What's even more fucked up, is that since 2008 when this released, that number has actually increased. WW2 death toll is estimated to be around 70-80 million now. Of those, around 50 million were civilians. Literally 3% of the population of 1940 died in World War II.
Other games' endings: "We have achieved victory thanks to your efforts! You're a hero!" WaW endings: "Millions of lives were lost and you virtually contributed to some of them"
It’s a great testament to the care and effort that the developers put into the game. WW2 was the most brutal conflict in history and it’s no time to virtually celebrate the destruction of multiple countries
@@dillonmanning5612 Because me and you didn't do anything at all. All the credit goes to the hero's ,the veterans that died for us and withnessed these horrors while sacrificing everything in the name of freedom
@@XxAizenxX187I usually if i remember date of calendar drop by in Nagabonar Soedirman scene And some MOH ost, now this is the 4th video. There are other stories but yeah I drop by in hero anniversary day in those vids, to comment Also get teary everytime, I watch jun Shik Kun in my way Korean war movie but parodied by kaiser vs. Yarnhub interview is also good
It’s more chilling after you watch Oppenheimer. After the movie I came home and watched this scene, those two pieces put together make anyone question geopolitical realities now.
I still have a picture of the actual Enola Gay signed by the pilot Paul Tibbets at an airshow before he died; I hope he and the bombardier were able to know they saved hundreds of thousands of GIs from a terrible invasion scenario. Edit : It's kind of old, but check out "Trinity and Beyond : Atomic Bomb Movie" narrated by William Shatner and two sequels I think.
@@Qu1nt_travelsThat's true. When Oppeheimer heard that the first bomb felt over Hiroshima, this was the first thing I thought about, this tragical music and, the final Apocalypse falling over japanese citizens.😢
Man seeing this cutscene after watching Nolan’s Oppenheimer adds a new perspective to history, no doubt. The deadliest war in human history ended with the creation of man’s deadliest weapon of war yet.
IMO, both conflicts were part of 1 larger conflict as the end result of the first formed the basis for the 2nd. I just call it The Great War Part 1 and 2.
"60 million lives were lost as a result of World War II. It was the most deadliest and destructive conflict in human history." God that puts an impact on you
I remember playing this as a 9 year old. I had heard of WW2 and knew it was a big war, but hadn't really been taught just how destructive it was. Seeing that at the end really shocked me, and was what started my interest in the World Wars. Those two lines have stuck with me to this day.
Same man! I loved blazing angels as a kid but it wasn’t until I got a bit older where I understood the horrors of WW2 and war in general. One of the last cod games that really teaches you the importance of life and liberty.
This game perfect hooks gamers with its brutal gameplay, educates with footage and info in cutscenes and opens their eyes with a beautiful but horrific ending, so show War is no game. Best CoD out there.
@Neil Hardie at least in bf5 we got that sweet ass German mini campaign. Playing as them specially at the end when there 0 hope was such a breath of fresh air
@Flare The fact you're using COD WW2 as anything remotely historically accurate is an insult to the 60 million lives lost in the war. Do us all a favor and use COD:World at War like someone with barely any knowledge of WW2 would do. Fun fact, bf1942/43 didn't have swastikas either. They did get rid of the eagle in bf5, which was disappointing. And for all the political stuff of the other campaigns, the German campaign was amazing.
@Flare Holy shit it's been a while since i met someone as delusional as you! Last time was some guy who kept spewing about how Ceasar's Legion was undefeatedable in Fallout: New Vegas! Good times! You 2 ain't related, right? Anyway, I never said The Last Tiger was realistic, I said it was good. Free from the woke politics of the others, when have you even played as nazis and have been portrayed as anything other than monsters? Shit was nice historical inaccuracies aside. And no, COD WW2 was absolutely NOT historically accurate and there plenty of info on that available. I WILL, however, give you that it's basically perfectly accurate compared to WOKEFEST that was vanguard. Shit is night and day when you compare the 2.
I recently met a WW2 veteran for the first time a few weeks ago and it was an amazing experience. He is 104 years old and still with us. He was a paratrooper in the Europe theatre in WW2 and also served in Korea and Vietnam. The things that man had seen are probably unspeakable and I told him with the utmost respect “Thank for serving our country sir!”
@@Mobius118F if you lived in 1945 when that bomb dropped that would be the end of the war and the stop to most of the fighting. the bomb killing 100 thousand people would be the spark of the "long peace". you have to understand that bit.
@@Mobius118F Fair enough. I hope nuclear war doesn't happen. If it does happen lets hope AT LEAST that it's only used on a small scale during battles, not on innocent cities.
So they originally wanted to make the final mission to put the player in control of the bombardier of the Enola Gay. The bomber would fly along its projected flight path and the player would've had to line up the bomb sights and drop the payload on the city. The mission ended up getting scrapped in favor of showing the raw footage of the actual event instead. The creative directors feared that the mission could've put the whole project at risk of being rejected by the ratings committee given the unprecedented level of violence the player would've needed to commit. This and the speech that followed it was the better compromise. Seeing the actual footage of the event drives the conclusion of the game's story a lot closer to home, and it spared the player from having to commit the act themselves. This game is a masterpiece.
@@GabrielVilanova-n3pgameplay wise, I don't think it would have impacted you that much because your POV is literally from above. I think it got scrapped was a good idea. Some ideas sound okay on paper but aren't that good in practise.
@@jar8808 It's easy to say when you look at the war as someone living in the present. Even though we won we also lost a ton of soldiers and left tons of widows in America. Not just in America, but the whole world sacrificed too many lives, both innocent and otherwise.
@@jar8808 If Germany and Japan had won the war, we would be judging the Allies as the Axis is currently being judged. You need more history, less propagated American and Hollywood movies. In addition, with the passage of time, it was distorted at the convenience of the victors, which is what the axis really wanted.
" It's my earnest hope and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world would emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past" - If only he knew.
@@alfstewart2592 during the Korean War he wanted to nuke them to end the conflict which is ironic as in this speech he gives about peace being restores
@@LabyrinthS117 True, the only footage of the Hiroshima bomb is so damaged and badly taken (since it was from a "backup" camera crew) that everyone used the Nagasaki shot to represent it. Plus, the tail gunner, who had the job to film the Hiroshima detonation (his ONLY job), fucked up the negatives while he was developing the film and that perfect footage was instantly lost forever.
@@PointReflex”you had one job private, ONE JOB!” Sorry I know it’s a serious issue but I always wondered why we don’t have more footage of the Hiroshima bomb.
I need to remind you all, we will NEVER EVER EVER get a Call Of Duty game that is this serious again, unless we get a COD game that focuses on the war on terror and not telling a nonfictional story.
@Leo.de99 If they make it so you stop the planes but the towers still collapse I'll actually buy it. Otherwise, pirate or gamepass just to see. All pending player reviews of course.
You know this call of duty game with the 2 decade war on terror would not be positive reviews because of the 3000 lives that died on 9/11 and the rising number of death from the disease of the dust cloud from the towers collapse and the victims families would sue Activision for the game they made involving the 9/11 topic Edit: some countries in the Persian gulf and other Islamic countries are not gonna have their countries have this game sold because of their involvement with the war on terror just like how Japan forced Call of Duty World at War to be banned for showing their involvement in World War II as the Empire of Japan (Imperial Japan or Japanese Empire)
I really respect World at War for reminding you, not just at the end here but throughout the game, how catastrophic World War II was. The amount of people who died is mind boggling. The Berlin levels in particular look like the apocalypse. Everything is destroyed, ash and rubble, it looks more like a Fallout game. People fighting through collapsed buildings, people using wardrobes and sofas as barricades, climbing through mountains of concrete. It was the first time the scale of destruction really sank in for me.
A lot tried to surrender at the Western Allies. Some were lucky; some were given to the Soviets. Those who had no opportunity to surrender to the Western Allies fought to the death because they knew how brutal the Soviets are. The old, the young, the weak fought for their lives. CODWAW just gave an intro of the brutality of War.
@@rzpogi(Google translate) Ты как-то странно заявил что советы жестоки. Я надеюсь ты понимаешь, что солдаты СССР стали такими не из пустого места, а потому что их народ подвергся геноциду (что даже в этой игре показывали перед миссией в сталинграде) Типа немцы заслужили такое отношение. Сколько человек именно гражданских погибло со стороны США? Или Великобритании? Со стороны советского союза гибель гражданских составила 23 миллиона и более 19 миллионов военослужащих. Это была настоящая мясорубка где был выбор либо проиграть и умереть, либо выйграть и остаться в живых.
@@damonyucky although it feels like we’re heading that way yet again, I’m hoping I’m wrong but :/ us humans didn’t learn anything about the 2 world wars. 60-80 million deaths in ww2 with their technology. Now Imagine how many casualties it will be with modern technology and weapons….
@@SPAC3H3R0 back when call of duty had the balls to show the horrors of war and that it’s not something you truly want to experience. Where as nowadays they show the soldiers having fun and laughing through it all
WWII has ended by making new super weapons that can destroy a full city with a single bomb, before wwii was the war to end all wars. We didn’t win wwii, we just ended it.
This has to be one of the most bleak ending cutscenes in any video game full stop. there’s no happy ending where we see our characters go home and get a medal, just a reminder of the cost of freedom and everything it took to get it.
You have to either save Roebuck or Polonski. They don't both get to come home. Chernov dies on the steps to the reistag... the final mission in the game. Your character gets shot steps away from planting the flag and claiming victory. And then this ending cutscene. I think this game was one of the last ones (that I played, at least) to show how brutal it really was. Knowing that these are the last pushes before it's over and watching characters that have been there from the start die right before it's over is a punch to the stomach. This was real for probably more people than we can think of. God thank the men and women of the 20th century who did what had to be done
@@fliper975 the soviet campaign also give you false happiness ending when you realize what happened to reznov and dimitri in cod black ops, i miss cod when the writers actually put effort into this game.
@@fliper975 Considering that the War was provoked by the Allies and they allowed the Axis to expand, besides that it was not for the Soviet Union and that Germany let the English soldiers escape from France. The US and Britain would have given up.
The text at the end still gives me chills. Even the first text at the credits dedicating this game to all veterans. They absolutely nailed it. Nothing will ever top this!
@@YoungYuri19 To be fair, Waw does also have alot of inaccuracies and things that make no sense, but it has something that the latter two don’t have. It’s believable, and you feel like you’re there. Sure your character has a name and such, but without them talking you feel more like the actual soldier in the war, and not some super duper Russian sniping wonder woman or an all knowing Afro-American paratrooper that is in charge off everything. Or other soldiers that win the war with anachronistic magic. Not that try to sound racist/sexist, but that’s how it is.
Yeah inaccuracies also happened in Korean war movie my way, the book is prolly a good documentary. For graphics i bestow the rank on mustard and (war) operation room Yarnhub is the most real, it got interview recording of a veteran and good enough graphics
A shame SJWs today are pissing on the sacrifice our grandfathers and great grandfathers did to ensue these virtues and give us a better world to live in.
@@Antimanele104 we continue to divide ourselves as a nation. It’s not looking good either. Maybe I’m crazy but if this continues, it may just aid in the downfall of the free world.
@@JOSHHARRIS-v3w I am not american, I am actually eastern european, but as most countries from Eastern Europe, we've experienced communism first hand. And let me tell you: what the inbred SJWs are doing in America is the same thing that happened to us years ago. You guys must fight for your freedom and accept no more their censorship they do because their "feelings" are hurt.
@@Antimanele104 SJWs didn’t destroy these values, the promises of peace and understanding were broken when the United States started occupying sovereign nations, such as Korea and Vietnam
1:07 this is scary how the hopeful tone withers away and terrifying sound comes in, and bells, like as if the hope was false and the war is about to happen again and as if General MacArthur is talking to us as a humanity but we don't listen...
BF1 has one of the most chilling openings to any war game I've played. WaW had one of the most chilling endings. It'd be nice to have this game remastered.
Call of Duty did World at War Right as opposed to WWII. Waiting until after all the fighting, chaos, death, fear, bloodshed, and frustration to let you know how many people died where as WWII it seemed more like a steriotypical American WWII Movie and the let you know beforehand how many lives were lost, not even giving you time to experience what the brave men who fought and died experienced.
I fucking swear that COD WAW and Fallout 1 and 2 had some chilling moments that made it feel authentic. Much of their successors made it so sensitive. There were no games in the series that were good after BO2 and NV
The bells are what got me. Very unsettling. I used to skip the credits as a kid so I think I missed this cutscene until recently. Really puts this whole game in a new perspective
MW and black ops endings: *guitar rift* you badass voiced protagonist. You killed the guy, saved *insert western country*, and now you get some skins see ya in warzone. Waw: millions are dead, europe and east asia are ruins, your friends, your brothers in arms died or lost their humanity and will forever be troubled by the nightmares... some will take their own lives.....
BO1 and BO2 is a historical fiction with real life events in it kinda like AC (before the alien shenanigans anyways) so obv its hollywood-like. WaW is based on historical events and you are reliving it as a fictional character. Both B01 and B02 are great because it showcased how messed up the Cold War was unlike the rest of the sequels.
This cutscene gives me the chills evey time especially as it reminds you how brutal ww2 was and how its the most destructive and deadly conflict in human history
I oh know the adrenaline rush as Dimitri fights his way up the rikestage to plant the flag over Berlin to the sadness and brief moments of silence as the bomb goes off then the message about how many lives were lost
A lot of war games suffer from ludonarrative dissonance and I think you could arguably level that accusation against World at War, and certainly the Call of Duty franchise as a whole, but I think World at War at least resists it a lot better than any other entry in the series. I can't exactly articulate why but as opposed to other CoD games it feels like you're just fighting for survival or brutal revenge and it perfectly culminates in this final cutscene and those two sobering end cards regarding the death toll of the conflict.
What makes World at War different is the level of brutality that you don’t usually get in other WWII games. The atmosphere is relentlessly grim. Your squad mates don’t quip like they’re in a Marvel movie. They used real archive footage in the cutscenes, including some pretty awful stuff like executions and massacres. Finally, all the weapons do realistic damage to a human body. Everything from limbs blown off by machine guns to the sound of flesh sizzling after using the flamethrower. The gameplay and missions aren’t realistic, but they’re extremely immersive.
i guess its always the cliche that your depicted as some sort of super soldier who "cheats death" multiple times throughout the story, but that's really all I could think off. It's pretty straight forward, there's no side chatter unless its needed and if it is present, its more of a background that the player can choose to focus on (or rather, natural curiosity prompts the player to look and listen). For example, the scene where four Russian soldiers kill a German, or the scene where a platoon of Russians execute surrendered Germans. It's a side element, but the game is so immersive you can't help but look upon the grim fate of those POWs.
The ending always gives me chills the battleship entering Tokyo bay the Japanese representative one of the few who voted against the war now forced to sign the surrender limps and walks with a cain from recent injury from a bombing as he signs it and McArthur makes his speach there are no cheers or celebrations the greatest war in human history end's with a hope of peace and silence
0:03 President Truman: General Eisenhower informs me, that the forces of Germany have surrendered to the United Nations. The victory won in the West, must now be won in the East. 0:18-0:49 General MacArthur: We are gathered here, representatives of the major warring powers, to conclude a solemn agreement, whereby peace may be restore. It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion, a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past. A world founded upon faith and understanding, of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish, of freedom, tolerance and justice. 1:39 60 MILLION LIVES WERE LOST AS A RESULT OF WORLD WAR II. IT WAS THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE AND DEADLY CONFLICT IN HUMAN HISTORY.
The last two slides of this game are truly the boldest words cod had ever uttered. Absolutely bone chilling, because while we do have a very romanticized outlook on World War 2, we cannot forget truly how bloody, how gruesome, how much absolute agony was thrown about. This was the bloodiest conflict we have fought in recent memory, and yet we are still living in the ripples of the aftermath
For some reason, this two minute clip of a video game cutscene hits in home of how fucking apocalyptic WWII was than most pieces of media on the subject.
War is no game. No matter how much was shown in this game or any other WW2, nothing compares to how truly horrific and how brutal the Second World War was…
One thing I remembered from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is that he mentions how it a war story ends with triumph and great virtue, then it’s not a true story. This game ends like a story, not by simply telling us “hey we won the Germans and Japanese lost, we’re the good guys”. When in here it shows that even though the war ended, it never changes all the lives lost during its reign
As the choir sounds while we follow the bomber flane carrying the nuke to it's destination and then...... they go silent for a few seconds showing the mushroom cloud forming itself high in the sky. The HARDEST cutscene ever given to us
@@TheMaplePrivate it is a sign of prosperity in many cultures, the context really matters anywhere, its really dumb to ban it in games. The US had no problem showing swatike when actual nazis lived, they showed it everywhere, on documents, films etc.
@@camerongreene3357 That is a fallacy, that was done by the allies, they misrepresented the swastika, you have to see the context of Germany, not see it from the American perspective.
One of the best COD games ever. This ending tell you that war is evil and sometimes you need another evil to end it swiftly. There were many lives lost but ask yourself... How many more would be lost if the war continued.
I'll never forget playing this when I was 13 years old. Such an incredible game that depicted the visceral horrors of war and the loss of humanity all sides experienced. And even after all that, when this cutscene ended, the horror was just beginning... What followed was an absolute mystery that would soon become a worldwide phenomenon. Nazi Zombies. I was the first one who beat the campaign at my school. Everyone else just played online. They thought I was crazy and lying but soon enough they realized the truth. 2008 was a crazy time...
bro this game makes me so sad. almost all these people who lived and fought through this terrible event are now dead and it looks like we learned nothing from their suffering
Knowing that playing this as a kid, not knowing my history and stupidly saying “it’s just a made up cutscene” made me regret and eat up those words coming back as a 19 year old… Witnessing every single detail that WWII brought and the horrors with it, this game mastered the feelings & despair to those who died and sacrificing everything these people loved. War is not a joke, re-experiencing this scene again brings tears to me at 0:47 knowing that “Little Boy” & “Fat Man” were REAL Atomic bombs and were used on the Japanese people to force them to surrender. Witnessing that massive ball of fire is so devastating know how dark that era was and how people suffered so much. It’s such a shame we as a society let our personnel down…
It is not "one of" it IS the deadliest conflict in human history. No other wars comes close to how devastating the 2nd world war was and unfortunately the 3rd one would probably claim even more lives
@@BarryAllen__1A23 I do not know what weapons the third World war will be fought with, but the fourth one will be with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein
We must remember the horrors of this war so that we do not ever fight one like it again. Because I fear that if we do then it will mean our end, because consider what it took to end the Second World War and then imagine what it might take to end a third one...................
Conquering the Reichtag is followed by an empowering speech that lugubriously adorns an attack that in a single move caused more than 150,000 victims, followed by a hopeful speech calling for a new era of understanding (the player, M17 according to the ESRB, knowing a minimum of history of his school knows that nothing in that speech was fulfilled), and finished with text in black background, making it clear that we just saw the worst catastrophe of the modern world ... and we have learned nothing.
I love how this game gave us first gave us hope of a heroic ending that the war is over with the planting of the soviet flag on top of Berlin with the soviet anthem playing in the backround and the choir singing in the backround when we see the plane but then... When we see the mushroom cloud... silence. then we the last 2 panels, the tone is very scary and tragic... Legit, this cliffhanger is infinity better then Ghost' cliffhanger... and we remember the the cold War happen right after the horrors of world War 2... This game truly teaches us that War is not a game. This game is creepier then most horror movies
I can’t help but feel a deep irony to Mac Arthur’s speech. “A world founded upon faith and understand”. Look at what the nazis did to the Jews during the Holocaust and the period before that. “Give man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish… of freedom, tolerance and justice” Where did that get you? 60 million dead in one single conflict
60 million casualties part always give me chills everytime I completed the game. Knowing that my country lost 4 million people due to Japanese occupation, mostly by famine, and it's the biggest casualties in South East Asia.
This ending doesn't give you a sensation of victory, but one of bitter realization for how awful that era was.
So much death and destruction that the scars still have not faded.
@@samalvey8168 And it seems like we've not learnt our lessons as the world appears to be heading to war again
@@AndrewMRoots Alas, yes.
@@samalvey8168No fire in Hell will burn away the stains.
60 million lives were lost, only for the major warring powers to sign on a piece of paper.
The 2 slides at the end always give me chills.. I think the ending to WaW is a good reminder that war is no joke.
This is exactly what makes this game a masterpiece
60.000.000 lives lost in order for us to play COD WaW
Eternal memory for our grandparents, who fought against axis forces
As Ace Ventura puts it, "War... is hell. The last thing we want is a fight."
What's even more fucked up, is that since 2008 when this released, that number has actually increased.
WW2 death toll is estimated to be around 70-80 million now. Of those, around 50 million were civilians.
Literally 3% of the population of 1940 died in World War II.
@@Даниилфролов-ю5ц War caused by the Allies
Other games' endings: "We have achieved victory thanks to your efforts! You're a hero!"
WaW endings: "Millions of lives were lost and you virtually contributed to some of them"
It’s a great testament to the care and effort that the developers put into the game. WW2 was the most brutal conflict in history and it’s no time to virtually celebrate the destruction of multiple countries
Who felt like you literally accomplished nothing after hearing this speech but only contributed to it…
@@dillonmanning5612 Because me and you didn't do anything at all. All the credit goes to the hero's ,the veterans that died for us and withnessed these horrors while sacrificing everything in the name of freedom
Yeah... Other Games endings is are nonsense.
@@XxAizenxX187I usually if i remember date of calendar drop by in Nagabonar Soedirman scene
And some MOH ost, now this is the 4th video.
There are other stories but yeah I drop by in hero anniversary day in those vids, to comment
Also get teary everytime, I watch jun Shik Kun in my way Korean war movie but parodied by kaiser vs.
Yarnhub interview is also good
The Enola Gay scene is the most dramatic muscial score ive ever seen, and almost 15 years later it still gives me chills
It’s more chilling after you watch Oppenheimer. After the movie I came home and watched this scene, those two pieces put together make anyone question geopolitical realities now.
I still have a picture of the actual Enola Gay signed by the pilot Paul Tibbets at an airshow before he died; I hope he and the bombardier were able to know they saved hundreds of thousands of GIs from a terrible invasion scenario.
Edit : It's kind of old, but check out "Trinity and Beyond : Atomic Bomb Movie" narrated by William Shatner and two sequels I think.
@@Qu1nt_travelsThat's true. When Oppeheimer heard that the first bomb felt over Hiroshima, this was the first thing I thought about, this tragical music and, the final Apocalypse falling over japanese citizens.😢
@@jesusld Good, all horrible deeds wont go unpunished
@@BarryAllen__1A23 What?
Man seeing this cutscene after watching Nolan’s Oppenheimer adds a new perspective to history, no doubt. The deadliest war in human history ended with the creation of man’s deadliest weapon of war yet.
That weapon is the only reason we have never had a WW3 or any war anywhere near as brutal or lethal as WW2. It saved millions of lives.
Same here, Imagine how costly that an invasion of mainland Japan would've been
@@gravemind6536deadliest war in human history so far…
MAD kinda will be last just like Einstein said stick and bone
@@gravemind6536all it takes is someone to light the spark unfortunately
Two Bell tolls, Two World Wars
Pray that the Bell shall never toll for a third time...
Hopefully not again
If that bell tolls a third time, God help us.
IMO, both conflicts were part of 1 larger conflict as the end result of the first formed the basis for the 2nd. I just call it The Great War Part 1 and 2.
@@ThePumasboy300yh that's why they are called WW1 and WWII
Probably gonna have to thank china for a third one
"60 million lives were lost as a result of World War II. It was the most deadliest and destructive conflict in human history." God that puts an impact on you
Buddy it's not call of duty world war II. It's call of duty world at war
@@JJSherman-mi7il what I said is from WaW
I remember playing this as a 9 year old. I had heard of WW2 and knew it was a big war, but hadn't really been taught just how destructive it was. Seeing that at the end really shocked me, and was what started my interest in the World Wars. Those two lines have stuck with me to this day.
That ending statement always gets me and always sticks with me. This game and Blazing Angels were my introduction to WW2.
Dude same
Same man! I loved blazing angels as a kid but it wasn’t until I got a bit older where I understood the horrors of WW2 and war in general. One of the last cod games that really teaches you the importance of life and liberty.
@@JOSHHARRIS-v3w what is blazed angels?
@@epicgta5btctutorialsyrd353idk either, look it up.
Shit I have thought of Blazing Angels is a hot minute. Loved that game. That ice level is still a level of nightmares
Just…imagine if this was the post credit scene in Oppenheimer
“And now I am become death…. The destroyer of world”
@@Wulfxous and now i became fart smella, the destroyer of noses
Now I am become J. Robert, Heimer of Oppens.
Holy shit that would leave me shivering
This game perfect hooks gamers with its brutal gameplay, educates with footage and info in cutscenes and opens their eyes with a beautiful but horrific ending, so show War is no game. Best CoD out there.
That's one thing CoD WW2, Vanguard and Battlefield 5 are lacking is historical footage or historical insights of any kind
We shall provel!! Call of Duty United States 65 infantry Borinqueneers, North korea)
@Neil Hardie at least in bf5 we got that sweet ass German mini campaign. Playing as them specially at the end when there 0 hope was such a breath of fresh air
@Flare The fact you're using COD WW2 as anything remotely historically accurate is an insult to the 60 million lives lost in the war. Do us all a favor and use COD:World at War like someone with barely any knowledge of WW2 would do.
Fun fact, bf1942/43 didn't have swastikas either. They did get rid of the eagle in bf5, which was disappointing. And for all the political stuff of the other campaigns, the German campaign was amazing.
@Flare Holy shit it's been a while since i met someone as delusional as you! Last time was some guy who kept spewing about how Ceasar's Legion was undefeatedable in Fallout: New Vegas! Good times! You 2 ain't related, right?
Anyway, I never said The Last Tiger was realistic, I said it was good. Free from the woke politics of the others, when have you even played as nazis and have been portrayed as anything other than monsters? Shit was nice historical inaccuracies aside.
And no, COD WW2 was absolutely NOT historically accurate and there plenty of info on that available. I WILL, however, give you that it's basically perfectly accurate compared to WOKEFEST that was vanguard. Shit is night and day when you compare the 2.
I recently met a WW2 veteran for the first time a few weeks ago and it was an amazing experience. He is 104 years old and still with us. He was a paratrooper in the Europe theatre in WW2 and also served in Korea and Vietnam. The things that man had seen are probably unspeakable and I told him with the utmost respect “Thank for serving our country sir!”
You did a good thing.
You should’ve asked if he is happy with how the world is right now
Was he proud with Vietnam?
That sounds wholesome.
Thanks for fighting for the jews
There's no parades, no music, no dancing. Just the harsh reality of the carnage, the lives lost, and a bell tolling in the background.
Damn.
It’s scary it should be scary for anyone that’s how big of an impact it left on us
@@SPAC3H3R0 It should never be forgotten. Especially now.
It shows how serious they took this scene. It’s how it felt to end a war.
And MacArthur's speech, ending the war.
@@damonyucky Exactly. Nobody "won." The war just ended.
I swear the bit with the enola gay is the most well executed cutscenes ever
Dude, the fucking Enola Gay sends shivers when the music cuts off, and all you see is the atom bomb's detonation.
@@uhohLungJuice (the world has a new fear) is what I got from it
@@Mobius118F if you lived in 1945 when that bomb dropped that would be the end of the war and the stop to most of the fighting.
the bomb killing 100 thousand people would be the spark of the "long peace".
you have to understand that bit.
@@jar8808 I do and both points are valid. As seen with the Cold War and the fact ww3 has yet to end everything.
@@Mobius118F Fair enough.
I hope nuclear war doesn't happen. If it does happen lets hope AT LEAST that it's only used on a small scale during battles, not on innocent cities.
So they originally wanted to make the final mission to put the player in control of the bombardier of the Enola Gay. The bomber would fly along its projected flight path and the player would've had to line up the bomb sights and drop the payload on the city. The mission ended up getting scrapped in favor of showing the raw footage of the actual event instead. The creative directors feared that the mission could've put the whole project at risk of being rejected by the ratings committee given the unprecedented level of violence the player would've needed to commit.
This and the speech that followed it was the better compromise. Seeing the actual footage of the event drives the conclusion of the game's story a lot closer to home, and it spared the player from having to commit the act themselves.
This game is a masterpiece.
Is this real? Holy shit that would've been completely insane, but the impact of that in the history of games... Damn, wish they had done that now
wish they'd done that though... the impact would be far greater by forcing you, the player, to commit the atrocity yourself.
@@GabrielVilanova-n3pgameplay wise, I don't think it would have impacted you that much because your POV is literally from above. I think it got scrapped was a good idea. Some ideas sound okay on paper but aren't that good in practise.
Eh, there wouldn’t have been enough gameplay to justify that. It would’ve just felt awkward and contrived. Making it a cinematic has more impact.
That made me cry just imagining watching the bombsight land on the bridge and pushing the button.
This last cutscene shows us that nobody wins a war, it just causes suffer and pain to everyone.
nah, allies won for sure.
if nazi or japanese won we wouldve really known suffering and pain.
@@jar8808 he ment in general.
@@yazovgaming fair.
@@jar8808 It's easy to say when you look at the war as someone living in the present. Even though we won we also lost a ton of soldiers and left tons of widows in America. Not just in America, but the whole world sacrificed too many lives, both innocent and otherwise.
@@jar8808 If Germany and Japan had won the war, we would be judging the Allies as the Axis is currently being judged.
You need more history, less propagated American and Hollywood movies.
In addition, with the passage of time, it was distorted at the convenience of the victors, which is what the axis really wanted.
So hopeful in the first half.
Dread and Despair in the second half, like we just saw fear is our new life
" It's my earnest hope and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world would emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past" - If only he knew.
Kinda funny that he was saying that, considering that he wanted to nuke North Korea & China to the ground in the Korean War
@@drretard0343 It extinguished Japan's drive for war, it should do the same to them.
what do you mean by that
@@alfstewart2592 during the Korean War he wanted to nuke them to end the conflict which is ironic as in this speech he gives about peace being restores
@@drretard0343 he knows it is time bomb sooner or later china and north will start war when the time comes its already too late :(
Call of Duty now: You are a cyborg Soviet babushka with a laser rifle and your mission to shoot Hitler in the testicles.
Not gonna lie, that sounds just like Sniper Elite.
Bruh that reminds me of Atomic Hearts lmao.
so.. Wolfenstein ?
The Hiroshima scene with combined with the chorus gives me chills.
BTW that wasn't the footage of Hiroshima but the Nagasaki bomb.
Just imagine if Germany would have beat us to the nukes😶
@@LabyrinthS117 True, the only footage of the Hiroshima bomb is so damaged and badly taken (since it was from a "backup" camera crew) that everyone used the Nagasaki shot to represent it. Plus, the tail gunner, who had the job to film the Hiroshima detonation (his ONLY job), fucked up the negatives while he was developing the film and that perfect footage was instantly lost forever.
@@PointReflex”you had one job private, ONE JOB!” Sorry I know it’s a serious issue but I always wondered why we don’t have more footage of the Hiroshima bomb.
Yes😊
You have to admit despite being disturbing this is one of the greatest ways you could end a game ever
I need to remind you all, we will NEVER EVER EVER get a Call Of Duty game that is this serious again, unless we get a COD game that focuses on the war on terror and not telling a nonfictional story.
They should make a game set in Vietnam or the Korean war
The opening scene would be the 9/11 attacks
@@Shawn6751seems like bo6 is going to have a 9/11 mission
@Leo.de99
If they make it so you stop the planes but the towers still collapse I'll actually buy it. Otherwise, pirate or gamepass just to see. All pending player reviews of course.
You know this call of duty game with the 2 decade war on terror would not be positive reviews because of the 3000 lives that died on 9/11 and the rising number of death from the disease of the dust cloud from the towers collapse and the victims families would sue Activision for the game they made involving the 9/11 topic
Edit: some countries in the Persian gulf and other Islamic countries are not gonna have their countries have this game sold because of their involvement with the war on terror just like how Japan forced Call of Duty World at War to be banned for showing their involvement in World War II as the Empire of Japan (Imperial Japan or Japanese Empire)
I really respect World at War for reminding you, not just at the end here but throughout the game, how catastrophic World War II was. The amount of people who died is mind boggling.
The Berlin levels in particular look like the apocalypse. Everything is destroyed, ash and rubble, it looks more like a Fallout game. People fighting through collapsed buildings, people using wardrobes and sofas as barricades, climbing through mountains of concrete.
It was the first time the scale of destruction really sank in for me.
A lot tried to surrender at the Western Allies. Some were lucky; some were given to the Soviets. Those who had no opportunity to surrender to the Western Allies fought to the death because they knew how brutal the Soviets are. The old, the young, the weak fought for their lives. CODWAW just gave an intro of the brutality of War.
@@rzpogi(Google translate) Ты как-то странно заявил что советы жестоки. Я надеюсь ты понимаешь, что солдаты СССР стали такими не из пустого места, а потому что их народ подвергся геноциду (что даже в этой игре показывали перед миссией в сталинграде) Типа немцы заслужили такое отношение. Сколько человек именно гражданских погибло со стороны США? Или Великобритании? Со стороны советского союза гибель гражданских составила 23 миллиона и более 19 миллионов военослужащих. Это была настоящая мясорубка где был выбор либо проиграть и умереть, либо выйграть и остаться в живых.
Seeing this cutscene as a kid it didn’t mean much to me. Now that I’m older it always hits me like a truck
It fucking leaves a scar on you knowing how fuck up and scary it was
You can just feel that chill moment when something is done. It’s over. You are relieved that whatever business is over.
@@damonyucky although it feels like we’re heading that way yet again, I’m hoping I’m wrong but :/ us humans didn’t learn anything about the 2 world wars. 60-80 million deaths in ww2 with their technology. Now Imagine how many casualties it will be with modern technology and weapons….
@@SPAC3H3R0 back when call of duty had the balls to show the horrors of war and that it’s not something you truly want to experience. Where as nowadays they show the soldiers having fun and laughing through it all
anime truck kun no doubt, hits me now too after its near the yearly national soldier anniv
The cutscene of the mushroom cloud gives me chills to this day treyarch new how destructive the conflict was they were portraying
This ending made me feel like I didn't really "win" the game. I just survived
As the saying goes: there are no heroes in war only survivors
WWII has ended by making new super weapons that can destroy a full city with a single bomb, before wwii was the war to end all wars. We didn’t win wwii, we just ended it.
We just stopped it before anyone else start dropping thier own nuclear bomb
Yeah, with weapons that could bring the end of the world as we know it. Thinking about it like that keeps me up at night.
Now, we have the weaponry to destroy ourselves. Human civilization wiped from the slate of the earth.
If the Axis powers had won then, the cult of violence and war would have been the priority of society.
This has to be one of the most bleak ending cutscenes in any video game full stop.
there’s no happy ending where we see our characters go home and get a medal, just a reminder of the cost of freedom and everything it took to get it.
You have to either save Roebuck or Polonski. They don't both get to come home. Chernov dies on the steps to the reistag... the final mission in the game.
Your character gets shot steps away from planting the flag and claiming victory.
And then this ending cutscene. I think this game was one of the last ones (that I played, at least) to show how brutal it really was.
Knowing that these are the last pushes before it's over and watching characters that have been there from the start die right before it's over is a punch to the stomach. This was real for probably more people than we can think of. God thank the men and women of the 20th century who did what had to be done
@@fliper975 the soviet campaign also give you false happiness ending when you realize what happened to reznov and dimitri in cod black ops, i miss cod when the writers actually put effort into this game.
What freedom? The freedom that only exists when convenient?
@@fliper975 Considering that the War was provoked by the Allies and they allowed the Axis to expand, besides that it was not for the Soviet Union and that Germany let the English soldiers escape from France. The US and Britain would have given up.
@@asm7406it may seem so but freedoms and fairness are a war that never ends there is no rest, no peace. evil wants to conquer and it won't give up.
Name me a better World War II game. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Black ops 1 and 2?
@@thatguy7683 World War II, not the Cold War.
@@PhoenixT70 Well then i have nothing
@@PhoenixT70 Also i read that you wanted me to name acod game better than ww2
@@thatguy7683 No, I meant a better CoD set in the Second World War.
Also, good. WaW has no equal.
The text at the end still gives me chills. Even the first text at the credits dedicating this game to all veterans. They absolutely nailed it.
Nothing will ever top this!
That's why I love World at War than Vanguard and CoD: WWII.
@@YoungYuri19 To be fair, Waw does also have alot of inaccuracies and things that make no sense, but it has something that the latter two don’t have. It’s believable, and you feel like you’re there. Sure your character has a name and such, but without them talking you feel more like the actual soldier in the war, and not some super duper Russian sniping wonder woman or an all knowing Afro-American paratrooper that is in charge off everything. Or other soldiers that win the war with anachronistic magic.
Not that try to sound racist/sexist, but that’s how it is.
Yeah inaccuracies also happened in Korean war movie my way, the book is prolly a good documentary.
For graphics i bestow the rank on mustard and (war) operation room
Yarnhub is the most real, it got interview recording of a veteran and good enough graphics
Same thing comparing wot to wt and to DCS
and when you thought it couldn't get any worse:
mw3 reboot
Anyone here after Oppenheimer?
The last 2 sentences paired with the music gives me chills. This is easily the best WW2 video game ever made
“…of freedom, tolerance, and justice.”
A shame SJWs today are pissing on the sacrifice our grandfathers and great grandfathers did to ensue these virtues and give us a better world to live in.
@@Antimanele104 we continue to divide ourselves as a nation. It’s not looking good either. Maybe I’m crazy but if this continues, it may just aid in the downfall of the free world.
@@JOSHHARRIS-v3w I am not american, I am actually eastern european, but as most countries from Eastern Europe, we've experienced communism first hand. And let me tell you: what the inbred SJWs are doing in America is the same thing that happened to us years ago. You guys must fight for your freedom and accept no more their censorship they do because their "feelings" are hurt.
@@Antimanele104 SJWs didn’t destroy these values, the promises of peace and understanding were broken when the United States started occupying sovereign nations, such as Korea and Vietnam
@@haroldsullivan2036 there’s so much more than just that unfortunately. We as citizens are being taken advantage of.
This shows how it felt to end a war. They took this scene very serious.
"Now I have become Death. The Destroyer of worlds":Doctor Robert Oppenheimer
He was a doctor?!
That's ironic but still, you gotta do what you gotta do I guess. Not judging him
He invented the a-bomb. He finds out that future explosions are going to be based on HIS research. And because he predicted it, he said that quote
after Vishnu reveals Arjuna that he was also death, destroyer of worlds, not just a mere charioteer
- Bhavagad Gita
"Don't let that crybaby in here again. I dropped the bomb" - Harry S. Truman.
1:07 this is scary how the hopeful tone withers away and terrifying sound comes in, and bells, like as if the hope was false and the war is about to happen again and as if General MacArthur is talking to us as a humanity but we don't listen...
BF1 has one of the most chilling openings to any war game I've played. WaW had one of the most chilling endings. It'd be nice to have this game remastered.
I believe Activision shouldn’t and wouldn’t ever touch this, it should remain as it is because it is perfect as is
'What follows is Frontline combat'
'You are not expected to survive'
That opening line from BF1 is still burned into my brain to this day
@@r0de Battlefield 1 is close to a masterpiece of WW1 Media, I love that game to bits
Call of Duty did World at War Right as opposed to WWII. Waiting until after all the fighting, chaos, death, fear, bloodshed, and frustration to let you know how many people died where as WWII it seemed more like a steriotypical American WWII Movie and the let you know beforehand how many lives were lost, not even giving you time to experience what the brave men who fought and died experienced.
Exactly. Cod ww2 felt like a Hollywood movie. WaW felt like you had been through hell and it feels like war and what war is like which is pure hell.
I fucking swear that COD WAW and Fallout 1 and 2 had some chilling moments that made it feel authentic. Much of their successors made it so sensitive. There were no games in the series that were good after BO2 and NV
That’s why Band of Brothers is better than 95% of all world war 2 movies
@aveteranplayer6403but WWII did placed a Holocaust mission after the Rhine mission.
@@soundred1254also The Pacific
0:48 the exact moment when Oppenheimer wanted to kill himself
"I have become death....and destroyer of worlds..."
It was the most destructive and deadly conflict in human history…for now.
Facts
_I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones._
- Albert Einstein
The bagpipe at 1:08 and the bells at 1:38 always give me chills.
The bells are what got me. Very unsettling.
I used to skip the credits as a kid so I think I missed this cutscene until recently. Really puts this whole game in a new perspective
Call of Duty World at War has quality enough to be viewed as a documentary rather than a single game in all other World War II backgrounds.
This is the only video game ending that ever scared me because all of this happened. It goes to show how destructive humanity is :(
MW and black ops endings: *guitar rift* you badass voiced protagonist. You killed the guy, saved *insert western country*, and now you get some skins see ya in warzone.
Waw: millions are dead, europe and east asia are ruins, your friends, your brothers in arms died or lost their humanity and will forever be troubled by the nightmares... some will take their own lives.....
BO1 and BO2 is a historical fiction with real life events in it kinda like AC (before the alien shenanigans anyways) so obv its hollywood-like. WaW is based on historical events and you are reliving it as a fictional character. Both B01 and B02 are great because it showcased how messed up the Cold War was unlike the rest of the sequels.
This is what new world War 1 and 2 Era games are missing.
Respect and grief for what they're portraying.
It wasn’t a Victory, but a time of sorrow and regret, and pain.
This cutscene gives me the chills evey time especially as it reminds you how brutal ww2 was and how its the most destructive and deadly conflict in human history
The twist of emotions from the ending with the russian campaign to this....
World at war doesnt sugarcoat you....
It burys you in salt..
I oh know the adrenaline rush as Dimitri fights his way up the rikestage to plant the flag over Berlin to the sadness and brief moments of silence as the bomb goes off then the message about how many lives were lost
The ending hits you very hard it almost made me cry because you feel scared of how bad it was backthen this game holds a special place in my heart
Many years later. This ending has shaped a major part of myself, and has made me who I am, what my beliefs are made of. Just phenomenal.
There’s no heroic music at the end. Just ghosts.
And zombies to go slay.
Geez, this game was really something special.
I never knew just how much the original cod campaigns would stick with me, WaW, Bops 1-2, I was only 8 and I just wanted to have fun with my brother.
A lot of war games suffer from ludonarrative dissonance and I think you could arguably level that accusation against World at War, and certainly the Call of Duty franchise as a whole, but I think World at War at least resists it a lot better than any other entry in the series. I can't exactly articulate why but as opposed to other CoD games it feels like you're just fighting for survival or brutal revenge and it perfectly culminates in this final cutscene and those two sobering end cards regarding the death toll of the conflict.
What makes World at War different is the level of brutality that you don’t usually get in other WWII games. The atmosphere is relentlessly grim. Your squad mates don’t quip like they’re in a Marvel movie. They used real archive footage in the cutscenes, including some pretty awful stuff like executions and massacres. Finally, all the weapons do realistic damage to a human body. Everything from limbs blown off by machine guns to the sound of flesh sizzling after using the flamethrower. The gameplay and missions aren’t realistic, but they’re extremely immersive.
i guess its always the cliche that your depicted as some sort of super soldier who "cheats death" multiple times throughout the story, but that's really all I could think off. It's pretty straight forward, there's no side chatter unless its needed and if it is present, its more of a background that the player can choose to focus on (or rather, natural curiosity prompts the player to look and listen). For example, the scene where four Russian soldiers kill a German, or the scene where a platoon of Russians execute surrendered Germans. It's a side element, but the game is so immersive you can't help but look upon the grim fate of those POWs.
The ending always gives me chills the battleship entering Tokyo bay the Japanese representative one of the few who voted against the war now forced to sign the surrender limps and walks with a cain from recent injury from a bombing as he signs it and McArthur makes his speach there are no cheers or celebrations the greatest war in human history end's with a hope of peace and silence
0:03
President Truman: General Eisenhower informs me, that the forces of Germany have surrendered to the United Nations. The victory won in the West, must now be won in the East.
0:18-0:49
General MacArthur: We are gathered here, representatives of the major warring powers, to conclude a solemn agreement, whereby peace may be restore. It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion, a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past. A world founded upon faith and understanding, of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish, of freedom, tolerance and justice.
1:39
60 MILLION LIVES WERE LOST AS A RESULT OF WORLD WAR II. IT WAS THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE AND DEADLY CONFLICT IN HUMAN HISTORY.
Every time I see the Enola Gay while hearing the sound track, it brings a tear out of me
Most chilling cod cut scene
1:39 to 1:49 will always creep me out
Two bell tones. Nothing but facts.
Same
same
That's fucking insane that this game have actual WW2 footage of the nuclear bombs being dropped and just see a mushroom cloud being formed
It's sad watching this knowing the world really hasn't changed much.
The last two slides of this game are truly the boldest words cod had ever uttered. Absolutely bone chilling, because while we do have a very romanticized outlook on World War 2, we cannot forget truly how bloody, how gruesome, how much absolute agony was thrown about.
This was the bloodiest conflict we have fought in recent memory, and yet we are still living in the ripples of the aftermath
This is the moment you realize all the suffering, death and destruction you saw throughout the game actually happened.
For some reason, this two minute clip of a video game cutscene hits in home of how fucking apocalyptic WWII was than most pieces of media on the subject.
The Power of this Message Hits Hard 1:39
War is no game. No matter how much was shown in this game or any other WW2, nothing compares to how truly horrific and how brutal the Second World War was…
What a way to end a game. Damn…
Ikr!
One thing I remembered from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is that he mentions how it a war story ends with triumph and great virtue, then it’s not a true story. This game ends like a story, not by simply telling us “hey we won the Germans and Japanese lost, we’re the good guys”. When in here it shows that even though the war ended, it never changes all the lives lost during its reign
"Now I am Become Death, the destroyer of worlds"
I always appreciated that World at War doesn't bullshit around. It's the complete opposite of COD WWII in that regard.
Then you have Vanguard 💀💀💀
@@somedude1742and then, WWII is even more brutal than Vanguard
As the choir sounds while we follow the bomber flane carrying the nuke to it's destination and then......
they go silent for a few seconds showing the mushroom cloud forming itself high in the sky.
The HARDEST cutscene ever given to us
Cod then: watches 70,000 people get vaporized in real color footage.
Cod now: swastikas are offensive and should never be shown!
RIP COD
Swastikas are at my home, the streets, everywhere I live
@@niranjansrinivasan4042 yes because you most likely live in a Majority Hindu nation where it is a sign of peace
@@TheMaplePrivate it is a sign of prosperity in many cultures, the context really matters anywhere, its really dumb to ban it in games.
The US had no problem showing swatike when actual nazis lived, they showed it everywhere, on documents, films etc.
@@TheMaplePrivate it’s sad that they took a symbol meant for peace and corrupted it turning into a symbol of death
@@camerongreene3357 That is a fallacy, that was done by the allies, they misrepresented the swastika, you have to see the context of Germany, not see it from the American perspective.
One of the best COD games ever. This ending tell you that war is evil and sometimes you need another evil to end it swiftly. There were many lives lost but ask yourself... How many more would be lost if the war continued.
It’s hard to comprehend the magnitude of human suffering and sacrifice this game attempts to capture. They don’t make games like this anymore.
Call of Duty will never have a more impactful end like this one.
Ending of WAW was so good that it made me cry. Only COD to make me cry btw except for BO2 when Mason died
Well, Mason only dies if you don't know the method in order to get the canon ending where he survives.
the last two slides of the ending sends chills down my spine
I'll never forget playing this when I was 13 years old. Such an incredible game that depicted the visceral horrors of war and the loss of humanity all sides experienced.
And even after all that, when this cutscene ended, the horror was just beginning... What followed was an absolute mystery that would soon become a worldwide phenomenon. Nazi Zombies.
I was the first one who beat the campaign at my school. Everyone else just played online. They thought I was crazy and lying but soon enough they realized the truth. 2008 was a crazy time...
bro this game makes me so sad. almost all these people who lived and fought through this terrible event are now dead and it looks like we learned nothing from their suffering
"I shall return" -general McArthur
This cods campaign really hits different and alot of people dont get that till they play the campaign full on their own time
This game taught me more than any teacher ever did, and it was 60$.
It’s 15 bucks now.
At the time it was $60
@@jyglizzy3540ik
We don't deserve games like Call of Duty World at War, but we definitely need to know about SUCH games...
Are u seriously we deserve to get better cod game not unlike nowadays and this game is iconic 😒
0:46 .....humanity must never see her again.....especially in this period we must do everything to avoid it... 😢😢
No I want this to happen
@@ltenclavesoldier9280 then go to the frontlines and stop commenting
This ending is awesome and shows you that war is not a game
No cod will ever top WaW. It dedicated to capturing the reality at the end of the game to remind you it wasn’t just a game.
This game will stick with me forever the cutscenes with real ww2 footage is so cool this isn’t a game it’s a history lesson
Knowing that playing this as a kid, not knowing my history and stupidly saying “it’s just a made up cutscene” made me regret and eat up those words coming back as a 19 year old… Witnessing every single detail that WWII brought and the horrors with it, this game mastered the feelings & despair to those who died and sacrificing everything these people loved. War is not a joke, re-experiencing this scene again brings tears to me at 0:47 knowing that “Little Boy” & “Fat Man” were REAL Atomic bombs and were used on the Japanese people to force them to surrender. Witnessing that massive ball of fire is so devastating know how dark that era was and how people suffered so much. It’s such a shame we as a society let our personnel down…
This was one of the destructive and deadly conflict in human history
It is not "one of" it IS the deadliest conflict in human history. No other wars comes close to how devastating the 2nd world war was and unfortunately the 3rd one would probably claim even more lives
@@BarryAllen__1A23 I do not know what weapons the third World war will be fought with, but the fourth one will be with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
@@SlavKar ?
The first Call of Duty game where you don't feel victorious even after you stand triumphant over the enemy
We didn't learn anything.......we're making the same mistakes all over again, dear God we're continuing the cycle
1945 McArthur: May Peace be restored
1950 Kim IL Sung: Let's do it again yall
1945 Mao Zedong: Let’s pick up where we left off
We must remember the horrors of this war so that we do not ever fight one like it again. Because I fear that if we do then it will mean our end, because consider what it took to end the Second World War and then imagine what it might take to end a third one...................
Conquering the Reichtag is followed by an empowering speech that lugubriously adorns an attack that in a single move caused more than 150,000 victims, followed by a hopeful speech calling for a new era of understanding (the player, M17 according to the ESRB, knowing a minimum of history of his school knows that nothing in that speech was fulfilled), and finished with text in black background, making it clear that we just saw the worst catastrophe of the modern world ... and we have learned nothing.
You Don't win, The game ends. Most games you feel happy or triumphant or happy, this leaves you cold
I love how this game gave us first gave us hope of a heroic ending that the war is over with the planting of the soviet flag on top of Berlin with the soviet anthem playing in the backround and the choir singing in the backround when we see the plane but then...
When we see the mushroom cloud... silence. then we the last 2 panels, the tone is very scary and tragic...
Legit, this cliffhanger is infinity better then Ghost' cliffhanger... and we remember the the cold War happen right after the horrors of world War 2...
This game truly teaches us that War is not a game. This game is creepier then most horror movies
The soul of humanity died on the day those bombs were dropped.
Как по мне она умерла раньше
just sends chills down your spine
This cutscene never fails to give me goosebumps.
I can’t help but feel a deep irony to Mac Arthur’s speech. “A world founded upon faith and understand”. Look at what the nazis did to the Jews during the Holocaust and the period before that. “Give man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish… of freedom, tolerance and justice” Where did that get you? 60 million dead in one single conflict
60 million casualties part always give me chills everytime I completed the game.
Knowing that my country lost 4 million people due to Japanese occupation, mostly by famine, and it's the biggest casualties in South East Asia.