My first Call of Duty game! Man was I young back then, honestly feels like a different lifetime completely. I wasn’t a very self aware kid so I’d just mindlessly play games like this, looking back I didn’t enjoy anything I did back then, not really. Now I’m thankfully a lot happier.
@@idrkidk8146 I didn’t have an internal monologue, didn’t really challenge myself or hell ask myself if I wanted to be playing video games. It was just easy enough to just follow the instructions of any given game.
“We lose the Sherman’s, and we’re all dead” goddamnit that line rings in my head from 2004 till today, after dying so many times in the mission and starting over😂
It was the Heavy Water escape in CoD1 that had me repeating. Cause your boy’s a masochist and plays every call of duty on veteran. It’s not good for my mental health in the kill box areas or the “on the rails” escape sections. 😂
why the fuck was this mission the bane of our existence 😂 i was so excited to finally play as americans and when that line played, i said it word for word lmfao, i know it allll too well
@@mp2446 right? like i wish i could go back in time and check my difficulty because there is no way it should’ve been that hard 😂 alot of those last few missions were insanely difficult but also so much fun
Gosh, I remember fondly of my dad surprising me with this. It was my first shooter game on the PS2 and i was so captivated by the history and everything that happened in WW2.
me it was medal of honor spearhead well i played rctw and allied assault before but the feeling of "hey look what i got" was spearhead i remember coming home from school and my mom calls me over and says look at this and my dad hands me the box of medal of honor spearhead
This and Big Red One was the first CoDs i've ever played...never could get past the British section. This was a real treat. my condolences on the pain of getting this running
The first two Jak and Daxter games have been ported to PC by fans reverse engineering the source code and modifying it. Maybe the same could be done for these games?
A bizarre muzzle flash for sure, but I think it is accurate to the real gun though. Always got annoying to me when I used it, but I got over it. Mowing down legions of enemies with it kinda sticks with you. Dunno if maniacal cackling does though. Might just be me.
Yes!! That and half the quips from Big Red One are so memorable. Not to mention all the easter eggs and fun guns you get in Finest Hour~ Oh! And the Achen level where you go underground with Benny and a small group of meatshields. Those dark, underground tunnels scared the shit out of when I played the game as a kid. Always took me 2 hours to either get Benny in there first, or to summon the nerve to just go in myself and hope the fellow A.I. followed suit quickly. Fond memories~
Oh god the factory mission, I had the toughest time with that as a kid on my PS2, until I had a dream at school of a massive stereo set on the back of a Panzer IV, shredding a guitar, then aced it when I got back home that evening. It was such a weird experience as a kid that it stills vividly haunts me.
Ooof. I was so excited when this game was coming out. The campaign was ok....the multi was complete trash. Just speaking for Xbox Live there were never any players and it was so hard to see anyone. I remember the maps being so dark that anyone who I did play with would just camp with the DP or MG42. Think I played it once through then went back to playing COD1 on PC
Here's a couple fun facts for this game. The soundtrack was composed by Michael Giacchino, who composed the original Medal of Honor game and practically half of Pixar's film library like Up, and Ratatouille The voice of Sgt. Bob Starkey is Brian Johnson, the lead singer of AC/DC
One thing ive noticed about these old games is that the atmosphere and sound design holds up remarkably well even compared to modern games nowadays. It really makes you feel like you're in a specific setting the game takes place in.
I think it's the fact they played like they wanted you to learn something, the gameplay can get chaotic and silly, but up until World at War these games had a lot of historical accuracy.
@@flame_101 And to my surprise he made soundtracks for many memorable animated films. _The Incredibles_ in particular has a lot of similarities with the use of subtle orchestral instruments like the flute or trumpet to convey tension. His music is unmistakable.
My first COD game! Man the controls weren't the best and the 'murica missions later on gave me a lot of troubles, but I still love it nonetheless, looking forward to the rest of the video!
FINALLY LETS GOOOOO!! My first cod experience back in 2009 on the ps2 and then the Xbox 360. man so glad your finally coming to this gem of a game! This games soundtrack didn’t have to go as hard as it does either especially that flag must fall or the bridge at Remagen. Like I can’t tell you how many times I have speedran this game on hard to try and get better times, this truly is a memorable cod for me even if it is janky and wonky.
without even thinking my mind automatically thought about the machine gun nests in the towers and at the entrance of the tunnel, i always remember toward the end of the bridge there was a german sniper on the left side and i would always kill him and use his sniper to take those nests out
The 2nd to final mission is also insanely brutal. If you are out of position and/or low on grenades/health it's possible to soft-lock the level in the part where the tanks push up and there's panzershrecks and enemies from behind and above and an MG42 that enemies infinitely spawn onto if you aren't close to it. After that it becomes doable but still very difficult remainder of the mission. We all remember the infamous final british mission, I became a pro at that mission but man it was brutal until I figured out you can go around and get grenades and flank before you bum rush with the timebomb. And the 1st and 2nd American mission, the 1st has a section where you need to very aggressively push and there's invisible MG42's that can only be killed with a panzershreck you better have in your back pocket. And then the sewer one, I used to complete it without destroying 1 of the ladders because the 2nd ladder you find would trap you and man it was brutal. Great game, but very difficult until you find a way to force your way thru the difficulty. Does anyone remember the easter eggs? Those were both creepy but also badass.
Yeah I was 13 when i played this (my first CoD) and it sorta had this weird disturbing brown-grey colour palette anyway, coupled with the big red apple with the UFO inside it does seem kinda cursed
Fun fact: at the room he briefly looks into on the right at 25:32 you can crawl under the stairs and access a fully loaded DPM machine gun thats very well hidden
Good game, but some things are out of line: 1. Old myth of one with the rifle, second with the bullets charging (not even the few workers militia battalions were so poorly equipped). 2. Mosin Nagant in the game is actually Finnish models, which is obvious by the sights. 3. Red army uniforms are 1943 models with shoulder straps, while at Stalingrad they still wore 1941 model without those and red markings at necktie. Edit: 4. Mamayev Kurgan had no concrete bunkers built by either side, only few fortified outposts and lookouts.
Awesome video! I have a lot of fond memories playing this on the gamecube when I was a kid. I would love to see a video on COD 2 Big Red One. That was my first COD game and I bought it at a blockbuster of all places. It's still pretty dated but I remember the aiming feeling a lot better in 2.
@@activatekruger446 What do you expect of a game that's... what, 20 years old? Of course aspects of it (if not the whole thing) is gonna look and feel dated.
As much as I like this game from a nostalgic standpoint, it really got ridiculously hard sometimes. When I say "ridiculously hard," I'm not necessarily talking about health loss and whatnot. I'm talking about certain annoyances present in some early FPS games that didn't really make much sense from a realistic perspective (I like realism in my WWII-based games), such as certain areas having an endless respawn of enemies, allies who stood around and made you do all the work, enemies always taking aim at you (the player) despite several of your allies being easier targets, etc. It was definitely a beast to get through on hard IMO. Still, it had a ton of great moments. Some of the visuals were really cool (for 2004) and the soundtrack was absolutely amazing, particularly in "The Flag Must Fall" and "Into the Heartland." UPDATE: After rewatching this again several months later, I noticed how you lowered the difficulty down from hard (missed it the first time). I don't blame you. This game on hard is an absolute nightmare!
Lmao, I take an embarrassing number of pictures to try to get a decently similar expression. Felt like this wasn't one of my better ones though, the angle seems a bit off
My first COD. I loved the starting speech on the boat! Annoyingly on my copy, on the 3rd mission climbing the hill. If I died, the game would crash and delete saves...
I hate how Certain PS2 and Certain discs would have glitches, like I had games that wouldn’t play on my PS2 but would work on my friends and vice versa
This game was my first COD when I was a kid on GameCube! This game’s soundtrack will still be my favorite out of all the CODs. Thank you for the nostalgia, Sour!
A shame they haven't remastered these old games, with better console controls. They'd be great to play again with decent controls, and spruced up graphics.
The "Kill the Germans" at the start is parts of an actual poem written during the war. Contents of said poem is appropriately enough propaganda extolling the blood lust for German troops in Soviet citizens. The poem and other such propaganda backfired in a dramatic and chilling way when the Soviets finally pushed into Germany (the mood further worsened and fuelled by Axis atrocities) with Soviet troops partaking in retributive atrocities against not just the Germany military but also the civilian populace.
This was my childhood. I still remember playing it when I was like 11 and getting stuck on the fourth mission. I just could not beat it. It got me to quit I think for a few years and then when I came back, I blew right through that mission like it was nothing. This game is half the reason I even still have a PS2 in the first place.
It touches my heart that even for a small budget console spin-off, they got real military advisors and veterans to help them make this game. Something Call of Duty will likely never do again.
Terrible controls; hard as fuck, but still one of the greatest and most underrated CODs in the franchise. The atmosphere and the soundtrack was what really sold it for me. I'll never forget fighting underground in the deep, dark sewers or crossing the Remagen Bridge with a G43.
My first shooter, got it and a GameCube at Christmas when I was 8 years old. Two things that I think are truly fantastic about this game regardless of nostalgia: -The music and voice acting is amazing, there are so many sequences that I can quote from memory even today. The sound design in general was incredible for its time. -The game has some secret unlocks and cheats that are fantastic, but my favorite was an animation reel that showed off custom animations that the developers worked on that are easy to miss while playing the game or didn’t make it into the final version. Those animations are the standard that I hold games to even today.
This was the first COD I ever played. It was what started my journey in the series. I still remember the order to this day: Finest Hour, Big Red One, COD 2, COD 1, COD 3, Modern Warfare, World at War. It is a series dear to my heart. It has been fun watching you go back and play! While Finest hour gets so much hate, it feels undeserved. It has such interesting depth when you consider it goes into the character's history before every mission. You aren't just a random guy, you are Private Sokolov, you are Lieutenant Tanya, you are a person with a life! And it is that detail that makes this game so much more interesting. Also, a rare instance of a female soldier during WW2, which was actually decently common in Russia. During the war, many women enlisted to serve at the front. Men still outnumbered them vastly, but it was a time where women served not just as nurses, but much more! Bomber piolets, snipers, train engineers, frontline soldiers, and more! Finest hour touches on that, and it's awesome.
The problem with this game is that it makes you feel like you're in slow motion whenever the fps drops. I thought I didn't set up my emulator correctly until I spent hours searching and finally realized that it was normal from an actual ps2 gameplay footage.
Boy this takes me back. This was my first COD I played back on the GameCube and then Big Red One was my second before I jumped to PS2 for COD3. Absolutely love watching you go and play these older titles!
I've had this game on Xbox for 20 years easily, but I don't remember anything about it. Really gotta replay it sometime. I think I got it right before Big Red 1 came out and focused on that a lot.
Lovely seeing more people play this game. Though I was crying that you didn't use your tank MG's tracers to sight the tank cannon. All in all, I love the video.
Awesome ! whenever you upload one of these it makes my day! Please do CoD 3 you inspired me to go back and revisit it and it was a fun experince and id love to see how you handle it but fair warning the game has some kinks but its largely minor things no crashes or anything ! Anyway great video cant wait for the next one !
That opening monologue by Commissar Durasov is surprisingly well voice acted in my opinion. It could just be nostalgia, but I remembered some of his words clearly before he even said them. Probably more likely because I was a very young kid, and either died really early and had to hear it again, or because I couldn't figure out how saving worked
I was wondering why it looked so good at first I remember it on the ps2 being so dark and blocky lol then you pulled out the ps2 version and got the same experience as most of us did
Back when I played this as a kid, I had a large box TV which the Gama was very low and could be made brighter. All I could see was the burning fires in the first mission. It was veteran mode lol
Ive recently tried playing this game again with those adapters you can use that way you can play on HDMI and good lord the mission where you have to go through the tunnels is completely fucked up.. Super dark, like can't see anything but muzzle flashes, i only got my way through by the ol' trick of, "If there's enemies this way, this has to be the right way"
Ive been watching all the cod and medal of honor videos and god the amount of nostalgia is crazy. Cant wait for you to play medal of honor European assault.
Man the opening level was one of the first windows i had into the russian side of WWII as a kid. The way soldiers were seen as expendable and how quick officers were to shoot deserters. Even the myth/legend of ammo being handed out alternating with weapons really hit that point home that russian soldiers were just expected to die. The way they all just charge that machine gun with the epic music too. This Call of Duty video series of yours is one of my favourite new series on youtube.
This was absolutely the hardest COD i played on my ps2 when i was still a kid i got stuck on "Not One Step Back" and "The flag must fall" Tanya's Mission was hard for me back then when i still don't know how to snipe and clear the tunnels then after years i got stuck on The "First city to fall" then stuck again at "Into the the heartland" for long time, the american campaign was hard even i put it on normal still worth the play and still the commissar's speech and the background music gives me the chills to this day.
1:11:00 This part of the game, and the Volga river crossing, are imbedded in my mind and it's been well over a decade since I've played this game. The image i had of this fortress before you actually saw it on screen was the same in my head as it was on screen. Incredible. I also felt a sense of frustration very brefily wash over me. I have a feeling I remember this part of this mission so well because child me kept dying over and over and that's why I still remmber it so well over a decade+ later 😂😂
My first COD on PS2, have great memories of the first mission Stalingrad, mainly because I was so young and terrible at the game I never got passed it.
When me and my friend were 8, we both got this game and then both got stuck on the tank factory sniper mission for like 2 weeks 😂😂😂 and we played shooters all the time. It was crazy hard.
The death animations for NPCs in this game are just *so* good. They play a different one depending on where they're shot. And the sound the PPSH makes *OH MY GOD* it's so good!
my first cod and all that, but around 1:05:45 when the guy says Depot in his accent literally awoke all memory of that level and how frustrating it was for a 5 year old.
After years of not touching this game, I finally made it to the Bridge of Remagen mission as a GI and I managed to beat it. The game was so difficult as a kid but making it to the end was worth it.
Woop woop! Not gonna lie, I had a LOT of doubt that you weren't gonna ghost the console exclusive cods but here you are doin 'em - Big Red One is the other overlooked masterpiece but if you covered this one, you'll cover that one likely. FH wasn't my first CoD, but it was one I have fond memories of - it's a very strange game. In a good way.
I remember walking into EB Games (GameStop) as a kid, when my mom took me to buy something and I was looking around at all of these fantastic and interesting games. Then I saw it, Call of Duty: Finest Hour. I just had a good feeling and knew I had to try it. Yes the controls are very awkward, even back then, but the dedication to showing authentic history to a young audience was Incredible. The documentaries especially. I fell in love with Call of Duty that day and unfortunately it has been corrupted by greed in recent years. However, nothing will change my appreciation for the earlier titles.
I just found this game in my basement the other day and had a flashback to my childhood, struggling desperately to beat "The First City to Fall" it must have taken me a week.
My first COD game and one of my first PS2 game. I was probably a 7-8 year old kid, I didn’t even speak or understand English so understanding the objectives and controls was hard, but in retrospect these game probably taught me better than school. Good memories, I enjoyed my childhood and would live it the same way 1000 lives.
Hah, thank you but I don't take them. If you're very inclined, there is the channel membership with the discord integration but even that feels weird with how infrequently I upload, maybe if you have twitch prime and don't use the free sub you can do that 😂
I wanted to play all the cool new CODs when I was around 12-ish, but my parents didn't want me playing M rated games yet, and we had a perfectly good PS2. So they opted towards getting a box set of Finest Hour and Big Red One. I have fond memories of binging the Finest Hour campaign again and again. It probably helped fuel my love of history.
I played this at a friend's house years ago and it left me memories of that game where you didn't get a gun and had to run for your life until you found one and could fight back. It was terrifying. We could never beat it. Now I see why, because the checkpoints were VERY old-school. Thanks for reminding me! :P
This was probably my first ps2 game. I replayed the first few missions soooooo many times because I didn’t have a memory card and had to start over every day.
I grew up playing this game just seeing the first mission again after the disk got to scratched just is amazing. i have many fond and core memories playing it and it started my love for games and gaming
My first Call of Duty game! Man was I young back then, honestly feels like a different lifetime completely. I wasn’t a very self aware kid so I’d just mindlessly play games like this, looking back I didn’t enjoy anything I did back then, not really. Now I’m thankfully a lot happier.
What does “not a very self aware kid even mean?”
@@idrkidk8146 I didn’t have an internal monologue, didn’t really challenge myself or hell ask myself if I wanted to be playing video games. It was just easy enough to just follow the instructions of any given game.
One of my proudest gaming achievements is still beating this game on hard without dying.
Same goes bro my first cod game as well, such a unreal story line
@@mrrandomdude4291 that’s called being a kid mate
first CoD game i ever played. so much nostalgia. thank you
“We lose the Sherman’s, and we’re all dead” goddamnit that line rings in my head from 2004 till today, after dying so many times in the mission and starting over😂
When I first played this that missions was insane as a kid it took forever
It was the Heavy Water escape in CoD1 that had me repeating. Cause your boy’s a masochist and plays every call of duty on veteran.
It’s not good for my mental health in the kill box areas or the “on the rails” escape sections. 😂
why the fuck was this mission the bane of our existence 😂 i was so excited to finally play as americans and when that line played, i said it word for word lmfao, i know it allll too well
@@shmetiennetook me forever to get passed the sewers and then the factory, none of which prepared me for that first American mission lol
@@mp2446 right? like i wish i could go back in time and check my difficulty because there is no way it should’ve been that hard 😂 alot of those last few missions were insanely difficult but also so much fun
Gosh, I remember fondly of my dad surprising me with this. It was my first shooter game on the PS2 and i was so captivated by the history and everything that happened in WW2.
You and me both my dad worked in a junkyard and this game come in one of the cars close to when it comes out I still remember that to this day
My dad bought me this for getting straight As in grade 7. I played through the campaign so many times.
me it was medal of honor spearhead well i played rctw and allied assault before but the feeling of "hey look what i got" was spearhead i remember coming home from school and my mom calls me over and says look at this and my dad hands me the box of medal of honor spearhead
This and Big Red One was the first CoDs i've ever played...never could get past the British section. This was a real treat. my condolences on the pain of getting this running
is there a way to run it at 60 fps through emulation?
My first CoDs as well. Still think they're the best campaigns.
Definitely underrated call of duty games
@@aldentowner2172 if you can figure out how to run PSE+ without a server connection. I honestly don’t know how he got it running.
The first two Jak and Daxter games have been ported to PC by fans reverse engineering the source code and modifying it. Maybe the same could be done for these games?
That ppsh muzzle flash sends you and enemies to god
A bizarre muzzle flash for sure, but I think it is accurate to the real gun though. Always got annoying to me when I used it, but I got over it. Mowing down legions of enemies with it kinda sticks with you. Dunno if maniacal cackling does though. Might just be me.
Like those guys at 9:45 that got raptured lmao
one of my favorite and most memorable CODs... This was my first COD... that intro for Not One Step Back is emblazoned in my mind and heart lol
Yes!! That and half the quips from Big Red One are so memorable. Not to mention all the easter eggs and fun guns you get in Finest Hour~ Oh! And the Achen level where you go underground with Benny and a small group of meatshields. Those dark, underground tunnels scared the shit out of when I played the game as a kid. Always took me 2 hours to either get Benny in there first, or to summon the nerve to just go in myself and hope the fellow A.I. followed suit quickly. Fond memories~
Agreed. I've replayed the first 2 mission over 50 times
@MLPIceberg are talking about the sewers in the third mission of the Soviet campaign or different mission in a different campaign
@@loonylenny the Aachen sewers
@@MLPIcebergthis and big red one and 3 were my childhood. Spent countless hours playing these on the ps2. So many good memories! Ugh take me back! 😭
Oh god the factory mission, I had the toughest time with that as a kid on my PS2, until I had a dream at school of a massive stereo set on the back of a Panzer IV, shredding a guitar, then aced it when I got back home that evening. It was such a weird experience as a kid that it stills vividly haunts me.
My first cod. Always felt like I couldn’t relate to anyone else with these memories. 9 years later i still listen to the soundtrack
One of the best Michael G did great work on the soundtrack. Glad that I am not alone in my listening or this soundtrack
that first American mission was the bane of my existence when I was 7 . trying to stop them panzerschrecks from hitting the M12 was awful
Everyone talks smack about this game, but I think it's an absolute gem
Agree, not as scripted, more tactical, slower. I would place it in my top 5 cod games.
Ooof. I was so excited when this game was coming out. The campaign was ok....the multi was complete trash. Just speaking for Xbox Live there were never any players and it was so hard to see anyone. I remember the maps being so dark that anyone who I did play with would just camp with the DP or MG42.
Think I played it once through then went back to playing COD1 on PC
Good thing I'm about to start into the COD series with this.
It's awesome. Great music, good models, good effects. Screw the haters, this game had soul.
I said this, until I got to the part where I had to defend shermans solo, while friendlies basically did nothing
My first CoD game was CoD 2 Big Red One 2nd was Finest Hour so much nostalgia
Both where great side entries to the series.
Here's a couple fun facts for this game.
The soundtrack was composed by Michael Giacchino, who composed the original Medal of Honor game and practically half of Pixar's film library like Up, and Ratatouille
The voice of Sgt. Bob Starkey is Brian Johnson, the lead singer of AC/DC
And the voice for the video intros to the missions is the Allstate guy
The TV show Lost too
He composed for the orginal CoD. The Pegasus Bridge music brings me to tears till this day
One thing ive noticed about these old games is that the atmosphere and sound design holds up remarkably well even compared to modern games nowadays. It really makes you feel like you're in a specific setting the game takes place in.
I think a prominent composer made the music for Finest Hour. That might be why.
@@MLPIceberg Same composer as Medal of Honor, Michael Giacchino
I think it's the fact they played like they wanted you to learn something, the gameplay can get chaotic and silly, but up until World at War these games had a lot of historical accuracy.
@@flame_101 And to my surprise he made soundtracks for many memorable animated films. _The Incredibles_ in particular has a lot of similarities with the use of subtle orchestral instruments like the flute or trumpet to convey tension. His music is unmistakable.
3:24-4:25 Best opening to an early CoD game. I had this memorized as a child, and recite it every time I replayed Finest Hour.
A sour video feels like a Christmas present. You don't get them everyday but they're worth the wait
The soundtrack in this game is one of the best in the series!
My first COD game! Man the controls weren't the best and the 'murica missions later on gave me a lot of troubles, but I still love it nonetheless, looking forward to the rest of the video!
FINALLY LETS GOOOOO!! My first cod experience back in 2009 on the ps2 and then the Xbox 360. man so glad your finally coming to this gem of a game! This games soundtrack didn’t have to go as hard as it does either especially that flag must fall or the bridge at Remagen. Like I can’t tell you how many times I have speedran this game on hard to try and get better times, this truly is a memorable cod for me even if it is janky and wonky.
That final mission on Hard though, is the stuff nightmares are made of -__-
without even thinking my mind automatically thought about the machine gun nests in the towers and at the entrance of the tunnel, i always remember toward the end of the bridge there was a german sniper on the left side and i would always kill him and use his sniper to take those nests out
@@MikeSwings yeah man, I remember as well
The 2nd to final mission is also insanely brutal. If you are out of position and/or low on grenades/health it's possible to soft-lock the level in the part where the tanks push up and there's panzershrecks and enemies from behind and above and an MG42 that enemies infinitely spawn onto if you aren't close to it. After that it becomes doable but still very difficult remainder of the mission.
We all remember the infamous final british mission, I became a pro at that mission but man it was brutal until I figured out you can go around and get grenades and flank before you bum rush with the timebomb.
And the 1st and 2nd American mission, the 1st has a section where you need to very aggressively push and there's invisible MG42's that can only be killed with a panzershreck you better have in your back pocket. And then the sewer one, I used to complete it without destroying 1 of the ladders because the 2nd ladder you find would trap you and man it was brutal. Great game, but very difficult until you find a way to force your way thru the difficulty.
Does anyone remember the easter eggs? Those were both creepy but also badass.
Wow yeah I forgot about to 2nd to last mission, true.
What eastereggs?@@no-barknoonan1335
Yeah I was 13 when i played this (my first CoD) and it sorta had this weird disturbing brown-grey colour palette anyway, coupled with the big red apple with the UFO inside it does seem kinda cursed
One of the first video games i played soooooo much nostalgia thank you for doing this we all love it
Missed the creepy baby room Easter egg in the tunnels. Throw grenades at doors
Woohoooo, throwback time, thank you very much for playing mate ! You're awesome dude !
Fun fact: at the room he briefly looks into on the right at 25:32 you can crawl under the stairs and access a fully loaded DPM machine gun thats very well hidden
the Stalingrad opening is burned into my mind love it so much
The cheat codes were kinda fun to mess with for this game. "Big heads" was funny.
Honestly so underrated I loved the voice acting and music of this game haven’t played it in years hope it still holds up!
Always a good day when a s0ur video is posted. I can't wait to see what this one has in store!
This was my first video game period I instantly fell in love and have played every cod since plus dived into the world of gaming thank you for this.
The cover art for this game makes me laugh. It's like they're shouting at the guy "HEY DUMBASS YOU'RE SHOOTING THE WRONG WAY"
Good game, but some things are out of line:
1. Old myth of one with the rifle, second with the bullets charging (not even the few workers militia battalions were so poorly equipped).
2. Mosin Nagant in the game is actually Finnish models, which is obvious by the sights.
3. Red army uniforms are 1943 models with shoulder straps, while at Stalingrad they still wore 1941 model without those and red markings at necktie.
Edit:
4. Mamayev Kurgan had no concrete bunkers built by either side, only few fortified outposts and lookouts.
Awesome video! I have a lot of fond memories playing this on the gamecube when I was a kid. I would love to see a video on COD 2 Big Red One. That was my first COD game and I bought it at a blockbuster of all places. It's still pretty dated but I remember the aiming feeling a lot better in 2.
Yes! BR1 was my first too and I spent so much time on the GameCube with it. One of my favorite games a kid and I hope he plays it on here
The audio in that game was... off. Also, the reload animations were a bit extra, for lack of better word. Other than that, pretty good entry.
@@activatekruger446 What do you expect of a game that's... what, 20 years old? Of course aspects of it (if not the whole thing) is gonna look and feel dated.
As much as I like this game from a nostalgic standpoint, it really got ridiculously hard sometimes. When I say "ridiculously hard," I'm not necessarily talking about health loss and whatnot. I'm talking about certain annoyances present in some early FPS games that didn't really make much sense from a realistic perspective (I like realism in my WWII-based games), such as certain areas having an endless respawn of enemies, allies who stood around and made you do all the work, enemies always taking aim at you (the player) despite several of your allies being easier targets, etc. It was definitely a beast to get through on hard IMO.
Still, it had a ton of great moments. Some of the visuals were really cool (for 2004) and the soundtrack was absolutely amazing, particularly in "The Flag Must Fall" and "Into the Heartland."
UPDATE: After rewatching this again several months later, I noticed how you lowered the difficulty down from hard (missed it the first time). I don't blame you. This game on hard is an absolute nightmare!
Thank you s0ur! This was my first ever cod game, great video as always
why do you fit in so well in the thumbnail lmao
Lmao, I take an embarrassing number of pictures to try to get a decently similar expression. Felt like this wasn't one of my better ones though, the angle seems a bit off
Omg no way. I had a long day and seeing this just made me smile for the first time today thank you
Man, this was my first CoD. played it on the OG Xbox, so many fond memories
My first COD. I loved the starting speech on the boat! Annoyingly on my copy, on the 3rd mission climbing the hill. If I died, the game would crash and delete saves...
I hate how Certain PS2 and Certain discs would have glitches, like I had games that wouldn’t play on my PS2 but would work on my friends and vice versa
What? How? You ever get a replacement?
@@rubenlopez3364The blue discs were harder to read and often presented problems on older PS2s with more worn out lasers.
This game was my first COD when I was a kid on GameCube! This game’s soundtrack will still be my favorite out of all the CODs. Thank you for the nostalgia, Sour!
A shame they haven't remastered these old games, with better console controls. They'd be great to play again with decent controls, and spruced up graphics.
Throw in some more north africa missions too and it would be awesome
The "Kill the Germans" at the start is parts of an actual poem written during the war. Contents of said poem is appropriately enough propaganda extolling the blood lust for German troops in Soviet citizens.
The poem and other such propaganda backfired in a dramatic and chilling way when the Soviets finally pushed into Germany (the mood further worsened and fuelled by Axis atrocities) with Soviet troops partaking in retributive atrocities against not just the Germany military but also the civilian populace.
This was my childhood. I still remember playing it when I was like 11 and getting stuck on the fourth mission. I just could not beat it. It got me to quit I think for a few years and then when I came back, I blew right through that mission like it was nothing. This game is half the reason I even still have a PS2 in the first place.
Fun Fact: The voice of Sgt. Bob Starkey is one Brian Johnson. Yes, _THAT_ Brian Johnson from AC/DC!
What a legendary game this was. What a legendary game it still is.
It needs a remaster.
This was my introduction into the cod franchise, and I loved it so much
It touches my heart that even for a small budget console spin-off, they got real military advisors and veterans to help them make this game. Something Call of Duty will likely never do again.
man soviet campaigns always have the most intense openings
Terrible controls; hard as fuck, but still one of the greatest and most underrated CODs in the franchise. The atmosphere and the soundtrack was what really sold it for me. I'll never forget fighting underground in the deep, dark sewers or crossing the Remagen Bridge with a G43.
My first shooter, got it and a GameCube at Christmas when I was 8 years old.
Two things that I think are truly fantastic about this game regardless of nostalgia:
-The music and voice acting is amazing, there are so many sequences that I can quote from memory even today. The sound design in general was incredible for its time.
-The game has some secret unlocks and cheats that are fantastic, but my favorite was an animation reel that showed off custom animations that the developers worked on that are easy to miss while playing the game or didn’t make it into the final version. Those animations are the standard that I hold games to even today.
This was the first COD I ever played. It was what started my journey in the series. I still remember the order to this day: Finest Hour, Big Red One, COD 2, COD 1, COD 3, Modern Warfare, World at War. It is a series dear to my heart. It has been fun watching you go back and play!
While Finest hour gets so much hate, it feels undeserved. It has such interesting depth when you consider it goes into the character's history before every mission. You aren't just a random guy, you are Private Sokolov, you are Lieutenant Tanya, you are a person with a life! And it is that detail that makes this game so much more interesting. Also, a rare instance of a female soldier during WW2, which was actually decently common in Russia. During the war, many women enlisted to serve at the front. Men still outnumbered them vastly, but it was a time where women served not just as nurses, but much more! Bomber piolets, snipers, train engineers, frontline soldiers, and more! Finest hour touches on that, and it's awesome.
thank you for captioning these so well :)
Awesome video man, I played all these old COD games on launch on pc and Xbox and its good to relive the nostalgia. Thanks for the upload!
The problem with this game is that it makes you feel like you're in slow motion whenever the fps drops. I thought I didn't set up my emulator correctly until I spent hours searching and finally realized that it was normal from an actual ps2 gameplay footage.
Boy this takes me back. This was my first COD I played back on the GameCube and then Big Red One was my second before I jumped to PS2 for COD3. Absolutely love watching you go and play these older titles!
Everyone else is watching the new RE4 remake but I'd much rather be here watching sour play more classic cod!
I've had this game on Xbox for 20 years easily, but I don't remember anything about it. Really gotta replay it sometime. I think I got it right before Big Red 1 came out and focused on that a lot.
This was one of my first CoD games along with Cod 3 and big red one. I was shocked to see it in my recommended today
Lovely seeing more people play this game. Though I was crying that you didn't use your tank MG's tracers to sight the tank cannon. All in all, I love the video.
God the intro cutscene brings me more nostalgia than anything I’ve ever seen before.
Awesome ! whenever you upload one of these it makes my day! Please do CoD 3 you inspired me to go back and revisit it and it was a fun experince and id love to see how you handle it but fair warning the game has some kinks but its largely minor things no crashes or anything ! Anyway great video cant wait for the next one !
Hell yeah! keep up the great content man
this game has my favorite opening theme, still remember it to this day, even though the last time i played it was when i was 6 lmao
That opening monologue by Commissar Durasov is surprisingly well voice acted in my opinion. It could just be nostalgia, but I remembered some of his words clearly before he even said them. Probably more likely because I was a very young kid, and either died really early and had to hear it again, or because I couldn't figure out how saving worked
I really hope that we eventually get to see call of duty 2 Big Red One
I was wondering why it looked so good at first I remember it on the ps2 being so dark and blocky lol then you pulled out the ps2 version and got the same experience as most of us did
Back when I played this as a kid, I had a large box TV which the Gama was very low and could be made brighter. All I could see was the burning fires in the first mission. It was veteran mode lol
@@lucioordo3647 yep exactly couldnt see anything you'd just die repeatedly
Ive recently tried playing this game again with those adapters you can use that way you can play on HDMI and good lord the mission where you have to go through the tunnels is completely fucked up..
Super dark, like can't see anything but muzzle flashes, i only got my way through by the ol' trick of, "If there's enemies this way, this has to be the right way"
Holy crap I didn't realize it was you! I didn't know you had a channel! That's awesome!
Ive been watching all the cod and medal of honor videos and god the amount of nostalgia is crazy. Cant wait for you to play medal of honor European assault.
I remember playing this game on PS2 as a literal child. Good times.
I remember playing this game on game cube as a metaphorical child. Good times.
@@activatekruger446 Don’t be like that. Was just trying to emphasize how young I was.
Thanks for the nostalgia I remember playing this game when I was in elementary school, was my favorite cod
Man the opening level was one of the first windows i had into the russian side of WWII as a kid. The way soldiers were seen as expendable and how quick officers were to shoot deserters. Even the myth/legend of ammo being handed out alternating with weapons really hit that point home that russian soldiers were just expected to die. The way they all just charge that machine gun with the epic music too.
This Call of Duty video series of yours is one of my favourite new series on youtube.
Are you going to do Call of Duty Big Red One next??
This was absolutely the hardest COD i played on my ps2 when i was still a kid i got stuck on "Not One Step Back" and "The flag must fall" Tanya's Mission was hard for me back then when i still don't know how to snipe and clear the tunnels then after years i got stuck on The "First city to fall" then stuck again at "Into the the heartland" for long time, the american campaign was hard even i put it on normal still worth the play and still the commissar's speech and the background music gives me the chills to this day.
1:11:00 This part of the game, and the Volga river crossing, are imbedded in my mind and it's been well over a decade since I've played this game. The image i had of this fortress before you actually saw it on screen was the same in my head as it was on screen. Incredible.
I also felt a sense of frustration very brefily wash over me. I have a feeling I remember this part of this mission so well because child me kept dying over and over and that's why I still remmber it so well over a decade+ later 😂😂
The whole *MUSIC STOPS* when you die in this game makes it unintentionally hilarious
My first COD on PS2, have great memories of the first mission Stalingrad, mainly because I was so young and terrible at the game I never got passed it.
One of my favorite game. The Scale of Battle in Stalingrad after Repairing the T-34 in the Factory and so the Following missions had me on my seat.
When me and my friend were 8, we both got this game and then both got stuck on the tank factory sniper mission for like 2 weeks 😂😂😂 and we played shooters all the time. It was crazy hard.
The death animations for NPCs in this game are just *so* good. They play a different one depending on where they're shot.
And the sound the PPSH makes *OH MY GOD* it's so good!
Who remembers the 2 packs with Big Red One and Finest Hour
i done this campaign so many times back in the day! The nostalgia hits hard watching this
my first cod and all that, but around 1:05:45 when the guy says Depot in his accent literally awoke all memory of that level and how frustrating it was for a 5 year old.
I love these old cods so much such a huge part of my childhood.
After years of not touching this game, I finally made it to the Bridge of Remagen mission as a GI and I managed to beat it. The game was so difficult as a kid but making it to the end was worth it.
Woop woop! Not gonna lie, I had a LOT of doubt that you weren't gonna ghost the console exclusive cods but here you are doin 'em - Big Red One is the other overlooked masterpiece but if you covered this one, you'll cover that one likely.
FH wasn't my first CoD, but it was one I have fond memories of - it's a very strange game. In a good way.
Finest Hour was my first Call of Duty ever. The memories I have for this game, man...
Please play *COD 2 Big Red One* hands down one of the greatest 🙏🙏
You've got to do Call of Duty 2 Big Red One! Wonderful characters
The music fading when the rats went away 😂
the defend the tank crew brought me back to my youngestr childhood rage moments
35:37 Core memory mission
I remember walking into EB Games (GameStop) as a kid, when my mom took me to buy something and I was looking around at all of these fantastic and interesting games. Then I saw it, Call of Duty: Finest Hour. I just had a good feeling and knew I had to try it. Yes the controls are very awkward, even back then, but the dedication to showing authentic history to a young audience was Incredible. The documentaries especially. I fell in love with Call of Duty that day and unfortunately it has been corrupted by greed in recent years. However, nothing will change my appreciation for the earlier titles.
I just found this game in my basement the other day and had a flashback to my childhood, struggling desperately to beat "The First City to Fall" it must have taken me a week.
My first COD game and one of my first PS2 game. I was probably a 7-8 year old kid, I didn’t even speak or understand English so understanding the objectives and controls was hard, but in retrospect these game probably taught me better than school. Good memories, I enjoyed my childhood and would live it the same way 1000 lives.
YES YES YES IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DUDE!. Where can i donate? youve earned it man
Hah, thank you but I don't take them. If you're very inclined, there is the channel membership with the discord integration but even that feels weird with how infrequently I upload, maybe if you have twitch prime and don't use the free sub you can do that 😂
@@S0ur ill see you on twitch then, thanks for playing one of my favorite childhood games
I wanted to play all the cool new CODs when I was around 12-ish, but my parents didn't want me playing M rated games yet, and we had a perfectly good PS2. So they opted towards getting a box set of Finest Hour and Big Red One. I have fond memories of binging the Finest Hour campaign again and again. It probably helped fuel my love of history.
I played this at a friend's house years ago and it left me memories of that game where you didn't get a gun and had to run for your life until you found one and could fight back. It was terrifying. We could never beat it. Now I see why, because the checkpoints were VERY old-school. Thanks for reminding me! :P
This was probably my first ps2 game. I replayed the first few missions soooooo many times because I didn’t have a memory card and had to start over every day.
i saw my comment at 0:09🙏🏽🙏🏽 cannot wait to binge this
Dude you should play Call of Duty: Big Red one. That game was fire
I grew up playing this game just seeing the first mission again after the disk got to scratched just is amazing. i have many fond and core memories playing it and it started my love for games and gaming