Reviewing The Last Great WWII FPS
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- Call of Duty: World at War is probably the last great WWII FPS. With Call of Duty Vanguard now released, I thought, what better time to check out the fan favorite of the time period? And yeah, it's still good.
/ syntheticman
#CallofDuty #Vanguard
0:00 Intro
2:25 My Experience with this Game & Multiplayer
4:27 What Makes this COD different?
7:39 Dismemberment
9:23 Gunplay
11:55 Level Design & Story
17:07 Veteran Difficulty
19:09 Zombies
23:28 Conclusion - Ігри
Man, remember when AAA games weren't absolute soulless, corporate cash vampires?
I sometimes feel like we need another crash of 83...
I'm afraid that today there are too many sheep who buy anything without thinking about it to make it happen.
Global or only in the U.S?
Fucking normies and sjw woketards ruin everything.
Almost every form of media is ruined nowadays. Movies, books, games, comics...
Would have had that crash had Obama not bailed out the banks at a time when Wells was found double dipping and housing scandals were prevalent and people are now crying about supply chain , a problem the 80's forecasted while selling full steam. I apologize for the rant but I feel ya man.
@@leonardo5941 I dunno, books seem pretty untouchable. Helps that the kind of fuckwits who raise a stink about these things are generally not the type of person who reads, and more the sycophantic trend-chasing, social media addicted cretin.
One of my greatest accomplishments was completing this game on Veteran difficulty. It was incredibly tough.
Endless grenades falling around you every second.
That first part where you storm the reichstag was prolly the toughest part allround, though id say some of the japanese levels were hard too (mainly due to the type99 doing pretty much instagib tiers of damage and ALL the japanese instantly home in on you, the player, like terminators)
Artificial difficulty at it's finest. One time a grenade came from behind me when there was no one there to throw it
the push up the steps of the Reichstag during Heart of the Reich was insurmountable wall for me for *nine years* I barely finished the game on veteran last month
@@gamerskater17 a true warrior, i salute you
I beat MW2 in veteran in less than a day.
WaW in veteran took me like a week.
It took me a good month to beat WaW on veteran, and I started doing MW2 on veteran thinking it would be just as difficult, just to be confused when I beat it in like a day
@@jaffa3717 Only mission in which I spent a few hours stuck at was the first one in Brazil.
After that the rest of the campaign was not particulary hard
both were a pain in the ass for me, guess i just suck
@@bananagun6598 If you have the patience to beat WaW on veteran at all, then you don't suck
@@jaffa3717 i still died like 100 times tho
The real war footage showed straight up executions and hangings it was nuts. No game will ever again will shove down your throat how horrible war is like that.
in MW 2019 they showed russians hanging people in the middle east (in game not footage tho) and stuff like that
@@Krondon-SSR even though in real life Russians were trying to stop that. It’s kinda funny too how they had the highway of death in the game even though Americans were the cause of it
@@smoldoggy1005 well yeah that was just bad propaganda (the highway level)
@@Krondon-SSR Yeah I don’t really understand why we decided to just kill almost the entire invading Iraqi force in like 4 hours when we’re supposed to be better than them
@@smoldoggy1005 they were retreating/surrendering tho... or something like that
WAW: A realistic and brutal depiction of war on the eastern front and the pacific from the Soviet and US perspectives
Vanguard: "Ayo we wuz allies n shiet"
"we wuz My Team and we'z now fightin Enemy Team"
Muh repa-ray-shuns n shiet
@@CommissarChaotic Lmao
Lol
Played vanguard MP, they dont even have german characters. Its literally, lesbian resistance members that I thought were german due to their uniform. And also like, a shitton of Russian females
And you know whatever in a Mp game females dont really annoy me, but i do think its kinda out of place to put a lesbians sexuality into their bio, like why not do it for every other character. Why is there no, he has a GF, or she has a husband?
Its just the one Character that has, “she fell in love with her”
Like i said its not infront of you, but its still kinda weird, especially from activision. The same company that uh, has the CEO doing stuff.
I remember some other UA-camr claiming that the way the Japanese Army and Navy were depicted in this game was racist, but according to pretty much all available info they were a highly brutal, expansionist force that committed heinous war crimes at nearly every opportunity. So I'd say that this game toned it down if anything.
You are right indeed.. The Japanese in the game were brutal enough. They'd have to make a whole new rating to surpass M to show everything else. I would 100% buy a game that shows the warcrimes. PTSD here I come.
@@sponge5196 You my friend are in luck. Right now I have a dream to one day create the most ambitious WWII game ever made, showing history EXACTLY as it is, totally unsanitized and apolitical, with the sole intention of making the player feel so uncomfortable because of how immersive the experience will be, that they will finish the game feeling an incredible emotional connection to their history and a much fonder appreciation to the sacrifices of real men afterwards. The biggest fault of modern history being taught in schools is that kids are being raised up on the propagandized, sanitized version of history where they’re regurgitating information with no actual emotional understanding of just how awful it is, how it affects us right now, and why we must learn from it. Because students have no emotional connection to the history, they’re the people most inclined to repeat it. Just look at our modern Nazis right now supporting these covid mandates, while calling everyone else bad people. I want the player to FEEL something, and above all I want the game to cover the entire war from start to finish, from the Japanese invasion of China all the way to the nuking of Japan. I’m gonna make it happen someway. Wish me luck!
@austin wool The kid has obviously been brainwashed
What youtuber?
@@the_snoo_muffin9028 Noah Calwell-Gervais I think.
the way how the soundtrack just fits in on levels, you get a typical orchestra at the start then suddenly when the action kicks in, heavy metal just starts playing, pushing you do overdrive as you mercilessly murder every enemy you see
This game was an absolute masterpiece.
yur a trooper. I couldn't I gave up near the end on the mission with the waterfall when your carrying a browning. maybe I should give it another try
World At War will always be my favourite Call Of Duty game. The hit detection was ass but there was something about the gunplay that was so satisfying. It had some brilliant maps too. Charging the Reichstag with Reznov and hoisting the red flag over Berlin has to be the best ending to a campaign in the history of the franchise too.
I've never been a huge cod fan but damn world at war was just so good, I used to play the campaign so much with my buddy.
The music in the game was really good too
It's still a chef's kiss
As long as he lives the heart of this army cannot be broken - Reznov
Once Dmitri died the whole series went to shit
The Reichstag was also one of the hardest on Veteran, holy shat. The thrill of beating them back inside while Reznov makes fun of them is a thrill I haven't really gotten out of a game since.
"The Russian Sniper Chick is gonna kill Hitler herself."
Well, you weren't too far off.
The fact that writing in games is so predictable now that he could just throw that out there and be right is scary.
@@DoDPUB and still they earn tons of money, so why should they care about quality?
Society should make a statue for the guy that killed hitler.
@@morisco56 😬
@@morisco56 hol up...
This game's Veteran difficulty made me cry as a child. The difficulty was so intense it just felt overlooked by the developers. Looking back I'm so glad I did it. It still feels like a major accomplishment.
Gameplay wise I still think WaW has better gameplay mechanics than the newer Cods. It just feels smoother. In newer cods there's always too many things on the screen too much shaking and a lot of robotic animations that just feel stiff.
WAWs menu screen music sets the tone for the entire game. It's dark. Spooky. And sinister.
WAW shows the brutality of WW2. You can literally commit war crimes.
There's racist comments. (EDIT) there's no censored swastika. You can see people's flesh burn off via flamethrower. The campaign itself was actually very grounded and had very little OMgurd BIG splosions like every new cod. It took the conflict seriously. It showed actual WW2 footage. It teaches a bit of history. And at the end of the campaign we got to see Nazi zombies. Yes you red that right. NAZI zombies. Not just zombies to appease the woke crowd. (EDIT end) WAW literally could not be made today. Therefore imo it is not only the darkest cod but the only cod that deserves the M rating. And as such is the best cod.
EDIT: didn't expect to get so many thumbs up so I'll add other things that were generally liked by the player base above.
Dont forget all the Hitler footage and audio
WAW was HC
It still amazes me how people are so offended by history now.
@@codycoyote545 imagine making a WW2 game and dont want to offend anyone
@@Pointman11111 Just about impossible.
@@codycoyote545 They’re the exact group of people repeating our history right now
Seeing this video makes me realise... all of the latest WWII shooters are now always multiplayers, some good, some not that good, but it makes me miss old WWII shooters with an actual campaign and all that. Single player is still a thing, but apparently it's being forgotten more and more lately :c
Exactly, I miss getting great single player focused FPS games.
*The main theme (Operation Market Garden) of Medal of Honor Frontline starts playing in my head.*
While EA may have tried (and failed) to bring back Medal of Honor, it really dropped the ball in Warfighter almost a decade ago now. But, CoD is most known for being an arena shooter, Battlefield known for it's big maps... meanwhile, what was MoH known for? It's singleplayer. The problem I see is the current market is hyper-focused on multiplayer and the spectator sport side of games. With that said, I must say, the singleplayer of Battlefield 1 hits that niche I feel when I use to play Medal of Honor.
Edit: Speaking of which, does anyone know if Above and Beyond was any good?
@@Practitioner_of_Diogenes Yeah, MoH was amazing, especially Frontline and Allied Assault; their campaigns are among the best.
And, no, Above and Beyond was... well, not good, not good at all...
@@Practitioner_of_Diogenes tbh the best part of all COD games are the Campaign don't pretend MW2,MW3,COD1-3,COD 4,WaW,MW,BO1,BOCW,BO2,MW19 and Infinite Warfare don't have Campaign at all.
@@ChandranPrema123 I don't, honestly. But most people either don't care about the singleplayer or don't even bother with it when it comes to CoD.
Are there people that care? Of course there is; I'm not going to spread a lie that no one cares about the singleplayer/campaign of CoD games.
My dream WWII FPS game is just one that would implement a "no Yanks, no Brits, no Ruskies" rule, where you just play a protagonist that isn't any of these. There are easily thousands of real stories you could portray even with this rule. A Finnish sniper in the Winter War, a Spanish republican fighter, a pre-Vichy French soldier, a Chinese nationalist soldier, literally no need to make any of these up.
Even without the rule you can try playing a Japanese-American fighting in Italy, Indian soldiers in the British army, a Mongolian horseman at the Battle of Khalkhin Gol. I am not convinced there are no interesting ways to portrays these scenarios compared to the thousands of iterations of the Battle of Stalingrad (where you can play an Italian or Romanian soldier defending the flanks of the German 6th Army)
I think a full commitment to exploring these areas rather than some half-hearted attempts would add new life to the WWII shooter genre.
Also playing AS the enemy is a concept which is interesting, yet many people look down upon it
You my friend are in luck. I have a dream to one day create the most ambitious WWII game ever made, showing history EXACTLY as it is, totally unsanitized and apolitical, with the sole intention of making the player feel so uncomfortable because of how immersive the experience will be, that they will finish the game feeling an incredible emotional connection to their history and a much fonder appreciation to the sacrifices of real men afterwards. The biggest fault of modern history being taught in schools is that kids are being raised up on the propagandized, sanitized version of history where they’re regurgitating information with no actual emotional understanding of just how awful history is, how it affects us right now, and why we must learn from it. Because students have no emotional connection to the history, they’re the people most inclined to repeat it. Just look at our modern Nazis right now supporting these covid mandates, while calling everyone else bad people. I want the player to FEEL something, and above all I want the game to cover the entire war from start to finish, from the Japanese invasion of China all the way to the nuking of Japan. I’m gonna make it happen someway. Wish me luck!
@@thatperformer3879 I have an idea that is a bit counter-intuitive for an FPS and that is to highlight the non-combatants of the war. They aren't as glamorous and it can seem divorced by the horrors of war, but their impact on the battlefield should not be neglected.
I can foresee certain interesting gameplay like using codes to conceal bombardment locations by playing a Navajo codetalker or an Enigma codebreaker to decode them. Maybe you can be a combat medic or a civilian, more radically a truck driver for soldiers or a woman producing arms.
This could translate to multiplayer where resource production have a direct impact on the ability to fight. People can only use weapons that their side has produced or captured, farms must be productive or troops will have serious debuffs from malnutrition, and oil fields are necessary for producing tank, trucks, and planes. Some players may be assigned to oversee the production side to maximize the ability for their team to win while others fight with what they have. Winning may involve capturing or destroying the enemy's resources in the map, which might look like an FPS version of Company of Heroes or Hearts of Iron.
I mean shit, not just protagonists. Being a kenyan soldier in the SS Afrikaner (look it up) would be cool. Or instead of the a german soldier, playing as a belgian volunteer or czech/polish conscript would be cool as well
Battlefield V kinda did that. The campaign wasn't super long, but you played as a French Marquis, a Finnish resistance fighter, and a German Tiger commander. The only usual suspect that had a role was the Brits, and you played as an SBS recruit in that.
I’m currently writing a WW2 story that has the same dark tone as World at War set on the Eastern Front. It’s a mix between this game and the current Wolfenstein games, but the tone and brutality of the war is there. With COD WW2 and Vanguard missing this aspect, I thought "fine…I’ll do it myself."
I'm making a story in the same vain as that Overlord movie (the one with Nazi experiments and zombies) but with Unit 731 instead.
@@DakotaofRaptors oh shit, that sounds scary
@@creepyguy9082 imagine spider-like humanoids with mismatched limbs chasing you through a dark corridor
@@DakotaofRaptors damn, that’s a story I want to read
Hell yeah, get it done!
The black ops trilogy is honestly the highpoint of COD single player.
Oh and in case you were confused the trilogy is
World at War
Black Ops 1
Black Ops 2.
bo3 had fantastic zombies I personally wouldnt leave it out
@@d0m0b40 BO3 is a great game, but I would honestly consider it separate from the Black Ops franchise. Only thing that follows the previous games is Zombies, Dead Ops Arcade 2, and a few weapons (some of which are completely broken) that you could only get from supply drops.
COD4
MW2
MW3
Yeah the BO3 campaign lacks something, like it's well crafted but it's hard to be invested when a lot of it's crucial story elements are told in text that you can't actually see. That being said Bo3s multiplayer is the only cod multiplayer I've liked since Bo1 and I haven't liked any since. Bo3 zombies is also by far the best iteration with the most maps including a lot of older maps into the mix.
@@d0m0b40 I said singleplayer
Veteran difficulty in that game was hell. I needed to roleplay as an actual soldier who pissed himself getting suppressed by mg42s, ignored the world for 4 hours a day just to finish a stage, not even two. Skipped meals, distracted in class for thinking about how to get pass the bunker part, yeet myself home right after school bell rang. But I was satisfied.
So much grenade spam
Modern cod fans wouldn't stand a chance
Took me 2 weeks for veteran alone
I had to the game a break after getting frustrated many times. I would also be distracted at school thinking about it hahaa… Good times.
Thanks to Veteran difficulty I still have flashbacks.
I would rather be fighting in Vietnam or something in real life than running before never-ending grenade spam.
Vanguard is so sanitised to the point where the factions are My team and Enemy team not even axis or allies
That’s cause they are too cucked to make Axis operators in multiplayer. Basically the battle pass totally screwed them over and it made them go “oh shit, we have to make axis operators don’t we?” So instead they removed axis altogether.
WaW was also the only COD that i remember having co-op campaign, and that made it even more fun. WaW MW2 and Blk ops 1 are my favorites of the series
This game is fucking awesome man, I played the campaign and it’s like
‘Holy shit’ the music, the atmosphere, the battlefields.
It fucking got B A L L S to portray WW2 as it is , and it created the black ops storyline.
So yeah 10/10
there's so much memorable stuff you can point out in the campaign alone, really shows how great it is
I have a dream to one day create a WWII game just like this that has a heavy narrative focus on the actual history and just how brutal it was like WaW portrays, with the intention of helping the player learn an actual valuable applicable lesson from history. Instead of just reading about in a textbook with no emotional connection to it. My direct inspiration to create it comes after the disastrously woke Battlefield V reveal trailer. Wish me luck, I want to make a true to life historical experience never before seen!
@@thatperformer3879 good for you mate, good luck
The act man
You can do it!
Medal of Honor: Airborne is probably one of the most underrated WW2 shooters out there, the fact that EA (believe it or not they were decent developers at one point in time) made each mission playable from a different starting position was very ambitious for the time, every mission had you parachute on the map with complete freedom on how you want to approach invidual objectives. And on top of that the game rewarded the player for every kill by improving the weapons (adding bayonets, drum magazines, scopes, etc.) to encourage tinkering with different loadouts in every playthrough. probably one of the most replayable non-linear WW2 shooters of the 2000s.
I still play that game to this day.
If I can recall I remember MOH Airbone being my first FPS back when I was in like 5th or 6th grade, good times😌
I miss that game
Not to mention the fact that the mechanics and features gave you an unprecedented degree of control and abilities for your character. I personally haven't heard of any other game that's even come close to it in this regard.
I still play this game as well. I dislike the armored mecha nazis with machine guns. And that you can't remove gun upgrades. But otherwise, it's a great game.
I was a Black Ops fanboy. Specifically 1 & 2. I barely even heard of World At War. I heard some good things and one day, many years later, I get the chance to play it and it is beautiful. Gave me the same feel of campaign as Black Ops 1, and the last stretch of the campaign felt like a victory for me, not just the character I was playing as. Felt like a hero.
One of the worst parts of Vanguard campaign (have only seen footage, not played) is on a death screen you get to see a horrible fictional quote from the fictional characters created for the campaign. You don't get to see some great quote from the actual era itself, but a fake quote from a non-existent character that makes no sense other than "sounds kewl, sounds hip, maybe the kids'll like it".
This game motivated me so much, from joining the military to collecting ww2 firearms. Now finishing my 6 years of USMC and collecting the following rifles: M1A (M14) civilian, M1 Garand, Springfield 1903a3, and Springfield 1903A4 sniper variant.
This game deserves not just a rework but the respect it gave and presented.
Which is why it pisses me off that it hasn't been remastered yet. CoD4 got its remaster 9 years after it's release. 13 years later and still nothing like that for WaW
@@venturatheace1 because it’s not appropriate for the modern mindset, political agenda, it doesn’t fit the whole culture, the critical race theory, it’s hurtful, it reveals the dark side of war, it’s considered too brutal for the modern mind to handle.
@@ryuhadouken2722 did a bullet hit you in the head and caused you a lobotomy?
Because that may be one of the most stupid things I have ever read in this website
@Eclipze I’ll take that any day what the garbage we have today. If you want historically accurate storm troopers of the German army carried bundles of grenades max load out was roughly 6-8 potato’s mash grenades. And that’s one storm trooper out of a fire team consisting of 4 guys out of a squad of 16 or more. Including a platoon into a company of 300 men.
@Eclipze to answer your nazi zombies cloning research was done in the reich during that time. Might as well could have been a zombie army, if you want a definition of zombie majority of the population fell under propaganda of German pride. Leading to clouded minds and strong beliefs of their own cult. Sounds strangely familiar to what’s happening todays media but that’s my opinion.
No, you didn't sink to a new low, This was the last great WW2 shooter, I loved every bit of it. And zombies, omg zombies was the shit!
Edit: ok so maybe it wasn't the *Last* great WW2 shooter but it was the *Last* great Cod: WW2 shooter but yeah there aren't many good WW2 shooters with few exceptions like Hell Let Loose
Im not sure if the last great WW2 shooter, but at the very least the last Arcadey/Single player ww2 shoter yeah, i still think games like HLL and Post Scriptum respect WW2 and its veterans, but they are only multiplayer and a bit more realistic than most shooters.
@@apyr1439 it also depicted the Russians and USA as potential (bad guys) and I love it when a story tried to do thst
@@Sgt.ArchDornan Yeah, i do too, i hope we start seeing some Singleplayer WW2 shooters that dont seem to just be "Germany bad everyone else good", and some "realistic" shooters that arent only multiplayer
@@apyr1439 i agree like don't get me wrong the Allies where pretty objectively in the right
but the betraying the Germans as cardboard generic villain's and the Allies as purely Heroic good is just ridiculous a especially when you take into count that the allies did some fucked up things too
i mean the soviet Union killed more people then the Nazis and the Americans fire bombed the Japanese and built interment camps the though where no where near as bad as concentration still had some similarity's
not saying the Allies where anywhere near as bad as the genocidal maniacs in the axis (except for maybe the soviet union) but the allies hands where not clean in that war Either
@@emrysgeibhendach7572 Agreed, i dont think we can say anyone´s hands were clean during and after the war
A fantasy scifi take on WW2 could be badass if they'd stop making everything and everyone gay and lame
I finished this game on veteran some years ago. It was so difficult, I quit on "Blowtorch and Corkscrew." I came back a year later and finally beat it and the rest of the levels. The infinite respawns combined with grenade spam every time you try to take cover... I still shiver when I think of it. One of the hardest games I've ever completed 100%.
Everytime I hear "grenade spamming" I have violent flashbacks to playing COD 2 on Veteran. Holy shit that was brutal.
Grenade spamming was actually a whole lot worse in "World At War" than in "Call Of Duty 2." What made COD2 hard was that you couldn't sprint or throw grenades back, so even though there were fewer grenades thrown overall, you still died either from them or being shot by enemies while trying to run away from them.
@@NexusKin yes, exactly
Are we talking about cod 2 that was released in 2005?
@@raseli4066 Yes
Even on easy the gernade spam is REAL
Honestly Sledgehammer Games has done no actually damn research when it came to WW2 and Vanguard
The customization in Vanguard is cool sure but ridiculous since most of this crap didn't exist yet
Rifles with optic scopes? This is WW2 not the Cold War Era, African German Soldiers in a WW2? And my favorite female soldiers who didn't serve in Western or Pacific fronts
Eastern Front was different, and any female fighting in the West was a Resistance fighter
Next time Sledgehammer games says their doing a historically accurate war game I wouldn't hold my breath
Sledgehammer hasn't given us a single great CoD game. I don't give them full credit for Modern Warfare 3 as Infinity Ward and other devs were involved too.
It's not supposed to be accurate it's supposed to be fun.
@@guffingtonreal then why bother making a ww2 game? Why not just make another Modern shooter or hell another game about the Cold War Era where customized weapons were more relevant?
@@pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195 Tbf, Polina was a resistance fighter that was a Soviet medic before the occupation.
@@guffingtonreal fuck your fun ! Bastardizing history like this just opens the world to a repeat of that shit, wake up and smell the coffee ...
This game was also (probably) the first call of duty game that used real sounds for their guns which is what makes it so immersive
World at War and Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway came out in 2008. What a great year and last big hooray for Triple A WWII shooters.
Brothers in Arms is so under rated :(
World at War is mediocre. Check out Medal of Honor: Airborne from 2007. That actually had an interesting, different take on gameplay where you parachute into a large, open, non-linear map and decide which objectives you want to take out first. Complete them all and mission ends with a final, traditional linear push to the end.
Not only this was great, this is still the best WWII FPS ever made.
I would say Medal of Honor Rising Sun and Allied Assault were good too. First level in Rising Sun was so memorable.
Medal Of Honor Airborne is another one of the best WW2 FPS's ever made in my opinion.
@@NexusKin airborne is a good example that you dont need to be a main chracter to play a game
Not really thats Red Orchestra/Rising storm you just dont know about it
Single player-wise yes. I completed it five times I think when I was a kid.
Nowadays Hell Let Loose is my absolute favorite.
As nice as World at Wor is I still think Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway was a better WW2 game, even though it's not as refined gameplay wise as the first two, the story is just much more meaningful to me than WaW
P.S. I know this video is about the COD series but I just felt that the BiA doesn't get the love it really deserves
Man haven’t played or heard of those games in a long time. Might have to revisit them now. Last I heard Gearbox has another BiA game in development.
@@rawdog7881 I would love nothing more than a final mission with Baker and his men,when did you hear that by the way ?
It could be fun to check out some lesser known WWII shooters at some point. I get the feeling Gmanlives has already made a video like that though.
Ah yes, Brothers In Arms. Back when I still liked and actually respected Gearbox. Good thing they cancelled that terrible one.
@@Gruntvc oh hell yes that would've sucked so hard
Man, found your channel a couple days ago. I drive a truck and just listen to the videos for the most part. Point being, I've listened to about every video on a marathon now, great channel. Keep it up bruh
Infinite spawning enemies in the pacific theater. Just like in the actual war.
Funny thing zombies should not exist. It have a real chance of being cut from the game. It started of as a cut epilogue mission were you play as an German soldier on Normandy till you die. I'm skiping the large part of the story. The higher up at green light the mode. But it was hard to advertise the mode. Because it didn't fit cod. So the decision to make it a secret mode was made. That how we got zombies.
The pby mission was fully motion captured, they built a real scale plane hull in the studio,pretty good effort
Really? That is incredible. Modern FPS games don’t have any care about their history to do something like that today.
It's funny that they turned a Black Cat into a WWII-era AC-130, but the level was still fun.
I know this is a bit of an older video but you really were spot on with pretty much everything.
Wish games like this were still being made.
World at War has such nostalgia to me, my parents didn’t let me have M games at the time of release so I played so much Local Multiplayer and Zombies at my good childhood friends house. Lots of great memories
I’d argue Hell Let Loose is the best WWII game at the moment and best one in years but at the same time I recognize it’s for a very specific crowd of people, mostly those that like heavy team based mil sims such as Squad or Arma.
0:57 How god how right you were. Though it wasn't LITERALLY Hitler but it's damn close
Was it Hitler's successor?
@@firstname3343 it was some general i think but hitler does kill himself later in the campaign causing Nazis to go batshit and kill some of their own
@Erwin Rommel So... sniper chick kills Hitler 2.0
Fun fact, you know you're supposed to be pushing forward because hostile grenades start spawning on you,. But they toned down the grenade spam on normal so you only get that reaction grenade spawn spam on the harder difficulties
Post Scriptum and Hell Let Loose would like a word with you.
Seriously; they're amazing games and they're much better WW2 games than the trash that's been shovelled out of the AAA space in years.
Planning on buying this game today
Just recently talked about COD WaW! Who would have thought that a well done no bs CoD game holds up even a decade later...clearly not modern AAA developers
I think the Medal of Honor Rising Sun and Allied Assault are good WWII shooters as well. I like the epic set piece historical stylized action. The first level on the USS Arizona in Rising Sun was so memorable!
COD 2 and it's modding community
You know what I love about this game? The fact that I thought of "Finally, it's over" upon finishing it but not in a bad way. In a sense, it really made me feel what the Russians must have felt when they captured the Reichstag: Relief. Though it wasn't only the final mission, but there are also other missions that felt like this for me: the one where we played as a gunner in a plane, storming a Japanese palace (?), pushing through the German lines.
All that feeling of relief then a cutscene hits us: NAZI ZOMBIES. (Lol)
There are many words to describe what the Soviets felt when they won the war but “relief” definitely isn’t one of them. During their invasion and occupation of Germany They raped upwards of 2 million German women and girls in one of the most savage acts of retaliation ever seen in history. How convenient though that this never gets mentioned at school because the Russians were on the “right side of history.”
@@thatperformer3879 germans started it , they created it themselves .
Lol
Nah as the Russians it wasn't over until you raped the population of Germany.
I remembered playing world at war when I was 11. This game got me into reading about world war II
The Thompson feels different because it *was* different.
The jump from 9mm or 7.62x25 to .45 ACP is substantial and it *would* have more recoil than the other two even without doing much more practical damage. This is because handgun rounds are generally too low velocity to cause much more damage than simply poking a bullet sized hole in a target and whatever the bullet hits is all that's damaged.
Man, I remember coming home from school in 2010, booting up the old 360, joining my friends who were all already on and in a game, switching between COD 4, WAW , MW2 , Halo 3 and Reach. Now that was the peak of online play in those games.
The golden era
@@johnbauer7658 it really was. If only we had known at the time how good we had it I would have appreciated it more but there's no way we could have known just how bad the industry was going to get in the next decade. I mean just being able to unlock everything in a multiplayer through nothing but gameplay probably sounds like a myth from thousands of years ago to modern gamers.
What sad times we live in.
God damn right. I really enjoyed online gaming late 2000's/early 2010s. Hell, I played MM1 at a friends house on surround sound in a single long day. Was fuckin' biblical 😂
Man i want to play this game online again and actually enjoy it. A shame that the gamble is either you find a dead lobby or a hacker paradise which is to be expected for an old game.
They up here remaking CoD Modern Warfare and trying to make another WW2 shooter yet are avoiding the fact that World at War could be an easy game to remake if they wanna give us a WW2 shooter.
T6 laucher on pc has anti cheat for that game
As much as I want WaW to be remade, I'm also against it purely because of how MW: Remastered multiplayer was treated
You could try cod 3 if it’s still sctive.
@@punishedthatch8495 I didn't really play MWR much during its prime, but why was it treated poorly? It had supply drops, but I heard they were fair compared to the other games.
@@sideburngthepeacebringer27 it started off with them absolutely promising that it was only going to be a remaster with all the original DLC maps being remastered too. They promised that under no circumstances that there would be loot boxes. A few weeks later there were loot boxes. At that point they absolutely promised that they would be cosmetic only and that they wouldn't be adding new guns. Few weeks later, the loot boxes were full of new guns.
I know for a fact that if WaW got remastered, they would pull the exact same shit and to me personally, it doesn't sit right with me for a WW2 game, especially one like WaW, to be treated that way
I watched this video before I played World at War. Now that I’ve played World at War, I understand the points more clearly and appreciate this video a lot more for what it is.
10:00 the MP 40 was OP in consoles due to an oversight, it had too high damage. But in PC, where things were actually balanced, weapons were distinct. To use your example of the PPSh-41 and the MP 40.
The MP 40 does 40 damage up close and drops off to 29 at long range, and fires at 535 rounds per minute. The PPSh-41, by comparison, did 22 damage up close and 14 at long range, with a 1250 rounds per minute rate of fire.
WaW was special...it showed the brutality of war and didn't try to paint it all as either black or white....different shades of fucking grey my comrades ! The war in pacific made me feel like a baddass fighting an equally badass enemy...while the soviet campaign was pure art that even today I get goosebumps from those intro videos...Uraaa !!!
When you end the Soviet campaign, you probably should feel like "I dunno but looting and burning the property of innocent farmers seems kinda iffy, same when we burn to death german soldiers and torture them after they have already surrendered. Vladimir, are we the bad guys ?". This is what makes this campaign so great in it's tone (and which is actually very realistic. When you read about the soviet advance in Germany and Poland, you realize that Chaos from Warhammer is not far fetched)
If only Activision had enough "Cojones" to include realistic gore in Vanguard like COD WAW 13 years ago did I'd actually consider purchasing it.
Making Nazi limbs fly with the German Sniper rifle
Good times U.U
Nuts
Cojones*
Cajones? So drawers?? Lol
@@morisco56Yes lmfao
Great review. Also I swear to god I heard some Valkyria Chronicles music at some point, at the gunplay talk i think. Great choice.
Black cat is my favorite mission , it have so many good spots .
no matter the game play or soundtrack , its like i never get tired of it .
This is a well timed video since the 11th of November is a few days away. If you don’t know what that is it’s the UK Remembrance Day for fallen solider in all wars since WW1. Great video keep up the fight and the good work
First, great avatar from one of my favorite games ever. Played the hell out of MGS2. The writing, gameplay, atmosphere and presentation is just above words...Second, Im a U.S. Army combat veteran and I did not know that 11/11 originated from the U.K. as its the same day celebrated here in the U.S.
@@FatherSaunders yeah I agree it’s one of my favourite games too, the tanker is a masterpiece of an opening to a game.what’s your favourite part of mgs2
It’s “celebrated” over the pond too but not to full extent. Also I think the name is changed too.
@@deletednet3919 it’s Veterans Day over here.
No COD game will ever beat...
MW1
WAW
BOP1
Those 3 games are shrined in the hall of games for Modern Warfare, World War 2 and the Cold war
Yes man...YES
It might just be a me thing but I kinda liked modern warfare 2 more than 1 but then again I played 2 first.
Bro cod 2!
Another thing to note about this game is the *music*. When you swapped over to talking about the eastern front and changed tracks, that was just a wave of nostalgia. The score, particularly for the Russian part of the campaign, just instills such a rush of righteous fury that it can't not get your heart pumping!
Man you’re still criminally undersubscribed. I can’t remember when I got in here but I think it was back when you just started. Your opinions and worldview line up right with mine. I hope you keep going for a long time into the future
This was the first cod game that I actually played. Remember playing zombies at a friend's house and needing to get this game for myself. Was a zombies fan all the way until bo4. Cod just went too far in the wrong direction. I would love another waw
"The last game to respect WWII"
Me: "You're god damn right."
Nowadays every game wants to REWRITE World War II. What these leftists don’t realize is that by erasing their history, they are replaying the very same mistakes of it. The new modern Nazis are so brainwashed that they’re calling everybody else Nazis.
It's not the leftist or the right that do it. It's just the ignorant of people in general that turn the entire WW2 FPS game into shit like this.
Because nowaday, WW2 is just another scenerio to create game to milk money, to assert their country dominance ( *cough*AMERICA*cough* ) and to insert their self-believe rightiousness through it. WW2 is no longer a word to describe the greatest massacre mankind ever done, the sacrifice to end it and the suffering of those involve, it's just another propaganda media.
Day of Infamy?
Cough cough vanguard
Hell Let Loose?
I'll never forget that absolute gut wrenching horror when you're focused on mowing down germans with ppsh and then you happen to look down only to see the grenade danger indicator of infinite pain staring into your very soul.
If you listen carefully, the background soundtrack for Gunplay section is the battle music of Valkyria Chronicles series.
Awesome video btw, except it missed commissar Markhov's epic speed. The "Abandon your posts! Abandon your home! Abandon all hopes! Uraa!" one.
WaW has a good eastern front story, because it shows the cruelty of both sides, as you rightly point out. Most of the war dead happened in that theatre and the Germans and Russians know about all the key battles there, while western favorites like Caen or Market Garden or Bastogne are only known to history nerds. Meanwhile, almost everyone knows about Stalingrad, Kiew, Operation Zitadelle, the siege of Leningrad and Operation Bagration. That has a reason.
And I don't need to point out the crazy pro Soviet propaganda in Vanguard, that is a complete fantasy and disgrace.
There's a reason why WaW is considered the best non-modern setting CoD in Europe/ Asia. We are all basically sick and tired of watching the western Allies with their tiny numbers of casualties masturbate over the same strategically less important battles.
It is not a pro soviet propaganda in Vanguard, it is dumbass western muh individualism and misunderstanding of the Great Patriotic War
On the other hand, it gets tiresome when the slavs wave their casualty figures around like a badge of honor in their turf war with Germany. Especially since the two governments were collaborating through the 30s.
That said, it would be welcome to see those incidents you suggested as well ANZAC in the South Pacific, the landings in Morroco and Algeria, Indochina as opposed to the usual suspects.
@@MalfosRanger jesus christ this is true asf. Like shut the fuck up about muh casualties when the US literally funded a fuck ton of your war effort in the first place. Also who knows how the war could have gone if UK and US didn't split the front up as well as all the supplies sent to Soviets.
We went from hearing koniggratzer and hitler speech after winning as wehrmacht to "your team" vs "enemy team"
That transition from shooting the flamethrower operator to using a flamethrower at 0:25 was sooooooooooooooooooo good
Hey, great video! I think there’s a lot of potential in your channel, I sure felt like I was watching someone with a 100k subs. Liked and subbed
We won’t get a good, historically accurate WW2 shooter for a while. Everything has to be politically correct and has to include every type of person on the planet. Every group on the earth has to be featured or mentioned. I want a normal WW2 game that is actually accurate in history and isn’t alternate history, because that is kind of disrespectful in a way. The only WW2 game that might be accurate again will be the next WW2 battlefield, which is a long ways away. I say that it will be accurate and not like BfV in the way they handled political correctness because they saw how the community reacted. Maybe even the next WW2 game for cod, NOT VANGUARD. The gaming industry will never be the same and it’s sad.
If you don't care about a campaign. Post Scriptum is the most realistic recent WWII game you can get
@@_kommandant_3055 Hell Let Loose it's also great
@@ronaldbenz_ Enlisted too
It's almost like it's a WORLD WAR.
@@bluesoviet4616 no no, they all gotta look like cloned Europeans bro, you gotta listen bro, i aint racist just muh history!!! /s
This was overshadowed by COD4/MW2 but man this IS the ultimate COD WWII game. I boot up my PS3 sometimes just to play it again and it's sad that we'll never get games like this now.
I too was never a big cod fan, but vanguard did get me in the mood for a WW2 game that was not bad so I tried WaW last month. I don't regret it. The asthetic of WaW is unmatched to this day; uncensored swastika, realistic guns/uniforms, and no forced diversity. I can still find people online through plutonium. It cared about portraying more the dark side of war than a wholesome chungus Allies story. I doubt vanguard will cover the nuances of the red army's action.
Lol the guns that carried me through the game on hardened were the bolt action rifles. One shot kills means no real loss of ammo and getting it for free from dead enemies was a real plus. It was really jarring when I went from that to MW2 remastered like 6 months later and having no one shot weapons.
World at War was at least honest about war. While I enjoy Vanguard as a time waster, I knew what it was gonna be before it came out, political correctness included. We will NEVER get another honest WWII game ever again, and it’s a shame, yes. BUT, I did like the inclusion of the black regiment in Vanguard. What would’ve been better? Being able to experience the battle (or maybe two) through THEIR EXPERIENCES. There are so many true stories from WWII that are ripe for the picking (using fictional characters of course) that could’ve been told in the medium of gaming that would’ve been better than the campaign we got. I’m not gonna rag on the weapon customization in Vanguard because what’s the point? It’s a game. Play it for fun or something. I AM gonna rag on the rip off Inglorious Bastards take that they went with though.
exactly what i thought. Vanguard could've been so much better but looks like they just wanted to rinse and repeat ww2 2017
You're part of the problem
@@dl30wpbhow??
Can someone who wants to play Vanguard please explain to me why? I just can't understand what would possess you to do it.
because it is fashion, because they are asleep
cause we waz Kangz n stuf
They want to fight in world war 2 using an AK-47 with an anime girl charm and holographic sight on it.
@@OutlawedPoet I sincerely hope the few last remaining souls from the greatest generation will never be subjected to viewing such cringe.
I didnt buy it but I want it so bad just because of the single player. WW2 stories suck me in. But I'm a huge stickler for historical accuracy. Or it being so well done I can suspend my disbelief.
I still wonder at times how I managed to clear Blowtorch and Corkscrew on Veteran difficulty. There’s barely any cover at the beginning and more often than not, I keep getting ambushed by spider holes whenever grenades are thrown at me.
Heart of the Reich and Downfall were tough, but I was very patient. Sometimes I strategized and other times I winged it! 😂
Agreed, World at War was a masterpiece and showed the true horrors of war and was immersive. The Vanguard game is just a huge lenght woke disaster and is a insult to all who fought during WW2.
"The enemy is dug in deep.
Flamethrowers - we'll burn 'em out."
*Awesome music plays*
For me, Infinite Warfare was the last good CoD game.
"Miller, get ready with that flamethrower!"
IT had good campaign and zombies but multiplayer IS eww because IT had koot boxses and its too linear
I would say Advanced, but i understand the choice.
“This is the enemy’s last stand. We take Shuri Castle, we go home.”
IW Multiplayer was foul and Zombies was a mixed bag, some nice maps but majority sucked (Mephistopheles was amazing tho), campaign was amazing though.
The Treyarch trilogy (WAW, BOP,BOP2) was gold
It's okay, you can call it the Black Ops trilogy.
I think the grenade spam was because if you stay to long in one spot they spawn around you forcing you to constantly move location. I thought the actual enemy throws them.
Little sidenote, me and a friend finished the campaign on veteran, and since the death of one, is the death of both, we progressed super slowly. All this to say, enemy spawns aren't infinite for the most part, instead, most engagements end up going for several waves. Example would be storming the insane asylum. The fight in the garden right outside the asylum seems infinite, but in reality it's just a number of respawning waves. It doesn't make it any better, I know, but we actually enjoyed this in co-op because the score multipliers were fun to rack up.
based Death Korps chad
I always choose gameplay over graphics but it's weird when the previous game looks better then it's next installation, always thought COD4 looked a lot better then COD WAW even though it was released a year before it.
Cod WAW had 4 player co-op! and had introduced Nazi Zombies, Cod4,Waw and MW2 were great
They pretty much looked the same graphically, but I think WaW looks worse because of how gray and depressing everything looks. It fits the theme of the game really well.
WAW actually looked extremely sharp and detailed during the Pacific levels. The water, tropical foliage, and bright sun were all super amazing to look at.
In other words, the game you should buy instead. Still what a throwback! I've had so many good times back then with my friends playing multiplayer, zombies, and campaign.
having played a lot of cod 1, cod 2, mohaa and battlefield 1942. waw was gritty and had the best pacific theatre mission ever made, everyone was getting saturated with european and african theatres. the way the japanese ambush and trick you was so immersive. the zombie mission was a very welcome addition.
"the tank mission kinda sucks"
Literally one of the best missions in the game, what are you talking about?
Eh, innovative yes. Best? No, Vendetta is the best and I’ll hear no backtalk
I feel like the Japanese and Russian atrocities during WW2 aren't ever really discussed enough in media.
Edit: on the topic of weapons handling, both the MP40 and PPSh41 are extremely controllable, you can watch Gun Jesus shoot both on Forgotten Weapons. The Thompson however, is kind of a piece of shit, which is why the US adopted the Grease Gun.
As someone that had two great-uncles that were POWs of the Japanese, it doesn't pisses me off when people overlook Japanese atrocities. They intentionally made the lives of their prisoners as horrible and miserable as possible. At least the Nazis treated their (non-Soviet) prisoners decently. The Japanese soldiers were just sadistic psychopaths.
@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 there have been some recent movie's of POW camps , and i think there were a few during the 80's
Ian McCollum is a gun expert. Not an average soldier.
@@raseli4066 An average soldier probably has better physical strength and fitness than Ian, which is a major factor in one's ability to control recoil.
@@creatorsfreedom6734 Unbroken is a fantastic movie.
WAW multiplayer was awesome...This was my 1st COD game. Once the hackers showed up they kinda ruined it. They had a god mode hack. You just couldn't kill these players so I stopped playing it.
The banzai charge animation when you counter that bayonet strike makes me hard every time and yes I still play it
This was a nice video. I’ll check this game out sometime.
Going BANZAI with the Japanese Arisaka with the Bayonet attachment is my favorite thing to do in the game's campaign. So much so that I included the "Banzai" in my profile account's name when I started getting into the multiplayer.
As a guy who played and still plays the multiplayer of WAW, it was either one of the most unique experiences, or one of the worst. On consoles it usually had like 80 players a day only playing team deathmatch in 6v6 games. If you don't have the DLC's you will be booted which just sucks. On PC it is completely different. The most popular servers are 40 player servers, played on maps as big as Seelow and as small as Dome (You think 10v10 on Rust is insane, get ready for 20v20 in a tiny box with grenades throwing everywhere that are like nukes). It is good in the larger maps, but if you're playing the smaller maps it is just insane.
As a kid I played World At War, and it was creepy as fuck. I remember when I first played zombies and I took out the head of it, yet it was still moving and ended up killing me when I was just stunned by the surprise. It was the first time I had a creepy moment happen to me in a game, and I still remember it to this day.
I got this for my son in 2009 when he was 6. He was awesome, dogs every round, 2 or 3 times usually. If you played on PS3 you probably got your ass handed to you by rabbitman99. You're welcome.
How is it that MGS3 music is actually more fitting than the actual WAW soundtrack?
Call of Duty: Wokeguard
I honestly don't think Vanguard is that woke in the grand scheme of things. The four main characters in the campaign are based off actual people who fought in the war, and their placement actual makes sense. The Russians did employ quite a bit of female soldiers, especially snipers, during the war, as did the British field soldiers of African descent in their armies. Its not nearly as ridiculous as there being female British soldiers, for example, like in Battlefield V.
@@thepuncakian2024 I heard there was an occupation that happened to an area during ww1(or it was ww2) I think. Its called the horror of rhidan or something. Vangaurd references it and tries to sanitize the occupation that some people say is full of war crimes that vangaurd ignores. People described it as "wokifying".
@@josesosa3337 new cod glorify wars where as the old cods just showed the whole picture, really ruins it for me.
@@josesosa3337 I hadn't heard of that event before, and I watched the entire campaign on UA-cam and don't recall it ever being brought up, not to say that it didn't. Did some digging, and it seems that the claims are tenuous at best, there are a lot of conflicting reports.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Horror_on_the_Rhine
If I had to guess, this event did happen, but it was greatly exaggerated to be used as propaganda by the Nazis.
@@thepuncakian2024 thanks for correcting Me.
Honestly, I didn't even mind the CoD WW2 campaign that much. It was a decent story, just that like you said, it didn't really respect WW2 that much, and seemed make believe. Nothing Beats WaW however, easily my Favourite COD of all time.
My issue with WW2 was its over-reliance on cutscenes.
Me and all my friends were talking about this yesterday, being my first and favorite cod, all three experiences were hands down amazing.
The fact that I know what game the background music comes from makes me happy
This looks great might pick it up on steam. Keep making good videos synth.
It was the best becuse it held nothing back, it showed you the true horrors war could be, good charecter development and showing the human aspects there could be.
That and hells highway.
Thanks you for making me feel old I’m 26 so when call of duty waw came out with I was 13 and I love the campaign of it and i’ve been playing COD since COD BIG RED ONE
WW2 was so very tragic, especially in the Pacific, the Japanese were grenade spamming their enemies, so many people died to grenade spam