What I like most about the older CoDs is that they always tried to show different locations and theatres in the war throughout the games. 1 had D Day airborne invasions, behind enemy lines stuff, touched on the battle of the bulge, Stalingrad, Poland, Berlin. United Offensive expanded upon Bulge, and did Sicily, and Kharkov. CoD 2 did D Day sea invasion and North African campaign. WaW did the pacific theatre. While CoD was having yearly releases, these helped make the games feel unique and fun.
The PS2 COD 2 spinoff, Big Red One, is one of the few WWII games where you fight the Vichy French, which is a faction I hardly see talked about during WWII discussion in general, much less in games
Maybe they tried, but after a years it's still France 1944 or Stalingrad over and over. First CoD indeed included map that claimed to be Warsaw but there was NOTHING Polish about it. Just a dull map with Russians vs Germans. Not even a slight context in briefing. In WW2 there was around 70 countries involved. Yet we see only US/UK/USSR (of which the soviets were the same evil as Germany back then - somehow the CoD does not even mention that). Where are Hungarians, Romanians, Estonians or Finnish fighting against Russia? Where are French, Polish, Norwegians, Greeks, Yugoslavians and other nations in Europe? Where are Anzac and Canadians in western front? Where is Burma, China and Indonesia on far east? Where is Ethiopia and other African countries involved? Nowhere in AAA games because that does not sell.
@@weleskosmaty3189 COD 3 took place entirely within the Normandy Breakout just after D-Day but had you follow SAS imbedded with the French Resistance, a Polish tank crew, Canadian infantry, and US infantry
What I love about the COD games prior to MWII was that the intention was to give you a vague idea about what it might have been like to be a grunt on the front lines rather than a power fantasy that tries to make you feel like a super soldier.
Well, not precisely... past CoD protagonists are still far from the average grunt. Miller in WaW was a Marine raider, and Dimitri survived Stalingrad. Though I get what you mean. Fighting as part of one army instead of behind the lines where you kill everything on your path
@@siegfried2k4 yeah, I think that the special team of badasses protagonist is good, I just think that it should also have a side story where you're just one of a million other soldiers.
You are god damn right. The B-17 mission was so good! More games, especially military games should feature vehicles parts by not portraying you as the vehicle but as a human being walking and working around it.
Yeah that's why the black cat mission in WaW was good, while the it was more scripted than the b-17 where you could freely walk around instead being forced to move. The music and sound design really sells it.
I spent a lot of my childhood playing UO and wanted to note that the multiplayer incorporated a lot of the singleplayer maps. To get around the vastness of the maps like Foy and Kursk, vehicles were introduced for the first time in COD. Jeeps, tanks, and heavy tanks helped make the big maps feel small, honestly a perfect balance.
Base Assault is still one of the best gamemodes completely ignored by the franchise or even other "large scale shooters". It's absolutely insane how no one tried to replicate the mode
Fun fact Doyle who you play as in this is also the character the player plays as in the British Section of COD 3 along with Major Ingram who we had to rescue alongside Captain Price in the original COD Classic.
@@jimzeez if you're talking about the mission infiltrating the Battleship Tirpitz in disguise, to my knowledge that mission with Price going MIA was before the mission in the Bavarian Alps when the US Paratroopers rescued him from the Chateau and that was how he got wounded was captured and then was taken there.
@StevenCodeBlack nah it happens the other way around. Price is rescued between the dday Pegasus bridge mission and the tirpitz missions. He very much dies
Ackshully, in the first mission you run into Private Martin too. He's one of the wounded soldiers being dragged by a comrade when you are shell shocked in the part where the Americans are being shelled.
And in the first mission when you fall back into the jeep, it basically mimics the mission in the original COD when you drive through the countryside with Sgt. Moody and Private Elder. Only this time, it's Cpl. Riley instead of Private Martin and Ender instead of the Elder
We all played CoD 1 in my class and when I told my classmates about UO they thought I was a liar so I told this to my uncle who made a ton of copies of it in Nero express and I sold it for like 1€ for a DVD. Me and my classmates had huge lan-partys after in UO
UO was the perfect expansion; fewer levels but they were longer, no filler and even the British levels were better. Plus we see battles like the Bulge and Kharkov. After replaying it for the anniversary, I argue that it's overall a stronger campaign than the original
While amount of enemies could be absurd at times, UO did not tire me with BS missions like half of british campaign in first Cod, which gave my MoH vibes- a single guy fight tons of germans in the dam, or on Tirpitz ship, which if i remember correctly was destroyed by bombing. Also russian army was shown as actual army not a bunch of zergs rushing at enemy positions.
@@Endru85x My thoughts exactly. Not to mention the Soviet campaign in 1 had levels that gave the British ones a run for its money. After the excellent set piece at Red Square, you're on your own for the latter half of that level and two more, a level in the Stalingrad Sewers and one of the Warsaw levels that had you mostly on your own. The American campaign had its share of espionage levels but they never had you completely alone which is why I have to rank it as my overall favorite campaign of that game. It never reaches the highs of the Soviet campaign but it also never reaches the lows either.
Yeah, first CoD and movies like enemy at the gate made a lot people truly believe in all of this BS about russians having not enough guns ,ammo and doing just zerg rush at the enemy.
@@Niektolentak Before 1941 ended, soviets had over 20 000 tanks. The german send 3000 tanks to the eastern front. Soviets could produce such number in few months, so yeah they had means to fight. Also, they got equipment from USA, including tanks, jeeps, ammo etc.
@@Endru85x I think the problem whit enemy of the gate was it was a movie that took place over (historically several year) but in the movie got compressed down to a few weeks same whit the U-boat movie the U-boat does one trip a few month during that time the outlook of the war went from early 1939 where they was almost undisturbed sinking allied ships left and right till the war changed (reality several years in movie about 1 month and 1 deployment). and from what I understand in the early days of the war between Soviet and germany Soviet did have some serius logistic problem. not enouth gun and ammo (was it because the supplies was just not near the front in the hand of the soldier or just did not exist I don´t know) but this is not a problem throughout the whole war just the start and by the time of the stalingrad it was fixed (the problem whit enemy at the gate was that they put the timeline of that movie to late had they called it [city closer to the german border] and put it in the early part of the war when Soviet was still putting securing there pants after getting caught whit them down) the film would been a lot more logical.
I loved this game! It had an online gamemode called Base Assault which were wide open maps with large teams, like Ground War, where you had to destroy three enemy bases with tanks. The maps were pretty epic, and around 2010 there was still an active community around it. Those were great times with many great people! Shoutout to BA Born Attackers ;)
That was my favorite game mode, man I really miss it. Every once in awhile I'll try and jump on and see what the servers are like but you never see a full server
The russian campaign is a lasting childhood memory The eye widening moment of being sent to the beaches with only a clip of ammo hits me to this day, juat different now that i know more about russian history
I picked up United Offensive on launch and had a blast. The joys of being 17 again and pwning n00bs on Foy is hard to beat. Been recently playing through CoD and UO, and while it is a bit primitive compared to newer games (graphics, controls, weapons) I'm still having a blast playing these 20 year old games.
I regularly replay the CoD 1, UO, and CoD 2 campaigns because, despite being dated in some ways, they still hold up so well imo. I wish the series hadn't achieved so much mainstream success with CoD 4 because I think that was the beginning of the series' decline, as great as that game was. The originals did such a great job of mission design, gunplay, and being pretty historically accurate. That fucking bridge in UO though, man.
Agree. Hell when CoD: MW (the original) was in the preview phase they had a bunch of contest on their website and I ended up winning some patches, a hat, a water bottle, and some other trinkets. Nowadays I wouldn't have a chance to win anything due to millions of people entering.
The older CoD games were still mainstream but you are right that the franchise changed for the worse when they started developing for consoles. Infinity Ward also split up after Modern Warfare 2 (which I thought was mediocre compared to original Modern Warfare).
Gotta do COD 2 Big Red One next. Follows one squad all the way through the war from Africa to the Siegfried line. Most of the Band of Brothers cast are the voice actors and Mark Hamill narrates the cutscenes
I can hardly say how much I appreciate this video about CoDUO. Sometimes I feel like I'm in a parallel universe these days where the first CoDs never came out and noone is talking about them.
You are welcome. And thank you for playing it it's always nostagia for me to see someone else enjoying it. I really wish they would keep post briefing cutscenes and debriefing info after each campaing in future titles. And music is just cheff kiss.
This video made me realize that the cod series always had for some reason an itch for including us dutchies in their campaigns, it also made me realize they're pretty much the only ones
I played so much CoD:UO multiplayer I got in to my brothers clan, he was 7 years older than me and so were most of his clanmates, and we placed high on EU leagues. Still reminisce about those times, CoD:UO and 2 are the best CoD's made.
This is very well narrated and explained with clarity. I feel for classic COD this is a good decision as it was how COD players were before the Golden Age opened up the barricades to the screaming epic 360 no scopes
I was a modder for CoD1 and UO back in the day. The damage system between CoD1 and UO is slightly different with the UO damage system adding damage over range. Also weapon damages were slightly adjusted for the new system as well. CoD UO had an MP Bots mod and if your weapon file had only the CoD1 damage type, it would do no damage to the bots. My CoD modding name was angrypreacher and I generally uploaded to file front until that site went down. I did laugh when you said that Genshin Impact players don't know what an expansion pack was since I play Genshin Impact myself.
Feel like an old man watching this like it's some ancient piece of gaming history, but it still feels like yesterday. I still got all the developer tools, decompiled maps and engine/tool documentations on how to build and script your own levels and what not. Still have many custom missions and maps people uploaded back then, which are impossible to find these days. The original sites are all long dead. Got one made by guys who had grandparents who fought in WWII, they'd build missions for the game about where those people fought. They had their own clan/website and everything. Back then Infinity Ward and other devs would hang around on modding forums sharing decompiled files for people to study, and even hiring people there who made great maps. Feels surreal to boot up some random custom map made by some guy 20 years ago, something you can't even get anywhere anymore.
Everyone talking about COD WAW veteran but fools those are nothing againts Cod1/united offensive, and yeah i completed both of them in veteran and they're the hardest call of duty.
When UO was released i was 19, but not gonna lie, they were hard. In russian mission i found a way of just laying under the train and Stuka just destroyed the german tanks. Then it was the matter of surviving the final assault using PPSH :) @@redsgrave2003
Man, I've been playing this series since the first Medal of honor on the ps1. It got me practically hooked on history itself and it's a real shame seeing the path it took. I'm not the kind of person that really cares much about spec ops, covert operations and such, but rather seeing the point of view of the common soldiers witnessing brutal, ground warfare around the globe.
I played it extensively, it was definitely an upgrade from the original CoD...being able to sprint just made the game much more real. Being Dutch, having a mission in my own country was actually pretty fun!
This video took me back to easily one of my favourite CoD's. I remember finding this in a bargain bin of a local discount store in 2007. The RAF mission in the B-17 was, and still is in my eyes, one of the best missions in the franchise and I was so happy when they did something similar in WaW. However, what has always bothered me about this game is that diary at the start of the level with the Dutch resistance mentions that you dropped somewhere in Holland. But the level takes place in a mountainous area which do not exist within the entirety of the Dutch mainland. Anyway, guess I'll go replay the old CoD's again....
Holy banana-split... Now I feel old. This was the highlight of my childhood. CoD 1, it's exp.pack and CoD 2. This video made me feel like it was a relic from the silent film era. Thanks I guess? Btw. Cpt.Foley & Sgt.Moody! Woop Woop!
The hilarous thing about the mission in the Netherlands is that there's big hills and mountains and a ravine with a train going over it. In reality the Netherlands is flat as fuck and the only "hills" are in Limburg far to the south.
United Offensive was the first Call of Duty I ever played. Granddad introduced me to it in 2005, just 3 years after introducing me to Medal of Honor Allied Assault
I was there for the golden era of call of duty. I was like 9 years old at the time, so I was able to play world at war. Double tap with mp40 all day I played it all day till the sun came out the next day. I was that glued to the TV. Also, the nice thing about it was you could play those way earlier titles because the ps2 was still around in the early 2000's which was the time I was born. So, I got to enjoy both of best generations. That being I was able to play old games from the 90's like resident evil and still play 2000's games growing up in said 2000's.
Call of duty United offensive is my favorite call of duty game. I put so many hours into that game when it came out it's not even funny, I hate how it gets kind of forgotten whenever anyone talks about call of duty. It was almost like their take on a battlefield game
Why at 2:00 AM on Christmas Eve I randomly decided to watch the last black ops mission, which then recommended to me an ElmoSanchez video I should’ve seen in my subscription feed I’ll never know. Still the video’s so good it will keep me from becoming one of“Mason’s New Years Number stat.”
Great video and I remember playing this COD so much when I was younger. I've also been inside a B17 at an air force museum, they are super cool but definitely flying tin tubes. Crazy to think of all the missions these were used in.
This was my introduction to CoD back in 2003 or 2004. we had great LAN battles with 8 people and the campaign was very memorable, too. Vehicles in multiplayer and all sorts of interesting tech. the artillery mechanic was pretty intense.
I remember watching band of brother on the TV and then jumping into COD 1 and UO. What an amazing time it was. I never experianced any frustrations regarding the games health system. That was just how things were back then it was expected. Also British campaign was my favourite in UO.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. The united offensive campaign is one of my favorites, the multiplayer is hella fun too! So many fun times doing bunker busting in multiplayer. (Also the G43 and SVT-40 had more satisfying sounds and reload animations, COD 2 ones just felt bland)
As someone that flew in the B-17 Nine o Nine i can say it was unique but not getting shot at by flak and enemy planes probably helped. RIP to the lives that where lost on Nine o Nine.
I can't stop laughing in the gameplay clips where you accidentally melee because it's bound to the normal key that sprinting is now. I did that several times when I first played too.
You sir are a legend! Your tastes are excellent, music and games alike! I remember when I was little i was scared shitless of the B-17 mission. It was unimaginably hard and scary and I felt so bad for my fellow dying gunners so I always called my older brother to play it for me. Good times, keep up the great work, I watch these like 30 times in a row, they're so good! Peace✌️
Tbh, I think the best part of UO was the multiplayer. It had a Battlefield type game mode that you could use vehicles in giant maps. For it's time, I think it was amazing and I played it a ton.
This is just as well-made as the CoD II video, and I loved it! Personally my favorite mission was Doyle, Ingram, and the Dutch resistance, it had a good mix of "boots on the ground combat" and "stealthy secret service" vibes. Also, have you done a video on the original CoD 1? You've mentioned it in both this and the CoD II vid, and it seems pretty important in regards to story and background (and probably will be since I know for a fact Doyle is in CoD III), but I don't know that you've done a video on CoD 1.
@24:43 another odd choice they did with the tank missions both in classic and United Offensive is that while YOU the player can't use your tank machine gun it supposedly automatically fires at enemy infantry in front of the tank. But I'd rather be able to fire it at them myself.
I've played this game. A lot of great moments. It was really hard though, at the end of the last mission I won by hiding under a train until re-enforcents arrived.
It is literally the one of the first Call of Duty I played. Actually even before the Call of Duty 1, mostly because first CoD games I got on a two-sided pirate disk(selling cheap disks with several pirated games was a normal thing in Russia in early 2000s). As for rankings in my opinion the best CoD games are these: 1)Call of Duty World at War 2)Call of Duty Black Ops 3)Call of Duty 2 4)Call of Duty 1/United Offensive Then there is huge gap between those and Modern warfare series, after which other parts go. However maybe Black Ops Cold War will get the fifth place(haven't played it yet)
im pretty sure cod 4 was considered the golden years. And that was before world at war. The was the 1st modern FPS, and I mean in terms of multiplayer mechanics like kill streaks and weapon customization
This was my favourite cod as a kid until cod4. It had an almost mythical feel as it only briefly worked on our pc until some random update broke the game. Could never get it to work after that, I was a kid and knew nothing about patches and clean installs etc. I just used to look at the box and be annoyed I only got a short time with it as the box art mocked me.
It must be over 15 years since I last replayed UO but it's amazing how familiar all the dialogue was in this vid, the banter of the bomber crew, the way the Soviet commander in the factory pronounces "russian sooooil", it's like I only played it yesterday. I played it a lot as a kid and always enjoyed United Offensive more than the original CoD campaign for some reason. The Guns of Navarone was one of my favourite war movies back then so the Sicily mission I thought was the greatest thing ever! I remember being petrified during the extraction part of the mission, fleeing from what felt like an endless wave of Germans down the cliffside to the docks.
6:00 something really cool about this intro is that you drive through later levels. Also you spoke about damage in uo being different at about 7:30, and you're right. This was the first CoD game where damage was calculated not only by the gun but also over range. It's difficult to overstate how revolutionary this game was compared to the original. Sprinting, cooking grenades, vehicles, deployable mgs, huge maps, base assault (my beloved). Of course CoD was a labor of love then, so it wasn't good enough to just patch the game. 'Nah, lets build a campaign, release new maps to compliment vehicles, touch up a few already in the game, new soundtrack, new voices (correct me if i'm wrong but im pretty sure shouting quick chat was new here too). My dad bought it for $80 which might have been a lot of 2004 money, but man I easily have thousands of hours in UO from when I was a kid to picking it up occasionally as my comfort game today.
Pls do a review of cod 1 too. I agree with your points, but I have to say the last mission is pretty hard. Gotta give you a point for how difficult the Foy-bridge is. Pro-tip: rush the bridge when Foley starts commanding you on taking out the Tiger. By the time the entities spawn in you have the panzerfaust in your hands. Also, the soundtrack is the same from cod 1, which is not a negative point because it is so good. I feel the american and russian campaign really catch the scale of the combat well, which other WW2 call of duty’s except 1,2 and maybe WAW, failed to. The British side is well placed within that, slower-paced and more unique. Finally, it’s multiplayer has a unique mode with bunkers and a ranking system within 1 match. Really fun, back in the old days when it was all so simple but beautiful…
What really surprised me afterward, is that the expansion was developed by "grey matter studio" the creators of return to castle wolfenstein, which explained me why it was so awesome. I also liked b17 mission back in a day. Not much chances that its the game's merit(the formula is too simple) but it seems that after that there were several attempts to replicate b17 gunner experience on handhelds, i mean there was downgraded clone mission on psp call of duty, there was standalone b17 gunner game on nintendo DS, another one for early ios era, and several more poorly made on unity for modern app store and play market, their quality speaks for themselves.
I think the only cutscene is at the end with the train station level. Absolutely fucking brutal level and the most memorable I loved the levels before as we fight through the city. 10/10 will recommend w ended a remaster now
It seems very weird that the RAF in this game use B17s when they were only ever used in limited numbers. Always annoys me how Americo-centric these games are even when playing other nations. Could've easily been a Lancaster and showcased an actual British aircraft.
In a matter of fact, Miller is indeed in the game. On the first mission, when you head to the fox holes you can see Miller (Possibly the main character from first part) carrying or being carried (wounded) by a soldier.
@elmosanchez it's a collection of stories chronicling the story of the Loc-Nar. A being of pure evil and his conquering of different worlds and timelines.
I grew up on UO. Spent many of my teen years playing rifles only servers til 3-4 am every night. Absolute gem of a game that I want to see make a comeback.
And If i'm not wrong about It, I guess that United Offensive was the first CoD to introduce sort of point streak rewards in multiplayer, allowing the player to have satchel charges and call in artillery barrages.
Your experience with Foy triggers my PTSD from my experience on the Foy map in Hell Let Loose. The horrors of clearing a point full of trenches with an enemy player scurrying around hunting you as well.
Played this game a lot back in the day. The multiplayer modes like Base Assault were epic. The maps were amazing as well, and you could move around with tanks and jeeps.
Finest hour is okay compared to the PC port. Probably the most clunky COD title and a lot of its cinematic execution past the first few levels falls flat. Some very questionable design decisions with difficulty spikes as well, such as one of the first British missions decided to spawn you across from two whole MG nests and tens of soldiers coming over a wall at you and expecting you to run across open ground in front of all that to proceed the level. It had growing pains being the first COD on console, and I'm speaking as someone who played at launch.
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@@casaulstickmanh7698 nah thank you
What I like most about the older CoDs is that they always tried to show different locations and theatres in the war throughout the games. 1 had D Day airborne invasions, behind enemy lines stuff, touched on the battle of the bulge, Stalingrad, Poland, Berlin.
United Offensive expanded upon Bulge, and did Sicily, and Kharkov.
CoD 2 did D Day sea invasion and North African campaign. WaW did the pacific theatre.
While CoD was having yearly releases, these helped make the games feel unique and fun.
The PS2 COD 2 spinoff, Big Red One, is one of the few WWII games where you fight the Vichy French, which is a faction I hardly see talked about during WWII discussion in general, much less in games
the COD2 also featured the battle of the hill 400 and the crossing of the rhine
@iam4026see my above comment, I believe you also fight the Italians at some point in the campaign too.
Maybe they tried, but after a years it's still France 1944 or Stalingrad over and over.
First CoD indeed included map that claimed to be Warsaw but there was NOTHING Polish about it. Just a dull map with Russians vs Germans. Not even a slight context in briefing.
In WW2 there was around 70 countries involved. Yet we see only US/UK/USSR (of which the soviets were the same evil as Germany back then - somehow the CoD does not even mention that).
Where are Hungarians, Romanians, Estonians or Finnish fighting against Russia? Where are French, Polish, Norwegians, Greeks, Yugoslavians and other nations in Europe?
Where are Anzac and Canadians in western front?
Where is Burma, China and Indonesia on far east?
Where is Ethiopia and other African countries involved?
Nowhere in AAA games because that does not sell.
@@weleskosmaty3189 COD 3 took place entirely within the Normandy Breakout just after D-Day but had you follow SAS imbedded with the French Resistance, a Polish tank crew, Canadian infantry, and US infantry
What I love about the COD games prior to MWII was that the intention was to give you a vague idea about what it might have been like to be a grunt on the front lines rather than a power fantasy that tries to make you feel like a super soldier.
i feel like cod games need to go back to that idea of the protagonist or side protagonist just being an average soldier on the front lines
Well, not precisely... past CoD protagonists are still far from the average grunt. Miller in WaW was a Marine raider, and Dimitri survived Stalingrad. Though I get what you mean. Fighting as part of one army instead of behind the lines where you kill everything on your path
@@siegfried2k4 yeah, I think that the special team of badasses protagonist is good, I just think that it should also have a side story where you're just one of a million other soldiers.
@@siegfried2k4 WaW is already part of the problematic direction. So is CoD4 if you think about it. But CoD4 was actually a good game.
If you are implying that WAW is bad then you can 1v1 me on Seelow.@@unison_moody
You are god damn right. The B-17 mission was so good! More games, especially military games should feature vehicles parts by not portraying you as the vehicle but as a human being walking and working around it.
Yeah that's why the black cat mission in WaW was good, while the it was more scripted than the b-17 where you could freely walk around instead being forced to move. The music and sound design really sells it.
It was something straight out of Memphis Belle and there's now a new miniseries Masters Of The Air coming out
That mission is in COD 2 big red one as well, isnt it?
This is one of my favorite things about GRAW 2
@@GaizazBig Red One was a B-24 but same basic concept
I spent a lot of my childhood playing UO and wanted to note that the multiplayer incorporated a lot of the singleplayer maps. To get around the vastness of the maps like Foy and Kursk, vehicles were introduced for the first time in COD. Jeeps, tanks, and heavy tanks helped make the big maps feel small, honestly a perfect balance.
Base Assault is still one of the best gamemodes completely ignored by the franchise or even other "large scale shooters".
It's absolutely insane how no one tried to replicate the mode
Closest we ever got was Titan Assault in BF2142. @@FulMetaI
@@FulMetaI BA sadly no longer works with how modern cod is played...
what was BA i love gamemodes like that@@FulMetaI
@@TheOneTheyCallShandy Modern CoD is junk. Give me 64 players on Foy any day of the week.
Fun fact Doyle who you play as in this is also the character the player plays as in the British Section of COD 3 along with Major Ingram who we had to rescue alongside Captain Price in the original COD Classic.
The Major Ingram in Classic is UO/3 Ingram's pilot brother.
Remember when Captain Price canonically died?
@@jimzeez I remember the chad thart was Sergeant Waters
@@jimzeez if you're talking about the mission infiltrating the Battleship Tirpitz in disguise, to my knowledge that mission with Price going MIA was before the mission in the Bavarian Alps when the US Paratroopers rescued him from the Chateau and that was how he got wounded was captured and then was taken there.
@StevenCodeBlack nah it happens the other way around. Price is rescued between the dday Pegasus bridge mission and the tirpitz missions. He very much dies
Ackshully, in the first mission you run into Private Martin too. He's one of the wounded soldiers being dragged by a comrade when you are shell shocked in the part where the Americans are being shelled.
uhhhh aksually that's Private Matrin
@@redsgrave2003 Probably to make jokes
And in the first mission when you fall back into the jeep, it basically mimics the mission in the original COD when you drive through the countryside with Sgt. Moody and Private Elder. Only this time, it's Cpl. Riley instead of Private Martin and Ender instead of the Elder
I will redownload UO and double check that once I stop being lazy.
Came here to say this. Glad I'm not the only one who wanted to point it out.
We all played CoD 1 in my class and when I told my classmates about UO they thought I was a liar so I told this to my uncle who made a ton of copies of it in Nero express and I sold it for like 1€ for a DVD. Me and my classmates had huge lan-partys after in UO
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what a dream! I hope they remaster this.
They'll add crap like cod points
Btw do you want to play cod 1 Multiplayer?
@@coyoteclan480Do people still play MP?
UO had some of the best Multiplayer maps in the entire series. Large scale battles with tanks with the COD format was bliss.
yeah too bad Infinity Ward had to fuck it up and go back to tiny maps, Grey Matter/Treyarch were always better
servers are still active to this day!
@@4T3hM4kr0nwe’re still active and playing. The RA Real Ones server is absolutely filled to capacity every night.
mp_pavlov is fucking goated. LAN party classic in my group
Really took me out for a second when I saw Prigozhin pointing at Stalingrad
Oh how things never change
UO was the perfect expansion; fewer levels but they were longer, no filler and even the British levels were better. Plus we see battles like the Bulge and Kharkov. After replaying it for the anniversary, I argue that it's overall a stronger campaign than the original
While amount of enemies could be absurd at times, UO did not tire me with BS missions like half of british campaign in first Cod, which gave my MoH vibes- a single guy fight tons of germans in the dam, or on Tirpitz ship, which if i remember correctly was destroyed by bombing. Also russian army was shown as actual army not a bunch of zergs rushing at enemy positions.
@@Endru85x My thoughts exactly. Not to mention the Soviet campaign in 1 had levels that gave the British ones a run for its money. After the excellent set piece at Red Square, you're on your own for the latter half of that level and two more, a level in the Stalingrad Sewers and one of the Warsaw levels that had you mostly on your own. The American campaign had its share of espionage levels but they never had you completely alone which is why I have to rank it as my overall favorite campaign of that game. It never reaches the highs of the Soviet campaign but it also never reaches the lows either.
@@Endru85xfunny enough infinity ward was started by all the original cod developers because they did not like working on the Medal of Honor games
It is really nice to see red army depicted as an accual army it in reality was instead of unorganized mess like they did in first game.
Yeah, first CoD and movies like enemy at the gate made a lot people truly believe in all of this BS about russians having not enough guns ,ammo and doing just zerg rush at the enemy.
I mean...not having enough guns and bullets for every soldier does make it an unorganized mess.
@@kevinprzy4539 They had enough guns, bullets and gear for every soldier. Soviet factories went brrr.
@@Niektolentak Before 1941 ended, soviets had over 20 000 tanks. The german send 3000 tanks to the eastern front. Soviets could produce such number in few months, so yeah they had means to fight. Also, they got equipment from USA, including tanks, jeeps, ammo etc.
@@Endru85x I think the problem whit enemy of the gate was it was a movie that took place over (historically several year) but in the movie got compressed down to a few weeks
same whit the U-boat movie the U-boat does one trip a few month during that time the outlook of the war went from early 1939 where they was almost undisturbed sinking allied ships left and right till the war changed (reality several years in movie about 1 month and 1 deployment).
and from what I understand in the early days of the war between Soviet and germany Soviet did have some serius logistic problem. not enouth gun and ammo (was it because the supplies was just not near the front in the hand of the soldier or just did not exist I don´t know) but this is not a problem throughout the whole war just the start and by the time of the stalingrad it was fixed (the problem whit enemy at the gate was that they put the timeline of that movie to late had they called it [city closer to the german border] and put it in the early part of the war when Soviet was still putting securing there pants after getting caught whit them down) the film would been a lot more logical.
I loved this game! It had an online gamemode called Base Assault which were wide open maps with large teams, like Ground War, where you had to destroy three enemy bases with tanks. The maps were pretty epic, and around 2010 there was still an active community around it. Those were great times with many great people! Shoutout to BA Born Attackers ;)
That was my favorite game mode, man I really miss it. Every once in awhile I'll try and jump on and see what the servers are like but you never see a full server
There are still servers up with people playing
I was there :)
Yep, me too! Always trying to get those 40 kills early to call in artillery, lol
Bro put in yaoi like no was gonna notice it
Hey, I don't remember trying to hide it
WHERE!?
My curious ass decided to google it. My eyes hurt now
He's a ph-
@SDK133
That sounds like there's smth bad with that ; )
The russian campaign is a lasting childhood memory
The eye widening moment of being sent to the beaches with only a clip of ammo hits me to this day, juat different now that i know more about russian history
Nothing set the mood harder than that moment. Truly terrifying when I played back in the day
I picked up United Offensive on launch and had a blast. The joys of being 17 again and pwning n00bs on Foy is hard to beat. Been recently playing through CoD and UO, and while it is a bit primitive compared to newer games (graphics, controls, weapons) I'm still having a blast playing these 20 year old games.
I regularly replay the CoD 1, UO, and CoD 2 campaigns because, despite being dated in some ways, they still hold up so well imo. I wish the series hadn't achieved so much mainstream success with CoD 4 because I think that was the beginning of the series' decline, as great as that game was. The originals did such a great job of mission design, gunplay, and being pretty historically accurate.
That fucking bridge in UO though, man.
Agree. Hell when CoD: MW (the original) was in the preview phase they had a bunch of contest on their website and I ended up winning some patches, a hat, a water bottle, and some other trinkets. Nowadays I wouldn't have a chance to win anything due to millions of people entering.
The older CoD games were still mainstream but you are right that the franchise changed for the worse when they started developing for consoles. Infinity Ward also split up after Modern Warfare 2 (which I thought was mediocre compared to original Modern Warfare).
Gotta do COD 2 Big Red One next. Follows one squad all the way through the war from Africa to the Siegfried line. Most of the Band of Brothers cast are the voice actors and Mark Hamill narrates the cutscenes
I love that they chose Mark Hamill for the cutscenes as he also stars as one of the main characters in the movie: Big Red One.
Big Red One is in my opinion the best campaign out of any Cod, followed next by black ops
The first COD (the one United Offensive was an expansion for) is also an absolute banger (and kinda deserves its own video)
I can hardly say how much I appreciate this video about CoDUO. Sometimes I feel like I'm in a parallel universe these days where the first CoDs never came out and noone is talking about them.
You are welcome. And thank you for playing it it's always nostagia for me to see someone else enjoying it. I really wish they would keep post briefing cutscenes and debriefing info after each campaing in future titles. And music is just cheff kiss.
I have so many memories with it, still have the original discs for it
This video made me realize that the cod series always had for some reason an itch for including us dutchies in their campaigns, it also made me realize they're pretty much the only ones
I played so much CoD:UO multiplayer I got in to my brothers clan, he was 7 years older than me and so were most of his clanmates, and we placed high on EU leagues.
Still reminisce about those times, CoD:UO and 2 are the best CoD's made.
This is very well narrated and explained with clarity. I feel for classic COD this is a good decision as it was how COD players were before the Golden Age opened up the barricades to the screaming epic 360 no scopes
I was a modder for CoD1 and UO back in the day. The damage system between CoD1 and UO is slightly different with the UO damage system adding damage over range. Also weapon damages were slightly adjusted for the new system as well. CoD UO had an MP Bots mod and if your weapon file had only the CoD1 damage type, it would do no damage to the bots. My CoD modding name was angrypreacher and I generally uploaded to file front until that site went down. I did laugh when you said that Genshin Impact players don't know what an expansion pack was since I play Genshin Impact myself.
Feel like an old man watching this like it's some ancient piece of gaming history, but it still feels like yesterday. I still got all the developer tools, decompiled maps and engine/tool documentations on how to build and script your own levels and what not. Still have many custom missions and maps people uploaded back then, which are impossible to find these days. The original sites are all long dead. Got one made by guys who had grandparents who fought in WWII, they'd build missions for the game about where those people fought. They had their own clan/website and everything. Back then Infinity Ward and other devs would hang around on modding forums sharing decompiled files for people to study, and even hiring people there who made great maps. Feels surreal to boot up some random custom map made by some guy 20 years ago, something you can't even get anywhere anymore.
uo_vikings_omaha I will never forget.
Why don't you reupload those mods and maps on like moddb or something?
Everyone talking about COD WAW veteran but fools those are nothing againts Cod1/united offensive, and yeah i completed both of them in veteran and they're the hardest call of duty.
The final American and Soviet levels in UO gave 11 year old me PTSD.
When UO was released i was 19, but not gonna lie, they were hard. In russian mission i found a way of just laying under the train and Stuka just destroyed the german tanks. Then it was the matter of surviving the final assault using PPSH :) @@redsgrave2003
Man, I've been playing this series since the first Medal of honor on the ps1. It got me practically hooked on history itself and it's a real shame seeing the path it took. I'm not the kind of person that really cares much about spec ops, covert operations and such, but rather seeing the point of view of the common soldiers witnessing brutal, ground warfare around the globe.
I played it extensively, it was definitely an upgrade from the original CoD...being able to sprint just made the game much more real.
Being Dutch, having a mission in my own country was actually pretty fun!
This video took me back to easily one of my favourite CoD's. I remember finding this in a bargain bin of a local discount store in 2007. The RAF mission in the B-17 was, and still is in my eyes, one of the best missions in the franchise and I was so happy when they did something similar in WaW.
However, what has always bothered me about this game is that diary at the start of the level with the Dutch resistance mentions that you dropped somewhere in Holland. But the level takes place in a mountainous area which do not exist within the entirety of the Dutch mainland.
Anyway, guess I'll go replay the old CoD's again....
The most unrealistic part of this game is that the Dutch segment has you fighting in the mountains
Big Red One was amazing. I'll never forget how funny the ragdoll physics were.
Holy banana-split... Now I feel old. This was the highlight of my childhood. CoD 1, it's exp.pack and CoD 2. This video made me feel like it was a relic from the silent film era. Thanks I guess?
Btw. Cpt.Foley & Sgt.Moody! Woop Woop!
The hilarous thing about the mission in the Netherlands is that there's big hills and mountains and a ravine with a train going over it. In reality the Netherlands is flat as fuck and the only "hills" are in Limburg far to the south.
The Italian levels are literally the movie "the guns of navarrone"
Guess what? I played this expansion when it came out in 2004.
United Offensive was the first Call of Duty I ever played. Granddad introduced me to it in 2005, just 3 years after introducing me to Medal of Honor Allied Assault
I was there for the golden era of call of duty. I was like 9 years old at the time, so I was able to play world at war. Double tap with mp40 all day I played it all day till the sun came out the next day. I was that glued to the TV. Also, the nice thing about it was you could play those way earlier titles because the ps2 was still around in the early 2000's which was the time I was born. So, I got to enjoy both of best generations. That being I was able to play old games from the 90's like resident evil and still play 2000's games growing up in said 2000's.
There is a private Martin in this game. In the first mission, he is wounded and dragged by one of the soldiers
Call of duty United offensive is my favorite call of duty game. I put so many hours into that game when it came out it's not even funny, I hate how it gets kind of forgotten whenever anyone talks about call of duty. It was almost like their take on a battlefield game
Why at 2:00 AM on Christmas Eve I randomly decided to watch the last black ops mission, which then recommended to me an ElmoSanchez video I should’ve seen in my subscription feed I’ll never know. Still the video’s so good it will keep me from becoming one of“Mason’s New Years Number stat.”
Great video and I remember playing this COD so much when I was younger. I've also been inside a B17 at an air force museum, they are super cool but definitely flying tin tubes. Crazy to think of all the missions these were used in.
Thanks for watchin' :D
This was my introduction to CoD back in 2003 or 2004.
we had great LAN battles with 8 people and the campaign was very memorable, too.
Vehicles in multiplayer and all sorts of interesting tech. the artillery mechanic was pretty intense.
I remember watching band of brother on the TV and then jumping into COD 1 and UO. What an amazing time it was. I never experianced any frustrations regarding the games health system. That was just how things were back then it was expected. Also British campaign was my favourite in UO.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. The united offensive campaign is one of my favorites, the multiplayer is hella fun too! So many fun times doing bunker busting in multiplayer. (Also the G43 and SVT-40 had more satisfying sounds and reload animations, COD 2 ones just felt bland)
As someone that flew in the B-17 Nine o Nine i can say it was unique but not getting shot at by flak and enemy planes probably helped. RIP to the lives that where lost on Nine o Nine.
I can't stop laughing in the gameplay clips where you accidentally melee because it's bound to the normal key that sprinting is now. I did that several times when I first played too.
Yes, I played in back in 2005 when I got my first PC, i was 8 years old. I still cherish memories of this game
All the classic cod games are underrated, but so good as well
You sir are a legend! Your tastes are excellent, music and games alike! I remember when I was little i was scared shitless of the B-17 mission. It was unimaginably hard and scary and I felt so bad for my fellow dying gunners so I always called my older brother to play it for me. Good times, keep up the great work, I watch these like 30 times in a row, they're so good! Peace✌️
Tbh, I think the best part of UO was the multiplayer. It had a Battlefield type game mode that you could use vehicles in giant maps. For it's time, I think it was amazing and I played it a ton.
This is just as well-made as the CoD II video, and I loved it! Personally my favorite mission was Doyle, Ingram, and the Dutch resistance, it had a good mix of "boots on the ground combat" and "stealthy secret service" vibes.
Also, have you done a video on the original CoD 1? You've mentioned it in both this and the CoD II vid, and it seems pretty important in regards to story and background (and probably will be since I know for a fact Doyle is in CoD III), but I don't know that you've done a video on CoD 1.
Not yet. Might do so soon though
I played this game competitively, it was really my childhood game. Easily had over 1000 hours on this game.
I played old COD so many times i absolutely lost count... just imagine it with new graphics, NOTHING changed just graphics. man....
drooling... they have to remaster it
@24:43 another odd choice they did with the tank missions both in classic and United Offensive is that while YOU the player can't use your tank machine gun it supposedly automatically fires at enemy infantry in front of the tank. But I'd rather be able to fire it at them myself.
If that's the case, I've never actually noticed it shooting. :(
I've played this game. A lot of great moments. It was really hard though, at the end of the last mission I won by hiding under a train until re-enforcents arrived.
It is literally the one of the first Call of Duty I played. Actually even before the Call of Duty 1, mostly because first CoD games I got on a two-sided pirate disk(selling cheap disks with several pirated games was a normal thing in Russia in early 2000s). As for rankings in my opinion the best CoD games are these:
1)Call of Duty World at War
2)Call of Duty Black Ops
3)Call of Duty 2
4)Call of Duty 1/United Offensive
Then there is huge gap between those and Modern warfare series, after which other parts go. However maybe Black Ops Cold War will get the fifth place(haven't played it yet)
im pretty sure cod 4 was considered the golden years. And that was before world at war.
The was the 1st modern FPS, and I mean in terms of multiplayer mechanics like kill streaks and weapon customization
This was my favourite cod as a kid until cod4. It had an almost mythical feel as it only briefly worked on our pc until some random update broke the game. Could never get it to work after that, I was a kid and knew nothing about patches and clean installs etc. I just used to look at the box and be annoyed I only got a short time with it as the box art mocked me.
I played this game ALOT! It's great to see people still playing it
Funny how the Commissar at 23:30 is the same voice actor that plays the German Volksgrenadier from Company of Heroes.
oh wow I hear it
The OG is pvt koopman. Being in the marine corps and the army at the same time takes balls
I love United Offensive- The B17 mission alone stays in my head rent free.
Heavy Metal 1981 mentioned, upvote given
Thanks, Stern 🫡
liked the video bc it was awesome; subscribed bc of the correct use of the word "enfilade"
It must be over 15 years since I last replayed UO but it's amazing how familiar all the dialogue was in this vid, the banter of the bomber crew, the way the Soviet commander in the factory pronounces "russian sooooil", it's like I only played it yesterday. I played it a lot as a kid and always enjoyed United Offensive more than the original CoD campaign for some reason. The Guns of Navarone was one of my favourite war movies back then so the Sicily mission I thought was the greatest thing ever! I remember being petrified during the extraction part of the mission, fleeing from what felt like an endless wave of Germans down the cliffside to the docks.
COD:UO was the best! Spent an incredible amount of time with that game and the competitive scene!
6:00 something really cool about this intro is that you drive through later levels. Also you spoke about damage in uo being different at about 7:30, and you're right. This was the first CoD game where damage was calculated not only by the gun but also over range. It's difficult to overstate how revolutionary this game was compared to the original. Sprinting, cooking grenades, vehicles, deployable mgs, huge maps, base assault (my beloved). Of course CoD was a labor of love then, so it wasn't good enough to just patch the game. 'Nah, lets build a campaign, release new maps to compliment vehicles, touch up a few already in the game, new soundtrack, new voices (correct me if i'm wrong but im pretty sure shouting quick chat was new here too). My dad bought it for $80 which might have been a lot of 2004 money, but man I easily have thousands of hours in UO from when I was a kid to picking it up occasionally as my comfort game today.
I played this with my grandpa when it first came out and this is the first time I have thought about it in a long time. Great game. Great video.
Pls do a review of cod 1 too.
I agree with your points, but I have to say the last mission is pretty hard. Gotta give you a point for how difficult the Foy-bridge is. Pro-tip: rush the bridge when Foley starts commanding you on taking out the Tiger. By the time the entities spawn in you have the panzerfaust in your hands.
Also, the soundtrack is the same from cod 1, which is not a negative point because it is so good. I feel the american and russian campaign really catch the scale of the combat well, which other WW2 call of duty’s except 1,2 and maybe WAW, failed to. The British side is well placed within that, slower-paced and more unique.
Finally, it’s multiplayer has a unique mode with bunkers and a ranking system within 1 match. Really fun, back in the old days when it was all so simple but beautiful…
Played this more than OG COD at the time. Also side note, Pvt. Ender is voiced by the guy who does the voice of Raiden in Metal Gear series
3:57 thank you for the medal of honor airborne reference
What really surprised me afterward, is that the expansion was developed by "grey matter studio" the creators of return to castle wolfenstein, which explained me why it was so awesome.
I also liked b17 mission back in a day. Not much chances that its the game's merit(the formula is too simple) but it seems that after that there were several attempts to replicate b17 gunner experience on handhelds, i mean there was downgraded clone mission on psp call of duty, there was standalone b17 gunner game on nintendo DS, another one for early ios era, and several more poorly made on unity for modern app store and play market, their quality speaks for themselves.
I think the only cutscene is at the end with the train station level.
Absolutely fucking brutal level and the most memorable I loved the levels before as we fight through the city. 10/10 will recommend w ended a remaster now
Remaster's desperately needed, yes
I think Finest Hour is easily the most underrated one. The music is the best and the missions were fun
Im so happy that i am old enough to played the OG Call of dutys .
It seems very weird that the RAF in this game use B17s when they were only ever used in limited numbers. Always annoys me how Americo-centric these games are even when playing other nations. Could've easily been a Lancaster and showcased an actual British aircraft.
In a matter of fact, Miller is indeed in the game. On the first mission, when you head to the fox holes you can see Miller (Possibly the main character from first part) carrying or being carried (wounded) by a soldier.
Thank you for this video. UO brang me so much memories when I was a kid. I still think to this day that this is best COD I've ever played.
United Offensive was my first CoD and the original Call of Duty came second. Still the best.
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YOOOO I *LOVE* Heavy Metal. One of my favorites from my childhood. It's a great movie to watch while on some acid too
Seen it a few times, and I still got no clue what the point was. Lmao
@elmosanchez it's a collection of stories chronicling the story of the Loc-Nar. A being of pure evil and his conquering of different worlds and timelines.
One of the first expansion packs I ever bought for a game.
I grew up on UO. Spent many of my teen years playing rifles only servers til 3-4 am every night. Absolute gem of a game that I want to see make a comeback.
This expansion was one of my favorite WW2 games ever. The campaign, the multiplayer, everything was just excellent.
rifle only on harbor in the OG COD games was peak gaming. i can still hear the ambiance of machine gun`s arty and mortars from these games.
I played this. The OG Call Of Duty was my first COD. My dad owned it and the dlc
Steve Blum, my beloved ❤
And If i'm not wrong about It, I guess that United Offensive was the first CoD to introduce sort of point streak rewards in multiplayer, allowing the player to have satchel charges and call in artillery barrages.
Elmo sanchez never stop reliving your childhood with me
never leave 🌹
His childhood was only 10 years ago
Multiplayer for this game was god tier. Multiplayer base fizzled out quick, but it was fun AF with the vehicles and big battlemodes.
I’ve played UO so much that when cod 4 came out I was disgusted 😂 UO is a masterpiece along its multiplayer, great times
This review has a Act man feel to it, love it tbh
As a big Act Man fan, I take that as a huge compliment
Your experience with Foy triggers my PTSD from my experience on the Foy map in Hell Let Loose. The horrors of clearing a point full of trenches with an enemy player scurrying around hunting you as well.
This was my first call of duty. I finished it when i was like 4 years old.
Played this game a lot back in the day. The multiplayer modes like Base Assault were epic. The maps were amazing as well, and you could move around with tanks and jeeps.
For many years as a kid, this was the ONLY CoD game I had and thus played.
What about Finest Hour? That one was by far my favorite CoD. The missions, the music, the graphics even (for the time on PS2) were all amazing.
Never tried it. I prolly should tho
@@elmosanchez Would love to see your video on it!
@@elmosanchezIt has tank missions where you can use the MG along with raiding an airfield in one.
@@Peaks209 There is one tank segment where you have to shoot down stukas, so that's something, on the other hand it's got six playable characters
Finest hour is okay compared to the PC port. Probably the most clunky COD title and a lot of its cinematic execution past the first few levels falls flat. Some very questionable design decisions with difficulty spikes as well, such as one of the first British missions decided to spawn you across from two whole MG nests and tens of soldiers coming over a wall at you and expecting you to run across open ground in front of all that to proceed the level. It had growing pains being the first COD on console, and I'm speaking as someone who played at launch.
Been around this 2003. Can confirm United Offensive is the best COD.
God damn, i remember playing cod WaW on some custom zombie maps with my friend til 5am just to hit as much rounds as we could. Gold times