Then all you hear is, BANZAAAIIIIIIIIII and millions of grenades everywhere. Machine gun never running out of ammo, people dying left and right. My god this mission gave my 8year old self ptsd. But I love this game
as a canadian, with japanese decent. I found it disturbing for both sides when I played this game to shoot at the enemy, and to hear the infamous banzai charging. It was interesting, and terrifying.
it was unbalanced as hell yes but at least you could also kill them in 1 single hit, some of today's modern games instead are just ridiculous in harder difficulties and decide to give enemies almost infinite health instead
I love how wild the Pacific soundtrack is, these guys are in uncharted territory, a place they´ve never seen before fighting a strange enemy in their land, with half of them having little to no experience at all.
@@TacticalProjectGaming Me too, dude. I got scared and set in alert mode when I heard the Japan SCREAMING "BANZAA!! HAIT!!" and then, when Roebuck said: "GRENAADE!"
@@oscarlundberg7462 Probably intentional for Veteran. Yes, the enemies may be hyper-accurate, but most of them have bolt-action weapons, which means slow fire-rate. In veteran difficulty of later call of duty games, there is sort-of a lack of grenade spam. Most likely because of the more common full-auto weapons with a fast fire-rate.
Here's a tip for dealing with that bunker: The machine gun turrents will each have 1 enemy using them up to 3 times so killing them will make going around the bunker easier. As for the infinite spawning enemies they come in 2 at a time so when you kill 2, RUSH. IN. Then kill the other 2 behind the passage but be careful of the 1 soldier on the side and another watching the rear end of the bunker as he will be maning the posterior machine gun turret as well at times.
So I'm living in Okinawa and I swear this place is haunted. I've heard my name being called when I'm at work by myself. And just the plain eerieness of walking late at night. But this island is incredibly beautiful.
Oahu has the same feeling, particularly on the military bases where the attacks took place on December 7th. My command HQ building (Navy) was a building where they used the basement as an infirmary immediately after the attacks on Pearl Harbor. People that would stand overnight watches would always talk about the foreboding feeling when they had to go down to the basement.
0:01. Arrival in Okinawa during rainy weather. 0:19. Japanese Spider hole ambush. 0:34. Escaping from the Japanese ambush in the ridge. 1:53. Clearing out first Japanese bunker. 3:15. Two Japanese bunkers active. 6:00. All Japanese bunkers destroyed and regrouping with Roebuck. 6:04. Approaching the heavily fortified Japanese bunker. 7:36. Japanese mortar ambush. 9:47. The road to Airfield (Extended version).
3:16 is probably my favorite. It plays when you have to clear the last bunker with satchel charges, which will usually be the one on top of the hill defended by Japanese troops in strong positions. It feels like one of the handful of moments the campaign throws you a bone and makes you feel like a real hero. Gives you this feeling like you just did something impossible. Like "Holy shit I can't believe I survived that." Most of WaW is grim, bleak and exhausting but there are moments of immense bravery and heroism. Much like real WW2.
This mission is such a nightmare in high difficulty due to the mix between tall grass and grenades as well as the enemy pixel precision, you litterally press more the buttons to throw a grenade and crouch than actually using your weapons lmao.
Depends how good you are I used my weapons a lot during this mission and recent play through of waw campaign on veteran (but mostly taking cover and regening hp)
I finished the campaign yesterday on veteran. The only point where I got stuck for a long time was the beginning of Downfall. The first big hall you enter and have to flank around left or right. The grenade spam, machine gun fire, soldiers spraying you down from up the stairs.
Honestly veteran is pretty easy if you are patient and stay out of grenade throwing range and just snipe them but the first Russian mission is fucked on veteran the German Patrol with flamethrowers is the hardest bit in vet in my opinion
Creating a song that is thematically cohesive with one of the bloodiest battles in marine corps history and most inhumane battles in human history is no easy fest. But they did pretty good.
@@joeywheelerii9136 in terms of some specific individual platoons and companies loss rates, Okinawa and peleliu were some of the highest casualty rates in American military history, marine corps to boot.
@Joeywheeler II Iwo Jima was very costly, as was Okinawa. However, there's a reason the moniker "Bloody Peleliu" was given to this battle. And naturally, the Army outnumbered the Corps because the Marine Corps is the smallest branch.
@@joeywheelerii9136 The 77th Infantry Division also took heavy losses on Okinawa, Desmond Doss a medic who saved dudes without a gun was there on Hacksaw Ridge
It really feels like people are using video games purely as a way to make money in today’s world, and fuck is it depressing. Video games used to be another medium for storytelling, like an interactive book. Now they’re nothing but a cashgrab, with all the stupid fucking cosmetics and the damned battlepass. Hopefully bf2042 and Halo Infinite doesn’t fall into that hole, otherwise I fear that gaming is absolutely done for.
For reference Blowtorch and Corkscrew is set during the assault on the Shuri Line during the Battle of Okinawa. This was the last major defense that Japan could muster together using fortified machine guns, heavy artilery, mortars, 50,000 troops stationed on the line, Shuri Castle itself, and a 450 meter long tunnel network. Okinawa wasn't just hell, it was something far worse.
The best part of the soundtrack. And the same with the ending theme when during the time it shows Major Gordon giving orders to Polonsky as Roebuck and Miller was assuring a wounded.
@@BmorePatriot According to game file, the soundtrack is called 'fubar'; a north american military slang which stands for 'Fucked Up Beyond Any Repair'. It's a shame that it wasn't released as an official soundtrack.
Totally random but if anyone was curious as to why the mission is called Blowtorch and Corkscrew, it's because that was the name of the tactic. Someone would lay down suppressing fire while the flamethrower approached the target
@@christianvennemann9008 one trick to survive veteran is to always stay behind ally and hold tight in corner. In Heart of the Reich, your ally dies really fast and the open area doesn't even help you.
i could never beat this level, back when i played on that shitty WII version. I always thought that this was the last level until my 7 year old brain comprehended what was happening.
Never noticed before, but the bit at 2:30 sounds like its from Halo 3 ODST, but sped up a bit. 3:20 in this vid th-cam.com/video/UzljD4PSlF0/w-d-xo.html
I found another song from Halo3:ODST that sounds similar to the song u talkin bout its the 6th track called Clear the Air th-cam.com/video/Z2n0ZB3IBTw/w-d-xo.html
This was always my favorite mission in the game, the atmosphere with the rain and the weapons you have (Browning 1919 and the Flamethrower) are awesome! And it’s still the best WW2 game and a total masterpiece in 2024 :)
Recuerdo que esta misión cuando la jugue de chico allá por 2016 me costó una semana wn terminarla en veterano. El spam de granadas más la hierba y la cantidad de enemigos hacen que sea todo un infierno. Los otros días la volví a jugar en veterano y solo me llevó solo 3 muertes en terminarla. La estrategia consiste en jugar de lejos y tirando granadas de humo ya que si te acercas mucho quedaras muy desprotegido. Sin dudas una de las mejores misiones del juego.
If you listen closely to around 2:30, you'll notice a piece that sounds suspicously familiar if you ever played Halo3 ODST. Almost like O'Donnel and Salvatori ripped it directly from this song and just changed pitch and tempo...
Creepy but fascinating at the same time☠️☠️☠️☠️. That game was and is definitely the best Cod. That game keeps the darkness and the hopeless Situation of the 2. Worldwar in our eyes. Every Soldier of every Nation goes thru hell, not knowing what will happen next. Will you survive or will you get killed if you go around the next House, Stone or Corner. As I say, dark but fascinating.
The only mission that I burn all the grass and spam Granade if I have one in any grass area I see.. also the time I shoot half of my machine gun magazine in any grass area. And every spider hole I see always throw a grandes or burn them. This game give you the vide of WW2 pacific theater. And I thank you for that experience. Also I die alot on this campaign in veteran.
It's more like when you killed everyone and then your in a moment where everything is quite and the bodies everywhere and the carnage surrounding you and the horror you experienced during the fight and take a moment in your own thoughts in the battlefield in moments of silence It's amazing dark ww2 atmosphere This call of duty has the best realistic campaign and soundtrack I ever seen in any call of duty gameI have played
Then all you hear is, BANZAAAIIIIIIIIII and millions of grenades everywhere. Machine gun never running out of ammo, people dying left and right. My god this mission gave my 8year old self ptsd. But I love this game
My 21 year old self just did this mission today and my god was it frustrating. I will definitely have ptsd for a while.
My 7 year old self also had PTSD of that mission and thought them saying Banzai was funny
I was 9 back then when i first tried the game it was kinda normal because i didn't understand what's around me and whats going on
as a canadian, with japanese decent. I found it disturbing for both sides when I played this game to shoot at the enemy, and to hear the infamous banzai charging. It was interesting, and terrifying.
it was unbalanced as hell yes but at least you could also kill them in 1 single hit, some of today's modern games instead are just ridiculous in harder difficulties and decide to give enemies almost infinite health instead
I love how wild the Pacific soundtrack is, these guys are in uncharted territory, a place they´ve never seen before fighting a strange enemy in their land, with half of them having little to no experience at all.
They might as well have been standing on an Alien Planet, that's how out of their element they really were.
And imagine playing this as a kid. I really felt as if I was a soldier in an unknown part of Asia. It all felt so deep.
@@TacticalProjectGaming Me too, dude. I got scared and set in alert mode when I heard the Japan SCREAMING "BANZAA!! HAIT!!" and then, when Roebuck said: "GRENAADE!"
✊✊🔥🔥
The soundtrack really did capture that essence.
Gentlemen this is how you do a world war game
Out fucking standing!
@@goatman9499 outstanding marines, out fucking standing
Except for the grenade-spam of course.
@@oscarlundberg7462 Probably intentional for Veteran. Yes, the enemies may be hyper-accurate, but most of them have bolt-action weapons, which means slow fire-rate. In veteran difficulty of later call of duty games, there is sort-of a lack of grenade spam. Most likely because of the more common full-auto weapons with a fast fire-rate.
@@graveltheblock5578 That still doesn't make grenade-spam ok.
That bunker at the end, man... that goddamn bunker...
"It's a damn fortress!"- Pvt. Polonsky
And then if you die, you are forced to watch a tank get blown up by artillery ten million times in a row.
@@theluiginoidperson1097 Aaaah my ears
Here's a tip for dealing with that bunker: The machine gun turrents will each have 1 enemy using them up to 3 times so killing them will make going around the bunker easier. As for the infinite spawning enemies they come in 2 at a time so when you kill 2, RUSH. IN. Then kill the other 2 behind the passage but be careful of the 1 soldier on the side and another watching the rear end of the bunker as he will be maning the posterior machine gun turret as well at times.
@@zeroremnant4477 This mission is in Japan…
RETURN FIRE! MILLER BURN THE GRASS!
Flamethrowers... we’ll burn em out
-SGT Roebuck
memories of dying in the beginning and hearing this quote over and over on veteran
@@chucanoris that shit pissed me off. They just kept coming from everywhere
@@verdant2215 plus the lack of cover and the near infinite supply of nades the Japanese have makes this beginning hell
@@chucanoris I kept jumping behind roebuck like a meat shield
So I'm living in Okinawa and I swear this place is haunted. I've heard my name being called when I'm at work by myself. And just the plain eerieness of walking late at night. But this island is incredibly beautiful.
It's FOR SURE Scarred from the war. Like The Somme.
Oahu has the same feeling, particularly on the military bases where the attacks took place on December 7th. My command HQ building (Navy) was a building where they used the basement as an infirmary immediately after the attacks on Pearl Harbor. People that would stand overnight watches would always talk about the foreboding feeling when they had to go down to the basement.
The entire pacific a war grave it's all haunted. All the way for California to china from the allusion islands to aulstrila
0:01. Arrival in Okinawa during rainy weather.
0:19. Japanese Spider hole ambush.
0:34. Escaping from the Japanese ambush in the ridge.
1:53. Clearing out first Japanese bunker.
3:15. Two Japanese bunkers active.
6:00. All Japanese bunkers destroyed and regrouping with Roebuck.
6:04. Approaching the heavily fortified Japanese bunker.
7:36. Japanese mortar ambush.
9:47. The road to Airfield (Extended version).
Thx
Thank you!
3:16 is probably my favorite. It plays when you have to clear the last bunker with satchel charges, which will usually be the one on top of the hill defended by Japanese troops in strong positions.
It feels like one of the handful of moments the campaign throws you a bone and makes you feel like a real hero. Gives you this feeling like you just did something impossible. Like "Holy shit I can't believe I survived that."
Most of WaW is grim, bleak and exhausting but there are moments of immense bravery and heroism. Much like real WW2.
wdym 'usually'
its always there
The year 2040 as U.S. and Allied forces are liberating Seoul from Chinese occupation...
1:22 still sends shivers down my spine
This mission is such a nightmare in high difficulty due to the mix between tall grass and grenades as well as the enemy pixel precision, you litterally press more the buttons to throw a grenade and crouch than actually using your weapons lmao.
Depends how good you are
I used my weapons a lot during this mission and recent play through of waw campaign on veteran (but mostly taking cover and regening hp)
I finished the campaign yesterday on veteran. The only point where I got stuck for a long time was the beginning of Downfall. The first big hall you enter and have to flank around left or right. The grenade spam, machine gun fire, soldiers spraying you down from up the stairs.
Honestly veteran is pretty easy if you are patient and stay out of grenade throwing range and just snipe them but the first Russian mission is fucked on veteran the German Patrol with flamethrowers is the hardest bit in vet in my opinion
If you dont try playing this mission on veteran, its actually a very enjoyable mission to play through.
@MrKlassic Bullshit and Cockscrew
Creating a song that is thematically cohesive with one of the bloodiest battles in marine corps history and most inhumane battles in human history is no easy fest. But they did pretty good.
Iwo Jima was the bloodiest marine battle. About 2 thirds of the ground forces at Okinawa were U.S army.
@@joeywheelerii9136 in terms of some specific individual platoons and companies loss rates, Okinawa and peleliu were some of the highest casualty rates in American military history, marine corps to boot.
@Joeywheeler II Iwo Jima was very costly, as was Okinawa. However, there's a reason the moniker "Bloody Peleliu" was given to this battle.
And naturally, the Army outnumbered the Corps because the Marine Corps is the smallest branch.
@@joeywheelerii9136 The 77th Infantry Division also took heavy losses on Okinawa, Desmond Doss a medic who saved dudes without a gun was there on Hacksaw Ridge
really love WAW's OST how they didn't go for a trite swelling orchestral ww2 soundtrack
Exactly! I get so tired of generic ww2 songs
This level was hell. They’d come from all angles and not stop. The ferocity was epic. Proud i beat the game multiple times on vet.
3:27 is so nice
Miller! Clear the last one!
I didn't realize how special this game was until years later when CoD games became inclusive and wholesome
5:58 is so chilling
If that's chilling than 7:12 is ice
you made me see an ad lol
@@vicdoesgaming7570 i think hearing this in a battle field is calming
Damn Right!
Really? It makes it sound like death is lurking around every corner imo 😂
SPIDER HOLES!
Return fire! Miller, burn the grass!
Fwooooosh!
3:53 bro
Very triumphant and certainly sends chills of how these men would capture heavily fortified encampments.
Thx I’ve been looking for that part
It really feels like people are using video games purely as a way to make money in today’s world, and fuck is it depressing. Video games used to be another medium for storytelling, like an interactive book. Now they’re nothing but a cashgrab, with all the stupid fucking cosmetics and the damned battlepass. Hopefully bf2042 and Halo Infinite doesn’t fall into that hole, otherwise I fear that gaming is absolutely done for.
It was always about making money. The way to make it has just changed.
For reference Blowtorch and Corkscrew is set during the assault on the Shuri Line during the Battle of Okinawa. This was the last major defense that Japan could muster together using fortified machine guns, heavy artilery, mortars, 50,000 troops stationed on the line, Shuri Castle itself, and a 450 meter long tunnel network. Okinawa wasn't just hell, it was something far worse.
3:15
The best part of the soundtrack. And the same with the ending theme when during the time it shows Major Gordon giving orders to Polonsky as Roebuck and Miller was assuring a wounded.
@@BmorePatriot
According to game file, the soundtrack is called 'fubar'; a north american military slang which stands for 'Fucked Up Beyond Any Repair'. It's a shame that it wasn't released as an official soundtrack.
Tenno heika banzai!!!!
Damn right, It's one of my favorite osts in the game from the US side.
Kids who disliked are cod ww2 fanboys
Bullshit and Corkscrew, my least favorite level lmao
@Bounty Hunter Tbh I dont like any level COD 5 has for veteran, the amount of grenades thrown likely exceeds the total produced during WW2.
@Bounty Hunter Yeah Hardened or even just the Regular difficulty if i wanna speedrun it haha
Bruh can’t believe you missed it, “Bullshit and Cockscrew”
bullshit and cockscrew lol
Totally random but if anyone was curious as to why the mission is called Blowtorch and Corkscrew, it's because that was the name of the tactic. Someone would lay down suppressing fire while the flamethrower approached the target
The hardest mission of all time on veteran
I've always found Heart of the Reich the worst one on veteran, especially with the grenade spam 🤣😭
For me it was either this or relentless
@@christianvennemann9008 one trick to survive veteran is to always stay behind ally and hold tight in corner. In Heart of the Reich, your ally dies really fast and the open area doesn't even help you.
@@cloudynguyen6527They are Waffen SS The biggest and Best multinational-Racial Force in ww2, they don’t miss
@@squid12825 Burn em out was a nightmare
4:11 Tenno Heike Banzai !!!
"Cut their God damn throats."
- Admiral Marc Mitscher
SPIDER HOLES BURN THE GRASS
FBI SWAT epic
i could never beat this level, back when i played on that shitty WII version. I always thought that this was the last level until my 7 year old brain comprehended what was happening.
The music that plays in my head in a social situation
Same
nice, all soundtracks in the game are very atmospheric
3:54 my favorite part
It's very heroic and honorable with bravery.
it took fking flamethrower to break througth shuri line
9:47 this is my favorite part of the theme
Man i miss their old campaigns
If Treyarch were smart they’d 4K remaster this game instead of a new title and take that year off to develop a better game.
IKR if they made BO5 and no remaster of this its the most pathetic thing they have done
Never noticed before, but the bit at 2:30 sounds like its from Halo 3 ODST, but sped up a bit.
3:20 in this vid th-cam.com/video/UzljD4PSlF0/w-d-xo.html
I noticed it immediately, whenever i listen to the odst OST and the waw ost i always find the two to be very similar in a lot of aspects.. its weird.
I found another song from Halo3:ODST that sounds similar to the song u talkin bout its the 6th track called Clear the Air
th-cam.com/video/Z2n0ZB3IBTw/w-d-xo.html
Isn't this the mission where you can find the scoped type 99 Arisaka?
yes! IIRC it's in the higher floor of the waterfall area, right after the MG hill sequence near the beginning. but been a while since i last played.
@@DorDorDor703 Oh, cool. Thanks for letting me know.
It's raining and thundering where I'm at and the thunder goes along perfectly with this
This was always my favorite mission in the game, the atmosphere with the rain and the weapons you have (Browning 1919 and the Flamethrower) are awesome!
And it’s still the best WW2 game and a total masterpiece in 2024 :)
Weapon having different textures and meshes to match the rainy weather. This game was definitly something.
@@HBSDU54 absolutely agree. Like this game just captures the brutality of WW2 so well while also being a great game by itself
1:13 fun fact that is the intro ost (Japan invasion of china)
2:21 Horrors of the battle
anyone knows the version of wild card I can find this at @1:52 that's the best version of it I've heard ngl
3:52
Guile from Street Fighter would definitely approve.
That motif starting at 02:01 is FILTHY. I keep coming back to this song just for that part.
For me the best part 3:50
For me its 1:53
@@lol-un6nl also a good one dude !
Fuck yeah storming that fortress was a goddamn blast with that playing
I know this is dumb to do, but when I hear this music I try to imagine my great-uncle fighting in the Philippines 1945.
Banzai charges were so fucking annoying and terrifying at the same time
2:20 my fav
The moment gamers got PTSD.
Just GO UP an mountain Polonski!
LET’S FUCKING *THWSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!*
This soundtrack is referenced in Victor Charlie from Black Ops 1
Vanguard:soundtrack heroric
WAW:soundtrack horror metal heroric
Those grenade icons still show up in my nightmares
Flamethrowers and Satchel Charge!! ✊✊🔥🔥
And M1919
Best and a brutal start
not sure if anyone noticed but that sound in 8:36 is the exact same sound used in the pc ost of turok 1 in the first level
3:15 to 5:58 is just the best part of this entire track
Recuerdo que esta misión cuando la jugue de chico allá por 2016 me costó una semana wn terminarla en veterano. El spam de granadas más la hierba y la cantidad de enemigos hacen que sea todo un infierno. Los otros días la volví a jugar en veterano y solo me llevó solo 3 muertes en terminarla.
La estrategia consiste en jugar de lejos y tirando granadas de humo ya que si te acercas mucho quedaras muy desprotegido.
Sin dudas una de las mejores misiones del juego.
WAW is one if not the game with the best soundtrack of the entire game
It's definitely the best WW2 cod
why tf in 0:57 we hear one of heroes of might and magic 4 battle themes
Amazing Ever ! All Times !
If you listen closely to around 2:30, you'll notice a piece that sounds suspicously familiar if you ever played Halo3 ODST. Almost like O'Donnel and Salvatori ripped it directly from this song and just changed pitch and tempo...
1:52
Flamethrowers.....we'll burn em out
Picture the scene, you are a 7 year old with the wii port of this and one of those wii guns
4:15 "TEAM DEATHMATCH! No one fights alone!"
Creepy but fascinating at the same time☠️☠️☠️☠️. That game was and is definitely the best Cod. That game keeps the darkness and the hopeless Situation of the 2. Worldwar in our eyes. Every Soldier of every Nation goes thru hell, not knowing what will happen next. Will you survive or will you get killed if you go around the next House, Stone or Corner. As I say, dark but fascinating.
Spider holes! Return fire! Miller burn the grass!
Me: *burns the grass*
Grass: *on fire, but does not burn down*
Me: 👀🤦
The only mission that I burn all the grass and spam Granade if I have one in any grass area I see.. also the time I shoot half of my machine gun magazine in any grass area. And every spider hole I see always throw a grandes or burn them. This game give you the vide of WW2 pacific theater. And I thank you for that experience. Also I die alot on this campaign in veteran.
Always detonate the satchel charges at 4:00
The very beggining reminds me of Heroes of Might and Magic IV combat's theme.
It’s called bullshit and corkscrew for a reason.
6:00 thats how PTSD sounds like
1:52 funky, where the hell does this play in the mission? all i remember is rain & bunkers
1:51
If they ever remaster this game
they better keep this soundtrack, and not mess up the game with today's style of cod's
SPIDER HOLES! RETURN FIRE
It's 2022 now and I still get flashbacks of....."BANZAI!"
Do not do this level on Veteran difficulty, worst mistake of my life
probably my favorite level, and most beautiful one
This is gotta be the best part of the story
0:53 Love this part.
Clark Anthony Brown Kenneth Martin William
Blowtorch and Grenade simulator
Milleeeer
I wonder what medals Miller would of gotten during the war
I died a lot for being greedy in this mission
what?
@@marcowulliampopirers2216 I died a lot because i didn’t want to use smoke grenades and M1919 for mere mortals
@@niviera7807 You'll start appreciating the M1919 more if you kept using it. That LMG mowed em down more than I could do with the flamethrower.
The first 16 seconds sound identical to Heroes of Might and Magic 4 - Combat Theme IV
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No.
just noticed that too 😳
Just wrote a comment to say that !
i can still hear the banzai charges and grenade spam
THEY'RE GETTING CLOSE
When it's raining during your holiday in Okinawa :
Girls : " oh my hair is gonna get wet "
Boys :
3:55
4:15
This was the only mission I didn't remember in WaW.
@Optics First I still remember heart of the grenade on veteran... I finished it a week ago
any mission with a flamethrower i remember
7:12 💀
What do you mean
@@TastyShepherdsPie the music playing is something out of a horror game
@@hx20games77 I agree but it fits the somber, dark WW2 vibe
@@TastyShepherdsPie exaclty
It's more like when you killed everyone and then your in a moment where everything is quite and the bodies everywhere and the carnage surrounding you and the horror you experienced during the fight and take a moment in your own thoughts in the battlefield in moments of silence
It's amazing dark ww2 atmosphere
This call of duty has the best realistic campaign and soundtrack I ever seen in any call of duty gameI have played
1:59 this part goes hard af
3:14 the sudden explosion of music always gets me pumped to get the mission done
Your missing the part on the zombie sounds
So epic.