´t know" - I'll tell you. Once ww3 spread to larger scale, be there for few years and finally end. Let's just hope humanity will learn lessons way better and ww4 won't ever break out. Tech is available to humanize war zone and stop killing but stun attacking forces. We don't need ww1 like wars nor ww2 like, we could do better. Games, movies, books and VR experiences should remind this to ppl instead of making them look fun. Killing isn't fun. It's horror.

[@krasnamerah1926]

Yeah, if they made this game nowadays, they would get complained by the Japanese government and then the whole American campaign would be scrapped.

[@gametyp900]

@@krasnamerah1926 Exactly. F*ck the woke-crap that they are trying to put into these games. I am tired of this. I would rather play the old games rather than the new ones where the woke-propaganda is so far up the ass that you can barely breathe without it. My advice: do not buy woke games. Just don´t do it. Sweet Baby Inc needs to go!

[@Star_OVK]

i just bought pronouns in the wokeverse now im getting paid boosts with woke earth (yeah) got virtual genders all across the woke (cross the woke) the next agenda's liberal cancel me on the way up the transition is visible drink a couple soy watch my estrogen go up its about to go woke now im getting paid boosts in pills with woke earth woke earth woke, woke earth

[@TheMothdemon]

My little Pony is dark under the surface though, but I get what you're saying completely. I've studied WW2 since I was in middle school, I'm 30 now so it's been a major part of my life and WAW was amazing and 98 percent accurate to how the war really was

[@russian_knight]

I'll never forget the first time i opened world at war's menu. The initial audio sting still sends chills down my asscrack years after i stopped playing it

[@Bamiyanbigasf]

We’re never getting this type of game again and it’s sad played this game so damn much as a kid this will always be my fav cod

[@stuffedmannequin]

It's important to understand WAW in the context it was released--2008. There was a slew of WW2 shooters coming out after 9/11. I think there was a desire to recapture that sense of pride and accomplishment for Western countries in light of it. As such, WW2 shooters were incredibly romanticized. They were usually T rated, with little to no blood or gore, with (admittedly beautiful) orchestrated soundtracks, with narratives that were about good triumphing over evil. I remember when WAW came out I was actually shocked to see some guys legs getting blown off by a shotgun. I hadn't seen that in a WW2 game before. And it was so refreshing and new and raw. Playing WAW felt like playing a completely different game from every other WW2 game I had played, and it was amazing. To this day, I still admire WAW for being so unflinching and sincere with its violence, and it's un-romanticized portrayal of the war.

[@usadroopymeat1099]

I have this game and I was blind since the beginning and after seeing this video along with historical inaccuracy videos I don’t know what to say and there is also cut content as well my love and respect for the franchise ended since 2012 because of what went down in bo2s marketing and advertising and how characters were developed written and how their deaths were executed

[@lightinabox6931]

First time I've ever seen someone mention how old graphics do a better job involving dark and gritty enviroments, good to see I'm far from the only one!

[@fresco_animations]

Very well done video, creative visuals and great points explaining yourself verbally and visually. Your character being used in silly ways had kept me hooked at parts that would have made me turn away or become bored. Over all brilliant video and a great story to be told! ❤

[@brunoyudi9555]

nice video furry

[@TheRealJohnH3]

this game came out in 2008, i was 12. im 27 now and to this day, its still my favorite CoD which i still love playing both campaign and Nazi Zombies.

[@seanmatto2258]

Feels like where living in two different worlds now since this game released…

[@DudetaketheBus]

This video IS AWESOME! Really took me back to one of my favorite COD campaigns. This was the only COD I EVER camped out, and bought at release (with the help of my dad). I was one of the first few people to get it at my local Best Buy and it came with that sick W@W skin for the 360 and the movie called “Enemy at the Gates” ( I watched, and rewatched at least 4 times growing up). I replayed the campaign at least 6 times, and became so numb to death, I joined the military myself! Lucky we don’t have to deal with any of this these days. You opened a bag of nostalgia with this. I’d rate it higher if I could, please thank you sincerely.

[@CynicalRaptor]

Best call of duty game for me. So many memories of me convincing my friends that this game was “haunted”. Just goes to show how good the sound design really is. It got to the point where my friends didn’t want to play it because it was kinda scary.

[@hoodytoad9732]

Well if you play it in veteran and grenades start spamming around you, it is

[@deadspacefellow]

There are a few games with sounds that make me disturbed. The two that instantly come to mind are, Half-sword where you hear some beg and scream then gurgle out their last breath as they try to crawl away from you, and Project Zomboid where you hear flesh and tendons being ripped and bones breaking when a corpse is being feasted on

[@MessengerOfMonolith]

When I saw Battlefield 1 for the first time in 2016, I thought "Whoa is this is the Battlefield version of CoD WaW?" And in the middle of watching this video, I was suddenly reminded of that old thought, and you surprised me with 15:27, it feels like you can read my mind. No sugar coating, no "epic battles", only blood, muds, rubbles, horror, chaos, despair, struggle for survive, and "you are one of the many yet expendables" feelings; Battlefield 1 has always been on par with CoD WaW at least for me, and both tell the story of 2 different wars. Funny because now I realize CoD Vanguard = BF 2045 🤡

[@ardynamberglow3124]

FUN FACT: the percussion to the song "Black Cats" is actually artillery fire from AA guns. So not only does the song SLAP, but its also Diegetic.

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

World at War's greatest sin was turning the legendary Colt M1911 into a fucking cap gun. Wish I was good enough to swap WaW's 1911 sounds with BO's. Also, don't forget "epic" can have more than one meaning. By epic, that guy might've meant that the battles of WW2 on a very large, vast scale. After all, it's common to hear the Battle of Kursk called an "epic clash" due to being the largest tank battle in history due to the numbers involved and the size of the area they were confined in (though a Operation Barbarossa tank battle is actually the largest in history by sheer numbers).

[@TriphexCorporation]

I wasn't aware that I wanted an adorable demonic goat in a hoodie to explain history I already know and games I already played to me but ... Evidently I do!

[@thenexus8384]

I love that "you think because you say nothing... You are strong?" Is the only thing in English from the enemy

[@zero-sama2879]

Keith Sutherland talking on the opening intro and even mentioning a person called Miller just exploded my metal gear fan senses!

[@vapersmith7859]

Call of Duty is a tough game to endure especially if your new and try to do the PVP campaign. The level of bitterness and aggression is so insane its a wonder anyone reaches the ground even.

[@extremel.z.s3140]

Yk, the funny thing about bushido (getting into my inner Japanese history nerd here) Is that aktuly, the shit only truly existed during the Edo Period. An age of peace for the Japanese under the Tokugawa/Edo Bakufu/Shogunate, writeen by a guy who never saw war at all. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand then some Japanese foreign minister wrote a book about that to the west when Japan had become Imperial Japan. So ye

[@nicholascauton9648]

5:32 "Given your freedom gun..." Brother, that ain't no freedom gun. The "Freedom Gun" in this time would have to be the legendary Colt M1911. Nambu ain't got nothing on .45 ACP.

[@KoalaTContent]

13:10 ... You actually censored the word "Japs?" Do you know what game you're playing here?

[@whydidiwatchthis5174]

15:09 Thank you for giving us a better understanding of rewriting history.👍🏾

[@danbro6138]

maybe one of those men in the clips from the war has grandkids now who played the game without knowing they saw a clip of their grandad in it

[@Xamsims]

Well damn, I never knew those unmarked Japanese ships in Black Cats were probably carrying forced laborers and POWs. What's worse is that the "Hell Ships" as they were called by the prisoners were targetted in a similar manner and many were actually sunk. That's quite disturbing.

[@tsarfox3462]

I like to see that easter egg in Little Resistance as the spirit of the island, war, or even death rewarding the side that deserves to hold the island because of its strength or just appreciates the destruction wrought and gives you a tool to keep doing what you're doing.

[@MrJakeros]

There was another reason it showed Japanese executing people in Nanjing (Nanking?). It was meant to inform we the players to the brutality of the Japanese army at the time. As for it being Indochina instead of Nanjing, history should show that the Japanese spread all across the coastal regions of China itself. Nanjing was only the most documented and the most brutal of the atrocities committed.

[@purpleranger5987]

Amazing editing crazy you’re not even at 100k subs. I love WaW because it has everything CODs don’t now the gibbing body parts the screaming while being burned in the flamethrower. It’s such a dark game but makes you see some of how horrible the Japanese were in Japanese my great great grandfather who is Japanese was in the internment camps and went to fight leaving behind his children. And my other grandfather fought in the pacific which was worse. The pacific eventually almost stopped taking all prisoners bc of the Japanese false surrenders where they’d blow themselves up trying to kill other marines. Ofc some surrendered but even then they’d kill their own if they seemed they were going to surrender.

[@segsfault]

I've played the old MW series but the experience I got with WaW is just unmatched, even somewhat better than what I got in BO1

[@B0B445]

in germany zombies is band and the campain is very censord

[@kalkuttadrop6371]

Most people get the neutral ending. Alongside not burning the prisoners alive and not finishing off the wounded men, to get the good ending you need to save your comrades from the previous section of the level at the end of Vendetta(After you help them take the radio building and get into position to chase Amsel, a german counter attack happens and Reznov tells you there is nothing you can do to help them and to focus on getting Amsel before he escapes. You CAN save the leader of that squad, the guy who bailed you out earlier in the flaming house scene, by sniping the guys around him)

[@TheProjectVoid]

Back when call of duty actually cared about historical accuracy and badass gameplay

[@prestinexd8004]

Don’t get me started on changing historically accurate symbols. Like changing the swastika to the iron cross. Small pointless changes that slowly kill the immersion and sense of historical accuracy. I understand why games do it but as a history buff i find it extremely annoying and disrespectful to those who participated in war and history

[@ryuhanja3415]

Call of duty world at war was probably my favorite game of all time, it both drove me to my passion of learning history but also showed that the devs CARED about the source material something sorely...forgotten, in the newer games, hopefully games will return to this and stop getting more and more woke and add snoop dog to ww2

[@Everyonesbuddy829]

The world is so soft nowadays. In worst case you cant even make allies vs axis games nowadays & give the nazis swastika arm band. I mean Band of Brothers series even completely remove the swastika on their uniform & in the last series they show Hitler without his famous mustache.

[@noble9759]

This game was legendary man.

[@Rebellion90s]

This is why I thinks WAW is more graphically and atmospherically horrifying than Doom or Mortal Kombat. Remember that anti-tank/material rifle is a common drop/pick up in not so many games which one of them is Earth Defense Force but it's reasonable when you have to fight against gigantic aliens but in WAW you practically chopping human-size enemies' limbs off from distance with bullets more powerful than .50 BMG.

[@CollinPickup]

I wanted to watch this video, but couldn't even get through 3 minutes because of the cringey edits and jokes

[@ShaggyRacc]

World War 2 is known for many epic battles. Yes. Thousands of soldiers drowning in the beached of Normandy. Epic.

[@eugeniaamariei8626]

8:03 Reznov glitches.