Everything GREAT About Call of Duty: World at War!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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A little detail that is easily overlooked during the mission Burn 'em Out: some enemy soldiers will use Indonesian terms while burning and not japanese as a reaction, showing that while being Imperial soldiers they were conscripted from occupied territories. +1 Win
Makes sense being in the mazes of trenches next to the airfield since those Indonesian conscripts, or foreign conscripts in general were used as auxiliary and construction troops.
Also, near the end of the Pacific theater in the game, you see older and younger Japanese soldiers, and soldiers with glasses, showing that they were scraping the bottom of the barrel in recruitment.
What? I'm Indonesian and I didn't know about it. What do they say when they get burned?
@@robbyantonius2418 its just api and panas mangled it the screaming
@@valkyriesan3623 wow I never knew about that. Thanks for the info
Another awesome detail that wasn’t mentioned here: During the final missions of each side, the enemy changes. In Shuri castle a lot of the soldiers look younger and have glasses on, showing that “imperfect” soldiers were being let into the emperor’s army. And during Downfall, a lot of the soldiers are either in SS garb, or are wounded and bandaged. Showing you that this is literally their final stand.
I never noticed that detail on the japanese. But is indeed more obvious on the wermacht.
It would have been even more appropriately grim for this game if some also wore civilian clothing and looked genuienly afraid and even rarely manage to land a hit on you even on Veteran difficulty
The soldiers at the Reichstag are mostly elite and experienced SS, like the LSSAH, at least inside the Reichstag. Before the mission, it was mainly regular Wehrmacht who were wounded and occasionally Officers who would fight on the front line
@@blu4390 Yeah by the end of the war the SS were the last defenders of berlin, some were not even german but french
@@josephhughes2429 not only french but a lot of norwagian,danish and dutch ss as well
“Perhaps ‘Heros’ need not question their actions”
The way he says that is a subtle dig at dimitri. The idea that because you’re a ‘hero’ you don’t need to question if what your doing is right.
"In war, there are no heroes. Evil is everywhere."
*Do you feel like a hero yet?*
@@hybridShinx Spec Ops references are always appreciated
I remember being in the penultimate mission, before Chernov was killed, and playing in veteran, and it was simply impossible, I died every so often and I felt so frustrated. So I decided to go up to a building that had a second floor and keep the enemies at bay, but I knew that eventually I would have to go down and repeat the cycle of dying and dying and dying, but, when I am in the middle of the shots, I see Reznov and the others advancing while I covered them, and eventually Reznov asks me to go and the rest happens. I know it doesn't seem like a big deal, but when I play MW1 in veteran I was the one who had to move the story forward, until I passed X point nothing would happen, and then play WaW and I don't feel alone, I feel like I'm part of a group , that I am not the only one who is fighting. It is something I will never forget.
Also, my God, the music in the final mission made my skin jitters, those chants while there were gunshots and explosions and Reznov kept screaming. Perhaps the best CoD in history.
i noticed that the enemies will only shower you with grenades if you hunkered down in one corner for a significant amount of time or if you started the grenade duel yourself. most of the time they will run out of grenades (there’s 3 grenades for each npc)
Honestly This COD has the most memories, playing Zombies with my dad and Uncle, playing Multi-player with my cousin, using the Springfield regardless being the worst rifle in the game, I just love this game!
Springfield sucks!! Haha I have very similar memories as you my friend :) absolutely love this game
I remember going off with the PTRS in pubs. Thinking round 9 was good in zombies. Finding the death cards. Glitching them into zombies. Learning the death song of Nacht on guitar. I need to stop or I'm going to cry. Aging is pain.
Me as well my cousin and I always would play nacht he sadly got murdered and this game and mw2 always reminds me of him
@thespear2214 need more ppl like you ❤️
@@thejourneyman8890 you can glitch death cards into zombies? o:
When I first played this game, me and my dad were really into WW2 history. We bought the game thinking it wouldn't be anything too out there. But I remember the first mission I played with him watching, when you watched the guy get flung up into the tree and blown up, then the Banzai charge, I looked at my dad and he had the most shocked expression I had ever seen. We finished the game 2 days later and we both sat silently as the cinematic rolled, and he said "Wow... that was way more intense than I thought"
Similar to me my dad never understood gaming but he was amazed at this and how educational and realistic on war it was
Woah dude cool story
23:08 I never actually seen this cutscene all the way through but man absolute chills. The music just building up and then silence is so fucking genius. I think it's time boot up WAW again and go through this fantastic piece of storytelling
Fun fact, the lyrics of the main menu soundtrack are literally “Brave Soldier, Brave Soldier, Die with me.” Which makes it that much more somber and hard hitting.
The soundtrack really carries from the background.
One small tibit. “Brav” means “Good” in the context of the song. “Brav soldat, brav soldat. Stirb mit mir….”
@@ShadowAndRoseSthat honestly doesn't make it much better....
"This was a 5 minute mission"
Laughs insanely in veteran mode PTSD
Those damned MG nests and grenades.
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@@thatdumbass8962 this is incredibly wrong. you need atleast 20 more grenades to be accurate
Literally went to the comments to write this and saw u already beat me to it hahahah.
Anyone remember cod tbro
17:05 Just wanna point out that Markhov (the commisar) is not voiced by Gary Oldman, but rather Dimitri Diatchenko. He played the dude who got eaten by ants in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Unfortunately he passed away back in 2020
Nooooo.
Such a under appreciated cod game. Coming out between MW and MW2 makes some people forget about WAW, we were spoiled for 3 years of great cod games
Cod4 all the way to BO2 will never be beaten!
Yea. Every game improved on each other .
MW made classes
WAW made Zombies
MW2 : improved classes and really good kill streaks
BLOPs wager matches and really good zombies
MW3: I sorta agree on the fact it’s kinda the runt of the bunch , but it’s solid
BLOPs 2: the best of the bunch , zombies is solid and the best single player campaign and content
@@fangsout305 nope not the best single player camapign. Bo2 is so overrated. Its an A tier CoD, multiplayer was good, zombies was atrocious. Campaign was great but nothing compared to WaW. WaW has the best storyline, BO1 then MW2
At 16:48 you really hit the nail on the head, given how that asylum was reused as a zombies map which was named Verrückt, meaning insane in German.
For those interested more in the conflict surrounding the Pacific theatre of WWII, I highly recommend Hardcore History's 6-part, 25+ hour long exploration into the motivations and cultural twisting of Japan and those directly involved. It might give a deeper appreciation to what WAW touched on regarding their depictions of fighting the Japanese soldiers.
Does it talk about unit 731 and the massacre at Nanking?
@@Lawrence_Talbot not so the ayaya country we have today am right ?
@@Lawrence_Talbot Go listen it and find out.
@@oliverhughes610 It's 25 hours. I'm not wasting that much time to be disappointed. Almost every WW2 documentary skips over the brutality of Japan, even the ones dedicated to the Pacific Theater.
@@Lawrence_Talbot If you think a 25 hour comprehensive analysis of Japan's role in WWII wouldn't cover the most infamous aspects of it, I don't know what to tell you. Honestly what you just said is shocking to me since those are the kinds of good clickbait topics that I would imagine would be first on the agenda, maybe second only to Pearl Harbor or the atomic bombs.
The mosin nagant with iron sights will forever be my favorite cod sniper. The memories of dominating the map with that gun will never go away
The details added are on point
I was able to use WAW as the focus of a college essay about how you can use Video games to bring History to the masses in an accurate way. Reading through U.S. Army Military Historian records, the 1st Marine Division move in the game, exactly as they did in the Battle of Shuri Castle on Okinawa. Southeast to South, South to Southwest, Southwest to a Western approach around the Castle, to a final Northern assault on the citadel of the Castle. Their attention to detail in this game was incredible!!
That's actually really interesting to know!!
On the other hand you then have Tiger IIs displayed in the first Russian mission, which takes place in Stalingrad.
Its a minor detail, but as someone who is into tanks, I immediately noticed that inaccuracy.
@@fruitmidget2533 At least WaW's modding scene can rectify that. Sure, Treyarch could've made it more accurate but I can imagine that - with the release for the game looming over - they couldn't be 100% accurate, so they made do with what they have.
How’d your essay go by the way
the biggest experience this game had on me was the battle of Okinawa. In the game you had to destroy Suri Castle. It was a place I physically visited and have seen the results of that attack. I was a Marine on Okinawa and was living the history of the USMC through this game. Will always be one of my favorites!
A game that has provided many memories similar to world at war for me was Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault, it has many memorable scenes that pay a lot of respect to what happened in the pacific theatre.
Man reading ur comment makes me wanne replay Pacific Assault again
I remember playing this as a 6 year old (way too young to be playing this) with my dad, who passed away just a couple years later right before I turned 10. He was a huge nerd for WWII so this was something he could enjoy just as much as me. I truly don't think I've ever had as much fun playing a video game since.
The game wouldn't let you pick up on the mission you left off at in the co-op campaign mode unless you had played it through on the single player mode beforehand so, considering my age and my dads general confusion to most modern video games, we played through the first 3 or 4 missions over and over again and we never cared.
I'm 20 now, watching this video in the same room I played this game with my dad 14 years ago is making me think through all of this again and I can't help but thank you. Not just for making a great video but for giving me another opportunity to remember these memories again.
This comment made me sad then happy.👍
Was not expecting this but glad it's being covered.
So what you're saying is, "A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one"
I love how WaW had the balls to show the horrors of war. even the "good" guys did a lot of bad sh1t. EDIT : No, Reznov uses an SMG because he had his finger quite injured (and later removed) wich he tells you in Vendetta. You can see it removed after Vendetta Russian missions. Also, the merchant ships you all blew up? There's a high chanche there was a lot of allied prisoners on each ship you downed.
What I love is that they don't shoehorn any sob story for the guy you play as and instead make him just as vulnerable as everyone else. You aren't special cuz no one was. Not a single one of those soldiers was special. Sure some Got medals and such for good performance but no one was different than anyone. They all were held to the same standards. They were all fighting the same battle and all wearing the same uniform
This game and the Gundam Franchise do a lot to tell entertaining stories while still having a strong anti-war message.
I'm glad they're getting more recognition.
I remember spending hours with my best friend trying to save Roebuck and the other character (forgot his name) from the Japanese. The amount of hours I spent just simply playing the campaign is ungodly. Not to mention then playing Nazi Zombies for an even longer amount of time. Jeez I loved this game
Dude's name was Pvt. Polansky, they modeled Dempsey after him ;)
@@romanocheez7725 ah right. I thought Roebuck was who Dempsey is modeled after?
@@KingNoNamer Nah, the main difference between the two was that Polansky had Blonde hair
@@romanocheez7725 you’re right. Like I said, been a long time since I played the game. Thanks for the reminder!
@@KingNoNamer Gotcha, only reason I even know is because I just got finished with it! Just as perfect as the day I got it.
What i also like about the ending
Is when macarthur said "a new world shall rise from the blood and carnage of the past"
as soon as he said "blood and carnage" the hopefull music was replaced with a single bell as if we are walking in a huge cemitary where all the lives that are lost in ww2 were put to rest
“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.” -Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Damn that's deep
@@Spiralredd The exact same quote was used in Call of Duty 1 when you die or finish the mission
@@true-dark-mind9681 i didn't play call of duty 1 the oldest one I played was call of duty 2
This was my first COD and I still think one of the best. So many good memories with online, the campaign and zombies with my buddies
I just love the voice acting in this game
Kiefer Sutherland is the absolute man.
Another thing i liked about the cutscenes is that they aren't censored, they show people being killed in various ways. It just adds onto the brutality of this game, I wish games were still like this.
True, nowadays you can't even suggest something like this because some cockroachs on twitter will have an episode about how violent and dark this is. And if this was made today, they would most likely censor everything and rewrite history.
This game is the epitome of *"THEY JUST DONT MAKE EM' LIKE THEY USE TO"*
As someone who is both into history and Warhammer 40k, I love this game, because it shows the darkness and brutally that's always there deep down within most of us were all monsters, war just forces the monster out
Another game that focuses on the brutality of war and what it does to the soldiers is called Spec ops the line. Its more of a modern setting but still gets the message across effectively
Beat it once. I’ll probably never play it again. Fucked me up… war is hell
White phosphorus. Willy Pete. Masterclass of a game
*Did i do well ?! Did i became the hero?!*
i've always thought Dimitri represented the Russian spirit during WW2; believed to have died often, but nonetheless survived and prevailed - and sadly saw too much horror and loss to come out of it unharmed. To slay a beast ...
I remember the music of this game being so poignant and somber at times it actually scared me. Of course I was 8 when I played it but still that’s some serious good work
This cod is one of the only COD campagins I played more than 10 times with multiple people and I was young as hell playing it I loved every bit and its grittiness to the war
I 100% agree with best WW2 game ever made. This is Treyarchs Magnum Opus in my opinion. There is so much and love and care put into this game that it shows through. Although Black Ops 1 and 2 both were respectfully brilliant in their own right, I do believe they were lacking that certain flair for realistic dark, gritty warfare that WAW portrayed.
Blowtorch and Corkscrew is actually a very literal name for a mission, it's a tactic that the marines had for clearing out Japanese bunkers and making sure they were completely unable to be reused, especially because the japanese usually dug very extensive tunnel networks between bunkers to fortify whenever possible, blowtorch, being the use of a flamethrower to burn everyone inside, and then a satchel charge was thrown in, blowing up everything inside the bunker, and usually rendering every weapon and bit of ammunition useless, crude, but effective
I REALLY think you should cover Valiant Hearts: The Great War. Whislt its about WWI as opposed to WWII it really pulls on the same strings as WaW, it focuses on the human element, focusing on the stories of indivdual people as opposed to just, 'hell yeah shoot guns'. I think you'd enjoy the experience
That is how you get emotional damage.
I can only say that, for my brain as an 8-year-old, I understood everything and although I didn't know what had really happened, I really understood the evil that a human being can do. And apart from that, he inherited a good taste for history from me.
Yhis game was my first experience with cod and remains my favorite to this day. I would love it if treyarch put this much love and attention in a WW1 setting
Fantastic video as always, keep up the good work and stay awesome!
I loved the dark, sick, theme of this game. And when you first play campaign and see the realistic gore, that was truly epic
I had the luck that this was actually the very first COD I ever played.
And the completion of the campaign left a mark
I would add 2 wins just for the mp and zombies experience. Mp was just a thrill to play back then and enjoyable. Zombies had a horror like experience which was soon littered with hidden easter eggs and details to a story that you had to find in this game.
One detail that i love is after you the russians execute those germans and the T-34-85 comes up to break through the wall, it turns it's gun around to face backwards, which is realistic since it would reduce the chance of damaging the gun, it's a neat thing that you don't always see in games.
12:50 Dempsey’s character model was based on Polonsky and Nikolai’s was based on Chernov, and I might be wrong but isn’t Takeo the Japanese soldier from the start of Semper Fi and Richtoffen is this guy? 12:52
I actually thought it was a German officer for rictoffen
@@alexkofford7534 same here
Takeo isn't the Japanese officer at the start he's just a reused generic japanese officer that you see in Semper Fi, (the guy who got shot by the corporal) Little Resistance, and Hard Landing
Sorry for my english
One thing I noticed in WAW was this constant theme of revenge and vendettas. This is most obvious in the Russian campaign, but even the Americans get into it. In fact, one of Roebuck’s first lines is: “We’re gonna make them pay for this.” And we all saw how Polonsky (or Roebuck) when Roebuck (or Polonsky) was killed.
WaW was one of my favorite cods. Up there with mw2 and I spent countless hours playing it during the Great Recession. Expertly crafted and often overlooked. So glad you brought this game back into the limelight.
A lot of the times when you praised Gary Oldman's voicing of Reznov, it was actually Commisar Markhov speaking, voiced by Dimitri Diatchenko.
i also enjoy the fact that in downfall where you place the flag at the end the soviet union anthem was playing on the background, giving it that much extra feeling to the whole scene
God i love this game and how it harkens back to the days of excellent WW2 call of duty games. The games were light on story but excellent immersion and authenticity. No anime skins or excessive microtransactions. Just simple and straight to the point action.
World at War was the only game I've ever played where I organically found myself caught up in a sniper duel with a player on the other team that lasted most of the match. The two of us each had 3 kills and 3 deaths in the last half of the match because we were creeping around blown buildings and hiding from each other
12:45 you can glitch this part by jumping over some stairs earlier and killing amsel directly and then your camera won't be fixed. There you can see that reznov is just casually crouching underwater.
The raising of the soviet flag over Berlin feels so liberating to me as german.
I despise the disgusting history of my country and seeing it being freed by the red army is a feeling I can't describe.
To be perfectly honest, it should have been A Custom made flag of the Western Allies. As much as i despise the Nazis I will also despise the Soviets.
For every ounce of blood they lost they extracted the same amount out of Eastern Europe for 40 years.
10:00 The name "Blowtorch and Corkscrew" is actually a reference to a tactic used by the US Marines on Iwo Jima, where three BAR Machinegunners would lay suppressive fire on a Japanese bunker, so a flamethrower could move up to burn out the bunker
As a Jewish person, seeing WW2 events will always feel a little bit...Off, to me. We may have not fought with guns and tanks, but we did fight...and that fight made us lose 6 Million people.
...And you know what? A part of me felt sorry watching this for the average German soldier, they really didn't know what crimes against humanity they were doing behind the curtain, they were fighting without a cause.
May we never forget the lives that were lost, and never forget that as humans, we should not allow an event at this size ever to happen again. Amen.
Many Catholics died in WW2 as well. As Germans, Italians, Americans, victims of the first. The most persecuted indeed
An added detail from this game, "Vendetta" is the only mission not playable in co-op. Since that would break immersion of being a lone survivor.
Well… Black Cat too.
Chernov seems sweet at first for insisting that shooting the nazis was unnecessary since they were already bleeding to death, but when you realize that shooting them would put an end to their suffering, whereas letting them bleed out would leave them in agony for minutes, it makes him sound like how we know Reznov to be, while Reznov sounds merciful for wanting to put them out of there misery.
This was and still is my all time favorite Call of Duty. The online multiplayer was so awesome and underrated today. It's extremely rare that I meet people who played this back then.
Gary Oldman just waltzin in with another stellar performance as Viktor Reznov.
I think Reznov used an SMG for the rest of the game because his hand was injured at stalingrad, making him unable to aim with a rifle. That's at least what he told Dimitri at the beginning of Vendetta. Although I kind of like the idea of him wanting his revenge to be up close and personal better to be honest. That fits his character like a glove
Don't forget that World At War has different results in missions and the campaign itself. GamingWins only managed to get 2 guys from the Black Cats mission, most times I've played I tend to get 3-4 guys.
CoD WaW was a real masterpiece. You definitely did it justice with how you worded every sentence and made it out to be more than just a fun arcade shooter with WW2 as the setting.
the intro and ending used to get me real emotional and are great contrasts from the other: The sleeping giant awaken for war and get some payback against a villainous foe; then the war ends and so much damage has been done, but just glad it's over.
World at War is my favorite WWII single player game. Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad is my favorite WWII multiplayer game. Absolutely brutal, dark, and gritty like World at War, but with a more realistic online only experience.
The guitar in ‘their land, their blood’ makes me want to run through wall
I loved this analysis. I haven't played this since launch but the things happening off to the side that you point out are on the money. Also Reznov's character arc which came back to me in bits and bobs through the video. This is top work.
An awesome detail I just noticed watching the video is that Corporal Roebuck is promoted to Sergeant the moment Sullivan dies. He doesn't actually have the rank of Sergeant at that point, but being the most senior NCO in the squad, he now carries the responsibilities of one.
That or it was a programming error.
If you have not thought about it yet, I would STRONGLY suggest looking into Spec Ops : The Line, a surprising gem of a game with great writing and take on modern warfare.
You should definitely also play through the Brothers in Arms trilogy. Where WAW encapsulates the horror and atrocities of ww2 from a broader perspective, Brothers in arms is very similar to that of Band of Brothers following this squad of paratroopers in the 101st through D-Day and Holland. It has more focus on the men as individuals and them as people and how the deaths of men who you consider your friends can pay a massive mental toll. Another nice thing about it is that the first game alone only takes place in the span of about a week and it’s insane how almost every detail in the game’s levels feel like they’re verbatim told from battlefield reports and includes very niche and specific events, people, and locations like Purple Heart Lane with Colonel Robert Cole and the destroyed tanks at Deadman’s Corner
This is a classic
Actually in the Black Cat mission, you can save several more with different dialogue depending on how well you did.
Looking back on it, I think WAW is the reason I don’t enjoy Zombies personally, I like the idea and how they introduced it was cool but I think how they introduced it also gave me some slight trauma as a kid because it scared the crap out of me because I used to only play COD for the campaigns and the occasional local games with friends, but I haven’t ever really been able to get into zombies because back then I didn’t really understand it or what I was supposed to do cuz I thought you could beat the mode on top of it scaring me, I think has caused me to look at COD zombies with a subconscious negative bias
Fun(?) fact: some of the enemies in the level "Burn 'em Out" say "api" and "panas" which mean fire and hot in Indonesian. Make of that what you will.
Ah yes where my cod journey began in 2008 , what a great game even today
WaW did right what later CoDs would get so sooo wrong.
WaW made you an average solider.
Not a spec ops super cool badass with 15 different skins to unlock and a backstory paragraph that you can read while watching a character video.
It made it feel more grounded.
It made it feel so much better when you beat that mission, cause it was just you and some other guys who would have been working on construction sites probably 3 years ago
For the pt boat section on veteran I got at least 7 or 8 people but even now maybe I got ptsd but I can still hear all the cries for help with me knowing I couldn’t save any more then 7-8
Yeah highest I got was 8-10 and I agree I still hear the yells of the sailors, and pilots saying shoot the fucking PT BOATS
I love this game the ending when it told you how many people died in ww2 set me down a path I needed to understand more and how something like ww2 happed. As a result I have read more history, philosophy, and psychology than anyone should for how old I am (26). And I am so thankful for it this game is one of the reasons I am who I am today.
The game came out when I was a sophmore learning about WW2, it was crazy learning about stuff then going home to burn all the axis soldiers with a flame thrower. And then go back to school and get written up for saying "burnin the japs sarge" when asked what you did that night. The game pulled no punches and CoD has yet to deliver on a game this intense. BlackOps was great too.
18:10 the fact that you kept trying to shoot them just strengthens what you say after (ding) 😂
I love how they don't shy away from the war crimes of both the axis and the allies.
World at war was my first CoD and the first time i really sat in with a shooter that had a solid plot. Every death managed to hit me like a truck and seeing all the horrible attrocities of war definitly gave me a very different perspective on war as opposed to my friends who started with modern warfare
2024, veteran, history buff, and occasional gamer. I just purchased this game based on your review. Thanks!
I am learning to be a game Dev so these videos help me know what gamers like, also as a gamer myself I just love these videos
Metal might be anachronistic but i think it fits WW2 especially well as a sound its inhuman, metallic and brutal thats the connective tissue that makes it work
If you want to play a game similar in it's realism, regarding about showing what WWII was like and not glorifying it, I would recommend 'Valiant Hearts'. Very different in gameplay but it's storytelling is just as good. Like showing the 'other side', not shying away, not romanticising it, ...
(also, it's 'Reichsadler', not '...alder'. Like Adler from Cold War. But I may have a slight advantage there, as I'm austrian ^^. Great pronounciation with the other german words though)
The asylum scream noise still gives me goosebumps to this day when I hear it
The ending of World at War is one that is sobering and powerful, leaving you with nothing but a bad taste in your mouth. No other game set in the Second World War had the balls to hit you that hard and it’s an honest to god shame.
Caring about history and accuracy is important, yes. Treyarch did their homework, but they don't get an A. They even made a mistake in that opening graphic, talking about 'Indochina 1937' when they meant Japan's war with China beginning in 1937. Japan occupied Indochina (a French colony of modern day Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) in 1940, which was also mentioned in the graphic.
It also implies Kamikaze were being used as early as 1942, or at the very least at Pelilu in September 1944 - they were not used until October 1944.
One thing about the menu music that just makes it that much more haunting is the translation. In German, the singer is saying "Good soldier, good soldier, die with me, die with me, die with me.". Knowing the translation just makes it hit so much harder for me for some reason.
The nuked were bad but they ultimately saved more lives than they took. A massive invasion of Japan had been in planning but death toll estimates placed the total number of deaths up to at least one million
Veteran in this game was hell but I loved it. By the end I cried tears of joy and to this day my brother still jokes about my rage with the grenades.
You Forgot the enemy uniform change. When you reach Shuri castle some Japanese soldiers start having glasses or have what I assume are officer caps, I think it's that they are getting desperate and are putting up rear-echelon troops to combat. And as you move closer to the Reichstag the german ai uniforms start to change from Wehrmacht defending outside to more ss troops inside. And they have wounded germans with bandages on fighting inside the Reichstag. Really great detail they made for the sake of immersion.
What I love about the Black Cat mission, you don't save only just two men, you can save more than that, like with my playthrough, I saved five guys, which I guess helps the game reflect the speed of reflexes and the choices made of soldiers during the war
I tried to save as many men as I can, but the DAMN PT BOAT always killed me. So I only save 2 Men in that mission, maybe I tried later.
8 yr old me really went through the Russian missions shooting POW’s without a second thought
Axis army when you select veteran mode:
"Each of you will be issued 50 grenades."
I’ve only come across a few of your videos, most of them being COD, but I must say you are such a good creator! So much of the details you mention in these videos are either exact sentiments that my friends and I have stated about these games, and the way you really pay attention to the smallest things about each of these games tells me you know what you’re talking about and truly believe what you’re saying. Long story short: you’re earned a new sub and I can’t wait to dig through your catalog and see the rest of your content! Keep up the great work!
Fun fact: Fat Boy and Little Boy were detonated in midair when they were dropped, so no permanent fallout was left.
On black cats, you can actually save more than two. I think you can save 1 to 6 depending on how quickly you take out strafing planes and enemy boats, and there are different lines depending on how many you rescue. I don't know what happens if you just rescue none.
this game was and always will be one of my favorites that i can quote line for line even today, from fighting on so many battlefields of WW2, to Nazi zombies, and the rush i felt finally beating veteran and getting that illusive platinum trophy, this game for me is a masterpiece. Its such a shame that this game will probably never get a remaster and that the games current MP is full of cheaters and hackers and treyarch never touches there older games. Call of Duty World at War taught me about real historical events without any BS filters, and in this time were pepole have to be safe and protected from the reality of history, im glad this game is still remembered as something special.
I want to learn game development to realise a historically accurate WW2 shooter.
My grandfather and I always played this together when I was younger.
CoD WaW was the first game I 100% the achievements on. Campaign, Multiplayer, to Zombies, this game is part of the golden era of Call of Duty.
Funnily enough got an ad with Kiefer Sutherland halfway through this video - odd hearing Roebuck doing promotion!
Another win. that Djent tone that chimes in when battle is HEATED
Been playing through WAW a lot recently, and honestly, it’s aged better than basically any of the other CoD games, aside from Downfall crashing the game when I tried to start it. I think it’s the best of the “Modern” CoDs, and honestly, along with CoD 2, is probably my favorite of the series. Also, running around with a Bayonetted Arisaka and shanking everyone I could was probably the most fun I’ve had in any CoD game.