I was the broke PS2 kid who wanted world at war more than any other game...even more than modern warfare. Compared to the other PS2 cods, I felt like this was actually pretty decent, taking inspiration from real world at war and adding its own spin on things. I would definitely play a remaster/port of this game, as it has some pretty good missions. Seeing it brought up to the same graphical standards as the actual world at war would've made it pretty awesome.

The real value to this game is that it was rated “T” as opposed to the regular WaW’s “M” rating. An absolute godsend for us kids who weren’t allowed to play M-rated games growing up, but wanted to play CoD.

I miss when call of duty games were like this and provided some historical context and the feeling of being part of a larger moment in time

This feels like a world at war prequel and I’m all for it

Now we know where Roebuck, Polansky and Miller were between Makin and Peliliu. Would be cool if someone remade these missions with a WaW mod.

I had no idea there was a next gen version of this game when I was a kid. It wasn't until like 2010 when I played the PS3 version. I was blown away at the differences

On the subject of VAs, the British squad leader in COD: Finest Hour was voiced by a member of AC/DC, and said the line "Get ready to break, ready to dash!" as a subtle reference.

i played this game all the time as a kid but no one seemed to have heard of it. awesome to see you cover it i'm about to get all nostalgic :)

The 6th Airbourne in Bastogne mission is something of a hidden gem The atmosphere and music, the snow, the pacing and situational context, variety of encounters and rapid transitions between loud shootouts and tense quiet moments, what a standout As for the rest of the game... yeah, what a bore

I was one of the few kids in high school that thoroughly enjoyed Final Fronts and replayed it multiple times. I was raised on Medal of Honor, so this was the first CoD game I ever purchased. I knew from my conversations with friends that the 360 version of WaW was something totally different, but I still enjoyed this game nonetheless.

Fun thing about the flamer: If you hit the head hitbox with it, they'll die like getting a head shot from a normal gun

I remember getting this after I got the actual World at War for the PS3 just because I was curious to see how the PS2 one played. I ended up realizing the single redeeming quality were the soundtrack songs that didn't appear in the regular World at War

I remember getting the hand-me-down PS2 from my cousin, renting this game from Blockbuster for the weekend, and being so pissed that this wasn't the World at War my cousin let me play at this house. This video definitely unlocked some sort of core memory.

COD World at War was something I saw a friend's dad playing when I lived in the States. I was just a kid and it scared the hell out of me. When I returned to Japan, I found out it was the only game in the COD series that was banned in Japan

"Don't worry sweetie. Just try your best and they'll see how well you're doing." Me, trying my best: 42:54

i remember playing this game as a kid and being really confused about how zombies mode wasnt in it. i beat the entire campaign on veteran mode thinking maybe thats how. and it just never appeared. i didnt learn until a few months later that this is a different version of the game without it and i was extremely upset as i did not have a ps3/360 for years

That's wild, I always thought I remembered playing the actual World at War on the PS2 but it was this game the whole time...Didn't realize until I saw you shoot the helmets off the dummys. Brought back all the memories at once.

Did you really edit in the subtitles by yourself? Wow the dedication is insane

THIS EXISTS????? oh this is gonna be great

This game....... Definitely different than world at war lol. It's crazy how much Cod big red one sound effects are used. Only played through it once. Really appreciate you bringing this to light not a lot of people know this exists

S0ur, watching all these old CoD videos like this one and finest hour have just been simply, amazing. thank you for making these and letting me relive my childhood brother! cod will never be the same again.

Oh boy honey, new CoD upload. This might make me pull out my DS copy of MW2 and play through that, haha. Side note, I applaud the effort you put into subtitling your videos (through youtube and the video itself!) Gives it that extra layer of polish that, while simple on the surface, makes me genuinely excited to watch your new videos.

I remember playing this year's ago on PS2 when i couldn't get a 360, i treasured it for what it was and i thought it would've been like the next gen version lmao

I was so confused when you said this was a Rebellion title, I was like "hold on I'm %100 World at War is a Treyarch title." But I guess that's how obscure this strange spin off is.

I appreciate that you added some in game subtitles +1

This was probably the first game I ever played. But I didn't have a memory card so I had to play the campaign all over again each time. That first mission is imprinted forever in my brain.

Damn that PS2 startup hits hard

Why did they let that guy say bastogne like that and leave the spelling mistake in and then immediately get it right at the start of the mission lol

i've played this when it first came out and as forgettable as it may be i still loved spending time on this game

My aunt bought this game for my cousin back in the day, I remember that he got it for Christmas. At first when he started it, we were pretty amazed how we were fighting on the pacific theater (or maybe mostly me). I thought to myself how violent this game was and how cool it felt using the flamethrower for the first time in a game. By you playing this game you reminded me all of those levels were I died so many times and had to peak around corners to survive the tense situations. Now that time has passed and after many playthroughs of my younger self enjoying this game, I'm glad somebody played it to remind me of those memories from the past.

I actually hooked my PS2 up and remembered why I got into geographical history, politics, and military history. It was my first cod game I got since I didn’t get a PS3 till 2011. Some of the things you mentioned are just broken because of emulation but others are strange occurrences or broken AI I’ve never experienced. I believe this is a forgotten gem like Roads To Victory

WAIT WHAT I SPENT A MAJORITY OF THE VIDEO THINKING THE SUBTITLES WERE PART OF THE GAME

Ive had this copy for most of my life and yeah it truly is the most cod of all time.

I remember the first few times i played this game as a kid, i had absolutely NO IDEA what the British narrator was saying in those three briefings. 😂

I’m new to your content and I love all the cod play throughs! Appreciate all the work u do!

I remember playing this but I couldn't remember what COD game it was. Thanks for bringing back the memories brother! _👍😙👌_

I from Brazil and was the kid that always had the older generation console from the group of friends, and this was not only my first Call of Duty experience as it was my first PS2 game, i also remember to this day the first and second words i learned from english was because of this game, it was Hold and Swap, nowadays i have played most of the games in this series (from 1 to Cold War) and learned how to speak and write in english thanks to the incredible campaings this games provided over the years, thanks for taking me down memory lane.

Haha as a kid, I used to replay some of the checkpoints all over again in a couple Pacific missions just because the IJA banzai charges would make me laugh very much

I didn't even know about this game. Great video as always!

Utterly fascinating. I can pick out a bunch of stuff from at least CoD 2, buildings, houses, doors, voices, sounds. There are so many things blended in here form 360 WaW that it almost feels like an internal beta build got published.

that is indeed Steve Blum voicing that one character you mentioned

I grew up on the call of duty games on the Nintendo DS, would be hilarious to see u play those

What was great about this game was that BOTH Roebuck and Polonsky surviving was canon. That scene in WaW where you have to pick to save one or the other is just a cutscene in Final Fronts

i haven't heard the voice of the sergeant since that era of games, idk if it was just the mic quality getting better that has made any other work of his unrecognizable to me, but every time i hear his voice in these "older" games it peaks something in my brain

44:11 I remember seeing this soldier as a kid and always felt so bad for him. 1945 Germany must've been absolutely apocalyptic.

YES!!! I was really hoping you'd realize this strange game existed and play it! Thank you, I'm super excited to watch this 🥰🤭

I remember playing this and LOVING it at the age of around 8 or so. I then went to a friends house and seen his dad playing World at War on an Xbox 360 and it all looked so different. I was in aww at how different the campaign actually was. I then bought a copy for my PS3 and the rest is history, but I still have a big heart for the PS2 version of World War 2, because in my young mind it was amazing.

Awesome, enjoyed as always! 😀

Grew up with these PS2 COD games with Final Fronts being my first COD & overall ahooter game I had. Looking back, ever since I've played the 3 other PS2 CODs(Finest Hour, 2: Big Red One & 3), I've always thought of this as being the weekest of em but I always have a soft spot for this game as not only as this was the first COD & shooter game I had, the game being set in a historical WW2 setting was what actually "kickstarted" my passion for learning about historical stuff so not bad game for impressing an impressionable 7-year old. Edit: also idk if you'll ever see this comment but if by chance you do, there is another "forgotten" COD game which I think was not on the timeline of COD games you showed at the start of the video. COD: Roads to Victory from 2007 which was the only COD game released on the PSP but even back then I could remember the controllers being quite janky & some of the hitboxes, especially for explosives, were very inconsistent.

I'm excited to see you doing cod 3 I used to play it on Wii back in the day

Always a good day when s0ur uploads

Every time I hear Sgt. Roebuck yell I think Big Boss is yelling at me on MSF

Bro your videos literally helped me finish modern warfare remastered 100% that pesky counter mvp challenge was my last 1... im nearly up to 31000 melee kills.

This was my second call of duty game and I still go back to revisit it frequently. I think I still have most the mission dialogue memorized. I’d love a remaster

Thanks to this series, legit become my favourite youtube channel. And ngl, would love to see you play through the old Medal of honor games 🤣😅

Watching this was awesome. Brought back a lot of memories I forgot.

This was pretty infamous when it came out. People were constantly laughing about how bad it was compared to the 360/ps3 version

I grew up with this game and still remember it very fondly! It was one of the few PS2 games that I had that still worked (thanks young me) and I loved it so much I used to record myself playing it through my VCR, as it acted as a medium to use it on my old ass TV.

I remember this, similar yet different, waw pc got soviet, the ps2 got the brits, each has its own charm, really loves the little music after completing each level

I remember finding this game among the many games that I had for the PS2 as a kid and playing this gave good context to the original WAW since I played the game as a teenager but had it since I was a kid

so this was my second call of duty game I ever played. didn't remember this until I watched you play it and it was so familiar.

I know different platform versions of games without significant changes probably aren't worth really covering, but the Wii version of World at War has always been an ironic favorite of mine. It even has co-op, and in true nintendo fashion, it's a mario galaxy style "little brother mode". The first player plays like normal, and the second player essentially plays it like a rail shooter where the first player controls their movement. Imagine a marine giving another one a piggyback ride, it's basically that in game form. I just wish it was an option for more games because it's such a funny concept.

This game has the same vibe as Shellshock ‘Nam 67 wich was developed by eidos. Colour palete is somehow similar to me, textures are granulised/pixelised but one thing that gives it away is Polonsky character. In Shellshock there is character named Polonsky that later spirals out of controll and is named Psycho and is voiced by the same voice actor.

This was actually my first cod, and I loved it when I was younger. I almost completely forgot about it. When I got the 360 version I didn’t even realize it was a different game and just assumed I dreamed this one up lol.

I remember playing this back in an Internet/gaming shop in Thailand when I was a teen. Back then the ps2 was still the predominant gaming console across most of Asia, or it seemed so. So it makes sense they catered to the PS2 as well as there was still a sizeable market share. I enjoyed it, seemed like a throwback to the old console CoDs like CoD Big Red One etc. Bit janky and goofy here and there but was fun

I didn't even know this existed. So these were the characters in the 'next-gen' World at War campaign. Kiefer Sutherland played Roebuck, I believe, but here they have a soundalike.

Crazy, I just finished uploading my last parts for the World at War original. Including the last part of the Pacific Campaign when I saw a spider and took like 4 minutes to kill and set its corpse in fire. I think I did play this, I do remember this stuff

I remember being so psyched for this game coming out been saving all summer to get this game and didn’t have a 360 or ps3 yet. My mom got the game for me on her way home from work and picked me up from the bus stop, which she never did. Got home and started the game up and after playing the tutorial I went and looked up the trailer for WAW and it looked nothing alike. I beat the game in less than 3 hours and my mom took the game back and returned it. I got an Xbox for Christmas that year and she got me the real world at war.

This just unlocked a memory. I totally played this. As soon as u entered the training mission I remembered. I think I played on psp (?) if it was on that? If not I guess I played on ps2. Wow I can’t believe I forgot I played this, or that it even existed.

I got this game along with the Finest Hour/Big Red One combo when I was 10, never had a 360 or PS3 until I was 13 and couldn't play M rated games, so this port was perfect for me. That was when I was 10 however. Then I got the 'actual' WaW when I was 14 and never played this port again, until a few months or so ago. I had such a rough time playing it on the PS2 almost a decade later that my eyes started to hurt because of it lol Also the input lag was really brutal with such a blurry screen and aiming with a PS2 controller, I don't know how 10 y/o me beat it.

You know, I find this version abit more endearing in a certain way. (Atleast from a story perspective) Theres alot more character to the *american* ((pacific)) slient protag in this version Than there ever was for the 360/PS3/PC version of WaW here. like, You never got introduced to who Miller *even was*. You kinda just get plopped into him after roebrucks narration of Carlsson's raid, when he ((once again Miller)) was about to get-got by the IJA officer. ((Edit: Hell, Roebruck Feels more like *thee main player character* here than you do as a matter of fact, especially now hearing *Miller's narration* of the missions))

This was my very first call of duty game, for me back then it was the best game I had ever player. I vividly remember not having a memory card and my progress being deleted every time I shut off the ps2. I used to leave it on for hours and hours on end until I came back from school so I didn't lose any progress

I think this was the very last game I played on my ps2, while WaW was the very first game I played on the 360, which is pretty poetic in a way. back then I thought that this was not as good as the ps2 CoDs, but I still had fun with it, especially as a WW2 buff, so could play it again for nostalgia sake

Honestly, this looks like the kind of stuff I played as a kid. Reminds me of the PS2 Medal of Honor games. I could see myself playing this, even these days.

I remember playing this when it first came out and everyone was asking if I had played zombies yet and I was so confused because I had already beat the game and their weren’t any zombies in final fronts. Felt weird knowing I played a different WAW then everyone else.

I can’t help but notice that this game shares almost every sound effect, HUD elements, and even some voice actors with Call of Duty 2: Big Red One, which is awesome for me because that was my first CoD that I really played a lot of on the OG Xbox. I’m actually impressed they seem to have gotten more voice lines out of Kiefer Sutherland for a PS2 spinoff of WaW, and that they faithfully aped the style of the core game in the cinematics. If this game had come out two years earlier it would have been better remembered.

A Drifter reference? You got some style, brotha.

I think the snow missions where my favorite the environment, The music, The characters, Just hit so different especially on the one where your in that one town with the British

Found your channel from a comment on another channel called oTradeMark from 11 years ago, literally about as long as I’ve been alive 😂

I like that it’s still Keifer Sutherland as Sgt. Roebuck but they have Brian Bloom narrating as Miller.

i’m 20 but I remember hearing my dad play this game and mention that Roebuck was the same voice actor from monsters vs aliens if y’all remember that movie, and some other stuff. I always thought this was World at War the OG one, but it’s amazing that I remembered all of this instantly, specifically the mud transition.

I remember renting this game as a kid and loving it (I hadn't played any other shooter before)

Fun fact. If you shoot the fruit’s instead of the helmets during training the sarge will comment about it before telling you to hit the helmets again

Hey S0ur have you ever played Brothers in arms?, there is 3 of them, they are WW2 games and they are really good, if you haven’t played them would you consider playing them? road to Hill 30 then earned in blood then Hells highway

There are a great soundtrack and nice voiceacting in this game!

at the start of the game I heard the narrator who is Varric from Dragon age and I immediately imagined a dwarf with a crossbow running through and causing mayhem across the pacific front

25:29 I'm pretty sure this cutscene is made using the opening cutscene for the second to last mission of Big Red One as a basis, and then changing some animations and camera angles.

absolutely loved this game, first played it in maybe 3rd or 4th grade, and looking back on it now, there’s a clear answer as to why im still not giving up on joining the marines😂

Not to mention the Marines in world War II did not wear divisional insignia/SSI on their HBT fatigues. Here and there a few did where the EGA on their topmost buttonhole.

Yoooo finally finding this childhood game!! I start thinking I was crazy or my brain making it but no... It's TRUE!!! So glad for this fr

What's interesting is how most of the models and sounds are from older cods. Lots of cod2 stuff. The audio for the Sten is from the mp44 in cod1.

I remember watching gameplay of the normal World at War and saw this in the store once as a kid, got my mom to buy it , which i didn't expect she would do since it's a shooting game and well, as it turns out, PS2 version wasn't the game i thought i would be getting. Still enjoyed it tbh

41:45 the halftrack doing a 360 was HILARIOUS!

I remember the day playing this, the best days tbh

Had a World at War strat guide. Read the book, especially the Nazi Zombies section, WAY too many times. Wanted game. Only had the PS2. Told father. Father bought game. Started playing. Thought it was weird that none of the missions lined up with the book, even though some characters were the same. Didn't give it too much thought. Beat the campaign. No Nazi Zombies. Visibly confused. Find out that Final Fronts is weird spin-off thing. Want to preform ritual to curse developer. Can not do so because same developer made Sniper Elite V2. That said, it was an interesting idea to take a game, rework the stories, and then release it on the PS2. An interesting thing that I thought really showed the difference in hardware capabilities was in this game, the flamethrower just felt like a weird machine gun considering it didn't actually set anything on fire whereas the World at War flamethrower would actually light things on fire that would then burn and become charred. Another interesting note is the reuse of CoD 3 German voices. Also, it actually makes sense for you not to pick up too much ammo from an enemy's gun since you're taking the ammo from the gun, not their person. Also, that guy was not actually Tank's VA.

This is the first COD game i played and finished, big nostalgia feelings here!

This was a very fondly remembered game for me. My parents wouldn't let me play M games at my age so this was what I got when I asked for the new Call of Duty. After playing the hell out of Big Red One and 3 this was a welcome addition. As a kid I didn't notice all the Kings of Voice Acting that appear in the game.

I played this one. So cool to see it get represented even if it wasn’t the premier cod of the time 😂

I remember when I was young and I only had PS2, I told my mom that I would like to have World At War one day... Well, she bought me this!

love that one marine voiced by fry from futurama lol