Fun facts of the actual battle for the Reichstag: The Soviets wanted it since it was the parliament building of Germany. The Germans wanted to defend it because it stood between the Soviets and the Reichs Chancellory and Hitlers Bunker. The Germans completely bricked it up so the Soviets couldn’t get in and the Germans defended it from inside and outside. The Soviets bombarded it with artillery and it didn’t collapse before their attack. The first attack by the Soviets actually failed as it was held off by the defenses (including two 88mm flank guns in front of the Reichstag, and four 128mm guns 2km away). The second attack the soviets broke through the outer defenses and their artillery broke a hole through the building allowing them to get in. The building was defended by about 550 Germans, those troops being the Kreigsmarine (Navy Soldiers), Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger (Elite Airforce Paratroopers), Volkssturm (civilian soldiers) and as said in the mission, Hitlers personal Waffen SS Honor guard, that unit being the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandart SS Adolf Hitler (Known as the LSSAH), absolute fanatics. The battle was room by room, floor by floor, and the battle inside the Reichstag started on April 30th, and didn’t end with complete control by the Soviets until May 2nd. A couple hundred Germans died in the battle, couple hundred surrendered/were wounded, and part of the Waffen SS escaped the building to go on and fight another day.
Fairly certain you’re wrong about the lssah as it was French ss Charlemagne and ss nordland troops that were posted around the Reichstag the chancellory and other government areas. Yes some of the honor guard fought in these battles for the government district. But it was mostly French ss and foreign ss volunteers as they had no home to return. Being shot as collaborators or put in the Russian gulags for the Nordland ss. They basically fought to the last man as they had no alternative.
It later took part in the invasion of France and the Low Countries were it was mainly held in reserve though it was used against the retreating British troops at Dunkirk. LSSAH was attached to XIV Armeekorps during the second and final phase of the invasion of France. Following the armistice the LSSAH was to rest and be upgraded to a brigade while training amphibious warfare for the planned invasion of Britain (Unternehmen Seelöwe). This invasion was cancelled and LSSAH was transferred to Romania for the invasion of the Balkans. It fought its way through Yugoslavia and Greeve chasing the Allied troops to Kalamata, from where they were evacuated by sea to Crete. LSSAH took part in Unternehmen Barbarossa (the invasion of the Soviet Union) attached to Heeresgruppe Süd and saw action at Kiev and Rostov. It was transferred to France for refitting 1942 and was upgraded to a Panzergrenadier-DIvision. It returned to the Eastern front 1943 and fought at Kharkov and Kursk. After the failure at Kursk, LSSAH was sent to Italy on anti-partisan duty but it soon was sent back to the Eastern front this time as a Panzer-Division. LSSAH was one of the divisions encircled near Kamenets-Podolsk and though it was saved by 9. SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen and 10. SS-Panzer-Division Frundsberg it suffered heavy losses and was sent to France for rest and refitting. It fought in Normandy following the Allied invasion and saw action at Caen, Falaise and Aachen as it was pressed back towards Germany. It took part in the offensive in the Ardennes attached to I SS Panzerkorps. After the failure of that offensive LSSAH was once again sent to the Eastern front to take part in the offensive to break the siege of Budapest (Unternehmen Margarethe). Following that failed offensive it was transferred to Austria where it surrendered to the American troops at the end of the war.
The French volunteers of the Second World War constituted an entirely separate division in the Wehrmacht, and after that the Waffen-SS which consisted of units that were called the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) and the Charlemagne Regiment. With an impressive strength of an estimated 7,400-11,000 at its peak in 1944, the numbers came down to a mere sixty, as of May 1945. Entrusted with the protection of Central Berlin as well as the Führer’s bunker from the Soviet invasion, they were one of the last remaining German units to have faced combat.
Ok after some of my own research we have to distinguish between the LSSAH combat division and the LSSAH guard. Even though the LSSAH became a division earlier in the war and subsequently surrendered later on in the war like I previously talked about. But the LSSAH did have around 800 men (guards not divisional troops) that fought in the central government area. Alongside Charlemagne and nordland. Just wanted to clear it up.
When I was little (9 years old) it was due in part to the atmosphere as if in the damp shadowed war-torn areas of the mission held a lingering air of unseen unexplainable creatures holding this dominance over the pain, horror, and mindless killing of anything that was simply breathing.
Dimitri Petrenko was a hero... He deserved a hero's death. Instead of giving his life for the Motherland, he died for nothing... like an animal. He should have died in Berlin.
So fucking brutal. The build up, the horror noises. The metal rifts when shit pops off Remember when COD had balls and you actually felt like war was hell? Pepperidge farms remembers the days
I feel like the balls somewhat returned with Cold War's campaign where you start shooting the KGB out and MW2019 when Price just grabs a kid hostage. But yeah it won't ever be on the same level as WaW
@@popotpohl6484 "DIMITRI, FIRE THE PANZERSRECK. FIRE THE PANZERSRECK. FFIRE THE PANZERSRECK." just over and over. I can hear it perfectly even now. Love this game
The moment when you finish the game, see the cutscene where the bomb is dropped and the nuclear detonation over Hiroshima, followed by the Gen. Macarthur's speech about the end of the war as the game explains you how many people died... i had to put my controller down for a moment, this game, made me feel something that none of the Hollywood movies, Documentaries on the History Channel, not TV series has made me feel, the horror of war. And this soundtrack eclipse everything, at that point when the soviets seige Berlin, it wasn't a war anymore, just... pure madness and carnage.
It really does teach you something. You experience it, you lose people you care about in Sullivan, Polonsky, Roebuck, or Chernov. In the end there's really no enemy, no victory. Only the boys of two tribes slaughtered in the sand. You realise it was just an exchange of bullets, true Hell a place where there is no reason.
0:21 that echo of the Russian Army's theme sounds like it's coming from a corridor, like they're getting closer to you to take their revenge for Stalingrad , absolutely terrifying.
Just imagine the idea of assaulting a massive government building filled to the brim with die hard SS volunteers, all of them knowing that this would be their end.
April 30th 1945. 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, but at others, I viewed complete brutality. I do not understand him. Perhaps, "heroes" need not question their actions.
I got this because I saved near a part where I would usually crash. So I just got that quote even though I killed no surrendering enemies or dying soldiers.
7:42 The screams of the damned still haunt me to this day, at the beginning they're mid 20s, early 30s soldier knowing damn well what they're doing. By the end it's teens paying up for the actions of their fathers, not knowing a single thing but to try and stay alive.
and its shown very well in the game. The closer you get to the final moments of the reichstag mission you see more SS and wounded soldiers fighting who seem to apear older in age and the weapons differ.
In the real time of the war when the Soviets invaded Berlin the Germans used every last soldier including young teenagers like 15 to 17 mostly after the death of Hitler ( April 28 or 27 ) that’s when all hell broke loose and all the Germans were fighting for their lives instead of Hitler.
And Russians, ahem, just kept flooding in like the blood of fleshbags to be uselessly shredded as they took Berlin. All of Germany had to fight for the survival of their nation at that point. Them Russians were not merciful...
this is the scariest cod for me, like it makes me wonder like how did these soldiers have the bravery to fight, and the music isn't some triumphant trumpets, it's depressing and just straight up despairing, for me the Pacific theater was horrible, the banzai's screaming would actually get me alert and all of the kamikazes i saw was just almost terrifying, and with all of this, this is the closest to actually being in WWII as I can get, and Everytime I get shot or stabbed I always wonder to myself what if I was there watching my comrades die in front of my eyes, or what if I got shot, and with all of this, this is the best cod game ever created, nothing can best this cod, it is an intense game and certainly not for the faint of heart, and with completing this on veteran today, I basically have PTSD, an amazing game and the best ever!
My absolute favorite part of the game's campaign was my Veteran play through on the mission Heart of the Riech. More specifically the part where you charge head first into the Riechstag. Seeing the remaining Wehrmacht manning artillery cannons and burrowed in with MG42s, Gewher 43s, Kar98ks and ofcourse MP40s all aiming at the approaching Red Army. This coupled with the fact that the game's difficulty was set on Veteran made me even more on edge knowing that I Truely Will Not Survive.
@@Scarecrowbooger it was a very scary part of the game, and the most difficult, I had a hard time even going up the stairs into the reichstag, it’s like every gun was pointed right at you, and the number of grenades thrown was just insane!
What terrified me the most on this game is hearing the dreaded noise of the Panzershreck. I remember trying to snipe a Panzershreck operator but before I can shoot him he faces me and I can just see the black barrel of the rocket launcher, few seconds later I can see and hear the rocket and my life flashed before my eyes
0:00 April 30th, 1945: When he first spoke of Dimitri, Reznov told tales of a hero, someone we should all aspire to be like. His bravery on the battlefield is beyond question, but he has also shown mercy amidst the brutality of the Red Army. He is indeed a hero.
@@m3lee699 But not all the Nazis were Nazis. Nothing but young men drafted or peer pressured into enlisting to redeem the German Glory, and get out of their depression after WW1. Some were no different from you and I.
@@The__Interloper so stop calling them nazis you idiot ....its a insult to anyone onf them who didnt commit war crimes which is probably most ! They were all between 17 and 25 years old young lads
5:18 I remember playing this mission and hearing that choir while watching from the balconies the madness in the first floor, with the flamethrower, grenades exploding all over the place and gunshots. I still remember being shocked by how horrific that was. World at War is fucking horrific
The fact that the rifle you're given to shoot with in that section can only put someone down immediately if you aim for the head and leaves them a dismembered screaming mess on the floor doesn't help
I was quite shocked by how good the music was in COD WAW and COD BO1 very good stuff but nothing and nobody will beat Martin O'donnell when it comes to composing music in video games he made the most atmospheric music and managed to make music for every situation.
The saddest part of WaW, without even meaning to be sad. I love how this game humanised both sides, because, both sides WERE human. It sucked to see "Nazis" not even fighting for hitler, but fighting to survive. Little did they know hitler has been dead for two days.
Even when the game didn't explicit show us it, you can see it by how they were stepping back further and further, and how the MG42, once showns as dominance and predatory in "Vendetta", now in the last missions are like just the only instrument for cover, a try to prolong a inminent death, one that no one, ever wants to admit or succumb to it.
Hell, they somehow managed to humanize a lone SS Honor Guard that we see for less than 5 seconds as he's shot and slaughtered by a bloodthirsty Reznov followed by his haunting screams. This was more than just a game
Fun fact that is very controversial: Not everyone in the Wehrmacht we’re Nazis, most “Nazi Soldiers” were in the SS (If you could call the SS part of the military) and the Waffen SS
@@-Alexander2001MB Most germans that fought at the battle of berlin were early conscripts, and not actuall able bodied men. If you want to talk IRL, most germans that fought in berlin, were very young, old, or sick. I wouldnt really count it as a 15 year olds fault that he should die, just because he was forced into fighting for his country.
Being 8 back then, i always got scared when this song kicked in. There's something about this game's ambiance that makes it really scary. And in my opinion that's how a fps should be like.
You are right, War shouldn't be painted as cheery as modern games do, especially the soundtrack, everything should sound mean and designed to kill or absolutely terrify, I cannot play the new games seriously.
Is sean Murray actually using the sounds of the guns representative of their country for the soundtrack???? This just upgraded to probably one of best ost and soundtrack in life
@@skinny6710 As some other person pointed out in the metal songs compilation, the rapid drums you hear in both eviction and downfall have the same bpm as the firing rate of the mg42. In downfall, it's also faster and more drawn out, either representing a panicking gunner in a quickly worsening firefight or an untrained conscript
@@reverie314 and as someone else pointed out in the exact same comment section,the other ones that this guy says is mp40,could instead be the stg44 (or mp43/44 whatever)
Thus theruss Yea, the only time I felt that “Holy shit, I just brutally killed a sentient human being” is whenever I get one of those bayonet charges or melee takedowns, and even then there wasn’t much gore. Just the look of shock and sheer terror forever plastered on the mans face.
I Iike the map Passchendaele in Bf1 it makes you look in awe, the entire terrain is mud with shell holes, the background is a burning forest, the sky is hidden by green toxic gas and what’s exposed is dark from ash, the only landmark is rubble of a village. static.wikia.nocookie.net/battlefield/images/a/a7/Passchendaele_02.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180328150100
6:14 sounds like burst fires of an mg 42 or ppsh-41 with chores in the background just sounds so haunting This is why waw is a masterpiece, little details like these in the soundtracks are just so creative and fitting with the game atmosphere. Its just brilliant
0:01. Couple minute break before the assault in Reichstag. 0:51. Battle in the Reichstag (Rare Shi No Numa segment). 4:31. Battle in the Parliament. 10:04. Advancing through the Parliament. 13:36. Continuing through the left balcony of the Parliament. 16:24 Final stage of the battle in the Reichstag. 19:45. Picking up a Soviet banner to place it on top of Reichstag. 21:08. Aftermath of the end of World War II.
I think the soviet campaign works better becouse they worked a better connection between the game and the characters in that side of the campaign. We were just people having a great time killing npcs, just as the Soviets were enjoying their carnage fighting for revenge and bloodlust, killing the germans no matter what. The american side was portrayed as soldiers that just wanted to get done with all that and go home.
Coco HD I love both the American and Russian character equally now but don't call the Americans in this game soldiers!!! They are Marines and that's an insult. I'm not in the Marines, just look stuff on the internet.
Notice the drum rolls that start at 6:12. They sound like the MG42. Interestingly they start off as short precise bursts but progress into frantic firing. It symbolises the German defenders growing more desperate and panicking as they are overun.
6:21 - - - - - I like how this is meant to be an MG 42 bursting then following into a spray, really conveys the cold calculative nature mixed into the desperate struggle of the final stand.
Did y’all know that at the very end of ww2, the desperate nazis converted the Reichstag into a grenades factory. That’s why countless grenades came flooding down those stairs.
Mission use to always scare me, as when you walk around to certain corners you can hear demonic screaming and laughing, I always thought the zombies were already there
@@silverhawkscape2677 it probably did came about like that. I can imagine someone in Treyarch thinkng "hell, our German soldier models for 1945 part of the campaign look fucked up, they look like fucking zombies". And then something clicked in his head and the rest is history.
I remember theorizing about what caused the Nazi Zombies in WaW and thinking it was just the souls of the damned come back to fight again. I guess it's sort of right, but I meant as the souls of the Nazi soldiers were being punished to eternal death and dismemberment.
@@user-vgrauvery close! Apparently it was the mocaps for the japanese being burned that inspired the zombies. They did a few zombie takes after an actor did an over the top portrayal of a dying japanese infantry man.
This game has the most unique soundtrack of a ww2 game, every other game in these time period always have like these uplift trumpet songs, it's not bad but I prefer this
They always have hunk men too. There were some slimy fucking bastards back then that loved the violence and thrived in it. Wish media would show things unabashedly.
As a russian , i think that destruction of Germany was fair. Just look what nazis did to USSR . Millions of civilians are dead by they hand. Burned villages, destroyed cities. They got what they deserved.
World at War has an amazing soundtrack. Instead of being typical WW2 music, it’s vastly different and uses vocals and instruments to create “surreal” sounding music, and since the music is so weird sounding it really gives you a perspective as to how insane the soldiers must’ve felt by the end of the war.
I don't know if the author of the soundtrack wanted to convey this, but there is a certain mystical and religious overtones in it. The battle in parliament turns into a battle in the cave of horror of an agonizing infernal beast, in the music you can hear its frightening cries, and the choir resembles an Orthodox choir. It seems to me that the author wanted to give the whole action the subtext of God's judgment on this invisible beast that personifies the Third Reich, or the evil soul of the Third Reich and its pagan god.
@Mr. Man oh really? I know everything isn’t exactly clear cut and most things are shades of grey than black and white, but how aren’t those genocidal bastards evil? And I’m not talking about the Wehrmachtor general German people during this, those were poor souls that got roped to this by madmen. I mean the full blown true believers who were A-ok with murdering people who were different in cold blood.
I always liked how Germany had that masculine, tired and tortured choir in the Reichstag, representing the fatherland, and the Russians had the powerful, vengeful feminine choir representing the motherland.
I remember playing this mission for the first time. I remember when the Reds were running after the Nazis, busting down their doors to get them out of hiding, no mercy. This is the COD that showed the true horrors of war.
I love CoD WaW because unlike any other game about war, in WaW you dont have the feeling of winning after completing the game the quote "there are no winners in war " really works great with this game
That's when it stopped being a game, the fun was over. "This really happened, don't let it happen again." You think about how many times you've been killed, how many you've seen maimed and burned. You wonder how many real people really did endure these horrors, and worse.
If they had actually added a segment at the end at which you would be controlling a japanese citizen before the nuclear detonation, my God, the controversy would have bigger than no Russian.
Stalingrad made in 1993, buddy... and its Russian remake were followed in 2013 (and both coincidentally starred Thomas Kretschmann as German sergeant, albeit they're different person 😂😂😂😂)
Caigicungo I'd like to thank you for uploading this. You've reminded me why I loved World at War so much. The brutality and grit. Let's hope the new WW2 is good as well.
The soundtrack in the presentation room with the seating areas was haunting to me playing this. It's like you understood their hopelessness, just them being hunted down, we were the wolves that day, them the prey, we didn't care for moral grounds, we was rage & we were unstoppable, but the song also expressed their desire to defend to the last man woman & child, either for revenge of the loss of their country, family, comrades or just their false hopeless ideals of a Nazi Germany... There were no Good guys or Bad guys during this war, just people who were forever changed by the war, only the will to survive...
April 30, 1945: When he first spoke of Dimitri, Reznov told tales of a hero, someone we should all aspire to be like. His bravery on the battlefield is beyond question, but he has also shown mercy amidst the brutality of the Red Army. He is indeed a hero.
This soundtrack perfectly captures the soviet thirst and utmost viciousness to capture and ravage berlin and its every defender and the German hopelessness and despair of their entire state coming to complete ashes
@@johndanes2294 by doing what? being aware of the communist threat before everyone else?! No ones great grandparents fought for open borders or gay pride...
@@winterautumnfishing5215 “If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.” - Winston Churchill. He had to do business with the communist beast, better the devil you already know. It's fun to think about what if Stalin hadn't come to power though. What if it had been someone like Trotsky. What if the Soviets invaded West before operation Barbarossa was ready? Would the Allies have sided with Hitler to push back the red threat? Or just let it happen. Also i don't care much for gay pride, but a nation undefined by borders, language, and culture is no nation. Seeing so much of what is happening at home today, I'm sure many of our great grandparents are rolling in their graves. In some ways i hope John Danes gets his wish. History has shown us his kind are the first to find their throats on the block.
It honestly did. Now playing is just dark. You don't notice the war crimes when your young. Now...I don't count the Russians as on the side of the good guys of that war anymore
You know, even on the official website on the page about Chernov it is written that he is a newbie and did not see all the crimes of the Nazis on Soviet soil. Imagine that you are a soldier and you approach a village hoping to meet youre compatriots, but you find that all the inhabitants were burned alive in a barn. For example, Belarus was never able to populate after the war because its population decreased by a third. A lot of Belarusians and Ukrainians lost their families and houses. The only thing that made them live was the desire for revenge. Even after Stalin's order that “the Red Army is liberating, not seizing. Robbery, murder, violence against the civilian population is severely punished.” But fortunately, they destroyed the real evil.
@@lukeounsworth9686 Cause they executed revenge on the Germans for destroying their nation and massacaring their people ? let me ask you would you be able to watch your people slaughtered, your women raped and your land destroyed and not seek revenge ? be happy we dont live in those times. The Soviets are the good guys, they damn well fought the Nazis and won, they lasted longest in a continues fight with them and they liberated all Slavs from the German yoke.
@@SVTDI Nazi or Soviet Guys are not good bro. Everyone is massacring other people. Nazi s killing a million jewel or soviets killing a million kazakh azeri circassian. All world war has a darkness side.
I have a theory.... Those weird sounds you hear in the soundtrack may be what’s going to turn the dead Nazis into zombies, because those aren’t the normal sounds you’d hear in the building...and that also goes for all the other weird noises you hear in other soundtracks.... Just a short theory, If you have any theories about this or the soundtrack, let me know in the comments
16:24 "The path towards our glorious victory has been a journey of blood and brutality. All of it has been necessary. When the flag of our motherland flies atop the Reichstag, all of Berlin know that the evil of the Fascist Reich has been wiped from the face of the earth." - Viktor Reznov
It's funny how Japan (rightfully mind you) has the reputation for fanaticism, when you could make a strong argument Germany was just as, if not more fanatical. Japan would surrender before the home islands were attacked. Germany would fight the Red Army for every inch Berlin, house by house, room by room. They fought when they were pushed to the Reichstag plaza. They would fight room by room. Germany fought until it literally could not fight anymore. They just started throwing little kids, the elderly, the wounded, even enslaved foreign prisoners were forced to die for the Fuhrer. For a battle that was already lost.
Read up on the SS and occultism. Heinrich Himmler (head of the SS) bought the Wewelsburg castle in the 30’s and did all sorts of weird rituals with other nazi higher ups there.
Well, that's not exactly true. Before both the bombs and the Soviet entry in the Pacific Theatre, what the Japanese were keen on what amounted to taking as many Americans/Soviets with them and hoping there's still a country to rule over by the time they give up; otherwise known as _ichi-go_ , it involved giving schoolchildren rudimentary machine gun training and giving pretty much every civilian on the Japanese home islands a bamboo spear or gun. What threw a wrench into these plans being the aforementioned bombs and Soviet invasion, which worked to convince the Japanese government and overseas armies respectively to surrender; neither would have worked with the other missing.
This build up is so heavy it can can slice a steel beam 8:15 They say Mick Gordon's Doom sountrack is based but this actually has the PPSh as an instrument.
The sheer rage conveyed by this is insane. Not the “rage” like you get from typical OST’s, but a more primordial and visceral rage, almost like malice given voice.
15+ years of Call of Duty WAW! This game is a "little" scary, it's no wonder that many consider COD WAW to be a brutal game compared to the other games in the franchise. But still, I really like this game. I've been playing Call of Duty World at War since 2016, and I still have the same desire to play this masterpiece in 2024.
7:52 this piece of the soundtrack will forever be engraved into my head everytime I played world at war, the suspense and horrors of soldiers who didn't fight for just victory but for survival without knowledging that Hitler died, this theme is just haunting and depressing like i can imagine the red army advancing into Berlin and hear ghosts from the people that once lived in the area.
To be fair, many Germans were not aware of his death until the evening afterwards, and were told a massive lie in that he had apparently died directing the defence of the Reich Chancellery against the Soviets, when in reality he and his wife were being wrapped in a carpet, doused in petrol and poorly cremated among the rubble and devastation he had wrought 4 years prior.
The voices that play at around 2:54 always freak me out. They typically play whenever I reach the top of the staircase at the end of the first room. There's always quite a few German corpses piled up there, and when these voices play, it feels like the Reichstag is already haunted. The battle is only a third of the way over at this point, and it already feels like the place is filled with ghosts.
The choir in this mission feels like the souls of the dead soviets cheering you on as you finally kill the Reich. And when the Soviet Anthem plays at the end was the cherry on top of the whole game. Literally an ICONIC Masterpiece.
This is definitely the music you’d hear when you come to realize you are on the wrong side of history, low on fuel, low on ammunition, low on food, low on morale, low on men, and the enemy won’t stop till they kill every last one of you guys… and you’ve been backed into a corner
The first time I saw those Soviet Soldiers burn the surrendering German soldiers shocked me. After finishing the Campaign, I thought to myself just how terrifying World War 2 really was for those who endured it.
There’s so many layers to this track alone its insane. The distorted, muffled USSR anthem that sounds like its outside the building, the abrupt SIEG HEIL from the SS soldiers, followed by the tense build up of screams echoing. The distorted explosions and ghostly calls of Russian vengeance. Then the unleashing of chaos as the sound of PSSh-41s are heard going room by room, killing everything not bathed in red already. God I love WaW’s ost.
I don't know if anyone is listening to these anymore, but the fact that most of these 2000' games have the same elements in soundtracks was a key for me when I was little. So for example around 1:46 you can hear the exact same effect as Return To Castle Wolfenstein Soundtrack - The Undead had. I heard it in a few other games, but for some reason they were always ww2 themed. And some of the walking sounds etc were still the same. I know it's probably from a free sound library, but I liked that more games used the same elements. For an other example Sniper Elite 1 soundtrack Tension 8, and Commandos Strike Force, or Robin Hood TLoS soundtracks had quite the same sound designs. Maybe the influence of that era, but I miss it soooo much! I still listen to those soundtracks sometimes when I play with new games, or just when I do some work and it really reminds me of the good times. Well of course I am not old, but this was my childhood.
I remember when you first enter the area where the Germans have set up those defences in front of the stairs, on either side there were two rooms with metal doors. They were just bland corridor/rooms probably where enemies spawned from, but me and my friend spent hours trying to get through them bc we thought there were nazi zombies behind it. You can hear strange noises and music if you go near them so that’s why we though that.
I remember heading into my basement when I was little, booting this game up on the ol' ps3 because I'd never played it before. I started the campaign, and before I knew it 7 or so hours had passed and I had planted the Russian flag on that mound of sandbags.
I love how most of historical war games tend to have an heroic, "happy" soundtrack while world at war has a disturbing and eerie ambience combined with 8-string guitar riffing
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1:46 you can hear a distorted version of the Red Army choir victory chant. Haunting...
Oh shit, that's disturbing
Well that's interesting
Nice touch
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Private Wang The OP Engineer can you please exactly tell how is the original called? Been trying to find it for quite a while now.
@@georgeswanson697 its the red army theme from cod waw
Fun facts of the actual battle for the Reichstag: The Soviets wanted it since it was the parliament building of Germany. The Germans wanted to defend it because it stood between the Soviets and the Reichs Chancellory and Hitlers Bunker. The Germans completely bricked it up so the Soviets couldn’t get in and the Germans defended it from inside and outside. The Soviets bombarded it with artillery and it didn’t collapse before their attack. The first attack by the Soviets actually failed as it was held off by the defenses (including two 88mm flank guns in front of the Reichstag, and four 128mm guns 2km away). The second attack the soviets broke through the outer defenses and their artillery broke a hole through the building allowing them to get in. The building was defended by about 550 Germans, those troops being the Kreigsmarine (Navy Soldiers), Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger (Elite Airforce Paratroopers), Volkssturm (civilian soldiers) and as said in the mission, Hitlers personal Waffen SS Honor guard, that unit being the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandart SS Adolf Hitler (Known as the LSSAH), absolute fanatics. The battle was room by room, floor by floor, and the battle inside the Reichstag started on April 30th, and didn’t end with complete control by the Soviets until May 2nd. A couple hundred Germans died in the battle, couple hundred surrendered/were wounded, and part of the Waffen SS escaped the building to go on and fight another day.
amazing, thanks for the info about this particular battle, very interesting
Fairly certain you’re wrong about the lssah as it was French ss Charlemagne and ss nordland troops that were posted around the Reichstag the chancellory and other government areas.
Yes some of the honor guard fought in these battles for the government district. But it was mostly French ss and foreign ss volunteers as they had no home to return.
Being shot as collaborators or put in the Russian gulags for the Nordland ss.
They basically fought to the last man as they had no alternative.
It later took part in the invasion of France and the Low Countries were it was mainly held in reserve though it was used against the retreating British troops at Dunkirk. LSSAH was attached to XIV Armeekorps during the second and final phase of the invasion of France.
Following the armistice the LSSAH was to rest and be upgraded to a brigade while training amphibious warfare for the planned invasion of Britain (Unternehmen Seelöwe). This invasion was cancelled and LSSAH was transferred to Romania for the invasion of the Balkans. It fought its way through Yugoslavia and Greeve chasing the Allied troops to Kalamata, from where they were evacuated by sea to Crete.
LSSAH took part in Unternehmen Barbarossa (the invasion of the Soviet Union) attached to Heeresgruppe Süd and saw action at Kiev and Rostov. It was transferred to France for refitting 1942 and was upgraded to a Panzergrenadier-DIvision. It returned to the Eastern front 1943 and fought at Kharkov and Kursk. After the failure at Kursk, LSSAH was sent to Italy on anti-partisan duty but it soon was sent back to the Eastern front this time as a Panzer-Division. LSSAH was one of the divisions encircled near Kamenets-Podolsk and though it was saved by 9. SS-Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen and 10. SS-Panzer-Division Frundsberg it suffered heavy losses and was sent to France for rest and refitting.
It fought in Normandy following the Allied invasion and saw action at Caen, Falaise and Aachen as it was pressed back towards Germany. It took part in the offensive in the Ardennes attached to I SS Panzerkorps. After the failure of that offensive LSSAH was once again sent to the Eastern front to take part in the offensive to break the siege of Budapest (Unternehmen Margarethe). Following that failed offensive it was transferred to Austria where it surrendered to the American troops at the end of the war.
The French volunteers of the Second World War constituted an entirely separate division in the Wehrmacht, and after that the Waffen-SS which consisted of units that were called the 33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) and the Charlemagne Regiment.
With an impressive strength of an estimated 7,400-11,000 at its peak in 1944, the numbers came down to a mere sixty, as of May 1945.
Entrusted with the protection of Central Berlin as well as the Führer’s bunker from the Soviet invasion, they were one of the last remaining German units to have faced combat.
Ok after some of my own research we have to distinguish between the LSSAH combat division and the LSSAH guard. Even though the LSSAH became a division earlier in the war and subsequently surrendered later on in the war like I previously talked about.
But the LSSAH did have around 800 men (guards not divisional troops) that fought in the central government area. Alongside Charlemagne and nordland.
Just wanted to clear it up.
To me cod waw was a little more scary than fun but still a beautifully great masterpiece of a game
BLACKOUT 4 Because that’s what this conflict was, the whole war between start and finish.
Scary.
That's why the waw was one of the greatest cods to walk in cod history and it still is the greatest
When I was little (9 years old) it was due in part to the atmosphere as if in the damp shadowed war-torn areas of the mission held a lingering air of unseen unexplainable creatures holding this dominance over the pain, horror, and mindless killing of anything that was simply breathing.
@@The__Interloper Why do people even listen to these pussies?
@@someonetgg not sure maybe cause they are popular with games
"As long as you live, the heart of this army can never be broken."
now i understand why soviet lose cold war cause dimitri was dead!
Dimitri Petrenko was a hero... He deserved a hero's death. Instead of giving his life for the Motherland, he died for nothing... like an animal. He should have died in Berlin.
Didn't age well did it now Reznov?
@@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry Soviet Union didn't lose the cold war you can't lose A-war that didn't include any fighting
@@halo1561 I mean technically they "lost" since they dissolved
So fucking brutal. The build up, the horror noises. The metal rifts when shit pops off
Remember when COD had balls and you actually felt like war was hell?
Pepperidge farms remembers the days
I feel like the balls somewhat returned with Cold War's campaign where you start shooting the KGB out and MW2019 when Price just grabs a kid hostage. But yeah it won't ever be on the same level as WaW
@@Cipher_Nine in my opinion was still lame
The thing that I remember the most is the fire the panzersreck
Cod stopped having balls when the nazis stopped having the Nazi swastika
@@popotpohl6484 "DIMITRI, FIRE THE PANZERSRECK. FIRE THE PANZERSRECK. FFIRE THE PANZERSRECK." just over and over. I can hear it perfectly even now. Love this game
The most immersive, most dark gritty tense, and realistic WW2 COD we will ever get
Not realistic but, realistic in capturing the horrors of WW2 and get its Dark gritty sense that you've just described
@@RadX_98 dude we are on the same wavelength, i was just about to say that
But then they ruined it with the black ops series
@@butterss1178 how
@@butterss1178 when blackops 4 was bad and black ops cold war was kinda bad
The moment when you finish the game, see the cutscene where the bomb is dropped and the nuclear detonation over Hiroshima, followed by the Gen. Macarthur's speech about the end of the war as the game explains you how many people died... i had to put my controller down for a moment, this game, made me feel something that none of the Hollywood movies, Documentaries on the History Channel, not TV series has made me feel, the horror of war. And this soundtrack eclipse everything, at that point when the soviets seige Berlin, it wasn't a war anymore, just... pure madness and carnage.
"This isn't war. This is murder"
-Chernov
War is not about who won, but about who survived.
"Only the dead have seen the end of War" -Plato
XD then you had to pick the controller back up because you were transported into a weird house filled with zombies. Fucking love this game!
It really does teach you something. You experience it, you lose people you care about in Sullivan, Polonsky, Roebuck, or Chernov. In the end there's really no enemy, no victory. Only the boys of two tribes slaughtered in the sand. You realise it was just an exchange of bullets, true Hell a place where there is no reason.
This was a horror game wearing the coat of a first person shooter… and I love every single minute of it to this day
to make it even more scary put it in our prospective the germans trying to survive the siege from the oncoming horde
0:21 that echo of the Russian Army's theme sounds like it's coming from a corridor, like they're getting closer to you to take their revenge for Stalingrad , absolutely terrifying.
For every crime that occurred in the SSR
WW2 was a perfect example of the hatred that is inside of us all
For me it sounds like history echoing
its sounds like haunted ghost soldiers still fighting
Just imagine the idea of assaulting a massive government building filled to the brim with die hard SS volunteers, all of them knowing that this would be their end.
True hell.
and in one of the biggest irony of history , those last stand volunteer were mostly french from SS "charlemagne" division
@@athomicritics Mostly Hitlers selected own. These were Hitlers Special elite.
That's a creepy one for sure. This is a battle im glad America didnt have to fight.
@@Cgrazi They would've just bombed the place even harder than the russians did.
April 30th 1945. 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, but at others, I viewed complete brutality. I do not understand him. Perhaps, "heroes" need not question their actions.
The last sentence is goddamn amazing.
I got this because I saved near a part where I would usually crash. So I just got that quote even though I killed no surrendering enemies or dying soldiers.
@@thepeskyone To get the Good path, you must reveal your location in Stalingrad, when Reznov tells you to hide.
@@chaoticposting4591 Idk how Chernov can see me when im not near him...
\-: Reznov probably told him,read the first sentence:”when he first SPOKE of Dimitri,Reznov TOLD TALES of a hero”
See? Past tenses
7:42
The screams of the damned still haunt me to this day, at the beginning they're mid 20s, early 30s soldier knowing damn well what they're doing. By the end it's teens paying up for the actions of their fathers, not knowing a single thing but to try and stay alive.
You have no idea how hard your comment hits close to home
and its shown very well in the game. The closer you get to the final moments of the reichstag mission you see more SS and wounded soldiers fighting who seem to apear older in age and the weapons differ.
In the real time of the war when the Soviets invaded Berlin the Germans used every last soldier including young teenagers like 15 to 17 mostly after the death of Hitler ( April 28 or 27 ) that’s when all hell broke loose and all the Germans were fighting for their lives instead of Hitler.
And Russians, ahem, just kept flooding in like the blood of fleshbags to be uselessly shredded as they took Berlin.
All of Germany had to fight for the survival of their nation at that point. Them Russians were not merciful...
The ghosts of everyone murdered by the Nazis now fight alongside you
this is the scariest cod for me, like it makes me wonder like how did these soldiers have the bravery to fight, and the music isn't some triumphant trumpets, it's depressing and just straight up despairing, for me the Pacific theater was horrible, the banzai's screaming would actually get me alert and all of the kamikazes i saw was just almost terrifying, and with all of this, this is the closest to actually being in WWII as I can get, and Everytime I get shot or stabbed I always wonder to myself what if I was there watching my comrades die in front of my eyes, or what if I got shot, and with all of this, this is the best cod game ever created, nothing can best this cod, it is an intense game and certainly not for the faint of heart, and with completing this on veteran today, I basically have PTSD, an amazing game and the best ever!
Completed veteran on the ninth of January 2021. Jesus Christ, I felt invincible.
"Over 60 million people died as a result of world war II"
Think about all the fun you had while playing. Except it was very real, and not fun.
My absolute favorite part of the game's campaign was my Veteran play through on the mission
Heart of the Riech.
More specifically the part where you charge head first into the Riechstag.
Seeing the remaining Wehrmacht manning artillery cannons and burrowed in with MG42s, Gewher 43s, Kar98ks and ofcourse MP40s all aiming at the approaching Red Army.
This coupled with the fact that the game's difficulty was set on Veteran made me even more on edge knowing that I Truely Will Not Survive.
@@Scarecrowbooger it was a very scary part of the game, and the most difficult, I had a hard time even going up the stairs into the reichstag, it’s like every gun was pointed right at you, and the number of grenades thrown was just insane!
It is the finale of the war of annihilation. It is bloody as fuck.
This game gave us all PTSD. I bet we all know the exact noise an MP40 makes when it’s fired at you.
RATATATATATATATATATATTA
Very distinctive sound aha
Not only PTSD but also PTRS, with a scope even! (okay this joke aint that good)
What terrified me the most on this game is hearing the dreaded noise of the Panzershreck. I remember trying to snipe a Panzershreck operator but before I can shoot him he faces me and I can just see the black barrel of the rocket launcher, few seconds later I can see and hear the rocket and my life flashed before my eyes
When I was playing this game as a little kid, I thought I was playing a modern shooter.
0:00 April 30th, 1945: When he first spoke of Dimitri, Reznov told tales of a hero, someone we should all aspire to be like. His bravery on the battlefield is beyond question, but he has also shown mercy amidst the brutality of the Red Army. He is indeed a hero.
It is only cruel to prolong an animal's suffering
@@m3lee699 But not all the Nazis were Nazis. Nothing but young men drafted or peer pressured into enlisting to redeem the German Glory, and get out of their depression after WW1. Some were no different from you and I.
@@The__Interloper so stop calling them nazis you idiot ....its a insult to anyone onf them who didnt commit war crimes which is probably most !
They were all between 17 and 25 years old young lads
@@tavish4699 I mean what else was I supposed to call them without making it complicated.
@@The__Interloper Jesus christ enough of the “Clean Wehrmact” myth already
5:18 I remember playing this mission and hearing that choir while watching from the balconies the madness in the first floor, with the flamethrower, grenades exploding all over the place and gunshots. I still remember being shocked by how horrific that was. World at War is fucking horrific
The fact that the rifle you're given to shoot with in that section can only put someone down immediately if you aim for the head and leaves them a dismembered screaming mess on the floor doesn't help
@@drakep.5857 they wouldn't scream much if they're decapitated though
I remember that fighting in the parliament part.
Chills...
I was quite shocked by how good the music was in COD WAW and COD BO1 very good stuff but nothing and nobody will beat Martin O'donnell when it comes to composing music in video games he made the most atmospheric music and managed to make music for every situation.
The saddest part of WaW, without even meaning to be sad. I love how this game humanised both sides, because, both sides WERE human. It sucked to see "Nazis" not even fighting for hitler, but fighting to survive. Little did they know hitler has been dead for two days.
Even when the game didn't explicit show us it, you can see it by how they were stepping back further and further, and how the MG42, once showns as dominance and predatory in "Vendetta", now in the last missions are like just the only instrument for cover, a try to prolong a inminent death, one that no one, ever wants to admit or succumb to it.
Hell, they somehow managed to humanize a lone SS Honor Guard that we see for less than 5 seconds as he's shot and slaughtered by a bloodthirsty Reznov followed by his haunting screams. This was more than just a game
Fun fact that is very controversial: Not everyone in the Wehrmacht we’re Nazis, most “Nazi Soldiers” were in the SS (If you could call the SS part of the military) and the Waffen SS
LOL so that their fault
@@-Alexander2001MB Most germans that fought at the battle of berlin were early conscripts, and not actuall able bodied men. If you want to talk IRL, most germans that fought in berlin, were very young, old, or sick. I wouldnt really count it as a 15 year olds fault that he should die, just because he was forced into fighting for his country.
Being 8 back then, i always got scared when this song kicked in. There's something about this game's ambiance that makes it really scary. And in my opinion that's how a fps should be like.
A world war ii fps especially.
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You are right, War shouldn't be painted as cheery as modern games do, especially the soundtrack, everything should sound mean and designed to kill or absolutely terrify, I cannot play the new games seriously.
An 8 year old is scared of a Game about Nazi Germany that used 8 year Olds as soldiers When Hitler declared total war.
6:12 - PPSh-41
6:52 - MP-40
Is sean Murray actually using the sounds of the guns representative of their country for the soundtrack???? This just upgraded to probably one of best ost and soundtrack in life
@@skinny6710 As some other person pointed out in the metal songs compilation, the rapid drums you hear in both eviction and downfall have the same bpm as the firing rate of the mg42. In downfall, it's also faster and more drawn out, either representing a panicking gunner in a quickly worsening firefight or an untrained conscript
@@reverie314 and as someone else pointed out in the exact same comment section,the other ones that this guy says is mp40,could instead be the stg44 (or mp43/44 whatever)
With how horrifying this game was, imagine what a ww1 game would be like by them
Play BF1 it’s first mission accomplished this feeling quite well.
Thus theruss Yea, the only time I felt that “Holy shit, I just brutally killed a sentient human being” is whenever I get one of those bayonet charges or melee takedowns, and even then there wasn’t much gore. Just the look of shock and sheer terror forever plastered on the mans face.
I would reccomend you try Verdun
@Thus theruss im guessing they saw what happened to this game so they have to knock the gore off a bit so it can stay on markets.
I Iike the map Passchendaele in Bf1 it makes you look in awe, the entire terrain is mud with shell holes, the background is a burning forest, the sky is hidden by green toxic gas and what’s exposed is dark from ash, the only landmark is rubble of a village.
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6:14 sounds like burst fires of an mg 42 or ppsh-41 with chores in the background just sounds so haunting
This is why waw is a masterpiece, little details like these in the soundtracks are just so creative and fitting with the game atmosphere.
Its just brilliant
Yeah, using fully automatic barrages to mimicking double-pedal drum kicks is somehow very creative
0:01. Couple minute break before the assault in Reichstag.
0:51. Battle in the Reichstag (Rare Shi No Numa segment).
4:31. Battle in the Parliament.
10:04. Advancing through the Parliament.
13:36. Continuing through the left balcony of the Parliament.
16:24 Final stage of the battle in the Reichstag.
19:45. Picking up a Soviet banner to place it on top of Reichstag.
21:08. Aftermath of the end of World War II.
Tagging this so I have reference thx
@@anotherbloodyfanwriter1941 You
're welcome
The part where they raise the soviet banner is 19:45 the same year the war ended with the battle of Berlin
@@bugkid7454 That's pretty accurate though.
Japan Vs USA : "meh"
USSR VS German : *OH MY*
Foley Grenades I enjoy both theater but wish they had it seperately because its distracting to switch to different faction.
I think the soviet campaign works better becouse they worked a better connection between the game and the characters in that side of the campaign. We were just people having a great time killing npcs, just as the Soviets were enjoying their carnage fighting for revenge and bloodlust, killing the germans no matter what. The american side was portrayed as soldiers that just wanted to get done with all that and go home.
Coco HD I love both the American and Russian character equally now but don't call the Americans in this game soldiers!!! They are Marines and that's an insult. I'm not in the Marines, just look stuff on the internet.
Pacific is better.
@@brndonlu9635 They all forget Pacific ah....
"You drove them deep into the heart of the Reich . You thought they were dead ... you were wrong"
Ah zombies
Notice the drum rolls that start at 6:12. They sound like the MG42. Interestingly they start off as short precise bursts but progress into frantic firing. It symbolises the German defenders growing more desperate and panicking as they are overun.
I heard it more as an army marching towards it’s own, self-made abyss. Absolute doom. But I like your perspective too.
4:10
Sean Murray unleashes fury
gougou9969
When i Play this stage my mother say that music is Like a Holocaust! Then she Look at the screen and say:
Shit Nazis!
@@ΜουχεσαςΧρηστοςΠροβισταλης are you kidding me..
Jim Aetos the literal cringiest people on earth are you fucking losers acting like this online
@@ΜουχεσαςΧρηστοςΠροβισταλης ok buddy
Luz Burkhalter wut
"SANITÄTEEEEER!, KOMMUNISTEN SHWINE!"
Los lauf kleine swein
MEDIIIIIIIIIIC! COMMUNIST PIG!
TOTEN DIE KOMMUNISTEN!
Translation medic!, communist pig! I’m part German by the way
And it looks like I been beat to the translation
In the great words of reznov
" FIRE THE PANZERSHREK"
*Shrek.*
6:21 - - - - - I like how this is meant to be an MG 42 bursting then following into a spray, really conveys the cold calculative nature mixed into the desperate struggle of the final stand.
I think thats a PPSH 41
@@sialmeckerjrDefinitely a PP
@@EldishRinger Nah it’s an MG42 for sure.
@@EldishRinger Has to be an MG-42 because thats how they teach soldiers in the german army to fire an MG 42
@@sialmeckerjr its an MG42. Not a PPSH. Its the Desperado of the Germans
14:28
Ohhh, the absolute NOSTALGIA!!!!!
Mega Man X 😂😂😍😘
Did y’all know that at the very end of ww2, the desperate nazis converted the Reichstag into a grenades factory. That’s why countless grenades came flooding down those stairs.
Lots of theories.... It is said that in the Reichstag in general the maternity hospital was
When I played this game I was 7 It felt like a horror game it scared me and now i miss it
I played through it all in one sitting, when I was 11, it blew my mind. I cannot put into words the hype I felt raising that flag over the Reichstag.
@@VeridicoIV One of the grandest and bloodiest cod missions I’ve ever played.
Nazi Zombies after beating the game just made it even scarier, Lol
@@delorianecameron8202 it is the greatest Call of Duty
Mission use to always scare me, as when you walk around to certain corners you can hear demonic screaming and laughing, I always thought the zombies were already there
I'm starting to think that's how Nazi zombies came about.
@@silverhawkscape2677 it probably did came about like that. I can imagine someone in Treyarch thinkng "hell, our German soldier models for 1945 part of the campaign look fucked up, they look like fucking zombies". And then something clicked in his head and the rest is history.
I remember theorizing about what caused the Nazi Zombies in WaW and thinking it was just the souls of the damned come back to fight again. I guess it's sort of right, but I meant as the souls of the Nazi soldiers were being punished to eternal death and dismemberment.
@@user-vgrauvery close! Apparently it was the mocaps for the japanese being burned that inspired the zombies. They did a few zombie takes after an actor did an over the top portrayal of a dying japanese infantry man.
This game has the most unique soundtrack of a ww2 game, every other game in these time period always have like these uplift trumpet songs, it's not bad but I prefer this
They always have hunk men too. There were some slimy fucking bastards back then that loved the violence and thrived in it. Wish media would show things unabashedly.
WWII game music today sounds triumphant, inspiring, and patriotic
This sounds like pure hatred put into music
The devil was in the details in this game. The games atmosphere symbolises death, war, destruction and evil on both sides.
Yes
As a russian , i think that destruction of Germany was fair. Just look what nazis did to USSR . Millions of civilians are dead by they hand. Burned villages, destroyed cities. They got what they deserved.
@@Vadim_Slastihin yes
@@Vadim_Slastihin USSR took the fight to their land, their people, their blood
@@shainechristianocampo6302 "one rat at the time"
This game had one of the most haunting soundtracks I've ever heard from a game.
what Happened to your UA-cam vids
@@fatman8579 Unlisted them
@@redtsun67How come?
World at War has an amazing soundtrack. Instead of being typical WW2 music, it’s vastly different and uses vocals and instruments to create “surreal” sounding music, and since the music is so weird sounding it really gives you a perspective as to how insane the soldiers must’ve felt by the end of the war.
Yes
@skiribibbob yes
@skiribibbob that's me
@skiribibbob are you gonna hate me?
it does not sound weird at all, it fits perfectly. It sounds amazing and great, its far from "weird" if anything your profile is
I don't know if the author of the soundtrack wanted to convey this, but there is a certain mystical and religious overtones in it. The battle in parliament turns into a battle in the cave of horror of an agonizing infernal beast, in the music you can hear its frightening cries, and the choir resembles an Orthodox choir. It seems to me that the author wanted to give the whole action the subtext of God's judgment on this invisible beast that personifies the Third Reich, or the evil soul of the Third Reich and its pagan god.
@Mr. Man oh really? I know everything isn’t exactly clear cut and most things are shades of grey than black and white, but how aren’t those genocidal bastards evil? And I’m not talking about the Wehrmachtor general German people during this, those were poor souls that got roped to this by madmen. I mean the full blown true believers who were A-ok with murdering people who were different in cold blood.
You should look into natzi occultism, they were insane. I heard one using monkeys as soldiers.
@@Journey_to_who_knows Himmler was totally into the occult shit, as were a good chunk of the Nazi top brass.
I always liked how Germany had that masculine, tired and tortured choir in the Reichstag, representing the fatherland, and the Russians had the powerful, vengeful feminine choir representing the motherland.
Very good interpretation
THEIR LAND
THEIR PEOPLE
THEIR BLOOD
OUR LAND
OUR PEOPLE
OUR BLOOD
@@hx20games77 I'm everywhere boi
"The war will be on their land, their people will suffer, and their blood will be spilled"
I remember playing this mission for the first time. I remember when the Reds were running after the Nazis, busting down their doors to get them out of hiding, no mercy.
This is the COD that showed the true horrors of war.
I love CoD WaW because unlike any other game about war, in WaW you dont have the feeling of winning after completing the game the quote "there are no winners in war " really works great with this game
I know everyone talks about the horror aspects of the campaign, but can we praise the sick riffs on this ost?
20:46 "As long as you live the heart of this army can never be broken" Viktor Reznov
Things will change my friend!
incredible how an artist represents the culture of both world in one campaign
The first non fiction horror first person shooter
Christ, its intro alone sets the tone for me. That's some powerful music right here!
The nuclear ending to this was really incredible...
@I squat 220kg 485lbs stfu
@I squat 220kg 485lbs you can't even spell GTfo kid
@I squat 220kg 485lbs dude, wtf?
Pidä vaa pikku turpas kii
That's when it stopped being a game, the fun was over. "This really happened, don't let it happen again." You think about how many times you've been killed, how many you've seen maimed and burned. You wonder how many real people really did endure these horrors, and worse.
If they had actually added a segment at the end at which you would be controlling a japanese citizen before the nuclear detonation, my God, the controversy would have bigger than no Russian.
Playing this campaign as a kid, wow. It still gets me everytime the choir hits
This straight-up sounds like it's part of the Doom soundtrack, forgot how good the music was in WAW
It definitely deviated from the usual WWII game OST.
Sounds like Doom sound. Some of the part sounds.
ITS DE LEGENDARY OBAMIUM!!!!!!!!
never compare this game to doom
@@elpaletero123 Because it's way better
Cod Vanguard felt like a ww2 light hearted america movie made in the 21th century
Cod World at war, felt like Come and See and Stalingrad 1949.
Stalingrad made in 1993, buddy... and its Russian remake were followed in 2013 (and both coincidentally starred Thomas Kretschmann as German sergeant, albeit they're different person 😂😂😂😂)
@@dioarya6275 I'm talking about a different movie released in 1949.
This game has so much atmosphere, no other cod games comes close!
The moment when u came to the big hall with the gold eagle....goosebumps
Caigicungo I'd like to thank you for uploading this. You've reminded me why I loved World at War so much. The brutality and grit. Let's hope the new WW2 is good as well.
Barky Von Schnauzer tks, i hope so😊
Barky Von Schnauzer
It wasn't :(
Its SJW propaganda
How can a man like me, like this comment more than once
Nothing will ever reach world at wars level of dark and gritty war theme.
Sorry bud its a forgotten game in 2019
7:42 this part always gives me the chills
That sound got annoying waiting for online games to start already
The soundtrack in the presentation room with the seating areas was haunting to me playing this.
It's like you understood their hopelessness, just them being hunted down, we were the wolves that day, them the prey, we didn't care for moral grounds, we was rage & we were unstoppable, but the song also expressed their desire to defend to the last man woman & child, either for revenge of the loss of their country, family, comrades or just their false hopeless ideals of a Nazi Germany...
There were no Good guys or Bad guys during this war, just people who were forever changed by the war, only the will to survive...
Yeah
Not in veteran though. They were still the wolves, and players were and still are the pray.
@@criminal8768 The Grenade spam is real though lol.
@@CarmineKar98K I assure you, I got PTSD from it. I’m trying to beat Downfall but I’m stuck at the beginning where there are the two ways.
@@criminal8768 wonder how they lost the war with so many fucking nades
I grew up Playing this and I still play it to this day, it's even better because I actually understand what's going on.
Yeah I still play it too. If we're the only ones, then so be it
Yeah, 99% of modern games are garbage. This is a timeless masterpiece though
I still play it. I go through on veteran to make it more immersive like I'm a real soldier trying not top get shot
Even there are most parts that are unintentionally scary the music still gives me the chills.
April 30, 1945: When he first spoke of Dimitri, Reznov told tales of a hero, someone we should all aspire to be like. His bravery on the battlefield is beyond question, but he has also shown mercy amidst the brutality of the Red Army. He is indeed a hero.
You definitely know when music is as really good as this when it gives you goosebumps every that you listen to it
I listen to this as I prepare for my 6-week calculus summer school class final under a University of Chicago alumnus. Wish me well comrades.
I passed :) had this on loop for 6 hours .
Thor is the Best avenger you can do it Comrade ! I believe in you bro
@@SalvationIsInChristAlone AMAZING BRO, CONGRATS!
URAAAAAAAAA
@@SalvationIsInChristAlone well done bro
The Intro of this song speaks a thousand words, Greatest game of all time and the soundtrack is beyond words...
I didn't need to sleep tonight.
I don't need sleep, i need -answers- to avenge Chernov
@@failmarine2.0 No one will read this....
Edit: Someone should read this.
@@OurJosh under-rated comment
Bro i literally sleep every night listening to this soundtrack, i'm not kidding
Roughly 4:00 to 10:00 has to be my favorite combat track for any FPS game ever. Perfect mix of adrenaline and horror.
What an awesome song.
Started a little bit enigmatic, it evolved into scary and finished in an epic way.
5:32 Ah yes, this part always got me goosebumps
damn, the waw soundtracks are great, never heard of anything better than this
This soundtrack perfectly captures the soviet thirst and utmost viciousness to capture and ravage berlin and its every defender and the German hopelessness and despair of their entire state coming to complete ashes
They reaped what they sow
@@johndanes2294 by doing what? being aware of the communist threat before everyone else?! No ones great grandparents fought for open borders or gay pride...
@@winterautumnfishing5215 As if open borders and gay pride is a bad thing. Get off the internet boomer. The future belongs to progressive socialism
@@winterautumnfishing5215 “If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.” - Winston Churchill.
He had to do business with the communist beast, better the devil you already know. It's fun to think about what if Stalin hadn't come to power though. What if it had been someone like Trotsky. What if the Soviets invaded West before operation Barbarossa was ready? Would the Allies have sided with Hitler to push back the red threat? Or just let it happen.
Also i don't care much for gay pride, but a nation undefined by borders, language, and culture is no nation. Seeing so much of what is happening at home today, I'm sure many of our great grandparents are rolling in their graves. In some ways i hope John Danes gets his wish. History has shown us his kind are the first to find their throats on the block.
@@Doctor699 too true, famously patton remarked that he fought the wrong damn enemy, we see this today
I swear this game turned me into a Russian soldier when I was little..
It honestly did. Now playing is just dark. You don't notice the war crimes when your young. Now...I don't count the Russians as on the side of the good guys of that war anymore
You know, even on the official website on the page about Chernov it is written that he is a newbie and did not see all the crimes of the Nazis on Soviet soil. Imagine that you are a soldier and you approach a village hoping to meet youre compatriots, but you find that all the inhabitants were burned alive in a barn. For example, Belarus was never able to populate after the war because its population decreased by a third. A lot of Belarusians and Ukrainians lost their families and houses. The only thing that made them live was the desire for revenge. Even after Stalin's order that “the Red Army is liberating, not seizing. Robbery, murder, violence against the civilian population is severely punished.” But fortunately, they destroyed the real evil.
@@lukeounsworth9686 Cause they executed revenge on the Germans for destroying their nation and massacaring their people ? let me ask you would you be able to watch your people slaughtered, your women raped and your land destroyed and not seek revenge ? be happy we dont live in those times. The Soviets are the good guys, they damn well fought the Nazis and won, they lasted longest in a continues fight with them and they liberated all Slavs from the German yoke.
@@SVTDI Nazi or Soviet Guys are not good bro. Everyone is massacring other people. Nazi s killing a million jewel or soviets killing a million kazakh azeri circassian. All world war has a darkness side.
@@SVTDI Please don't be one of those diehard soviet fanboys. There're no good guys in war
I have a theory....
Those weird sounds you hear in the soundtrack may be what’s going to turn the dead Nazis into zombies, because those aren’t the normal sounds you’d hear in the building...and that also goes for all the other weird noises you hear in other soundtracks....
Just a short theory, If you have any theories about this or the soundtrack, let me know in the comments
Should add US and Soviet zombies
@@localextremist2839 There is though.
@@localextremist2839 Gorod Krovi and "Five"
That explains all the Halo 2 flood screams in the background
Campaign have nothing to do with zombies lol
for me, one of the best call of duty of all, and the game with the best soundtrack
"AS HEROS, WE WILL RETURN TO RUSSIA'S EMBRACE!" -Sergeant Reznov, April 30th, 1945
Soon Reznov would realize he would be put in prison by the same country he nearly died for
@@DarksideCommander Because "Stalin had little need for heroes."
stop
you are gonna make me sad
@gradygordon you should. Thats why the soviets fell in 1991.
And thats why they won't wake up until they realized, the Soviet Union is just another dictator trying to take the world by blood...
16:24 "The path towards our glorious victory has been a journey of blood and brutality. All of it has been necessary. When the flag of our motherland flies atop the Reichstag, all of Berlin know that the evil of the Fascist Reich has been wiped from the face of the earth." - Viktor Reznov
4:14 This constant sound of the soundtrack is my favorite, it's just sooo goood 🤩
It's funny how Japan (rightfully mind you) has the reputation for fanaticism, when you could make a strong argument Germany was just as, if not more fanatical.
Japan would surrender before the home islands were attacked. Germany would fight the Red Army for every inch Berlin, house by house, room by room. They fought when they were pushed to the Reichstag plaza. They would fight room by room.
Germany fought until it literally could not fight anymore. They just started throwing little kids, the elderly, the wounded, even enslaved foreign prisoners were forced to die for the Fuhrer. For a battle that was already lost.
Read up on the SS and occultism. Heinrich Himmler (head of the SS) bought the Wewelsburg castle in the 30’s and did all sorts of weird rituals with other nazi higher ups there.
Well, that's not exactly true.
Before both the bombs and the Soviet entry in the Pacific Theatre, what the Japanese were keen on what amounted to taking as many Americans/Soviets with them and hoping there's still a country to rule over by the time they give up; otherwise known as _ichi-go_ , it involved giving schoolchildren rudimentary machine gun training and giving pretty much every civilian on the Japanese home islands a bamboo spear or gun.
What threw a wrench into these plans being the aforementioned bombs and Soviet invasion, which worked to convince the Japanese government and overseas armies respectively to surrender; neither would have worked with the other missing.
There will never be a WWII game depicted like this ever again, a crying shame
We drove them into the heart of the Reich.
We thought they were dead.
We were wrong.
Uryryy Grav Rav Rava
Zombies..
This build up is so heavy it can can slice a steel beam 8:15
They say Mick Gordon's Doom sountrack is based but this actually has the PPSh as an instrument.
based on what
They used a real gun to make the music? Badass.
@@PHZanoni 1812 Tchaikovsky did it first with real cannon salvos
@@dioarya6275 I know lol
The sheer rage conveyed by this is insane.
Not the “rage” like you get from typical OST’s, but a more primordial and visceral rage, almost like malice given voice.
15+ years of Call of Duty WAW! This game is a "little" scary, it's no wonder that many consider COD WAW to be a brutal game compared to the other games in the franchise. But still, I really like this game. I've been playing Call of Duty World at War since 2016, and I still have the same desire to play this masterpiece in 2024.
7:52 this piece of the soundtrack will forever be engraved into my head everytime I played world at war, the suspense and horrors of soldiers who didn't fight for just victory but for survival without knowledging that Hitler died, this theme is just haunting and depressing like i can imagine the red army advancing into Berlin and hear ghosts from the people that once lived in the area.
To be fair, many Germans were not aware of his death until the evening afterwards, and were told a massive lie in that he had apparently died directing the defence of the Reich Chancellery against the Soviets, when in reality he and his wife were being wrapped in a carpet, doused in petrol and poorly cremated among the rubble and devastation he had wrought 4 years prior.
This is no victory, your are in the belly of hell itself, good luck private Petrenko
14:30
This is literally my second most memoral mission of WAW.
The voices that play at around 2:54 always freak me out. They typically play whenever I reach the top of the staircase at the end of the first room. There's always quite a few German corpses piled up there, and when these voices play, it feels like the Reichstag is already haunted. The battle is only a third of the way over at this point, and it already feels like the place is filled with ghosts.
The choir in this mission feels like the souls of the dead soviets cheering you on as you finally kill the Reich. And when the Soviet Anthem plays at the end was the cherry on top of the whole game. Literally an ICONIC Masterpiece.
This is definitely the music you’d hear when you come to realize you are on the wrong side of history, low on fuel, low on ammunition, low on food, low on morale, low on men, and the enemy won’t stop till they kill every last one of you guys… and you’ve been backed into a corner
The soviet union collapsed in 1991
@@moisescruz3353and nazi germany reaped what it sowed in 1945
@@moisescruz3353Nazi Germany collapsed as a nation in '45.
@@moisescruz3353 West is gonna fall too, it is just a matter of time.
Personally, COD WAW was the first time where I felt the intensity of gaming.
Also, 700th comment!!!
But regardless, it is a masterpiece
Let me be the 800th comment :)
The music was so eerie, haunting, and visceral it's almost as if you opened the gates of hell
Heart of the Reich itself. And you are like a dagger that pierces through.
14:15 this part was played while clearing streets in Eviction, that was great
The first time I saw those Soviet Soldiers burn the surrendering German soldiers shocked me. After finishing the Campaign, I thought to myself just how terrifying World War 2 really was for those who endured it.
There’s so many layers to this track alone its insane. The distorted, muffled USSR anthem that sounds like its outside the building, the abrupt SIEG HEIL from the SS soldiers, followed by the tense build up of screams echoing. The distorted explosions and ghostly calls of Russian vengeance. Then the unleashing of chaos as the sound of PSSh-41s are heard going room by room, killing everything not bathed in red already.
God I love WaW’s ost.
This game is metal as fuck
I don't know if anyone is listening to these anymore, but the fact that most of these 2000' games have the same elements in soundtracks was a key for me when I was little. So for example around 1:46 you can hear the exact same effect as Return To Castle Wolfenstein Soundtrack - The Undead had. I heard it in a few other games, but for some reason they were always ww2 themed. And some of the walking sounds etc were still the same. I know it's probably from a free sound library, but I liked that more games used the same elements. For an other example Sniper Elite 1 soundtrack Tension 8, and Commandos Strike Force, or Robin Hood TLoS soundtracks had quite the same sound designs. Maybe the influence of that era, but I miss it soooo much! I still listen to those soundtracks sometimes when I play with new games, or just when I do some work and it really reminds me of the good times. Well of course I am not old, but this was my childhood.
06:12 PPSh-41 sound
Papasha
I absolutely loved this games immersion and atmosphere! Never to be matched again
I remember when you first enter the area where the Germans have set up those defences in front of the stairs, on either side there were two rooms with metal doors. They were just bland corridor/rooms probably where enemies spawned from, but me and my friend spent hours trying to get through them bc we thought there were nazi zombies behind it. You can hear strange noises and music if you go near them so that’s why we though that.
I remember heading into my basement when I was little, booting this game up on the ol' ps3 because I'd never played it before. I started the campaign, and before I knew it 7 or so hours had passed and I had planted the Russian flag on that mound of sandbags.
"So who do we fight Reznov?"
"EVERYONE! WE STAND ALONE!"
3:06
That choir...
I love how most of historical war games tend to have an heroic, "happy" soundtrack while world at war has a disturbing and eerie ambience combined with 8-string guitar riffing