The Call of Duty that was a horror game
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- Опубликовано: 17 апр 2024
- In this video we dive into Call of Duty World at War. We take a look at how this game changed the tone of the series moving forward. We also look at a new gamemode that would become a staple of the Call of Duty experience.
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It was about here that I felt the juxtaposition itself is a major source of the horror.
The Soviet theater by itself is gruesome and brutal. But compare the differences side by side.
The US side, it's a war of liberation, a righteous and justified retaliatory war, and heroes survive. Meanwhile, Reznov makes no bones about it, this is a war about vengeance, and heroes kill. During that first Soviet campaign, you get taught by Reznov to blow up flamethrowers and do it quietly, before they even have a chance to use them. But what's the first mission you get in the Pacific after that? "Go grab this flamethrower and take out those entrenched positions."
It goes beyond just the atmospheric and narrative differences, it juxtaposes itself against previous installments and other WW2 centric media. Other COD games and Hollywood movies tell you it's about America helping to liberate Europe from the evil Nazis, and as for the Pacific theater especially in propaganda? Dehumanize the Japanese at every turn, and when they aren't doing that, make it all about saving them from that broken and suicidal code of honor. Reznov never says Nazi once. He never dehumanizes them or calls them evil. He knows they are human, he calls them German, and it's still all about vengeance, killing them, and bringing the same destruction you crawled through, the same starvation and corpse-riddled streets, the same light posts with bodies hanging from them to those Germans' homes. And in that Pacific theater? Your enemy is cunning, your enemy is devious, your enemy is determined, and you learn to anticipate, learn to use overwhelming force, learn to attack first in order to survive, and it's not lost on me that you never hang any soldiers in the Soviet campaign, but every time you shoot one of them treetop snipers in the Pacific, they fall from their perch and dangle from a rope.
I mean, it's not quite "Spec Ops The Line" levels of brutal warfare and turning you into the bad guy, but it's definitely horror.
Great observation! thank you for your comment
Great comment indeed
I never had the feeling of any sort of liberation or righteousness from the pacific campaign, it felt just as much about hate and revenge as the soviet theatre did. Everything you see and are shown of the Japanese depicts them as alien, sadistic, savage killers and you’re made to feel the hate of pvt miller grow from the word “go”.
I’ll also disagree about Reznov, he uses dehumanizing language numerous times and while he never uses the ‘N’ word, he does call them numerous slurs and vulgarities (in Russian) and refers to them as “fash-ists” (misspelled so comment doesn’t get eaten), which was the preferred Soviet term for the Germans. It isn’t that he sees them as Germans and doesn’t care that they’re fellow humans because he wants revenge, he views Germans themselves as subhuman, as less than they are, which also tracks with the attitude red army soldiers had stoked by leadership in the party and the military.
Reznov says nazi as he’s introduced as a narrator
Back when call of duty had guts to show what war is really like
If you think that real war looks ANYTHING close to any video game ....oooh man you havent seen war then in person
I loved this game,especially the tanks!
It's a video game. Calm down.
Do think a real war is just like COD?? Naahh you will never want to feel what a real war looks like
@@elelz6409 call of duty world at war came close tbh
Those Banzai charges scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. Just imagine being a Marine in the pacific and having to face that out of nowhere.
An interesting fact that is often omitted was the Japanese forces were actually scared of the Americans.
Propaganda taking half-truths to spin it.
For example, the belief the marines are recruited from prisons and mental asylums. When examining American history with mass imprisonment, lynchings being public spectacles, and U.S. troops in the pacific front taking dead japanese soldiers' body parts as war trophies....
"how do you beat people who arent afraid of the other side of the gun" i forgot who said it but it has merrit and is very very scary.
@@skillsphere9245 With a Nuke Apparently. We should keep that in mind dealin with similiar adversaries.
@@billy2162 your IQ is definitely in the double digits.
@@billy2162so they can retaliate with nukes?
This was Call Of Duty at its peak. By tackling the two most brutal 'take no prisoners' theaters of WW2 without flinching or sugarcoating it, they brought the true horrors of war to our screens. I know the final text describing the war with the music brings about feelings of emptiness. I also believe that Chernov was the conscience of his squad trying to maintain his humanity and that of the others amidst a hell on earth.
They did a well enough job, but they most definitely sugar coated quite a bit, particularly in the Soviet theatre.
Really want this game remastered with today’s graphics just like what they did with Cod4 and MW2
Yeah exactly....
this game is complete,campaign ,multiplayer and zombies are amazing
As someone living in Japan, I didn't know that WaW had been banned at one point. It's one of the more popular COD entries amongst Japanese players, and has become something of a meme in the Japanese internet due to the awkward Japanese spoken during many of the cutscenes (the interrogation scene at the beginning of the game in particular is heavily meme'd on).
Is their dialouge just very off? I'm kinda intrigued to know actually
Dude I need to see some of these memes. Lmao
I just finished a veteran playthrough of this game. The gernade spam on Heart of the Reich was so bad it took me two days and a level restart to finish it 😅
When i did a veteran playthrough i think i rage quitted during the end of hard landing lmao
I haven't played the game in 15 years, but I'm sure I know exactly what level you are talking about.
the grenade spam in this game was just ridiculous on harder difficulty
More grenades were thrown in this game's Veteran difficulty than in the whole of WW2.
Go back and do INSANE lol every 2 ft there is a grenade
Genuinely terrified playing this as a kid. MW1, MW2, MW3, BO1, BO2 I never had the same issue. I’d still be semi scared playing those being 10 years old, but WAW was horrific. The opening game sound would give me goosebumps, the ambience, the quietness, the Nazi soldiers screams, the Japanese soldiers attack methods (basically charging or jump scaring 24/7) that I’d be in a constant panic. It’s such a unique and scary Call of Duty, so shockingly horrifying, a truly eerie experience. Playing through the campaign missions knowing your basically playing through the POV of real soldiers, makes me still dread playing the story to this day, now as an adult. And especially the introduction to Vendetta. I don’t think there’s a more horrible scene in a mission in all Call of Duty history. That scene was extremely sorrowful, watching it knowing that it’s what so many soviets experienced theirselves.
So true. That intro to vendetta is just burned into my brain. That thought that this happened for real, to real people, is truly heartbreaking.
We have to bear in mind that reality was much worse than this game portrays.
The game had so many creepy easter eggs too, like that "dead" soldier in Vendetta, or that Ray Gun thing, or the ghost piano, or everything to do with the asylum. So many strange details like an uncollectable double barrel shotgun in the bathtub in eviction or that German guy who got crushed by a horse make it so surreal, too.
Fun fact: there was going to be a British campaign but Treyarch simply didn't have the time to complete it. In WaW game files, there's rough models of a British soldier, along with lee-enfield rifles and a couple mission names
I would’ve been happier without knowing this..😂
@@Mustacheman17 There technically is a British campaign, but only in the PS2 side game WaW: Final Fronts. But that game wasn't very well received, but I find it a guilty pleasure. If felt like it still captured the classic arcade style that the first CoD had
@@Mustacheman17 why? are you anti British?
@@999haunted hmm nice lil tid bit
@@michaelhawkins7389 lol wut? Now I know there could’ve been a British campaign that we’ll never get to play, I would’ve been happier with my ignorance not knowing we could’ve had it.
War is horror. That's why waw is my all time favorite.
I played it with gaming headphones. While high. Omg it's like being there
WaW was the last COD in my opinion that's the last time the really put devotion and heart combined with brutality and horror while telling tales that actually happened throughout WW2
@@ryanduncan6801 same here. I mean modern warfare 2 was definitely COD but the franchise went down hill after that . Honorable mention to modern warfare 3 and black ops 1. Black ops still has some of my favorite zombie maps , but my heart will always be with WAW
Wait was Gary Oldman Reznov? Man, I feel kinda ashamed I didnt know that. No wonder hes such a badass character.
I just realized that now. But thinking back on Reznov it makes sense now.
This game was traumatizing to play as a kid back in 08
Hahahaha I was 9 when I was playing this game 😂
wuss
@@jubjubs1000 loser
That’s good though ! They have age limit for a reason! Hopefully we all raise our kids better.
Still to this day this single greatest cod game on the mount Rushmore if you will up there with black ops 1 and 2 modern warfare 2 and of course world at war but WaW takes the ultimate prize so much to love but if you're a noob think of it this way WaW gave us ZOMBIES which sure sucks now but there's a reason it was HUGE
The original cod and expansion that was PC only is extremely good too
how you don’t include cod 4 is beyond me. The first truly insane multiplayer experience
Yeah cod 4 changed everything. It was more packed than waw ever was at least for Multi. I had more fun in waw for offline play though.
Many games today forget that war is primarily about survival. It's where humans turn into demons that will do unexplainable things to other humans. It's literal hell if it existed.
I remember the mission where you plant the flag, sitting at the bottom of the stairs case for 3 hours on veteran. I killed a lot of friendly npcs to farm their ammo. I found out if you knifed with your camera away and hit them, they'd die without triggering the friendly fire restart. Brutal fucking time for a 15 year old lol
"Victory cannot be achieved without sacrifice Mason, we Russians know this better than anyone"
- Viktor Reznov
Grenade jump scare simulator
criminally underrated channel. I hope you get put on the way you deserve asap
Interesting hidden horror facts in the US bomber mission is the merchant marine ship the Japanese used to carry supplies also carried POWs. When you think about it, the player been killing their allies. Also throw in being eaten alive by sharks in the pacific campaign was a terrifying thing.
Given that the mission is set in 1945, it's unlikely that those were POW "hell ships". Not to mention that the idea of a PBY Catalina (a seaplane with no armor to speak of) taking on an entire merchant fleet + dozens of Japanese fighters is silly.
I started plying the first CoD games, when I played this one and finish it, it left me a horrible feeling, like when you see a movie without the happy ending.
Lmao 'Tree people"
This was one of the Cods that I actually never played - I wish I had and I probably will now. Awesome video, man!
This is still my favorite COD campaign by far, ahead of COD4. Multiplayer still goes to Black Ops 3 though.
Back when I got my 360 for Christmas and this game 2008-09 was an amazing time that I miss dearly life was great no worries playing this game with all my friends time flys enjoy the time of being young you’ll miss it every single day
6:37 also if you dont shoot that japanese officer that bursts out of that dome building, youll see a marine walking out and pop him repeatedly with his m1911, and that small hut on the left side of the mg nest, has a captured marine from millers original squad with a japanese officer holding him down on his knees, and a ija pvt. that execute him, the hut has 4-5 Thompsons and some m1's in it too
Fist time seeing this game was the image of the dead soldiers helmets with m1 grands that picture always scared me as a kid, I was born in 2006 so this game holds a place in my heart, because of the gritty, dark,morbid aesthetic that a lot of things around that era were themed, the menu music just always gave me that vibe, & and every feeling & vibe you describe in each campaign prospectives of each front of the war was just real
If you read the memoir "With the Old Breed" by eugene sledge, he describes peleliu as being "like a great sponge that soaked up the blood of [the 1st Marine] division" and that even after they had just left the island " ... we thought it may still get us yet"
I remember when I played this game on 360, and Cod 4. I remember when my mom got rid of those games and I would dream of some missions and scenes from both games. They truly were a part of my childhood lol. Both games just had great ambient settings that really set the tone of war.
I played WaW on my X360 back in the days and the sound and the atmosphere of the game haunts me until today. I loved it so much, it's my favourite CoD of all time.
Their land .. their people .. their blood.
An interesting note: One of the primary influences for the Cod zombies came from a flash game called "The Last Stand".
Combat Arms on PC had a mode called Cabin Fever that was pretty popular as well
Everyone dogs on Call of Duty 3s soundtrack, but then this banger kicks on 2:13
Awesome channel! I played this game 4-5 years ago and I absolutely loved it! I had to sell my video game collection and accidentally sold this game. I’m still trying to find a copy for my PS3 lol.
Look up game over video games, it's a retro video game store from Texas (they have multiple store locations) they sell games only from previous console generations ps4/xbox one going all the way back. They have good prices and they can ship games. I've only shipped a game once and had no issue but I also always went into the store to see what new games they had
Edit: it looks like they only have it for ps2 right now but they update the website everyday
this game was so good. the zombies would give me chills as a child especially the running ones
This was back when Call of Duty had balls and was willing to take risks. They would never make this today.
Fuck no they wouldn't , which is honestly sad as fuck . Can you imagine the kind of horrifically beautiful world war 2 game they could make nowadays if they really tried? It's a shame they don't make it a priority.
Great video king, just watched this sitting ontop of a commercial freezer while working took a 51:51 minute break
This thick danish accent is hot af
To me, it's the only cod game to do the Pacific theater at all much less correctly because Vanguard did a real shitty job with its campaign, aside from the midway mission which was tolerable at best
Medal of honour pacific assault also covered the pacific theatre well so that's something you should check out
Medal of honour even covered the lesser known italians a couple of time
@DrRockefeller yeah I remember, I believe medal of honor airborne covered them in the first mission or two
If I learned anything from this game, its that the Germans apparently had an infinite budget for grenades.
On veteran its a complete joke haha
11:40 who else remembers the ray gun Easter egg during this mission lol
I remember that the Sgt could be saved at the end of the pacific missions
You could save Roebuck, but Polonsky will die
This and the first black ops were when COD was truly badass. WAW campaign, and black ops for online. I walked away from COD after that and went to battlefield. Battlefield was amazing (especially 1) Walked away from BF after V and now I'm on Hell Let Loose. COD & BF made the same mistake, I don't want lime green, turquoise, or pink skins on my guns or extreme Michael Bday movie like cut scenes. I just f*cking want a realistic war game..... That's it..... That's f*cking it
What an Awesome video man! Keep this work up and I'm sure you'll grow really fast!
Seriously though he did great on this video
I genuinely think this game is one of, if not the best call of duty. Definitely the best campaign, it was the start of zombies and it wasn’t some ridiculous fantasy mode like it is now. And the multiplayer was tight with really fun guns. The gewehr 43 was my fun af and very good if you were accurate, and the mg42 wasn’t a nerfed slow firing weapon like modern ww2 games do because “OP” problem. The maps were great (except a few ig). And tanks in multiplayer!!! I could be wrong but only cod 3 and cod 5 have controllable tanks in the multiplayer. It’s a shame it’s a hack fest nowadays (I haven’t tried to play it in a handful of years tho).
Also this video is very high quality and you deserve way more subs than you currently have!
Just finished it today on my series x, great game
When I played this as a child I loved the missions with the flamethrower but I hated to hear the screaming
Call of Duty at its peak! This is still the best campaign I have ever played! The only flaw was it was too short. If only they could have added on to it and make it longer!
We just want another of this. A game with no BS no nothing and shows the real horrors of war.
When i first played world at wars pacific levels, the jumpscares you got from the banzai charges literally made me jump out of my seat.
Clutching zombies and being praised as a hero the next day in school.
Best ww2 game of all time.
I'm so glad I grew up being terrified of this game than what kids have today. They would never think twice about making a game like this today.
Christmas of 2008. I was 13 years old and my gifts that year were an Xbox 360 and World at War. Vividly remember spending all of Christmas break playing the game.
Was so pissed when I got stuck on the level where you drive the tank haha
There was a moment for me when I realised that this game was different. The marines were preparing to storm an underground bunker. There was machine gun fire flying through the doorway, peppering the concrete wall facing it. One of the marines ran through the doorway and was immediately decapitated by the bullets. It was so sudden, so shocking and brutal. I just sat there staring at the body for a few seconds, thinking about how that probably happened in real life. At some point, somewhere, probably many times over a moment like that actually played out.
10/10, would vicariously develop PTSD again.
Underrated channel
Great video man! Can’t wait for more!
You could turn a human body into a tree stump with a well placed shotgun shot.
I seen videos of WW2 vets saying "When theyd call for assignments by giving you your uniform, most people prayed that theyd go to Europe instead of the Pacific
When I was eight years old I would play this game in front of my grandfather who was a world war two veteran and he thought this game was awesome. He was in the air force got shot down and his camp was liberated by the soviets
Hell let loose is much more realistic but yeah WAW was awesome.
Agreed, but I honestly prefer red orchestra 2 for its atmosphere for a realistic ww2 shooter
I agree, my only complaint with hell let loose is the building damage doesn't match the body damage you take but I understand why they've done it that way
Really good video, mate 👍
I grew up grinding out the WAW demo. I did, still do, and always will love this game. Best COD ever. 🙌🏼
super underrated good stuff
incredible commentary man
I pray to god this game never gets a remaster or some remake like they did all the other old 7th gen cods.
The modern graphics make everything look like plastic and the guns sound like cartoons and all sound the same.
W@w every game has an incredibly unique sound. I could still tell you every gun blindfolded just by hearing it, even the nambu.
This game needs to just rest . Ideally a port to ps4 and ps5 with nothing changed at all would happen so we can have multiplayer severs .
This game was middle school for me.
i guess this game capture the real war and the feel of it
" No one will ever read this!"
" someone.. should read this"
I always appreciated the opening theme on this one. It was so haunting. That with the visuals were just perfect for what they were going for.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t play multiplayer without getting harassed by someone at some point when I talked.
Great game loved the gore multi-player was the shizznit
I remember hosting a Chinese kid who I played World at War in front of to show him and he had a helluva time watching and laughing like a maniac at the game play and violence, classic middle schoolers not getting undertones and themes of a game. Just "hahaha gore against people I don't like"
Eh, the Japanese did horrible things to the Chinese in and before WW2.
Great video man, my first and to this day favorite call of duty. The grittiness and ambience of the whole game made it feel so real and was so terrifying to my young 10 year old self
I loved this game to death. Even though it wasn't 100 percent it was pretty close to historical accuracy. They actually interviewed real WW2 vets and based the missions around their stories.
This was my first call of duty game, I was genuinely terrified when I booted it up but I loved it lol
i like your views on art but you also are good at concisely explaining not only your thoughts but also those of others / opposing views to give further context. Youre good at this!
Thank you very much for the kind words
Game that made join the Marine Corps. Loved it.
The other thing about world at war is the campaigns they decided to go with period, the eastern front and the pacific were the two most brutal campaigns during the war. In both they were motivated purely by revenge and hatred for each other, in the eastern front soviets getting revenge for atrocities by germans by doing the same thing, and in the pacific revenge for pearl harbor. War crimes were non stop in these conflicts where they didn’t even see each other as human, treyarch did good there.
Very nice video! Hope you blow up
“White man has been here.”
“How can you tell?”
“Another 30-60 minute video essay about World at War”
Fine I’ll replay the world at war campaign. It’s become a yearly tradition.
hvad ville du syntes om et campaign fra tyskernes synsvinkel?
Jeg synes det kunne være meget interessant. De kunne også få den japanske synsvinkel ind over ved at gøre lidt som her, hvor man skifter mellem to perspektiver.
@@DjentyDjohn-tj2eh ja true! - der er mod tools til spillet, hvor man bla. kan lave sine egne campaign missoner. Jeg selv arbejder på at lave et fra tyskernes side :p - jeg har rodet rundt med modtools til spillet i godt og vel 10år - har du erfaring/ interesse for selv at rode med sådan noget?
I remember i was in HS when this game came out and nazi zombies scared the hell out of me the first few times i played. I remember playing alone in my basement and having a few jump scare moments that really got me. The online multiplayer was sick for its era too. Really first fps online multiplayer that really really popped off
10/10 vid, man.
The thing that makes WaW so unique and special is the fact that you can't just kill the enemies and move forward to the checkpoint, you had to reach the checkpoint to stop the spawns of enemies, it really helped add to the sense of never-ending hopelessness that those men must have felt
This was the first campaign I played through when I was like TWELVE😂 the banzai charges had me pushing every button on my controller.
So glad I grew up with this instead of whatever tf COD is now. I remember playing MW2 as my first real cod, and then picking this game up for cheap because we wanted more. Seeing the limbs gettin blown off in WAW vs the low-level gore from MW2 was INSANE. I didn’t know games could do that
I was in 7th grade when this dropped….. honestly my favorite cod
World at War made you realize that war is a horror movie marketed as a sporting event.
That's a great way to put it
Every COD and every war shooter should be like this.
My fav cod. Damn I would pay big money for a remaster
Veteran on this game is something else. You camp and are cornered 5 grenades are coming your way! It’s relentless!
You deserve plenty more subscribers!!
mega nice video mand.
7:36 T-pose and floating sword :D
It’s not even that it’s “more realistic” it’s just got a good stylistic angle to it a good blend between style and realism. The style is grit, a grand conspiracy look at history, and rugged war. Horror is the theme. You can tell how this carries over to Black Ops where even the name is gritty. It’s about black operations it should be brutal and raw and dark maybe even angsty and conspiratorial
One of my favourite childhood games and still one of the best CODs
But when do we open a lootbox with anime gun camos in front of other players ?
14:17 Not always. If you provide enough covering fire he can live and you wont get the flame thrower. Just another reason why WaW is so awesome. It had all these little choices you didnt even know you could make
Game: “look how brutal and terrible war is, look at the suffering you inflict”
Me at 15 in 2009: “this is f***ing awesome, I can’t wait to be a marine when I grow up”
(It was pretty cool, not how I thought it would be though)
this videogame is just a Slayer song
There’s something about the sound of war when it’s all semi automatic weapons, every shot has a purpose kind of
God bless the RUclips algorithm for bringing me to your channel as well as others. It's becoming clear that the western gaming sphere is growing tired of video game companies watering down the maturity of games to appease investors, including those with fragile spines. Because western games are less obliged to continue making "edgy" games, I feel, as I've always been saying, that a lot of us should start making games on our own.