Why Was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 SO AWESOME?!
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- Modern Warfare 2 was the big turning point in the Call of Duty series for many fans. While COD 4 was unanimously acclaimed and well-received, MW2 did not enjoy the same level of praise. So what's the deal? Was this game nothing more than a product of it's time? Or is there some secret formula to the franchises success hidden away?
Only one way to find out...
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___TIME STAMPS___
0:00 - Introduction
4:28 - Campaign/Story Analysis
17:34 - Campaign Gameplay & Criticisms
21:39 - Multiplayer, Weapons, Perks, Class Customization
29:42 - Killstreaks
34:43 - Map Design
41:33 - Spec Ops
43:27 - Conclusion
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____TIME STAMPS____
0:00 - Introduction
4:28 - Campaign/Story Analysis
17:34 - Campaign Gameplay & Criticisms
21:39 - Multiplayer, Weapons, Perks, Class Customization
29:42 - Killstreaks
34:43 - Map Design
41:33 - Spec Ops
43:27 - Conclusion
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The Act Man posted on my birthday, thank you for the best present one dan recieve
Love your videos seems like evertime I’m bored you got a hour long review to save me
Thank you for reviewing this game. It was the first COD game I played online when I got Xbox Live
The Act Man just curious, what’s your favorite smash bros character?
2009: Remember, No Russian
2020: Remember, No Multiplayer
Rip
More like: 2018: Remember no singleplayer
Fleggy yup
What?
@@nextaros BO4
Back when our differences were solved by 1v1 on Rust
Nikhil Yadav lol those were the days
Just noticed the campaign is resolved by a 1v1 on rust. Well a 2v1 but still
Ahh yes , me and my buddy's used to play pistols only on that map
And knifes only
Loved playing with my brother in that map aahhh the rpd
What I love the most about COD MW2 is the insane variety of scenarios. Rather than urban/woodlands/beach/_somewhere in Russia_ environments as it was staple for... every shooter until then, on MW2 you play in the frozen desert, African jungles, airports, oil rigs, airplane boneyards, countryside villas, and a fucking WAR TORN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
_somewhere in Russia_ killed me .
That part in DDC was one of the best parts of the series with just how tense and brutal it was.
word. I had a FPS party at my house. We played this and killzone 2 (which is excellent too btw) but everything is either grey or brown industrial environements. MW2 had huge variety. Killzone destroys it from a rendering engineering standpoint but modern warfare 2's variety was way better. More modes , better multiplayer , just all around great variety
It took a page out of socoms books. They did it first for sure
The voice actors in this game were on point. Watching this makes me want to play through all these games again
Old Price>new Price.
Modern Warfare 2 can best be described as Micheal Bay done right
Yep
I think MW 2 is more directed by Christopher Nolan, while MW 3 is directed by Michael Bay because it has more explosions and the story is meh. That's also the time when Frank West and Vince Zampella were absent. MW3 doesn't have the oomph compared to the previous two. Where's the battle on Moscow anyway?
@@JWalters388 Hopefully in Modern Warfare 4 we see the Battle of Moscow. I hope it's like that mission in Battlefield 3 when you're in the Abrams.
Yeah look it's Critical Nobody. Love your vids
oof
Modern Warfare 2: No Russian
Modern Warfare 2019: No Rushin'
Nkkm
Broooo I’m dead 😂
@@alastordemon275 I don't get it...
@@bruh-ux1ns ah ok makes sense
@@idwiw172my phone has the touch broken.
The things I remember the most in MW2 was always having a "nemesis" in a lobby. The guy which you (for no reason) made your rival and killing him gave that extra feeling of accomplisment. And because most lobbies would stay with almost the same players you'd keep that rivalry going, even though it was only in your own head.
Also the fact that every map naturally created this "hot spot" that you'd fight over every game, and it was a different place every time.
And then they added SBMM and now every player is your rival and hunting you down
yeah the spawn system was made that way so freaking all those battlefields were created in each map. All the MW2 maps where so unique and amazing gameplay and style.
so true, when you got killed you went back for revenge and often the guy was waiting for you there for a rematch.
That would actually be a cool idea for a COD game or something similar: a mechanic or mode where it's the usual deal, but there are designated rivals for each team, and you get bonus points for killing your rival.
This is so real. Like a guy who was very similar to your skill level who you'd come across several times and be about 50/50 with kills and deaths.
dude i spent 45days of my life playing this game and i dont regret a minute
I think I no-lifed this game up to like 60 and that's insane
45 days? Try 3 years strait.
@@gWormDFDUB 45days of gametime
@@MADxp 45 days pfft noob... Nah I'm playing lol I think I had like a month and 10 days. Crazy fun times with all your boys 😓😓
@@Jlukes bro that is around 45 days…
Reporter: there is a game which allows u to be a terrorist and kill people
Rockstar games: Oh no, not again.. wait it isn't me?
No, this game called Counter-Strike.
We've become a bunch of pussies
Now a days you can't go and visit your black aunt without being considered a burglar
I'm not joking
@@arbetor12 yeah its fuckin retarded i could probably say i like gta then next thing i know people are lookin at me like i am a psycho thats example but for fuck sake its a game its like we cant trust our childern when all it takes is good eyesight i mean cant you just look at the damn rating srsly its stupid is it THAT hard to look?
@@siremile2926 *_MmMmM nOvA 6 VeRy TaStY tO sMeLl_*
meanwhile shit gets removed from *17+ dated games* because they're "not appropriate for children"
Two words on why this is the greatest game of all time
Burger Town
Ramirez, grab that javelins and take down those APC!!
Naw It's WHITE HOUSE
E
Hugh Janus Ramirez, DO EVERYTHING
Ramirez, get me a number 3 from Burger town
This game is so immersive and good. Takes me to the days when Activision actually cared about their fans and games and it was not all a money game 😭
Activision was always about the money first. they just had fewer ways to capitalise on it then.
@@jamesick true
@@jamesickYeah, the way devs made money then was having a really good game to sell map packs for. There's no way to go back to that
it wasn't Activision who made the game, but Ifinity Ward. And if everyone just had a brief look a the credits at the end of the game, everyone would know that the creater of the original CODs and Modern Wafare series (West and Zampela) where fiered by shithead Kotick 6 weeks after MW2 realesed. Why has COD became so miserable? Here you have your answer. Why did a have 3 years of shitty jetpacks ? Because West and Zampela (and all the original devs) where fired and wanted to creat a new inovative game (Titanfall) and so shithead Kotick just had to saturate the market with a pale version of it.
I honestly think the EMP was probably the best part of the campaign, it felt like it hearkened back to WaW by focusing on an atmosphere and the movement and care that the soldiers have to take, rather than just being in full chaotic battles
That's my fav mission too, but it was actually a nuke. There's a case in real life where a similar thing happened with a nuke and it had the effects of an EMP for several hours/days
MW2's multiplayer followed a simple, tried and true philosophy:
.
*_If everything is broken, nothing is imbalanced._*
this is what ive always said, the game was so unbalanced, it was actully balanced, its a weird situation.
and it shows how good of a game it was when all this time laters i can remember things like the dot on the red dot for the fal been off, putting the holo on the m16 tightened its burst, hell the other carepackage vault glitch for unlimited carepackage, the groundwar size FFA on rust, when you could glitch the lobbies out, the tar and f2000 having unique red dots
Fucking A. The guns were so op but so fun to use. TAR 21 for days
That's what I've been saying, everything is so unbalanced that everything is balanced, it's amazing really, I don't think I ever played another game that pulled that off.
I have to add I think cod 4 and mw2 are the best cod games made over all
In my memory they are the most fun cods made I can’t even play this new crap
Yeah but like, half the shit in the game was actually broken not everything
The first time you played the No Russian part, no one told you to pull the trigger
Yet you did
You monster
Sounds like the White Phosphorus part from Spec Ops The Line. Great games...
ok toby fox
Alright GLaDoS
@@Gruntvc It actually reminded me of the lynching part of the same game, mostly because I didn't even realize I could just do warning shots to disperse the crowd. I tried not to shoot, but they eventually killed me with their stoning, so I said "fuck it" and opened fire on them. It was not after I beat the game and went to read about it that I realized I didn't even try to shoot at a wall or the ground or something just to scare them... It really puts a perspective on things.
My god, I am an abomination...
one of my favorite things about the COD MW series is that they actually show you who the protagonists and antagonists are based on their colored subtitles. For example, you can tell who the protagonists and good guys because they have the green color. But in Black ops 3, all of the character's subtitles are red
Yeah, it's a trait of the old games that died down later. I really liked it.
Not just Black ops 3, every Treyarch game
The green titles are only in Infinity Ward games
Treyarch is lazy
My buddy who’s never played the campaign told me he thought the mission title “No Russian” was entirely symbolic because Makarov already knows you’re an American. In the remastered campaign, the whole crew is even death-staring you before the elevator opens. 🤯 And I thought it was just cause it’s a cool sounding command, like Order 66
Makarov did know thr CIA guy was American.
However he meant no speaking russian so people think it was Americans attacking (hence why he shoots your character and leaves him there at the end)
Remember when fans were mad at companies for killing of their favorite characters and not for ripping them off
Yup
Mah hart... Mah gost...
people are still sad cus of dead characters in cod what do you mean?
@@leaf8009
Ghost, the skull mask dude who gets clapped by General Shepherd alongside the British Protag(Roach)
No Russian is far more important to the plot given is, quite literally, the only terrorist act we SEE Makarov commit in MW2.
Films have a rule that says "Show, Don't Tell." Video Games should have a rule that says "Play, Don't Tell."
By putting us in the shoes of Joseph Allen, a soldier who by Shepherd's orders had to go along with the No Russian incident, we the player are placed in a scenario similar to him. We're just following orders. And thus the moment Makarov kills Allen serves as a genuinely shocking and sad moment. We think "we did all that... Just to die." Its a very powerful scene.
Secondly, because its the only act of terrorism we witness, this makes Makarov a much bigger threat than if we had heard about it through dialogue and helps us become invested in the story.
I could go on talking about its thematic significance within MW2 but i think this is enough to explain why this mission is important.
Btw, love the videos Act Man.
Well said, my dude!
Scene made no scence though, if Makarov is such a well known and wanted Terrorist then why does no one reconize him? Are there no security cameras there? I mean its an airport...
@@Darkness1984 It is explained in a comment further up. The gist of it is, By using American weapons and finding an american CIA agent at the scene, It had made it look like America is directly funding and supporting Makarov.
funny how ppl were shocked by that part in the game. i wasn't at all because its just a video game.
@@nintendoplayer5175 typical of popular news outlets taking things out of context to fit an agenda or to cook up a juicy story for views No Russian was an essential part of the game to make you dislike makarov, without it his character would be less intimidating and you wouldn't care about his motivations as much.
To me, Shepherd is the definition of "Win by any cost, no matter the price".
The price unfortunataly was fighting price
@@gustthestupidnoob2393 Which he lost that fight.
Dude, when the whole emergency broadcast thing came on I got my mom so good.... lmao. I yelled "mom! mom! What is this?!?!" She read the fake broadcast out loud and is like " oh my God", and then the game resumes. She was pissed lmao.
One thing you forgot to mention is the incredible radio chatter. I have never seen a game that did military radio chatter so well and realistically
@Son Gohan it's still in there, just very masked by the sound of the game. It's on TH-cam though if you just look up the missions name and radio chatter
I haven't watched the video yet, but the best thing about it was how you could go from loading the disc to searching for a multiplayer match in like 15 seconds.
The only game that let you button mash you're way past the billion studio logos at the beginning and set whether you defaulted to single player or multiplayer
Son Gohan Yep, if you don't help the White House the Russians invade the place and civilians have to arm themselves and everyone there eventually die
idealism wasn't there a snoop dogg announcer dlc as well in mw2??😂
@@apacheY2K Pretty sure that was Ghosts, my man.
"enemy ac130 above", im actually in tears
"Tactical nuke, INCOMING!!!"
Speaking of Republic Commando.....where is that video on it you promised?
“Mission failed. We’ll get ‘em next time”
"Enemy AC-130 in the air" man!!
I miss my mw2 crew back on ps3 those guys got me through a lot I hope every single one of them are alive and well and getting what they want out of life its the least they deserve ❤️ 🙏
Well wassup we can get sum going on the new cod if yhu still play and interested
@@treyhardy9205 add me Xuinn#8673793
@@treyhardy9205 add me on steam and playstation aswell it's my name on here
Have you tried to sew if any of them are still active?
@@aboveaveragebayleaf9216 i have
I love how ghost went from being a side character to the poster boy for cod mobile
Cod mobile shouldn't be taken into consideration it's a game for kids/poor people who can't afford PCs
"ENEMY AC130 ABOVE!" struck terror in the hearts of so many
basically because you didnt had time to get to cover you died always instantly when hearing this, especially when you were on a killstreak yourself
Or in Black Ops when you heard either "enemy dogs" or "chopper gunner inbound", you were like "oh fuck".
@Honkeynuts I find myself being woken up from night terrors from that noise
Still getting PTSD flashbacks
Tactical nuke incoming!
I remember deadass writing a 5 paragraph essay about why my Mom should let me play Modern Warfare 2 and why the No Russian mission was good, and how it was art, and art is meant to provoke an emotional response, and not always a pleasant or happy one. Sometimes, art is supposed to make you feel uncomfortable. I got that game the next day.
And everyone clapped
@@pandaantmo1322 I sure clapped. I was fourteen. My dad told her I showed "remarkable maturity."
Ive played cod since i was 5 and It was on ps2 😐👌
Bravo.... bravo my friend
Hats off
I think that MW2’s campaign was amazing (honestly the best of all cods) actually because it’s like a action movie.
cod 4 better campaign and mw2 had best multiplayer
I love the campaign in all the original 3 modern warfare games I didn’t care for modern warfare 2019 campaign though
@@samuel-wankenobi it was fine tho
it's a bit to short i beat it in one day
@@samuel-wankenobi mw2019 campaign was infinitely better than mw3 imo. I really didnt like mw3
Yeah, the gameplay, sound design, music, and voice acting all made this such a cherished experience in my teen years for me.
"you get to play as a terrorist"
Gta players: first time
Payday players that literally invaded the white house: First time?
@@jockeyfield1954 which payday 1 or 2?
counter strike players: hehe bomb go brrr
@@garyredfield1498 2 duh, the heist doesn't include the white house but 2 does
you can either sneak in as murky water soldiers or go guns blazing inside
@@cawfeewastaken since 2000
"Damn shame we can't kill them though"
-Act Man, 2019
Let's hope Buzzfeed doesn't make an article
ahh every generic impressionable prepubescent teen's favorite newssource
@Oh yeah yeah nah mate they just pop up outta nowhere they just use cancer clickbaity titles that are so obnoxious and pretentious that i cba to do it
Speaking of Republic Commando.....where is that video on it you promised?
the act man is a white supremacist and kkk member
@@daffasayrafirdaus1880 :D :D :D
Anything but dude. You are just wrong.
The first time the nuke ever went off it was insane to me. The fact you can just say fuck it and kill everyone by getting an insane kill streak it blew my mind back then. The first time I ever heard the count down I literally panicked so hard thinking I had to survive somehow lmao. Emergency carepackages is the best damn perk in COD
The game has decided you're so good at it, you decide when it ends
Thank you for doing this game justice. This was my first COD game that I ever pre-ordered and the memories I have with this game will never be forgotten. To you sir!
If 2019 does give us a Modern Warfare 2 Remaster, I hope they don't cut the, "No Russian" level. Way too much censorship going on lately.
Genome Soldat they actually postponed the remaster because of the shootings in Florida and all over the place
Plasma Dragoon are you fucking stupid. Self-censorship is a thing. It’s when you don’t do or say something cause you think it will offend even if it’s worth it. Heck totalitarian dictatorships use it. Why spend so much money on attempting to censor speech when you can get people to censor themselves?
It's not like potential shooters play video games anyways. It's just the scapegoat the media uses to protect themselves from the fact that they perpetuate the cycle of violence themselves by making the shooter a celebrity like they're the new Charles Manson. And now we're so desensitized from domestic terrorism because of CNN, FOX and MSNBC playing it on loop 24/7. And of course they won't admit that these violent video games are the tag, pick-up basketball, and soda shop social of the 21st century and that they're really just waiting for the next school shooting to milk the watch time and get their pay from corporations putting ads on their networks, and politicians trying to push their agendas saying they can stop these tragedies.
They don't want to be responsible for future more mass shootings, if they did remastered it they probably cut that out
@@MrRogerogerio yes.
"It's COD 4 on a week long cocaine binge"
Needless to say, my day has officially been made better.
and here's the consumption graph for that week ___/
The “Let’s start ww3 and no Russian our way into it” didn’t age well
This game is a diamond of time. Every aspect i've seen being recaped in you video is pure gold. The scope to full scope time, the consistent recoil. The not overloadet maps with a clear spawn system. The perks that made sense. RIP MW2 and RIP to all hopes that there will be another COD like you!!!!!!!!!
As a Sith Lord once said:
“ I been looking forwards to this”
"it is not something a jedi can show you"
Act man making a video of mw2 and finding a star wars comment - its been a long time sence i was this happy
Joonas Penttilä - The Act Man making an MW2 video, finding a comment from Star Wars, and seeing someone rejoice, as they find these things as well, makes me happy.
@@Lucidopherus Ikr what a life
call me sinner “I am just a simple man trying to make my way in TH-cam”.
"History is written by the victor, all it takes to change history is one good lie and a river of blood"
This is one of the best quotes from COD in my on opinion of course
I agree
It's actually true with Americans and how they portray themselves in American schools
Its "History is written by the victor,history is filled with liars. If he lives and we die his truth becomes written. His truth will be the truth. Hes about to complete the biggest trick a liar ever played on history because all you need to change the course of history is one good lie and a river of blood.
@@dmitryogrady2004 yeah ik I forgot the full quote
Hola
If modern warefare 2 was a fun balanced game none of us would have found it as fun as it actually is. Chaotic games are the best games to play with friends. While this means the games may not be extremely competitive viable imo a party game can be so damn important. I can't think of any other fps like halo and MW2 that's just batshit crazy fun party game
ive feelt like this for years and years trying to balance everything takes the fun out of non-professional gaming.
@@fangsclaws9631the imbalance is the meta
Downloaded MW2 the other day. The multilayer is still going and man it's fun.
Mw2 released in that window in time where i feel gaming was at its height. So many good games released around this time, and we had the Xbox360 to.
I miss it and im glad i took part.
gaming was at its height and it was an icon for the millennial generation. a whole generation of dudes cherished on this game lol. games don't fill that void anymore or feel the same because we have all grown up, and life has moved on. will always remember this game fondly.
16 maps at launch, jeez, back in the days there was no need for dlc's
Yet the DLCs were still so amazing. Remember the fucking CIRCUS
There was 2 map packs they're like $15 and got like four maps so there's was 8 extra maps
Yet another reason why my newest console is an old white 360. The amount of stupid that's gone into the gaming world is ridiculous, hence why game companies like EA have fooled players into thinking it's normal and legitimate to pay over $100 for a console game with a bunch of DLC, DRM, microtransactions, and other nonsense.
I stopped buying DLC after COD4. If it was a free map pack, sure. But if it was something else? Nope. @DigitalDyslexia And no, most of the paid DLC I downloaded was not amazing or worth it. The only DLC I remember being worthwhile was one of the map packs on Halo 2 that had the huge ice level.
@@encycl07pedia- I agree, nowadays paying 60$ for a game is like getting the lite version. Remember those old shitty iphone games for 99 cents that had a "lite" free version with ads/less content?
@@steak1394 I never used iOS and only ever paid for one Android app and it was worth it. Pretty much every Android game I ever played was free with ads.
Honestly it feels more like the PC gaming business model of things like online season passes/subscriptions per game, forced patches, Day 1 patches, online activation codes, DRM, etc. has leaked into/become popular in the console gaming world.
The paradigm shifted to instead of someone owning a game, it's more like someone owns a license to play a game and that license can be revoked at any time for any reason. It's really, really pathetic how much greed has impacted gaming. The companies like EA, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, etc. that treat their customers like cash cows that need to be milked for every little piece of content.
Talk about mw2 for 45 mins... Never mentioned Hans Zimmer's masterpiece soundtrack.
I remember hans zimmer only did the opening titles not the soundtrack
@@anti167 That's enough of a mention though, a Oscar winning composer scoring the opening credits deserved mention and he missed it.
@@mrjones29 yeah but he doesn't deserve like ALL the credit
@Spectralniy to you maybe.
@Spectralniy each to their own I suppose, but i believe it shows more musicality than the other titles.
This brought back so many memories but the segment about map design really made me realize how close to perfect the game was and why I haven't enjoyed a cod nearly as much since.
31:47 Just in case you headphone users hate your ears
bruh that was the quickest 45 minutes of my life I love your content.
Modest Pelican Gaming Pelican, I fired on a Russian airport and blamed a pelican for it, so as to spread the good word of your channel. Sorry if you get invaded from it.
Modest Pelican Gaming i was watching one of your nutshell vids,love your vids
Wait it wasnt 10 minutes??
Papa Peli
I play this game while chanting Modest Pelican Gaming in the lobby while drinking Mountain Dew for adequate hydration as well as spreading the good word.
It’s all fun and games until you hear “ENEMY AC-130 ABOVE!”
"TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING"
in ghosts you can't... ghosts sucks, i wish i have a better call of duty but that one mi dad buyed me
It’s all fun and games till you hear remember no Russian
@@niger216 Yeah, Russian language
@@28stabwounds35 ghost is alright it just a downgrade from black ops 2
God i miss this game, just the thought of coming on just needing to level up to unlock stuff and have fun. MW2 2022, having to level up every random gun to unlock different attachments just blows me away. Like who wants to spend a week on random guns you dont like just for attachments. Take me back...
Thanks for mentioning Ahoy’s channel! I love his Iconic Arms and Retroahoy series!
_50,000 people used to live here, now it’s a Ghost-town._ N O S T A L G I A
Just like the servers.
*Cums buckets*
That was the GOAT game COD4
That reference is from call of duty modern warfare 1
Yes,its from mw1,not 2. And only 49360 people lived there.
When game developers cared about making the best game of the year instead of money.
it was always about money
Good old days
@@cheez3184 yes, but before they putted passion into it, today its just about money
@@Pedro-ux2de 3 weeks later: When developers cared about making the best GOTY to make more money than making money with crap
What the Actman actually trying to say through this video is that it all started (money grabbing and focusing only on action) from MW2
You hit the nail on the head with map design. The reason MW2 never got stale to me was because every map played different. You could go from high action high pace in something like scrapyard to more drawn out slow play being a sniper in wasteland. The newer games just don't hold my attention because all the maps feel the same. I did go back and play COD4 when I was older, and it is definitely a great game, but MW2 will always be my favorite.
Soap handing the handgun to Price "This belongs to you sir"
Will always be one of my favourite campaign moments from any game, ever.
and Shepard burning Ghost and Roach is something that will be seared into my mind forever, that cut me deep.
"It's COD 4 on a week long cocaine binge, Cocaine Warfare 2" damn you killed me 🤣🤣
You gay
I wish I could go back in time and play MW2 back at its peak.
MW2 - Bo2, bfbc2 and bf3, skyrim and mafia 2 are the games i miss the most... so many good memories😭
Solo i feel like black ops is what started the down fall
Paradox2o9 nah I enjoyed every cod till the end of bo2 and then idkw my love came back with ww2 but lost it right again with bo4😂 I like the new mw so far..
@@Paradox2o9 i kinda agree with you there. Even though Bo was fun and i had friends still playing it right after mw2/3 died out, it wasnt the same. In its peak 2009-2011 it was absolutely all mw2-mw3 man. I remember the changes to sniping and overall speed of the gun fights from modern warfare to the black ops series is what made my friends slowly drift away. then when ghost and Aw came out, most of us had already grew out of Cod, due to the repetitiveness.
People still play this 🤷
The EMP was one of the coolest moments ever in a cod campaign. The enormous feeling of "oh shit" as the atmosphere makes a sudden turn is so impactful. Despite its flaws this is one of my favorites in the whole series!
The folks working on the ‘new’ modern warfare 2 should watch this.
Absolutely spot on with every detail. Explains what made this game soo enjoyable compared to
The rest and why it was a fan favourite.
Good job on the vid , earned a sub 👍
I literally still haven’t recovered from the loss of Ghost and Roach
Therapy pllz
i still remember crying at the ripe age of 12, the first campaign I ever played and it still hits me whenever I rewatch it. Ghost was always saving you just for that ending, it was good but damn the feels hurt. same with soaps death in mw3
Me too mate, my son was killed by a coward :/
I haven’t either😞
Grow some balls will you?
Why am I watching all these old Act Man videos!? Great content man!
Shepherd doing the funny walk had me pissing myself laughing that was class 🤣🤣
The fact that the Remaster is banned in Russia is ironic
It's Not Banned. In Fact The Remaster Came Out In Russia First. Its Just That In No Russian You Cannot Kill Any Civillians Or U Will Fail.
@@IlIlIlIlIlIllllllIIllIIllIlllI why must you capitalize all the words like that?
@@boneor...7022 I Dont Know. Its Just A Habbit I Have Lol
I thought that was 2019's case?
@ThePlagueRider0 its dumb cuz its biased censoring of a game.
The fact that CoD included No Russian in the game shows how much the world has changed on 10 years. That mission would never happen today given all that has happened since 2009.
Makes you wonder if it's gonna be included in the remaster, especially with the latest shitshow in NZ.
@@By-s True it's just a game, who cares if we "offend" victims and people who would never buy it.
It could happen today and there would actually be far less controversy. There was so much at the time that they had to add the option to disable it in game. It would be pretty cliche today but back then it was shocking.
Some guy yep like having a robotic female in battlefield
@@perc30 There isn't even one in the game tho.
20:36 i think that there just escorts so shepherd could get away safely, not really just to stop them but a huge escort for there leader, i do partially agree tho and u prove great points, good video and work
Another aspect you touched on which is so underrated was the introduction of killcams for game (or round) winning kill. I started as a normie just grinding levels but after my first cross map no scope, i was hooked. The possibilities of what made a good killcam ranged from pure luck to 100% skill and all the trolling in between made the game perfect for montages of all sorts.
Everybody talks about No Russian but I'm over here praising how perfectly chilling and executed the Washington D.C. trilogy was, like seriously who remembers exiting the underground bunker to the heart of the USA in literal flames, even more so accompanied by the cue of the theme? Such a god damn powerful moment and although I didn't understand the impact at the time, I'm thankful that I played the classic COD games when growing up.
_Wolverines_ is and will be the most impacting mission on me in every game that I ever played.
Its sooo fucking good to see someone giving the DC Trilogy the praise it deserves. It felt like I'm the only one who truly appreciated how amazing those missions were. Whiskey Hotel is my favorite cod mission of all time
@@starpaladinnelaj The music while trying to force your way through to the rooftop is just spine chilling. It really captures the feeling of desperation while racing against time.
I am going to ask my parents for these games just to play those games
@@starpaladinnelaj Whiskey Hotel was great. I really loved that last minute countdown race to the top of the roof to light the flares and prevent the air strike. Of their Own Accord had an amazing opening cutscene with the emergency broadcast coupled with leaving the bunker for the first time and seeing the warzone that was DC, not to mention that desperate last stand at the end of the mission. All in all however, I think Second Sun might be my favorite for the DC chapter. Following the detonation of the nuke (which getting to view that interactive cutscene in space was mind blowing to me as a kid) and just how dark, silent and hopeless the situation had seemed during the EMP was truly captivating in my mind. All in all, they were all great missions
Got an IHOP ad right after makarov says no Russia
Oof
Nice
Awesome account name lmao
i spent so many hours just playing local multiplayer with my 3 friends on rust. That map was sick. This video bought back a lot of great memories. Good times! :)
I love watching this guy, he reminds me of the old critic youtubers that reviewed modern games (or modern from that time, nintendo wii, ps3 and etc)
You didn't even mention the button in the museum that brought all of the NPCs to life? That was one of my favorite things to do back in the day on MW2.
I remember i would try to kill all of them
item lol Yh that was point of it 😂
That was your favorite thing to do in MW2? Dafuk did you not have internet and play multiplayer? 😂
Everyone called me lame for only wanting to play in the museum
*One* of my favorite things. I played multiplayer all the time, but it wasn't relevant to what I was saying.
Ah 2009. Call of duty, minecraft and when video games weren't recycled every year.
Edit: And when the lobbies were more intense than the matches.
when u and your friends were preparing during the match on how bad we were gonna trashtalk the enemies.
Streamer By the way and far cry 2, halo 3, gta 4
"riot shield, I'm a little f@ggot who uses riot shield"
Shit was hilarious to listen to
Ferment forgot about those gems.
@@mellow156 tell me what to f**king use huh? TELL ME WHAT TO F**KING USE!
for some reason I've watched this video several times now beginning to end, something about the way you talk in this specific video is so nice.
I remember my first and only nuke in MW2. At the time I was 11 maybe and gave up on getting the nuke because of losing so many games and getting my streaks cut short. I decided to switch the nuke for an EMP instead so I can at least reach a high kill streak, I tried and failed to even reach that so I turned off the game and went to bed. The next day, My older brother played the game and hung out with his friends from school while I was gone to see a friend for the day. I back on later to open up the game again and played Team Deathmatch on Derailed. I was doing well, really well. Went from harrier strike to a chopper gunner really quick and the kills were coming in fast. Thinking to myself "Man I should be getting my EMP soon, the chopper gunner was 11 kills". But the EMP never came, and it dawned on me: My brother switched it back when he was playing with his friends. Realizing this I went hard and racked up the kills to see it through. Lo and behold the legendary sound with Ghost saying his iconic line. The match ended with 6800 to 2700. This is one of my favorite moments in gaming.
My loadout was as follows:
UMP45 with suppressor
SPAS-12 with foregrip
semtex and stun grenades
Scavenger Pro
Stopping Power Pro
Commando Pro
Pain killer death streak
Act Man: you know what’s worse than all that? Model 1887’s
725: hold my beer
This is so true
In some many different ways
Soooo true
Well not exactly the model 1887's were way overpowered they were shotgun snipers
🙌
@@TreyKan999 haahhaah not to mention they were secondary weapons , one man army + grenade launcher + 1887
MARINES PROTECT THE BURGERTOWN ! Is the most American thing I've ever heard
:D
What about Marines trying to protect a gun range with the American Flag waving above them?
*ahem* their were army rangers not marines
*Army Rangers you uncultured swine
AssassinEmbers oh okay well I guess I made a mistake then thank you for correcting me then
Glad I found the channel to relieve some of those stress free days in hindsight. I’m 26 now. The game came out when I was in 8th grade so I think I was 13 at the time. My mom went to the midnight release to pick the game up for me so I could play a little. My moms the best. I felt like the coolest kid all day at school telling everyone how awesome the game was. Man what a chump I was. Great times.
there were so many memorable moments that were like living part of a movie. that one scene when you're in the chopper and the guy hands you a mag and says, last one - i swear i got goosebumps from the black hawk down reference. defending burgertown? playing wolverines? hitting the green flares a la the rock...and the writing with the twist (rip ghost)...man, my jaw was just floored. i loved this game and still do.
MW2, Black Ops, MW3 - Each had their flaws sure, but this was the golden age of CoD. Oh the nostalgia..
totally agree
Alex C you forgot World at war noob
@@jakejimenez7973 meh
Alex C golden age in gaming in general
waw beats mw2/3 and bo @@alexc4012
What did MW2 have that no others had
ENEMY AC-130 ABOVE!!!
Quality
Nah Harrier + Pavelow , noobtube danger close
I literally heard that
One man army acr with noob tube
It also had TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING
Still watching these essays, it gives me goosebumps because you speak right out of the most of our hearts…
Good one soldier xo
13:45 i love this scene where after the emp missile was triggered we all just run like crazy makes me spooked and just follow where it go
Sees a 45 min video about why MW2 is awesome
SCREAMS
Mum get the camera!!!!!
War Hounds for what? You already have a video
R/Wooooooosh
R/IhaveReddit
R/Secretly I didn’t get it either😂
oi fuck off you bloody wanker
Failed to mention the absolutely amazing music
SXQX7 Hanz Zimmer (the composer who made the music for Mw2) is a god among men.
damekids, better than Marty O’Donnel?
He actually composed the entire soundtrack while Zimmer did the main theme.
Came to the comments just to say that
This soundtrack was one of my all-time favorite video game OSTs ever. The emotion in the music was so amazing. I wish other cods would follow up on it. NOT just having a killer multiplayer theme like BO4 (God Bo4s theme is amazing)
Perfect video and points! They need to hire you for map design! You are exactly right about the maps!!
The best call of duty and game of all time no debate, no other game will compare to the fun you had playing MW2
For me, the MW2 is the absolute peak of CoD art direction. Everything is so saturated and colorful, and the HUD is this great neon line-work. By far the best-looking game of the series.
igooog the game has everything. It had everything!
they had fucking hans zimmer
igooog best looking, best feeling, best to play, best campaign, best cod made
Imo advanced warfare is WAY better looking.
@@brodie7662 ha good joke
God damn just hearing those old COD intros gives me goosebumps. Pure nostalgia
Same. That part when the guy speaks in Russian then the rockets launch. Awesome editing!
MW2 had one of the best campaigns in the history of the franchise
@Independent Far-Right Propagandist ϟ MW1 was the game that launched COD into the mainstream basically
Damn it man
Right?? Compare that to freaking bo4. Ooo grand heist is in season; god, they need to die already.
I would to see a video comparing this mw to the new one. Multiplayer, 3rd person gameplay, story, and mostly; fun factor. Great video. This was fun to watch!
So many good memories.
Thanks for the nostalgia trip ❤
Dropping nukes was my life’s goal at a 12 year old MW2 player. Good times.
Great times. Wish I could go back to those days. I don't feel the joy I used to.
I remember my first time getting a nuke. I was playing and got my harrier, then chopper gunner but I kept going expecting my emp. Nah I thought I took it off because I forgot I applied the nuke, and oh my god I just remember getting that nuke then chopper gunner went away and I ended the game then and there. Did it the next game too. Best moment of my life on MW2 😂
So you did it?.... Because I'm 17 and it is one of my goals... I'm playing on pc
@Ayy Yo You played on pc? And damn, me too I think i did once like a 23 killstreak but I didn't have the nuke on anyways so... Now I have it always on
HELL YEAH BROTHERRR
That Ghost announcing killstreaks parody literally had me crying.
Ninjadefuse9 99 fucking ac130 one kills me every time :)
@@Hunter-vd6fv EMP READY FUCK THEIR ELECTRONICS AC130 READY TO BLOW SHIT UP! lastly tactical nuke ready for launch...
Our lord and savior ghost descended from the heavens and told us the sacred word....
[BEEP BEEP]
"Tactical nuke ready for launch"
EMP READY FUCK THEIR ELECTRONICS
i always come back to this video, the WaW video, BO1 video to try and relive the glory days of CoD. i love that i have these videos to always fall back on
That was a masterpiece of a game review 🤟 thanks for keeping me entertained at work
Hans Zimmer music was perfect for this game.
wait the same guy who composed the music for the dark knight composed the music for thus game
Yes
@@keelin4273 wow never knew that thanks
Np
I think it wasn't only Hans Zimmer that composed the soundtrack, Lorne Balfe did some as well.
10:12 Funny you mention that, in one of the newspaper clippings in the Makarov Safehouse level says that the Russian Government accepted that Makarov carried out the attack, but it also says that the US had armed and supplied him. The major point in the whole incident was not whether Makarov had been involved in the attack, but whether the US had been supporting it, which, from the weaponry used by Makarov & his crew, serves as evidence. Allen being apart of the attack was just the icing on the cake, and a very lucky opportunity for Makarov to use his corpse as more evidence to the Russian government.
Yep and especially when the ultra nationalist party have been elected since the end of COD4 and all the russians people hates americans and idolize Zakhaev.
Right. They used NATO weapons on purpose.
Well shit, that makes a lot more sense. Still, that should've been slightly more explained in a cutscene or something
@@TheActMan I will agree with that point, it was explained a bit poorly. I guess it's just one of those things you have to do a bit of digging to figure out. Also, holy shit I actually got a reply from the man himself.
+The Act Man Hell, Makarov is literally introduced by Shepherd as “trading blood for money” but I mean that’s not true, he’s not in it for the money, he’s in it for the Ultranationalist cause. So why does Shepherd say this?
It’s because he’s setting Makarov up to just be a gun for hire, so when the russian authorities find his involvement, he could just say he was paid to do it.
This video evoked some incredible and apparently precious memories of some of the best times in my life. Love your content man.
Best thing about MW2 for me, is living in Prince George VA near Fort Lee, and that's where you're running through the neighborhoods fighting. My brother's gf woke up when he fell asleep playing the game, woke up to the warning of an invasion of Prince George, she freaked out, called her mom/ posted on FB. LMAO loved that game but I'll always remember her doing that.
I'm back because of four words:
Bravo Six, Going Dark.
I'm back because of three words
Remember, no Russian
@@billyjov I'm back because of 6 words,
"Good, that's one less loose end."
I'm back because of 9 words.
"So why,in bloody hell,DOES MAKAROV KNOW YOU!"
im back because of 9 words "what in the bloody hell kinda name is soap?"
I'm back because of 9 Words how did a muppet like you get passed selection
as a 12 year old kid the death of ghost was tragic
I was 6
As a 15 year old at the time, no one gave a shit lol. The General was based af
Was?
At 9 years old it was absolutely tragic.
At 14 years old it was tragic. Then as I played it again recently after it’s remaster I realized I was sad over a character that wasn’t really significant. Ghost was really just a background character with a cool name and mask and nothing more.
My first time watching your channel. Absolutely fantastic work!!! Excellent production and commentary. Instant sub and this one is 3 years old
You should've mentioned the fact that they went all out with the production. They even had freaken HANS ZIMMER compose the music. And it really the best score in all of Call of Duty franchise and one of the best music scores ever
Lorne Balfe did the score, Zimmer wrote main theme (which sound in opening credits and end credits)
@@thisvitya1193
Lorne Balfe, Hans Zimmer
My point remains. They went all out on the music. The score and the themes
Plus Zimmer and Balfe work together so much it's hard to know where one begins and the other ends
Balfe's score for MI4 had many almost identical tracks as Zimmer's score to the Dark Knight Rises