I had a great time playing through this game! It really brought back great childhood memories. If there's a game you would like to watch me play, please don't hesitate to let me know! Thank you guys for watching and for all the support! You guys are the best!
Honestly my favorite thing about call of duty is going back to the finest hour WWII series that were made on the original Xbox and PlayStation2 😂 same with the old ghost recon games :3 you took me back so far man 😂 , you took me back to an era where mercenaries playground of destruction was game changing 😂
hearing your intro about nostalgia and i just just finished Oblivion 100% with my luck maxed out i already know your gnna have so much fun maximizing all the little things that will make you overpowered im looking forward to watching these videos edit this is like GoldenEye X10 with much better graphics
@@patriot17764th do not forget medal of Honor "moh" don't forget the original ghost recon, im glad that I was lucky enough to bunch of old tech like the gamecube with need for speed heat , I had a psp and PS2 and og xbox that played midnight club dub edition and need for speed underground 2 , lmfao XD All these multiplayer games got me thinking what the hell happened to them and why do they not exist like this anymore X3 Thank you to anybody who read my comment good luck to you all and may you all find peace in your domains :3
This is the one that should be remastered besides World at War. No doubt it was one of the best in the Saga. What made it better was the voice actors were from Band of Brothers!
@@kelvinonealgaming not only that, attention to detail is amazing. The weapons are accurate and even if one notices, in the first 2 africa levels the US soldiers have like an armband with the US flag. That actually happened, it was issued to make it clear to the Vichy french that they were americans so the french would surrender
Hands down one of the most interesting things is the Vichy France. You’d never know that shit as a kid till years later when you look into the story a lil more. God I love this game lol
The voice actors were stacked in this game. Tons of actors from the Band of Brothers series were lent their voice for some of the squad members and even Mark Hamil did the History Channel voice overs.
Kelly being the sole survivor (excluding the protagonist) from the original squad is nothing short of awesomeness. Makes me proud as fellow glasses wearer.
The game of my childhood, with this game not only start my taste for games, but also the passion for the WW2 and the history in general. I was so sad when Vic and Hawkins died
Brooklyn dying really snuck up on you and Kelly going from brown noser to being a fucking pissed off sergeant after hawk dies really fucks with you it's like he lost all sense of niceness
This game may be very aged but I will always, ALWAYS hold this game in very high regard. It was one of the first games I ever played and got me so interested in history that I'm thinking about making a career out of that interest.
It's the little details in this game that make it for me. They gave the Vichy French actual French weapons even though they only get used for one mission! The tank level has you versing French tanks! When you're in Sicily the Italians are using Italian weapons and Italian tanks!
Only realising this now after all these years shocks me as i was very young 5 or 6 when first playing it so i didn't really know who i was fighting since then though I've become a massive military history buff and militaria collector so i now realise.
There were also destructible buildings in the tank mission, you can collapse a tower on top of a Flak 88 for example. There are things like this in many levels, such as seemingly out of bounds vehicles and objects being destructible or the planes in the hangar on the first Africa mission being destructible.
Don't forget that CoD: WWII took a lot of inspiration from this game. The 1st Infantry Division being the unit you're in, a lot of the battles following D-Day, a Jewish wisecracking best friend, nerdy glasses wearing know it all, BAR gunner with a thick accent (Texas here, New York Italian in CoD: WWII), stoic hard charger Sergeant, and a by the book CO (not often seen in CoD 2: BRO, but still present)
This is my first call of duty too and surely became my favorite ps 2 games back in 2006 or 2007 when my my father bought the consol along with this game as bonus.Very good times back then
Getting a PS2 in 06-07 was quite late. But then I got my first console the NES in 94 when it was already 8 years old and the SNES had been out for years and the PS1 was coming out. I played the first COD on PC in 2003 or whenever that came out. It was an amazing experience. I never played the console games except for the ones on 360.
@@wertywerrtyson5529 The Standard PS2 released in 2000 and the PS2 slim was released in 2004 the latter which i had with COD big red one around the same time as him. I was 5 when red one released so the slim wouldn't of been old at the time plus at that age thinking about consoles in the way of newer and better isn't really thought about. The ps2 was the biggest selling console out of all others so that's why it held itself through the years from popularity even when newer and better stuff had arrived. I think as well it was just a different time back then where newer and better wasn't a ingrained thing into people like it is now with tech. The PS2 console and games for the PS2 Continued to be made until worldwide production of the PS2 ceased on the 4th Jan 2013 which is weird to think about.
Ridiculously underrated! From the badass aerial bombing sequence with Stretch to slowly watching my entire squad be killed in cold blood, this gave me high expectations that future installments did not nearly live up to
I don’t like finest hour because of a glitch where if you die on mission 2 after the checkpoint, the screen’ll go black and you’ll have to reset your PlayStation to continue
I replayed this game so much when I was little, much more than finest hour. This game had the closest thing to actual characters in early cod games and I remember being like 8 and crying when Brooklyn got killed. Despite having some terribly aged controls and other aspects of the actual gameplay. The mission diversity is really good. The B-24 mission in this is basically what gave us Black Cat's in World at War and is leagues better than the OG cod's B-17 mission in United Offensive. The tank mission in this game IMO is better than Cod 2's simply because its third person. But Africa, Sicily, Belgium and western Germany are all fairly unused locations in the cod WW2 games and WW2 game in general so it's great to see them in this game and done with a relatively great amount of detail for the time and scale of this game's development. I also love hearing the actors from band of brother's voice acting in this. I remember watching the development documentary in the main menu quite a few times lol. But again, as a kid I found it gut wrenching watching each of your squad members die throughout the deration of the war. Especially the one in Sicily. The way he's mercilessly gunned down was frankly upsetting in a way I can't really describe or compare. Honestly, I just miss how authentic these games use to be. A lot of hard work and dedication went into this game, and you can tell.
Something that bugged me a lot when I played this as a kid: you know the guy with the glasses that is always screaming “medic!!”? If you read the game’s manual it says that *he’s* the squads medic.
When this came out, brother and I gathered up whatever money we had and had our mom drive us to blockbuster so we could buy a copy for our PS2. We would each play a mission and then pass the controller off and the other would watch. I would give anything to go back to those times just for 12 hours.
Fun fact of war for anyone interested The plane sound were made with air horns as an form of mental warfare,some historians say when soldiers heard that sound they would panic and be unorganized and easy to kill. Almost the same deal with the katyusha.
I used to play cod 2 and cod 3 on my og xbox. i spent hours and hours just replaying the campaigns as a kid and never getting bored. Those are my teo favourite games.
Finally somebody talking about it this game is my comfort game till this day, it's the feeling of Brotherhood with the characters the game has a way of building bond with them best call of duty ever
I've talked to a number of people about this game and no one knew about this, but the nostalgia from seeing this, the missions, equipment, characters mild spoiler I still get teary eyed remembering the loss of two members that stick with me. RIP to these two soldiers fallen in the line of duty (to anyone who played this will know who I'm talking about)
This game was my introduction as well, my brother got the collectors edition and i loved the story, i would always go back to the bonus features and watch some of the docs they did with genuine BRO fighters
There’s a mission of a similar premise on the Medal of Honor VR game. Running around the bomber in VR gave me the same feeling I did as a kid playing Big Red One.
I've always wanted a game inspired by that very level! I always played it so much as a kid and it's the very reason why I'm a big fan of the B-24J to this very day. Anytime I can use it in a game I just get instant nostalgia and I always love to see it in books about WW2 and such. I'd definitely love some sort of WW2 game inspired by this level and by this game overall some day. Man, that'd be amazing! I know there are some games where you can control a B-24J but imo none of them give me the feeling that COD 2: BRO did back in the day. Some come close, but aren't nearly as fun as this level!
Bruh, this is one of my favorite video games from my childhood, I really wish they would remaster this game, also the Kar98K cycle sound after you take a shot, oh I love that sound so much
Call of Duty 4 was my first, and man its so wierd hearing so many of the same sounds in this older game based off ww2. The ambient background gunfire, the friendly soldier callouts even sound the same or re used
I def remember this from like 2007 at my cousins. I thought it was a fever dream. It’s also impressive this is the only cod game in ww2 with the Italians
Remember when I got this game when I was a kid. My dad took me to a local pawnshop to get a game for the ps1 my sister had. Instead he called my name and asked me if I wanted the GameCube they had, so I got that and big red one that day. Played the hell outta it to, never had a memory card so I had to replay it from the start every day but I didn’t care lol.
This game is what I was hoping WWII was going to be like, at least with the singleplayer. I was so let down because this is probably one of the best singleplayer campaigns in Call of Duty history.
I agree! The campaign in this game is awesome! Something i’m going to do is play all of WWII in a video. That’s a game I have but I never really played the campaign
Dude. I was 10 when getting this game. Mark Hamill does the narration. Im so happy someone else loved this game as much as i did. I remember the graveyard and Kelly was going sicko mode. I remember popping that baby open after baseball
My favorite thing about this game was the characters. Each had such personality and blended so well together that it was genuinely sad when a couple of them died. RIP Denley and Bloomfield
this was one of those games that i just happened to pick up when i was 10 and then ended up playing it for hundreds of hours for the next 3-4ish years. one of those games that seems insignificant to most but was huge for me. love BR1!
To this very day I continue to yell, "Get off the damn road" in proxy chat on Hell let Loose, in memory of this game. Also to see if anyone can make the connection.
This is a piece of media that's like very close to my childhood, great video man. Really cool to know that other people remember this and it wasn't one big fever dream. Good luck with the channel, man.
I was in my teens when I played this and what I loved most about this is it felt a lot like COD: United Offensive which still to this day is my all time favorite COD game.
I played a lot of this game as a kid too, because I didn't get an XBOX 360. I think it helped that a couple cast members of Band of Brothers were the soldiers you fought with, and that helped with the emersion. Also, Mark Hamill did the voiceover for the Military Channel newsreel footage.
One of my absolute favorite games from my childhood! I always played the B24 level over and over again, trying to get higher kills each time. I recently learned that apparently Mark Hamill did the old fashioned news reporter voice during the military channel clips in the game
Holy shit same! I didn't have a memory card for my PS2 so I'd come home from school and play through the whole game up until the B-24 mission and just play it over and over until I had to go to bed.
This was my first call of duty game, along with finest hour they helped me sink so many hours into my playstation 2 growing up. I certainly miss this game and so dearly wish Activision would remaster it.
This game is my childhood. I playes it over and over again. Plus the D day mission is fantastic. Hell the other missions are battles we never seen in world war 2 based call of dutys anyways!! I miss this game so much. I also completely forgot about the Military channel cuts! Man I miss that channel too, it used to be so good. Top Tens and Future Weapons were banger shows. I remember every Thanksgiving was Tanksgiving and they would say "Tank You!" Which I still say today lmao man time flys.
This game, along with Call of Duty 3 was my childhood! its a shame that this game is only on super old consoles and not on Xbox 360 because I would play through on Veteran all over again just to relive the past
@@train_go_boom2065 They are, I have Halo 2 and a game called Shellshock Nam '67 which are both on original Xbox but can be used for Xbox 360, not sure about Big Red One though, I'll have to do some searching for that Edit: Found a wiki list of backward compatible original xbox games and yes, Call of Duty 2 Big Red One is on that list, guess I've got another ancient game to be looking for now lol
The Flying fortress level was INSANE. A good precursor to Black Cats. Also the Italy mission Operation Husky where you could carry a browning M1919 machine gun for the first time. Definitely under-rated.
finest hour and big red one were truly staples in my call of duty career and what started my journey at a young age, next best one in my opinion was call of duty 3 followed by the modern warfares and black ops series... truly pinnacle games for their times
Grew up loving this game. I still remember the rumors of call of duty 4 being set in modern warfare and people thinking that was a bad idea. Thanks for the video!
I remember playing the demo for this at gamestop on one of their Xbox 360s when they first came out. The demo mission was the on where you retake what I think is Tripoli, the sea port city with the flak 88's on the beach at the end. In the beginning you're in the back of an open top troop transport with a dogfight overhead. I was absolutely stunned looking at the clothing of the character models up close in the back of that seat, being able to see texture. I was thinking "graphics will never look better than this".
That was Call of Duty 2 - the main game (PC/Xbox 360). This is the 5th gen (PS2/OGXbox/GC) spin off Call of Duty 2 Big Red One. But I agree, that mission and demo was a great showcase.
This was my first ever FPS that I played back when I was 6 or 7. I played through this game more times over than any other CoD game. So many childhood memories like trying to keep friendlies alive through the whole mission, or trying to shoot down as many fighters on the B-24 mission as possible.
I bought this game, mistaken it for COD2 for the PC because I played that game before at my cousin's and wanted to have a taste of it. Little did I know, that this game would be the most replayed PS2 game growing up. People nowadays would always say they're attached to Captain Price, Soap, Ghost and such. But to me, Brooklyn, Vic, Kelly and Hawkins were by BROs (Big Red One). When COD WW2 was announced and that we'll play in the Big Red One division, I was hoping we'd see the original squad. But, I was disappointed..
There's tiny little elements in this game you might never notice even after years of playing. In terms of set dressing and keeping accurate to real history and tactics, have you ever notice how the German sniper in the mission "Crossroads" shoots Hawk? The highest ranking soldier there? That's exactly what snipers were trained to do. And are still trained to do to this day. The German sniper then shoots the medic. Which is a war crime. But it's something the Germans did quite often. Especially on the eastern front with the Soviets. Only it was way more mutual over there. In terms of storytelling, you have things like the juxtaposition of hardass Bloomfield in the prologue to the snarky, fresh out of boot camp, Bloomfield two years earlier is also amazing.
I'll never forget my neighbors showing me this game. We all played COD but I'd totally missed this title. The story and characters were so immersive we were all crushed every time we lost a squad mate, like Bloomfield.. (RIP). It's been so long I'd totally forgotten about these History or Military channel cut scenes haha. What a blast from the past
I remember playing this in the video game section of Circuit City on a Xbox demo kiosk as a preteen. *old man voice* "it just ain't the same as it used to be! ✊️"
NGL, this was my first call of duty and the most impactful campaign wise. Went through so many emotions and would never forget it. I still praise it when asked about the top call of duty games.
This was my introduction to a console FPS. This will always hold a special place in my heart. I remember playing it so much I was able to beat it on the hardest difficulty.
Big Red 1 was my first COD game as well. I played this game ad nauseam and can qoute some of the cut scenes. It was made when the devs really cared about story and the connection to the characters. Like when Bloomfield dies on the Sigfried line mission during a mortar strike when trying to clear the barbed wire is touching. You can hear him saying, "I might actually make it home from this lousy war..." on multiple occasions in different missons leading up to that point when he literally says it right before being KIA. It really does make you think of all the real life people that didn't make it home. Such a great game and OST.
This was the game that got me invested in WW2. Such a wonderful game, short but excellent story and wonderful quotes. Add onto the cast being some of the Band of Brothers actors. Oh, back when games were made with love.
Its nice to see this game get the recognition it deserves. We didn’t have a lot of money growing up as kids. But me and my brother bought a ps2many years after the newer consoles were out. And found this and many other titles so enjoyable. This has and will always be one of my favorites. Thanks for this video
This was my first CoD game ever, it got me into the series as a kid, I thought the characters were all fun and well fleshed out, and you wouldn't believe my shock when I first beat the Africa campaign and saw that there was a whole other map worth of levels to go through
great fucking game, alot of folks my age got into history because of the WW2 cods, medal of honor and the brothers in arms series. video brought back alot of memories for sure, I played the hell out of this one, experiencing the journey of the big red one from north africa to the siegfried line was a hell of a trip. BROOOOKLYYYYYYN!!!!!!
I had a great time playing through this game! It really brought back great childhood memories. If there's a game you would like to watch me play, please don't hesitate to let me know! Thank you guys for watching and for all the support! You guys are the best!
Honestly my favorite thing about call of duty is going back to the finest hour WWII series that were made on the original Xbox and PlayStation2 😂 same with the old ghost recon games :3 you took me back so far man 😂 , you took me back to an era where mercenaries playground of destruction was game changing 😂
You are also making me miss the medal of Honor games , and specifically European assault mohea
hearing your intro about nostalgia and i just just finished Oblivion 100% with my luck maxed out i already know your gnna have so much fun maximizing all the little things that will make you overpowered
im looking forward to watching these videos
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this is like GoldenEye X10 with much better graphics
Thank you. I love this game. This and finest hour are awesome. Childhood games for me.
@@patriot17764th do not forget medal of Honor "moh" don't forget the original ghost recon, im glad that I was lucky enough to bunch of old tech like the gamecube with need for speed heat , I had a psp and PS2 and og xbox that played midnight club dub edition and need for speed underground 2 , lmfao XD All these multiplayer games got me thinking what the hell happened to them and why do they not exist like this anymore X3
Thank you to anybody who read my comment good luck to you all and may you all find peace in your domains :3
This is the one that should be remastered besides World at War. No doubt it was one of the best in the Saga. What made it better was the voice actors were from Band of Brothers!
I had no idea! That makes it even better! This game definitely needs a remaster
@@kelvinonealgaming I think there's a collector's edition of this game where they show behind the scenes and motion cap
This game is soooo underrated!!
My childhood I wish I could get a copy
I agree to that upgrade the graphics and make for xbox series consoles
One of the few WW2 games were you don't only fight germans, but Vichy French and Italians too
That’s actually really surprising
@@kelvinonealgaming not only that, attention to detail is amazing. The weapons are accurate and even if one notices, in the first 2 africa levels the US soldiers have like an armband with the US flag. That actually happened, it was issued to make it clear to the Vichy french that they were americans so the french would surrender
I wish they done it on the PC CoD2 also. Its a wasted potential, seeing that u simply cant do anything with a PS2 game other than emulating it.
besides...one of the, if not hte only one that show us different battles, that we never heard of before, even the D Day is unique...
Hands down one of the most interesting things is the Vichy France. You’d never know that shit as a kid till years later when you look into the story a lil more. God I love this game lol
The voice actors were stacked in this game. Tons of actors from the Band of Brothers series were lent their voice for some of the squad members and even Mark Hamil did the History Channel voice overs.
Oh shit I didn’t know Mark Hamill played the narrator! That’s awesome!
@@kelvinonealgaminghe's a movie the big red one from 1980 which also makes this more fitting
That's sad he didn't realize the January 1944 was a typo
That was Mark Hamill this whole time? XD
Not only do they have the actors from Band of Brothers, they say some of their iconic lines from the show
This... was a bloody damn good game.
It absolutely is!!
lol.
Kelly being the sole survivor (excluding the protagonist) from the original squad is nothing short of awesomeness. Makes me proud as fellow glasses wearer.
Absolutely! As a fellow glasses wearer myself he’s my favorite character of the game!
Are we the same person? Kelly was my dude too cuz of glasses lol
@@forrestgumball Hellllllll yeah!!
Not only that, Kelly ends up with his own squad during the game too. he had a serious background character arch for sure.
Hawkins was only wounded. He survived but was sent home.
i just got hit with extreme nostalgia. this was my favorite game to play on the ps2 next to "Secret Weapons Over Normandy"
Secret Weapons was so good. One of the greatest Lucas Arts games.
This game managed to tell a great story of a platoon on the big red 1... not like some other cod that came out on 2017
Its the same with the battlefront games, the og BF2 has a way better story than the new ones and it’s literally just narration over some gameplay lol
The game of my childhood, with this game not only start my taste for games, but also the passion for the WW2 and the history in general.
I was so sad when Vic and Hawkins died
Brooklyn dying really snuck up on you and Kelly going from brown noser to being a fucking pissed off sergeant after hawk dies really fucks with you it's like he lost all sense of niceness
This game may be very aged but I will always, ALWAYS hold this game in very high regard. It was one of the first games I ever played and got me so interested in history that I'm thinking about making a career out of that interest.
This game is awesome! Good luck with your future endeavors!
@@kelvinonealgaming Thank you, I really appreciate it!
Same bro I got this for my PS2 when I was like 8 or 9
It's the little details in this game that make it for me. They gave the Vichy French actual French weapons even though they only get used for one mission! The tank level has you versing French tanks! When you're in Sicily the Italians are using Italian weapons and Italian tanks!
Only Cod WW2 game to feature the Vichy French and Italians.
Only realising this now after all these years shocks me as i was very young 5 or 6 when first playing it so i didn't really know who i was fighting since then though I've become a massive military history buff and militaria collector so i now realise.
well, no, the tanks you fight while in the Stuart are italian, which is still very much historically accurate!
There were also destructible buildings in the tank mission, you can collapse a tower on top of a Flak 88 for example. There are things like this in many levels, such as seemingly out of bounds vehicles and objects being destructible or the planes in the hangar on the first Africa mission being destructible.
Meanwhile, Vanguard has German guns showing up in Japan. This game takes the extra care that makes it so good.
Love this game. Fun fact: the narrator of the Military Channel clips is Mark Hamill, who played in the film The Big Red One.
That is an amazing fun fact! From what I’ve seen from earlier comments the cast of the game is completely STACKED
Don't forget that CoD: WWII took a lot of inspiration from this game. The 1st Infantry Division being the unit you're in, a lot of the battles following D-Day, a Jewish wisecracking best friend, nerdy glasses wearing know it all, BAR gunner with a thick accent (Texas here, New York Italian in CoD: WWII), stoic hard charger Sergeant, and a by the book CO (not often seen in CoD 2: BRO, but still present)
This is my first call of duty too and surely became my favorite ps 2 games back in 2006 or 2007 when my my father bought the consol along with this game as bonus.Very good times back then
When cod 3 came out was my first COD then I got to play COD 2 but i never played cod 2 big red one
Getting a PS2 in 06-07 was quite late. But then I got my first console the NES in 94 when it was already 8 years old and the SNES had been out for years and the PS1 was coming out. I played the first COD on PC in 2003 or whenever that came out. It was an amazing experience. I never played the console games except for the ones on 360.
@@wertywerrtyson5529 The Standard PS2 released in 2000 and the PS2 slim was released in 2004 the latter which i had with COD big red one around the same time as him. I was 5 when red one released so the slim wouldn't of been old at the time plus at that age thinking about consoles in the way of newer and better isn't really thought about. The ps2 was the biggest selling console out of all others so that's why it held itself through the years from popularity even when newer and better stuff had arrived. I think as well it was just a different time back then where newer and better wasn't a ingrained thing into people like it is now with tech. The PS2 console and games for the PS2 Continued to be made until worldwide production of the PS2 ceased on the 4th Jan 2013 which is weird to think about.
Ridiculously underrated! From the badass aerial bombing sequence with Stretch to slowly watching my entire squad be killed in cold blood, this gave me high expectations that future installments did not nearly live up to
I will always hold Big Red One and Finest Hour as my most favorite call of duties, Big Red One actually tricked me into join the Army lmao
I don’t like finest hour because of a glitch where if you die on mission 2 after the checkpoint, the screen’ll go black and you’ll have to reset your PlayStation to continue
Damn. 😂
He fell for the Iraq War era military propaganda lmao
My favorite cod growing up. I once beat the campaign 3 times in one day.
same...i played it all the time as a kid, completely forgot about it
thx for reminding about the great times i had with this game
I replayed this game so much when I was little, much more than finest hour. This game had the closest thing to actual characters in early cod games and I remember being like 8 and crying when Brooklyn got killed. Despite having some terribly aged controls and other aspects of the actual gameplay. The mission diversity is really good. The B-24 mission in this is basically what gave us Black Cat's in World at War and is leagues better than the OG cod's B-17 mission in United Offensive. The tank mission in this game IMO is better than Cod 2's simply because its third person. But Africa, Sicily, Belgium and western Germany are all fairly unused locations in the cod WW2 games and WW2 game in general so it's great to see them in this game and done with a relatively great amount of detail for the time and scale of this game's development. I also love hearing the actors from band of brother's voice acting in this. I remember watching the development documentary in the main menu quite a few times lol. But again, as a kid I found it gut wrenching watching each of your squad members die throughout the deration of the war. Especially the one in Sicily. The way he's mercilessly gunned down was frankly upsetting in a way I can't really describe or compare. Honestly, I just miss how authentic these games use to be. A lot of hard work and dedication went into this game, and you can tell.
Something that bugged me a lot when I played this as a kid: you know the guy with the glasses that is always screaming “medic!!”? If you read the game’s manual it says that *he’s* the squads medic.
When this came out, brother and I gathered up whatever money we had and had our mom drive us to blockbuster so we could buy a copy for our PS2. We would each play a mission and then pass the controller off and the other would watch. I would give anything to go back to those times just for 12 hours.
Fun fact of war for anyone interested
The plane sound were made with air horns as an form of mental warfare,some historians say when soldiers heard that sound they would panic and be unorganized and easy to kill.
Almost the same deal with the katyusha.
Its probably the only ww2 game ever as far as I know where you fight Vichy French in North Africa.
I used to play cod 2 and cod 3 on my og xbox. i spent hours and hours just replaying the campaigns as a kid and never getting bored. Those are my teo favourite games.
All of us who had the honor to play the game don't worry we remember.We are few but still here😂
the menu theme alone brings back so much nostalgia for my first COD game on my gamecube
Finally somebody talking about it this game is my comfort game till this day, it's the feeling of Brotherhood with the characters the game has a way of building bond with them best call of duty ever
I played them all. I played the finest hour and big red one OVER AND OVER. The opening video for the finest hour gave me chills every single time
I've talked to a number of people about this game and no one knew about this, but the nostalgia from seeing this, the missions, equipment, characters mild spoiler I still get teary eyed remembering the loss of two members that stick with me. RIP to these two soldiers fallen in the line of duty (to anyone who played this will know who I'm talking about)
i also adore CoD2 Big red one for actually being one of the Only WW2 cods to Include Italian soldiers in it.
This was not only my first call of duty game, but also made me interested in ww2
This game was my introduction as well, my brother got the collectors edition and i loved the story, i would always go back to the bonus features and watch some of the docs they did with genuine BRO fighters
Big Red One was great! the B-24 Liberator mission was lovely; This game deserves a remake with the current graphics.
It definitely deserves a remaster! I would get it in a millisecond
There’s a mission of a similar premise on the Medal of Honor VR game. Running around the bomber in VR gave me the same feeling I did as a kid playing Big Red One.
I've always wanted a game inspired by that very level! I always played it so much as a kid and it's the very reason why I'm a big fan of the B-24J to this very day. Anytime I can use it in a game I just get instant nostalgia and I always love to see it in books about WW2 and such. I'd definitely love some sort of WW2 game inspired by this level and by this game overall some day. Man, that'd be amazing! I know there are some games where you can control a B-24J but imo none of them give me the feeling that COD 2: BRO did back in the day. Some come close, but aren't nearly as fun as this level!
Bruh, this is one of my favorite video games from my childhood, I really wish they would remaster this game, also the Kar98K cycle sound after you take a shot, oh I love that sound so much
"Because we're the infantry private, AND GOD LOVES THE INFANTRY." I would unironically follow Sgt Hawkins into the 9th circle of hell and back.
Call of Duty 4 was my first, and man its so wierd hearing so many of the same sounds in this older game based off ww2. The ambient background gunfire, the friendly soldier callouts even sound the same or re used
I def remember this from like 2007 at my cousins. I thought it was a fever dream.
It’s also impressive this is the only cod game in ww2 with the Italians
And Vichy French
This was my favorite call of duty. Played this so much as a kid. Sadly you can’t find it anywhere anymore.
I wish this and COD 3 came to PC. Shame early COD is dotted all over the place in accessibility.
This was my first call of duty game. I loved it so much. The voice actors were from band of brothers, it made it feel so real
I have this on the OG Xbox even though I play it over and over
Remember when I got this game when I was a kid. My dad took me to a local pawnshop to get a game for the ps1 my sister had. Instead he called my name and asked me if I wanted the GameCube they had, so I got that and big red one that day. Played the hell outta it to, never had a memory card so I had to replay it from the start every day but I didn’t care lol.
This game is what I was hoping WWII was going to be like, at least with the singleplayer. I was so let down because this is probably one of the best singleplayer campaigns in Call of Duty history.
I agree! The campaign in this game is awesome! Something i’m going to do is play all of WWII in a video. That’s a game I have but I never really played the campaign
Dude. I was 10 when getting this game. Mark Hamill does the narration. Im so happy someone else loved this game as much as i did. I remember the graveyard and Kelly was going sicko mode. I remember popping that baby open after baseball
My favorite thing about this game was the characters. Each had such personality and blended so well together that it was genuinely sad when a couple of them died. RIP Denley and Bloomfield
Yeah and it's great they got got band of brothers cast since they already have the chemistry going.
Fun Fact: Mark Hamill was the narrator for the documentary parts and a majority of the voice actors were in band of brothers
im so glad you spoke about this game! My first cod. One of the few games where the story was so heartfelt. I cried many times
Multiplayer was fun. Satchel Charge runs, sniping, grenades, arty strikes and the weird crab running lmg players.
this was one of those games that i just happened to pick up when i was 10 and then ended up playing it for hundreds of hours for the next 3-4ish years. one of those games that seems insignificant to most but was huge for me. love BR1!
To this very day I continue to yell, "Get off the damn road" in proxy chat on Hell let Loose, in memory of this game. Also to see if anyone can make the connection.
This is a piece of media that's like very close to my childhood, great video man. Really cool to know that other people remember this and it wasn't one big fever dream. Good luck with the channel, man.
This game was awesome! Have some really good memories attached to it! Thanks so much for checking the video out!
Nobody talks about it, and thats a shame. I remember this was my go to CoD back in the day. It's a shame nobody really remembers it.
I was in my teens when I played this and what I loved most about this is it felt a lot like COD: United Offensive which still to this day is my all time favorite COD game.
Little 9 year old me screamed “NOOOO BROOKLYN!!!!! WHY WASN’T IT SMITTY?!?!?!?” when Brooklyn died. I was so devastated.
Me too dude,I barely knew Smitty man Brooklyn was the best."that's how we do it in the Bronx!"
I played a lot of this game as a kid too, because I didn't get an XBOX 360. I think it helped that a couple cast members of Band of Brothers were the soldiers you fought with, and that helped with the emersion. Also, Mark Hamill did the voiceover for the Military Channel newsreel footage.
the scene where Vic gets lit up breaching a door hit me in my soul
Absolutely broke my heart as a kid
Big Red One and Finest Hour always get left behind when their one of the best
I still have to give Finest Hour a try!
Listening to the voice acting now made me realize, and my research is true, that they are the actors from Band of Brothers. Iconic
One of my absolute favorite games from my childhood! I always played the B24 level over and over again, trying to get higher kills each time.
I recently learned that apparently Mark Hamill did the old fashioned news reporter voice during the military channel clips in the game
Holy shit same! I didn't have a memory card for my PS2 so I'd come home from school and play through the whole game up until the B-24 mission and just play it over and over until I had to go to bed.
grew up playing big red one on my dads ps2 when he wasnt home. one of my favorites to this day
The multiplayer maps on this game were something else! Amazing locations and the TDM were so nice here! Played it alot on ps2
"I'm from the Bronx Sarg" ~ Brooklyn
Makes me want to play it again, I missed this games energy
This was my first call of duty game, along with finest hour they helped me sink so many hours into my playstation 2 growing up. I certainly miss this game and so dearly wish Activision would remaster it.
My favorite part is watching how with each death the squad becomes more bitter and want tge war to end its great character growth for them.
Ah the days when you could buy a game without worrying that it would only be half finished forcing you to buy DLCs
This game is my childhood. I playes it over and over again. Plus the D day mission is fantastic. Hell the other missions are battles we never seen in world war 2 based call of dutys anyways!! I miss this game so much. I also completely forgot about the Military channel cuts! Man I miss that channel too, it used to be so good. Top Tens and Future Weapons were banger shows. I remember every Thanksgiving was Tanksgiving and they would say "Tank You!" Which I still say today lmao man time flys.
This game, along with Call of Duty 3 was my childhood! its a shame that this game is only on super old consoles and not on Xbox 360 because I would play through on Veteran all over again just to relive the past
Im pretty shure some 360s are backwards compatible with the original xbox
@@train_go_boom2065 They are, I have Halo 2 and a game called Shellshock Nam '67 which are both on original Xbox but can be used for Xbox 360, not sure about Big Red One though, I'll have to do some searching for that
Edit: Found a wiki list of backward compatible original xbox games and yes, Call of Duty 2 Big Red One is on that list, guess I've got another ancient game to be looking for now lol
this was my second fav in the series behind Finest hour man im glad to see some people goin back and play the old ones again
The Flying fortress level was INSANE. A good precursor to Black Cats.
Also the Italy mission Operation Husky where you could carry a browning M1919 machine gun for the first time.
Definitely under-rated.
1:00 to hear robin from Teen Titans as a generic WW2 soldier. good times
finest hour and big red one were truly staples in my call of duty career and what started my journey at a young age, next best one in my opinion was call of duty 3 followed by the modern warfares and black ops series... truly pinnacle games for their times
World at war was also good. I prefer playing it without the music.
The SGT Hawkins actually survived his last gun shot wounds and he actually retired after that last fight he had. It said on the wiki for this game.
the game was amazing i play it on xbox and ps2 and i tell you what ps2 graphics are not that great compared to the xbox
I completely agree!
I was today years old when I discovered that the voice actor of Marlton from BO2 was actually in ww2 as well.
Fun Fact: Mark Hamill is the narrator for the Military Channel segments.
Always found it ironic that guys with bad eyesight get sent out in the field when I couldn't get into the military because I have bad eyesight.
i still remember the guilt and sadness i felt when each squad member died, esspecially brooklyn
Grew up loving this game. I still remember the rumors of call of duty 4 being set in modern warfare and people thinking that was a bad idea. Thanks for the video!
I remember playing the demo for this at gamestop on one of their Xbox 360s when they first came out. The demo mission was the on where you retake what I think is Tripoli, the sea port city with the flak 88's on the beach at the end. In the beginning you're in the back of an open top troop transport with a dogfight overhead. I was absolutely stunned looking at the clothing of the character models up close in the back of that seat, being able to see texture. I was thinking "graphics will never look better than this".
That was Call of Duty 2 - the main game (PC/Xbox 360). This is the 5th gen (PS2/OGXbox/GC) spin off Call of Duty 2 Big Red One.
But I agree, that mission and demo was a great showcase.
@@mrratchet oh man, I'm a forehead for sure. Maybe I'll have to play thrpugh all the early to mid CODs again to get my story straight lol
This was my first ever FPS that I played back when I was 6 or 7. I played through this game more times over than any other CoD game. So many childhood memories like trying to keep friendlies alive through the whole mission, or trying to shoot down as many fighters on the B-24 mission as possible.
I bought this game, mistaken it for COD2 for the PC because I played that game before at my cousin's and wanted to have a taste of it. Little did I know, that this game would be the most replayed PS2 game growing up. People nowadays would always say they're attached to Captain Price, Soap, Ghost and such. But to me, Brooklyn, Vic, Kelly and Hawkins were by BROs (Big Red One). When COD WW2 was announced and that we'll play in the Big Red One division, I was hoping we'd see the original squad. But, I was disappointed..
There's tiny little elements in this game you might never notice even after years of playing.
In terms of set dressing and keeping accurate to real history and tactics, have you ever notice how the German sniper in the mission "Crossroads" shoots Hawk? The highest ranking soldier there? That's exactly what snipers were trained to do. And are still trained to do to this day. The German sniper then shoots the medic. Which is a war crime. But it's something the Germans did quite often. Especially on the eastern front with the Soviets. Only it was way more mutual over there.
In terms of storytelling, you have things like the juxtaposition of hardass Bloomfield in the prologue to the snarky, fresh out of boot camp, Bloomfield two years earlier is also amazing.
U.S did all of that too, and more.
One as the Best WW2 CoDs, i still have it to this day. Deserves a remaster.
I'll never forget my neighbors showing me this game. We all played COD but I'd totally missed this title. The story and characters were so immersive we were all crushed every time we lost a squad mate, like Bloomfield.. (RIP). It's been so long I'd totally forgotten about these History or Military channel cut scenes haha. What a blast from the past
I remember playing this in the video game section of Circuit City on a Xbox demo kiosk as a preteen. *old man voice* "it just ain't the same as it used to be! ✊️"
This was my childhood and the first COD game I ever played. I played this on the PS2. And I still play it to this day
I grew up with this game… still play it from time to time.
NGL, this was my first call of duty and the most impactful campaign wise. Went through so many emotions and would never forget it. I still praise it when asked about the top call of duty games.
This was my introduction to a console FPS. This will always hold a special place in my heart. I remember playing it so much I was able to beat it on the hardest difficulty.
This was actually my first Call of Duty game as a kid, I played it over and over again.
I especially loved the bomber and tank missions.
Big Red 1 was my first COD game as well. I played this game ad nauseam and can qoute some of the cut scenes. It was made when the devs really cared about story and the connection to the characters. Like when Bloomfield dies on the Sigfried line mission during a mortar strike when trying to clear the barbed wire is touching. You can hear him saying, "I might actually make it home from this lousy war..." on multiple occasions in different missons leading up to that point when he literally says it right before being KIA. It really does make you think of all the real life people that didn't make it home.
Such a great game and OST.
This was the first cod I ever played. I recently found a copy and bought a ps2 to play it again. I still love it.
EXACTLY, THESE GAMES MADE MY CHILDHOOD, BUT ALSO COD FINEST HOUR
This game will always hold a special place in my soul. So many days as a kid just in awe.
Best story line in cod history I beat this game so many times and cried every time Sarge and Brooklyn died 😢
This was the game that got me invested in WW2. Such a wonderful game, short but excellent story and wonderful quotes. Add onto the cast being some of the Band of Brothers actors. Oh, back when games were made with love.
Its nice to see this game get the recognition it deserves. We didn’t have a lot of money growing up as kids. But me and my brother bought a ps2many years after the newer consoles were out. And found this and many other titles so enjoyable. This has and will always be one of my favorites. Thanks for this video
This was my first CoD game ever, it got me into the series as a kid, I thought the characters were all fun and well fleshed out, and you wouldn't believe my shock when I first beat the Africa campaign and saw that there was a whole other map worth of levels to go through
This was my 1st cod on ps2 i purchased finest hour after but this was great & i was a big medal of honour fan 👍
great fucking game, alot of folks my age got into history because of the WW2 cods, medal of honor and the brothers in arms series. video brought back alot of memories for sure, I played the hell out of this one, experiencing the journey of the big red one from north africa to the siegfried line was a hell of a trip. BROOOOKLYYYYYYN!!!!!!