The First Call of Duty Veteran is HARD

We're going back to 2003 to take on the first, the original, Call of Duty. I'd seen nothing about the game, and was not prepared for it to be one of the hardest Veteran difficulties of the franchise... Loved it.
Edited full game commentary playthrough.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
==American==
1:06 - Camp Toccoa
6:34 - Briefing
8:32 - 1: Pathfinder
11:37 - 2: Ste. Mere Eglise
17:50 - 3: Ste. Mere Eglise - Day
25:18 - 4: Normandy Route N13
29:49 - 5: Brecourt Manor
38:06 - Briefing 2
39:11 - 6: Alps Chateau
47:07 - 7: Dulag IIIA
==British==
51:41 - Briefing 3
53:29 - 8: Pegasus Bridge
1:02:58 - 9: Pegasus Bridge - Day (First hint of hard)
1:12:48 - Briefing 4
1:14:35 - 10: The Eder Dam (Suddenly HARD)
1:36:48 - 11: Eder Dam Getaway
1:41:50 - 12: Airfield Escape
1:45:19 - 13: Battleship Tirpitz (ALSO HARD)
==Soviet==
2:02:55 - Briefing 5
2:06:04 - 14: Stalingrad
2:10:22 - 15: Red Square
2:19:02 - 16: Train Station
2:24:28 - 17: Stalingrad Sewers
2:30:15 - 18: Pavlov's House (Gets hard-ish)
2:46:12 - 19: Warsaw Factory
2:50:17 - 20: Warsaw Railyards
2:55:14 - 21: Oder River Country
2:57:55 - 22: Oder River Town
==United==
3:00:04 - Briefing 6
3:01:28 - 23: Festung Recogne
3:04:48 - 24: V-2 Rocket Site (Gets hard)
3:17:32 - 25: The Reichstag
3:25:15 - End
3:26:34 - Thoughts wrap-up
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[@CerealKiller143]

Fun Fact: The beginning of the Russian campaigns in COD1 and WaW are taken pretty much verbatim from the movie Enemy at the Gates.

[@aidenmiller5946]

@Sira Dia but it’s a fire movie

[@tzardnickolasthelitromanov]

And also finest hour aswell.

[@tacomas9602]

@Sira Dia that scene wasn’t horrible, and I’ve seen many cringe sex scenes in movies. It could have been a lot worse lol. Good movie, other than being ridiculously inaccurate as far as true to history. It’s certainly entertaining tho!

[@LiveSilence3]

Yes they are But Not accuarte To History Of course Blame The film

[@LiveSilence3]

But The film is stiil entertaining

[@MrGhoulie]

I love when the instructor says "your weapon will reload automatically" instead of it just being an on-screen hint. It is like the AI was self-aware they are in a game, and they don't even try to be emissive 🤣

[@TheMostBoringGuy]

Takes me back. I remember taking turns playing missions with my dad, uncle, and cousin every Thanksgiving. Every time someone would die we’d pass the mouse to the next guy to see if he can complete it. I’d spend all winter break playing United Offensive multiplayer, where you’d get to man tanks and jeeps and stuff. Man. My dad now has ALS and my parents had to sell my childhood home. Really miss those days when the world seemed so small man.

[@kingtaylor5613]

I did the same thing, taking turns playing missions with my dad

[@probower4726]

I used to do the same, me and dad would take turns on the missions. Until he'd start to get a headache cause of staring at a screen for too long. So many memories. Very overlooked and underappreciated CoD game. All of the early ones share this fate.

[@dedmajor]

My dad had 2 PCs and we would play multiplayer a lot together, by cod 2 we were in a clan which is where i get the DeD in my name from to this day

[@pantomath8155]

“Veteran Difficulty” in the recent COD’s would have been considered normal difficulty in the older COD games.

[@kakyointhemilfhunter4273]

To be fair, having health regen does make it a lot easier

[@dr.foxysocks2459]

It was lol. I love seeing the reviews on steam for the first Ghost Recon and kids complaining about how you have like 1HP and they kept getting killed. I am still proud I could go in and out of every mission in that game in less than 5 minutes never taking a hit and killing all 35-60 enemies. Health regen makes it more fun but not all that difficult.

[@JT-tt5il]

Yup, it's laughable how easy MW19 and Cold War's veteran campaigns were. (Never played Vanguard)

[@EvilWiffles]

@@dr.foxysocks2459 The first Ghost Recon is no joke. That was actually the first FPS game that I actually sat down and really played and for whatever reason, I beat it on the hardest difficulty. I do recall breaking a controller because of that game. I went back years later to play it and even on the easiest difficulty, it's pretty tough still. I think the only way I managed to ever beat that game is by remembering where all the enemies are and cheesing it.

[@dr.foxysocks2459]

@@EvilWiffles The first level is the hardest and yea I did the hardest to because I liked that skull with the Green Beret on and the gun belt going across lol.

[@dillonc7955]

Entire battalion of German soldiers: "I don't fear easily, but that thing *SOur crawling on the ground with a Bren gun*, that thing scares me..."

[@mikehicks2283]

Please timestamp the part your talking about

[@djs82a29]

I remember getting this game when I got back to Fort Bragg after being deployed to Iraq in 2003. I was a paratrooper in the 82d Airborne Division at the time so I was pretty into it. Good memories.

[@sethhowerton1489]

Hell yeah.

[@perkypears]

82nd airborne? shit my dad was part of them too I don't know any of the forts or anything he was at though

[@Devinanim]

My dad was in the 82nd and went to Iraq too. o7

[@ONRealNO]

37:50 Ayyy you actually managed to have Pvt.Elder survive the mission. He loses his essential status half way through the mission and it can get pretty annoying to have him survive, he's a minor character in cod 1 so its nice to see him live

[@DzoniMakaroni]

I always tried to save him for some reason, and always felt sad when he died.

[@Reaper08]

I didn't even know he can die.

[@jamesclifford1994]

I always tried to save him too. Only realised when watching this playthrough that he’s 82nd and everyone else is 101st

[@Sithplayer]

Sgt. Waters can die as well and at the end of the chase mission too. Price will call out to Waters but then get dad he doesn’t answer

[@equilibriajorvingia9705]

@@Sithplayer It makes you restart though since Sgt. Waters needs to survive for the rocket and Battleship Tirpitz missions

[@steviesavagegs8791]

I like that the first person we hear in cod is Steve Blum, he's been the voice for Tank Dempsey, Brimstone and a million other things

[@danielcunha4377]

I play COD 1 and COD UO all the time... both single player and multiplayer. The fact that he played the game on VETERAN earned my respect! What blew my mind, is the fact that he didn't know he could press F5 to manually save the game, AT ANY TIME!!! And he went through all that pain and never gave up!!! That is some NEXT level sh*t, and that i will never do it my myself. "The definition of insanity is to to the same thing over and over again and expect things to change" He took veteran into a whole new level, and that deserves to be called "The Sour Challenge". Man, if you played COD 1, you need to play COD UO (an expansion released by Activision), you "cannot" play COD 2 without playing the other half of COD 1. More guns, vehicles, ability to cook grenades/satchel charges, and its campaign matches COD 1's length and quality. I will be waiting for you to play it (just remember to hit that F5 button to manually save the game😂.

[@codygrannemann9506]

Kharkov 2 is horrible

[@AR-GuidesAndMore]

Fuck me you could save manually? 😅 I didnt know that either, when i played it back in the day, there was one point where i had to storm a house with no health i took me an eternity to get in. This one instance has ingrained itself into my brain so much i can remember it nearly 20 years later.

[@nguyentrunghieu8806]

@@codygrannemann9506 agreed, as epic as the battle was oh my dear god it was such a slog to get through.

[@codygrannemann9506]

@@nguyentrunghieu8806 I ended up just hiding prone behind cover during the timer for reinforcements to arrive.

[@UberHurman703]

@@codygrannemann9506 that level was challenging even on recruit. and this is coming from someone who has completed all of the older games on veteran (the 1st game included) except for MW2 and UO

[@GrimWolf666]

Wow, what a blast from the past. Thanks for this playthrough, S0ur!

[@kyam3331]

Now do it while not taking dmg》:)

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Much like the modern Hell Let Loose, the old school CoD's teach you that crawling on your belly for extended periods of time is very good for you. Like tummy rubs from Mother Earth.

[@shipuden97]

I just cant get into hell let loose for some reason. It feels very slow, not in a realistic way

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

@@shipuden97 Oh, I know exactly what you mean. Going from any other game - even one like Dayz for example - to HLL is like moving in molasses. Part of it I've discovered is the FOV making it seem slower - I usually put my FOV up to like 100+ - the games default is 90 (iirc) it doesn't seem AS slow at the default, but it's still a pace that will seem glacial to most gamers. It took me probably 10 or so hours to start getting into the game - and once I did not playing for a week+ and jumping back in is an adjustment in a way I've not had with other games. Before I really started to "get' the game, how it's supposed to work, and how the meta and culture of the playerbase is, I just took rifleman/assault/automatic rifle and gawked at the pretty explosions while trying to get kills and get immersed in the setting. After that I would take Medic or sometimes MG. The last classes I messed with were the support and engineer classes, because that requires undersranding of the game flow. So, with this fairly steep and long learning curve why bother? Well, a lot of the time you'll be getting your shit pushed in due to command incompetence, nonexistant squadleads, armor imbalance, team experience imbalance, and stream-sniping (don't play on streamer servers), when you get a good, authoritative squadlead, a competent commander, and squadmates willing to communicate and follow direction it is such a fucking high. At that point it doesn't even matter if you win or lose the match because you'll be having so much fun operating as a unit. It's even better if it's with randoms, it's like all the planets aligned and all the competent people found their way into one squad. You just need time... lots of time. Matches are looooooong.

[@shipuden97]

@@fuzzydunlop7928 ill give it few more runs thanks m8

[@spicey4522]

Veteran difficulty in cod 1 is by far the hardest of any cod game specifically because it removes health packs from the levels. So you either need to go through the level only taking 2-3 hits or quick save often, and it really makes the vehicle sections challenging since you can’t really take cover. It’s really fun though

[@WarFrog935]

We went from this masterpiece to the absolute pile of shit that is vanguard

[@rednekbob1847]

fr this game looks better than vanguard and CW combined 💀 CW looks like a mobile game, and vanguard looks like a make a wish kid with aids

[@alexsp7086]

lol they are all the same. Nothing has changed 😂. All are entertaining.

[@WarFrog935]

@@alexsp7086 is this bait?

[@TubeOfLaughes]

@@WarFrog935 The smelliest of bait.

[@i-Melika]

@@alexsp7086 i agree,i enjoy all of them but i dont like new political bs in games,

[@daddydobson200]

Well sour I've been sick throwing up from food poisoning all day today so thank you for being a bright spot in the day, I love these veteran play throughs, please keep making em

[@S0ur]

Hope you feel better soon brother

[@daddydobson200]

@@S0ur thanks man 😁

[@MrFoxtrot130]

Love the fact that Jason Statham did a bit role in this game as the voice narrator for dam briefing.

[@Fuse1990]

It wasn’t until I watched this (bare in mind I’ve played this game loads) that’s Waters is voiced by Statham 😂

[@Allfath3r]

He's not just a narrator, he's one of the main characters in the British campaign.

[@Sithplayer]

He’s also Sgt. Waters

[@ThunderMS34]

For as old as this game is, the graphics honestly isnt terrible

[@current9300]

The realistic but still stylized art styled tend to age well. Same thing with a lot of old pulp comics.

[@TheFishman123]

try getting your hands on finest hour if you can in any way man. I would love to watch you play that one

[@will8131]

Bruh wtf omg I played that on the ps2 religiously remember the music in tnr begging

[@AlqhemyA]

cod 2 on the pocket pc :troll:

[@FishmanTacticalLLC.]

When I was younger I play finest hour and big red one was what I play on ps2 I couldn't get pass the hold the tank factory

[@zachrobison7300]

@@FishmanTacticalLLC. i know right

[@jasonhudson3403]

Bruh that game pissed me off so much cuz of the checkpoints, literally ONLY 1 FOR EACH MISSION & THEY’RE AT THE MIDDLE OF EACH MISSION

[@Number1gamerever]

I was stuck on the Eder Damn Getaway for 2.5 years on PS3. I'd try a couple hours and then get so pissed I had to drop it for a few months lol apparently standing made you get hit less than crouching and that was the only way I ever finished it.

[@Let_It_R1P]

Same!

[@lacosanostraproductions1446]

That eder getaway was a bitch to beat! I actually thought that the game will get easier to play once i finish that mission but, oh boy was i wrong! I officially gave up completely playing the Battleship Tirpitz area on my Xbox 360 and was the only call of duty game i was never able to finish in normal difficultly... 2 years later on December 2019, me and my older brother gave away our Xbox 360 to a poorer family than us and gave this game to them. I hope they don't destroy the console we gave them from the frustration XD

[@UberHurman703]

any of the on rail levels on veteran are always some of the shittiest missions in the games. lol (black ops rebirth apc sequence i'm looking at you)

[@regisegek4675]

lol yeah that mission is tough

[@BuVidOG]

I struggled on Dam because I kept dying then forgetting to blow the AA gun or the Generators. Getaway its pretty hard but I made it. The one after the getaway where u have to shoot Stukas is deadly. The enemies on the roof kept killing me while I was dealing with them bloody stukas

[@vkw619]

I highly highly recommend playing the CoD 1 expansion "United Offensive" if you enjoyed this. Its more of the same, but some of my most memorable single player experiences are with the expansion over the regular campaign.

[@melvinjansen2338]

United offensive best cod ever

[@kristianholm7537]

I remember this game when it came out...the fact that you fought with AI by your side was completely unheard off :D

[@djjayem100]

Ummmm, Medal of honor?

[@unitedkingdom4304]

@@djjayem100 most of it is just small groups of squad

[@luuvutuanbao]

@@djjayem100 MOH focused on a more lonewolf experience back then. COD was the first to have multiple AI companions

[@HateTheGame1]

Brothers in Arms

[@lanceewing2818]

Ever heard of halo?

[@itsphlix4276]

This is freaking gold. Most genuine laughs I’ve had in a long dang time dude.

[@thetrueone8252]

and before i watch this, he got stuck on that god forsaken boat mission edit: knew it. also why abandon the ship when you most likely killed the majority of the people on board already

[@DarkPsychoMessiah]

Cuz that ship will be blown to kingdom come by the Royal Air Force

[@gunnerpup7288]

I remember my mom getting me this game back in 2005 with the united offensive expansion. The part with the bridge always stumped me as a kid. Had to restart the mission multiple times. SOOO. Sour. You gonna do this for united offensive next? if you want something really hard, try Call of Duty 2 on veteran. the American Campaign is harder than anything else I've played in the cod lineup. also. that moment you didn't catch captain price's death. in the original release, there was a bug that while price uses the light to signal the Bismarck, it has no lighting effects. felt weird to see it. the guy walking up the wall in the train station kills me every time I see it.

[@gunnerpup7288]

also, if you have any questions about the original COD experience, hit me up. I have been playing since 2005, and have played every game. The classic ones get really good until COD 3. 3 was kinda shit. not gonna lie.

[@lacosanostraproductions1446]

I played Cod 2 and Cod 1 before and cod 2 isn't really hard compared to Cod 1. It's so much easier with infinite health. Even with that, is Cod united offensive harder or as hard as Cod 1?

[@lacosanostraproductions1446]

@Sabino70 oh damn, then united offensive is the hardest game in call of duty franchise

[@gunnerpup7288]

@@lacosanostraproductions1446 It was a lot harder than I knew what to do with at the time. I was playing WaW and figured I'd retry Call of Duty 2 for a bit more nostalgia, and it was way harder than I remembered. You might have infinite health, but it's like CoD 1 when I first played it on Veteran. The AI learn as you keep going, and you have to take out enemies in a specific order to progress, otherwise, it's almost hit scan weapons.

[@UberHurman703]

@@gunnerpup7288 united offensive has got to be the hardest cod game for sure. infinite spawning enemies made it annoying even on regular difficulty :/

[@robwrone]

No health regen in this game's Veteran mode is BRUTAL. Not sure how many people noticed but there are a few references to characters from this game in newer CoD titles. Captain Price is obviously in the old WWII and new MW titles. Sgt. Foley in MW2 shares Cpt. Foley's name from CoD. In the MW2 mission "No Russian" your alias is "Alexei Borodin" (Alexei is the playable character for the Russians in CoD and Sgt. Borodin is the first significant character that you interact with in the Russian campaign at Stalingrad). Makarov from the MW titles shares Sgt. Makarov's name (Sgt. Makarov helps you survive the charge at Red Square in CoD). General Shepherd from the MW series shares the name of Major Sheppard from CoD (CO of your division and battalion). I might be missing more. The last mission in MW is also VERY similar to the mission "Eder Dam Getaway" from CoD. I miss when the developers at CoD would do stuff like this for their long-time fans.

[@democraticmyass]

The sound of the grenade bouncing is so nostalgic

[@csboyd26]

I think I was a sophomore in HS when this came out, I remember my mom was out of town with my brother and my dad let me hook up my PS in the family room on the old school Zenith one weekend and it was a pretty epic adventure

[@candle86]

this wasn't on the play station, this was PC Exclusive, they did have I think finest hour that came out later, but it wasn't the same game. I remember me and my buddies playing this at lan parties, right until FarCry came out then we switched to its MP mode for death match free for alls

[@csboyd26]

@@candle86 youre right, it must have been the next year when finest hour released, its been so many years its hard to tell them apart.

[@martind5653]

I still think first Call of Duty United offensive expansion is very underappreciated and low-key one of the best CoD out there.

[@martind5653]

So I hope you will play it. It's mile ahead of base game while being the same.

[@martind5653]

Like it has sort of sprint even.

[@sal6695]

as a person who's played COD1 on veteran once a year since childhood, its hard but god is it fun

[@Kxll222]

mann.. i remember playing this when I was like 10 or sum..it was my favourite.. use to pretend I'm sick so I can stay home and play this game ^^

[@connormurphy8952]

Wow a blast from the past. Thanks S0ur for the playthrough! Very nostalgia indeed. Hope to see more classic call of duty playthroughs my personal favorite call of duty 2.

[@greatest_bumble_bee_dude]

Kool Similar here . I've clocked the second call Of duty on veteran mode something like 300 times now Maybe even more

[@thegrayyernaut]

This game really gave me a feeling that I'm a small part of a larger unit. Even the tutorial started off with me running the obstacle course with a bunch of other guys.

[@kaboom2217]

Really enjoyed this playthrough. Your style feels like a nice blend between Veteran playthroughs where the players just focuses on completing the challenge like some endurance test, and the hilarious sufferings of casual, laidback players. I definitely would love to see more. Are you thinking of doing Veteran playthroughs of the United Offensive expansion pack and CoD2?

[@mynock5012]

The original CoD and the United Offensive expansion are probably the greatest WW2 games of all time. Actually somewhat competent friendly AI (at least they can hit enemies) vs the solo MoH:AA trope. At least somewhat focused on actual historical battles. Fantastic multiplayer for the time. Ugh, to be a mid-2000s teenager again sinking HOURS into bolt action rifles only servers... 17L clan, I miss you guys, hope you're well...

[@Reaper08]

And World at War. The tone is obsoletely what ww2 games should have. None of that Marvel Avengers Vanguard bullshit. And the music is just perfect.

[@mirraculous_]

Wow thanks for the video! Can't help myself, the old CoD games always pull me like a magnet. It's been almost 20 years and I'm still firing up CoD2 campaign now and then. I only started watching (sorry if you mention the answer somewhere), but since you got the party started, what about more retro-CoD content? CoD:UO, 2, 3 (you can play this via the emulator), etc... Btw, useless fact, the game came out on my sixth birthday :D

[@MintyLime703]

CoD 2 is so good. I would've been around 7 years old when it released and even then I knew the game was something special for the time.

[@MartaRzehorz]

15 minutes in and I wonder if there is a point in the video where he learns he can quicksafe and quickload whenever

[@S0ur]

Nope lol. Glad I didn't though, sounds like it defeats the challenge

[@Random-Man1384]

@@S0ur actually you know what your right I'm gonna do a cod 1 livestream at some point and try to do his challenge without quick save I'm gonna do what you did so wish my sanity and my mental health Good luck a'right Note:i played this game when i was 7 and played on the very easy DIFFICULTY and welp i quick saved a lot because i died more than 1 million times

[@ThisBirdHasFlown]

@@S0ur You're totally right. I'm not opposed to quicksaving in most games, but this game's challenge and intensity is what makes it so fucking fun. Quicksaves remove that intensity.

[@thechugg4372]

@@S0ur I mean its a PC game it was made with quick saving in mind lmao, also note the health packs don't exist because the steam version is bugged, it also bugs a lot of music iirc, there is a patch to fix this.

[@duncansmith3518]

@@thechugg4372The health packs aren’t in the retail (physical) version of veteran either.

[@EbonKim]

I remember playing all those games (MoHAA) and CoD as well as CoD2. Was so good, only played using the rifle or rifle melee, and was called a hacker. It was a compliment back then. In those days, there were hackers every now and then, but nowhere near the amount of hackers today. Servers were hosted, and they didn't tolerate hackers, unless the host was a hacker themselves. I miss those days. Clans were fun to play in, too.

[@adamfrazer5150]

SOUR ! Great to hear from you man, and what a blast from the past 💣 Nicely done, very refreshing and it is a serious trip to look back and see the moving parts 👍🇨🇦

[@televisedpork7993]

This was one of the 1st video games I ever played. I remember I was in like 2nd grade when this came out and my parents bought me it shortly thereafter. I had so much fun playing this and interestingly enough, it got me interest in WW2 and history in general. Definitely still have this ranked in my top 3 favorite COD’s of all time.

[@Catbackfatcat]

Watching the intro to this video with all of S0urs expectations on what’s gonna happen later on, is like watching the intro to your favourite movie. You know the next few hours is gonna be pure entertainment

[@therpderp]

"and some of you were undoubtably... born" i feel called out.

[@Dusann696]

S0ur, thank you for bringing back this old gem! I enjoyed every second of this "veteran video" :D I have never played cod1 in veteran mode, it is too hard for me :P But this video reminded me of my playthrough of original Mafia 1 where you can't choose difficulty it is just hard :D New games today in most cases are just way too easy, I don't get that feeling of achieving something like I used to with old games.

[@rommelmoreira2116]

The soundtrack of this games is just haunting and epic.

[@ryans413]

Veteran difficulty felt like I was actually a soldier in the war.

[@TheRealEmile]

1:12:51 I was like this guy sounds like Jason Statham turns out it actually is 😂

[@somedude6598]

I WAS SCROLLING for this.

[@mentos93]

The multiplayer on this game was the best. Fighting clan wars meeting people with xfire, maps like harbor & pavlov.

[@beeflord281]

45:40 having that expectation of hearing badass price to hearing that plus you laughing s0ur I lost it 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@saimalishahid1406]

Such an amazing watch. Didn't expect to sit all the way through. It was really nice.

[@boredman123]

I watched your whole video and afterwards decided to try this for myself. i'm halfway through the campaign and it is HARD, while it is possible to slowly move from cover to cover in order to advance, if you're in out the open it is a miracle to make it through sometimes, especially if further on in the level you have to take dmg (british bridge capture). The worst so far was the truck ride to the airfield, my god i never wished for the level to end so badly.

[@NamedKid10]

You should try United Offensive, it has a hard as hell mission where you have to destroy 5 tanks using Panzerfaust

[@laszlopados3350]

Loved your video: whitty, funny, sarcastic, rage-y, calm, happy, sad: all the human emotions put into and displayed in one video, haha. I could see ll the dedication and effort you put the making of this video. Keep it up, you are doing great!

[@mattb9054]

God this makes me feel old, I was born in 1991 I was like 10 when call of duty came out on PS2. I remember this game vividly, pure nostalgia

[@MrBegmar]

It was great video. I watched the whole thing. I hope you will play United Offensive and CoD 2 or even Medal of Honor Allied Assault (I know it's not COD game, but it's grandfather of all CODs so it definitely deserves playthrough). Overall watching you play was so nostalgic to me. It was first Call of Duty I played. After MOHAA it was groundbreaking. On battlefield there were friendly soldiers that would fight and die alongside the player. On 2nd level there is a guy dragging wounded fellow into cover in front of MG42 and if you are fast enough you can kill the gunner and save them, but if you are too slow then machinegunner just kills them. Also soldiers would communicate saying things like "MG42 on second floor!" or "Cover me! I'm reloading!". Today it may seem stupid to be exited by things like that, because everyone takes it for granted in COD or any other shooter, but at the time this was really something new, fresh and immersive. It felt like real war. Next game that topped that immersion for me strangely wasn't COD2 but FEAR, but it's whole different story. Golden times in gaming. I'm happy that I lived through them.

[@zenhaelcero8481]

When I got the two demo discs from PCGamer mag back in the day, I must have played Ste. Mere-Eglise Night and Day 1000 times or more. This game absolutely broke ground at the time, it was wild.

[@DannieDecentVlogs]

This is a nice suprise , i have never really gave this game a real try , i played it a little bit wayy back in the day , but i really got into cod with cod 4 like everyone, but i look forward to watching this video a little bit at a time this week

[@ashersussex8533]

OMG those three British missions that gave you so much trouble gave me insane ptsd from when i played them, my goodness i got so fustrated and sad and everything trying to get through those. So cool you actually have a control over your emotions (unlike myself) and can actually just enjoy the playthrough with all the setbacks and pain. Love you and your content 😽💞

[@AR-GuidesAndMore]

I think it was Pavlovs house i died over and over again getting into one building it was absolute joy when i finally made it. Edit: On hardest difficulty i really felt like cannon fodder at times

[@HaileyLov3sP1nK]

Woah is that Steve Blum as Cpt.Foley? That's awesome he definitely chose a good time to back out of this game lol

[@zenhaelcero8481]

Yup! Steve Blum as Foley, Giovanni Ribisi as Pvt Elder, and Jason Statham as Sgt Waters.

[@ubert6585]

I only found your channel literally yesterday, through getting recommended the MW2 3 Star Spec Ops video, and very quickly has earned my sub, this is some good stuff man, keep it up!

[@amirhosseinshojaei5357]

Its a great video... with your commentary it is an entertaining adventure... i dont want it to end

[@99suvres]

Amazing video! Thanks for your efforts, I know how long editing takes on this, wow! COD 2 next? - It is very hard, even though it has health regen and feels way more "modern" (like cod4)

[@johns1625]

I got this game with a new ps2 for Christmas the year it came out! I remember feeling like it was just as realistic as real life lmao. Those first three games might be the best CoD ever made

[@togetic1486]

“That’s not Sergeant Heath. My Bad” 😂😂😂 Great video. Watching it all

[@WhatisAPaladin]

man i love those campaign runs, probs the only legit lets play channel thats enjoyable to watch.

[@Yungbeck]

Ahh 2003, I was out filming homemade jackass videos with my friends when this game dropped! We played this so much online/LAN it was nuts. So many great maps and the campaign is unforgettable. Great play through can't wait for more entries!

[@crvckerjack3622]

I remember playing this and other classics on my dads computer with his brother. The old maps were awesome. Used to be aircraft carriers, you could drive tanks and jeeps etc. was a simpler time.

[@ThisBirdHasFlown]

I have a blast playing this game on Veteran without quicksaves. United Offensive is even harder. There's one section in that game that takes probably almost a hundred attempts. I've played through both twice like this. I've played all of the games up until Cold War on Veteran and this is one of my favourites. A big refinement on Allied Assault, which I'm now playing for the first time (which is still good in its own right).

[@brunogamesbr1]

it's that russian campaign building where you have to take out the tanks while your teammates "cover" you (they die immediately leaving you to defend the building by yourself) right?

[@neighborsjordan95]

I'm so glad that CoD 1 gets your recognition. I loved this game and had it in like, 2004 for PC and loved the campaign. I probably played hundreds and hundreds of hours of the multiplayer online mode. It had a thriving community of players and servers and in fact still does, but in like, 2013 they shut down the servers and fortunately, the game supported dedicated software for personally run servers. You just can't use the in-game browser to locate them. MW mods, jump maps, gun mods, and many more made this game last well beyond what the creators thought it would I'm sure. My favorite vanilla maps were Carentan, Bocage, and Railyard. Ship had a lot of love too but those maps have all been retextured and recycled throughout the years in other CoDs. RiP my physical disk of Call of Duty Game of the Year Edition, you occupied my childhood well into adulthood. I'll miss it plenty

[@travisirish354]

3 hours and 30 minutes of my life well spent very entertaining keep up the good work

[@evanpetelle5669]

I played this game into oblivion as a kid. Hardcore nostalgia watching this.

[@dailyspectalk]

Time for the United Offensive Expansion pack

[@kiiboreviewsngameplay3756]

Glad to say this was my first call of duty I ever played! Remember the days of me and my dad playing this all the time on his old pc, fun times!

[@davidv5595]

this was really entertaining, never thought I'd watch a 3 hour video straight, but yet here i am lol

[@wrymhole]

I love the playthroughs s0ur I hope to see more! It's be cool to watch you replay all the campaigns on the hardest difficulty up to MW2019 but I know thats a big undertaking lol. Still love the playthroughs!

[@mitu123Copper]

Oh man, can't imagine him doing Black Ops 3 on Realistic and Infinite Warfare on YOLO.

[@wrymhole]

@@mitu123Copper he actually did bo3 on realistic back when it was new. Not sure about IW tho

[@mitu123Copper]

@@wrymhole Ah, I didn't know. But yeah, I'm not sure about IW on any of the hardest difficulties.

[@MykaV2]

Crazy to think how far it came

[@danielmeleaku1061]

Thank you so much for this video!! This was my first fps game ever as a kid, back in like 2005. I played it on veteran like 10 years later though. Extremely hard, makes the later cod games look so easy

[@capnjazzfan0172]

Another banger. Love the dedication

[@GlenIV]

It was a nice trip down memory lane. Hope you give the expansion United Offensive a look, improved on this game, added some new weapons and mechanics.

[@kamikazemelon787]

Man. I played this when I was around 11 or 12 at the time. Had an Nvidia FX5600 and I believe a just about 1ghz AMD K7 Athlon XP. This game was absolutely mind blowing. First time seeing iron sights in a game, and literally is the reason I love history today. Stopped playing CoD after CoD2 until 2019 MW which was cool. IIRC the veteran difficulty does get rid of the medkits!

[@mitu123Copper]

It's true, no medkits on Veteran for COD1.

[@TheCoDDmast3r]

Thanks for making these videos. I have completed nearly every Call of Duty on Veteran except Bo2 and CoD 1

[@iTouchTadpoles]

I was just checking your channel today to see if you uploaded and here we are

[@gswarriors1439]

This is true veteran mode

[@Welter117]

S0ur campaign playthroughs are my favorite.

[@joejoesphsteen172]

you are the GOAT !! please never stop making vids

[@Furetchen]

Weirdly, I had really vivid memories of repeatedly failing to defend Waters on the bridge when I played this as a kid. The 'You failed to protect Sergeant Waters.' game over screen is seared into my brain. Now I'm wondering how it was possible for me to get to that point at all with the Dam before it...

[@kelbyjacobson736]

Beating this and the united offensive dlc on the hardest difficulty was one of the hardest games for me

[@angusbeef7347]

my man is only 25? God luv ya Sour you're just straight up awesome.

[@Misttrd]

Just been recommended this video, and tbh really enjoyed it, new sub :)

[@hyuseamv8424]

Loving your videos.. you earned my sub ! 👍

[@yusufanbarfirdausi621]

1:27:09 I feel you, man 😂

[@corrion1]

No doubt this game changed the PC gaming landscape at the time having come from allied assault and bf1942 this game was a monumental step up in the fps genre. No game had implemented the realism and large scale combat that this game pulled off in 2003

[@deoxeneverlasting4632]

A lot of early things I think they used in later games: Sgt foley obviously but moreso because they're both essentially opening tutorials that lead to you being observed by a higher ranking officer. Pvt./sgt. Makarov The trainyard section kinda reminds me of trainyard in cod ghosts.

[@yungsquirrel]

very nice video, and thank you so much for the timestamps, very helpful :D

[@SinfulSam115]

Wait till you play United Offensive on veteran.

[@KhanWolf95]

Fuck the Trainyard ending

[@candle86]

Just make sure to set Affinity on it, or it bugs out, unless your playing on a single core cpu lol

[@davidpiksi]

I really enjoy these videos. I'd like to see you try cod2 and cod3 on the hardest difficulties

[@randylahey2923]

Cod 2 on Veteran is fucked!! Good luck getting 10 ft past the cliff on normandy lol

[@screamingrose6426]

I got this game and Medal of Honor for my Papa when I was 5. I used to watch him play it all the time and then I started playing them when I was 6. The original CoD and MoH will always have a special place in my heart. It wasn't until today that I found them on steam! I told him about it (we had lost the original hard disks a while ago), this was a big part of my childhood and I love them to bits. It's nice to see someone playing the original.

[@GDUniverse]

As enjoyable as always S0ur, keep doing you bro and we’ll always keep watching! GG ez game, until they don’t let you regenerate your health 😅

[@Plasmic-knight]

S0ur back with another banger

[@cockywastaken]

HES BACKLKKKKKK

[@svein1827]

Great video, bro. Can’t believe you beat it that easily without quicksave on your first play through 🤯

[@gdubsterz1238]

Trippy I remember these maps...this game was fun/challenging.