Why Is Call of Duty Vanguard SO BAD?!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 พ.ค. 2024
- Call of Duty Vanguard is apathetic, commercial diarrhea. Now here's my completely unnecessary 40minute review of it. Act Man Plushie's on SALE ➤ www.makeship.com/products/the...
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Introduction - 0:00
Charity & Plushie Promotion - 2:31
Zombies - 3:27
Operators & Lack of Style - 17:41
Multiplayer Gameplay - 27:38
Campaign & Conclusion - 34:26
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So you will do nothing, Sledgehammer? Apathy is death, worse than death. Because at least a rotting corpse feeds the beasts and insects.
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Do a BioShock Infinite review🔥
I lov u
It’s time for me to play something else or get my homework done. These are far more valueable things than sitting through another bare bones, microtransaction-infected COD game.
Uncharted 4 review
tf
The worst part about the campaign is that I didn’t even see the enemy build at least one bridge.
THEY’RE BUILDING A BRIDGE
Ok now its definitely not worth buying
Bruh what a fucking scam, right?
@@TheActMan I know bro
@@TheActMan Would you have enjoyed it if the enemy had built that bridge?
One of my closest friends is actually a curator at the museum the Vanguard devs went to for their "research". He told me he had prepped an entire lineup of different variations of weapons and such, but the devs told him word for word "we just want what looks cool". They blew off almost an entire tour, took a handful of pictures, and left. The lack of respect for history really shows in the game.
They could have just used google. But, SHG is the dumbest studio that acts as deadweight like a mother views their baby before throwing it in a dumpster because it was too late for abortion.
That is SHG. Axe the studio microsoft
unless there is any proof other than your word, this comment is baseless.
Explains a lot as to why the game looks the way it does. Man, we were so darn spoiled back in the 90s and 2000s with all those World War shooters that made honest attempts at capturing the authenticity of the time period.
Sounds made up lmao
Up. The lack of respect. This is so sad and unbelievable.
"No call of duty will be released in 2023" that aged like milk
truly
And it’s basically a $70 DLC with a shitty campaign according to reviews
Can’t believe I wasted 70 bucks on a warzone ripoff and a story more soulless and confusing than vanguard’s.
And y'know what? Vanguard was somehow better.
technically it's still true cause lol lmao MW3 aint no game
“No new CoD in 2023”
Well, fuck. That didn’t age well.
aged like milk
and its worse than vanguard
@@MysticalHaloZ Imagine telling a Call of Duty fan who's currently in the year 2011 that the undisputed worst game in the franchise will be a Modern Warfare game. He wouldn't believe you. I went in thinking that MWIII was going to be pretty good, on par with MWII, and then I got kicked in the teeth by this shoddy excuse for a _DLC_ that cost 70 clams. How far has CoD fallen that a Modern Warfare title is currently being lampooned as the worst game yet?
@@brendansage6876I am loving Cold War :)
Call of a Duty has finally broken the Act Man
yes
“They can’t keep getting away with thisssssss”
It was done doing that since after mw 2019
Pretty much lol
Including gamers as a whole
I remember when my grandpa told me about the horrors of World War 2, people getting stabbed with sledgehammers, the conflict between My Team, and Enemy Team, fighting against Attack on Titan characters, drum mag Garands, and other horrifying things.
And not forget about the red dots
Mine told me about the demons he worked with to stop an angry German guy and another demon
@@howtohow8686 and don’t forget about the guys who were *BUILDING THE BRIDGE!!!*
At least he was led by the great General Snoop Dogg.
@@howtohow8686 wait wait wait, wait a moment, no, that can't be right, there are no red dots in this game, there are only.............
Y E L L O W D O T S
The "I would rather play ghosts part" was actually censored for me by a low battery message on my headphones 💀
Ain't no way 💀💀💀
Even your headphones couldn't believe their ears that's even possible to hear lol! "Vanguard worse than Ghost?! That's impossible!"😭😂
g o o d
It's crazy how something that was supposed to be cool for us and the devs by making us able to get more content just turned into "let's see the worst thing we can put out that people will still buy"
Activision 🤝 Game Freak
@@classicsteakZ096 Game Freak at least puts care into their games.... you might not notice cause you're too bust on your high fucking horse over Techinical issues that can always be fixed
@@Sonichero151 I mean, as of recent this is true. The story is always good, but it's everything else that feels bad to play.
@@theoneandonlyjim902I played Pokémon violet and I can tell you that the main problem with the game is the performance. the gameplay is fun, the new Pokémons are good, and there’s a lot you can do in the game.
@@SheerDruid81 Performance? The voice acting or like the Switch not being able to handle the game play?
Honestly, Actman is right, if they went out of their ways and made an Alternate Universe where everything is steampunkish and had weapon modification aesthetics like in Bioshock, it would totally fit in
Edit: Holy shit I didn't expect this to blow up, nice to see so many agree with me, you too Actman, nice to see a good homie.
It would be a MASTERPIECE!!!
They played it too safe. Would've been cool to see a WWII game where the fighting just like... never ended
@@TheActMan how about a WW2 game where Steiner attack actually happened and the war continued or WW2 ended with Japan only.And there would have been something like Korean War were Me262 and F86 Sabre would dogfight?
Sounds Awesome despite being not steampunkish
Or go even crazier and do a whole game based on the Cod Zombies Origin map. That world was so coo, but only appears in the one instance
@@TheActMan Just imagine
The germans still pushing and starting to make ghastly experiments, the Japanese not giving up and trying to build something better than a Nuke
Weapon modification with valves and tubes like in Bioshock, futuristic like Stukas and juggernauts with stalhelms and armored suits. Would've been a banger, hell it would even make a kickass zombies too, I loved the robot thing and the Panzersoldat in WaW.
the “My Team” and “Enemy Team” thing genuinely makes me laugh. the more i think about how stupid it is, the more it makes me laugh. it’s comedically awful
When cod mobile at least have squad names
They literally threw out Historical context and just went with generic tribalism.
@@bobbykuhn4582 sounds like real life right now
I don't get it thought. They have the Nazis in the main campaign already but can't in multiplayer? Kind of sense does that make lol
@@MistahJay7 I think its because you can play as Nazis, which somebody somewhere at some point got upset about
There's a pretty anachronistic oversight in dialogue in one mission, during the Australian mission when an soldier yells "RPG!" Which wouldn't make sense because the term RPG wouldn't have been coined until the 60's when RPG's were actually invented, and Bazooka's in WW2 weren't even considered RPG's they were recoiless rifles.
I mean a flashbang appeared in the beginning so……
They didn't give a shit about anything when making Vanguard, did they?
Forget building a bridge. They didn't even build a FUCKING GAME
Don’t hate on ww2
I'm so glad that they got the historical accuracy on point for this COD game. I remember reading in history textbooks that the guy from Attack on Titan was witnessed t-bagging soldiers on the beaches of Normondy.
@@Mr_Bunk I found the joke to be funny, so you're entire comment is debunked you bozo.. You're so triggered and mad lmaoo
@@Mr_Bunk found the guy who makes college history textbooks
@@Mr_Bunk Seething so hard right now
@@Mr_Bunk Okay, oh great speaker of truth.
@@Mr_Bunk
*r/wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh*
COD World at War:
"This place once echoed with conversations of friends and lovers. No longer. Mark my words comrade, one day things will change. We will take the fight to their land, to their people, to their blood."
COD Vanguard:
"I shoot Nazis. They die. That's the plan."
The CHAD Call of duty world at war:
Has memorable lines and quotes
"TAKE OUT THOSE FUCKING PT BOATS"
Good gameplay
Honors the vets who died fight the unforgiving war
The VIRGIN COD Vanguard:
"I shoot Nazis. They die. That's the plan".
@@creamery299 cod vanguard: "dO yOu sPeAk jApAneSe?"
@@yesfiraswa "oui"
Theres more to this character, some details that you can see from her flashback, but its so bad - it would've been better if she didn't have it at all.
Call of duty have seen better days
I can't believe they actually listened to extra credits
Yea
There’s been more effort put into this video than vanguard
I put more effort into typing this comment than in vanguard
There's been more effort put into me breathing than Vanguard.
@@tattalo2172 There's been more effort put into anyone existing than shitguard
There’s been more effort being put into vanguard than MWIII
The "not having iconic characters" thing shows just how detached the company really is from their franchise. Expect failure.
Yea because when you make a new game every year, it’s easy to make iconic characters in each franchise. They can’t use task force 141 in every game homie
@@clownbaby3877 The point was that they said COD has *NO* iconic characters. Who cares if they weren't in this COD.
They are very detached BUT to be fair, Given the context that statement was said and they were comparing it to Master Chief, they're right. CoD has no one that even remotely compares to Master Chief when it comes to iconic. Every gamer on the planet, whether they've actually played Halo or not, knows who Master Chief is and what franchise he's from.
CoD doesn't have anyone like that. You could show a non-CoD fan say...Captain Price and they'd have no idea who he is. He's just generic rugged soldier man number 1052.
@@Rawnblade13 Im not saying your wrong but I feel like captain price and his bravo six going dark is extremely iconic, same with mason and the numbers. The thing is going from older periods of war to advanced warfare then modern warfare, an just going back and forth with decades of war it’s hard to bring those iconic characters to every battle, that defeats the realism of the weapon mechanics and the storylines and all that. Master chief is known throughout each halo because it’s more fictional based.
Also I think a lot of people are forgetting that when vanguard came out, they had those worker strikes right after, they were upset because the lower people were being let go, and they’re wages were being used to give the more critical workers higher revenue. But people got upset and said that’s not right, then we were left with more workers that weren’t willing to put maximum effort into it because they’re not getting paid enough. The problem with vanguard is that they actually did try to use the community feedback to help create the game and make it a better experience for everyone.
@@mikegate6764 Iconic to a CoD fan, none of that reaches Master Chief levels of iconic though. Unfortunately for CoD, due to the realistic military setting, you can't really make a character with an iconic design and it's all just generic soldier stuff. Not to mention how due to constantly switching settings, CoD can't really establish someone as iconic as Master Chief. Which is probably why the devs on Vanguard went for some pseudo Avengers-style characters, even if it doesn't really work for WW2.
Master Chief works and has become iconic because he's in almost every Halo, has a unique, distinct, and easily recognizable design, and it probably doesn't hurt that Halo games don't come out every year, so they don't all blur together.
My great grandfather was one of the few veteran Japanese soldiers who survived the Pacific war. Only reason how he was able to live was because he had to be decommissioned and sent to a physiatric ward due to PTSD when he saw his commander issuing his squad STG44s, MG42s and antique shotguns.
His last words were:
*Not the reflex sights...*
Edit:I could say that my grandfather fought on My team, the enemy of the enemy team, but that would be too confusing
Must be those freight ships that turn out to have guns on them
I thought you were being legit for a second lol
I can't tell if this is true or not. Cuz, the last words seems way too ridiculous to be true. Like, if this is true, your great grandfather had a good point.
@@MA78yt ofc it's a joke
Can't believe bombers were bombing in the game
I hate cod vanguard as a historian. The STG44 firing mechanism is located in its stock, so how can you remove the stock and still fire the gun?! Gay German soldiers, heavy racism in the British army, and cursed weapons modification. It just insults history.
Don't ask Activision what the Nazis did to the one LGBT progressive clinic in Germany.
Dont forget guns in the wrong theatres, like Japanese guns on german trains or German guns in the Pacific
So for those who are wondering initially Vanguard was not going to feature a zombies bonus mode at all as Treyarch was thrown into development only 6 months before release, however due to Treyarchs reputation and Activision threatening higher ups they conceded only 10 weeks prior to release and developed a very shoddy zombies game mode. The kicker is due to Vanguards (for once) unique take on the engine Cold War could NOT be used as a basis and Zombies had to be made from the ground up in just 10 weeks. This is the reason for so many features missing in the mode.
Source
@@fafanir82 I am an employee at Treyarch :p
@@mistermittens3533real
The biggest turn off for me was when they brought out the “historically accurate” claim. That’s when I knew I had to bring out the popcorn and watch the shitstorm
Yeah , WITH ANIME SKINS 🤣
The worst idea you can have is to have an sjw as a writer on a historical game.
@@darthconquerus
But were The germans Red, or soviets?
Reminds me of Battlefield V
Hello Liquid Chris.
WW2: The most horrific, bloody conflict in human history.
Activision: Haha anime skins go dab.
@Sakkra1993 bruh
@Sakkra1993 I thought you hated the game because of the game play or collaborations or just the simple "fortnite bad". Not the legacy that it left behind
@Sakkra1993 I blame Minecraft Hunger games for creating the genre only for the name to be created in 3 years that is H1Z1
B-b-but they make money!
@@RudoMike21 A very young person made this comment.
One cashgrabby method they used is weapon blueprints. Like Act Man said, the attachments give you a severe advantage against other players. So blueprints basically say: “would you rather grind 10 hours for good attachments or spend your hard earned money” it also takes away the feeling that you at least earned that attachment you wanted and grinned for.
The “shoot nazi, they die” kind of lines sound like the writer actually thinks that wars are fought by just shooting the other side. No battle plans or strategic placement of assets. Just two sides with guns unloading magazines on each other…
I can just imagine a grandfather talking to his grandson like “We were pinned down by the enemy, we didn’t know what they looked like why they were fighting or even who they were, but none of that mattered because we were pretty sure they might possibly have been the enemy AND THAT’S ALL WE NEEDED TO KNOW
This idea that video games are a direct substitute for historical education is a fucking stupid one, and I just wish people would cut it out. This game will never harm historical education, no matter how shitty it is.
@@Mr_Bunk I agree with you. It's a fucking game
So basically every war but especially this one? Everyone gets called a nazi
Oh I’m Sowwy for hurting your freewings by twying to be funny here I’ll give you a special snowflake award, I’m not sure if you understand the concept of humour I’m literally pointing out the fact that a game set in the Second World War lacked enough confidence to even have countries fighting each other, It was never stated that this would be harmful to historical education nor was it implied
So next time think before you type you inept Troglodyte
@@Aquatic-Male man this looks like a big cringe post hahahahaha bro take your adderall
“This game will teach an entire generation that grandpa stormed Normandy with a f-cking EOTech.” -Brandon Herrera
Pretty much everything I hate about this game is summed up by this quote.
You got other issues at hand if you get your facts from an Xbox game. Dumbest thing I ever heard
Ayyy. Nice
@@megami215 Most people don't even know what makes a fact, *a fact.*
You forgot swastikas didn’t exist and there was black female nazis lol
@@megami215 good thing misconceptions have never been spread through fictional books or movies, especially about ww2!
Full disclosure I don't play FPS games. My only experience is with RPGs. But I watched this entire video. I didn't understand all the terminology 100% of the time but I honestly found this fascinating and very entertaining. Apparently more entertaining than the actual game lol. Thank you for all your hard work Act man, you are so passionate and I appreciate your dedication to gaming! Newbie sub!
Late question but do you play JRPGs like Final Fantasy or Western RPGs like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout? I like both JRPGs and Western RPGs, hell Fallout 3 is my favorite game of all time IMO
A good starting FPS game is Call of Duty World at War, The Half Life series or maybe Team Fortress 2.
As a British, I can confirm that it was not just us in WW2
As a American, I can confirm that it was not just us in WW2
As a Japanese, I can confirm that it was not just us in WW2
As a Polish, I can confirm it was not just us in WW2
@@daveywaveypaveyas a finnish I can confirm it was just us and USSR in winter war
It was Our team
The long awaited sequel to
“Why is COD WW2 so BAD?!”
At least cod ww2 is playable and fun. Yeah it’s so bad but it’s nowhere near vanguard standards. Cod ww2 is better than vanguard.
@@CalixtoGarciaIniguez1898 yeah at least that game was somewhat playable. This is fucking boring af
@@Nebulasecura literally. Nazi Zombies in cod ww2 is ten times better than vanguard zombies.
@@CalixtoGarciaIniguez1898 We thought we had it bad back then 🤣
@@VanLupen for real lmao
honestly, with how powerful modern consoles are and the large budget these companies have, there's no reason we can't large scale, multi-front campaigns and multiplayer like WaW. Show us events gaming rarely does like the Chinese front or Soviet invasion of Finland. People aren't necessarily over ww2, they're over the low effort and generic depiction of it.
100% true. We're sick of seeing this cookie cutter type shit everytime there's a ww2 game released.
Give us something unique and something unforgetable, something not taught in schools. More then anything, give us the fun that we've deprived for in the last couple years in the Call Of Duty franchise.
It’s out of laziness 100%, nothing to do with technical limitations of consoles/PC lol
Just look at fifa mate. Could have graphics like Ride 2 but they dont bother
I would kill a man or 100 for a game set in the sino-japanese war
Just play Hell Let Loose for your WW2 experience. Stop with this Call of Duty bullshit
The fact nobody knew that captain price was the most og character in the series is sad, especially when he was in the first cod game ever.
“No new Call Of Duty for 2023!”
Yeah… about that, here’s a little project we been doing in our spare time: MW3
One thing people always forget about is that vanguard zombies doesn’t give you a reason to use certain attachments. Also, it will not let you use others
Are you shroud
W-what?? Holy Jesus on a bycicle trip... I didnt know honestly because I didnt buy this.
Be honest this game was bought for you as a form of punishment
@@tobyconoley5511 i mean yes but for 26USD not the worst purchase, but never worth more than 30USD.
@@tobyconoley5511 refunded
In the campaign, when you were in the train, looking at the box and they threw a flash bang at you. Flash bangs weren’t invented until the 1960s by the British
Activisiom/Sledgehammer/Treyarch: "Yes, you see, everytime you see details like that, a wizard did it"
neither did red dots that didn't stop them
And, thanks to MGS3, I know that the Flashbang was made to be a "training grenade". Once the S.A.S. realized the uses of "Stun Grenades", they started to spam the fuck out of it. And they still do it! And so does every other country's special forces.
yeah that would probably be a grenade and everyone would have been dead by then
@@johnnyg4mer764 god I love that game
“Let’s go no game in 2023! Modern warfare 3 is behind me isn’t it.”
Fun fact: the recoil spring in the STG 44 continues into the butt stock removing the butt stock in anyway will make the STG 44 unable to fire
Hugo Schmeisser: look how they massacred my boy
Wouldn't it be have to be manually cocked?
CoD Devs: "there are no Remembered / good characters"
Reznov: "we've been forgotten, abandoned in Vorkuta (CoD studio's desk that nobody has touch since CoD BO2) but we will be remember, by those who know us."
"Though the flags may be different, the methods are still the same."
@@Jules279 lol respect +
@@starsjosephfrost Who knew he would predict every cod after BO2 and even AW?
@@Jules279 I have no idea (maybe he's from the future, the twist)
[Petrenko, Reznov, Soap, Price, Ghost, Shepherd, Makarov, Menendez, Woods, and Mason hated that.]
This was more fun than playing the actual game. Thanks for the amount of effort you put into this.
Ripping your toenails out and dipping them in salt would be more fun than playing this game.
I agree to this . Luckily I get rid of this piece of s*** .
I absolutely agree
Yes daddy your right
Man you guys are pathetic
It's funny that Wolfenstein the new collossus is more historically accurate than this and they don't censor swastika for no reason
Just don’t mention the game okay for everyone’s sake including mine
I completely agree I never bought it but my cousin did we played it and we were on such a high round but it was so boring we got off and never played again lmao
I don’t even play Vanguard. I’m just here because I love Act Man’s humor when he critiques a game’s quality.
Edit: wow…1k+ likes and a heart from Acting Male himself…I can die a happy man at this point.
Edit: heart got removed. I can’t die happily.
I played 20 mins of it and I thought
"Oh Act Mans gonna have alot to say"
I would assume most of us are doing the same
I watched this to see what the hell Activision fucked up this time
Same
Same
The being offended gag was hilarious "the nazis should be called the enemy team" - A+
Didn't think we will defend Nazis but here we are in this day of age. I guess we can't call them enemies of the free world.
After two matches of vanguard zombies I closed and deleted the application, and hopped on some der eisendrache
We need a cod game set in vietnam with multiple characters, kinda like vanguard, like 1 person who is a marine FORECON, another person who is a MACV-SOG operator, a Green Beret, and an Army Ranger. The story would basically be set in 4 different areas, one in Tay Ninh, one in Khe Sanh, one in Hue City, and one in Da Nang. The MACV-SOG operator will be in Khe Sanh and Da Nang, the FORECON will be in Khe Sanh and Da Nang, The Green Beret will be in Tay Ninh and Khe Sanh, and the army ranger will be at Tay Ninh and Hue City.
At least the “Zombies” name fits.
No functioning organs; just skin.
fucking gottem
I like how the zombies portal isn't even unique, it's straight up just a re-colored version of the one from Cold War
Thats not sledge hammers fault. Thats treyarches.
Wanna know something cool? There are still assets from COD2 in Black Ops 3, and probably Vanguard as well. Every COD game they share the new stuff with the other studios their library is insanely huge at this point. COD1 used some Return to Castle Wolfenstein assets but then with COD2 they forked the idtech 3 engine and put all their own assets. Oh here's another one- You know when you go to a door in Zombies and it says "This door is opened elsewhere..."? That script is leftover in the engine all the way back from Quake 1 circa 1996
its true
Yeah and that animation is actually from BO3. They really need to chill with the teleporting shit in zombies, it was cool when it was only between two related locations, not two random areas like a german city and shi no numa??
B2 , he never said shg was to blame or that. He just made an observation. Pretty simple.
Tbh i forgot this game existed. 💀
This game is a straight insult to Gamers everywhere
and historians as well
@@Crom_Apsotle based
Activision needs to give this franchise a break. They can’t milk their cash cow any drier than this.
Imo they should just remaster cods from waw to bo2
Apparently there is no cod coming out next year. Hopefully that means we get a finished game the year after.
@@joshhollands7504 Hopefully
what
Title: Why is Vanguard so bad
Me: hmm yes.... the floor is made of floor
The fact that ghosts is getting brought up is proof how badly this series has fallen yet again.
And still every year people seem to be hyped as fuck for the next one. That is until day 1 after launch, then it's shit again and you find urself playing a older cod instead of the one you were hyped about.
Yet again? Never recovered after ghosts to be honest
@@Sacciuiguai never recovered after mw3
@@MrSp3ctre The disrespect to BO2.
@@MrSp3ctre modern warfare 3 was dogshit compared to black ops 1 2 and modern warfare 2
"Heres a sentence that i will never be saying again: i'd rather play Ghosts"
MW3 2023: say it again
I to this day still love the fact that act man pulled up the clips of “Johnathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the royal arms museum in the uk” just to iterate how cursed and fucked the modded guns of vanguard are
That interview with the lady saying CoD has no memorable characters is just a sad reminder that the people who make important design decisions in games don't actually play them... which more often than not just translates to a game that is just out of touch with what made the series great originally, trend/profit chasing, and just disappoints existing fans entirely
Not only that, they don't care about the history, the entire story isn't even accurate, the "bloodiest war" isn't even shown to be bloody, the characters too are bland, no historical figures also shown.
Even as someone whose experience with CoD is only with WaW and BO3, I can say that she's just wrong. Price and Reznov come to mind.
*frank woods crying in a corner for "not being memorable"*
I haven't played a CoD campaign since BLOPS 1 and I can still remember at least 4-5 standout characters from MW1, MW2 and Black Ops 1. My cheeks are there no memorable characters lmao
Man even ghosts had Roarke
"how did these get passed quality assurance?"
Simple Activision fired them asking for raises so the playerbase have become the testers 😂
I sincerely believe that they haven’t had a quality assurance department for at least a decade.
As someone who works in QA I bet any money they were logged by QA but was considered "not blocking release" or put as "will fix after launch".
plus they know game will sell regardless because there is stupid people out there, i tapped out of COD ages ago because games are same thing over and over again, they get lazy each time
They have no QA department
I had a friend who did QA for the game, he told them about the issue and they ignored it.
“Call of duty’s game design is based on addiction, not enjoyment”… I couldn’t agree more, which is why I kicked the habit a couple years ago.
1:32 Well, that was a big fucking lie.
Understatement of the year
Cod Vanguard is the gaming equivalent of sleeping pills
That and eating a pufferfish.
But with Sleeping pills you get your moneys worth…
Melatonin about to go bankrupt
@@Carlisho melatonin about to skyrocket
The games quite fun, lol but you believe whatever this whiner says
"I'm surprised treyarch managed to even include a scoreboard"
*Meanwhile in 2042....*
You got the joke. Good job.
The only Treyarch games I play are World at War and Black Ops 1 and 2.
And Battlefield 1943 is the best game.
The thing about Cold War was they found a perfect operator system: there were operators, but they were exclusive to a specific side. They still had skins, but there wasn’t an operator on your team and an enemy operator with the same skin on the other.
MW 2019 actually did the same thing; Even had multiple sub-factions between the main mega-factions.
I stopped playing when during the Japanese missions you could pick up STGs and MG-42s off Japanese soldiers. How unbelievably stupid do you have to be to put the wrong guns in the wrong theater
I stopped when I saw the modern tacticool reload animations in a ww2 game, oh and that bullshit you mentioned.
The moment the writers said COD had no "iconic" characters yet. I was ACTIVELY rooting for this game to fail. I want it to fail just to spite the writers.
CoD has iconic characters, just not ✨iconic✨ characters.
@@camarokidbb4347 Soap trusted you, and Price thought he could too.
@@camarokidbb4347 They don't represent. They don't exist.
@@anonymousapproximation8549 Sarcasm is a bitch to portray in an online comment. >_
@@camarokidbb4347 Is that why Makarov knows you?
Props to you for sitting through a game that doesn’t deserve anyones time
Honestly I enjoy cold war more lol
I take no shame in putting so many hours into it
Hopefully the revenue from this video can heal the pain he went through
@@TheJoviLovi it’s fun compared to the newer cods but sometimes sweats can ruin the game
I’d rather watch the Dragonball live action than play through this game.
If the Act Man didn't make a review on this game, I honestly wouldn't be mad. I haven't played it but the footage I've seen convinces me I made the right call.
"no new call of duty game for 2023?!"
yeah, that aged perfectly
like milk after 6 months
An alternate history COD actually sounds awesome. Could take some heavy inspiration from the man in the high castle and weave in multiple timelines.
I would actually like that sort of approach: Go full Wolfenstein or Man in the High Castle with crazy technology, a world where the Axis Powers won World War II, and a batshit insane story among other stuff. Best part is that, with such a wacky setting, they can do pretty much whatever they want art direction wise because you don't really need to care about historical accuracy when German mechs and plasma weapons are involved. They could even take some more direct inspiration from Man in the High Castle, particularly the TV series, by having the plot focus on the protagonist discovering a film that depicts a world where the Axis Powers lost World War II, (AKA the real world), and then believing that film to be a message from that world. If not that, stick to a Wolfenstein: The New Order type plot.
This guy is so spot on with cod it’s scary… the scarier part is, the devs won’t listen to him and continue to make the same crap over and over again.
the real scary part is, stupid clients are going to buy all of it! over and over again...
@@Nero-tz9jh Apathy is death - Devs
The definition of insanity - the consumers
@@Nero-tz9jh The scariest fact of them all.
yeah and the only new gd mode is just payload without the payload its just a flag
@@nate88888 war mode in ww2 was awesome storming the beach was fun if had the waw look and feel it would've been a winner
Ah yes, I remember my grandpa telling me about a guy who used 10000% aim assist to take down an entire Japanese battalion.
History is so crazy like that.
That sucks. Frickin autoaim in the 40's. Hey, was your grandpa in my team of the enemy team?
You can't tell me that the dentist who killed 90 Japanese soldiers so his friends could retreat, who was found dead Borimir style in a pile of corpses, wasn't using hacks
And the dude was shot and stabbed by bayonets up to 26 times while still being alive.
This is not real "Aim assist" Is not a real thing. In real life you would have to aim weapon like with your eyes, not "aim assist"
@@connorhudock1950 I remember it like it was yesterday. D-day.. Storming the beach was insane. The anime, the green blue and red bullets flying around that sand? Damn it was crazy. I was also the only white guy on my boat, rest were indian, russian and british women with these Japanese weapons. It was a day that I will never forget.
35:20 made me crack up🤣
And of course the most notable would be Reznov lol. He is in like 5 different games lol. WaW, bo1, bo2 and one of the archetypes
@@-your-ordinary-skunk-7925 yeah without Reznov theres no BO1
1:35 this didn't age well
Farah from MW: Hates General Barkov because of Russian forces invading her home country, killing her mother and father, enslaving her and her brother, watching her friend die and being oppressed for years by a tyrannical government.
Polina from Vanguard: “I sHoOt NaZiS. tHeY dIe. ThAtS mY pLaN”.
Dat be fax
And also Farah's story is very believable and fitting to a modern timeline with armed struggles and US fucking up countries like Niger Syria Afghanistan and what not, and Urzikstan was a fictional middle eastern country so yeah, And ofc the Americans "can't be" the BAD GUYS and it has to be a generic Russian, but thats light years better than a multinational task force in WW2 5v1000ing a German interrogation and concentration camp.
0/10 campaign. I wish I can unsee it.
Due to an event that is happening at an ex-Soviet country right now, I wanna laugh at people who said "the Russians are not that brutal" when MW2019 came out.
@@65yearoldgamer92 MW Russian are inaccurate ofc because it’s a game
@@65yearoldgamer92 its not that "theyre not that brutal" its that the US are aswell
@@65yearoldgamer92 the highway mission was actually an American war crime iirc
Definitely one of the worst regimes in history, the enemy team, is really well portrayed in this game by showing the atrocities committed against the my team
It really shows great respect to the victims of the war crimes of Enemy Leader and Enemy Team
Yeah. Those guys make Team Evil look like a joke
Luckily we have my leader who can lead us to my team’s victory.
Anyone who got a problem with my team is a racist bigot.
It's weird, I need answers. In multiplayer, it's my team versus enemy team, but in single player, I'm playing as enemy team. So... is it supposed to be symbolic that we are all the same? That war... War never changes?
My least favorite thing that’s happened with recent cod multiplayer lobbies is you never play with the same lobby twice. It’s new people everytime. I understand why because when people have different modes selected for queue you can’t have them all play TDM if they have four other modes selected. I just wish you could choose single modes and match with other players in those modes and stay in the same lobbies over multiple matches
No new for 2023 huh?
It always astounds me how AAA titles have like zero scope when it comes to WWII, even after over 20 years of the genre being around. Like literally have a conflict that spanned for 6 years on almost every continent of the world, but if you ask a activision employee the conflict took place from 1942 to 1944 in France and Russia. Activision had the balls to let you play as a mass shooter almost 15 years ago, but they still don't have the balls to let you play as the Germans in a cod campaign.
same with not having a swastika any more and only having the iron cross, because that's apparently "offensive." So if you're able to play a game rated M for "mature", why is some logo on a flag going to offend you? COD used to be so good, the last good COD game was black ops, which came out in 2010, and actually had swastikas in zombies. Everything now is a bunch of woke garbage. They're definitely was black women enlisted as US Marines storming an island in the south pacific killing Japanese soldiers... totally.
@@internetuser8371 Yah, the irony of the entire thing is really palpable, ever since "the nuke" in cod 4, cods thing has been being edgy and going for shock value. 5 you got to see serious war crimes committed by all sides, MWII you had the airport massacre, black ops you had the reznov twist, etc, somewhere along the way though they became a lot more politically conscious but at the same time tried to keep the edginess and gritiness of the past games, so the entire thing just becomes a convoluted cringy mess as a result.
I would love if they just went back to the basics of like the first 3 COD games and just dropped the plot and even characters for that matter, and just had you play through set pieces that actually happened during the war and that we have never got to see, like playing as the finnish during the winter war, or the poles trying desperately to fend off the german blitzkrieg (and then later playing as free polish forces in italy) or how about you follow a group of german soldiers from barborrosa and show everything gradually go to shit for them. The possibilities are literally endless, but we only see the same recycled stuff again and again. EA was "slightly" better with battlefield I guess, featured norway and a tiny section where you were able to play as a tiger tank crew.
@@internetuser8371 it's just bullshit. The swastika was everywhere in Wolfenstein and nobody cared.
It's even more baffling how they keep portaying the red scum as "the good guys".
I've always wanted to have the German perspective
It’s hilarious that people want Activision to stop making CoD an annual release when it’s clear that it makes them more money not to do that. CoD isn’t the cash cow, the customers are.
People are just so goddamn stupid sometimes. It's the same thing over and over again
Dumbass:
gets excited about the new cod
Buys cod on release date
Gets angry because it's trash
Gets excited about to cod again
Buys cod again on release date
Gets angry because its trash
Gets excited about cod again
Like WHY DO YOU KEEP BUYING IT THEN!!!
That’s the funny thing, NONE OF THESE MODERN GREEDY BUSINESS PRACTICES WERE EVER NEEDED!!
They became legends because they put TIME and CARE into the classics, and guess what? THEY STILL MADE BIG BUCKS!! It’s almost like these greedy pigs don’t need every penny on the planet or something!
Heck I’ll double down and say that they could pay their employees…and get ready for this crazy idea…a living wage :0!!!
@@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 a living wage?! do you want the ceo's to sell their yachts you monster?!
@@organicleaf Oh yeah, and I’ll make them have to buy million dollar mansions instead of billion dollar mansions too! Muahahahahahaaaaa!!
@@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 You monster! what next??? Are you gonna build a bridge to their houses?! You are a devil
You know what I’d like to see? A cod game set in the l Chinese theatre. With the Indian, Australian and Chinese armies in 1937. We could see the flying tigers and such
i remember when my grandfather told stories of everyone having a lovely time when in ww2 and they fought a titan, truely the war of all time
I'd like to add something onto this, Vanguard's "new" KotH-type mode was already done in DOOM 2016's multiplayer and there it was called Warpath, they legitimately just pulled it out of a better game.
Halo 5 had Roaming King as well by 2016
gears of war has had koth, and its been one of its most popular game modes, since its inception back in 2005.
@@poeskey but did the hill move? Combat Evolved had KoTH in 2001 👀
Ha! I was wondering if anyone else thought of that!
man doom's multiplayer is fun, I've enjoyed it alot. unless of course you come across some script kiddie who spams their rocket launcher at 600 RPM
It's really astounding to me that the same studio that made Black Ops 2 worked on Vanguard
Same studio but not the same people sadly
Bo1>bo2
Sledgehammer made vanguard not treyarch
@@jaydennoodles4682 treyarch did the zombies
Well the developers of those games were fired
How do you fuck up a war that you have been making games about since your company was very first made and probably your second newest game just ruins it
1:40 No COD 2023... Well that aged well...
and it is somehow way worse than Vanguard...
god. what is Activision's next plan to milk their studios into force them to develop another entry that will somehow make it WAY worse than MW3 reboot? it's like they are sucking out the developers' creativity and only follow those that are up to Activision's illogical writing on the campaign and/or reusing assets from previous titles. hell, maybe there might be no campaign at all like BO4 and will continue to screw up the multiplayer even worse than BO4 itself.
@@alpha-1fanatic good to see someone venting in a random yt comment section. Hope you have a good day after letting your anger out :)
@@Tactilepig eh, at least i'm not paying for a "DLC" anyway. a lot of times people buy newer CODs not for campaign, but for multiplayer or Warzone. perhaps it's their time to come up with something, but i doubt it since they're probably ran out of ideas. what's next? all i want from them is a sequel to the other CODs unrelated to the MW or BO series (Advanced Warfare, WaW, Ghosts, etc).
I barely play Cod so I don't have much experience. Also new cod sucks and I don't think its good.@@alpha-1fanatic
Activison CEO: looks like they like it
Fans: we hate it
CEO: they like it
explains the sexual assault
@@naenaemister5048 r/cursedcomments
The fact that of all things they recycle they dont recycle wonder weapons LOL
@@spectroelectro3772 this ain't reddit
@@randomperson6004 r/yes
“Call of Duty’s base design is based on addiction, not enjoyment.” Bro, You couldn’t have said that any better
Literally a perfect summary of the situation.
Yeah… And honestly most AAA games nowadays. With the loot boxes of old being replaced with something else…
This is so true, I remember going back to MW19 after a 5month break and I felt dirty. It felt like a relapse
@@samuelault4723 lmfao
Well yes but addicting things are usually fun.. call of duty has been neither addicting nor fun since black ops 3. That was the last decent cod spite the futuristic stuff.
that "no new call of duty in 2023" aged like left out cheese
1:34 Well, this aged badly...
Spend 40 min. watching The Act Man talking about this game is far more enjoyable than playing an actual game.
This video honestly has more replay value than the actual game 😂😂 and that’s facts
fuck man, at least I feel something by watching the video
Same here, The Last Jedi and The Last of Us Part 2 have given me more entertainment value from video essays about how bad they are than they have by themselves
Same with blame truth’s videos
the thumbnail is also funny and more enjoyable than the actual game lmao
F in chat for good zombie experience 😞
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It hasn’t been really good since bo3
@@Crimson06 cold war zombies was fun imo
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But hopefully with the Microsoft acquisition they can restructure the company and may bring out a half decent COD for once. Either that or they will end up pulling a Rareware and self destruct. Could really go either way as far as I see it.
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@@younglord161 I agree although it was my first zombie experience.
There being no CoD in 2023 has not aged well
for the Russian girl, they were trying to go for a Reznov vibe with the hatred of Germans but didn't understand you need to give a reason for the hatred and write it well
They killed her papushka
Two things I learned after watching this video.
1: Apathy is death.
2: THE ENEMY IS BUILDING A BRIDGE!!!1!1!
sToP tHe eNemy FROM BUILDING THAT BRIDGEEEEE
Haha 😆
@@Xbxbbxbdbdxbxbbx THEY’RE BUILDING A BRIDGE!!!!!111!1!!!1!1!!1
Worse than death
And War
You know, the saddest thing about Vanguard is that, according to early leaks, they were _originally_ going for a Wolfenstein-esque aesthetic of an alternate history where the Axis won WWII, but changed their minds at some point.
And do you know why that would be? Could it have been to be more accurate to WWII? Could it have been because they believed it to be somewhat disrespectful to history? Nope.
It’s because they need the game to tie in narratively to World at War, Black Ops and Modern Warfare for Warzone. You can’t have an alternate history where the Axis won because you can’t do that without the MW and BO timelines being broken. They’re trying to do, like, a fucking Call of Duty cinematic universe with all their games now by connecting it together, and it just limits their options and dilutes the story.
Ironically, even with Vanguard at launch, there was no connection to any of the previous games including Cold War and MW 2019, so then it begs the question: What was even the point of going for a big connected universe if your own game doesn't connect to that universe?
@@dragonbornexpress5650 *These people are fucking dumb*
Like, shouldn't they have started WITH the WW2 scenario first _BEFORE_ going into Cold War times, and THEN a Modern Warfare time!?
@@dragonbornexpress5650and then mwii has an alternate timeline
wolfenstien was better
@@cymikgaming1266 I... I think that's a given.
Why hasn’t he done a video on COD4? Out of all the ones he’s made videos for, that one is certainly the most important in the entire franchise.
If I could like a comment 2 times for one time I would choose this one.
Why couldn't they:
A. Give it more time to properly finish the game
And B. Do for WaW what Cold War did for Black Ops and what MW2019 did for MW1. Expand on the amazing foundation, have more multiplayer factions like the SAS, French Resistance, Italy; like the operator structure in MW2019 of having two main factions with sets of operators within. I can literally think of this line-up mostly off the top of my head
Red Army: Polina Petrova, VIKTOR REZNOV, Dimitri Petrenko, maybe Nikolai Belinski.
Britain (could mix and match different branches of the British military): Kingsley, Captain Price (from COD 3 I think).
US Marines: Sgt. Roebuck, Private Miller
I could go on, but I think I'm starting to foam at the mouth
Whats more Ironic is the fact that more recently there was a news article that said that Vanguard failed because “No one likes WW2”
The fact that activision needs to blame fans instead of making an actually good game is laughable at best
Honestly they should just stop making WW2 games if it is to disrespect it
Correct. WW2 based games aren't the problem; It's the fact that 80-90% of all WW2 games almost exclusively focus on the Western Front loaded with cliches, cardboard characters, and Hollywood style action sequences. In other words, WW2 games aren't the problem; It's how generic and cliche most of them are.
Ain't nothing wrong with WW2, Purposely making a bad game to make a crappy none point is tho.
@@ananastudio No, don't be a clown you realise real vets worked alongside MOH which the OG cod devs came from? You realise this genre started because they wanted to teach a whole new generation about this conflict hence so many movie scenes being in these games aswell. It isn't disrespectful at all quite the opposite. Unless movies and shows are also disrespectful?
@@dragonbornexpress5650 I mean this genre took off and really started with Spielberg hence the movie clichés even with cod but guess what those games where successful the current lot aren't what does that tell ya? This I think rubbish ain't it chief.
I like how the campaign's death quotes are from the in game characters, making said quotes meaningless
I think I'll just play [PROTOTYPE] . It's another Activision franchise which I think you should to try.
What you on about?
Polina saying "ppl die" is the most inspirational shit in COD history
@@shamoonmarwat9840 best part of prototype, you don't even need a pc from heaven to run it.
Activision should bring back Prototype and make Prototype 3
"We are out of Nazis"
Wow when I saw this quote, I laugh so hard. It is hilariously so bad like bruh this woman is trying to act like Blazkowicz
Remember Reznovs speeches? Remember Dimitri and Chernov? Remember fucking Polonski?
The gritty and disgusting guitar that would play while you shot nazis and burnt bunkers?
Reznovs lines were so memorable, empowering,
Polina is just “Nazi die me shoot nazi die nazi!!!!”
The random marines in Verrükt had more personality
They are all dead gone and forgotten that’s why
I think if you compare some of the lines from the older, good CoD campaigns and lines from this one, the difference in the care for writing a good story and well-written characters is clear.
Reznov (WaW): "Our grip tightens around the black heart of Berlin! The Fuhrer demands all to shed their last drop of blood in its defense. The old, the young, the weak.... If they stand for Germany, they die for Germany. Building by building, room by room! One rat at a time...."
Price (MW2): "History is written by the victors. History is filled with liars. If he lives, and we die, his truth becomes written... and ours is lost. Shepherd will be a hero. Because all you need to change the world is one good lie, and a river of blood. He's about to complete the greatest trick a liar ever played on history. _His_ truth will be _the_ truth. But only if he lives, and we die."
Makarov: (MW3): "The bigger the lie, the more likely people will believe it. And when a nation cries for vengeance, the lie spreads like a wildfire. The fire builds, devouring everything in its path. Our enemies believe that they alone dictate the course of history, but all it takes... is the will of a single man."
Menendez: (BO2): "Your life will be consumed by absolute loss. Then, and only then, will you understand what you have done to me. I will not kill you, boy. Now, like Woods, you suffer with me. And then, one day, you will see this pendant again. And you will remember everything you saw and felt tonight. And when you do, David... please, come to me."
Polina (Vanguard): "I shoot Nazis. They die. That's my plan."
What I really want, is a vietnam vod game with a campaign that doesn't have an uplifting ending. The shit we have all heard about Vietnam is GRIM. I wanna see that on display. And for it to basically have a similar message to WaW ending with the 60M people dead. That war is bad, horrific, and even if it's over, the horror doesn't leave you.
I think that'd be pretty fun
@@bigbargemarge7675 "But where can we get all the microtransactions and bullshit skins to fit in and the whole niche weapon meta to exist?!?!/!1?1/?!/1?!?!1/!??!??!!??"-Retarded Executives in Activision, probably.
I’ve always wanted a cod Vietnam game that wasn’t like cod ww2
That would be amazing a more bitter story line would probably hit the feels.
And maybe Korean as well
The vanguard grenade emote where the guy has his hands on his head is the exact same emote from Junkrat. They are not only recycling shit from older cods but they are also recycling from their other games.
i wish they'd at least draw inspiration from their GOOD games
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I watched this after your 2023 "MW3" expansion pack video... and oh man I wish I could travel into the past and talk to you