Man it's actually a joke 😂. Never in a million years would a small woman in her 20s be able to climb up the side of a building like that in the middle of a bloody bombing raid, let alone do it normally. COD living in a fantasy world.
In school: Battle of stalingrad was house to house fighting. In Cod (2003) stalingrad was about house to house fighting In Cod WaW stalingrad was about house to house fighting In cod vanguard stalingrad is about house to house jumping.
Sometimes, concept never changes, even in goddamn movies depicting Battle of Stalingrad Always apartment to apartment clearing except that one time in CoD2 where you have to breeze through German defensive line from the East, and recapture German controlled Train Station in Stalingrad, only in those two house to house fighting isn't visible, blatantly
People during ww2 endured unspeakable close calls. Some soldiers survived shot in the head, some soldiers experience miracles when grenade exploded right under their feet and the shower of hundreds razor sharp shrapnels missed the fortunate soldier. In band of brothers for example there are many miracles like dud artillery shell landing into foxhole or capt speirs just running trough enemy position etc. But jumping from brick to brick that's some spiderman/assassins creed/ metal gear rising stuff. That's why I love Hell Let's Loose. The Marvel/Indiana Jones flavour in WW2 setting is not my cup of coffee. I would enjoy COD1,2,4, MW2 anytime. And maybe Black ops1 and cold war.
COD2 had a mission where you take down an entire house full of Germans and and you destroy the building and you are greeted by Mission Sucess. Do you guys know what is fun? Ever heard of Suspension of Disbelief? Didn't COD 2 have English Speaking Russians. Atleast this game gives me I'm in a WW2 game unlike Battlefield 5 which was just Boring.Even Last Tiger despite being good was so boring in terms of Gameplay.I played COD Vangaurd's Campaign 2 times on Veteran.Cant say that to Battlefield 1 and 5
Interesting fact: Polina is a time traveler for she has shoulder boards on her uniform straight from 1943 when Stalin actually ordered Red Army to have them
The first segment is probably the first time I've seen Stalingrad represented as anything but a massive pile of rubble in a game... for about ten minutes.
They could have done better. Really drive the point home that people in Stalingrad were real people, caught in a hell not even of their own making... but I guess it´s a start.
I love seeing high-budget games take on great WWII stories, but this is such a sanitized version of Stalingrad lol. Nobody was surprised by the German assault on the city. It was anything but a sneak attack. And when it did kick off in earnest, it was absolute slaughter - a tooth-and-nail fight for every meter between the front line and the river. Most importantly, I don't think the Germans wasted a lot of time taking people alive, and I don't think many civilians were in the city living their normal lives when the Germans arrived.
True. But actually a lot of citizens were surprised by german air raid on 23 of August. They thought what air raid siren that day was just training once just as usual. However when AA guns opened fire and bombs started falling from the skyes everyone started to reach their shelters as soon as possible to not to be blown up by hordes of german bombers However I'm glad that at least at this time Eastern Front portrayed a little bit better and with a little more respect than in other games and movies about Eastern Front. Of course there're still a lot of cringy moments, but I hope in the future game devs will work on it.
@@vlad23i Interesting to hear that Stalin ordered them to stay there, while there actually was an evacuation of the civilians before and after Stalingrad air rade on 23 of August
@Steel Beast 500,000 i agree with the points youve made for the most part however the MKb42(baisically an StG that fired from an open bolt) was in service with the Wehrmacht in limited numbers by the time of Stalingrad so its not impossible a few were there.
Actually, you are wrong. While everyone knew the Germans were coming, thousands of Red Army soldiers and civilians were taken by surprise on the first day of the Battle. The Germans crossed the Don and reached the Volga much quicker than anticipated.
I'm not an expert in military medals, but the nurse in 10:13 seems to be wearing medals resembling a jubilee medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (the blue one, 1968) and "For the Capture of Berlin" (the red one, 1945). To go through the entire war to Berlin, retire as a veteran, live a peaceful life and then die back in Stalingrad in 1942 surely must have been... confusing.
Reznov: Dimitri, look! Dimitri: What? Reznov: It's Lady Nightingale. Dimitri: What's her name? Reznov: I guess her name is Polina Petrova Dimitri: Sounds good to me.
Imagine if a high-ranking Soviet officer and his second in command were to interrupt Polina and tell her Steiner is to be taken prisoner in order to be thoroughly interrogated. Then when she asks who they are, the officer and his second introduce themselves as Dragovich and Kravchenko, respectively.
@@Spudtron98 no shit sherlock, thats why they must be more serious villains, because they had true monsters with them, not some mustache twirling cartoonish villain who screams every 2 seconds
@@User-cq1ri Yup it's a video game, be a good boy and shut down your brain to enjoy it. Who needs a brain anyways, you obviously don't at the very least...
@@fritzVirginSteeler The Germans and Soviets were formidable in their own right in 1943, if they were as weak as you think they are, Warsaw would be taken in 43
@@bjorndevlieger8565 well you said they didn't appear yet which isn't the case. Also Tigers were never really deployed on a large scale anyways except for maybe Kursk.
@@ricardodecastro8118 also small bunch of T34 100 and funny thing is that not many of people know this, historians do, but T 44 was also deployed in small numbers.
Depends on the gun the regular Mosins had straight bolts where as the sniper variants had a mount for scoped, heavy barrels, and the bolt was bent down aka dog latch so sniper rifles are definitely built much more differently than regular rifles.
@@KILLKING110 yes but they use the same ammo as their non sniper rifle counter parts. But COD has a habit of just not allowing you to use that ammo from normal rifles in your sniper rifle. Which maybe would make sense online from a balance perspective, but in singleplayer I should be able to use whatever weapon I damn please.
@@KILLKING110 yes, but this Girl started a scene saying "precise shot, is a sniper" just because she found a body with a shot in the head Dude, even a stray shot from a common bolt rifle can blow someone head by accident, there is no way of telling a sniper did it lmao
@@habladorhablador4209 dude, would it be allright for you to play a game about Iraq war, where americans drive mario carts instead of abrams tanks? Because this is pretty much the level of accuracy of this game. People who made this game didnt do any research at all, i doubt they even lookd at some pictures of Stalingrad before war
@@snowsnow4231 no no. the game where you fight on an Uranus planet during 1680 using deployable 500 lbs tank that can spawn from Neptune would be better
Would've loved to see a charge at the Square and there would be two allies that would be a hard to find easter egg with both their names, but as one person in vendetta calls it a "massacre" which it was, it would've been cool to have alot of Soviets charging to make the easter egg hard to spot, my punctuation is awful with stuff like this but hope it made sense
@@mottony yeah, they had the chance to add something like that but they didn't. They were both from Stalingrad, it's not like it's gonna ruin the timeline or anything.
Gotta love seeing T-34-85s, a tank from late 1943, in the beginning of the battle of Stalingrad, while people are living their normal lives like there isn't any mass conscription, and the city still be overrun on a casual Sunday afternoon, mainly because stukas with autoloading 37mms, cloud stealth, and bombers with bombs that can multiply midair, don't forget that all the Soviet AA gunners are on vacation and only the medics are on station today
Meanwhile a guy named pavlov is defending an apartment with his men. A guy named vassili is on the railroad. A guy named Koslov from Cod 2 is fighting from room to room, street to street. Reznov and Dimitri is on the fountain somewhere.
Fr I was expecting you to be able to fight in the actual Battle of Stalingrad, like in COD Big Red One, but it kinda feels empty because you're just playing as this lone female Russian sniper. This doesn't feel like the Battle of Stalingrad at all lmao.
@Based_Stalinist The Germans were actually pretty chill with Africans, they had the grindset of understanding but without the bigotry of America due to the latter's close proximity with them.
32:04 "That's a sniper shot. Precise" BAH..should've seen that one sniper in WaW who was teleporting between windows on Veteran. Never been that frustrated as a kid. Not to mention german sniper nades and japanese spam nades.
I still remember back in WaW, 2 trained soldiers Petrenko & Reznov used guerilla tactic against an army of Nazi. Now, a non-soldier medical unit single-handedly attacks an army of Nazi head on.
@@pigbenis5295 I swear the first time anyone playing Russian’s mission in CoD1 and 2, they will scream on the top of their lungs when charging into the Nazi’s positions
i LOVE the fact that when the first bombers arrive she decide to climb up the rooftops while everyone is seeking shelter and cover ..... Insert *your tactics confuse and frighten me sir* meme here.
Not a historian or military expert myself, but I genuinely feel very weird about the inconsistencies such as the T-34/85 and uniforms of the red army, and some of the guns. I feel sadened for the missed opportunities. To have not a historical accurate but at least having a believable enviroment. Storywise, not really a great fan. Hoped for more of a small unit story (like vasily's 3 men team in enemy at the gates) rather than a one woman army.
First time you play a WWII themed Cod? They always had 1943 uniforms and T 34/85 for Stalingrad, even the old games (Finest hour actually had the correct 76, but still the wrong uniforms) . That's because most of time there are soviet levels set in 1945, so they just use the same models. Pretty understandable
And even that only in trial service in very limited number. How they manage to research somewhat obscure weapons and somehow put it in the wrong time is kind of ad
If usa and britain hadn't sent extreme amount of military,raw material,logistic and food aid to bolsheviks, and %100 of the german troops had been on the eastern front ,the glorious german army would have taken moscow and st@lingrad like taking candy from a baby
Yep, historically correct game. Stalingrad 1942, yet shoulder marks were adopted in the USSR only 06 January 1943. Time travel these soldiers are from the future.
It's a pretty minor mistake considering some of the other inaccuracies. I think Sledgehammer can be forgiven for only wanting to make one set of models for the Red Army.
@@Marshall_Thompson I don't know if it was minor or major because I stopped watching it from the beginning after seeing 1942 and then girl with shoulder marks.
Well, technically speaking the battle of Stalingrad DID end in the beginning of 1943...but by then it was mostly mop up operations to capture the last German holdouts, not so much a full fledged battle
There is no mention of vasily or reznov because of two things: A: It's is broad daylight B: If i'm right, WAW takes place in a separate area of stalingrad
Well no, since the area were Misha is shot is Red Square, the place were... you start the Vendetta mission of WAW. You can see the statue of the fountain. So it's the same area. But it's litteraly not the same season, since there is no snow in WAW...
31:20 The German 6th Army was in NO way in a condition to fight at this time. They have been surrounded and cut off from their supply lines (The Air Drops were very miniscule) for over 6 weeks. They were starving and low on ammo. They mostly hunkered down and hoped that the 4 Panzer can get them out. Hoth's 4th Panzer Army only got within 60km (40 miles), but the Soviets stopped them. OH and no SS troops fought in Stalingrad.
The design is so cheap, its like a bunch of royalty free materials and 3d models from the web, the game artists didnt even bother to look up the pictures of pre-war Stalingrad. Judging by the trees and vegetations we are somewhere in Italy or France, but nowhere near Stalingrad. Why are people boarding their shops when there was no commerce in the USSR? Where did they get plywood? If you look at the pictures of Stalingrad in 1940, you would not find plywood, it was an expensive and fancy material used for furniture and aircrafts, no one would have been using it to board up windows in his right mind. Why is there so many cars abandoned? Only high officials were able to afford cars, why are there so many abandoned cars if all officials would have been evacuated months before the first air raid? Why is there yellow tarp everywhere? Is this The Division 2 or what? You even used the wrong barbed wire, google Stalingrad images and see what type of barbed wire was used in the USSR, every soviet person knows it and its nothing like this fancy modern razor wire. And its like that with everything. It is not Stalingrad, it is France with yellow tarp from the Division 2, razor wire from Iraq war and plywood from US marines training grounds with fake plywood houses. Guys, you have completely messed up the art and visual part, its not immersive at all.
Say what you will about this mission, at least it shows us a new side to Stalingrad: what it was like before the fighting began. We got to see what life was like for its locals before the first shots were fired, as they prepared to hold back the Germans, whatever it took. We may have only got to see a small portion of this peacetime, but I'm glad I saw it.
In actuality, they knew the Germans were coming and Stalin ordered that everyone stayed in Stalingrad so it motivates the Red Army to fight for something. Took them weeks to even take the city
I love how all the Germans are so bad at basic tactics and fighting in this game, it's amusing to watch the Germans just rush into open gunfire, but when you're reloading they cower in fear
It’s so hard to believe that these are the same guys who captured 90% of the entire city by fighting men to men before getting encircled by Soviet reinforcements in December 1942.
Who else experienced the battle of Stalingrad on call of duty finest hour. One of my childhood memory games for sure. I think it was the second mission where you storm the bunker
Although it was a highly sought after war trophy due to its high quality and reliability plus its scarcity Which was a similar situation with the Orso submachine gun from Cod WW2 which was a early war Italian submachine gun which was highly regarded as the best Submachine gun Available to the Italian army But it later got stripped down due to war shortages yet it still kept its quality and reliability which made both variants of the Orso another sought after war trophy by Allied troops
CoD: Doesn't feature Eastern Front in Ww2 Fans: Eww WW2 game with no eastern front? That's lame? CoD: Finally features Eastern Front Fans: Lmao stop repeating this front
@@sooryan_1018 that's not the problem It's that COD kept giving us the same place in the Easter front, over and over GIVE US A PLACE TO FIGHT OTHER THAN THE SAME STALINGRAD! Atleast Leningrad,Odessa, Budapest, or even put a Yugoslav partisan mission in there
I remember the original Modern Warfare 2, where the Russians would strategically crouch behind cars and buildings as they tried to move up and surround you. Also, in the original Black Ops, the Spetsnaz would roll and flip around the environment between cover to make themselves harder to hit.
This doesn't feel like a battle, in this game you are fighting by yourself, no one is helping you which makes it feel like you are just running from the cops.
I think the 2003 COD had the best Stalingrad atmosphere, it had a mix of both since at least 4 missions were based in Stalingrad. COD 2 had a good one too but it was just winter.
The quotes and excerpts that are shown before the missions in Red Orchestra 2's single player paint a far more believable and moving picture of the Battle of Stalingrad than this game could ever hope to. Retiring the "Stalingrad sniper campaign" is long overdue, Enemy at the gates wasn't even a good movie.
8:13 Im sure those T-34-85 tanks would have delayed the German advance. It should be the 76mm version with the two-man turret at least. Could have been due to budget reasons or time limit before its release.
@@razgriss5882 I kinda don't think so. The fact that lots of the main battle tanks of WW2 have been throughly researched through books and media makes it the fact that the earlier models would have been used instead of the later ones so it all comes down to pointing the blame on budget and time of release which means they have to models a few items relevant in their WW2 game if you know what I mean.
Say what you want, but that part from 10:20 really gives chills. Imagine you are russian soldier at that time, trying to prepare for possible land warfare soon enough, and you see the Luftwaffe Squadron bringing literal hell on you in just a matter of seconds...
This game is so bad. Vasily didn't appear in the mission and slaughter the Germans all by himself with his PPSH41 just like in CoD 2. 0/10, terrible game.
As a Russian person, I was very upset that the "Russian" people in the game DO NOT LOOK LIKE RUSSIANS AT ALL. their appearance is Arabian, gypsy, Jewish, BUT NOT RUSSIAN. remember, Russian people don't look like that, Russians have completely different facial features, predominantly blue eyes and blonde hair. even the hairstyles of the inhabitants of "Stalingrad" do not correspond to the era. the rest of the atmosphere of Russia in the 40s is conveyed well. stalingrad is not like stalingrad, but it looks like a typical Russian city. it is clear that the developers did not even try to recreate exactly Stalingrad.
It is also worth noting that the word "papasha" in Russian is used in a disparaging, offensive meaning. this is a gross mistake, it hurts the ear. the developers wanted to show colloquial communication. correct would be "batya\batyanya"
It’s strange the small ways modern games try to change and sanitize history. The latest Assassins Creed games (Odyssey, Valhalla) were the worst offenders. Every place has to look like a college recruitment ad
@@akscjdid1793 About 40% of the soldiers were Russians, Ukrainians or Belarusians. We have almost the same genotype. The remaining 60% were the rest of the 200+ nationalities
According to the developers, the German army steamrolled the city of Stalingrad in a day, the real battle took them weeks before they even made it to the inner layers of the city and the capital building.
>the first (and largest) German bombing raid on Stalingrad took place on August 24, 1942 >German troops didn't even reach the outskirts of Stalingrad until that very day and took until September to break into the city proper They're literally conflating events that took place several weeks apart lmao
They are not needed to create trash entertainment. This is just created for brainless audience who couldn't care about anything other than flashy gameplay.
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14:22 - mr ditkovich collects rent from the germans
Sussy
Could have been vasili zaisef
Mr. Ditkovich?
Germans: I missed the part where that’s my problem
@@thanhdanhvu5886 Tobey Maguire?
It took 2 or 3 weeks for the Germans to reach the downtown of Stalingrad while they fought house by house, but in this game they do it in a day.
alternate history where the germans achieve fantastic things with wonder weapons but still somehow lose 😂
Steiner's assault went smoother than expected
Pavlov's House alone managed to held off the assault for longer than some European countries.
@@AFGuidesHD Are you a Boy or girl?
In this game Germans use Stg44 (which is mainly produced in late 1944) in Battle of Stalingrad
Remember in waw when the Germans didn't sound like a bond villain
It’s a disgrace to compare a piece of shit game to waw
@@happyman5.798, its not a disgrace, he is just making a statement about comparing how the Germans sound in WaW and how they sound in Vanguard.
I was thinking the same thing lol
@@happyman5.798 I was ripping on vanguard
ngl all the germans in waw sounded like they were high on pervatin
This game is as historically accurate as Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail.
Couldn't describe it any better😂
t 34 tanks from 1944, stg 44 and mp40 for everi german soldier, and dont get me started on the actual evolution and events of the conflict
@@thehind2552 My comrade, do not forget the stukas
For real! So disappointed... they wasted all the years of making this game.. stupid af
What a film though, it has a lot more replay value than any call of duty game!
This game is a spit in the face of historical accuracy
I agree.
Only thing accurate is that soviet and Germans are fighting 😂
@@rishabhsingh8269 😂
COUGH COUGH SJW APPEAL FEMINISM BF 5
Man it's actually a joke 😂. Never in a million years would a small woman in her 20s be able to climb up the side of a building like that in the middle of a bloody bombing raid, let alone do it normally. COD living in a fantasy world.
In school: Battle of stalingrad was house to house fighting.
In Cod (2003) stalingrad was about house to house fighting
In Cod WaW stalingrad was about house to house fighting
In cod vanguard stalingrad is about house to house jumping.
Sometimes, concept never changes, even in goddamn movies depicting Battle of Stalingrad
Always apartment to apartment clearing except that one time in CoD2 where you have to breeze through German defensive line from the East, and recapture German controlled Train Station in Stalingrad, only in those two house to house fighting isn't visible, blatantly
People during ww2 endured unspeakable close calls.
Some soldiers survived shot in the head, some soldiers experience miracles when grenade exploded right under their feet and the shower of hundreds razor sharp shrapnels missed the fortunate soldier. In band of brothers for example there are many miracles like dud artillery shell landing into foxhole or capt speirs just running trough enemy position etc. But jumping from brick to brick that's some spiderman/assassins creed/ metal gear rising stuff. That's why I love Hell Let's Loose. The Marvel/Indiana Jones flavour in WW2 setting is not my cup of coffee. I would enjoy COD1,2,4, MW2 anytime. And maybe Black ops1 and cold war.
Me the whole time yelling, *PARKOUR*
COD2 had a mission where you take down an entire house full of Germans and and you destroy the building and you are greeted by Mission Sucess.
Do you guys know what is fun?
Ever heard of Suspension of Disbelief?
Didn't COD 2 have English Speaking Russians.
Atleast this game gives me I'm in a WW2 game unlike Battlefield 5 which was just Boring.Even Last Tiger despite being good was so boring in terms of Gameplay.I played COD Vangaurd's Campaign 2 times on Veteran.Cant say that to Battlefield 1 and 5
@@ChandranPrema123 the main problem I had with last tiger gameplay and why it felt the worst was cause it was just tanks
Meanwhile, some guy named Petrenko assassinated a German General and some guy named Vasily was at some Railroad Station
I read somewhere that Vasily had a descendant that was a doctor who worked with some detective in England of all places
And then there’s a guy named Pavlov and his men defending an apartment complex
AND then there's also a guy named Alexei trying to break through the Nazi's defense at Red Square
@@Cityinlead That would have made a great Invasion/zombie level.
Damn bois I didn't know Stalingrad was that packed
"Objective: Spend time with your family"
I felt that.
Objective: Denounce your family.
(Optional): drink misha's bottles then eat a lit matchstick
Not to sound melodramatic but that is an objective we should all do every now and then.
I like how the german soldiers carry STG44's and rocket launchers in 1942.
And the Soviets have T-34/85s already....
@@DomWeasel They have Tiger II's in stalingrad back in WaW
@@Edo_Ginting
It's a CoD tradition I think to include anachronistic weapons in Stalingrad. Ever since the first game.
Well even in CoD WaW there could be seen King Tigers wrecks around the streets of Stalingrad
@@RadX_98 When there is a King Tiger in Battle of Stalingrad in COD WAW ???
Interesting fact: Polina is a time traveler for she has shoulder boards on her uniform straight from 1943 when Stalin actually ordered Red Army to have them
_Alternate History_
Also there’s T-34/85s, which where only on tests in 1942/43! They should be T-34/76
Interesting fact: Germany already got time travel tech as they are using Stg44 in Battle of Stalingrad lol
@@CommissarChaotic weird flex
@@josuemunoz5455 what? if you're talking about _this_ it's pretty cool ain't it? I just learned it a few days ago along with -this.-
The first segment is probably the first time I've seen Stalingrad represented as anything but a massive pile of rubble in a game... for about ten minutes.
They could have done better. Really drive the point home that people in Stalingrad were real people, caught in a hell not even of their own making... but I guess it´s a start.
I love seeing high-budget games take on great WWII stories, but this is such a sanitized version of Stalingrad lol.
Nobody was surprised by the German assault on the city. It was anything but a sneak attack. And when it did kick off in earnest, it was absolute slaughter - a tooth-and-nail fight for every meter between the front line and the river. Most importantly, I don't think the Germans wasted a lot of time taking people alive, and I don't think many civilians were in the city living their normal lives when the Germans arrived.
True. But actually a lot of citizens were surprised by german air raid on 23 of August. They thought what air raid siren that day was just training once just as usual. However when AA guns opened fire and bombs started falling from the skyes everyone started to reach their shelters as soon as possible to not to be blown up by hordes of german bombers
However I'm glad that at least at this time Eastern Front portrayed a little bit better and with a little more respect than in other games and movies about Eastern Front. Of course there're still a lot of cringy moments, but I hope in the future game devs will work on it.
@@vlad23i
Interesting to hear that Stalin ordered them to stay there, while there actually was an evacuation of the civilians before and after Stalingrad air rade on 23 of August
yepper
@Steel Beast 500,000 i agree with the points youve made for the most part however the MKb42(baisically an StG that fired from an open bolt) was in service with the Wehrmacht in limited numbers by the time of Stalingrad so its not impossible a few were there.
Actually, you are wrong. While everyone knew the Germans were coming, thousands of Red Army soldiers and civilians were taken by surprise on the first day of the Battle. The Germans crossed the Don and reached the Volga much quicker than anticipated.
I'm not an expert in military medals, but the nurse in 10:13 seems to be wearing medals resembling a jubilee medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (the blue one, 1968) and "For the Capture of Berlin" (the red one, 1945).
To go through the entire war to Berlin, retire as a veteran, live a peaceful life and then die back in Stalingrad in 1942 surely must have been... confusing.
Ahhh yes, Stalingrad. The home of Russian architecture and conveniently placed bricks glued to walls.
doom eternal design
@@nagibrich1270 You can't compare "Quake" map design to a call of duty campaign.
Assassin's creed: Vanguard
Having fun is more important when it comes to this game.
2:31 That is one rich Soviet family, I'm surprised that the NKVD haven't dragged this family kicking and screaming to the "people's court".
Reznov: Dimitri, look!
Dimitri: What?
Reznov: It's Lady Nightingale.
Dimitri: What's her name?
Reznov: I guess her name is Polina Petrova
Dimitri: Sounds good to me.
It would’ve been cool to see a cameo of them in this game
Reznov: Anyway Dimitri! You only wounded him!
*SHOOT AGAIN*
It was just a decoy!
*SHOOT ONE MORE TIME*
You just grazed him!
Part?
Cod waw
@@nahoy350 the funny thing is that the german sniper is actually doing a 360° no scope in you
Her: *fully uniformed soldier*
german soldier: *thinks she's a normal citizan and tells her to get inside*
That's what I was confusing for 😅
@@xomania2352oh hi there dude
@@Assault1_gaming Hello
Imagine if a high-ranking Soviet officer and his second in command were to interrupt Polina and tell her Steiner is to be taken prisoner in order to be thoroughly interrogated. Then when she asks who they are, the officer and his second introduce themselves as Dragovich and Kravchenko, respectively.
ohohoho
Wrong Steiner, one in this game is a whole different Steiner.
Oh shit, that would've been quite a thing
@@MrWhippss if this were a joke, my friend, chances are you’d have gotten a “woosh” sooner or later. Yes, I am aware this is a different Steiner.
@@9f81rsd00 Oh haha, didn't seem like that in the original post.
I’ve never understood why call of duty always makes the average German soldier a cartoonish villain
They did it with the Russians as well
in cod bo1 steiner the german had pretty good character and wasnt just a plain bad man villain
@@user-jg8bi5kw5l he kinda was
Because they were fighting a war of extermination?
@@Spudtron98 no shit sherlock, thats why they must be more serious villains, because they had true monsters with them, not some mustache twirling cartoonish villain who screams every 2 seconds
I love how CoD writer stop trying.
Look up who did the writing for this game
@@stingweeber6394 just did, not surprising at all lol
@@Drago2600 was it a chick and their first time?
@@AustinAOkay worst some chick who writes captain marvel comics
Man, the woman who wrote this needs some history lessons
Gotta love the fact that bricks were sticking out of the building enough for her to climb to safety.
its a video game, cry about it
@@User-cq1ri nah I'm good I'm just making a point.
@@User-cq1ri but if my opinion hurt you enough to cry about it to me then be my guest
@@User-cq1ri Yup it's a video game, be a good boy and shut down your brain to enjoy it. Who needs a brain anyways, you obviously don't at the very least...
Plot armour activated
Ok it’s been official.
Cod 2 has best representation of Stalingrad
Finest hour had it pretty sick too.
Yeah I guess, seen it on UA-cam, was pretty neat
Except it makes it look like the Germans are still somehow pretty strong in January 1943.
World At War had that sick introduction level to the European Theater in Stalingrad as well.
@@fritzVirginSteeler The Germans and Soviets were formidable in their own right in 1943, if they were as weak as you think they are, Warsaw would be taken in 43
A yes T-34/85s were totally used at Stalingrad when Tigers and Panthers didn't even appear yet......
Tigers were deployed at Stalingrad
@@hughmcateer3369 but not on a large scale and T-34/85 first appeared in 1943 not 1942....
@@bjorndevlieger8565 well you said they didn't appear yet which isn't the case. Also Tigers were never really deployed on a large scale anyways except for maybe Kursk.
@@bjorndevlieger8565, they actually only came about in the beginning of 1944.
@@ricardodecastro8118 also small bunch of T34 100 and funny thing is that not many of people know this, historians do, but T 44 was also deployed in small numbers.
Someone tell the Devs the "snipers" and common rifles are essentially the same weapons lmao
Depends on the gun the regular Mosins had straight bolts where as the sniper variants had a mount for scoped, heavy barrels, and the bolt was bent down aka dog latch so sniper rifles are definitely built much more differently than regular rifles.
@@KILLKING110 yes but they use the same ammo as their non sniper rifle counter parts. But COD has a habit of just not allowing you to use that ammo from normal rifles in your sniper rifle. Which maybe would make sense online from a balance perspective, but in singleplayer I should be able to use whatever weapon I damn please.
@@Cheezymuffin. in the original Call of Duty, they shared ammo
There was a Mosin variant (PU sniper) that snipers that were of considerably better quality than a typical 91/30.
@@KILLKING110 yes, but this Girl started a scene saying "precise shot, is a sniper" just because she found a body with a shot in the head
Dude, even a stray shot from a common bolt rifle can blow someone head by accident, there is no way of telling a sniper did it lmao
All that astonishing real-life history to choose from, and Sledgehammer games make up their own Michael Bay version with a side of parkour.
this game is like buying the history book from wish
It's just a game dude ... If you want history go to history channel .
@@habladorhablador4209 dude, would it be allright for you to play a game about Iraq war, where americans drive mario carts instead of abrams tanks? Because this is pretty much the level of accuracy of this game. People who made this game didnt do any research at all, i doubt they even lookd at some pictures of Stalingrad before war
@@habladorhablador4209 Whats your problem dude?
🤣🤣🤣
@@snowsnow4231 no no. the game where you fight on an Uranus planet during 1680 using deployable 500 lbs tank that can spawn from Neptune would be better
I'm sad there isn't even one cameo or a simple mention of Dmitriy and Reznov.
Would've loved to see a charge at the Square and there would be two allies that would be a hard to find easter egg with both their names, but as one person in vendetta calls it a "massacre" which it was, it would've been cool to have alot of Soviets charging to make the easter egg hard to spot, my punctuation is awful with stuff like this but hope it made sense
@@mottony yeah, they had the chance to add something like that but they didn't. They were both from Stalingrad, it's not like it's gonna ruin the timeline or anything.
The sledgehammer, infinity ward, and treyarch cods are in different universes.
@@advictoriam4266 Well that sucks. This just makes me want a WaW remaster more.
Until u find out the time lines are from different universes in the cod franchises
Gotta love seeing T-34-85s, a tank from late 1943, in the beginning of the battle of Stalingrad, while people are living their normal lives like there isn't any mass conscription, and the city still be overrun on a casual Sunday afternoon, mainly because stukas with autoloading 37mms, cloud stealth, and bombers with bombs that can multiply midair, don't forget that all the Soviet AA gunners are on vacation and only the medics are on station today
Couldnt have said it better myself.
I think T-34-85 tank was a time traveler tho
T-34/85 didn’t even see combat until first quarter of 1944.
7:52 flawless line delivery. This is what you learn in the Oblivion NPC School of AI Dialogue
They probably brought in a voice actor from Oblivion for that lmao
When I first heard that, the first thing I said to myself was: what do you mean a stereo tyipcal Russian?
You have to single handedly kill entire battalions to complete these missions. No teammates no nothing.
That’s why i hate this call of duty..i was expecting all out war..especially in stalingrad smh
This is the criticism i was looking for.
Literally every shooter to exist has these.
2:10 "A real family breakfast"
**Casually keeps a garbage rod on the table** 😂
In russia its normal
@@pancackes6426 I can see that...
On normal days yes, but I’m times of war, keep the SVT at table.
Gotta keep that WW1 Relic
The Mosin was a good rifle
Meanwhile a guy named pavlov is defending an apartment with his men.
A guy named vassili is on the railroad.
A guy named Koslov from Cod 2 is fighting from room to room, street to street.
Reznov and Dimitri is on the fountain somewhere.
and meanwhile Alexander Sokolov crossing the volga river with a boat (COD Finest Hour)
@@bustasmoke and a female sniper also accompanies the troops attracting a tank
Rosaria Tanya, she picks off Officers, tank commanders and helps defend a warehouse repairing a tank....all plausible scenarios compared to this crap.
It doesn't feel like a battle at all if you're fighting alone
Fr I was expecting you to be able to fight in the actual Battle of Stalingrad, like in COD Big Red One, but it kinda feels empty because you're just playing as this lone female Russian sniper. This doesn't feel like the Battle of Stalingrad at all lmao.
With this gameplay and historical accuracy I actually hoped the Germans won ....
_alternate history_ lol
@mike jfk I agree
If the Germans won we would probably have a better video game ngl
@Based_Stalinist They'd always have Africa, with all the mud patties they can eat
@Based_Stalinist The Germans were actually pretty chill with Africans, they had the grindset of understanding but without the bigotry of America due to the latter's close proximity with them.
32:04 "That's a sniper shot. Precise" BAH..should've seen that one sniper in WaW who was teleporting between windows on Veteran. Never been that frustrated as a kid.
Not to mention german sniper nades and japanese spam nades.
And the worst part is that German sniper is 360 no scoping everytime he shoots and just shrugs off several direct hits
@@m10tankdestroyer94 I know right, but the feeling when you managed to kill him. Felt like victory day all over again.
You must mean CoD: Grenades at War
I swear I headshoted him like twice but Reznov said "You just grazed him". Man I really lost my shit there
“YOU JUST GRAZED HIM!!!” gotta love that shit
Objective: "Spend time with your family" *sits down*
1:33 I doubt Russians called petrol bombs "Molotov cocktails". Their enemy the Finns came up with the name.
Sadly, I don't think whoever made this game cared.
Would be cool if they added a Finnish campaign
Russians did call them mostly “Molotov cocktails” or “Zaszhigatelnaya Granata” (Meaning: Incendiary Grenade).
@@user-ly7zq6ty3x they got the name from the Finnish
@@gamerfartmaster6923 And??? You’re trying to argue whether or not Russians are allowed to call Molotovs their own names or what?! 🤦♂️😂
I still remember back in WaW, 2 trained soldiers Petrenko & Reznov used guerilla tactic against an army of Nazi. Now, a non-soldier medical unit single-handedly attacks an army of Nazi head on.
to hell with equality
*plays vendetta from waw and old stalingrad mission from old cod games instead*
Ah yes, a man of culture. WAW was much better than this.
old Cod infinitely times better in terms of plot
"For Mother Russia, comrades! Do not turn your back on her! Victory or death!"
URAAAAA
@@pigbenis5295 I swear the first time anyone playing Russian’s mission in CoD1 and 2, they will scream on the top of their lungs when charging into the Nazi’s positions
i LOVE the fact that when the first bombers arrive she decide to climb up the rooftops while everyone is seeking shelter and cover ..... Insert *your tactics confuse and frighten me sir* meme here.
History: Am I joke to you?
Yes……yes you are.
Not a historian or military expert myself, but I genuinely feel very weird about the inconsistencies such as the T-34/85 and uniforms of the red army, and some of the guns.
I feel sadened for the missed opportunities. To have not a historical accurate but at least having a believable enviroment.
Storywise, not really a great fan. Hoped for more of a small unit story (like vasily's 3 men team in enemy at the gates) rather than a one woman army.
That’s all cod is now it’s all about shit and equality
@@scarzandy436 Cry more.
Finally someone notice it
Seeing the T-34-85 in battle of Stalingrad Made me think like : "what the f is T-34-85 doing in 1942"
First time you play a WWII themed Cod? They always had 1943 uniforms and T 34/85 for Stalingrad, even the old games (Finest hour actually had the correct 76, but still the wrong uniforms) . That's because most of time there are soviet levels set in 1945, so they just use the same models. Pretty understandable
@@ProfessorPhysics2 if my name is quackerjacks I would be crying like damn
34:16 Ah yes AS-44 an early soviet assault rifle that was designed in 1944 and never came in service appeared in Stalingrad at 1943. 😂
Didn't knew
And even that only in trial service in very limited number. How they manage to research somewhat obscure weapons and somehow put it in the wrong time is kind of ad
@@789know Still way more common than other SMGs of other Axis powers.426,000 guns isn’t that much but it isn’t that limited either.
7:48 “don’t worry, the Red Army will handle it”
“WELL, BE CAREFUL OUT THERE 😐”
If usa and britain hadn't sent extreme amount of military,raw material,logistic and food aid to bolsheviks, and %100 of the german troops had been on the eastern front ,the glorious german army would have taken moscow and st@lingrad like taking candy from a baby
@@michaelram3411 you are funny 😂 yeah
@@michaelram3411"lend lease" made 5% of soviet production. And you really think it was for free?
There is more soul in the opening 90 seconds to the first soviet mission of COD Finest Hour than there is in this whole campaign
Tanya Pavelovna from Finest Hour: Looks like I have found myself a great fellow sniper out there.
This girl has got nothing on Tanya
Tanya was waifu material. This one not so much
I loved that game.
Yep, historically correct game. Stalingrad 1942, yet shoulder marks were adopted in the USSR only 06 January 1943. Time travel these soldiers are from the future.
It's a pretty minor mistake considering some of the other inaccuracies. I think Sledgehammer can be forgiven for only wanting to make one set of models for the Red Army.
@@Marshall_Thompson I don't know if it was minor or major because I stopped watching it from the beginning after seeing 1942 and then girl with shoulder marks.
Well, technically speaking the battle of Stalingrad DID end in the beginning of 1943...but by then it was mostly mop up operations to capture the last German holdouts, not so much a full fledged battle
@@antonioferrari5884 It says Stalingrad 1942
@@Marshall_Thompson the game has so many MAJOR inaccuracy. They are not forgiven.
There is no mention of vasily or reznov because of two things:
A: It's is broad daylight
B: If i'm right, WAW takes place in a separate area of stalingrad
I agree
Well no, since the area were Misha is shot is Red Square, the place were... you start the Vendetta mission of WAW. You can see the statue of the fountain. So it's the same area. But it's litteraly not the same season, since there is no snow in WAW...
@@garrysattivel107 I see, so.. Alt continuity?
@@AllGamingStarred More like, no continuity at all
Dimitri
10:46 shit, we are getting attacked by planes
*proceeds to climb on rooftops*
31:20
The German 6th Army was in NO way in a condition to fight at this time.
They have been surrounded and cut off from their supply lines (The Air Drops were very miniscule) for over 6 weeks. They were starving and low on ammo. They mostly hunkered down and hoped that the 4 Panzer can get them out.
Hoth's 4th Panzer Army only got within 60km (40 miles), but the Soviets stopped them. OH and no SS troops fought in Stalingrad.
Sir Hanush
10:27 Ah yes the He-177 grief was totally used in Stalingrad and Russia, I learned it on the history channel!
It was though, only in the end, and used to supply the last defending Germans
The design is so cheap, its like a bunch of royalty free materials and 3d models from the web, the game artists didnt even bother to look up the pictures of pre-war Stalingrad.
Judging by the trees and vegetations we are somewhere in Italy or France, but nowhere near Stalingrad.
Why are people boarding their shops when there was no commerce in the USSR?
Where did they get plywood? If you look at the pictures of Stalingrad in 1940, you would not find plywood, it was an expensive and fancy material used for furniture and aircrafts, no one would have been using it to board up windows in his right mind.
Why is there so many cars abandoned? Only high officials were able to afford cars, why are there so many abandoned cars if all officials would have been evacuated months before the first air raid?
Why is there yellow tarp everywhere? Is this The Division 2 or what?
You even used the wrong barbed wire, google Stalingrad images and see what type of barbed wire was used in the USSR, every soviet person knows it and its nothing like this fancy modern razor wire.
And its like that with everything. It is not Stalingrad, it is France with yellow tarp from the Division 2, razor wire from Iraq war and plywood from US marines training grounds with fake plywood houses.
Guys, you have completely messed up the art and visual part, its not immersive at all.
Say what you will about this mission, at least it shows us a new side to Stalingrad: what it was like before the fighting began. We got to see what life was like for its locals before the first shots were fired, as they prepared to hold back the Germans, whatever it took. We may have only got to see a small portion of this peacetime, but I'm glad I saw it.
iT'S A FICTIONAL VIDEO GAME WTF HAHAHAHA
what
Yep, it's actually a good change, though sadly it's overshadowed by the overwhelming amount of stuff that created negativity.
But it wasn’t like this at all. You can imagine all you want but this was purely fictional
In actuality, they knew the Germans were coming and Stalin ordered that everyone stayed in Stalingrad so it motivates the Red Army to fight for something. Took them weeks to even take the city
37:26 there is no world where a PPSH completely cuts off a man's upper torso. Tf was that
It's the .50 Cal PPSh-41
Yeah that was dumb af
Its a game
Stalinium bullets comrade
@@randomperson5775 the power of communism was in those rounds tovarisch
I love how all the Germans are so bad at basic tactics and fighting in this game, it's amusing to watch the Germans just rush into open gunfire, but when you're reloading they cower in fear
It’s so hard to believe that these are the same guys who captured 90% of the entire city by fighting men to men before getting encircled by Soviet reinforcements in December 1942.
Chill: don't worry the red army will handle it
Loud: WELL BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!
Who else experienced the battle of Stalingrad on call of duty finest hour. One of my childhood memory games for sure. I think it was the second mission where you storm the bunker
Hell yeah, got to cross the Volga river with a epic speech, play cat and mouse snipping germans and ride a tank defending the city!
@@griz312 ahhh. The good ole days
Yea and back then they didn't need to make the sniper a lesbian, but rather just a badass chick
Can I just say the score playing in the background is dope as hell
Great production and engineering
The violin soundtracks actually sound great ngl
@@synical_zero0003 exactly
Although it was a highly sought after war trophy due to its high quality and reliability plus its scarcity
Which was a similar situation with the Orso submachine gun from Cod WW2 which was a early war Italian submachine gun which was highly regarded as the best Submachine gun Available to the Italian army
But it later got stripped down due to war shortages yet it still kept its quality and reliability which made both variants of the Orso another sought after war trophy by Allied troops
Tf you talking about?
@@franciscocarneiro8300 the sniper mosin maybe?
I hear Hitler getting angry about Steiner's assault failing due to one woman.
and not a single reference to the most iconic WAW protagonists
Good, they would've ruined them
How many times are we going to feature Stalingrad?
Cod: yes
Right? Lol 😂 so lame
They have to so they cram female soldiers down everyone's throat
@@olplainface1299 you mixed cod with BFV.
CoD: Doesn't feature Eastern Front in Ww2
Fans: Eww WW2 game with no eastern front? That's lame?
CoD: Finally features Eastern Front
Fans: Lmao stop repeating this front
@@sooryan_1018 that's not the problem
It's that COD kept giving us the same place in the Easter front, over and over
GIVE US A PLACE TO FIGHT OTHER THAN THE SAME STALINGRAD! Atleast Leningrad,Odessa, Budapest, or even put a Yugoslav partisan mission in there
45:59 I think my heart stopped for a second
Jumpscare by Kratos
WaW : Dimitri Patrenko
Vanguard : Polina Petrov
Tbh WaW is the legend who agree
Polina should've never gotten on that line so that the german invasion was never triggered
She keeps falling down and not a single bone breaks
T-34 85....... In battle of Stalingrad....right.......
Make sense
Its even a Zis-53 that was in late 1944 XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
9:00 That's T-34/85 - a tank variant that went into use late 1943... a whole year after Stalingrad.
Most importantly,it first saw action in the Spring of 1944..
So this Stuka pilot apparently REALLY wanted to crash 11:06
Haha that was one crazy pilot, I thought it's a bug.
Imagine the waw campaign with these textures and graphics but they made it more brutal
Bro there's no way the Germans already were in the city like that without weeks of brutal fighting
After watching this I'm convinced AI has somehow managed to become less advanced since WAW was released
I remember the original Modern Warfare 2, where the Russians would strategically crouch behind cars and buildings as they tried to move up and surround you. Also, in the original Black Ops, the Spetsnaz would roll and flip around the environment between cover to make themselves harder to hit.
After Black Ops 1, Call Of Duty games were never the same, another awful game ….
True story bro
Actually it was after Black Ops 2. Ghosts marked the beginning of the end.
The real life soviet female snipers where some of the best marksmen of the war
Lady death lyudmila pavlichenko
Lol mmmmmmk
@@thepatheticguy209 tanya chernova
But couldn't defeat Simo Hahya
@@SILOPshuvambanerjee he was like her too killed a lot of soviet with sniper
This is the second time a character played by Laura Bailey loses her Dad.
Haha i get it
This doesn't feel like a battle, in this game you are fighting by yourself, no one is helping you which makes it feel like you are just running from the cops.
Is this a Call of Duty campaign or Assassin's Creed? What's up with all the climbing up buildings?
Call of creed
Assassin's Creed: Horror of the Eastern Front
Call of Duty: Assassins Creed
Stalingrad 1942 looks like WAW and Stalingrad 1943 looks like Enemy at The Gates
I think the 2003 COD had the best Stalingrad atmosphere, it had a mix of both since at least 4 missions were based in Stalingrad. COD 2 had a good one too but it was just winter.
Nah. Stalingrad in WaW looks like enemy at the gates.
Stalingrad in WaW looked nothing like Stalingrad. It was made of recycled props from the Berlin missions and misterious channels and rivers.
WaW was a masterpiece
Even if WAW was not the most accurate at least it was a good game
WaW was the most accurate CoD game, which is a low standard, but it was still the most accurate, now we have superheroes in WWII
@@user-kt3jk1vq9o I know right. If we could just get one historically accurate triple A game
Cod waw is the best second war cod
The quotes and excerpts that are shown before the missions in Red Orchestra 2's single player paint a far more believable and moving picture of the Battle of Stalingrad than this game could ever hope to. Retiring the "Stalingrad sniper campaign" is long overdue, Enemy at the gates wasn't even a good movie.
Do as I say and we'll avenge this brutal massacre.
This game never surpassed yet.
8:13 Im sure those T-34-85 tanks would have delayed the German advance. It should be the 76mm version with the two-man turret at least. Could have been due to budget reasons or time limit before its release.
Probably lack of deep research
@@razgriss5882 I kinda don't think so. The fact that lots of the main battle tanks of WW2 have been throughly researched through books and media makes it the fact that the earlier models would have been used instead of the later ones so it all comes down to pointing the blame on budget and time of release which means they have to models a few items relevant in their WW2 game if you know what I mean.
@@shadowtrooper262 T34 were better tank than Panzer 2,3 or 4 .... But the Soviets were really lacked of training and tactics
While this is happening, Dimitri and Reznov are playing dead in a fountain
Say what you want, but that part from 10:20 really gives chills. Imagine you are russian soldier at that time, trying to prepare for possible land warfare soon enough, and you see the Luftwaffe Squadron bringing literal hell on you in just a matter of seconds...
This game is so bad. Vasily didn't appear in the mission and slaughter the Germans all by himself with his PPSH41 just like in CoD 2. 0/10, terrible game.
No Vassili to fight them.
No Petrenko to shoot them from afar alongside Petrova.
No Reznov and his speeches.
0.5/10.
Where is reznov and Petranko, this game can lick my balls
@@circleancopan7748 0. 4 for me... lack some cod soviet music
Dragovich and Kravchenko are opportunists, manipulators. They are not to be trusted Dmitri!
Based opinion
I like that they added select fire to the campaign
As a Russian person, I was very upset that the "Russian" people in the game DO NOT LOOK LIKE RUSSIANS AT ALL. their appearance is Arabian, gypsy, Jewish, BUT NOT RUSSIAN. remember, Russian people don't look like that, Russians have completely different facial features, predominantly blue eyes and blonde hair. even the hairstyles of the inhabitants of "Stalingrad" do not correspond to the era. the rest of the atmosphere of Russia in the 40s is conveyed well. stalingrad is not like stalingrad, but it looks like a typical Russian city. it is clear that the developers did not even try to recreate exactly Stalingrad.
It is also worth noting that the word "papasha" in Russian is used in a disparaging, offensive meaning. this is a gross mistake, it hurts the ear. the developers wanted to show colloquial communication. correct would be "batya\batyanya"
Russians didnt win the war sowjets did. this includes tatars azeris uzbeks kazaks armenians etc
It’s strange the small ways modern games try to change and sanitize history. The latest Assassins Creed games (Odyssey, Valhalla) were the worst offenders. Every place has to look like a college recruitment ad
@@akscjdid1793 About 40% of the soldiers were Russians, Ukrainians or Belarusians. We have almost the same genotype. The remaining 60% were the rest of the 200+ nationalities
@@sickjuicysjamshack3580 dude 800,000 women served...
The most inaccurate thing in this game is how smooth the bolt is on the Mosin
According to the developers, the German army steamrolled the city of Stalingrad in a day, the real battle took them weeks before they even made it to the inner layers of the city and the capital building.
>the first (and largest) German bombing raid on Stalingrad took place on August 24, 1942
>German troops didn't even reach the outskirts of Stalingrad until that very day and took until September to break into the city proper
They're literally conflating events that took place several weeks apart lmao
I'm surprised that old man isn't on vorkuta or any major gulag, he got so many russian empire medals
10:32 what a bloody hero, trying to shoot down a stuka with a mosin
Exactly 😭🤣
You don't believe in stalinium bullets?
Alot of ww2 soldiers did try to shoot down aircraft with small arms
AS44 in Stalingrad in 43. Man even the number is giving atleast a HINT.
I don't even know what that gun is lmao, I saw it and was like "What?" I've never heard of that SMG in WWII
Did you know that half of map of COD vanguard was Created by Dr.Disrespect
this was crazy thx for the upload I made it to where her brother helps her escape what an awesome game 🙂👍
Stalingrad.....the bloodiest battle in the history of the world.
I wonder where are the people who made COD 1 United Offensive, COD 2, COD WAW ... so great.
They are not needed to create trash entertainment. This is just created for brainless audience who couldn't care about anything other than flashy gameplay.
T 34_85 in 1942 ???
the un shots with the music at 39:47 is just perfect
Finally a cod game where my people arnt bad people
What people are you ?
@@ahmadkhalil1708 It would be Russia since this level is in Russia and you play as a Russian character