Call of duty was a revolutionary game back then and spawned a series of clones left and right until they stopped being creative at all since modern warfare. Its the same game every year kept alive just by mindless consumers.
@@Kiskaa- that game has the most bland story, characters I've ever seen. The most generic characters that feels like they are pretending to be soldiers, brother and whole lot of nothing.
COD1 has it's downs and when you play it nowadays you can see how small the scale actually is and how the game's level design and enemy placements trick you into feeling like it's a major battle for life and death, but it's all so inventive and ambitious that it honestly also holds up better than plenty of modern FPS campaigns that don't even try to trick you into feeling scared.
Still revisit this game and some other WW2 shooters from my childhood every now and then but i like MoH:AA and Cod 2 more, the soviet campaign is really good though. I hope you guys make a Cod 2 review!
I think it needs to be said the cinematic set peices with troops walking and patrolling were pretty revolutionary for the time. Call of duties biggest competitor was medal of honor which comparing the 2 you can see why call of duty took off.
Call Of Duty 1 and United Offensive are good, but I definitely perfer the Medal Of Honor series over it. Well, at least all the titles from MOH 1999 to Frontline.
Does this game still work on Windows 10? Is there any place I could buy it digitally. Sorry, not much of a PC gamer and could only find disc copies on Google.
Thanks for releasing my inner pirate again. After seeing this got the itch again but still 20 dollars on steam is just a joke. Same as their 50 dollar price tag for blops 2 base edition.
I'm in love-hate relationship with cod games. I love CoD1 with UO addon, i really like Finest Hours, i like CoD2, love Big Red One and 3rd is probably my favourite of them all. I get why people liked Modern Warfare but for me this was the start of "Way too scripted" era, and famous first part of chernobyl scene was for me like watching cutscene with no room for gameplay. The worst one was Black Ops - this was so badly scripted i couldn't immerse myself even though i forced myself to beat it three times, because overall style and atmosphere was the best i've ever seen in fps apart from og half life and Stalker. Guess after MW 2007 the only campaign that i really enjoyed was much more open Ghosts with strong B movie vibes, but it wasn't nearly as good as these pre MW titles. I had to add - i'm talking about single player, not multi which can be really awesome in games post MW, even for single player because of decend bots in Black Ops 1/2 or amazing bots in Ghosts and Advanced Warfare. I have to add that the hate part, comes from the fact that i hate some of modern campaigns, i don't enjoy this heavy scripting at all.
Sorry, but no, even when it came out the graphics were inferior to Medal of Honor: Allied Assault from a year prior. (Compare the explosion effect, for instance). Except for the water effects which are much better in CoD, but overall the game was just much lower budget, as it was then a new studio with their first release, as opposed to bigger names that had a proven record.
I remember playing this on my cousins PC back in the day and the sound effects in the game sounding so real and intense. I ended up getting the first cod (finest hour) for the original Xbox and not understanding why the game felt and sounded completely different.
I finished CoD for the very first time just a few days ago, and i very much prefer MoH: Allied Assault. CoD has some downright bad levels, some real stinkers. The dam and chateau come to mind. Too many levels are just too damn linear and monotonous and very much not cinematic at all. I can see why later games started to rely on flashy, superficial set pieces. It's really just a shooting gallery in large parts, a light gun shooter. The laughable flood of enemies in later levels is also insane and inappropriate and got on my nerves at some point. The occupied sniper building in Stalingrad on hard mode took the cake as being the most annoying level of the whole game. I guess at least it allowed for some maneuvering. MoH is also very linear, but its pacing is way better, a proper shift between loud and quiet levels, which makes a world of difference. CoD also pretty much only gives you three weapons: Rifle, Rifle with scope and fully automatic gun. Everything else is either useless (pistol) or is just another skin of the same weapon. At least you get a shotgun and silenced pistol in MoH as well in a few levels. MoH isn't a great game either, as it lacks the complexities of great fps that stem from weapon and enemy variety as well as open level design. But it's dumb fun. I'm only comparing the base games as that is all i've ever played.
Please don't forget to cover Call of Duty: Finest Hour (2004) Call of Duty 2 (2005) Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (2005) Call of Duty 3 (2006) Call of Duty: Roads to Victory (2007) Call of Duty World at War (2008) Call of Duty World at War - Final Fronts (2008) PS2 Exclusive Other Call of duty games are overrated.
Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Black Ops were really good though, just as good if not better than all the titles in your list. The only bad title in your list is World At War - Final Fronts. Would I like to see Gaming Pastime do a review of it? Yes. But I doubt he would have many positive things about it.
@@BullworthGraduate my favourites are 5.Cod 2 4.Cod Black ops 3.Cod 4 2. Cod Waw 1. Cod 1. Lots of people are unware of WW2 spin offs. Yes waw final fronts is the worst one, but many people don't know about that one. It's strange to me, first cod for many people was cod 4, but from place where I am from, many people started with Cod 1, becouse of that I always relate cod series to ww2 and the first COD will be the best one to me.
The first Call of Duty is just a rehash of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, but unlike its predecessor, the levels are bland, uninteresting, unoriginal, and totally forgettable. The promise in the marketing for the game was, "Nobody fights alone!" but in reality half the game still has you lone wolfing missions, and even when you're with allies, they're totally useless 9 times out of 10. The only good part of the game is in the beginning of the third act, the Russian campaign. That's the only part with any real polish that leaves a lasting impact. The rest of the game is just typical, mindless FPS fare. It is average at best and mediocre at worst.
Still playing CoD deathmatch via LAN with my daughter nearly every weekend.
The original cod games are so good they are actually better that some of the newer ones in my opinion
They're certainly better than CoD WW2
Call of duty was a revolutionary game back then and spawned a series of clones left and right until they stopped being creative at all since modern warfare. Its the same game every year kept alive just by mindless consumers.
@@Kiskaa- that game has the most bland story, characters I've ever seen. The most generic characters that feels like they are pretending to be soldiers, brother and whole lot of nothing.
COD1 has it's downs and when you play it nowadays you can see how small the scale actually is and how the game's level design and enemy placements trick you into feeling like it's a major battle for life and death, but it's all so inventive and ambitious that it honestly also holds up better than plenty of modern FPS campaigns that don't even try to trick you into feeling scared.
1 n 2 r best
The ending of the original Call of Duty always brought me to tears. Miss when the series had a message, over the modern day sequel-baits.
Call of Duty: United Offensive and Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. The greatest rivalry that the WW2 shooter genre has ever known.
Kids these days grew up with Makarov, Ghost, Cpt. Price etc...
But the real legends grew up with Cpt. Foley and Sgt. Moody
Well, Capt Price was there too...
@@krishm16 That's not the same Cpt. Price
@@zorgapb4691 Sure.. It's his grandfather..
Remember Major Ingram ?
@@SilverShadoww Indeed. Together with Sgt. Watters
The first Call of Duty, and the absolute best!
Cod 4 mw change my mind
i agree.
Grew up playing this. For some reason as a kid i loved playing the pegasus bridge a lot
the ending music is fantastic. But whole mission very hard at the same time
Can you read my mind? I just started playing this expansion for the first time a few days ago!
OG COD FTW
I love cod 1, 2 and waw. These games were the first to make me go wow this is this coolest shit.
I played COD1 on Steam a while back. Never bothered with United Front and still need to play COD2.
Still the GOAT of the Call of Duty Franchise.
I bought this a few months ago for the first time and have been loving it so far!
i remember liking this COD the best, but honestly, it just makes me want to play Return to Castle Wolfenstein, a much better game.
Great review!! Great game!!
This reminds me of my service in the second world war during 43
Wow. How old are you now?
I wish I could believe you.
@Hans since he isn't replying, it most likely is
@@zorgapb4691 100
Still revisit this game and some other WW2 shooters from my childhood every now and then but i like MoH:AA and Cod 2 more, the soviet campaign is really good though. I hope you guys make a Cod 2 review!
God I remember this expansion.....amazing stuff.
I think it needs to be said the cinematic set peices with troops walking and patrolling were pretty revolutionary for the time. Call of duties biggest competitor was medal of honor which comparing the 2 you can see why call of duty took off.
Still play this 2
Still my favorite ❤️
Also it literally stole the opening scene from Enemy at the gates....the part where Jude Law is in the fountain.
Hope you review Call of Duty: Big Red One! My favorite of the "classic" games!
Still the best after all these years!!
Call Of Duty 1 and United Offensive are good, but I definitely perfer the Medal Of Honor series over it. Well, at least all the titles from MOH 1999 to Frontline.
Again so good content!
Does this game still work on Windows 10? Is there any place I could buy it digitally. Sorry, not much of a PC gamer and could only find disc copies on Google.
I was hoping to see some mods for COD like the back to fronts mod for COD 2.
Ever played operation flashpoint: dragon rising?
I have been looking for a decent ww2 game and this will be my first Call of duty video game I hope its good
Unfortunately, Call of Duty classic no longer works or is available on any of the Xbox or Playstation consoles now
I just replayed this a few weeks ago :)
Please review Stalker + mods!
Nice I was just playing this game!
Thanks for the great review. You should play a game called freedom fighters....
Thanks for releasing my inner pirate again. After seeing this got the itch again but still 20 dollars on steam is just a joke. Same as their 50 dollar price tag for blops 2 base edition.
I'm in love-hate relationship with cod games. I love CoD1 with UO addon, i really like Finest Hours, i like CoD2, love Big Red One and 3rd is probably my favourite of them all. I get why people liked Modern Warfare but for me this was the start of "Way too scripted" era, and famous first part of chernobyl scene was for me like watching cutscene with no room for gameplay. The worst one was Black Ops - this was so badly scripted i couldn't immerse myself even though i forced myself to beat it three times, because overall style and atmosphere was the best i've ever seen in fps apart from og half life and Stalker. Guess after MW 2007 the only campaign that i really enjoyed was much more open Ghosts with strong B movie vibes, but it wasn't nearly as good as these pre MW titles. I had to add - i'm talking about single player, not multi which can be really awesome in games post MW, even for single player because of decend bots in Black Ops 1/2 or amazing bots in Ghosts and Advanced Warfare.
I have to add that the hate part, comes from the fact that i hate some of modern campaigns, i don't enjoy this heavy scripting at all.
My fav cod
you can lean with Q and E
For me the very best Call of Duty!!!
At lest thiss doesn't have cut scenes that takes you away from the moment make you watch a movie
Sorry, but no, even when it came out the graphics were inferior to Medal of Honor: Allied Assault from a year prior. (Compare the explosion effect, for instance). Except for the water effects which are much better in CoD, but overall the game was just much lower budget, as it was then a new studio with their first release, as opposed to bigger names that had a proven record.
This game was hell on Veteran.
Yeah, unfair hitscan BS, like every other CoD on Veteran.
I remember playing this on my cousins PC back in the day and the sound effects in the game sounding so real and intense. I ended up getting the first cod (finest hour) for the original Xbox and not understanding why the game felt and sounded completely different.
The A.I.’s were good tho.
I finished CoD for the very first time just a few days ago, and i very much prefer MoH: Allied Assault. CoD has some downright bad levels, some real stinkers. The dam and chateau come to mind. Too many levels are just too damn linear and monotonous and very much not cinematic at all. I can see why later games started to rely on flashy, superficial set pieces. It's really just a shooting gallery in large parts, a light gun shooter. The laughable flood of enemies in later levels is also insane and inappropriate and got on my nerves at some point. The occupied sniper building in Stalingrad on hard mode took the cake as being the most annoying level of the whole game. I guess at least it allowed for some maneuvering.
MoH is also very linear, but its pacing is way better, a proper shift between loud and quiet levels, which makes a world of difference. CoD also pretty much only gives you three weapons: Rifle, Rifle with scope and fully automatic gun. Everything else is either useless (pistol) or is just another skin of the same weapon. At least you get a shotgun and silenced pistol in MoH as well in a few levels. MoH isn't a great game either, as it lacks the complexities of great fps that stem from weapon and enemy variety as well as open level design. But it's dumb fun.
I'm only comparing the base games as that is all i've ever played.
You could lean in this game..
Please don't forget to cover
Call of Duty: Finest Hour (2004)
Call of Duty 2 (2005)
Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (2005)
Call of Duty 3 (2006)
Call of Duty: Roads to Victory (2007)
Call of Duty World at War (2008)
Call of Duty World at War - Final Fronts (2008) PS2 Exclusive
Other Call of duty games are overrated.
Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Black Ops were really good though, just as good if not better than all the titles in your list. The only bad title in your list is World At War - Final Fronts. Would I like to see Gaming Pastime do a review of it? Yes. But I doubt he would have many positive things about it.
@@BullworthGraduate my favourites are 5.Cod 2 4.Cod Black ops 3.Cod 4 2. Cod Waw 1. Cod 1. Lots of people are unware of WW2 spin offs. Yes waw final fronts is the worst one, but many people don't know about that one. It's strange to me, first cod for many people was cod 4, but from place where I am from, many people started with Cod 1, becouse of that I always relate cod series to ww2 and the first COD will be the best one to me.
ridiculous that its still 20 bucks on steam god i hate activision
The first Call of Duty is just a rehash of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, but unlike its predecessor, the levels are bland, uninteresting, unoriginal, and totally forgettable. The promise in the marketing for the game was, "Nobody fights alone!" but in reality half the game still has you lone wolfing missions, and even when you're with allies, they're totally useless 9 times out of 10.
The only good part of the game is in the beginning of the third act, the Russian campaign. That's the only part with any real polish that leaves a lasting impact. The rest of the game is just typical, mindless FPS fare. It is average at best and mediocre at worst.