MODERN WARFARE: How Call of Duty 4 Changed a Genre Forever

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  • Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
  • Patreon: / ahoy
    00:00 An Obsession with World War 2
    01:04 2015, Inc.
    02:54 Infinity Ward
    03:24 Call of Duty
    06:14 Call of Duty 2
    09:47 COD 4's Early Development
    14:46 COD 4 Marketing
    21:58 COD 4 Release
    24:33 The Legacy of Modern Warfare
    Bibliography:
    xboxahoy.com/biblio/modern-war...
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  • @derek_davidson
    @derek_davidson 2 дні тому +5969

    "too often, too many" proved to be prophetic

    • @TheRyman230
      @TheRyman230 2 дні тому +94

      I was thinking the same thing when I saw that comment in the video!

    • @MarkiusFox
      @MarkiusFox 2 дні тому +147

      But the shareholders will never be satisfied.

    • @yjefecustom
      @yjefecustom 2 дні тому +29

      Not when it comes to Ahoy 😭

    • @dplocksmith91
      @dplocksmith91 2 дні тому +88

      ​@@MarkiusFox indeed. Because for them, it's not enough to make all of the money in the world. They want you to make all of the money in the world *and then some* the next year, because that makes the stock price go up, and that's how they make *their* money.

    • @sneek1015
      @sneek1015 2 дні тому +45

      "I hope i'm wrong." Oh i am so, so sorry Borys

  • @CYXNIGHT
    @CYXNIGHT 2 дні тому +4221

    "I fear the CoD franchise will go the Tony Hawk route - too often, too many
    I hope I'm wrong"
    You weren't Borys. You weren't ;-;

    • @octaviusfooks7194
      @octaviusfooks7194 2 дні тому +54

      "And you were right [Borys]. That must be a novel experience for you."

    • @atifarshad7624
      @atifarshad7624 2 дні тому +61

      Lets not forget how Busty saw the future after getting drunk 😂

    • @4T3hM4kr0n
      @4T3hM4kr0n 2 дні тому +16

      it's ironic, since Neversoft was merged with what was left of infinity ward

    • @TigerTigerson
      @TigerTigerson День тому +3

      *_PART 2_*
      ua-cam.com/video/l3l3BlDYpzo/v-deo.html

    • @catethps
      @catethps День тому +8

      @@4T3hM4kr0n yep and they did the same thing with the people who made the 1+2 remaster, vicarious visions ended up just working on diablo 4 and CoD again

  • @pajamapantsjack5874
    @pajamapantsjack5874 2 дні тому +702

    We’ve come full circle on this channel, started with MW2 weapon guides, and now we return to MW1

    • @samharradence5689
      @samharradence5689 День тому +11

      Are you going to improve your art or are we still stuck at flat 2D

    • @kingnothing5678
      @kingnothing5678 22 години тому +7

      Return of the King. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me when I saw who posted.

    • @pajamapantsjack5874
      @pajamapantsjack5874 22 години тому +7

      @@samharradence5689 I’m not a 3D artist . I don’t know what this means do you mean go digital .

    • @eugeneescalona9478
      @eugeneescalona9478 20 годин тому +5

      ​@@samharradence5689
      ...what does this even mean?

    • @soulSSeekingbullet
      @soulSSeekingbullet 17 годин тому

      You call that art?

  • @TiomesTheOne
    @TiomesTheOne 2 дні тому +366

    "50,000 People Used to Live Here. Now It's a Ghost Town"
    Favorite mission of my teenage years.
    Unbelievable we didn't got loads of missions/games in that style.

    • @iwanttocomplain
      @iwanttocomplain 2 дні тому

      Is this the series that had you murdering queuing passengers?

    • @mercenarydelta7351
      @mercenarydelta7351 2 дні тому +14

      ​@@iwanttocomplainyes, albeit it's only in one mission in Modern Warfare 2. It's called No Russian.

    • @iwanttocomplain
      @iwanttocomplain 2 дні тому

      @@mercenarydelta7351 I was thinking about the stories in this game and thinking they are not Tolstoy are they.

    • @eSpyre
      @eSpyre День тому +22

      @@iwanttocomplain It certainly isn't, the mission is about the shock value for sure. But to be clear it's a mission where a Russian terrorist organisation incites open conflict by masquerading as Americans and gunning down Russian civilians. Ending with the player, who's character is in fact an undercover American operative, being left for dead and this is what actually ties the whole act together.
      So a little more complex than 'shoot innocent people'.
      Assuming I remember it right.

    • @jacobrohr5903
      @jacobrohr5903 День тому +4

      All Ghillied Up is indescribable

  • @rt3455rr2
    @rt3455rr2 2 дні тому +3284

    I love how that guy in 2006 was complaining about Activision milking COD.

    • @88porpoise
      @88porpoise 2 дні тому +316

      That was certainly not a unique sentiment at the time. Keep in mind that there were two other console exclusive COD games, not made by IW, not mentioned here (Finest Hour and Big Red One) so when COD3 was coming out it was the fifth game in 3 years (plus the expansion for COD).

    • @DenSvartaStjarnan
      @DenSvartaStjarnan 2 дні тому +145

      ​@@88porpoise All good games but I can see it's easier to say now. And it's funny he angrily predicted another WW2 game considering that World At War has the best campaign of all the WW2 CODs.

    • @krono5el
      @krono5el 2 дні тому +14

      genz could never know.

    • @Kaarl_Mills
      @Kaarl_Mills 2 дні тому +9

      where is the lie? Im not seeing it

    • @RAM-ez8ml
      @RAM-ez8ml 2 дні тому +31

      We call this foreshadowing

  • @Failtuna
    @Failtuna 2 дні тому +2687

    Fastest click of my life

  • @Vespyr_
    @Vespyr_ День тому +127

    Was in Mosul, Iraq when this game was released getting ready to redeploy back home. So many of the boys got copies of this game for PC on laptop, and some of the CHUs even managed to set up lan play to do multiplayer with each other using ethernet (we were a Signal battalion lol). Was pretty wild to be playing a game like this while actively deployed, but it sure took the edge off during long waits in airfields, and back in Kuwait, while sitting in tents waiting for your unit to move. The Kuwaiti KBR tents used to have this installed on their PCs as well for troops spending leave in theater.

    • @The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger
      @The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger 22 години тому

      I bet there were soldiers who would find a character in the campaign with the name of a buddy and shout across the tent “Yo Pvt. Dipshit! You’re in the game!”

    • @user-mg7wh8zq6v
      @user-mg7wh8zq6v 8 годин тому

      whats a chu

    • @Vespyr_
      @Vespyr_ 4 години тому

      @@user-mg7wh8zq6v Contianerized Housing Unit. They were shipping containers converted with some insulation, and ac units to serve as housing for soldiers. They'd stack them side by side on wooden platforms along the sand, sometimes beneath camo netting and that would be the barracks with several bunks inside. Usually 2-6 people per unit depending on the size of the container. These were pretty standard in fobs during the latter half of the war for many branches in larger bases like Baghdad, Mosul, etc. My first deployment when the campaign started we lived in tent cities, if we were lucky hehe, so these were a lot better by the time CoD4 came out lol. Was nice to have a more reliable place to bunk down.

    • @zmiecer
      @zmiecer 10 хвилин тому

      @@user-mg7wh8zq6v Containerized Housing Unit

    • @notsodeep1140
      @notsodeep1140 7 хвилин тому

      ​@@user-mg7wh8zq6v chu-mama

  • @VanessaKinbaby
    @VanessaKinbaby День тому +141

    As someone who used to watch you back in your Gun Guides days.
    This video mans a lot to me, feels oddly like a full circle moment. I appreciate this greatly, im glad your are still here.

    • @ecapsdira
      @ecapsdira День тому +13

      bot

    • @stickiedmin6508
      @stickiedmin6508 День тому +1

      ​@@ecapsdira
      No you aren't.

    • @kingnothing5678
      @kingnothing5678 22 години тому

      Yes. I remember a lot of people used the ACR in MW2 and I didn't know why until he explained how it had no recoil.

    • @PURENT
      @PURENT 21 годину тому +3

      @@stickiedmin6508 Literally a coomerbait bot account that ripped off someone else's comment.

  • @theskrill656
    @theskrill656 2 дні тому +933

    Ahoy uploads, you click.
    He speaks, you listen.
    “Until next time, farewell.”

    • @nohurry
      @nohurry 2 дні тому +6

      Have a thumbs-up for the senko-san profile picture!

    • @threadschanged4252
      @threadschanged4252 2 дні тому +4

      Exactly also, Senko pfp :D

    • @KoalaMarch77
      @KoalaMarch77 День тому

      Goddamn weaboos

    • @TigerTigerson
      @TigerTigerson День тому

      *_PART 2_*
      ua-cam.com/video/l3l3BlDYpzo/v-deo.html

  • @aquapendulum
    @aquapendulum 2 дні тому +1653

    Infinity Ward cancelled the "Halo killer" to make Call of Duty 4. Little did they know Call of Duty 4 was the real Halo killer all along.

    • @Killerduck0213
      @Killerduck0213 2 дні тому +215

      While I won't deny that Halo had run its course by that point, neither did Bungie. They knew it was time to move on so they did. It was Microsoft that couldn't, and after that point 343 has done more to kill Halo than any outside company ever did.

    • @Sketchy_2
      @Sketchy_2 2 дні тому

      the real halo killer ended up being halo itself​@@Killerduck0213

    • @BaneOfXistence4
      @BaneOfXistence4 2 дні тому +51

      Was the Halo Killer, Titanfall?

    • @CyanRooper
      @CyanRooper 2 дні тому +130

      ​@@Killerduck0213 Microsoft's problem is that they would much rather milk existing franchises to death than let their developers create new IPs. Halo should have ended with Reach but Microsoft wanted Halo to be like what Mario is to Nintendo.

    • @bakomusha
      @bakomusha 2 дні тому +12

      @@BaneOfXistence4 Yes.

  • @timothymclean
    @timothymclean День тому +77

    2:30: Probably for the best. "2015" is a name that presumably sounded futuristic in 1997, but it would sound a lot less futuristic in (say) 2022.

    • @QuilloManar
      @QuilloManar 17 годин тому +10

      But sure as hell feels nostalgic, imagine a studio named 2015 making retro indie games now, like a flip point on the timeline.

  • @TheWavys
    @TheWavys День тому +81

    This video actually made me a bit emotional lol. I was 13 when COD4 released and this video just brought back so much nostalgia and appreciation for that moment in my life. I remember seeing the multiplayer teasers showing the perks and was so incredibly excited to play. I signed up for the beta and when I got that email and was accepted I felt like the luckiest kid on earth. Finally, I played the beta ALL night and completely fell in love. Things like gaining XP, upgrading all your gear and adjusting perks were mind-blowing because I had never experienced anything like that before....In my second game I asked somebody "how do you get the red dot on your weapon" and they told me I can customize my weapon!?
    Simpler times back then, grateful to have experienced that era of gaming

    • @Arkiasis
      @Arkiasis 5 годин тому +3

      It's funny that even the forum comments make me feel nostalgic. Subreddits these days are terrible places to discuss games.

  • @DHCR-core
    @DHCR-core 2 дні тому +982

    I like that the one guy that was bemoaning the Call of Duty franchise being "run into the ground" was spot-on, even his prediction of "another WW2 game 9-12 months after modern warfare" was accurate. However, what he didn't know at the time was that both Modern Warfare and World at War would become two of the most beloved FPS games in history.

    • @Amanitaland
      @Amanitaland 2 дні тому +39

      It was the golden age of shooter games

    • @DHCR-core
      @DHCR-core 2 дні тому +97

      @@Amanitaland Infinity Ward made a brilliant decision to kill off the "Halo Killer" project. Only one thing could kill Halo, and that was Halo itself. Anyone else that even attempted to encroach on its territory were lost and forgotten to time.

    • @krono5el
      @krono5el 2 дні тому +1

      i dont know what world at war is but we all Loved Modern Warfare and its legendary.

    • @PalindroneV2
      @PalindroneV2 2 дні тому +53

      ​@@krono5elWorld At War is Treyarch's last WW2 game. It's the birthplace of the zombies mode and it takes place in the black ops timeline.

    • @kylemsguy_
      @kylemsguy_ 2 дні тому +25

      @@krono5el It's the best WWII shooter ever made. It's basically COD4, but WWII.

  • @MapMonkey96
    @MapMonkey96 2 дні тому +1612

    We're so back

    • @roby0414
      @roby0414 2 дні тому +11

      You're all back

    • @self.medicate
      @self.medicate 2 дні тому +10

      Not that we went anywhere.

    • @thejohnjosh
      @thejohnjosh 2 дні тому +5

      SO. BACK.

    • @Finarvas
      @Finarvas 2 дні тому +9

      I hate zoomers

    • @MapMonkey96
      @MapMonkey96 2 дні тому +14

      @@Finarvas I'm 27 and was trickshotting you with a bluetiger m40 at the end of every round, boohoo

  • @slayer45670
    @slayer45670 2 дні тому +54

    Can’t believe I’ve been watching Ahoy videos for 12years!! How time flies. I remember being 14, freshman in high school watching their black ops 2 weapon breakdowns. Now I’m turning 26 in two weeks, still watching his CoD videos!

  • @AmericanDirectorOK
    @AmericanDirectorOK 2 дні тому +23

    Holy crap, it all comes full circle. What started as a series of COD game guides returns as a COD retrospective. Now that's hype!

  • @Rhomega
    @Rhomega 2 дні тому +1201

    Wow, 3 Ahoy videos in one year (so far). So awesome!

    • @bigredjanie
      @bigredjanie 2 дні тому +57

      Ikr? And he's really going back to his roots here, he used to do COD videos (there's even footage of him at a live event, I believe celebrating MW3's release)

    • @duffman18
      @duffman18 2 дні тому +30

      Yeah I feel like he must have been spending the months developing multiple videos at the same time so he could drop them all very close to each other. We're being spoiled for how many Ahoy documentaries we're getting

    • @adenkyramud5005
      @adenkyramud5005 2 дні тому +23

      4 i think. G36, doom, poppy game and modern warfare.

    • @SayakMajumder
      @SayakMajumder 2 дні тому +15

      maybe he sorted out, whatever was troubling him, in his life?

    • @danielholland3991
      @danielholland3991 2 дні тому +5

      You can't rush art.

  • @CaleebTalib
    @CaleebTalib 2 дні тому +604

    Shoutout to my late grandpa for getting me this for Christmas when I was little. Got me this game when I was like 10 because he asked the cashier guy what the best game was at the time, and told him call of duty 4. He fought in Vietnam so he didn’t care if it was too “mature” for me. Still blows my mind my grandpa who never even touched a video game introduced me to one of the greatest games ever! Legend!

    • @idonthearnobell7362
      @idonthearnobell7362 2 дні тому +1

      why ya lyin faaaah?

    • @CaleebTalib
      @CaleebTalib 2 дні тому +86

      @@idonthearnobell7362 He also used to say I was his number one grandson by giving me the middle finger and I would give it back and say he was my number one grandpa! Sorry your grandparents didn’t give you enough love buddy

    • @juanquireyes6703
      @juanquireyes6703 2 дні тому +12

      @@CaleebTalib cook that fraud

    • @Smaltese93
      @Smaltese93 2 дні тому +6

      What a Chad

    • @valentinoesposito3614
      @valentinoesposito3614 День тому +7

      Awesome story your grandfather sounds like he was a great guy

  • @Zolbat
    @Zolbat 2 дні тому +9

    1:40 That bell hits and all the music and all the moments stream back into my head

  • @ThatDudeinBlue
    @ThatDudeinBlue 2 дні тому +339

    Some of the best of times were playing with a friend who would come over, and we would take turns each game until the sun came up. Was such an incredible time for FPS's.

    • @Adam-zi5se
      @Adam-zi5se 2 дні тому +6

      Nice to see you here man. Two goat content creators

    • @SecondSunofficial
      @SecondSunofficial 2 дні тому +3

      For real, OG MW1/2, Black Ops 1, and Halo 3 were the peak of video games

    • @VideoGameSmash12
      @VideoGameSmash12 2 дні тому +2

      Call of Duty 4 really did set a standard for first person shooters to come, and quite honestly marked the beginning of Call of Duty's golden age. I can't tell you how many hours I ended up spending playing it and MW2 with friends over Xbox Live. Crazy times

    • @CyanRooper
      @CyanRooper 2 дні тому +6

      The sun came up when the 8th gen consoles arrived. Nothing can beat the FPS titles of the 2000s and early 2010s: Halo 1 through to Halo Reach, OG Modern Warfare trilogy, Black Ops 1 & 2, Half-life 2, F.E.A.R, Crysis 1, Battlefield 2 & 3 & the Bad Company games etc.

    • @mungojack
      @mungojack День тому

      Great times

  • @vilnaric3127
    @vilnaric3127 2 дні тому +178

    In retrospect a lot of the older COD titles have a soul to them. Makes you wonder how the franchise would have progressed if the releases weren't made into annual cash grabs. And the teams had as much passion into it as the original.

    • @DrundeFPS
      @DrundeFPS День тому +8

      COD players are delusionals (not as Valve fans), 60$ game every year, 60$ worth of DLC that were coincidentally published the same month every year... easy to say that when your parents used to buy your games

    • @fix0the0spade
      @fix0the0spade День тому +12

      The answer to that is Titanfall, Titanfall 2 and Respawn Entertainment, which is where most of the original Infinity Ward crew went after the Activision bust up. But then they sold up to EA so...

    • @themacintoshnerd
      @themacintoshnerd 23 години тому +2

      @@fix0the0spade hm I never knew IW guys were behind Titanfall. Maybe I'll actually go and give call of duty a real shot for once.

    • @THEGODDAMNDINOSAUR
      @THEGODDAMNDINOSAUR 23 години тому +1

      COD4 campaign has all the spectacle but theres a lot of little things that really makes it stand out.

    • @soulSSeekingbullet
      @soulSSeekingbullet 17 годин тому

      ​@@themacintoshnerdGive self-deletion a real and honest try. Most of your kind eventually end up doing it.

  • @PixelRatedGames
    @PixelRatedGames 2 дні тому +9

    Ahoy Hoy.
    Just when your Friday can't get any better, your boy drops this masterpiece all over your lucky faces.
    Much love.

  • @SATO_FD2R
    @SATO_FD2R 2 дні тому +6

    It’s crazy how many Ahoy videos have been coming out

    • @maddlarkin
      @maddlarkin 2 дні тому

      He's really spoiling us this month!

  • @roc5291
    @roc5291 2 дні тому +271

    I’ll never forget buying my Xbox 360 and going into a game store and seeing Modern Warfare on the shelf. I had already heard the rumblings of how impressive it was from friends of mine so on a whim, I purchased it. 24 hrs later, most of my friends had the game as well as I would not stop talking about it. The graphics. The incredible multiplayer maps. The single player campaign with Soap and Price. I cannot possibly count the amount of memories of my friends and I going up against all odds at all hours of the night with this game. The close matches. The screaming into the microphone. This game will ALWAYS be one the cornerstones of my young adult years in the best possible way.

    • @Xamantu
      @Xamantu 2 дні тому +8

      100% this. CoD 4 will forever be my favorite game, not simply for the game itself, but for the whole experience. Nothing can surpass the 1600+ hours of multiplayer fun with friends. Untouchable memories.

    • @youcallitacid
      @youcallitacid 2 дні тому

      Same here. I basically lived in this game for years.

    • @PootieTang69
      @PootieTang69 День тому

      Bro it was mid at best

    • @thepolarphantasm2319
      @thepolarphantasm2319 День тому

      For me that would be WWF no mercy and GoldenEye 007 👍

    • @DrundeFPS
      @DrundeFPS День тому

      young adult with a mentality of a children, you aren't aware of saying that?

  • @SkillZgetKillZ
    @SkillZgetKillZ 2 дні тому +216

    damn that fucking punch of nostalgia with that logo parody

    • @DrundeFPS
      @DrundeFPS День тому

      is the game even good? all i see is zoomers bragging how these shit console shooters are nostalgic, probably not.

    • @PURENT
      @PURENT 21 годину тому

      @@DrundeFPS I don't think zoomers were the right age for this game. The oldest ones would have been about 11 when this came out, it was mainly just younger millennial teens. The sequel MW2 in 2009 was the one where the zoomers really got their hands on CoD, and then Black Ops 2 from 2012 was when it was dominated by the wider zoomer age range.
      The games were fine, simple and good fun, nothing complex to learn, basically the zoomer's equivalent to the millennials and Counter Strike.

  • @sunnysurfer101MA
    @sunnysurfer101MA 2 дні тому +2

    It's legitimately nice to see you still have at least a good amount of affection for this franchise, despite abandoning those weapon guides long ago. I haven't played COD since BO2, and I went through my "COD was always bad" phase, but looking back this is definitely an important franchise in FPS history.

  • @IRISnGEN
    @IRISnGEN 2 дні тому +2

    So glad to see the videos still rolling out!!!

  • @CT-yc4gd
    @CT-yc4gd 2 дні тому +172

    Christ. Its still difficult for me to comprehend that this game came out 17 years ago.

    • @camchun
      @camchun 2 дні тому +28

      I wish i didnt read this. I knew it came out a while ago but I made my brain not do the math so i could live in blissful ignorance

    • @H41030v3rki110ny0u
      @H41030v3rki110ny0u 2 дні тому +13

      incoming freshmen at college about to be younger than CoD 4.. feelin old now

    • @oliviersavard8676
      @oliviersavard8676 2 дні тому +17

      GTA V came 11 years ago. some of the kids playing the game weren't even born when it came out.

    • @twitchy.mp3
      @twitchy.mp3 2 дні тому +3

      Right? I was a newborn baby when it was released you guys from before its existence probably feel like dinosaurs

    • @vitoc8454
      @vitoc8454 2 дні тому +4

      COD4 is about as old this year as the original Game Boy was when COD4 was released.

  • @fioredeutchmark
    @fioredeutchmark 2 дні тому +136

    It’s hard to articulate just how special the first Call of Duty was.
    I remember getting the demo with PC gamer the spring/summer of ‘03 and it just blew me away. The sounds of the guns, the visual effects when an explosion went off and the audio went muted, the cries of your squad mates as you cleared fields and buildings.
    The whole thing was just overwhelmingly amazing.

    • @MidnightPlus1
      @MidnightPlus1 День тому +6

      For me, this was my experience with World at War. Despite being 5 years old at the time, my parents did let me play the game and I was absolutely mesmerized by the experience. It was so brutal, so visceral, and absolutely enthralled me in some sort of way. I swear, I remember every word of Reznov's speech to Dmitri in the Vendetta mission.
      Nothing could capture playing that mission, and the whole game if I'm being honest, for the first time. My first actual experience with the horrors of war, and once I saw that ending text - "60 million lives were lost as a result of World War II. It was the most destructive and deadly conflict in human history," it just shook me. It was very, very eye opening.

    • @WelRod-zo6zy
      @WelRod-zo6zy День тому

      @@MidnightPlus1 i have a very similar experience with it.

    • @anadthebarbarian
      @anadthebarbarian День тому +1

      Verbatim, me

    • @KiraSlith
      @KiraSlith День тому +1

      Yeah, nowadays it's impossible to have a game with semi-realistic guns without ADS unless it's a pure arcade shooter.

    • @nino89mb
      @nino89mb День тому +1

      so much nostalgia it hurts

  • @Metacritical_
    @Metacritical_ 2 дні тому +7

    Real Treat to see this channel being so active.
    Three high quality videos within 2 months from Ahoy is bliss.

  • @Wolfhnd
    @Wolfhnd День тому +1

    Again, an excellent video. Thanks for the great work, it was pleasant to watch !

  • @Mrgnome2
    @Mrgnome2 2 дні тому +376

    Oh baby, AHOY IS BACK

    • @Igor369
      @Igor369 2 дні тому +5

      He made last video just a month ago.

    • @HorrorUberAlles
      @HorrorUberAlles 2 дні тому +2

      _WE'RE SO FUCKING BACK, BOYS!!!!!!!_

    • @sniperheroes3082
      @sniperheroes3082 2 дні тому +2

      @@Igor369 Well, it has been so long since the last time Ahoy released videos on a regular basis, eh?

    • @gazr290
      @gazr290 2 дні тому +1

      Legit man I saw this video come up on my TV and started dancing in front of my girlfriend while trying to make her grasp how big a deal this is.

    • @VAIBHAVMALHOTRA19
      @VAIBHAVMALHOTRA19 Годину тому

      ​@@Igor369he is talking about the OG Ahoy is back who used to talk about COD

  • @gurtajchanna798
    @gurtajchanna798 2 дні тому +277

    The Medal of Honour: Airborne theme at the beginning brought a wave of nostalgia, great vid as always Ahoy

    • @Cowboycomando54
      @Cowboycomando54 2 дні тому +15

      I always get chills hearing the MoH Theme. Something about that slow and sweet brass sound always hits home.

    • @spyczech
      @spyczech 2 дні тому +5

      Airborne IMo was the zenith of ww2 shooters, a last call

    • @MsTatakai
      @MsTatakai 2 дні тому +6

      @@spyczech Airborne was great! and european assault also was really good

    • @jikemsa
      @jikemsa 2 дні тому

      I didn't even recognize it and got the strongest chills I think I ever have just hearing it, lul.

    • @4T3hM4kr0n
      @4T3hM4kr0n 2 дні тому +3

      uhh I hate to burst your bubble, but that isn't the Airborne theme, it's the theme of the very first game in the series (Medal Of Honor) which Airborne simply borrowed for the intro cutscene.

  • @jamescampbell9992
    @jamescampbell9992 2 дні тому +3

    always makes my day when Ahoy finally drops a new video

  • @bigredmarchingon3200
    @bigredmarchingon3200 День тому +2

    Great video as always thank you for the work.

  • @iamtigerjames9978
    @iamtigerjames9978 2 дні тому +72

    Anyone that grew up playing Xbox 360 with a Gold membership was either playing CoD 4 or Halo 3, which came out just 2 months before Modern Warfare. Two of the best multiplayer games ever made, both released in the same year. I slept, went to school, did homework, ate, and played these 2 games, that was it. Even if I went for a sleepover at a friend's house I would take my Xbox so we could play online whilst in the same room. The nostalgia is hitting so hard right now, I wish I could go back

    • @DrundeFPS
      @DrundeFPS День тому

      You played this when you was a kid? Game filled with gen z kids.

  • @-Raylight
    @-Raylight 2 дні тому +42

    MW is just a masterpiece. The campaign, the atmosphere everything is just perfection
    Miss the day where you get the rewards from playing the game, not paying the game

  • @demonpal1402
    @demonpal1402 День тому +2

    Ahoy's been banging them out this year, and I am here for it.

  • @yoobinator
    @yoobinator 20 годин тому +2

    First Jacob Geller, now Ahoy. What a great time for CoD retrospectives

  • @londonisforeverblue1022
    @londonisforeverblue1022 2 дні тому +262

    back when mutltiplayers were focused on being fun, and skins were rewarded based on your skills not on how big ur wallet was, getting a golden deagle meant you actually deserved it , but now u can get them for swipping a credit card such a shame people nowadays can't experience old school multiplayers

    • @bigchum3984
      @bigchum3984 2 дні тому +14

      I loved this game so much that i got red tiger on EVERY single gun

    • @Cr3zant
      @Cr3zant 2 дні тому +7

      Camo grinds still exist bro, they didn't disappear.

    • @asschomp
      @asschomp 2 дні тому

      Oh boy another old good new bad comment typed through the lens of rose tinted glasses.

    • @londonisforeverblue1022
      @londonisforeverblue1022 2 дні тому +21

      @@Cr3zant difference is there was never an incentive to buy skins instead of playing for it back they were achievable enough in its length but most importantly it was fun as hell.

    • @darnedghost2008
      @darnedghost2008 2 дні тому +4

      still it was awful alot of complains back then cod fans has never been happy

  • @DrGrove
    @DrGrove 2 дні тому +101

    Any time Ahoy uploads its an event

    • @iwanttocomplain
      @iwanttocomplain 2 дні тому

      Unless it's a celebration of the blandest worst ip in the industry. DLC or whatever aside. This is the same game as the original utterly uninventive fps shooting game as vanilla as Halo. I wouldn't even notice if it disappeared forever. In fact, I think the air might seem a bit cleaner.

    • @_Bife
      @_Bife 2 дні тому +2

      ​@@iwanttocomplain quiet, child

    • @iwanttocomplain
      @iwanttocomplain 2 дні тому

      @@_Bife if I was I wouldn't be complaining would I. Unless I played an fps and found it ok but really annoying because it amounts to the game of watching your 6 just like every game rendered from a 3d perspective.

    • @yumsoup3377
      @yumsoup3377 День тому +2

      ​@@iwanttocomplain sounds like you just want to complain man

    • @lazermaster1243
      @lazermaster1243 День тому

      We have been summoned

  • @CollaateraL
    @CollaateraL День тому

    Such great quality. Thank you so much for these amazing videos!

  • @redetermine
    @redetermine 2 дні тому

    I'm glad i was there and I'm glad that i am here! Great video as always Stuart, well done!

  • @MNIceMan44
    @MNIceMan44 2 дні тому +29

    This channel could spend an hour explaining the differences in drywall textures in video games and you better believe I'll watch it 3+ times

    • @wtfduud
      @wtfduud День тому

      This isn't even a joke. I absolutely would,

  • @crazekatt3361
    @crazekatt3361 2 дні тому +46

    A legend posting, a documentary over a legendary game. It’s an honor to view this video.

  • @Chyrosran22
    @Chyrosran22 Годину тому

    Aw man, hit me in the feels here. I was right there from the start, lived all the highs, and saw it stoop below the lowest lows. I guess the real Call of Duty was the friends we made along the way - which I did, and still game with!

  • @txcrix9236
    @txcrix9236 2 дні тому

    Great to have Ahoy back! Excellent documentary. 👍👍

  • @Innocentcailyn
    @Innocentcailyn 2 дні тому +228

    In 2020, 14 year old me was in a Goodwill and found a CD copy of COD4 MW. It even had the original Walmart receipt in the case. I had never played a COD game in my life, and took it home to pop into my PC. The campaign helped grow my love for story-driven games that I have today.

  • @Maggi9909
    @Maggi9909 2 дні тому +54

    2007 pleb "no1 cares about singleplayer anymore"
    Infinity ward and Treyarc
    procedes to make some of the best SP campaigns ever back to back*

    • @peterdermeter7044
      @peterdermeter7044 День тому

      ...just to follow it up with the most generic and forgettable campaigns in the decade to come. So did any other FPS franchise. Dude wasn't wrong. Just a year early.

    • @comrade_commissar3794
      @comrade_commissar3794 День тому +4

      @@peterdermeter7044Modern warfare 2, 3 and Black Ops are not forgettable campaigns. You take that back

    • @ABritishguy2006
      @ABritishguy2006 День тому

      @@peterdermeter7044well yes the other COD games after this one had over the top moments, but also had great, well written and memorable moments and sequences, also let’s not forget WAW which came after COD4, and while WAW wasn’t historically accurate, it was at least historically authentic to WW2, but if you mean the COD games post 2012 then yeah.

    • @slaqualquercoisamemo5117
      @slaqualquercoisamemo5117 День тому

      ​@@comrade_commissar3794 back to back to back to back to back to back*

    • @comrade_commissar3794
      @comrade_commissar3794 21 годину тому

      @@slaqualquercoisamemo5117 What

  • @jpmadison98
    @jpmadison98 4 години тому

    Hey, Ahoy. Just wanted to say thanks and give some encouragement/praise for consistently putting out quality. It's refreshing to see videos so wonderfully written, concisely edited, and void of the usual fluff and nonsense. Your language and style is always to the point, brilliant, and informative.
    Who would've thought videos about Call of Duty could be so good? Well done.

  • @discgolfwes
    @discgolfwes День тому +3

    You somehow made me emotionally invested in a franchise I've long despised. Well done Ahoy!

  • @cbt.connoisseur
    @cbt.connoisseur 2 дні тому +42

    4 vids in a year, what a time to be alive

  • @maxiguntstain
    @maxiguntstain 2 дні тому +36

    I know you don’t do it anymore, and I can’t say that I blame you, but your gun guide series fills me with so much nostalgia. Thanks for the memories Stu. Big part of my teenage years

  • @HLRaven
    @HLRaven День тому +2

    "I didn't realize that being drunk gave me the power to see the future, beer FTW!!!!"
    13:38
    Get this man more beer

  • @Fahrvernuggen
    @Fahrvernuggen 23 години тому

    What a great surprise to see this pop up today. Another excellent video, as usual. Well done.

  • @TheVengefulVadam
    @TheVengefulVadam 2 дні тому +20

    12:05 Borys was a prophet, holy shit. Awesome video as always, Ahoy!

    • @charlesburns7391
      @charlesburns7391 2 дні тому +1

      " we don't want to do another WW2 shooter"
      Cod 3
      World at War
      WW2
      Vanguard

    • @Nuttineerr
      @Nuttineerr 2 дні тому +1

      @@charlesburns7391 none of those were Infinity Ward.

    • @mercenarydelta7351
      @mercenarydelta7351 2 дні тому +5

      ​@@charlesburns7391
      COD 3 and WAW - Treyarch
      WW2 and Vanguard - Sledgehammer
      Infintity Ward did stand by their claim of not making another WW2 shooter.

    • @4T3hM4kr0n
      @4T3hM4kr0n 2 дні тому

      holy crap it's vengeful vadam!

  • @SaladTasteNice
    @SaladTasteNice 2 дні тому +50

    Ahoy is coming back to his roots!!

    • @vitoc8454
      @vitoc8454 2 дні тому +5

      Yep, he's a disembodied Price voice that crawled out of the game and started a UA-cam channel

    • @sporter527
      @sporter527 День тому

      ​@@vitoc8454 real

  • @respecttheyoshi
    @respecttheyoshi 2 дні тому

    Heck yeah, everyone's dropping great new vids today, always happy to see more Ahoy

  • @erikdiehl6584
    @erikdiehl6584 14 годин тому

    This is cathartic. From the old MW2 weapons guides to this. Thanks for the amazing videos you always put out Ahoy. From, an American fan.

  • @L0jacIsBack
    @L0jacIsBack 2 дні тому +14

    It’s been 11 years since Ahoy last made a video about Call of Duty. It’s glad to see everyone’s happy for this to come back. Amazing video ❤️

  • @WhatsThisOwO
    @WhatsThisOwO 2 дні тому +31

    I like how he used "Exploiting" when talking about EA acquiring Medal of Honor

    • @HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva
      @HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva День тому +1

      Thanks I hate the name and profile pic.

    • @fensoxx
      @fensoxx 20 годин тому

      It really sucks because MoH could have been great. It was great. They let it wither and die.

  • @wentoneisendon6502
    @wentoneisendon6502 День тому

    Brilliant breakdown of the excitement at the time. Cheers, ahoy

  • @Mate_Antal_Zoltan
    @Mate_Antal_Zoltan 2 дні тому +13

    the reviewer from 5:04 and the NeoGAF member from 12:03 must be time travelers 💀

  • @jdizzy01
    @jdizzy01 2 дні тому +11

    I remember playing the Bog Demo, it was my first real experience with PC Gaming, 14 year old me was blown away by how real it felt. The NODS, the comms, it was amazing to me

  • @DanTheGamingDad
    @DanTheGamingDad 2 дні тому +3

    dude hands down, you are KING of these retrospectives. This is already tickling my fancy!

  • @IsKor06
    @IsKor06 2 дні тому

    Man I LOVE your work. As always, stellar vid, thanks!!

  • @SalouYTOfficial
    @SalouYTOfficial 2 дні тому +82

    Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare changed the game forever and will always will. The golden age would've never happen without Call of Duty 4. End of story.

    • @pseudonayme7717
      @pseudonayme7717 2 дні тому +9

      lol. The golden age had been in full swing for 10/15 years when MW was released. It's a great game, but it didn't kickstart anything.
      It may however have been one of the last titles before excessive monetization became a thing, so I fondly remember it for that.

    • @CaleebTalib
      @CaleebTalib 2 дні тому +1

      @@pseudonayme7717 Almost no mainline games had a storyline and multiplayer to that level at the time besides maybe halo. It still stands alone to this day as the most influential game of the 21st century bar none!

    • @pseudonayme7717
      @pseudonayme7717 2 дні тому +4

      @@CaleebTalib Could not disagree more. I prefer COD World at War. Better storyline, better characters, better voice acting and a longer, more challenging campaign.
      I know however that I'm an outlier in that regard.😄

    • @CaleebTalib
      @CaleebTalib 2 дні тому +2

      @@pseudonayme7717 World at war campaign has its moments but it doesn’t really register that it’s supposed to portraying the bloodiest war of all time besides maybe the intro scene. COD 4 shows us the devastation of modern war in the blink of an eye and doesn’t portray the U.S. as the ultimate good guys which back then was pretty controversial. The only reason world at war is remembered fondly is because of zombies period.

    • @krono5el
      @krono5el 2 дні тому

      @@pseudonayme7717 was that the one with tanks in mp? totally forgettable.

  • @kerlongsjorlejov1945
    @kerlongsjorlejov1945 2 дні тому +7

    Jeez, Stu. You have really been spoiling us in the last few months with the videos we have been getting. Going back to your own roots, I suppose. Either way, I'm all for it to have more from you. Thank you again for making an awesome weekend!

  • @NandR
    @NandR 2 дні тому +1

    That CoD4 menu music is just pure heroin. I was 20 years old. I was waiting to leave for basic training. I had 6 months, my buddy’s PS3, and CoD4. I couldn’t get enough. The silenced M4 was my jam. I prestiged several times on PS3. After basic I got an Xbox 360 Elite and CoD4. Prestiged several times on there. MW2 and 3 were great. But nothing hit like the glory days of MW. Those maps are ingrained in my memory. Especially Chinatown since it was new version of a CoD2 map that I loved. Great video.

  • @JustinMaurice
    @JustinMaurice День тому

    Well done, you guys should make more of these type of documentaries

  • @rngsus69
    @rngsus69 2 дні тому +4

    I teared up, remembering all these years of playing call of duty on a friend's xbox360 cod 4 and then having my own PS3 with modern warfare 2. One of those things that cannot be replicated ever again

  • @AffenKloPutzer
    @AffenKloPutzer 2 дні тому +11

    Holy shit, Ahoy is cooking! Glad to see so much content

  • @englishteatime5205
    @englishteatime5205 День тому +1

    So good to see you again Ahoy! I insta-clicked this notification! Thankful for the Bell on YT 🙏🏼🙌🏼

  • @JisMortal
    @JisMortal 2 дні тому +1

    on a great positive note from my childhood, the intro scene in the Stalingrad assault in CoD: Finest Hour is cemented in my memory. To this day I'll go back and watch playthroughs. its insane

  • @bronwaith
    @bronwaith 2 дні тому +3

    I just want to say, the sound mixing in your videos are always amazing. They are never tiring to the ear. Great job!

  • @jaderabbit898
    @jaderabbit898 2 дні тому +7

    It's been so long since his Ghosts days. It's good to see him return for a bit.

  • @ihateweetabix8829
    @ihateweetabix8829 День тому

    Such a good video. UA-cam needs more quality videos like ahoy makes.

  • @laxanopoiosOG
    @laxanopoiosOG 2 дні тому

    Excellent video as always, and what a nostalgia trip on COD4!

  • @Apheleion
    @Apheleion 2 дні тому +7

    glad to see ya again Ahoy

  • @ChadMugustust
    @ChadMugustust 2 дні тому +6

    I didn't know Ahoy could post 2-videos within a month.

  • @StewHeisenberg
    @StewHeisenberg 2 дні тому +1

    Seeing Ahoy upload a COD video after such a long time is insane, literally peak 10/10 chef’s kiss content right here.

  • @kemoni221
    @kemoni221 День тому

    Great video, as always. Cheers Ahoy

  • @brdgamemaster
    @brdgamemaster 2 дні тому +9

    11:31 You know, it's funny that that came from a guy named Mandark. I even imagined his iconic laugh after that comment was read.

  • @sheacorduroy5565
    @sheacorduroy5565 2 дні тому +21

    This is still objectively the best CoD game. Not in terms of one single moment, or even balance, but in terms of objective, raw quality.
    The game can be measured by both its incredible well-made gameplay, concisely written story, and the gargantuan impact it left behind by creating the first legitimate CoD multiplayer system.
    Oh yeah, and rip OG Gaz, you will be missed, brother.

    • @imooumoo4
      @imooumoo4 2 дні тому +3

      Thats subjective to your opinion of it

    • @LucasCunhaRocha
      @LucasCunhaRocha 2 дні тому +1

      The multiplayer was incredibly fun, MW2 was so bad compared to it, the maps were cramped, the spawns were stupid and there were too many useless perks and guns. It was too consolized, they showed that they didn't care for PC anymore when they dropped support for dedicated servers;
      cod4 was peak in the series, when they tried to add more it ruined the experience.

    • @chantier24
      @chantier24 10 годин тому

      @@LucasCunhaRochaamen

  • @Daniel-wr7yh
    @Daniel-wr7yh День тому +1

    I remember playing the Xbox 360 campaign demo with the javelin launcher section and it absolutely blew my mind. Leading the projectile felt space age and I couldn't believe such a device actually existed.
    My dad was also very excited for COD 4 and sold off a third or more of our pristine original Xbox library (Hulk Ultimate Destruction, Republic Commando, Bafflefront 1 & 2, Amazing(?) Spiderman, and some others) to GameStop in order to buy COD 4 used for $50.

  • @Warzx13
    @Warzx13 4 години тому

    Saw the title, heard the audio, instant sub. Well done

  • @StereoBucket
    @StereoBucket 2 дні тому +3

    I am not used to this many ahoy videos within such a short timespan.
    Good Stuff!

  • @poodymeiner3125
    @poodymeiner3125 День тому

    I watched your gun videos a decade ago. Good to see you’re still around

  • @DCBpsycho17
    @DCBpsycho17 День тому

    Another fantastic video Ahoy

  • @AB-bg7os
    @AB-bg7os 2 дні тому +12

    Ahoy is on a kino spree

  • @DarkenedMortal
    @DarkenedMortal 2 дні тому +8

    When Ahoy drops a new vid and truly hits you with true nostalgia, especially with the one game I first played and owned on the Xbox 360, whilst my brother also got Halo 3 that same year. And I truly agree, the original Modern Warfare trilogy, and the first Black Ops, were all absolute SOLID TITLES. I still remember how shocked and blown away I was the first time playing all those games. True Shock and Awe indeed. Thank you again very much Ahoy, for reminding us all of a time in gaming history, when Call of Duty truly went deep, and went hard, and for the better.

  • @TheGamingHornet
    @TheGamingHornet 2 дні тому

    This is a stroll down memory lane love these types of videos

  • @Cheezime
    @Cheezime День тому +2

    I'm surprised we haven't got an Ahoy retrospective on the original Rainbow Six, considering the channel's focus on modern firearms in games.
    How the game came to be and its development are pretty interesting imo. Not to mention the way it pioneered the tac shooter genre and ofc the franchise's resulting modern legacy.

  • @IzzGoobyTime
    @IzzGoobyTime 2 дні тому +9

    Why do I see an Ahoy upload? Is it Christmas already?

  • @RMC136a1blu
    @RMC136a1blu 2 дні тому +11

    AGHHHHHH HE POSTED

  • @Sugarmasters
    @Sugarmasters День тому

    Your videos are always masterfully made and very entertaining.

  • @ComradeLuxemburg
    @ComradeLuxemburg 2 дні тому

    This kind of high effort content has to be rewarded. Keep it up Stu!

  • @Thenameless1
    @Thenameless1 2 дні тому +3

    Oh Damn, we're finally here.

  • @TresPro
    @TresPro 2 дні тому +6

    Cod 4 was the reason my dad let me get an Xbox 360

  • @macullysnyder3801
    @macullysnyder3801 День тому +2

    My first COD experience. The golden days are over, but man were they great. MW,WAW,MW2 rip.