One thing I fondly remember about this game was the sound design. IIRC, the developers actually recorded the sounds of the actual guns used in the game, which lent an air of authenticity to the experience. The MG-42 in particular sounded like a roaring monster of a gun.

It's kind of insulting to their memory that the portrayed a _Guards_ regiment, y'know the title that was earned by experienced units that had proven their ability in battle, as underequipped and barely trained conscripts who hadn't been within a hundred kilometres of a battlefield in their lives. While it's certainly likely that there was a mistranslation at one point I wonder how much certain sets of self-serving "memoirs" had already coloured the translator's impression of the early war Red Army.

the m1a1 carbine may be a bit inpractical because of the metal folding stock but it always makes me happy to see because i love paratroopers so much

The real reason to get United Offense even over CoD 2 was the multiplayer. The maps, vehicles, and deployable weapons made it awesome for LAN parties.

I hope you eventually do story break down for the Modern Warfare story

My fondest memory of cod 1 was wandering out of a shell hole during the campaign and immediately getting blown up by a shell. I figure it was a mechanic to keep things linear but it added a strange sense of realism to the game

Best CoD UO memory. Playing a map I don’t remember, Kursk maybe, but I ran into the out of bounds minefield and instead of killing me it made me unkillable. I bounced around the minefield for a little bit then pissed off my friend by killing him three times before showing mercy and respawning. I tried to replicate the bug but never managed it again.

Ironically, your criticism of the Stalingrad level is significantly improved in Call of Duty Finest Hour where the commissar gives an absolutely downright beautiful speech about defending the motherland and pushing back the German invaders. Also, your unit does appear more battle hardened and it takes place during night!

CoD: UO is overlooked but it had some of the best team gameplay I saw in public servers and the best maps. Adding tanks and vehicles was really fun in MP. And since you could battle with 64 players, it was intense and a lot of fun. Great times were had in that add-on. Such a shame it is largely forgotten. Foy was and still is one of the best CoD maps imho.

I might be a bit late but the Choice of setting you in a B-17 for the british makes sense because the whole mission goes to shit and the british were more used to night bombing untill later in the war. They tried to use the B-17 as advertised by the americans, in daylight high-altitude bombing, but it did not turn out very well. So having the mission set at night would not have made for good visuals and being shoot down with most of the formation historically correct. So while strange it makes some sense. After such failiures the british B-17s were relegated to marittime patrol.

By extraordinary stretch something like the StG44 could have been in Stalingrad as the same weapon went under multiple names with trivial changes, the StG44 used to be called the MP44 and before that the MP43 which was under "evaluation" from as early as March 1943. Now, Operation Uranus in late November of 1942 theoretically cut off all overland access but there were airlifts so some MP43 rifles may have been dropped off and they're just called StG44 in the game a bit like Americans tanks are referred to as Shermans even though during the war only the British named tanks after Generals the US only referred to the Sherman as the "M4 Medium".

Call of Duty was probably what got me into FPS games. I have fond memories of replaying the missions repeatedly, and still remember great characters like Sgt Moody and McGregor (in CoD 2).

Loved the 82nd piece. We still think we’re better than 101 ;) AATW

I, too have also played MOH: Frontline on the PS2 two years ago since my step-brother downloaded it and I really love the music by Giacchino.

My grand-grand dad was one of those "1 rifle for 3 men" division. He was a miner in Donbass and they were conscripted very ill-equipped. My grandma (his daughter) still alive and she recalled his war action to russian journalists who visited her around 2012. I might find that interview.

If I remember correctly according to Alexander Hills Book "The Red Army and the 2nd world War" Death Sentences were saved for Self inflicted wounds and loss of weapon.

In case it hasnt been said already, the rifle for every other man thing in the russian army was also alleged during WW1, and more plausible given the mishandling of the war by the czar and his cronies

Yes a youtuber reviewing or mentioning cod united offensive. Good job man.

Wasn’t the main villain of COD Mw basically a chechen Russian Bolshevik ultranationalist? I always found it funny how it’s the americans worst nightmare. (Muslim, Communist and nazi)

I played this game when it first came out in 2003. Became my favorite shooter ive ever played, especially riding the coat tails of Band of Brothers, which I was also very into (I was 13 at the time) Still my favorite CoD, and yes, its ABSOLUTELY because of nostalgia.

If you look at the Stalingrad memorial soldier statue (12:02 mark), he is holding a PPSh-41. Nice.

According to the current series of the "Revolutions" podcast by Mike Duncan, currently covering the Russian Rev, both the "ammo but no rifles" and the "machine gunning your own troops retreating" were rumored to have happened in the First World War, either under the Tsar pre-1917 or the provisional government of 1917. I have no idea if that's where those stories started or if these too are myths.

I recently played call of duty classic on the Xbox 360 for the first time and it was really fun

Man me and my brother used to play cod for hours and hours for like 3 years straight God this video makes me wanna load it up on the computer and see if anyone's still on there lol.

Never played this game but remeber playing cod 2 with that over the top gore mod with a spanish name was quite fun have little to no remebrence about other cods. Also good video.

My first Call of Duty was Finest Hour on the PS2. I played that all the time. The original CODs up until 3 had a certain quality you could only get from that era of gaming that I don’t think we’ll get again. Equal parts sentimental and documentarian reenactment.

Honestly I thought cod 2 having a dday landing was kinda cool, only because rather than going with Omaha beach like all the other games and movies they showed some love to Utah the more forgotten of the us landings

COD 2 Big Red One is probably my favorite. Right next to original COD and COD United Offensive. Then COD 2 on PC. All of those are just so great. I like COD 3 and 360 too but it's a bit generic. Love the original MOH series too. Allied Assault, Frontline, European Assault, Rising Sun, Pacific Assault etc. all solid WW2 games too.

Big Red One to me is the standard they should try to get back to. Never bought cod ww2 because while it brought the health system back, looked like a QuickTime event movie.

I have 100% agree with you on the disrespect shown to Red army and it’s soldiers. Especially when nobody at at activision or treyarch were creative enough to show a different theater of war other than the over rehashed enemy at the gates depictions. Why not the siege of Leningrad, Kursk, the holdout at Sevastopol, operation Bagration, etc. Hell even the Soviet-Japanese war in Manchuria or Kolkin Gol. Also order 227 was very rarely enforced, and 9/10 a soldier who ran from battle ended up in a probationary battalion. Only the ring leaders who started the rout were ever executed, not the scared undertrained 17 year old conscript. Besides at Stalingrad every warm body was needed as the 62nd army was outnumber 3-2:1 until operation Uranus, the nkvd would not of been shooting red army soldiers in the back and besides the nkvd were political ideologues who were subpar in quality to the regular army soldiers. I suppose treat the Red army as if they had actually come up with viable counters to the German Blitzkreig instead of just sending waves of men to their death.

Also thank you for honest look at Eastern Europe, no sarcasm.

You should do a review on Big Red One if you can; I remember playing that game a ton with my friend as a kid, and it was so much fun but I really can’t find a lot about it Edit: NVM, I’m stupid, you’ve already covered that one

These were the best multiplayer experiences. Health packs. Give me health packs.

A part of me hopes the older CODs get remastered or better yet remade(though considering the insulting COD WW2 & Vandguard releases a part of me doesn't) as they can fix and expand many of the games inaccuracies and short comings. For example instead of the first American D-Day mission being short and linear it could be an open world style map(like in Metro Exodus) where you try to make it to the DZ all the while trying to find your squad(since pathfinders were made up of more than just two people like in the game and had I believe around an eight man bodyguard squad) and avoid German patrols(these both being optional). As well they could recreate the Saint Meré Église and Bercourt Manor maps to actually look like what they were in 1944(like with Brothers In Arms) and redo how the missions play out. And I think it would be better to replace the American special forces missions with missions that take place during Operations Market Garden. For the British missions I don't mind their special forces missions but I think they should've had more missions for when you're with the 6th Airborne. Also in this first COD I believe they say that you're part of the SAS but from what I read none of the missions are what the SAS were actually meant to do or did in WW2. Though something I think should be changed about the special forces missions are have a Dambusters mission after you disable the defenses and for Tirpitz change it to Operation Source rather than sneaking aboard and basically killing the entire crew. For the Soviet missions yeah take out the one man with the rifle and blocking detachment myths and actually have the levels revolve around what the 13th did and recreate the maps to look like the actual areas of Stalingrad. This is just some of the things I wish would happen if it ever does I could go on and on about what a remade COD Classic could be. Sorry for the long comment.

i'm going to be honest your historical take are hard to take without a grain of salt, so i'll research more but i really love to hear you're interpretation of history. much love hope the war ends soon

The Soviets may have had limited screen time before but it was still far much more than anything concerning the Pacific theater.

as a WWII history buff myself, I loved the first COD and United offensive, and it had nothing to do with how accurate it was or wasn't, it was a game not a documentary and IMO they did a great job on both fronts, single player and Multi player and it is still one of my fav titles along with another great game Medal of Honor Airborne

Dude! You played the game with the brightness bug. There's easy fixes for it online. The original game isn't this dark!

This video was very interesting, I'd love to see your thoughts on other World War 2 games and which ones you think are good/authentic.

My childhood.

Actually in Medal of Honor vanguard and Medal of Honor airborne you play as a member of the 82nd Airborne Division

Oldschool COD campaigns are great! Is there any way to play COD UO or COD1 with a controller? Please help, I'd really appreciate it! 🙂🙏

There is combat in Kharkiv again, I’m writing this message in 2022.

Best cods of all time

Modern Warfare is a great game if you don't take the real-life fidelity (or lack thereof) too seriously. It has good setup and a genuine sense of escalation where things happening on one side of the globe impacts events on another. How good a game is can depend on the lens through which it is viewed.

What about easy red 2?

god i fucking love united offensive the scripting is beautiful

I look at the Call of Duty franchise today and it's completely unrecognizable to me. This. _This_ is what Call of Duty was to me growing up and playing them. It was cool playing a shooter where you had other people fighting with you, and not be one of those games where "you have teammates!" is like, the selling point gimmick like Star Wars Republic Commando, which tended to make the game more about unit management than shooter-ing. And it's what got me interested in WW2 and military history. Sure, it gets stuff wrong. But I wouldn't be the person I am now, I wouldn't even know it is getting things wrong, if it didn't exist.

I'm a bit of an antiquated gamer, since I'm poor as fuck, so I got to play the first CoD a lot. Wish they kept the health bar, and a remake of the Pavlov House level. Even today, when people mention Pavlov, I think of the soldier

please do a video on what is wrong with mw2 and 3. I notice a lot of wrong things myself but i woul love to hear it from a guy that used or still lives there

I understans your opinion

Big red one was my favorite call of duty

Honestly i wouldn't nitpick them putting SGT 44s before their actual use if it werent for the fact they are SO FUCKING OP, just a single guy alone could take 2 of your squadmates out and yourself with a single mag. God they were annoying, and that's not even the worse of it cause they return EVEN MORE OP in united offensive IN 1943..

Did you ever play the original Sniper Elite that was a good game but, the second version was not....i especially liked the trip wire grenades especially when entering area, building and also had to protect your rear...

you should play metal of honor airborne. it'; pretty fun and i'd love to hear your take

This is so good! Nostalgic with just the right amout of "git off my lawn"-ness. One thing I remember most vividly is the suck when you lost your M1 and had to make use of some shitty German bolt action in CQ scenes! FUUUUCCCKKKK!!

Do a video about the Russia and COD MW2/3. I mean... some of that is obviously insane. IDK what the devs are even thinking at times with those but yeah.

BTW , in Ukraine you kinda still can buy bootleg modded copies of old games. It's the end of the epoch though

I did like modern warfare game but I never really got into the story once I grew up to really question a lot. And then MW 2019 came along and… wow. Just wow. Replaying the older games before MW made me realize how it isn’t as scripted or you could at least do anything DURING scripted events. I am now less supportive of remakes cause I am certain it would be heavily scripted and need to be connected to WiFi 24/7

CoD WaW is IMO still the best CoD of all time

Warsaw in cod 1 is pretty inaccurate. City should be leveled. After the uprising germans almist completely destroyed Warsaw. I think it was even more damaged than Berlin or Stalingrad.

I think you are taking the plot more seriously than they are. Remember the battle for Burgertown?

Pirated games are sold on Russian stores too? The more I heard of Russia, the more it reminds me of my own country (Colombia).

16:24 that is not true. I have hear from multiple sources that officers shot at their fleeing soldiers to stop the panic. Some were just shooting over their heads, some were not.

Damn, my favorite cod is mw2.

Actually, showing oficers shooting retreating soldiers in a way it is shown in CoD and EitG is totally fine. There's a staggering fact: Soviet martial courts executed more soviet soldiers, than the amount of american and british soldiers, who were killed in battles during ww2. And, yeah, they were probably executed in some quiet place behind the frontline. And that's the problem with authentically showcasing it in game/movie: it would just brake a flow and pacing of the action.

Why you mad about stg44 being in battle of Stalin grad i don't know much about history so can somebody tell me why he was mad

I wonder what your take of the MW 2019 (which in terms of sales is probably the highest selling CoD in the series since it sold 30 million August of last year, yeah Warzone really jumped it's popularity/sales) will be since it's far more grounded than the OG MW trilogy but they're going for an interconnected universe I wonder how it'll age since some of the director leads of MW 2019 & Infinite Warfare (of all the CoD SPs I think Infinite Warfare is my favourite actually, I actually preferred Infinite Warfare over Titanfall 2 SP, yes heretical I know :p) have left recently (amongst veterans of other AAA studios went to form a new AAA studio backed by Smilegate called That's No Moon since weirdly a lot of SP focused AAA studios have been set up in the last year or so by new players due to dat cheap borrowing about) they'll start to do wacky stuff since that means the new Zombies stuff (which is actually pretty interesting in terms of story IMO) is in the same universe as MW 2019. And also how they'll do Vanguard since that's apprently partially just post-WW2 AH stopping a revival of the Nazis and be connected as well On CoD, I never played CoD & UO but kind of want to get around to *eventually*, started on CoD 2 with the Xbox 360 launch. Want to play both of them eventually but energy/some upcoming games late this year and next year probably will push that way back.

went back to cod 1, united offensive and cod 2. it was dogshit i miss the new games :( im stuck in the past

Once AGAIN, UKposts automatically deletes a perfectly good comment. Must have been because of the link. Re-posting it here. From: Eric Sommers People may want to check out the United Fronts mod which combines CoD1 and UO: www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-duty-united-fronts