As long as you watch my videos, THE HEART of this channel cannot be broken!! Once more... we cheat death. ________TIME STAMPS________ Introduction - 0:00 A Campaign With Ballz - 3:20 Gameplay - 9:31 Story - 16:08 Zombies (cuz N*zi gets u demonetized - 21:07 Multiplayer + Keys to COD's Success - 24:44 Conclusion - 29:04 Bonus Round - 30:06
The Act Man Yo i just watched this as soon as it came up at 35 views, i agree that this one of the best realistic games cod has put out. But it does have itx flaws but maybe t hat old 360 controller noy being as responsive as used to be. I have a suggestion for future video, Medal of Honor series if you can. Or have any past expetience with it. Thank you, if you read this.
I also must add most of those russian scenes where they are brutal, are actually choices Chermov's Diary at the end will explain your charecter for making those desicions. " Someone should read this. "
The basically censored so many stuff to please sjws, and basically I'm wondering if Activision or sjws ever heard this quote, "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it"
Out of all the COD games, this game is the one that deserves a remaster. Everything can stay the same, just upgrade the graphics, I'd even pay full price for that.
I actually enjoy it with a lot of it being the Wii/PS2 graphics. Of course I can see why some would want remakes since there are old games I'd want remade like as long as the general look remains I'd love a remake of Spy vs Spy. Also to clarify yes I did play WAW on PS2 and BO on Wii.
This was my all time favorite CoD, and I started in the early online days of CoD 4. I did not enjoy the transition into flying 69 no scoping 420 blaze it intervention MW2 trash. It was fun but it ruined the game.
The greatest thing about WAW in the UK is that it is pretty much the only COD that got an age "15" certificate rather than an "18" despite being one of the goriest and scariest in the series lol
That part where Reznov took Chernov's diary and said that someone should read it, tears tread down my cheeks. They didnt try too hard to make Chernov that much of a noticeable character, yet you can still cry for him. And then COD WWII just tried too hard to create characters with deep back stories but no soul. I couldnt care less if Daniels shoot the wolves or his brother, i dont really care.
Adrix i played the campaign for the first time recently did it on veteran and the nade spam was cancer lmao. all these years i never had the game but i played it a few times.
that sniper mission alone turned me into a half decent sniper. Without it I would still be learning in bo4 and MW how to lead shots and hit horizontal moving
in my opinion, the best aspect of COD WAW is that you're not a military badass, you're just somebody who answer the call of duty to serve in military on an ongoing war, and you're not become a strong military badass, you simply become battle harden through the fight, that's the core that makes the character in WAW is different compare to newer title, like modern warfare 3
That's the thing I like about Miller and Dimitri both got captured yet they still go out and fight hell they've even had instances where they almost die due to an enemy trying to kill them yet they somehow survive
@@Milty2001 Even better, they survive through realistic means relying on both the actions of others and you, the player's, skill and cunning. The game is difficult. Insanely difficult. I remember playing and beating veterans difficulty and it was simultaneously the most exhausting and proud thing I've done in my gaming "career." Mainly because of the fact that you had to persevere through the hellish nadespam and enemy wave tactics until you get a perfect run and reach a checkpoint or two. That difficulty probably helps the most, it works to humanize the actions of your otherwise unknown comrades like Chernov or Roebuck. Especially when they seem to actually have decent (at least for the time period) AI that helps you somewhat through tougher spots. That also works to humanize Dimitri and Miller. Instead of trying to throw some crappy exposition, they're getting thrown around in a warzone and have little quips and snarky remarks that add a bit to their characters without forcing you through a modern day Hamlet when all you wanna do is shoot some damn Nazis.
@@gamerraider889yer veteran mode was seriously hardcore back then you pretty much had to know everything off by heart creeping between cover to make ground
It’s sad how World at War was mostly disregarded last gen simply because it was another world war 2 game right after Modern Warfare which was a setting the series never saw before. I honestly think World at War is one of the best games of the Xbox 360 and you perfectly highlighted why :)
Don't play cod waw now there are so many hackers in multiplayer mode that the game isn't fun on there anymore since someone had to use god mode that just makes the game fun for them
I'm happy World at war is backwards compatible on Xbox one because I can still enjoy it with new friends and this was my First ever COD game I ever had also my first every 18 rated game
What I love about World at War is that you don't play as some special operator doing special things. You play as a grunt to experience all the horrible, degrading, demoralization of war. No special attention is given to you, no crazy attachment/customization systems. This is war, war is hell, this is hell.
Do you guys remember the Veteran difficulty in WaW? How every Nazi has a limitless pocket of grenades and the throwing arm of an NFL quarterback? I remember that.
Ww2 gets too much shit in my opinion. It was too politically correct, but is was very cool. Also, it tells history aswell and the d-day mission gives you the chills. People jumped on the hate-train with no super valid reason
@@arie8515 Ww2 wasn't that bad at all. I think it was decent for a game as a whole. Sure, it wasn't like WaW as others say but as long as it's World War 2 and you shoot Nazi scums, I'm totally fine with it
When Reznov said, "As long as HE lives, the heart of this army cannot be broken." I realized that after BO1 and the death of Dmitri in the Nova 6 flashback it foreshadowed the fall of CoD.
@@u.nforcesalx9892 I loved BO3 as well. Shit campaign but fun multiplayer, relatively balanced DLC weapons compared to AW and IW, 11/10 zombies, and fun bonus modes like DO2 and nightmares.
The cutscenes with actual executions was always the ballsiest thing to me. It really makes you appreciate that you can sit outside of it and experience it through a masterpiece of a video game.
@@tob.meister It'd be awesome, but media nowadays would get so offended with the game (swastikas, massive violence, politically offensive) if it would be re released as a remastered. Activision must have the BALLS they've had in the past to remaster and release cod waw to the public. They'd probably censor the swastikas like they did in cod ww2 by replacing it with Iron crosses.
As a history buff, I also appreciate the fact that the game actually brings attention to the fact that Imperial Japan was just as horrible as the Nazis during this time, while at the same time not resorting to racism to do that.
@@sponge5196 and not only that they also added some gore effects on the soldier's body. Making it more realistic that shows how gruesome the war truely is. Not just some ragdoll that's just tossed around when shot and painted it red its just ughhhh
@@8bitPotatoPC-544 yeah but I kinda wish they remade WAW so they can put in Euphoria physics for when you kill someone. Like the ragdoll physics in RDR2 ya know? But it's just my silly opinion
As well as portraying the Russians as bloodthirsty. Yes, they did lose a lot - but they were still bloodthirsty at the end of the war; just like in-game.
This damn game is responsible for introducing me to something I love almost as much as Halo, motherfuckin Zombies. The story, gameplay, maps, weapons everything about this game is fucking perfect. The absolute GOAT CoD and it will never be beaten
HiddenXperia, that's because Treyarch wanted to make this the last World War 2 themed CoD, so they made everything perfect as the last experience. Zombies is definitely the bomb and this game will always be the better of the new generation of CoD games. I'd recommend a remaster, but it's too good that I wouldn't want Treyarch to fuck it up if they decided to "add" anything.
RIP Petrenko "Dimitri Petrenko was a hero... He deserved a hero's death. Instead of giving his life for the glory of the motherland, he died for nothing... like an animal. He should have died in Berlin..."
Fun fact, the Zombies characters’ original models were all ripped straight from the campaign. Tank Dempsey is just Polonsky, Richthofen is General Amsel from Vendetta, Nikolai is Chernov, and Takeo is the Japanese Officer from the beginning
Some “Japanese” Soldiers might say “Api” when lit on fire instead of “Kasai” (the Japanese word for fire) api means fire in Indonesian. This means the Japanese soldiers forcefully conscripted the Indonesians to fight for them.
It focuses on the fronts that most media doesn't cover as much, Eastern front and Pacific. And they did an amazing job at it. I find it bullshit that the media doesn't even give much attention to the front that turned the tide of the war. But no, let's make 100 games about D-day and 1944 when the war was already determined.
We had the British Marine Corps in Burma and Indonesia, the Chinese Army in IndoChina, and the US Army and Marines in Guadalcanal. A full game set in the Pacific would be awesome.
That 2003 to 2010 era is always going to be unmatched and LEGIT, the big red one was such a good game. (Cod 2). Shit is insane how much history is actually based in this games.
@@THELASTREALKING93I hate to say it but MW2 is overrated lol Don’t get me wrong, I love it. But it started the whole sweaty tryhard gaming culture in CoD that has never left now
Instead of barely bringing myself to hit start I used to quickly start the game and play the campaign as soon as possible so I couldn’t listen to the scary music
It shows Resnov's true care for his soldiers. I replayed the game recently and noticed that Reznov would shout "We need a medic" every time one of your comrades were shot and killed, it's especially noticeable on higher difficulties due to your reliance on friendly units. He may have some merciless moments, but he seems to truly be a good man at heart, however, men can be pushed to unspeakable acts. l feel his patronizing of Dimitri to Chernov was actually him trying to get Chernov to fight for more than survival, he wanted him to go further like Dimitri and actually decimate German forces when possible. He tells Chernov "no one will ever read this" to get him to focus on the fight in the twilight of the Third Reich. Black Ops Reznov seems off now with how he stated that Russians know the price of sacrifice. It was a badass moment, undoubtedly, but with Reznov's steady repeated shouting for medics and such for fallen soldiers it makes it odd. Though, he was also in Vorkuta for a while by then so he was probably hella desensitized, so it doesn't really matter in the end. Anyways, my two cents on one of gaming's most inspiring characters of the era.
You know during the beginning of the mission downfall when chernov is talking, it can change depending on what you did to the three surrendering germans in the metro entrance.
@@Padre_416 yeah if you kill the surrendering German soldiers the book will say how unhuman you were to commit such atrocities, and if you let them live (they probably bled out and died anyway) the book mentions how warm hearted you are and that you care for the lives of everyone.
@@gamerraider889 When I was playing on veteran I was stuck right in front of the Steps of Reichstag, waiting for the pillar to fall. The SS Guards were just spamming grenades and machine gun fire on the NPCs. When I got closer I noticed that when ever a soldier got shot, Reznov would scream "Get a medic!" Or "Stop the bleeding! Quick stop the bleeding!"
Is nobody going to talk aboit the gore ..how u could blow guys arms off with the shotgun and how realistic it looked ..why did cod stop making games like that one of my favorite cod games ever hands down
@@josefsinlimbo Fuck the media!. Give us a game so Gory so horrifying so intense that we will beg treyarch to take all of our money year after year if they make games this level of restricted. They could easily get away with selling this type of game for 100$ or even 1000$ dollars a copy we would willingly spend that much if it means we get so much as 1 fully uncensored uncut 1000x more violent it's this level of violence and gore we the players want in a game.. Look at games like Serious Sam 3 Your first kill involves ripping out a big eyeball from an enemy monster... with your bare Hand!. Or doom eternal where 100% of the game involves uncensored gore arms legs guts flying everywhere from every enemy you kill. Or even gears of war where you can chainsaw enemies in half. Sigh... sorry about that I got a little carried away there. I just really love super gory games and movies. Anyway the only other cod I have ever seen this much gore for was Bo3 and even that game wasn't perfect. But anyway most of the gore in this game comes from multiplayer and some of it from campaign via Raps, Combat Bow, Gravity Spikes, The end of the first mission... But alas this game wasn't the game it was meant to be. But now you got these eww... child friendly cods that hardly show any real gore other then the odd legs getting blown off from landmines etcetera.
It isn't that long ago, when I was replaying this game on veteran and man, I remember those grenade spam. Every Japanese/German soldier carried like 5-6 grenades and I was hiding behind a cover and I had to throw like 5 grenades back at the enemy.
It's soooooo hard to get into the Reichstag (like the second to last level) with all of the grenade spamming and infinitely spanning soldiers. Hardened on MW and W@W I'm pretty sure was more difficult than Veteran on the CoD's since then.
There was a level of respect for the past World at War had that new Call of Duty games simply don't have. It also showed the horrors of war without trying to glorify it. My brother and I still play the campaign on co-op and have an absolute blast.
I just realized In an alternate realty cod is actually good and never declined after black ops 2 like rn we could be playing a perfect call of duty I totally didn’t smoke a bowl rn
Historically accurate and brutal. There was no censorship or cover up in waw. Limbs getting torn off, gore everywhere, agonizing screaming being on fire.
Beating World at War on Veteran and getting the platinum for the game is still one of my most crowning achievements in my personal gaming career. Knowing how difficult it was, and having the tenacity, knowledge, and skill to bust through it was a great feeling when I saw and heard that trophy ding on screen. Pretty sure elations were had that day.
Agreed dude! Getting that platinum was what turned my teen self into a man! To this day I don't think no shooter has challenged me more than beating Heart of the Reich on vet 😅 damn 'nades
From Chernov's diary. "April 30th, 1945. When he first spoke of Dimitri, Reznov told tales of a hero. Someone we should all aspire to be like. His bravery on the battlefield is beyond question, but he has also shown mercy amidst the brutality of The Red Army. He is indeed a hero."
I like how Chernov's diary in the last mission actually changes depending on if you spare the surrendering germans or not and his view on you changes, it kind of accurately portrays how "heroes" are viewed one of them especially hits hard, if you only kill one German but leave the other two to burn he says "April 30, 1945: When he first spoke of Dimitri, Reznov told tales of a hero, someone we should all aspire to be like. At times, I have seen him show mercy, and at others, complete brutality. I do not understand him. Perhaps heroes need not question their actions. " this is perfect in the sense that war heroes aren't always the perfect moral warriors some see them as but as with everything in war, its not black or white, its gray, and war will always be gray life even itself is never black or white, it is gray, it is up to you whether a decision is a light gray or a dark gray.
My biggest pet peeve has to be the new war quotes when you die. They must be running out of quotes as I've noticed more and more the quotes have been from characters in the game you're playing
I actually love the real ww2 footage at the start of each mission it definitely feels like a mini documentary in a game and also shows what these men faced
That's what they were supposed to be. I was 5 when modernwarfare came out. But I still played all the cods til vanguard. And by that, I mean the campaigns also played multi-player but these games were originally made to be historically accurate. Not happening anymore history teachers prolly all gon get canceled in about 3 months.
Watching Japanese soldiers literally burying Chinese civilians in a pit alive is some of the most fucked shit you might accidentally come across on the internet in 2009 but these people strait had it in a game and you watched that shit as a teenager just awe struck before a mission even started
The Stalingrad Mission literally still gives me chills to this day. Honestly the best 25 seconds in any video games. Literally when that dude was standing over them with the mp40. Chills.
@@arandomperson5434 Really? Vendetta is my favorite and what got me into snipers in CoD and other shooters. I always try to snipe in game to this day, and even follow Reznov's advice on "hunting" my target(which is why I also hate sniping trick shots, Reznov is just that charismatic).
I know this is an old video, but that moment when Reznov is scolding a soldier for taking time to write in a journal, but after he dies he takes the time to pick up the journal saying “someone should read this...” really hit me hard. Like throughout the game his moral standing is deteriorating, but that moment gives a glimpse into his humanity and reminds us that soldiers are just people at the end of the day. It’s moments like these that make the game so memorable for me.
The United States Of America it does. But I still think it was important for this game to have glimpses into the humanity of soldiers as a lot of games just have them act like mindless killing machines
that's a good point I missed..and I just replayed the campaign people in this company gave into there greed so I dont feel they would ever consider that again in a character development in the series or more In depth
I look for three things when I play a historic game, objectivity, honesty, and authenticity. World at War ticked all those boxes for me. It didn’t paint either side as truly good or truly bad; the Russians and Germans committed atrocities and the Japanese and Americans committed equally brutal tactics. It didn’t shy away from portraying the atrocities and brutality. It also felt authentic to the time period. From my historic stand point, it’s a great depiction of the Second World War.
this was the most difficult/rewarding COD game they ever made, every time you didn't get sniped, blown up or killed in anyway was tense beyond belief, because the moment you feel safe *zip, bang, pow* you get clipped by someone you couldn't even see, it kept you on your toes and in suspense. COD:WAW is to this day this hardest COD they ever made, and that's why it's so damn good
@@ChandranPrema123 Hahaha. True. Have you played the expansion of the 1st COD? United Offensive? Now that.. My Cod, that is the hardest cod game made ever. Hell, old Call of duty games have difficult campaigns man, but it's enjoyable because it's kind of had both historical facts and world war II action movie elements.
My favorite part of COD was the feeling that you were just a regular member of that military. Whether I was American, British, or Russian I loved the experience of being just a regular participant in the war. I don't want to be a Spec Ops guy that can take out an entire battalion by himself I want to be I the shoes of the average Joe and live his experiences and see what he sees. Sure you have to take some liberties because it's not going to be as entertaining if you were to play out the entirety of the nearly 3 month long Battle of Okinawa while suffering from Malaria and urinating on your machine gun to keep it from overheating before watching civilians throw themselves off cliffs to avoid the shame of surrender or the fear of the atrocities the Japanese said the Americans would do to them if they were captured alive but the original COD games showed me how extraordinary it was that so many nations came together to fight another group of countries. Remember, War is Hell and it is not your duty to die for your country, it is you duty to make sure the other man dies for his.
I’m just glad I got to enjoy the glory days of CoD. I started with WaW and played that alongside MW. When MW2 came out that was my game. But to me BO was the beginning of the end. MW3 was the final nail IMO. After that it’s just garbage.
Zombies is still great all the maps are super well made and have tons of effort put into then everyone just complaining because using your brain for once is too much for a FPS game. The new zombies maps are filled with so much to do and not just killing stuff over and over again.
This quote demonstrates the contrived attitude of children today. My generation is so concerned with being fed more and more, instantly, that they find no gratification in newness or interesting things. Only those things that immediately make you feel a tiny spark of greatness, then afterwards have zero substance. That is a perfect way to describe the zombies of old. They were good for their day. Just as Doom was for his day. And there's nothing wrong with appreciating them. But I for one, know that the nostalgia voices are speaking when folks say: "New zombies are waste." If every single map was a "Kino Der Toten" reskinned to be something different, the mode would've died long ago. Beg for mediocrity all you like, but complexity isn't a bad thing, if it is offered and not expected. There is no BO4 map or BO3 map, you can't just jump on, and shoot things like a mindless retard. I know, I did. But having that layer of depth, kept me playing. BO1? WaW? No, I played them a handful of times and begged the question: "Isn't insanity defined by doing the same thing more than once and expecting something different to happen?" And I quit. No one would prefer less customization, less camos, less guns, less maps, less thought put into multiplayer... But folks complain about zombies getting more. Foolish.
One small thing I want to point out about this game compared to now. There is a clip in the mission intro and it’s a real person being executed. A real person actually dying and it’s right there. We see it. We watch it. A man’s life ended to show us the brutality of war. And nowadays, they don’t even dare to put the Swastika in a game so they don’t hurt the feelings of people that don’t even play the game. I feel like it’s an interesting thing to think about. How before they showed us real horrors of war, and now we get essentially low budget Hollywood movies.
Yeah I just played World at War for the first time after playing Vanguard. As soon as I saw the footage of the person being executed, I realized that this was a game that wouldn't be pulling punches in it's depiction of the second world war. I don't get offended at stuff because there's too many things that matter in life, but Vanguard...you might say that it offended me with it's "reimagining" of WW2. I'm all for historical fiction. But Vanguard hit me in a way that made me ask, "Am I mocking the people that fought and died in a very real war?" It sort of felt like it...
@@hl6816 I agree. I am playing a war game, I have mentally prepared myself to see real war depicted. I don’t want to be babysat in my play through. Show me the horrors so I can understand what these men, women, and children went through. “Reimagining” something like WW2 to me means like slight exaggerations, or one story combined from multiple. Not whatever Vanguard is. It’s just an embarrassment. I will play World at War 1000 times over before I ever buy Vanguard. I don’t understand how they can have a fantastic track record and do this. It’s the same with Battlefield. Fantastic games in succession, then garbage. They just lost the formula I guess.
We also see a nazi soldier/officer(?) get executed in a Russian cutscene, Russian partisans being hung, even a nuke exploding a city. This game has true balls
You know..... I do believe this is probably your best video Act Man... I know this video is old, but after watching your other well done critiques on other games, in my opinion this was the video that showed me how incredible a TH-cam video can be. I mean your passion for this game, and the way you edited it genuinely brought me to shed an uncontrollable tear or two. Seriously dude... Thanks for your contribution to TH-cam and the gaming community.
games have gotten better in graphics and physics, and the open worlds have gotten much bigger but unfortunately censoreship has hit games more this decade than in the 2000s
Ya COD WW2 literally didn’t even have Hitler in it. Ya they had some German guy who kind of looked like him when your friend got taken but it wasn’t him. The saddest part was probably when you found the concentration camp.
In David Attenborough's new documentary we see Japanese soldiers hiding in tree's and in the grass, and hang people that step out of cover eventually blowing them up, on the Russian side of things...
i played this when i was like 8 back then and i didnt know anything about ww2, so when i saw the cutscenes i just thought to myself "haha funny japanese man screaming and pushing a person to a pit" so i never became scared of it until i was 12 and i learned alot about the horrible war crimes the japanese did
I first played WaW on the midnight release when I was 13. I played on veteran and completed every mission bar the last 2. I ended up going back through on regular due to absolute loss of sanity. I left veteran in the past and tried to regain some sanity. Now, 15 years later, on January 10th 2024 as I approach my 29th birthday…. I have completed the whole damned game on veteran. Jesus.
This is the most realist COD ever made. The attention to detail is amazing! In the campaign: 1942 no G43, no StG 44, no M1 Carbine 1944 G43, M1 Carbine, no StG 44 1945 G43, StG 44, M1 Carbine And other guns aswell They were using weapons accurate to the timeline and place
Well there's a bit flaw. In Vendetta, there's a King Tiger right beside of Amsel's car. But almost all of this flaws where counter by how Realistic this game depict war (Well not really but seeing the brutality, the absurdity, and how violence war was). The game depicts no heroic represtation, just how war was horror and very teriffying.
Just beat this classic on veteran!!! I’m 26 now and my younger 11-12 year old self could never, ever beat blowtorch & corkscrew on veteran. Here’s to one hell of a game and an awesome video from the act man. Darkest and most brutal cod we will ever see. The shift away from content like this in todays age is exactly what will make this such a classic.
He'll even COD 2 Big Red One only focused on American Perspective but still that game had much better Narrative,Characters,Motivations and their Personality. COD 2 BRO we played against Germans,Vichy French and Italians. And had great characters that we cared like Brooklyn and Vic. COD WW2 is just generic and boring its campaign is just like AW Tbh
That....actually works, by keeping it separate call of duty would have a grip on all three times, thus, fans may flock to whomever has the cod type they want. Hey mabye even all three could make a 3 part cod covering all that.
Sadly that wouldn't work bc all they care about now is making money and they want one game to be the main game for that year to squeeze every little dollar out of you they can by making you buy the game then give you barebones if you only buy the game unless you spend 100+ dollars buying all the features that should be free.
Yes but I think the teams would be fed up or fatigued after like 2-3 games. Imagine just finishing a WW2 game and you have to instantly work on a WW1 game. Asset Recycling may also become an issue.
Reznov telling demitri no one will read his book and fight for the motherland just to witness him die and grab the diary saying “someone should read this” had a grip on me. One of the most depressing moments realizing his guilt.
Lmao dude got no... leave it alone. We don’t need gimmicky micro transactions and junk corrupting it. The graphics still stand to today’s standards. If anything it’s way better. It’s brutal and dark
Tim H that’s what I was saying, they would just ruin it like in that new cod, cod Cold War. they shouldn’t have zip lines and 20 fucking attachments on a single gun. They should just have based it off bo1 and some tiny little parts of bo2
Mr Pheonix wtf is wrong with zip lines lmao? Its only in one fucking map. I know ur exaggerating by saying “20 attachments” but its only 8 (and thats when u have the wildcard), honestly it makes it more realistic. Saying every cod should be EXACTLY like waw and bo1 is idiotic(i agree with you that those games do be fire) There needs to be innovation m8
Mr Pheonix ziplines were in waw zombies. I agree modern cods are putrid acid trash but you have many things to rip on than weapon customization. For myself, it’s the micros-transactions. MW 2019 is loaded with it. Also, the weapon unbalance. It’s all just sheep running around with mp5s and m4s. Imagine following the biggest trend in the most popular video game. I can’t imagine being such a loser. Last time at a party I talked to a kid about cod. I said “let me guess you use the m4?” And he’s like “of course dude” and my friend and I shit on his life. Using the m4 is equivalent to being a basic white chick that “loves Coffee, beach walks, and adventures” they have zero value to their lives. Nothing unique about them. Just a ant in a colony. Purely meaningless
yeetonmyfeet this sounds stupid but people don’t like innovation. People want the same game but better. THATS why cod is so successful. It’s consistent. (Not talking about the par core cods) another great comparison is halo. Halo was amazing until they changed everything about it that made it halo. Every new game was an improved multiplayer and awesome new campaign without adding trash. Ziplines are fine big deal. But imo waw is easily the best cod that nailed everything a cod game should be about. A dark brutal combat game.
@@colemacgrath8846 Black ops 1was Bo2 on the other hand fucked it up for me because of how futuristic it was and Mostly all zombie maps were trash,multiplayer was meh,and the campagin took me about 2-3 months to understand what was going on
@@itsclemgamerogdoms1clem773 black ops 1 is badass. Nazi Zombies in Black Ops 1, badass, and the Multiplayer was awesome, Black ops 2 fucked up on everything I play WaW, and Black Ops 2 all the time, and pretty much ignore BO2, cuz fuck it
This was the best call of duty ever. I will never forget the sequence where you have to choose between shooting or burning the surrendering soldiers alive. That really stood out to me.
This game brings so many memories, as a teen I played the campaign dozens of times. And when I was older, my best friend and I would hang out, burn some bush, and play Der Reise for hours. With the two of us, our highest score was round 32. But personally, I like Nacht Der Untoten better.
My biggest thing with this game is as you said, how unapologetic it is about demonstrating the war at the time. The Nazis were fucking ruthless. The Imperial Japanese treated Americans as inhuman animals. Both were OVERTLY racist and horrible. Black Ops scratches the surface of the horrors of the Soviet Union government, while World at War shows the heart of the Red Army, the people of the Soviet Union, not their shite government. The new Call of Duty games rely solely on action and story telling, which is a necessity in games like this, but the core part of why COD WAW was so great was because of how authentic the experience was. It had a connection to the reality of the world and showed the horrors of the war, even in the multiplayer. The gore was a huge factor in portraying how awful combat really is. The new Call of Duty games are all tied to fantasy, where I feel like the older COD titles were tied to reality much more. MW2 was where it started to move away from this. Black Ops 1 moved very far as well, playing on conspiracy theories about the Red Scare and the post-WWII era. Historical realism is a huge reason some of these games hold up so well. Historical experience in this games is timeless, whereas a fantasy narrative about things that never happened/probably never will happen are only entertaining once, typically. CoD and Battlefield both missed the target with COD WWII, BFV and Vanguard. People who play a WWII game want to experience WWII. Not a 1940's themed shooter. Battlefield 1943 and World at War both were great games that attempted to stay true to the history of the eras they were in and included aspects of history in the narrative. BF1943 and WAW both had historical battle scenes that you could relive. It's such a damn shame that they have become what they are. People (mainly leftists) are so avidly counter-racist that they don't even want Nazi flags in the games anymore. They completely miss the point of a historical game by adding female characters, black Nazi soldiers, just things that are not grounded in reality. Yes, it's racist, yes it's misogynistic, It's WWII in the 1940s. The benefit of including racism in these games isn't to promote it but to increase awareness of the faults of the time period. To demonstrate the horrors of ethnic purity, racism and the horrors of war. Excluding things because they may be deemed offensive by someone is simply to deny history and whitewash. Whitewashing WWII with these new games is very prevalent and it honestly does nothing but make light of the horrors that happened. People need to know the real history, and let's be honest. Kids don't fucking read books or watch documentaries. They get their knowledge from media that they like to consume and video games are a huge gateway to interests and hobbies. I, myself, am now an avid WWII history lover. I collect the firearms from the period, I love watching documentaries, movies and other media about WWII and World at War was a big contributor to my interest in the history. The historical accuracy of the game piqued my interest with so many questions about why things were the way they were in the game. Why did the Nazis want to conquer Europe? Spoiler, they didn't. Look up "Lebensraum". What did "Konnohega Banzai!" mean when the Japanese bayonet charges happened? Why weren't there black or other races of soldier in the U.S. forces? When you exclude history, people forget it. I think the exclusion of history, therefore the exclusion of horror and shock, make these games less alluring. Human nature is to want to see something interesting, something you haven't seen before or something that makes you think. Having simple characters in clothes shooting at one another is boring and can be seen anywhere. Seeing a Wermacht soldier spraying an MP40 into dead bodies in a fountain in Stalingrad while you play as a character barely clinging to life brings you into the horrors of the massacre of Stalingrad. Of course this all goes out the window with Zombies, but there is still history in the fantasy there. The Nazis performed all sorts of crazy experiments to gain a tactical advantage during the war. Still, I think that people underestimate how much having an historically accurate experience matters in these historical games.
@Wickem The majority of people still want a campaign though. Black ops 4 didn’t have one and treyarch/ activision got flamed for it. And guess what? The next black ops game had a fucking campaign. It’s still a much wanted part of the game. Just because YOU personally skip it doesn’t mean that’s the majority. You have some serious bias and no self awareness clearly. If the majority didnt want one than treyarch wouldn’t have received all that backlash and than decided to put a campaign in the next game right? Sometimes you just gotta think logically bud, but clearly that’s no your strong suit.
It told me about the future never freaking add EXO suits to your I wish list if you do I will most likely hunt you down and destroy it the first day you get one and the hell would want one
I always got sad when the guy writing in his little diary died. You can tell reznov felt bad and kinda regret for getting mad at him. Taking his diary to give to his family.
And Black ops continues the whole story from the ending of w4w. Actualy we saw Reznov and the main character of w4w. "Dragovich... Kravchenko... Steiner... All must die" I think is a better sequal than the mw series
I still play CoDWaW with friends to this day on PC. It's easily the best version of CoD, amazing story, great multiplayer, and 100s of custom zombie maps better than official maps that use Black Ops1,2, and even Ghost guns and textures. Even better, all the DLC was released for free.
@@MrHiya11 it's a mediocre film that could have been great if they spent more time making it authentic than making it a spectacle. Its biggest problem was Russians speaking English with British accents, and the Germans being American. Bizarre.
@@thepancakemann It's biggest problem wasn't the English language, Death of Stalin was absolutely amazing even with the different English accents because they were done to portray the different regions in the Soviet Union and essentially their British counterpart. The biggest problem with Enemy at the Gates was their portrayal of the fighting within the city itself like fuck me that was BAD
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I’ll never forget when I first played the campaign of this game when I was 9 years old and I was scared and shocked when I saw Dimitri wake up in the fountain in Stalingrad with all those crows eating his dead comrades and German soldiers executing the ones still alive. Edit: Here’s another story so I remember when I first played the mission Blood and Iron and it was so hard for me since I was new to FPS games and COD in general even though I was playing on recruit difficulty LOL. It was hard with all those Panzershrecks (don’t think I spelled that right), 88’s, and Tigers shooting at me from everywhere I was raging I had to take a break from the campaign and when I finally completed the mission I was so relieved.
For anybody that doesn't know this, World at War is still very alive today in 2021. On 360 for sure. It takes little to no time to find a game for MP. Saw 750 players yesterday. You still see spikes of 1000 players or more at least every week. And you almost never run into modders anymore either. Since the game is so old. Pick up the game if you haven't played it in a while. I actually sat down to play this game for the first time in 2021. Stopped playing after COD4, and now I see what I missed out on. World at war took the series and amplified it 💯
I just recently did the campaign again on veteran, but I tried something different this time. Normally I'm being a bit careful, I fear for my life, I conserve ammo (I made myself a rule to only use allied weapons). I started using suppressive fire and pushing tactics. It went like a dream.
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The Act Man hey, this video isnt appearing in your channel or my subscription feed. the only way i can access it is through the notifications
Hey Act Man, whats your all time favourite COD?
The Act Man Yo i just watched this as soon as it came up at 35 views, i agree that this one of the best realistic games cod has put out. But it does have itx flaws but maybe t hat old 360 controller noy being as responsive as used to be. I have a suggestion for future video, Medal of Honor series if you can. Or have any past expetience with it. Thank you, if you read this.
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I also must add most of those russian scenes where they are brutal, are actually choices Chermov's Diary at the end will explain your charecter for making those desicions. " Someone should read this. "
Cod WWII: Realistic graphics
Cod WAW: Realistic.
CoD WWII doesn't even have realistic graphics. :)
@@I.AM.BIG.J true
DER VERRÜCTE SPATENWAHNSINNIGE yeah it looks too bright and nice instead of bleak and depressing
Clown comments the same game
With female soldiers fighting
With prosthetic arms?
Clown comments yet your on a cod video
The censorship of historical events pisses me off the most about these games.
It’s a bad thing to try and change history.
Legion they removed the nazi sign as well
The basically censored so many stuff to please sjws, and basically I'm wondering if Activision or sjws ever heard this quote, "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it"
The scary thing is that Germany is building up it's military
@@dagreenbolt9169 I too learn all my history from fictional video games.
@@APFS-DS Modern Germany is literally the last country on Earth that would go Nazi, so I wouldn't be too worried.
This game scared me as a child. Now I have nothing but respect for it.
No offense, but that's good. A war game is supposed to be scary.
Playing the first two zombie maps at night when I was 11 used to scare the shit outta me
CLB this game didn’t scare me in 2008
Yes brother
Pretty sure this scared a lot of us as kids
Out of all the COD games, this game is the one that deserves a remaster. Everything can stay the same, just upgrade the graphics, I'd even pay full price for that.
Not going to happen while the West has a Hate Boner for Russia
@@TOTN17 its good to have dreams, even if they are pipedreams.
5:00
I got 2 copies for my 360..👍
I actually enjoy it with a lot of it being the Wii/PS2 graphics. Of course I can see why some would want remakes since there are old games I'd want remade like as long as the general look remains I'd love a remake of Spy vs Spy. Also to clarify yes I did play WAW on PS2 and BO on Wii.
New Cod games: “Yeah war is totally cool, come be a badass with us”
WaW: “After this you’ll never want to even think about war”
@Rafael Gonzalez but MW2 still told a memorable and great fucking story at least.
The new MW takes balls, and it's as amazing as CoD 4.
The story and gameplay from WaW was amazing but also shared me the terrors and horrors the people had to do. Even if they are alive now or dead
Not just that but it will regret yourself on joining the Army
You’ll get PTSD
Right? Burning your enemies alive with a flamethrower and seeing there Chard remains made you wonder shit I didn't expect this to happen
Back when cod had the balls to put Hitler's face in a ww2 game
More like back when you didnt need balls to do so...
Alpha Express that’s also very true. You didn’t need courage to do this because no one even cared.
@@PetalsFourArmor such a shame. Honestly such a shame..
did that change? i havent followed the history if cod
@@ericg1100 not its gaming in general.
Back when “Rated M for Mature” was the real deal
This was my all time favorite CoD, and I started in the early online days of CoD 4. I did not enjoy the transition into flying 69 no scoping 420 blaze it intervention MW2 trash. It was fun but it ruined the game.
The greatest thing about WAW in the UK is that it is pretty much the only COD that got an age "15" certificate rather than an "18" despite being one of the goriest and scariest in the series lol
Nowadays the ESRB age rating is just a logo on the front cover of every game
To day they are too scared to show us the the nazi flag (btw forgot the name of the flag lol)
@@germanplayer69420 nah they still do that shit but now they have to put in minority soldiers and women soldiers and eventually trans soldiers
That part where Reznov took Chernov's diary and said that someone should read it, tears tread down my cheeks. They didnt try too hard to make Chernov that much of a noticeable character, yet you can still cry for him. And then COD WWII just tried too hard to create characters with deep back stories but no soul. I couldnt care less if Daniels shoot the wolves or his brother, i dont really care.
even i felt that, and i only know of this game through this video.
@@vizthex I recommend playing it. I occasionally bust out my old ps3 just to play this campaign
I agree except for the fact that Daniels is one of the best protagonists in cod
@@madcracker8077 which game was he in
At least everyone will never forget chernov as he will also be the fact of our favourite drunken zombie killer
i finished this game on the veteran difficulty... it was fucked up, i thought i was playing a horror game
Adrix i played the campaign for the first time recently did it on veteran and the nade spam was cancer lmao. all these years i never had the game but i played it a few times.
THE GRENADES!... THE GRENADES!!!!!!!!
Well now you know how the veterans felt.
The grenades comes everywhere!=_=
I just finished today and i did the whole vet campaign in one sitting, literally what he said about it being all over and laying down is all true
CoD WaW even had a real Boss fight.
"YOU ONLY WOUNDED HIM!"
"YOU JUST GRAZED HIM!"
Fuckin pain in the ass on veteran
He spotted you, get over to the window
Entrance of The Reichstag, SS Troopers slaughtering Red army with granades on Veteran difficulty.
that sniper mission alone turned me into a half decent sniper. Without it I would still be learning in bo4 and MW how to lead shots and hit horizontal moving
Took me three days to beat
Imagine a World at War remaster with Modern Warfare 2019 graphics
And imagine how much space it would take lol
With the original graphics updated, yes.
Isn't it just ww2 but just not a disappointment
Wouldn't happen the game would get cancelled right away for the intro
@@P3yt0n29 lmao facts
in my opinion, the best aspect of COD WAW is that you're not a military badass, you're just somebody who answer the call of duty to serve in military on an ongoing war, and you're not become a strong military badass, you simply become battle harden through the fight, that's the core that makes the character in WAW is different compare to newer title, like modern warfare 3
That's the thing I like about Miller and Dimitri both got captured yet they still go out and fight hell they've even had instances where they almost die due to an enemy trying to kill them yet they somehow survive
@@Milty2001 Even better, they survive through realistic means relying on both the actions of others and you, the player's, skill and cunning. The game is difficult. Insanely difficult. I remember playing and beating veterans difficulty and it was simultaneously the most exhausting and proud thing I've done in my gaming "career." Mainly because of the fact that you had to persevere through the hellish nadespam and enemy wave tactics until you get a perfect run and reach a checkpoint or two.
That difficulty probably helps the most, it works to humanize the actions of your otherwise unknown comrades like Chernov or Roebuck. Especially when they seem to actually have decent (at least for the time period) AI that helps you somewhat through tougher spots.
That also works to humanize Dimitri and Miller.
Instead of trying to throw some crappy exposition, they're getting thrown around in a warzone and have little quips and snarky remarks that add a bit to their characters without forcing you through a modern day Hamlet when all you wanna do is shoot some damn Nazis.
@Miltypooh2001 Miller was also in the 1st Marine Division a unit that was legendary both in WW2 and Korea
@@gamerraider889yer veteran mode was seriously hardcore back then you pretty much had to know everything off by heart creeping between cover to make ground
All the CODs prior where just like that. Hell, MW straight up kills the Marine protagonist you where playing as
Player: **decides to play on Hardened / Veteran**
German and Japanese Army: Okay men, you are all now equipped with 200 grenades each.
Run
You either stay behind cover and get blown up, or run to another place only to see another grenade waiting for you there.
Hardened was the perfect sweet spot in terms of difficulty. Veteran was just plain stupid because of the endless grenade spam.
The sniper part in Vendetta is stressful truth is I'm playing World At War on veteran along with the rest of COD games is for trophies.
@@NexusKin
And also the broken spawns in Blowtorch & Corkscrew that could still spawn dudes behind you.
It’s sad how World at War was mostly disregarded last gen simply because it was another world war 2 game right after Modern Warfare which was a setting the series never saw before.
I honestly think World at War is one of the best games of the Xbox 360 and you perfectly highlighted why :)
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Don't play cod waw now there are so many hackers in multiplayer mode that the game isn't fun on there anymore since someone had to use god mode that just makes the game fun for them
Mp40 on everymap got boring.
MAYBE your simple brain acted that way
I'm happy World at war is backwards compatible on Xbox one because I can still enjoy it with new friends and this was my First ever COD game I ever had also my first every 18 rated game
I loved the tone of this game. We need one more dark, gritty, cod game.
The next one will be a different company. Cod has went mainstream and will stay that way
@@FalsePips is sledgehammer doing the next one?
If executed right.
I agree Joshua
@@FalsePips Which company?
What I love about World at War is that you don't play as some special operator doing special things. You play as a grunt to experience all the horrible, degrading, demoralization of war. No special attention is given to you, no crazy attachment/customization systems. This is war, war is hell, this is hell.
That’s what makes WaW so special. With a few exceptions it’s hard to find a video game that truly puts an emphasis on the horrors of war.
Do you guys remember the Veteran difficulty in WaW? How every Nazi has a limitless pocket of grenades and the throwing arm of an NFL quarterback?
I remember that.
That cost me about 40 ragequits
And they had the accuracy of all gods in the universe combined
Yes, that was impossible. I got up to their land, their blood before quitting. Capturing those bunkers, was impossible
The satisfaction of completing it though :O How bad was that flamethrower level on veteran.
Oh man dark souls looked mediocre to that shit haha.
Naustix Not all germans were Nazis they were just german soldiers. 🤦♂️
World at war: deep history
WW2: Train go boom
Ww2 gets too much shit in my opinion. It was too politically correct, but is was very cool. Also, it tells history aswell and the d-day mission gives you the chills. People jumped on the hate-train with no super valid reason
@@arie8515 Ww2 wasn't that bad at all. I think it was decent for a game as a whole. Sure, it wasn't like WaW as others say but as long as it's World War 2 and you shoot Nazi scums, I'm totally fine with it
We wanted another gritty world at war not another cheesy cod
Is the “train go boom” a reference to his Black Ops 3 vid? If so, I just got done watching that one
@Soap Mactavish Still, shoot Nazis, boom I consider it a WW2 game... no matter what. Call me an idiot but I don't care
When Reznov said, "As long as HE lives, the heart of this army cannot be broken." I realized that after BO1 and the death of Dmitri in the Nova 6 flashback it foreshadowed the fall of CoD.
It all makes sense now
The soundtrack is really good after he said it sad that they're rushing everything now
BO2:am I a joke? To you??
@@u.nforcesalx9892 never played it never will but it has some pretty good storyline
@@u.nforcesalx9892 I loved BO3 as well. Shit campaign but fun multiplayer, relatively balanced DLC weapons compared to AW and IW, 11/10 zombies, and fun bonus modes like DO2 and nightmares.
The cutscenes with actual executions was always the ballsiest thing to me. It really makes you appreciate that you can sit outside of it and experience it through a masterpiece of a video game.
Yeah. Idk how they got away with that. That's like AO rating territory
@@alexsilva28they got away with it because it was real, and you should always be able to ‘get away’ with truth, brutal as it may be
I would pay $100 to play a remastered campaign of this game, no joke.
I'd pay $1000 to play cod waw remastered with multiplayer, zombies and no loot boxes and micro transactions with new weapons
@@tob.meister It'd be awesome, but media nowadays would get so offended with the game (swastikas, massive violence, politically offensive) if it would be re released as a remastered. Activision must have the BALLS they've had in the past to remaster and release cod waw to the public. They'd probably censor the swastikas like they did in cod ww2 by replacing it with Iron crosses.
id hive my life for that shit, its proper art
Who wouldn't
Dude 110% if world at war campaign gets remastered I’m paying for it even if it’s $125
Because WaW did not censor everything!
Or try to be fucking pc
Einar Figueras or blow his head off like a melon. Metal AF.
I wished for a but more of the Japanese brutality but I agree
Like...It was called the RAPE OF NANKING for a reason
Chesron Kocsis
I think is the only Call of Duty that has dismemberment.
As a history buff, I also appreciate the fact that the game actually brings attention to the fact that Imperial Japan was just as horrible as the Nazis during this time, while at the same time not resorting to racism to do that.
It showed the true nature of the war. I wish we could play as the axis soldiers to see things from their perspective though.
@@sponge5196 and not only that they also added some gore effects on the soldier's body. Making it more realistic that shows how gruesome the war truely is. Not just some ragdoll that's just tossed around when shot and painted it red its just ughhhh
@@8bitPotatoPC-544 yeah but I kinda wish they remade WAW so they can put in Euphoria physics for when you kill someone. Like the ragdoll physics in RDR2 ya know? But it's just my silly opinion
As well as portraying the Russians as bloodthirsty.
Yes, they did lose a lot - but they were still bloodthirsty at the end of the war; just like in-game.
YES I am a history nerd and it sucks when ever I hear people taulking praises about Japan, LOOK EVERYONE SUCKED
Both this video and game have aged so well
Fuck your feelings! You’re gay!
I couldn’t agree with you more
This damn game is responsible for introducing me to something I love almost as much as Halo, motherfuckin Zombies. The story, gameplay, maps, weapons everything about this game is fucking perfect. The absolute GOAT CoD and it will never be beaten
HiddenXperia, that's because Treyarch wanted to make this the last World War 2 themed CoD, so they made everything perfect as the last experience. Zombies is definitely the bomb and this game will always be the better of the new generation of CoD games. I'd recommend a remaster, but it's too good that I wouldn't want Treyarch to fuck it up if they decided to "add" anything.
Damn I love seeing my favorite animes (HiddenXperia and The Act Man) crossover
HiddenXperia BO3 still probably had the best zombies. Zombie Chronicles was and is amazing.
Zombies and campaign is where I thought the game shined. I like modern shooters better, but this game was bearable. GOAT.... everyone has their own.
HiddenXperia I'm a huge fan
Breaks my heart how reznov was sorry for the guy who was writing in his journal after he died
Chernov was his name
Dávid Macko ayyy thanks mate
@@samuelkelly5061 np
“Someone should read this..”
“NO ONE WILL EVER READ THIS”
2 seconds later
“someone should read this”
RIP Petrenko
"Dimitri Petrenko was a hero... He deserved a hero's death. Instead of giving his life for the glory of the motherland, he died for nothing... like an animal. He should have died in Berlin..."
😢😭 Damn you Dragovich!!
th-cam.com/video/xtVf6URkmPQ/w-d-xo.html
Reznov saw his death upclose
He survived the terror of the grenades on Berlin, won a sniper duel, survived a massacre...
Only to die from some fart smoke
Drachovinch,krevchinco,
Steiner these "men" must die
Fun fact, the Zombies characters’ original models were all ripped straight from the campaign. Tank Dempsey is just Polonsky, Richthofen is General Amsel from Vendetta, Nikolai is Chernov, and Takeo is the Japanese Officer from the beginning
Wack. 🙌🏻
Oh cool, I didn't know that. It's great to see so much of the DNA of WAW survives in the other games
COD Now: Come feel like a badass with us.
COD Then: You won't even want to think of a war after we're through with you.
@syed jawad who cares?
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I feel like new cod is slowly going back with campaigns. Remember last years modern warfare campaign
@The Wandering Knight who cares
@The Wandering Knight but it’s still just a cod game with women just get over it
@Jack Denmark there weren't any in the war
World at War is like a war film
COD WW2 is pretty much a Michael bay rip off action set in ww2
It kind of reminded me of pearl harbor with the romance🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yah
WW2 is like Fortnite but with "Call of Duty"Label
@@albertoquinones1173 Thought I was the only one there lmao
WW2 was better than infinite warfare advanced ghosts and black ops four it’s not that horrible
Last Call Of Duty that felt like an actual war.
Midnight don’t leave out black ops 1
Black ops 1was the last good one tho
VoidX the last mission is a bit on the weak side. I mean invading a Russian submarine base by your self, would be suicide no matter what you do.
@Soviet who Cuts ghosts...oooh u mean the game with da super epic paper-thin fish ai?
Lvl58DeathKnight no, ghost is a character in modern warfare
Some “Japanese” Soldiers might say “Api” when lit on fire instead of “Kasai” (the Japanese word for fire) api means fire in Indonesian. This means the Japanese soldiers forcefully conscripted the Indonesians to fight for them.
It's api not apai, lol
@@caesar7786 thanks
@@t7mf np
i'm going to go back to world at war to play the campaign just because of this video. :)
Artzie Music Made my first video
I just played it last weekend.
Nigga imma buy this game coz of this video
Me too....
Good to know your gaming tastes are as good as your music
The western front is so over saturated, it was nice to see the pacific front covered. We need more games in the pacific
Medal of Honor Pacific Assault. Awesome game.
TH-cam Security Squad I agree, the WW2 market sells the same old stories, I want to take on the desert fox, now that I would buy
actingamer101 made my first video
It focuses on the fronts that most media doesn't cover as much, Eastern front and Pacific. And they did an amazing job at it. I find it bullshit that the media doesn't even give much attention to the front that turned the tide of the war. But no, let's make 100 games about D-day and 1944 when the war was already determined.
We had the British Marine Corps in Burma and Indonesia, the Chinese Army in IndoChina, and the US Army and Marines in Guadalcanal. A full game set in the Pacific would be awesome.
"Mark my words, Comrade. One day things will change, we will take the fight to their land, to their people... to their blood."
-Viktor Reznov
R.I.P. Reznov
Uraaaaaaah
UUURRRAAA
“AND THIS IS STEP ONE”
@@gtahelper4873 SECURE THE KEY!
That 2003 to 2010 era is always going to be unmatched and LEGIT, the big red one was such a good game. (Cod 2). Shit is insane how much history is actually based in this games.
And MW2(2009) as the 🐐
@@THELASTREALKING93 YESIR. MY CHILDHOOD THAT RE4 AND SILENT HILL MAN
@@THELASTREALKING93I hate to say it but MW2 is overrated lol
Don’t get me wrong, I love it. But it started the whole sweaty tryhard gaming culture in CoD that has never left now
I remember getting scared of the main menu as a kid, I barely brought myself to hit start
Why the music?
Instead of barely bringing myself to hit start I used to quickly start the game and play the campaign as soon as possible so I couldn’t listen to the scary music
Boba Fett i muted the sound when i was in the lobby
Boba Fett waw nacht der untoten used to scare the absolute hell out of me I couldn’t play alone
@@fracturenumerique Oml
Yo I never realized the “no one will ever read this” and “someone should read this”
That deepens the story so much
It shows Resnov's true care for his soldiers.
I replayed the game recently and noticed that Reznov would shout "We need a medic" every time one of your comrades were shot and killed, it's especially noticeable on higher difficulties due to your reliance on friendly units.
He may have some merciless moments, but he seems to truly be a good man at heart, however, men can be pushed to unspeakable acts. l feel his patronizing of Dimitri to Chernov was actually him trying to get Chernov to fight for more than survival, he wanted him to go further like Dimitri and actually decimate German forces when possible.
He tells Chernov "no one will ever read this" to get him to focus on the fight in the twilight of the Third Reich.
Black Ops Reznov seems off now with how he stated that Russians know the price of sacrifice. It was a badass moment, undoubtedly, but with Reznov's steady repeated shouting for medics and such for fallen soldiers it makes it odd. Though, he was also in Vorkuta for a while by then so he was probably hella desensitized, so it doesn't really matter in the end.
Anyways, my two cents on one of gaming's most inspiring characters of the era.
@@gamerraider889 besids he fought for moderland
You know during the beginning of the mission downfall when chernov is talking, it can change depending on what you did to the three surrendering germans in the metro entrance.
@@Padre_416 yeah if you kill the surrendering German soldiers the book will say how unhuman you were to commit such atrocities, and if you let them live (they probably bled out and died anyway) the book mentions how warm hearted you are and that you care for the lives of everyone.
@@gamerraider889 When I was playing on veteran I was stuck right in front of the Steps of Reichstag, waiting for the pillar to fall. The SS Guards were just spamming grenades and machine gun fire on the NPCs. When I got closer I noticed that when ever a soldier got shot, Reznov would scream "Get a medic!" Or "Stop the bleeding! Quick stop the bleeding!"
Love How when you friendly fire in the Russian campaign it says "you betrayed the motherland."
Jatne'Buir "You are a traitor to the motherland!"
Kaiser Wilhelm II for some reason I used kill loads of friendlys cause I liked seeing dead body’s on the floor when fighting
@@lynxyt_194 lmao same
fresh_nigga_in_pants , Wow I’m not the only one😂😂😂😂 We are both weird in the head
FL4 X lmao i did it to get a PPSH
7:47 I love the 2011-2017 slide
“You all stink, except you blops2, you did great”
As long as WAW lives, the heart of this franchise cannot be broken!
This game, make us all proud.
@@comradepivot4570 It makes the heart of America and Russia proud!
WE SHALL BE PROUD AND RAIN HELLFIRE ON THE FUCKING CHEATERS
This game is the fucking best game ever!!!!
@Sturm Toons Copy of waw?
Where can i get it??
Is nobody going to talk aboit the gore ..how u could blow guys arms off with the shotgun and how realistic it looked ..why did cod stop making games like that one of my favorite cod games ever hands down
snipers blew of legs and destryoed heads same for black ops
these games were brutal XD
The gore was the best part of the game, it even worked during multiplayer!
Cod 4 comes close but what you speak of is why waw is the best cod game ever and it always will be.
@@josefsinlimbo doom 2016/eternal had lots of gore like that and the media was not mad.
@@josefsinlimbo Fuck the media!. Give us a game so Gory so horrifying so intense that we will beg treyarch to take all of our money year after year if they make games this level of restricted.
They could easily get away with selling this type of game for 100$ or even 1000$ dollars a copy we would willingly spend that much if it means we get so much as 1 fully uncensored uncut 1000x more violent it's this level of violence and gore we the players want in a game..
Look at games like Serious Sam 3 Your first kill involves ripping out a big eyeball from an enemy monster... with your bare Hand!.
Or doom eternal where 100% of the game involves uncensored gore arms legs guts flying everywhere from every enemy you kill.
Or even gears of war where you can chainsaw enemies in half.
Sigh... sorry about that I got a little carried away there.
I just really love super gory games and movies.
Anyway the only other cod I have ever seen this much gore for was Bo3 and even that game wasn't perfect. But anyway most of the gore in this game comes from multiplayer and some of it from campaign via Raps, Combat Bow, Gravity Spikes, The end of the first mission... But alas this game wasn't the game it was meant to be.
But now you got these eww... child friendly cods that hardly show any real gore other then the odd legs getting blown off from landmines etcetera.
It isn't that long ago, when I was replaying this game on veteran and man, I remember those grenade spam. Every Japanese/German soldier carried like 5-6 grenades and I was hiding behind a cover and I had to throw like 5 grenades back at the enemy.
Yep I can relate. Just played the world at war again after watching this video.
I finally heat it on veteran the bight MW2 came out. Fuck me that spam was all it was.
It's soooooo hard to get into the Reichstag (like the second to last level) with all of the grenade spamming and infinitely spanning soldiers. Hardened on MW and W@W I'm pretty sure was more difficult than Veteran on the CoD's since then.
I'm playing on regular (call me a noob all you want, haven't played the campaign in years) and there's a shit ton of grenade spam too.
I somehow managed to beat it on veteran once and was genuinely pissed when steam didn't give me an achievement for it.
There was a level of respect for the past World at War had that new Call of Duty games simply don't have. It also showed the horrors of war without trying to glorify it. My brother and I still play the campaign on co-op and have an absolute blast.
I was 17 when Black Ops came out and was absolutely heart broken when Dimitri met his demise.
I was so sad when that happened
yeah that was fucked. no one mentions it too, everyone only cares about roach and ghost
Will Common I was sad and pissed off but felt a bit better when bo2 came and woods killed kravchenko but on a side note long live Dimitri and Reznov
Will Common rip dimitri petrenko this time he didn't cheat death...
I cried actually.
This game is probably the reason all the communist memes started. Man Reznov was badass
In warzone I named one of my AK builds to reznovs gun
I just realized In an alternate realty cod is actually good and never declined after black ops 2 like rn we could be playing a perfect call of duty I totally didn’t smoke a bowl rn
ADHD GAMER Damnit I want to live in that Reality
Insurgent • honestly same here fuck this reality
Aftet u enter the reichstag, Reznov says, our blood, our land. And maybe thats why it started
Historically accurate and brutal. There was no censorship or cover up in waw. Limbs getting torn off, gore everywhere, agonizing screaming being on fire.
That’s why we couldn’t remaster this game cause now many people are snowflakes of this shit
@@tonysoprano6310 all of the old players would buy it and play it, and not everyone nowadays is a snowflake. But most.
@@tonysoprano6310 the developers needs to cover their ears for those snowflakes bullcrap critics
Eastern Spy true
Not to mention the brutal japanese attacks during the campain.
Tbh if this game was released in this year. Twitter would cancel it in a nano second
sadly. btw. is it just me or is the slanted swasticka less threatening than the straight one or is it just me
@@andrewtatescigar7122 Mmmm just you but now that you mention it... Nah, just you
That’s why vanguard exists
Sadly in todays times some people are way too soft and afraid of actual world war history.
I’ve said it a million times before, and I’ll say it again. This game deserves a remaster waaaaay more than cod4
Change my mind
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Ok
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I agree completely
Cod ww2 was already in development so remastering it would feel weird
Back when you would play the campaign before even thinking about multiplayer
WaW was the last campaign I played and only campaign I actually attempted to beat on veteran. Still my favorite CoD today.
@@Jeremiahking101 i would always play every campaign on veteran and loved it up until mw3
@@hexer.3606 Facts Lmfao I Remember Raging So Hard I Had To Buy A New Mouse Because I Destroyed My Old Mouse Because Those Nade Spam
I actually dont like multiplayer games much, I always go for only the campaign
@@garyredfield1498 Same some people somt realise without the campaign there would be no multiplayer
"As Heroes we will return to Russia"
- Viktor Reznov
Don't worry Reznov. You, Dimitri and Chernov will always be Heroes for us.
Stalin had no need for heroes
Chernov tooo
@@kingpin22aA of course forgive me comrade
RIP Chernov and diary
Chernov was underrated
Beating World at War on Veteran and getting the platinum for the game is still one of my most crowning achievements in my personal gaming career. Knowing how difficult it was, and having the tenacity, knowledge, and skill to bust through it was a great feeling when I saw and heard that trophy ding on screen. Pretty sure elations were had that day.
Agreed dude! Getting that platinum was what turned my teen self into a man! To this day I don't think no shooter has challenged me more than beating Heart of the Reich on vet 😅 damn 'nades
I could never get the trophy for taking down 45 zero’s unfortunately
I hate myself enough to go through that, plus the Steam version does not have achievements so I'm good
Take out those fucking pt boats!
From Chernov's diary. "April 30th, 1945. When he first spoke of Dimitri, Reznov told tales of a hero. Someone we should all aspire to be like. His bravery on the battlefield is beyond question, but he has also shown mercy amidst the brutality of The Red Army. He is indeed a hero."
It was awesome how basing on what you did he spoked on you in different ways
"At times, I have seen him show mercy, and at others, complete brutality. I do not understand him. Perhaps heroes need not question their actions."
J25 "He's just another savage amongst the Red Army"
Diana Barnett
I always get that quote.
"Maybe heroes need not question their actions"
I like how Chernov's diary in the last mission actually changes depending on if you spare the surrendering germans or not and his view on you changes, it kind of accurately portrays how "heroes" are viewed
one of them especially hits hard, if you only kill one German but leave the other two to burn he says
"April 30, 1945: When he first spoke of Dimitri, Reznov told tales of a hero, someone we should all aspire to be like. At times, I have seen him show mercy, and at others, complete brutality. I do not understand him. Perhaps heroes need not question their actions.
"
this is perfect in the sense that war heroes aren't always the perfect moral warriors some see them as but as with everything in war, its not black or white, its gray, and war will always be gray
life even itself is never black or white, it is gray, it is up to you whether a decision is a light gray or a dark gray.
Wait it changes depending on what you do?!?! If this is true... why am i just NOW finding out about this?
@@Anxmaly666 it's pretty easy to miss, I only found out after playing through the game multiple times
Anakin Skywalker holy man. Such wonderful details yet so easy to miss out.
It's black and white when your enemy is balck and white. Like in WW2 it was clear black and white but in the gulf war it was grey.
This is so nice. It's just another point for WAW
My biggest pet peeve has to be the new war quotes when you die. They must be running out of quotes as I've noticed more and more the quotes have been from characters in the game you're playing
“There are only so many quotes that can relate to a particular matter until it doesn’t matter if they are made up or not.” -Choop McDooglerdoof
I actually love the real ww2 footage at the start of each mission it definitely feels like a mini documentary in a game and also shows what these men faced
I just love Treyarch’s style in general where they showed footage glad they bought it back for cw and hopefully it stays
That's what they were supposed to be. I was 5 when modernwarfare came out. But I still played all the cods til vanguard. And by that, I mean the campaigns also played multi-player but these games were originally made to be historically accurate. Not happening anymore history teachers prolly all gon get canceled in about 3 months.
Watching Japanese soldiers literally burying Chinese civilians in a pit alive is some of the most fucked shit you might accidentally come across on the internet in 2009 but these people strait had it in a game and you watched that shit as a teenager just awe struck before a mission even started
Most underrated cod
The Stalingrad Mission literally still gives me chills to this day. Honestly the best 25 seconds in any video games. Literally when that dude was standing over them with the mp40. Chills.
Brady B same here, that game is no place for boys, only for men
I hated the sniper mission
@@arandomperson5434 Really? Vendetta is my favorite and what got me into snipers in CoD and other shooters. I always try to snipe in game to this day, and even follow Reznov's advice on "hunting" my target(which is why I also hate sniping trick shots, Reznov is just that charismatic).
Brady B its based on the movie “enemy at the gates” in case u didn’t know. One of my favorites.
@@InnerBeast325 in that mission I got shot out of nowhere on veteran when you barely wake up
I know this is an old video, but that moment when Reznov is scolding a soldier for taking time to write in a journal, but after he dies he takes the time to pick up the journal saying “someone should read this...” really hit me hard. Like throughout the game his moral standing is deteriorating, but that moment gives a glimpse into his humanity and reminds us that soldiers are just people at the end of the day.
It’s moments like these that make the game so memorable for me.
Penny and trans
War wakes men monsters
The United States Of America it does. But I still think it was important for this game to have glimpses into the humanity of soldiers as a lot of games just have them act like mindless killing machines
Penny and Trans
That is very true
Hit a no scope on the mission with the sniper rifle
that's a good point I missed..and I just replayed the campaign people in this company gave into there greed so I dont feel they would ever consider that again in a character development in the series or more In depth
Still the best COD ever.
Its a shame what they sell nowadays
Very good vid bra
@kc korea i love it cause of Zombie mode.
Its so much harder than the new ones.
High Round COD 5, 2 players: 42
High Round Bo 3, 2 players : 79
@@mot0763 One of my friends hates WAW because of the zombies and he say that BO3 has the best zombies
@@resterive I told him he said that apparently bo3 is more harder cuz they hit quicker because the new animations
@@justinportillo3996 thats normal if u dont have any skill . WaW zombie is alot harder than bo3
@@mot0763 it is since knifing them gets you glued to them and its hard to break out of it
I look for three things when I play a historic game, objectivity, honesty, and authenticity. World at War ticked all those boxes for me. It didn’t paint either side as truly good or truly bad; the Russians and Germans committed atrocities and the Japanese and Americans committed equally brutal tactics. It didn’t shy away from portraying the atrocities and brutality. It also felt authentic to the time period. From my historic stand point, it’s a great depiction of the Second World War.
Damm right brother
Dude you just read my mind like how sure are you that we’re not related
The Yuca-clan magic, *snort snort*
never played world at war but i did play medal of honor
As said at 5:20 simplified
this was the most difficult/rewarding COD game they ever made, every time you didn't get sniped, blown up or killed in anyway was tense beyond belief, because the moment you feel safe *zip, bang, pow* you get clipped by someone you couldn't even see, it kept you on your toes and in suspense. COD:WAW is to this day this hardest COD they ever made, and that's why it's so damn good
You haven't played COD 1.That game had no health regeneration
@@ChandranPrema123 Hahaha. True. Have you played the expansion of the 1st COD? United Offensive? Now that.. My Cod, that is the hardest cod game made ever. Hell, old Call of duty games have difficult campaigns man, but it's enjoyable because it's kind of had both historical facts and world war II action movie elements.
Yeah, veteran mode was like being in a huge rain storm but instead of rain it’s fucking grenades.
If it wasn't for the stupid grenade spam it would've been a lot more fair.
My favorite part of COD was the feeling that you were just a regular member of that military. Whether I was American, British, or Russian I loved the experience of being just a regular participant in the war. I don't want to be a Spec Ops guy that can take out an entire battalion by himself I want to be I the shoes of the average Joe and live his experiences and see what he sees. Sure you have to take some liberties because it's not going to be as entertaining if you were to play out the entirety of the nearly 3 month long Battle of Okinawa while suffering from Malaria and urinating on your machine gun to keep it from overheating before watching civilians throw themselves off cliffs to avoid the shame of surrender or the fear of the atrocities the Japanese said the Americans would do to them if they were captured alive but the original COD games showed me how extraordinary it was that so many nations came together to fight another group of countries. Remember, War is Hell and it is not your duty to die for your country, it is you duty to make sure the other man dies for his.
Patrick Thorpe You do know that the Marine Raiders was a special forces group right?
@@wolfplayer7815 That barely had anything to do with the story, you're still island hopping like a regular Marine all the way to Okinawa.
I'd play a game that showed that brutality, maybe not if it showed the full 3 months, but give me a wwii game with diseases any day!
Well said
World at War is literally one of the best Ww2 shooters out there the sound design, the atmosphere, the music, and zombies!
Ah yes. Back to the time when you wasted 50 bullets to take out an enemy because you thought he moved.
or got hosed down by 50 bullets because you thought they were dead
Or got blown off by 50 grenades
@@siegfried2k4 a fellow player of the veteran difficulty?
I'm installing it, and seeing this comments just super hype me!!
@@p_filippouz great to hear! I personally hope you have a wonderful time on it again
I love this fucking game. This was back when Infinity Ward and Treyarch were friendly rivals and the games were still on fire.
Modern warfare is pretty damn good man
@BeastlyRealmZ HD Yeah
But thet fixed it
@BeastlyRealmZ HD And just like Act Man said
Call of Duty started as a game with awesome campaign
That's what Mw is
xXF4LS3HOODXx _ agreed
I’m just glad I got to enjoy the glory days of CoD. I started with WaW and played that alongside MW. When MW2 came out that was my game. But to me BO was the beginning of the end. MW3 was the final nail IMO. After that it’s just garbage.
WaW: zombies are fun
Cod now: summon this demon by killing zombies and then craft this wonder weapon
Killing elder gods an getting a stink that shoot magic
Zombies is still great all the maps are super well made and have tons of effort put into then everyone just complaining because using your brain for once is too much for a FPS game. The new zombies maps are filled with so much to do and not just killing stuff over and over again.
Oopopp Opposite the only bad treyarch zombies game is bo4
Jack Cannady it’s definitely not as good as the other ones but it has some good maps like IX
This quote demonstrates the contrived attitude of children today. My generation is so concerned with being fed more and more, instantly, that they find no gratification in newness or interesting things. Only those things that immediately make you feel a tiny spark of greatness, then afterwards have zero substance. That is a perfect way to describe the zombies of old. They were good for their day. Just as Doom was for his day. And there's nothing wrong with appreciating them. But I for one, know that the nostalgia voices are speaking when folks say: "New zombies are waste." If every single map was a "Kino Der Toten" reskinned to be something different, the mode would've died long ago. Beg for mediocrity all you like, but complexity isn't a bad thing, if it is offered and not expected. There is no BO4 map or BO3 map, you can't just jump on, and shoot things like a mindless retard. I know, I did. But having that layer of depth, kept me playing. BO1? WaW? No, I played them a handful of times and begged the question: "Isn't insanity defined by doing the same thing more than once and expecting something different to happen?" And I quit. No one would prefer less customization, less camos, less guns, less maps, less thought put into multiplayer... But folks complain about zombies getting more. Foolish.
I would go to bed for high school and hear my dad randomly swearing playing the WaW campaign. Good ole days
Remember the bayonet quick time event freaking gave me PTSD
I shit my pants the first time that happend to me
BANZAIIIIIII
There were also dog quick time events
@@NubSwitch *INTENSE SWEATING*
JuanR1 xDDD
The soundtrack of this game was PERFECT. Each song fit what was happening.
Agreed. The music to each mission was terrifyingly amazing. My favorites gotta be Blood and Iron and Black Cats
The Russian theme always gives me chills
@@dwehreebbasskanone7721 yeah the black cats one was good, I tend to do the beat of the music when I'm doing chores 😆😆
I like the menu start theme. Just cold choir vocals and mist floats across the screen.
Black cats theme is amazing, get the blood pumping
One small thing I want to point out about this game compared to now. There is a clip in the mission intro and it’s a real person being executed. A real person actually dying and it’s right there. We see it. We watch it. A man’s life ended to show us the brutality of war. And nowadays, they don’t even dare to put the Swastika in a game so they don’t hurt the feelings of people that don’t even play the game. I feel like it’s an interesting thing to think about. How before they showed us real horrors of war, and now we get essentially low budget Hollywood movies.
Yeah I just played World at War for the first time after playing Vanguard. As soon as I saw the footage of the person being executed, I realized that this was a game that wouldn't be pulling punches in it's depiction of the second world war.
I don't get offended at stuff because there's too many things that matter in life, but Vanguard...you might say that it offended me with it's "reimagining" of WW2. I'm all for historical fiction. But Vanguard hit me in a way that made me ask, "Am I mocking the people that fought and died in a very real war?" It sort of felt like it...
@@hl6816 I agree. I am playing a war game, I have mentally prepared myself to see real war depicted. I don’t want to be babysat in my play through. Show me the horrors so I can understand what these men, women, and children went through.
“Reimagining” something like WW2 to me means like slight exaggerations, or one story combined from multiple. Not whatever Vanguard is. It’s just an embarrassment. I will play World at War 1000 times over before I ever buy Vanguard. I don’t understand how they can have a fantastic track record and do this. It’s the same with Battlefield. Fantastic games in succession, then garbage. They just lost the formula I guess.
This is fucking facts
Fuck you SJWs
I can't believe they fucking showed a real execution. That's metal as fuck!
We also see a nazi soldier/officer(?) get executed in a Russian cutscene, Russian partisans being hung, even a nuke exploding a city. This game has true balls
You know..... I do believe this is probably your best video Act Man... I know this video is old, but after watching your other well done critiques on other games, in my opinion this was the video that showed me how incredible a TH-cam video can be. I mean your passion for this game, and the way you edited it genuinely brought me to shed an uncontrollable tear or two. Seriously dude... Thanks for your contribution to TH-cam and the gaming community.
The people hanging at 6:14. That shit would never be published in today’s day and age. Showed how brutal the war really was
Or those guys being executed and those people getting buried fucking alive at 08:00
games have gotten better in graphics and physics, and the open worlds have gotten much bigger but unfortunately censoreship has hit games more this decade than in the 2000s
Ya COD WW2 literally didn’t even have Hitler in it. Ya they had some German guy who kind of looked like him when your friend got taken but it wasn’t him. The saddest part was probably when you found the concentration camp.
Zachary Ward wasn’t even sad, just boring
Have you asshats played the modern warfare campaign? Shits brutal as fuck. Reminds me of waw immensely.
The intro to WAW literally made me thought I was watching a documentary
RiSe Typhoon WYM?! Documentary’s are epic
@@flynncarter229 true, wish they were like COD
You kind of were it was like a playable documentary
In David Attenborough's new documentary we see Japanese soldiers hiding in tree's and in the grass, and hang people that step out of cover eventually blowing them up, on the Russian side of things...
Think*
As a small child I was scared to play this game at night by myself just cuz of the intro
BRUH SAME
i played this when i was like 8 back then and i didnt know anything about ww2, so when i saw the cutscenes i just thought to myself "haha funny japanese man screaming and pushing a person to a pit" so i never became scared of it until i was 12 and i learned alot about the horrible war crimes the japanese did
@@stoitsz0_o
@@stoitsz That's messed up. Hahaha
@@stoitsz bro, I'm the same here lmao
I first played WaW on the midnight release when I was 13. I played on veteran and completed every mission bar the last 2. I ended up going back through on regular due to absolute loss of sanity. I left veteran in the past and tried to regain some sanity. Now, 15 years later, on January 10th 2024 as I approach my 29th birthday…. I have completed the whole damned game on veteran. Jesus.
And why would people get offended this is what brave men had to go through
Those people who harass these veterans wouldn’t last through the things those veterans experienced
Very true, I'd say it's more offensive for the people who fought and died in the war.
Jinx the Loose Cannon how?
@Sahil C who is talking about that
@Sahil C so is that an insult or...
This is the most realist COD ever made. The attention to detail is amazing!
In the campaign:
1942 no G43, no StG 44, no M1 Carbine
1944 G43, M1 Carbine, no StG 44
1945 G43, StG 44, M1 Carbine
And other guns aswell
They were using weapons accurate to the timeline and place
it's been a while since i played a proper CoD game with such details as these, I think the last one I played was CoD 3, never got to play WaW
Ok nerd
Well there's a bit flaw. In Vendetta, there's a King Tiger right beside of Amsel's car. But almost all of this flaws where counter by how Realistic this game depict war (Well not really but seeing the brutality, the absurdity, and how violence war was). The game depicts no heroic represtation, just how war was horror and very teriffying.
Well it’s a game not a documentary
Mr Pheonix and I pointed it out because no other GAME does this
Just beat this classic on veteran!!! I’m 26 now and my younger 11-12 year old self could never, ever beat blowtorch & corkscrew on veteran. Here’s to one hell of a game and an awesome video from the act man. Darkest and most brutal cod we will ever see. The shift away from content like this in todays age is exactly what will make this such a classic.
i like how it wasn’t always team america. at the end of the campaign, i was yelling let’s gooo russia
For the Motherland!
He'll even COD 2 Big Red One only focused on American Perspective but still that game had much better Narrative,Characters,Motivations and their Personality.
COD 2 BRO we played against Germans,Vichy French and Italians.
And had great characters that we cared like Brooklyn and Vic.
COD WW2 is just generic and boring its campaign is just like AW Tbh
@@ChandranPrema123 Wait, did Americans fight against Vichy French? I thought after d-day most of the drafted French soldiers fled.
*USSR anthem plays in the background*
Commie
when i was a kid i covered my eyes and ears when booting up the game. that intro gave me nightmares
Same aha and the first scene also terrified me
Or when you starte zombie mode brrr
How old are you lol
ElectricOhms older than you if your still saying lol mate
The music background in the menu, i'll always creepin out in that one i was like 8 that time lol.
Here’s how I think the companies should make their games like
Treyarch: historical conflicts
Infinity Ward: modern combat
Sledgehammer: futuristic
That....actually works, by keeping it separate call of duty would have a grip on all three times, thus, fans may flock to whomever has the cod type they want. Hey mabye even all three could make a 3 part cod covering all that.
Yea man. It seems like a good idea.
How have I not thought of this You Are Genius
Sadly that wouldn't work bc all they care about now is making money and they want one game to be the main game for that year to squeeze every little dollar out of you they can by making you buy the game then give you barebones if you only buy the game unless you spend 100+ dollars buying all the features that should be free.
Yes but I think the teams would be fed up or fatigued after like 2-3 games. Imagine just finishing a WW2 game and you have to instantly work on a WW1 game. Asset Recycling may also become an issue.
Reznov telling demitri no one will read his book and fight for the motherland just to witness him die and grab the diary saying “someone should read this” had a grip on me. One of the most depressing moments realizing his guilt.
I'd love to have an entire remaster of this game, I miss this game.
Lmao dude got no... leave it alone. We don’t need gimmicky micro transactions and junk corrupting it. The graphics still stand to today’s standards. If anything it’s way better. It’s brutal and dark
Tim H that’s what I was saying, they would just ruin it like in that new cod, cod Cold War. they shouldn’t have zip lines and 20 fucking attachments on a single gun. They should just have based it off bo1 and some tiny little parts of bo2
Mr Pheonix wtf is wrong with zip lines lmao? Its only in one fucking map. I know ur exaggerating by saying “20 attachments” but its only 8 (and thats when u have the wildcard), honestly it makes it more realistic. Saying every cod should be EXACTLY like waw and bo1 is idiotic(i agree with you that those games do be fire) There needs to be innovation m8
Mr Pheonix ziplines were in waw zombies. I agree modern cods are putrid acid trash but you have many things to rip on than weapon customization. For myself, it’s the micros-transactions. MW 2019 is loaded with it. Also, the weapon unbalance. It’s all just sheep running around with mp5s and m4s. Imagine following the biggest trend in the most popular video game. I can’t imagine being such a loser. Last time at a party I talked to a kid about cod. I said “let me guess you use the m4?” And he’s like “of course dude” and my friend and I shit on his life. Using the m4 is equivalent to being a basic white chick that “loves Coffee, beach walks, and adventures” they have zero value to their lives. Nothing unique about them. Just a ant in a colony. Purely meaningless
yeetonmyfeet this sounds stupid but people don’t like innovation. People want the same game but better. THATS why cod is so successful. It’s consistent. (Not talking about the par core cods) another great comparison is halo. Halo was amazing until they changed everything about it that made it halo. Every new game was an improved multiplayer and awesome new campaign without adding trash. Ziplines are fine big deal. But imo waw is easily the best cod that nailed everything a cod game should be about. A dark brutal combat game.
Reznov: As long as he lives, the heart of this army cannot be broken!
Black Ops: Hold my Juggernog.
Dimitri did NOT deserve to die like that!
@@vermin4275 Black Ops 1 and 2 were good.
@@colemacgrath8846 Black ops 1was Bo2 on the other hand fucked it up for me because of how futuristic it was and Mostly all zombie maps were trash,multiplayer was meh,and the campagin took me about 2-3 months to understand what was going on
@@itsclemgamerogdoms1clem773 black ops 1 is badass. Nazi Zombies in Black Ops 1, badass, and the Multiplayer was awesome, Black ops 2 fucked up on everything I play WaW, and Black Ops 2 all the time, and pretty much ignore BO2, cuz fuck it
@@colemacgrath8846 Word
This was the best call of duty ever. I will never forget the sequence where you have to choose between shooting or burning the surrendering soldiers alive. That really stood out to me.
Or do nothing
@@reltihfloda7419 Which was burning them.
Choices in this game:
Kill or burn (Berlin's Metro)
Polonsky or Roebuck (Shuri Castle assault)
@@YuriYoshiosan There are a lot more, like killing the Germans in the beginning of "Their Land, Their Blood."
Yuri, The Gun Modder Roleplays as the USSR I always picked Roebuck cuz Polanski was too nice to you during the campaign
This game brings so many memories, as a teen I played the campaign dozens of times. And when I was older, my best friend and I would hang out, burn some bush, and play Der Reise for hours. With the two of us, our highest score was round 32.
But personally, I like Nacht Der Untoten better.
My biggest thing with this game is as you said, how unapologetic it is about demonstrating the war at the time. The Nazis were fucking ruthless. The Imperial Japanese treated Americans as inhuman animals. Both were OVERTLY racist and horrible. Black Ops scratches the surface of the horrors of the Soviet Union government, while World at War shows the heart of the Red Army, the people of the Soviet Union, not their shite government.
The new Call of Duty games rely solely on action and story telling, which is a necessity in games like this, but the core part of why COD WAW was so great was because of how authentic the experience was. It had a connection to the reality of the world and showed the horrors of the war, even in the multiplayer. The gore was a huge factor in portraying how awful combat really is. The new Call of Duty games are all tied to fantasy, where I feel like the older COD titles were tied to reality much more. MW2 was where it started to move away from this. Black Ops 1 moved very far as well, playing on conspiracy theories about the Red Scare and the post-WWII era.
Historical realism is a huge reason some of these games hold up so well. Historical experience in this games is timeless, whereas a fantasy narrative about things that never happened/probably never will happen are only entertaining once, typically. CoD and Battlefield both missed the target with COD WWII, BFV and Vanguard. People who play a WWII game want to experience WWII. Not a 1940's themed shooter. Battlefield 1943 and World at War both were great games that attempted to stay true to the history of the eras they were in and included aspects of history in the narrative. BF1943 and WAW both had historical battle scenes that you could relive. It's such a damn shame that they have become what they are.
People (mainly leftists) are so avidly counter-racist that they don't even want Nazi flags in the games anymore. They completely miss the point of a historical game by adding female characters, black Nazi soldiers, just things that are not grounded in reality. Yes, it's racist, yes it's misogynistic, It's WWII in the 1940s. The benefit of including racism in these games isn't to promote it but to increase awareness of the faults of the time period. To demonstrate the horrors of ethnic purity, racism and the horrors of war. Excluding things because they may be deemed offensive by someone is simply to deny history and whitewash. Whitewashing WWII with these new games is very prevalent and it honestly does nothing but make light of the horrors that happened. People need to know the real history, and let's be honest. Kids don't fucking read books or watch documentaries. They get their knowledge from media that they like to consume and video games are a huge gateway to interests and hobbies.
I, myself, am now an avid WWII history lover. I collect the firearms from the period, I love watching documentaries, movies and other media about WWII and World at War was a big contributor to my interest in the history. The historical accuracy of the game piqued my interest with so many questions about why things were the way they were in the game. Why did the Nazis want to conquer Europe? Spoiler, they didn't. Look up "Lebensraum". What did "Konnohega Banzai!" mean when the Japanese bayonet charges happened? Why weren't there black or other races of soldier in the U.S. forces?
When you exclude history, people forget it. I think the exclusion of history, therefore the exclusion of horror and shock, make these games less alluring. Human nature is to want to see something interesting, something you haven't seen before or something that makes you think. Having simple characters in clothes shooting at one another is boring and can be seen anywhere. Seeing a Wermacht soldier spraying an MP40 into dead bodies in a fountain in Stalingrad while you play as a character barely clinging to life brings you into the horrors of the massacre of Stalingrad.
Of course this all goes out the window with Zombies, but there is still history in the fantasy there. The Nazis performed all sorts of crazy experiments to gain a tactical advantage during the war. Still, I think that people underestimate how much having an historically accurate experience matters in these historical games.
Nice bloody review, thank you for taking the time to type up an actually good comment that we can all relate to.
This was a wrapped up review... Great indeed.
Hold on now, you're making sense. Black Nazi women aren't accurate you're saying???
Someone had to say it, thanks for speaking for us all.
The reason japan were unique in their evilness is because they treated all perceived enemies with the same amount of depravity....not just Americans.
This game has got good graphics for how old it is.
13 years? Im 12 and have nice eyes and nice personality. And graphics dont matter its story.
They actually made the graphics gritty to fit the ww2 setting and they nailed it
Tell that to a 7year old
@@domdabomb10138 I'm 26 and lying
@Wickem The majority of people still want a campaign though. Black ops 4 didn’t have one and treyarch/ activision got flamed for it. And guess what? The next black ops game had a fucking campaign. It’s still a much wanted part of the game. Just because YOU personally skip it doesn’t mean that’s the majority. You have some serious bias and no self awareness clearly. If the majority didnt want one than treyarch wouldn’t have received all that backlash and than decided to put a campaign in the next game right? Sometimes you just gotta think logically bud, but clearly that’s no your strong suit.
Remember when cod told u more about history then schools?
lol ya the first cod I played was cod 2 from 2005 and I learned more about ww2 in that game then I did in the 13 years of school
Not all of us are retarded
TeilZeitNoob XD Call of duty world at war pre mission video told me so much
Yep, I never even really realized how much more the Russians had to do with attacking Germany than the US did until I played the campaign
It told me about the future never freaking add EXO suits to your I wish list if you do I will most likely hunt you down and destroy it the first day you get one and the hell would want one
what separates WaW from the rest is that you're not playing to be a hero but for survival, from beginning to end
I always got sad when the guy writing in his little diary died. You can tell reznov felt bad and kinda regret for getting mad at him. Taking his diary to give to his family.
Seinzshlaugen yessss
It had some feels
And Black ops continues the whole story from the ending of w4w. Actualy we saw Reznov and the main character of w4w. "Dragovich... Kravchenko... Steiner... All must die" I think is a better sequal than the mw series
His name was churnov.
I still play CoDWaW with friends to this day on PC. It's easily the best version of CoD, amazing story, great multiplayer, and 100s of custom zombie maps better than official maps that use Black Ops1,2, and even Ghost guns and textures. Even better, all the DLC was released for free.
I go back and play Vendetta every once in a while. The stealthy, sniper aspect in incredible. Especially with Reznov.
That whole mission is basically taken from the film "Enemy at the gates" it is an amazing film
Personally I go relentless, and only use the bayonet. Just to make things intressting
@@MrHiya11 it's a mediocre film that could have been great if they spent more time making it authentic than making it a spectacle. Its biggest problem was Russians speaking English with British accents, and the Germans being American. Bizarre.
@@thepancakemann It's biggest problem wasn't the English language, Death of Stalin was absolutely amazing even with the different English accents because they were done to portray the different regions in the Soviet Union and essentially their British counterpart. The biggest problem with Enemy at the Gates was their portrayal of the fighting within the city itself like fuck me that was BAD
@@jackevans7665 qqqq
Legitimately one of the most underrated games of all time.
Sadly
Curly Bearington Except it wasn't even close to underrated... Learn what that word actually means before you use it because you are completely wrong.
@ Yeah true I wouldn't say it's underrated. Maybe not as well known to many people for some odd reason, this game is amazing
I think its because of the graphics, i think it would be an amazing idea to revamp it and give it some updated graphics
Aidan Green If it got the MWR treatment then it’d be so damn beautiful.
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I’ll never forget when I first played the campaign of this game when I was 9 years old and I was scared and shocked when I saw Dimitri wake up in the fountain in Stalingrad with all those crows eating his dead comrades and German soldiers executing the ones still alive.
Edit: Here’s another story so I remember when I first played the mission Blood and Iron and it was so hard for me since I was new to FPS games and COD in general even though I was playing on recruit difficulty LOL. It was hard with all those Panzershrecks (don’t think I spelled that right), 88’s, and Tigers shooting at me from everywhere I was raging I had to take a break from the campaign and when I finally completed the mission I was so relieved.
michael Dinneweth yeah I know I’ve seen that movie.
Shit i tought that was normal i only now realize how messed up i am
That was the best misson in the game
same i was nine too
Woww that mission is goated for sure
For anybody that doesn't know this, World at War is still very alive today in 2021. On 360 for sure. It takes little to no time to find a game for MP. Saw 750 players yesterday. You still see spikes of 1000 players or more at least every week. And you almost never run into modders anymore either. Since the game is so old. Pick up the game if you haven't played it in a while. I actually sat down to play this game for the first time in 2021. Stopped playing after COD4, and now I see what I missed out on. World at war took the series and amplified it 💯
There's several servers that still alive on PC aswell
How many hackers. That's one thing that made me not want to play MP but more of the campaign
@@jacobholstock7211 WaW is pretty free of hackers. Bo2 is full of hackers meanwhile
I'm on it now wished zombies had more players tho
True
still have the disc 10 years later.
Nah im fr
I have two copies me and my brother used to have two xboxes, two TVs, and played side by side back in the day...
Same
Awesome 1177 I have the ps2 and 360 versions
M2
I just recently did the campaign again on veteran, but I tried something different this time. Normally I'm being a bit careful, I fear for my life, I conserve ammo (I made myself a rule to only use allied weapons). I started using suppressive fire and pushing tactics. It went like a dream.