Those Stalingrad missions near the beginning are some of my fondest early gaming memories. I remember getting killed by the gigantic rolling smokestack in the first level over and over until I realized what "crouch" was. I remember the epic Soviet choir music as you charge the machine gun nest in the railyard. I remember thinking that the sniper defense level in the factory was literally impossible, and remember how awe-struck I was when I finally got to drive the tank afterwards. The music still holds up today , too. Thanks for the memories, Kacey.
I had Finest Hour at launch on Xbox, I really liked enjoyed it, the gameplay felt far closer to Call of Duty 2 onwards than the PC Call of Duty, which feels like a clunky open map objective based '90s PC FPS in hindsight. But the Xbox 360 and definitely PS3 weren't out yet, infact the PS3 was so late, they skipped COD2 on it entirely.
I never felt the ps3 was late. The wii didn't felt like a new next gen and microsoft wanted to be before sony. I mean, the 360 had serious problems because of this in the first renditions. About cod itself, you are totally right.
Finest Hour was incredible. The first Stalingrad levels blew me away as a kid. It also had the best home screen music and intros that pumped you up before the mission.
What made this piece of shit game tough was your AI buds doing absolute shit. I got so fucking mad about it in the first american mission where you have to escort those shermans
ya, when i played it as a kid.... i got lost in the sewers and never played it again then like 5 years later.... i was old enough to "get gud" and beat it . a lot of it is RNG and shit..... and back then, COD was PC first . so instead of bad PC ports we got bad console ports....
This game, COD Big Red One, Medal of Honor Frontline, MOH Rising Sun, MOH European Assault, Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30 and Brothers in Arms Earned in Blood were my favorite games back in 2004-2006.
I love COD Finest Hour. I just want to touch on what you had said about The Sims for console. I remember back in 2001-2002 looking through Game Informer magazine just hoping The Sims would come to console. I never had a PC growing up and could never play The Sims even though I loved the concept. Finally, it happened The Sims for consoles and then Bustin' Out the next year. I loved those games! Still love them even to this very day. I actually have been playing Bustin Out on the original Xbox. I understand the PC version was better but this was all I had. If I'm honest the games were pretty good. I love the story mode in both games even though i will admit I never completed the first Sims on PS2 because of the insane difficulty.
My fam had The Sims on PC but we always liked Sims Bustin Out on Xbox anyways, lotta fun when you're a teenager since they did an awesome job of simulating moving out of your parents' house.
This was always my favourite Call of Duty campaign, played for the first time ~2015. The higher time to kill, more head-on combat, + effective hip firing better suited my taste than the plucking away at heads in cover of the main series. The multiplayer was alright, but there was some pretty inconsistent map design and poor weapon balancing. Big Red One was my perfect COD multiplayer. Enjoyed the video, keep it up.
I remember I couldn't get past the second mission I think. It was a dark map with bunkers and hills and you go through trenches. I played it on the ps2 on a 15 inch box tv and the screen was literally too dark to see where I was 😅
I am surprised how little attention your getting with such high quality content. I can tell your focusing on making videos for games and topics you enjoy or would enjoy talking about not just what would get you views. I have major respect for creators like you, I’m rootin for you to thrive brotha!
I don't rightly think anyone should be surprised when decent content creators don't get a lot of attention. Making a TH-cam video is like throwing a message in a bottle into an ocean of messages in bottles. The chances of that message getting read is slim to none.
I didn't upgrade to the 7th until 2010 when I got my PS3, up until then I was playing my PS2 religiously with the only 7th Gen game I played being Bioshock on PC. I actually remember spending an entire 4th of July Weekend in 2010 playing the Half-Life to death on PS2. While my classmates were talking about GTA IV and Gears of War, I was stuck playing GTA San Andreas every night, and that was some of the most memorable nights I had.
Just discovered your channel 20 minutes ago I've been watching your videos and I was bummed that you didn't bring this game up so I just looked up cod finest hour and you popped up and the smile on my face was bigger than the cat in Alice in Wonderland. You just gained a new sub friend please never stop doing what you do. This is my favorite cod campaign.
I found this channel the other day and have been binge-watching your reviews non stop ever since. Really love the way you lay your videos out, and your brutal honesty. Keep it up, I know this channel will blow up sooner than later.
Good luck it only gets harder from there. For each faction (Russian, British, and American) the difficulty gets harder and harder as the campaign progresses.
Star wars the Force unleashed is actually better on ps2 story finally fucking makes sense and better boss fights by far and you can change light saber hilts
I have a lot of great memories of Call of Duty Finest Hour. One thing that really made it stand out was its Soundrack, which was composed by Michael Giacchino, the same guy that did Medal of Honor’s original soundtrack. It’s pretty damn incredible for a lower budget PS2 game
I'm really glad I found a youtuber like you. I absolutely just love these retrospectives of older video games that is not talked much about today. I just find it so interesting.
9:21 oh god i remembered played that game in my ps2 few months back out of nostalgia i searched for the game and discovered there was a pc version, and surprised it was completely different from the ps2 one
This and CoD 3. And also SOCOM 3. Ahh childhood. Now I only have a pc and I've yet to come around to emulators. I've played many more fps games over the years on pc both old and new that are definitely better in some aspects or other (especially technical) , but I seem to have bad luck in having my nostalgia be so many console exclusives. I've played other CoD's, even the original pc one but it never really hit me the same.
This is still my favorate CoD game. I agree the controls are not as fluid as I'd like, but otherwise it is nothing short of a masterpiece IMO! I loved the health system in this game, where you could collect and carry health packs with you for later use. Machine guns also felt truly dangerous (doubly so because there was no regeneratimg health), meaming were constantly peaking around corners, not wanting to be in their sights. When you found one. you were basically forced to try and rechache grenades/flank them, or _anything_ you could to avoid taking them head on, as that was usually suicide. Also liked how you had to breach doors yourself and lead the troops, modern CoD games basicly involve following an AI 90% of the time. And then there's that final level where you have to fight across the bridge, with that amazing musical score, and the other side shrouded in fog... Top 10 gaming memories right there!
oh shit I just assumed this guy had a million subs or something because of the quality. Then I go to the comments and there's only 135. This guy hasn't even hit 5 figure sub counts. The discord server only has 130 people. I see big things in your future.
For me this is completly underrated game even if it feels almost nothing like other CoD games, or even Medal of Honor. I love it's almost tactical aproach, actually varied missions, much less scripted levels, best tank levels in the series, and it's rich atmosphere. Controls are good for the speed and pacing of the game. For me this along CoD 2 Big Red One, CoD 3 and CoD United Offensive are the best pretenders for the best single player CoD games (regarding post MW 2007 games, i would say Ghosts had the best campaign followed by either Black Ops 2 or Advanced Warfare, but i just prefer less scripted games pre MW). I really don't agree with the idea that for example mg nests are unfair in north africa campaign. This is what i meant when saying it's more tactical - you need to use level design, to plan your moves, to use proper weapons, the thing is this is meant to pose a challange. Or for example later on in american campaign there is this awesome concept of using the tank you are meant to protect from panzer granadiers, as a cover from small firearms. Or how much of a difference you see when using Thompson (great for close quaters), and BAR (great for mid to long range especialy when in prone). You just don't play it as other cods, you have to look for cover, prioritize enemies, clear rooms, use prone for accuracy, plan you route to objectives. The bridge in last mission would be a piece of cake walk in any other cod, here it's a challenge that you have to divide into smaller pieces, and change your tactics acordingly - like firstly using BAR prone to deal with germans that run to more secure positions, methodicaly move closer to them, and then change to thompson to finish them of in close quater. It's makes this level memorable, when it could have just been another run and gun affair.
The Russian campaign in this games was a 10/10 like every other Russian campaign aside from COD2 which is an 9/10 the British campaign for was really bad and probably a 5/10 and the American was okay but way too annoying so like a 7/10 which sounds okay but really it’s not I disliked the game and it was a chore playing through it unlike Big Red One which was a masterpiece and honestly one of the best COD’s ever COD1 was good but United Offensive was way better Finest Hour is one of my least favourite COD’s but it’s still good the only reason why it isn’t worse is because the Russian campaign because they really didn’t care about the British campaign and the American wasn’t fun
Call of Duty: Combined Forces was a proposed concept draft originally intended to be a sequel to Call of Duty: Finest Hour. However, due to multiple legal issues that arose between Spark Unlimited, Electronic Arts, and Activision as well as other production problems, the game's draft and scripts never came to be. The game was projected to cost $10.5 million to produce after Finest Hour was complete. Eventually, Activision deemed the pitch as more of an expansion than something entirely new, causing the company to reject the proposal and end their contract with Spark Unlimited shortly after.
Finished it on hard today just for CoD series completionism. Sorry for everyone who has nostalgia feelings about this game, but it sucks. The controls and hitreg feels so awkward, recoil is so damn ridiculous that the game is not about reaction and aim, but about learning map and enemy spawns to prefire everyone. If you don't expect someone - you're dead. And awful checkpoint system doesn't make things better. It's hardcore af, but not in a good, challenging way. It's just poorly designed, that's it. I feel bad for console players, who got this instead of the amazing original CoD1, which is really fun to play even today.
The development of Call of Duty Finest Hour proved to be problematic on multiple fronts: Even before production started, developer Spark Unlimited became embroilled in a nasty lawsuit with Electronic Arts: the company's founders had worked on the Medal of Honor series and poached many of the staff behind Medal of Honor: Frontline, causing EA to retaliate by accusing (not baselessly) the exilees of having stolen ressources and helped Spark Unlimited on company time. The development itself also had its share of troubles: despite Activision insisting otherwise, the developers decided to use Renderware for the game, which caused many problems down the line as it was incompatible with Spark's custom object database, becoming increasingly slow and crash-prone as development progressed. A poor tool chain made it difficult to troubleshoot bugs. Spark Unlimited's game development philosophy was also at odd with Activision: while EA's philosophy was to focus on making the levels and focus on technological polish at the end of development, Activision expected a polished core game far earlier. As the developers missed every milestone and went greatly overbudget, Activsion salvaged the game by lending a large team of internal engineers to assist development and outsource large chunks of the game and development of the Xbox and Gamecube versions. While Finest Hour ended up being a financial success, lack of faith in Spark's management and an underwhelming pitch for a sequel caused Activision to end their contract with Spark Unlimited, spawning another lawsuit as Spark felt the company was trying to weasel out of the agreed royalties.
Due to lack of money, I’ve missed at least 10 years of major game releases save for a very select few. I’ve never played any COD from Modern Warfare 1 onward. The last I remember even seeing was World at War. Any experience I’ve had on my XBOX was an authentic new experience for me as my mindset is so 2000s and hasn’t really evolved beyond that. It’s what I’m comfortable with and it’s what I understand.
Finest hour was the hardest call of duty game I’ve played, and the only problem is that there’s barely any health packs, it’s too dark( even though I tried to adjust the TV’s brightness and backlight), and the friendly AI’s keep blocking you’re path, but other than that it’s still a good call of duty game.
We can state as FACT that them using Renderware wasn't an issue, it was developed by Criterion Games (yes THAT Criterion Games) and is responsible for the Burnout titles and most importantly the PS2 Era Grand Theft Auto titles... It was a great engine (I'd say it was the Unreal Engine of its time imo 🤷)
"I've been through hell and back" -Some random kid after beating Halo on legendary "So you beat the last two American missions in Finest Hour after almost a decade of rage quitting the tank escorts?" -Le Me Circa 2014 All seriousness though, loved this game but damn were those last two missions brutal with how laser the AI was.
If you're comparing the brand new Call of Duty to one from 15 years ago there's your main problem. For it's time it wasn't bad, wasn't quite as good as the PC version but it still held up compared to other PS2 shooters at the time. The problem it had was being overshadowed by Call of Duty 2 on PC and Xbox a year later.
Would you be willing to do a review of the Ace Combat series? I grew up with “the holy trinity” and I’d love to see your take on it. If you want something truly unique, I highly recommend taking a look at Ace Combat X, a PSP exclusive that I would argue is a hidden gem of a game
This game crashed while I was playing it on Xbox. Its the only game that I have played on 6 gen that have done that. And the shooting feels like garbage, it feels like shooting at air and if it werent for the hit markers I wouldnt have known that I was hitting anything at all. I think that Call Of Duty 2 Big Red One is far superior and it actually feels like a true classic COD game.
I'll be honest and that is i just don't like this game, big red one is my favorite out of the classic 3 on consoles but this game has such a brutal difficulty, bad controls, terrible visuals even for the platform and more wrong with it, i never had this game back in the day (i started with big red one) but even if i did i would have stuck with medal of honor in all ways but multiplayer.
Any issues you had with control responsiveness or performance were because you unfortunately played this on PS2. I love that console, but it really did not handle shooters well, hence of relative lack of good ones on it. If you want the best experience with this that plays really well and responsively, play it on the original Xbox.
I have this game for Xbox and the clunky controls exist there too. Despite that I still enjoyed it. I didn't play it as a kid. I picked it up recently from a thrift store along with Big Red One. Its interesting to play old games you have zero nostalgia for yet can still enjoy and understand the sentiments for them. Not the best but a very important stepping stone.
0:07 holy shit is that really what og max payne looked like? I havnt seen it since it came out, and my memory DID NOT EVER remember it like that... fuck im old now...
i actually enjoy the older generations of gaming than the new hell id rather play superman 64 or e.t than bo4 (if some of you do not know superman 64 was on nintendo 64 and e.t was on the atari 2600 also they are known to be the worst games in gaming history also bo4 sucks,modern warfare is ight but it feels like rainbow 6 not cod)
I enjoyed Medal of Honor: European Assault more than COD: FInest Hour. MOH:EA had some open levels where you could do missions in whatever order you like.
pretty good game. yeah its clunky as hell even if you could play on mouse but they made something that was fun. the multiplayer and levels in mp were pretty good. village was honestly one of my favourite maps of any game but i wonder how well it would play outside of finest hour. i thought it was better then big red one. yeah big red one felt more technically competent, but finest hour was more fun. though big red one was still good socom was obviously the number 1 online shooter for sony back in the day but i wouldnt be suprised if finest hour was in the top 10 most played online
You should get your hands on the Orange box for ps3 or Xbox360. You can experience a half life 2 and portal being bogged down by loading time, and play tf2 in its base form
This game is just not fun at all past Regular difficulty. It's as if the developers designed the campaign in mind with just Regular difficulty in mind, but decided to make the harder difficulties to just take more damage while nothing else changes.
Tbh, the moment you hit the American campaign, it's not fun at all on Regular either. A problem made worse considering I just went through the game the other day on Xbox, which technically looks a little nicer, but the game is darker, with dark grey areas made pitch black. There's legitimately sections of the game so dark that, with maxed monitor brightness, I cannot see literally anything whatsoever. All of this wouldn't be so bad if the checkpoints weren't so fucked. One or two checkpoints a mission just don't cut it. I ended up going through the American campaign as a pace slower than playing SWAT 4. In a Call of Duty game, that's a problem. Prior to that, the game was pretty solid though, gotta admit.
You should review Big Red One. Seriously its a good game and a decent story. Finest hohr was a good game to me and i loved it a lot. Big Red One though, was better imo.
Your epilogue about the value and wonderment of downgraded ports hits home. It's been a small tradition of mine to willingly try out inferior ports just because I'm enough of a tech nerd that it's legit fascinating to see what the dev teams could pull off with the inferior hardware. I bought the ps3 version of Black Ops 3 last year but couldn't even play it because it requires a mandatory 4gb patch to even allow you past the title screen lol. I've got wifi now so im gonna download it and see just how abysmal it is.
@@drakesemancik9339 My Modern Warfare folder alone is 1.4TB The average project for this channel ends up being around 100-200GB of raw footage, the clips 5-6 GB when trimmed, and a few hundred MB in project files, graphics, music, extra footage from my phone, etc. I've eaten up those 5tb since August.
@@sonder006 This video was around 900mb exported in 1080/60. Sounds small in comparison, because 1. I export in a lower bitrate than I capture in because TH-cam caps it anyway, and there isn't much point in exporting at mega bitrate when the game was 480p upscaled to 720p 2. for this ten minute video i captured 10 hours of footage of Finest Hour, plus clips from other games (Some of which are admittedly stuff I've just had laying around on the drive, some of which are captured fresh during editing) This video is on the shorter side and the project folder (only the trimmed clips, copies of images and music used, etc) was 10gb. Something like Ford Racing which used a *lot* more footage ended up being 40gb in the project folder, and as I move projects back and forth between my desktop and laptop as necessary, I make copies of the project each time I do this in case something gets messed up between machines (bad export, corruption, or i just decide I want to go back to an earlier state of the video) this adds up. Ford Racing was 250gb of raw footage just from those games.
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Those Stalingrad missions near the beginning are some of my fondest early gaming memories. I remember getting killed by the gigantic rolling smokestack in the first level over and over until I realized what "crouch" was. I remember the epic Soviet choir music as you charge the machine gun nest in the railyard. I remember thinking that the sniper defense level in the factory was literally impossible, and remember how awe-struck I was when I finally got to drive the tank afterwards.
The music still holds up today , too. Thanks for the memories, Kacey.
Yes man yes
utubecop11 I’m not crying you are!
I felt this in my soul
utubecop11 I could never pass the sniper factory mission lol 😆
i loved it
I had Finest Hour at launch on Xbox, I really liked enjoyed it, the gameplay felt far closer to Call of Duty 2 onwards than the PC Call of Duty, which feels like a clunky open map objective based '90s PC FPS in hindsight. But the Xbox 360 and definitely PS3 weren't out yet, infact the PS3 was so late, they skipped COD2 on it entirely.
I used to play it on the playstation 24/7 that game was my childhood.
I never felt the ps3 was late. The wii didn't felt like a new next gen and microsoft wanted to be before sony. I mean, the 360 had serious problems because of this in the first renditions. About cod itself, you are totally right.
Finest Hour was incredible. The first Stalingrad levels blew me away as a kid. It also had the best home screen music and intros that pumped you up before the mission.
This game was very tough for a call of duty campaign.
Call of duty 2 as well
What made this piece of shit game tough was your AI buds doing absolute shit. I got so fucking mad about it in the first american mission where you have to escort those shermans
@@TheFranssiBrother yeah, i decided to take a look at 1,2 on ps2 and holy fuck isn't it irritating to play
I had a lot of trouble with it
ya, when i played it as a kid.... i got lost in the sewers and never played it again
then like 5 years later.... i was old enough to "get gud" and beat it
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a lot of it is RNG and shit..... and back then, COD was PC first
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so instead of bad PC ports
we got bad console ports....
This game, COD Big Red One, Medal of Honor Frontline, MOH Rising Sun, MOH European Assault, Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30 and Brothers in Arms Earned in Blood were my favorite games back in 2004-2006.
Did you ever play Sniper Elite?
Larry Bundy Jr I did, it was really fun back in the day.
@@llHYS7ERIAll Oh, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
@@Larry Played that one too! All this nostalgia is making me regret getting rid of my Xbox and PS2 when I got my 360.
You literally just listed my childhood right there, so much nostalgia.
Great video, and looks like the algorithm has chosen you. Time for weekly uploads?
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Are you a fellow Kuru fan?
Big up kuru
I love COD Finest Hour. I just want to touch on what you had said about The Sims for console. I remember back in 2001-2002 looking through Game Informer magazine just hoping The Sims would come to console. I never had a PC growing up and could never play The Sims even though I loved the concept. Finally, it happened The Sims for consoles and then Bustin' Out the next year. I loved those games! Still love them even to this very day. I actually have been playing Bustin Out on the original Xbox. I understand the PC version was better but this was all I had. If I'm honest the games were pretty good. I love the story mode in both games even though i will admit I never completed the first Sims on PS2 because of the insane difficulty.
How does one complete The Sims?
@@DuckRotation- the console versions back then had a story mode.
Also why is it that the ps2 had some of the most enjoyable soundtracks
That is how my wife first played the sims, and the sims is the only major video game she still plays to this day.
My fam had The Sims on PC but we always liked Sims Bustin Out on Xbox anyways, lotta fun when you're a teenager since they did an awesome job of simulating moving out of your parents' house.
Are you going to do a video of The Big Red One too? I loved that game as a kid
at some point, probably. gonna take a break from ww2 stuff for a bit though.
Big red one is by far, the best story driven call of dutys ever made...
@@defplayryalpfed No lie man...
I only played the Stalingrad missions. Shame for not finishing it before my ps2 broke
F's in the chat for your PS2
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I only get into Africa lol
A little late but if you haven't completed it already, wait until you get to the American missions
To be entirely frank, I consider the Medal of Honor titles from that same era to be more worthy of attention.
This was always my favourite Call of Duty campaign, played for the first time ~2015. The higher time to kill, more head-on combat, + effective hip firing better suited my taste than the plucking away at heads in cover of the main series.
The multiplayer was alright, but there was some pretty inconsistent map design and poor weapon balancing. Big Red One was my perfect COD multiplayer.
Enjoyed the video, keep it up.
When I tell my friends that I played this game as a kid, they always think I’m getting the title wrong because none of them have ever heard of it
I remember I couldn't get past the second mission I think. It was a dark map with bunkers and hills and you go through trenches. I played it on the ps2 on a 15 inch box tv and the screen was literally too dark to see where I was 😅
I am surprised how little attention your getting with such high quality content. I can tell your focusing on making videos for games and topics you enjoy or would enjoy talking about not just what would get you views. I have major respect for creators like you, I’m rootin for you to thrive brotha!
I don't rightly think anyone should be surprised when decent content creators don't get a lot of attention. Making a TH-cam video is like throwing a message in a bottle into an ocean of messages in bottles. The chances of that message getting read is slim to none.
I can't talk about this game without it spelling childhood.
Call of Duty 2 also had a last-gen counterpart, in the form of Call of Duty 2: Big Red One.
And I still consider it my favorite COD of all time
For a 2004 game, it was decent.
Love seeing your comments everywhere.
it wasn't though .. cod1 and its expansion pack were in 2003 and 04 and they are 100% better than this trash ..
Force unleashed on PS2 is imo better than ps3/other new gens consoles
Playing this in 2019 is a chore. It feels sluggish and the lack of checkpoints is complete tedium. Big Red One on the other hand, has aged very well.
Just found out about your channel you deserve much more ;)
Did you just grow 3K sub in the last few days
4, actually :)
I didn't upgrade to the 7th until 2010 when I got my PS3, up until then I was playing my PS2 religiously with the only 7th Gen game I played being Bioshock on PC. I actually remember spending an entire 4th of July Weekend in 2010 playing the Half-Life to death on PS2. While my classmates were talking about GTA IV and Gears of War, I was stuck playing GTA San Andreas every night, and that was some of the most memorable nights I had.
Just discovered your channel 20 minutes ago I've been watching your videos and I was bummed that you didn't bring this game up so I just looked up cod finest hour and you popped up and the smile on my face was bigger than the cat in Alice in Wonderland. You just gained a new sub friend please never stop doing what you do. This is my favorite cod campaign.
Just recently played this like 2 months ago, before that It was 8 years ago. Had revisit the good ol memories
I found this channel the other day and have been binge-watching your reviews non stop ever since. Really love the way you lay your videos out, and your brutal honesty. Keep it up, I know this channel will blow up sooner than later.
Finest Hour was my first CoD back in the day and holy hell. This was a blast from the past as well as a good, updated view on it. Great video!
The Stalingrad mission is one of my earliest gaming memories
The most memorable part of the campaign was the Soviet officer's speech during the boat ride at the very beginning
It's absurdly over the top lol
I'm stuck at the tank factory enemy wave defense level.
Good luck it only gets harder from there. For each faction (Russian, British, and American) the difficulty gets harder and harder as the campaign progresses.
Easy for me but good luck (I hope you're at the American war part)
@@The_Native_wolfAK It's still just the russians.
Star wars the Force unleashed is actually better on ps2 story finally fucking makes sense and better boss fights by far and you can change light saber hilts
It would be nice if Finest Hour, Big Red One, and/or even Final Fronts received the MWR treatment.
i praise you for playing this on the ps2. Id have to emulate it for the framerate at least.
"Now I've been playing a lot of the new Modern Warfare."
Me: *PTS starts acting up thinking about how shit the game is*
I have a lot of great memories of Call of Duty Finest Hour.
One thing that really made it stand out was its Soundrack, which was composed by Michael Giacchino, the same guy that did Medal of Honor’s original soundtrack. It’s pretty damn incredible for a lower budget PS2 game
I'm really glad I found a youtuber like you. I absolutely just love these retrospectives of older video games that is not talked much about today. I just find it so interesting.
i loved the force unleashed for the ps2 :)
hell. i even played it on the PSP back in the day (its the exact same as the PS2)
i remember in the extras of finest hour, there was a video clip of a soldier scratching his nuts then sniffing them lmao
Ah yes, a new Kacey vid, dis gon b good
9:21 oh god i remembered played that game in my ps2
few months back out of nostalgia i searched for the game and discovered there was a pc version, and surprised it was completely different from the ps2 one
Kevin Akbar wait what is that
@@DgkYogi Quantum of Solace, a 007 game-from-movie
Kevin Akbar oh nvm I thought you were talking about the racing game
Finest Hour was the first CoD game I played, and was my favorite ps2 shooter back then
This and CoD 3. And also SOCOM 3. Ahh childhood. Now I only have a pc and I've yet to come around to emulators. I've played many more fps games over the years on pc both old and new that are definitely better in some aspects or other (especially technical) , but I seem to have bad luck in having my nostalgia be so many console exclusives. I've played other CoD's, even the original pc one but it never really hit me the same.
This is still my favorate CoD game. I agree the controls are not as fluid as I'd like, but otherwise it is nothing short of a masterpiece IMO! I loved the health system in this game, where you could collect and carry health packs with you for later use. Machine guns also felt truly dangerous (doubly so because there was no regeneratimg health), meaming were constantly peaking around corners, not wanting to be in their sights. When you found one. you were basically forced to try and rechache grenades/flank them, or _anything_ you could to avoid taking them head on, as that was usually suicide. Also liked how you had to breach doors yourself and lead the troops, modern CoD games basicly involve following an AI 90% of the time. And then there's that final level where you have to fight across the bridge, with that amazing musical score, and the other side shrouded in fog... Top 10 gaming memories right there!
Will you review big red one ? There's no reviews for it
Man I still have finest hour on the gamecube. It was our first 6th gen game along side metroid, both of which kind of scared me as a kid
You should've mentioned the BRIDGE AT REMAGEN level from Finest Hour that Call of Duty re-did for WWII, to show case developments from a reference.
I remember playing this on the original xbox. It was fun!
This channel will blow up if you post consistently.
Sup kacey
oh shit I just assumed this guy had a million subs or something because of the quality. Then I go to the comments and there's only 135. This guy hasn't even hit 5 figure sub counts. The discord server only has 130 people. I see big things in your future.
Found you recently thanks to the Ford Racing vid, really nice to see your channel growing like that!
4:30 Because he's TNT! He's dynamite! TNT! And he'll win the fight! TNT! He's a power load! TNT! Watch him explode!!
For me this is completly underrated game even if it feels almost nothing like other CoD games, or even Medal of Honor. I love it's almost tactical aproach, actually varied missions, much less scripted levels, best tank levels in the series, and it's rich atmosphere. Controls are good for the speed and pacing of the game. For me this along CoD 2 Big Red One, CoD 3 and CoD United Offensive are the best pretenders for the best single player CoD games (regarding post MW 2007 games, i would say Ghosts had the best campaign followed by either Black Ops 2 or Advanced Warfare, but i just prefer less scripted games pre MW).
I really don't agree with the idea that for example mg nests are unfair in north africa campaign. This is what i meant when saying it's more tactical - you need to use level design, to plan your moves, to use proper weapons, the thing is this is meant to pose a challange. Or for example later on in american campaign there is this awesome concept of using the tank you are meant to protect from panzer granadiers, as a cover from small firearms. Or how much of a difference you see when using Thompson (great for close quaters), and BAR (great for mid to long range especialy when in prone). You just don't play it as other cods, you have to look for cover, prioritize enemies, clear rooms, use prone for accuracy, plan you route to objectives. The bridge in last mission would be a piece of cake walk in any other cod, here it's a challenge that you have to divide into smaller pieces, and change your tactics acordingly - like firstly using BAR prone to deal with germans that run to more secure positions, methodicaly move closer to them, and then change to thompson to finish them of in close quater. It's makes this level memorable, when it could have just been another run and gun affair.
The Russian campaign in this games was a 10/10 like every other Russian campaign aside from COD2 which is an 9/10 the British campaign for was really bad and probably a 5/10 and the American was okay but way too annoying so like a 7/10 which sounds okay but really it’s not I disliked the game and it was a chore playing through it unlike Big Red One which was a masterpiece and honestly one of the best COD’s ever COD1 was good but United Offensive was way better Finest Hour is one of my least favourite COD’s but it’s still good the only reason why it isn’t worse is because the Russian campaign because they really didn’t care about the British campaign and the American wasn’t fun
The first COD game I played and it lead to me playing COD 2 on 360 and eventually to MW4.
Call of Duty: Combined Forces was a proposed concept draft originally intended to be a sequel to Call of Duty: Finest Hour. However, due to multiple legal issues that arose between Spark Unlimited, Electronic Arts, and Activision as well as other production problems, the game's draft and scripts never came to be. The game was projected to cost $10.5 million to produce after Finest Hour was complete. Eventually, Activision deemed the pitch as more of an expansion than something entirely new, causing the company to reject the proposal and end their contract with Spark Unlimited shortly after.
Finished it on hard today just for CoD series completionism. Sorry for everyone who has nostalgia feelings about this game, but it sucks. The controls and hitreg feels so awkward, recoil is so damn ridiculous that the game is not about reaction and aim, but about learning map and enemy spawns to prefire everyone. If you don't expect someone - you're dead. And awful checkpoint system doesn't make things better.
It's hardcore af, but not in a good, challenging way. It's just poorly designed, that's it. I feel bad for console players, who got this instead of the amazing original CoD1, which is really fun to play even today.
The development of Call of Duty Finest Hour proved to be problematic on multiple fronts: Even before production started, developer Spark Unlimited became embroilled in a nasty lawsuit with Electronic Arts: the company's founders had worked on the Medal of Honor series and poached many of the staff behind Medal of Honor: Frontline, causing EA to retaliate by accusing (not baselessly) the exilees of having stolen ressources and helped Spark Unlimited on company time. The development itself also had its share of troubles: despite Activision insisting otherwise, the developers decided to use Renderware for the game, which caused many problems down the line as it was incompatible with Spark's custom object database, becoming increasingly slow and crash-prone as development progressed. A poor tool chain made it difficult to troubleshoot bugs. Spark Unlimited's game development philosophy was also at odd with Activision: while EA's philosophy was to focus on making the levels and focus on technological polish at the end of development, Activision expected a polished core game far earlier. As the developers missed every milestone and went greatly overbudget, Activsion salvaged the game by lending a large team of internal engineers to assist development and outsource large chunks of the game and development of the Xbox and Gamecube versions. While Finest Hour ended up being a financial success, lack of faith in Spark's management and an underwhelming pitch for a sequel caused Activision to end their contract with Spark Unlimited, spawning another lawsuit as Spark felt the company was trying to weasel out of the agreed royalties.
Due to lack of money, I’ve missed at least 10 years of major game releases save for a very select few. I’ve never played any COD from Modern Warfare 1 onward. The last I remember even seeing was World at War. Any experience I’ve had on my XBOX was an authentic new experience for me as my mindset is so 2000s and hasn’t really evolved beyond that. It’s what I’m comfortable with and it’s what I understand.
Finest hour was the hardest call of duty game I’ve played, and the only problem is that there’s barely any health packs, it’s too dark( even though I tried to adjust the TV’s brightness and backlight), and the friendly AI’s keep blocking you’re path, but other than that it’s still a good call of duty game.
We can state as FACT that them using Renderware wasn't an issue, it was developed by Criterion Games (yes THAT Criterion Games) and is responsible for the Burnout titles and most importantly the PS2 Era Grand Theft Auto titles... It was a great engine (I'd say it was the Unreal Engine of its time imo 🤷)
"I've been through hell and back" -Some random kid after beating Halo on legendary
"So you beat the last two American missions in Finest Hour after almost a decade of rage quitting the tank escorts?" -Le Me Circa 2014
All seriousness though, loved this game but damn were those last two missions brutal with how laser the AI was.
If you're comparing the brand new Call of Duty to one from 15 years ago there's your main problem. For it's time it wasn't bad, wasn't quite as good as the PC version but it still held up compared to other PS2 shooters at the time. The problem it had was being overshadowed by Call of Duty 2 on PC and Xbox a year later.
Would you be willing to do a review of the Ace Combat series? I grew up with “the holy trinity” and I’d love to see your take on it. If you want something truly unique, I highly recommend taking a look at Ace Combat X, a PSP exclusive that I would argue is a hidden gem of a game
This game crashed while I was playing it on Xbox. Its the only game that I have played on 6 gen that have done that. And the shooting feels like garbage, it feels like shooting at air and if it werent for the hit markers I wouldnt have known that I was hitting anything at all. I think that Call Of Duty 2 Big Red One is far superior and it actually feels like a true classic COD game.
How tf dont u have so many more subs u are amzing and have great vid quality
I'll be honest and that is i just don't like this game, big red one is my favorite out of the classic 3 on consoles but this game has such a brutal difficulty, bad controls, terrible visuals even for the platform and more wrong with it, i never had this game back in the day (i started with big red one) but even if i did i would have stuck with medal of honor in all ways but multiplayer.
Any issues you had with control responsiveness or performance were because you unfortunately played this on PS2. I love that console, but it really did not handle shooters well, hence of relative lack of good ones on it. If you want the best experience with this that plays really well and responsively, play it on the original Xbox.
I have this game for Xbox and the clunky controls exist there too. Despite that I still enjoyed it. I didn't play it as a kid. I picked it up recently from a thrift store along with Big Red One. Its interesting to play old games you have zero nostalgia for yet can still enjoy and understand the sentiments for them. Not the best but a very important stepping stone.
0:07 holy shit is that really what og max payne looked like? I havnt seen it since it came out, and my memory DID NOT EVER remember it like that... fuck im old now...
i actually enjoy the older generations of gaming than the new hell id rather play superman 64 or e.t than bo4 (if some of you do not know superman 64 was on nintendo 64 and e.t was on the atari 2600 also they are known to be the worst games in gaming history also bo4 sucks,modern warfare is ight but it feels like rainbow 6 not cod)
I enjoyed Medal of Honor: European Assault more than COD: FInest Hour. MOH:EA had some open levels where you could do missions in whatever order you like.
pretty good game. yeah its clunky as hell even if you could play on mouse but they made something that was fun. the multiplayer and levels in mp were pretty good. village was honestly one of my favourite maps of any game but i wonder how well it would play outside of finest hour. i thought it was better then big red one. yeah big red one felt more technically competent, but finest hour was more fun. though big red one was still good
socom was obviously the number 1 online shooter for sony back in the day but i wouldnt be suprised if finest hour was in the top 10 most played online
You should get your hands on the Orange box for ps3 or Xbox360. You can experience a half life 2 and portal being bogged down by loading time, and play tf2 in its base form
I fell in love with COD because of COD II: Big Red One on PS2. The game is kinda bad, but back then it WAS Call Of Duty for me.
I’d rather play Finest Hour than the Wii port of World At War. I was emotionally devastated when I wasn’t treated to Nazi Zombies after the campaign.
This game is just not fun at all past Regular difficulty. It's as if the developers designed the campaign in mind with just Regular difficulty in mind, but decided to make the harder difficulties to just take more damage while nothing else changes.
Tbh, the moment you hit the American campaign, it's not fun at all on Regular either. A problem made worse considering I just went through the game the other day on Xbox, which technically looks a little nicer, but the game is darker, with dark grey areas made pitch black. There's legitimately sections of the game so dark that, with maxed monitor brightness, I cannot see literally anything whatsoever. All of this wouldn't be so bad if the checkpoints weren't so fucked. One or two checkpoints a mission just don't cut it. I ended up going through the American campaign as a pace slower than playing SWAT 4. In a Call of Duty game, that's a problem.
Prior to that, the game was pretty solid though, gotta admit.
I hope your channel grows fast because the work and love you spend into your Videos are insane
I love the 3D guns models of the game (and the great reload animations). The game-play was amazing too, and of course no pussy auto healing.
This is actually one of the first COD games I played, had a PS2 up to the early 2010s so I was a little bit behind everyone else
Too many stupid jokes, too many jumps between different games, and a general lack of focus overall. Pacing is good though.
I enjoyed Finest Hour as a kid but the American campaign is very difficult. Also, the Easter eggs are very funny and epic.
You should review Big Red One. Seriously its a good game and a decent story. Finest hohr was a good game to me and i loved it a lot. Big Red One though, was better imo.
great video, you’re going places kid
thank u worm
Finest Hour was a decent COD game with it's biggest downside being the difficulty and lack of checkpoints
I played this much later when it came to xbox 360 and surprisingly I enjoyed it. It was very ahead of its time
4:59 When will they stop WW2 games?
-Never
I remember I couldn’t afford an Xbox 360 so instead of cod 4 I’d play this or cod 2 best memories of call of duty tbh
There is 60FPS in the GameCube and Xbox version’s. Only problem is that it feels inconsistent.
Can you please make a video tearing that half-assed port of BO3 to last gen consoles. That game is such a meme.
Mercenaries 2 ps2 port made me stop playing videogames for years
Finest hour is very tough on medium gameplay. Fun but the only thing is the long trips for a checkpoint.
This gane is nostalgic for me, had it for the PS2. The only problem is that its dark on my screen
I LOVED these games despite how clunky they were
Played the crap out of this as a 10 yr old. tough as hell campaign
Maybe do a COD 2 Big Red one Review/Retrospective ? I really like that game.
The American missions in COD: Finest Hour are freaking hard. I spent days trying to beat the final bridge mission.
Your epilogue about the value and wonderment of downgraded ports hits home. It's been a small tradition of mine to willingly try out inferior ports just because I'm enough of a tech nerd that it's legit fascinating to see what the dev teams could pull off with the inferior hardware. I bought the ps3 version of Black Ops 3 last year but couldn't even play it because it requires a mandatory 4gb patch to even allow you past the title screen lol. I've got wifi now so im gonna download it and see just how abysmal it is.
"4741.GB Free on Prospekt (G:)"
What kind of insane man has a 5 terabyte hard drive?
Where do I find this legendary item?
It’s a half full 10TB :) it’s a WD MyBook external. I think I paid $240 for it? Back in August. Well worth it.
MapleMilk i would think the game footage takes up a lot of space
@@drakesemancik9339 My Modern Warfare folder alone is 1.4TB
The average project for this channel ends up being around 100-200GB of raw footage, the clips 5-6 GB when trimmed, and a few hundred MB in project files, graphics, music, extra footage from my phone, etc. I've eaten up those 5tb since August.
@@Kaceydotme How large are the end results? Like for example what's the size of this video?
@@sonder006 This video was around 900mb exported in 1080/60. Sounds small in comparison, because 1. I export in a lower bitrate than I capture in because TH-cam caps it anyway, and there isn't much point in exporting at mega bitrate when the game was 480p upscaled to 720p 2. for this ten minute video i captured 10 hours of footage of Finest Hour, plus clips from other games (Some of which are admittedly stuff I've just had laying around on the drive, some of which are captured fresh during editing)
This video is on the shorter side and the project folder (only the trimmed clips, copies of images and music used, etc) was 10gb. Something like Ford Racing which used a *lot* more footage ended up being 40gb in the project folder, and as I move projects back and forth between my desktop and laptop as necessary, I make copies of the project each time I do this in case something gets messed up between machines (bad export, corruption, or i just decide I want to go back to an earlier state of the video) this adds up. Ford Racing was 250gb of raw footage just from those games.
cod 2 Big red one is actually the first cod game Tryarch made but i'm okay with the title.
Did you pronounce it I.D. Tech as two separate letters? That’s not how Id tech is pronounced.