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The Treyarch game that redefined WW2 | World at War Retrospective
Call of Duty: World at War is arguably the last of the good World War 2 shooters: at least when it comes to the singleplayer campaign side of things. During a period of time that witnessed a mass exodus away from the setting towards the much more popular Modern Military Shooter market popularised by Infinity Ward, Treyarch's final dip into the deadliest conflict in human history nonetheless managed to recapture our attention one final time.
In this video, I look into the changing landscape of first person shooter games leading up to the release of World at War, answering the question of how this game was able to succeed despite the massive influence of Modern Warfare.
References:
Call of Duty 4 Postmortem (Game Developer - March, 2008 Issue) Zied Rieke and Michael Boon interview.
Online version available at www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-making-of-i-call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare-i-
Call of Duty: World at War Interview (VideoGamer - June 22, 2008) Wesley Yin-Poole interviewing Noah Heller and Rich Farrelly.
www.videogamer.com/previews/call-of-duty-world-at-war-interview/
Official Xbox Magazine Issue 86 (August, 2008) Ryan McCaffrey.
CoD:WaW Interview Mark Lamia From Treyarch On New Features (September 27, 2008) EverythingCallOfDuty TH-cam Channel.
th-cam.com/video/O6IiQHztSSQ/w-d-xo.html
CoD: World At War - fear, familiarity and the moral conflict (The Guardian - November 19, 2008) Article by Keith Stuart.
www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2008/nov/19/gameculture-playstation
Behind the Music of Call of Duty: World at War (Music4Games - December 5, 2008) Interview with Sean Murray by Alex Van Zelfden.
web.archive.org/web/20081219115440/www.music4games.net/Features_Display.aspx?id=315
Aesthetics of World at War (Face Full of Eyes - March 11, 2021)
th-cam.com/video/AM3-QWNdTFs/w-d-xo.html
Activision Blames Disappointing Call Of Duty Sales On World War II (Kotaku - May 3, 2022) by Ethan Gach.
kotaku.com/activision-call-duty-vanguard-modern-warfare-2-release-1848873636
Additional Sources:
Call of Duty: A short history: microsites.ign.com/call-of-duty-a-short-history/#_
Call of Duty World at War Developer Insights | Exclusive Interview with Treyarch: th-cam.com/video/TOKBLIIlNjw/w-d-xo.html
Call of Duty: World at War announced: www.engadget.com/2008-06-09-call-of-duty-world-at-war-announced.html
Quality Time with Hutch - Interview with Vahn from Treyarch (Part 1): th-cam.com/video/dR9rPBtv19g/w-d-xo.html
0:00 The B Studio
6:44 Ch 1 | Pre-release
10:36 Ch 2 | Pacific Campaign
19:24 Ch 3 | Eastern Front Campaign
26:05 Ch 4 | Original Soundtrack
32:25 Ch 4 (Pt 2) | RAWK
38:23 Ch 5 | Campaign Conclusion
40:06 Ch 6 | Additional Mentions
43:18 Conclusion
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  • @CasperTheRamKnight
    @CasperTheRamKnight วันที่ผ่านมา

    nice video, very underrated, subscribed

  • @Dirik619
    @Dirik619 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The racing in LA is just not as crazy chaotic as in MC2 and 3.

  • @lanerj
    @lanerj 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Try RPCS3 it’s a very well working PS3 emulator, and MCLA is available for the PS3

  • @ThommyofThenn
    @ThommyofThenn 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    17:44 Incorrect wording; they are no weebs as the katana is a time-honoured part of their culture 17:22 wouldnt it make sense for them to fight harder out of rage due to seeing their leader buy the farm? As a way of avenging him and expressing extremely intense reaction

  • @ThommyofThenn
    @ThommyofThenn 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    10:16 I dont remember being impressed by that menu as a lad. As an experienced gamer today, I come to this scene and it reminds me of the Postal 1 menu! That harsh, dischordant noise instead of the sappy strings or martial snare drums that I associated with WW2 games. For example Medal of Honor Allied Assault, one of my favourite WW2 fps titles but it has to be said, the menu had the snare drums!

  • @burnin_vibez243
    @burnin_vibez243 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Deez nuts

  • @Mrevo599
    @Mrevo599 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Cops do spawn and will give chase during events. there is even specific lines from the other racers regarding it. Both normal races and highway events. not super often but it does happen.

  • @historyben7122
    @historyben7122 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I like this channel - basically running through every game from my formative years

  • @werwolf_mk9734
    @werwolf_mk9734 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    2:44 Igorrr, hell yeah!

  • @BHuang92
    @BHuang92 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Best CoD game ever! *And I will die on that hill*

  • @EFFCtoocool
    @EFFCtoocool 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This reviewer is giving far too much credit to European and US politicians. They are exactly as stupid, vain, untrusting and corrupt that as insane as this plot is I could see it. Also, the US sends troops where ever it wants to right now, it's not crazy to think that a united Europe with more GDP than the US would be looked at as an enemy.

  • @jordonsky
    @jordonsky 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    We need world at war remasterd on ps4 ps5 and the x boxes and pc

  • @adarvirohfanbelarus8889
    @adarvirohfanbelarus8889 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Strange, I recall these all except invisible barriers. But before video remembered only positive about the game.

  • @AceTanker2100
    @AceTanker2100 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    WaW has to be the greatest CoD I’ve played.

  • @CrispyHulk1
    @CrispyHulk1 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Such beautifully created and distinct game. Carefully designed with art style and music

  • @wolfmirebacta8710
    @wolfmirebacta8710 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    You didn't bother to bring up the fact that the AI cheats? Interesting

  • @wolfmirebacta8710
    @wolfmirebacta8710 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    That is like, the only thing I miss about Wargame. Watching the chat go on rants that can change in such a quick succession that you get whiplash. Also they may be saying that stuff since Israels army in the game is a nightmare to fight

  • @jirimakovsky6619
    @jirimakovsky6619 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    based videro as per usual. i played Far Cry 2 only on old phone,,, :D

  • @iniguezawsome
    @iniguezawsome 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Love FFOE but yeah I agree

  • @ArkMagician
    @ArkMagician 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why did I see skibidid toilet

  • @Gucci_Nomad
    @Gucci_Nomad 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    25:42 even reznov knew

  • @shadowstyle3139
    @shadowstyle3139 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Waching this video send me back to 2009 when i first played this game on my mom's brother laptop when i was 5, you should review the rest of the games aswell

  • @shuritgaming8038
    @shuritgaming8038 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Man, when i beat the game as a kid and zombies started ,that scared the shit out of me 😂❤

  • @orion-qt6jl
    @orion-qt6jl 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Revisit this game an i will sub

  • @vedranlastric3632
    @vedranlastric3632 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    no way this game is 15 years old

  • @youvebeengreeked
    @youvebeengreeked 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is the greatest FPS game of all time. Simple.

  • @liloni444
    @liloni444 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    sadly they've nuked the chat with some sort of ai autobanning system, you barely see anyone talking now

  • @redaug4212
    @redaug4212 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Another 45 minute video essay glazing World at War... Daring today, aren't we?

    • @gavinrobinson2270
      @gavinrobinson2270 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      th-cam.com/video/9ql08KK0G40/w-d-xo.html

  • @beegdonkey5750
    @beegdonkey5750 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video, I been on a cod binge lately so would love if you made more videos on the series. Although the best ones are the earlier games on pc. Cod 1 and its expansion, 2, 4, this game, mw2, and finally black ops 1. After that the pc ports sucked

  • @MateusVIII
    @MateusVIII 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Dude, your "historical analysis" is way off and completelly unrelated to the end of the Cold War. It is pretty basic historical information man, don't go around doing guesswork, just read some basic stuff and you will have those gaps covered.

  • @patrickbrown897
    @patrickbrown897 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Actually the tactics being used early in the Japanese campaign is accurate, bonzai charges only occurred at the beginning of the war, since Japanese leadership realized after a couple massacred that they don't work. The way the combat plays out is surprisingly accurate to the tactics of the time, and the usage of those tactics in the real life timeline of the war.

  • @davidm5172
    @davidm5172 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I remember playing midnight club back in the day but forgot all about it then it looks a lot more alive than I remember a lot more than gta v infact

  • @NILEGOD.777
    @NILEGOD.777 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for mentioning the soundtrack to this game. No one really mentions how unique it was to include traditional acoustic instruments with industrial synths and percussion which you don't really see outside the realm of Trent Reznor and a select few industrial artists

  • @HiHowAreYaaaa
    @HiHowAreYaaaa 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    World at War is an underrated masterpiece

    • @redaug4212
      @redaug4212 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      World at war is ridiculously overrated. There's a new video essay about it every month.

  • @baconcurtain5089
    @baconcurtain5089 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Treyarch has carried Call Of Duty for the last 15 years and I love it

  • @arseniy7649
    @arseniy7649 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Англосаксы будут платить дань

  • @PackBrewBadgeWI4
    @PackBrewBadgeWI4 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Still have this game for the PS3 and this and Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition Remix for the PS2 are my favorite in the series.

  • @thewintereaglefly
    @thewintereaglefly 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Random rob scallon moment

  • @hippocks146
    @hippocks146 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Best game ever... so far!

  • @harz632
    @harz632 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    10:00 I believe this is how it works: Military prodcution buildings have to be destroyed and can't be taken over the ai has a chance to delete the building before it gets taken so that is why some buildings randomly explode.

  • @Saniteee
    @Saniteee หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember being young and having my granny after school getting upset with the gore and violence in video games I would play for an hour or two when getting home but once WaW came out and I was killing nazi zombies she was a little more lenient 😂

  • @bloodysimile4893
    @bloodysimile4893 หลายเดือนก่อน

    World at War that show the horror of war without beating you on the head of it. The jungle warfare fighting the Japanese with desperate to just survive. Then USSR where you can feel the overwhelming need to fight for the motherland to drive the dagger into the heart of Germany. I'm sure Dimitri return home with a hero welcome.

  • @Theofiilus2978
    @Theofiilus2978 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was 12 when waw came out. I saw the first mission when my brother played it. Only the opening scene gave me an awe already. The multiplayer doesn't look as good as MW but i bet it was good one. I didn't get to play it myself because it wouldn't have run on family computer and my brother kept his computer just for him understandably. I was stuck on my PS2 at that time.

  • @jettiejay1058
    @jettiejay1058 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dee's Nutz

  • @plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009
    @plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The industrial metal fits so much with the second world war Not only industry played an extremely important aspect to the war But we can also examine how the human cost in this war and the extermination had an industrial quality to it Specially, well, with the Holocaust

  • @plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009
    @plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 หลายเดือนก่อน

    World at War is the only CoD i like The soviet campaing specially Even tho i really dislike how they really really really try to make the soviets as bad as the nazis Like I'm sorry They are literal Nazis who engaged in a genocidal campaing against eastern europe and by the time the Soviet union was in Seelow heights they already discovered the Holocaust, that the genocide wasn't "only" against the soviet communists and slavic people But the jews, the gypsies, and so on They knew about the concentration camps, about the extermination camps, the guettos, they suffered first hand the genocide of the fascists, with 20 million plus sovietd dying So like No They aren't equal I ain't feeling bad or sympathy for any SS or wermacht soldier who carried all the Holocaust "Oh but they commited war crimes and were really brutal" as if the other allies didn't engaged in the same time of brutality Specially the atomic bombings wich were completely unnecessary And guess what No allied war crime comes close to what the axis, be it nazi Germany or imperial Japan did This game tried to do an classic anti soviet propaganda but accidentally made the most based pro Soviet propaganda ever

  • @blazelightzero595
    @blazelightzero595 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One aspect of World at War's presentation that I feel goes unmentioned in retrospectives like this is its use of splicing real world footage into the cutscenes. It's a quirk unique to Treyarch COD games that helps blur the lines between what's fictional in-game to the real world atrocities committed in this war. It is another element of this game's tone that accentuates the horror portrayed during gameplay and makes the whole experience feel like a snuff film on top of maintaining the player's intrigue apart from the static mission briefings of Infinity Ward's entries. It's truly impressive how they managed to effortlessly weave those snippets of real life into the game.

  • @tlip3480
    @tlip3480 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was there at the beginning on xbox. The multiplayer was intense and the factions unbalanced. It was amazing. Its been 15 years since that game was popping off. Man I'm getting old.

  • @iamwrong2239
    @iamwrong2239 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Damn, what an amazing video. Although I will say, just because they wanted to be more gritty with how they presented WW2, that doesn't mean its historically accurate. You may be correct in thinking this is dumb of me to point out, but I also want to remind of the brain rot that is Tik Tok and, in general, the internet. You should go find some WW2 focused channels if you are interested in learning more about WW2 or wait for Wendigoon to drop his very long WW2 video that he plans on doing but I'm not sure if he is still doing it or has decided to do something else entirely

  • @unitedfront9717
    @unitedfront9717 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another banger from our second favourite Hub