You missed a very rare unique detail, on the pacific mission with the flamethrower sometimes (albeit rarely) the soldier who are burned instead of saying "fire!" or "hot!" in Japanese they will use Indonesian because some of the soldiers are Heiho soldiers (forced conscripts)
Fun fact: the guy who put the raygun in as an ester egg almost got fired because of doing it, crazy to think that something so iconic almost got a legend fired
In the Mission "eviction" if you wait a little bit before you attack the first german soldiers, you can hear how they are talking about the bad situation they are in and the plan to flood the Metro system, because they think the soviets could use the Metro system as a way to reach the Königsplatz
The "Grim Reaper" Blood splatter is found a lot in Zombies during WaW and Black Ops 1 and has lore links to it, where the first people who were infected 115 got executed by 935 for trying to escape, not following orders or have turned to Zombies
In the Vendetta mission, when you and Reznov are finished sniping the Germans, you can head to the back of the fountain and find the Soviet Soldier raising his head is now gone. Cool Detail I found while playing. Also in Breaking Point, you can see some of the Japanese Soldiers are wearing older uniforms, most notably the ones wearing peaked caps, they are not present in any other of the other Pacific Theatre missions.
Another interesting detail in that first mission you mentioned is that some of the "Japanese" troops are actually Indonesian and even speak Indonesian when they attack you or when you kill them.
There's actually another detail pertaining to your choice of either shooting, burning, or leaving those nazis before you enter the subway. At the start of the mission "Downfall", Reznov will read a passage from Chernov's journal that will either assess Dimitri, the player character, as either positive, negative, or somewhere in the middle, depending on what choice you make. Definitely one of my favorite details. I remember the first time I got a different assessment. I was totally surprised & impressed. WAW is a masterpiece.
Chernovs diary entries. April 30th 1945 When he first spoke of Dimitri, Reznov told tales of a hero, someone we should all aspire to be like, his bravery on the battlefield is beyond question, but he has also shown mercy, amidst the brutality of the Red Army, he is indeed a hero. April 30th 1945 When he first spoke of Dimitri, Reznov told tales of a hero, someone we should all aspire to be like, his merciless brutality defines him only as a savage, just like the rest of the Red Army, he is no hero. April 30th 1945 When he first spoke of Dimitri, Reznov told tales of a hero, someone we should all aspire to be like, at times I have seen him show mercy, and at others act with complete brutality, I do not understand him, perhaps heroes need not question their actions.
i just love Reznov telling Chernov "NO ONE WILL READ THIS!" when seeing him writing in the diary, but after Chernov bravely sacrifices himself to save the flag of the Motherland, Reznov takes the diary, saying "Someone should read this."
On Little Resistance there is also another bunker on the left that if you go in it, you'll see a Japanese soldier pull the pin on a grenade and blow himself up, opting to die with honor rather than be captured, or he has seen way too much
@@lawrencemorris2261no, usually trying to aid our own. The Japanese were merciless and would kill any medic they saw trying to help an allied soldier. But at the same time Desmond doss would help anyone he saw whether Japanese or American and that was part of the courageous wit that earned him the Medal of Honor.
@@halfgecko3202And the biggest irony about that is it wasn't a japanese idea, but a russian one. In the Russian-Japanese War, many starved/wounded russian soldiers trapped on the hills (like in Port Arthur) by the japanese troops. They go with their hands up or one next to his stomach "begging" for help or mercy and when the enemy get close to them, they just remove the safety ring and blow with them. Even in the manga Golden Kamui have a chapter from that conflict that show that.
It's remember to know historical context. World at War used to be underated because it was "another WW2" game at the time, when market was full of them and there was many CoDs from WW2 before except first modern warfare that finally changed formula and blew everyones mind. So people were really... frustrated and indifferent at time for another WW2 shooter, that's why nobody apraciated it at the time, but it was crafted masterfully. Not like Last 2 WW2 jokes from CoD frenchise.
I'm old enough to have been around back then and Modern Warfare releasing a year prior caused a massive amount of modern-war shooters to be released by the time World at War came about. People did treat it as just another WW2 game while eating up by-then "just another" Modern Warfare 2 a year later, probably because the boom was relatively new.
Call of duty 2, despite having less detail than World At War and being older, is also one hell of a great game, its 4 character campaign, and some of the most interesting characters like Cpt. Price, Pvt. MacGregor, Pvt.Braedburn and Sgt. Randall, and also the missions with multiple objective choices, the music, it was crazy man.
@DanielLopes-uo7qo Honesty I don't even remember the 4th character you play as. But the Russian campaign and the storming of Point du Hoc, followed by the Raegan speech where highlights I'll remember for a long time
Since the day this work of art was given to us it has been my favorite Call of Duty. No other game has matched how great of an experience I had playing that story for the first time.
this one had the best campaign, BO3 had the best zombies, and MW had the best multiplayer. i really wish activision would let them develop the parts of the games that is their strengths instead of forcing all parts and having a really unfinished game almost every time as a result
Yeah there was a moment during my first playthrough that I just couldn’t beat because the enemies just kept coming. I couldn’t reload fast enough. I kept dying. Usually after so many attempts I would get mad and call bs. Not this game. I hit the pause button and was like holy cow this is fun even though I’m ass.
One cool detail you missed in Little Residence is a unique animation just before you assault the large building torwards the end of the level. There is a line of US troops taking cover and one of them has their helmets shot off, which they then scramble to put back on. Only rescently found it myself.
Another fun little detail on little resistance is that you can infact use the ray gun to destroy the tanks rather than having to call in a rocket barrage
Another thing about the Black Cats mission, you can actually see that it's brighter at the end of the mission than it is in the start, because the sun is rising. Apparently, this was actually quite the difficult thing to do in the World at War engine.
For 5:09, I believe it was probably the original way Dmitri was supposed to find out about the officer and decide whether or not to assassinate him. Before Reznov was even an idea, possibly. The devs likely just forgot the trigger was still in the game and didn’t remove it.
The co-op campaign on World at War was a blast to play. At the end of the Berlin campaign, a pillar fell on one of my team-mates and we had to restart the level after laughing for about ten minutes straight.
Man I did that on veteran difficulty and I was so upset cause it had taken me over 40 minutes after a few other 30 minute attempts made it all the more worth it when I planted that flag tho
@@ryliedejournett8261 That game had some ridiculous difficulty ramp ups. The Pacific Campaign temple siege was a bear. I had three Japanese grenades land in front of my face at the same time.
Easily the best cod imo. Had the best memories playing this game with my brother. Fantastic and realistic story, split screen multiplayer and coop zombies, man this game was every 2000s kids dream. Aahh take me back 🤧
Not sure if you mentioned it before but in regards to the german prisoners you can choose to kill or not… In the final mission intro, Chernov will read his journal to the player and will show the player that He has been watching you the whole time too. If you have shown yourself to be cruel and execute prisoners, he would call the player out for being as blood thirsty as the enemies you kill. But if you show mercy, he would write about how you are a true hero. If you kill some but spare others, Chernov will write about how he’s confused by the player
Another important detail is about rescuing injured soldiers in Black cats. If you save them, the crew will say good things about you at the end of the mission. But if you don't, they don't seem to like you very much
I remember playing competitive mode on 3:19 and saw this group of People run to the left side I was like "What the hell are they doin?" So I continued playing the Mission then I hear the raygun noises and green puffs of plasma gas. My first thought was "Oh nah this must be a hack or something " then they lead me over to the Statues and gave me a raygun. Mind you I was like probably 11 or 12 and seeing this for the first time blew my mind
I noticed in CoD MW2 Remastered the mission where you start out in the bunker during the US invasion, in the main room there is a white board with soldiers names and their current status. You can find some of the named soldiers in the bunker being injured and their names on the board with the same designation WIA. This may occur in the classic version as well.
Did you know that you actual shoot Richthofen in that sniper mission with Reznov. Infact all of the 4 main zombie characters are recycled characters from the story mode. Takeo being the soldier who put out a cigar on your face. Dempsey(chernov)being the right hand man in the campaign for the Russians and tank being the main US grunt. Nikoli dies trying to raise the flag etc
Glad you came around and realized none of these games are underrated. Back when this game was popular there just wasnt a way to really share your feelings about it
No, this game was very much panned by its counterparts as a mid-title. Sure, a ton of us kids who grew up with it loved it, but it wasn't as successful or received well critically either. By definition, this game is literally underrated.
As a history student i understood the detail when i played world at war for the first time .Japanese was really in desperate need of soldiers ,so they had to recruit medically unfit soldiers in to the war. It is a really cool detail.
yeah it took me the whole game to get the timing for press V timing melee mini game, when, but in the castle mission (last) some banzai soldiers had glasses as you stab them in neck and was shocked about that.
5:20 - That unusual moving soldier, it was always my head canon that it was Vasily Zietsev from Enemy at the Gates, but just before Commissar Danilov crashes his car and crawls into the fountain with him -- since it's the exact same fountain and inspiration, I pictured you and Reznov went one way, and thay moving soldier ended up finding his way out 9f Stalingrad 😅
At 2:40 i think the Japanese soldier scraems "Okasan!!" which means Mother, he's calling for her. Which is really sad. But still i might be wrong, my Japanese isn't that good.
i think you right. its really sad if we think about it, this soldier know he will die when he tried ti charge the bunker, so to brace him self he is calling his mother for the last time.
This game was the hardest platinum trophy I got. The veteran campaign was killer in the last mission. I remember being a teen sweating my ass off upstairs sneaking a Smirnoff 😂
This game blew my mind when i played the campaign. I had never seen that level of gore in a video game and the mission that begins in a fountain of dead bodies really made a big impression that I still remember it vividly today. Then of course if you sit through the final credits, it introduces the brand new zombie mode. World at War is truly a classic in the franchise.
This is definitely the COD I would choose to remaster next. Between campaign, zombies( still the best collection of maps), and a top 3 multiplayer in the franchise. I would love to see this remastered!!
This game was very underrated when it came out. This game came out one year after the massive success that was COD 4: MW. For people that don't know basically since the first Medal of Honor game released in 1999 the 2000's gaming market was oversaturated with WW2 games. The first 3 Call of Duty games were WW2 games too and COD 4 felt like a breath of fresh air. Even though some successful modern war setting games existed before, COD 4 still felt like the first huge mainstream modern war game and it changed the market. When World At War released many people didn't want to go back to WW2 and didn't buy it. I think many people missed out on one of the best WW2 games ever.
can't believe Dmitri we saw dying from gas chamber in Black ops is the same Dmitri we played in Waw, such fantastic plot twist make me appreciated older game even more
The amount of attention to detail in this game is crazy. It is many years older than cod ww2 and vanguard but easily the most realistic and accurate one.
@@tramlink8544 I'm pretty sure that had to do with how they definitely based the first mission off of "Enemy at the Gates". Besides, it's still giving an authentic feel even if it isn't accurate.
there is 1 hidden detail that you miss: in the mission black cat, when you are shooting the planes and rescuing the survivors from ships at the same time, if you manage to rescue about 5 or 6 and so on you will get a congrats from your comrade. but if you rescue less about 1 or 2 you will hear the comrade say that too many kamikaze and couldnt rescue them all.
And that depends on how much damage you do to battleships in the beginning. If you save them for later, you will get more sailors after but if you sink them the first time you will have less.
@@roderickstockdale1678 can you give me more details about this, please? because as I remember correctly, whether you destroy fast or slow battleships, the results wouldn't change much when rescue the sailors.
@@thanhlongvo7092 if you take out some of the stuff on the battleships and leave some for the go around when you rescue the sailors later you’ll get a full five, six of them and if you clear it all on the first run you’ll only grab a couple of them.
There's a couple of things that I saw when replaying the campaign recently. In Black Cats after you've sunk the merchant ships you see in the cut scene a friendly plane gets destroyed in the air after being attacked by the zeros. That plane wasn't shot down, it was sliced by the first zero it encountered. Near the end of the campaign when I was playing on veteran, I think it was the second last level. In the heat of the battle I saw a German soldier hang themselves off of a tree, and it happened more than once.
7:08 tbh when I played the game last time, I have to say decided that burning to death was way too cruel(maybe because I’m scared of fire but i can’t allow myself to let the Molotovs be thrown, heck I can’t use the flamethrowers without feeling slightly ill. I know it’s a game but I can’t stand even the idea).
I always thought the blood splatter was the pied piper (pipe in one hand and walking stick in the other) as there is a rather famous statue of children at play in the town square - so it symbolizes the loss of innocence in bloodshed.
I didn't talk about this game, I didn't google call of duty, this morning I just thought about Call of duty world at war and now I see this video in recommended
I recently watched some of the missions from this game on RUclips for the nostalgia and in "Eviction", in the first room you encounter enemies, this is after the scene with the execution of the lone German soldier begging for his life at the beginning, if you hide and don't immediately open fire on them and if you speak German, you can hear them talking about flooding the metro tunnels, which I thought was a cool detail.
In the Black Cat mission, one of the most unnoticeable detail about that mission is that when you shoot the Japanese ships, it contained multiple prisoners of war who were in an inhuman condition or diseases that were brought from the Unit 731 Experiment. So that means, you also killed friendlies as well.
5:45 me personally before you pointed it out, i thought it looked like a solider holding some sort of rifle, and another (outline cant really be seen) holding the hammer, but not the sickle from the USSR flag, the 'hood' kinda looks a little like a helmet if you look close enough
Yeah, just played this yesterday and that particular set of missions has the "round opening" sting as part of the song. It also plays during the treyarch splash screen when booting up the game, so... maybe it was just their theme before zombies popped off.
when I was 10. I played Advanced Warfare's spec ops with my friend. There was a point where you'd have to kill attack dogs. I was sad and hesitant on doing so. Now every time i play a CoD. It's just a part of my mission. But every time i do so I still feel a bit of guilt that can never be healed...
One detail that I thought was near was the plane that crashed in the beginning of little resistance. During the real invasion of Peleliu, specifically above Beach White 1 where the game takes place, a TBM-1 Torpedo bomber from squadron VT-51 of the Carrier USS San Jacinto and tried dropping ordinance behind the beach. Somehow it's bombs detonated prematurely though and it blew up out of the sky, similar to what we see in the game. Another cool detail is the inclusion of the number 115 in cod lore. This again ties back to the battle of Peleliu in real life, the battle where some of the Marines missions take place in-game. PFC. Eugene Sledge of 5th Reg. 1st Marine Division recalled in his memoir that the temperature soared to 115°F during the battle. This number was later used in the game for element 115 in zombies.
3:10 The guy who made that Easter egg lost his job over it. He asked if he could they told him no but he did it anyways. The reason behind it is they wanted to show respect for the ones who fought World War II and they found what he did was very disrespectful also he went against orders.
In Vendetta you have infinite ammo, if you run out of bullets in a weapon, Reznov will say “take the shot Dimitry”, and the reserve of the empty weapon will be fully loaded
Its Very Heartwarming that you metion FFOE in this video. A completely underrated and underappreciated Creator and I LOVE his content. His Aesthetics of World at War was my first video and I couldn't stop watching him since. Much Love!
another detail in vendetta is that the knocked out tank in front of the building at the start of the level is a Tiger ll which was not fielded until 1944 long after the battle of Stalingrad and is thus very anachronistic. WaW is an amazing game but it is still not without its flaws.
i have all the achievements in this game and it was amazing to get as well. The only down side is that. in multiplayer, there was supposed to be camos for the guns
5:09 probably a reference to when vasily zaytsev was playing dead in that same fountain in the movie enemy at the gates, that whole sequence is actually a reference to that movie. One of the coolest parts of the game
After seeing how much i missed especially the fact i can change the outcome of chernovs journal is enough for me man. My fav cod campaign ever, always looking for a reason to replay
During the detail at 3:54. You missed another one of Reznov's comments on Dimitri's sniping. If you manage to kill all soldiers and the dog without reloading Reznov will be impressed, remarking that Dimitri is a "true marksman"
You don't need them to. It is still a nice-looking game and perfect as it is. Please don't feed the corporate money hungry machine. You could pick up a 7th Gen console and a copy for just a small amount more than you would pay for a remaster. It is still very much alive and people will play custom matches for less popular game modes.
The Natural Hunter line is the one i got in World At War when doing the Vendetta mission, i didn't know there was an alternate line if you are slow, etc.
Another neat detail you missed that’s similar to the final Japanese one you mentioned is we see a similar thing with the Germans. They look progressively more beat up as the campaign progresses
The one’s where you spare or kill the surrendering soldiers also reflects you characters in the end as Chernov will mention your character Dimitri’s actions and will either call you a hero, evil, or in between
In HITMAN 3 in the mission of HITMAN 1s campaign "CLUB 27" in the bathroom of your room you will find a scale and if you stand on it it's tells you weigh "47".
Interesting details. In chernov's journal he will say different things, and you find this out at the end of the game. If you gave away your position during vendetta, let the German troops bleed out during their land their blood, and shoot the german soldiers, he calls you a hero, do one of these and the rest opposite then he says "maybe a hero doesn't question their actions." Now doing all of them opposite, he calls you a brute like the rest of the red army. (1. Good ending 2. Neutral ending 3. Bad ending) All of these counts as different endings btw
5:41 it brings me several ideas what it looks like 1) Some sort of angel without feathers in it's wings, blowing into some sort of instrument 2) something similar to that medal of honors iconic boy sitting on the moon, only now with something on it's hands, probably a flute 3) someone doing a suicide, but most likely it isn't that
in the aircraft mission youll notice at the end when youve saved sailors from the water that in the aid compartment of the aircraft there will be however many sailors you saved, lying in the bunks
Heres a few more coming from someone who’s played way to much of this game; In Little Resistance. After flanking through the bunker, if you head straight across to the tunnel entrance and head into the final bunker from that direction, there’s another injured Japanese soldier who when he sees the player primes a hand grenade by smacking it against his helmet (this was an actual method of priming them) before blowing himself up. In Hard Landing, the main building of the airfield (which also turns up in its multiplayer map version) is the exact building they used for Nacht Der Untoten the zombies mode. In Vendetta, when Daletski and the other soldiers are overrun, Reznov will tell you to hold fire and that there is nothing you can do. However if you try to kill the German soldiers or are too visible at the window, he will call you a fool for giving away your position. This dialogue is bugged and will repeat whichever you got when reloading checkpoints. The Walther p38 you can pick up after killing the sniper only has a few rounds left. However, if you fire them all, Reznoc wil say “take the shot, Dimitri” and the p38 will gain max ammo. There is a way out of bounds on Vendetta after killing the sniper. It allows you to run to the German command post which can trigger Amsel to spawn and run to his car, allowing you to run right up to him and kill him. This makes killing him with the pistol for the achievement much easier. You can also swim in the river you jump into at the end of the level but it is difficult to get back out. Also in Vendetta, Reznov’s injured hand shows he is missing his index finger. In wartime, especially ww2 on the eastern front, captured snipers would have their trigger finger cut off. Reznov ca be seen shooting with his middle finger for the rest of the game. His missing finger is also visible in Black Ops. On the map Dome, red army soldiers can be heard chanting “ura!” at the bottom of the pit/staircase. You can hear them either by jumping to your death or by flying down in spectator mode. It can only be heard inside the building and not on the streets outside (which are a low-poly version of the larger Reichstag map). When the game first came out, or if you did not have your console connected to the internet, the Nazi Zombies mode was hidden from the menu and only became available after beating the campaign, meaning when the mode started after the end credits, it really did throw you in the deep end.
You missed a very rare unique detail, on the pacific mission with the flamethrower sometimes (albeit rarely) the soldier who are burned instead of saying "fire!" or "hot!" in Japanese they will use Indonesian because some of the soldiers are Heiho soldiers (forced conscripts)
Is it true? I'm Indonesian myself and i couldnt hear any Indonesian language instead i heard only screaming
@@Doyle- I believe so, unfortunately it is rare, I believe they say "api and panas" (If not mistaken)
im an indonesian and when i read this i was like "wait wait wait wait no no no"
@@DodgyKaedethat's the right translation of fire and hot in indonesian
@@DodgyKaede
I've heard panas before because my young mind thought he was screaming penis
Fun fact: the guy who put the raygun in as an ester egg almost got fired because of doing it, crazy to think that something so iconic almost got a legend fired
Why did he almost get fired?
@@DavidC_92 because he put the Easter egg in personally, like he didn’t get permission or anything for doing it
@@creativesinsanity2112 oof
he got fired or not ? bacause you're saying both
@@noeunicorn7863 ? I did say he almost got fired. I never said both, my next comment was stating the reason he (Almost) got fired
In the Mission "eviction" if you wait a little bit before you attack the first german soldiers, you can hear how they are talking about the bad situation they are in and the plan to flood the Metro system, because they think the soviets could use the Metro system as a way to reach the Königsplatz
Nice little detail if you speak german.
@K3vin_L It is the square in front of the Reichstag
No fucking way! I thought I was the only one who awaited for a little bit longer to see what would happen lol.
Pegasus mission
The "Grim Reaper" Blood splatter is found a lot in Zombies during WaW and Black Ops 1 and has lore links to it, where the first people who were infected 115 got executed by 935 for trying to escape, not following orders or have turned to Zombies
I remember the first time seeing it on kino! And then remembering it on this and going back to find it!! 100% a grim reaper tho!!
It’s hidden lore like that that makes the older CODs so beloved
I want to know the lore of a blood splatter
It's probably a reused asset
@@SKPonri see a boy playing a flute on the opposite side lol
In the Vendetta mission, when you and Reznov are finished sniping the Germans, you can head to the back of the fountain and find the Soviet Soldier raising his head is now gone. Cool Detail I found while playing.
Also in Breaking Point, you can see some of the Japanese Soldiers are wearing older uniforms, most notably the ones wearing peaked caps, they are not present in any other of the other Pacific Theatre missions.
Another interesting detail in that first mission you mentioned is that some of the "Japanese" troops are actually Indonesian and even speak Indonesian when they attack you or when you kill them.
And if you burn them they will scream "API!" and "panas!"
There's actually another detail pertaining to your choice of either shooting, burning, or leaving those nazis before you enter the subway. At the start of the mission "Downfall", Reznov will read a passage from Chernov's journal that will either assess Dimitri, the player character, as either positive, negative, or somewhere in the middle, depending on what choice you make. Definitely one of my favorite details. I remember the first time I got a different assessment. I was totally surprised & impressed. WAW is a masterpiece.
Chernovs diary entries.
April 30th 1945
When he first spoke of Dimitri, Reznov told tales of a hero, someone we should all aspire to be like, his bravery on the battlefield is beyond question, but he has also shown mercy, amidst the brutality of the Red Army, he is indeed a hero.
April 30th 1945
When he first spoke of Dimitri, Reznov told tales of a hero, someone we should all aspire to be like, his merciless brutality defines him only as a savage, just like the rest of the Red Army, he is no hero.
April 30th 1945
When he first spoke of Dimitri, Reznov told tales of a hero, someone we should all aspire to be like, at times I have seen him show mercy, and at others act with complete brutality, I do not understand him, perhaps heroes need not question their actions.
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@@mumbisjumbis7547 i need attention 😢😢
@@mumbisjumbis7547”i miss daddy”
i just love Reznov telling Chernov "NO ONE WILL READ THIS!" when seeing him writing in the diary, but after Chernov bravely sacrifices himself to save the flag of the Motherland, Reznov takes the diary, saying "Someone should read this."
On Little Resistance there is also another bunker on the left that if you go in it, you'll see a Japanese soldier pull the pin on a grenade and blow himself up, opting to die with honor rather than be captured, or he has seen way too much
Tactics like that were also used to kill Allied medics and soldiers trying to render aid
Aid to the enemy japanese? You could fool me twice,
@@lawrencemorris2261no, usually trying to aid our own. The Japanese were merciless and would kill any medic they saw trying to help an allied soldier. But at the same time Desmond doss would help anyone he saw whether Japanese or American and that was part of the courageous wit that earned him the Medal of Honor.
@@halfgecko3202And the biggest irony about that is it wasn't a japanese idea, but a russian one.
In the Russian-Japanese War, many starved/wounded russian soldiers trapped on the hills (like in Port Arthur) by the japanese troops. They
go with their hands up or one next to his stomach "begging" for help or mercy and when the enemy get close to them, they just remove the safety ring and blow with them.
Even in the manga Golden Kamui have a chapter from that conflict that show that.
It's remember to know historical context. World at War used to be underated because it was "another WW2" game at the time, when market was full of them and there was many CoDs from WW2 before except first modern warfare that finally changed formula and blew everyones mind. So people were really... frustrated and indifferent at time for another WW2 shooter, that's why nobody apraciated it at the time, but it was crafted masterfully. Not like Last 2 WW2 jokes from CoD frenchise.
Yeah that last one was SHIT compared to this beauty of a game.
@@shcdemolisherit was good but naturally it was toned down being a typical ETO GI story, they ALWAYS downplay those!
I'm old enough to have been around back then and Modern Warfare releasing a year prior caused a massive amount of modern-war shooters to be released by the time World at War came about. People did treat it as just another WW2 game while eating up by-then "just another" Modern Warfare 2 a year later, probably because the boom was relatively new.
Call of duty 2, despite having less detail than World At War and being older, is also one hell of a great game, its 4 character campaign, and some of the most interesting characters like Cpt. Price, Pvt. MacGregor, Pvt.Braedburn and Sgt. Randall, and also the missions with multiple objective choices, the music, it was crazy man.
@DanielLopes-uo7qo Honesty I don't even remember the 4th character you play as. But the Russian campaign and the storming of Point du Hoc, followed by the Raegan speech where highlights I'll remember for a long time
Since the day this work of art was given to us it has been my favorite Call of Duty. No other game has matched how great of an experience I had playing that story for the first time.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
this one had the best campaign, BO3 had the best zombies, and MW had the best multiplayer. i really wish activision would let them develop the parts of the games that is their strengths instead of forcing all parts and having a really unfinished game almost every time as a result
Yeah there was a moment during my first playthrough that I just couldn’t beat because the enemies just kept coming. I couldn’t reload fast enough. I kept dying.
Usually after so many attempts I would get mad and call bs. Not this game. I hit the pause button and was like holy cow this is fun even though I’m ass.
One cool detail you missed in Little Residence is a unique animation just before you assault the large building torwards the end of the level. There is a line of US troops taking cover and one of them has their helmets shot off, which they then scramble to put back on. Only rescently found it myself.
That's in the mission Hard Landing when entering the building before the airfield!
Yooooo I just seen that myself bro yeah it’s hard landing not little resistance
Residence? Whose residence?
Another fun little detail on little resistance is that you can infact use the ray gun to destroy the tanks rather than having to call in a rocket barrage
Made the mission way easier on Vet.
I got the raygun the first time i Didint know that
Another thing about the Black Cats mission, you can actually see that it's brighter at the end of the mission than it is in the start, because the sun is rising. Apparently, this was actually quite the difficult thing to do in the World at War engine.
For 5:09, I believe it was probably the original way Dmitri was supposed to find out about the officer and decide whether or not to assassinate him. Before Reznov was even an idea, possibly. The devs likely just forgot the trigger was still in the game and didn’t remove it.
Good theory, could be. Although instances of dead bodies talking and moving in the COD series are not uncommon
The co-op campaign on World at War was a blast to play. At the end of the Berlin campaign, a pillar fell on one of my team-mates and we had to restart the level after laughing for about ten minutes straight.
Man I did that on veteran difficulty and I was so upset cause it had taken me over 40 minutes after a few other 30 minute attempts made it all the more worth it when I planted that flag tho
I got merked by that pillar in my playthrough, it was hilarious.
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@@ryliedejournett8261 That game had some ridiculous difficulty ramp ups. The Pacific Campaign temple siege was a bear. I had three Japanese grenades land in front of my face at the same time.
@@ryliedejournett8261I just beat it on hardened, and even that was a BIG pain in the ass
@@canObeans4we I know it's a bitch and a half but God does the serotonin hit when you finally win make it worth the pain
Easily the best cod imo. Had the best memories playing this game with my brother. Fantastic and realistic story, split screen multiplayer and coop zombies, man this game was every 2000s kids dream. Aahh take me back 🤧
It’s not realistic lmao
@@goldenfiberwheat238 it's certainly light years ahead of whatever they've been shitting out for the past decade lmao
@@Jeyeyeyey that’s not saying much given how low the bar is. But I’m not saying waw is bad or anything
the nostalgia hits like a truck
@@Jeyeyeyey spot on my my n i g g a
Not sure if you mentioned it before but in regards to the german prisoners you can choose to kill or not… In the final mission intro, Chernov will read his journal to the player and will show the player that He has been watching you the whole time too. If you have shown yourself to be cruel and execute prisoners, he would call the player out for being as blood thirsty as the enemies you kill. But if you show mercy, he would write about how you are a true hero. If you kill some but spare others, Chernov will write about how he’s confused by the player
Another important detail is about rescuing injured soldiers in Black cats. If you save them, the crew will say good things about you at the end of the mission. But if you don't, they don't seem to like you very much
I remember playing competitive mode on 3:19 and saw this group of People run to the left side I was like "What the hell are they doin?" So I continued playing the Mission then I hear the raygun noises and green puffs of plasma gas.
My first thought was "Oh nah this must be a hack or something " then they lead me over to the Statues and gave me a raygun.
Mind you I was like probably 11 or 12 and seeing this for the first time blew my mind
I always forget about the comp co-op. Trying to get through on vet even in 4p co-op was HARD...
That is so freaking cool dude
I noticed in CoD MW2 Remastered the mission where you start out in the bunker during the US invasion, in the main room there is a white board with soldiers names and their current status. You can find some of the named soldiers in the bunker being injured and their names on the board with the same designation WIA. This may occur in the classic version as well.
4:41 Imagine Dimitri doing 360 noscope
My favorite cod. I remember playing this as a kid and noticing a lot of these details. Such a captivating game.
Glad to hear people are realizing how good WaW was. Definitely my favorite.
Did you know that you actual shoot Richthofen in that sniper mission with Reznov. Infact all of the 4 main zombie characters are recycled characters from the story mode. Takeo being the soldier who put out a cigar on your face. Dempsey(chernov)being the right hand man in the campaign for the Russians and tank being the main US grunt. Nikoli dies trying to raise the flag etc
Richthofen = General Amsel
Dempsey = Lt. Polonksy
Nikolai = Chernov
Takeo = Japanese Captor
Glad you came around and realized none of these games are underrated. Back when this game was popular there just wasnt a way to really share your feelings about it
No, this game was very much panned by its counterparts as a mid-title. Sure, a ton of us kids who grew up with it loved it, but it wasn't as successful or received well critically either. By definition, this game is literally underrated.
It was underrated relative to MW's overwhelmingly positive reception despite being just as good (if not better)
As a history student i understood the detail when i played world at war for the first time .Japanese was really in desperate need of soldiers ,so they had to recruit medically unfit soldiers in to the war. It is a really cool detail.
yeah it took me the whole game to get the timing for press V timing melee mini game, when, but in the castle mission (last) some banzai soldiers had glasses as you stab them in neck and was shocked about that.
5:20 - That unusual moving soldier, it was always my head canon that it was Vasily Zietsev from Enemy at the Gates, but just before Commissar Danilov crashes his car and crawls into the fountain with him -- since it's the exact same fountain and inspiration, I pictured you and Reznov went one way, and thay moving soldier ended up finding his way out 9f Stalingrad 😅
Ooh I like that. That could also explain the soldier moving in the first place. Maybe a reference?
At 2:40 i think the Japanese soldier scraems "Okasan!!" which means Mother, he's calling for her. Which is really sad.
But still i might be wrong, my Japanese isn't that good.
i think you right. its really sad if we think about it, this soldier know he will die when he tried ti charge the bunker, so to brace him self he is calling his mother for the last time.
this cod was my intro into gaming, i ended up playing the campaign so much i could beat it on veteran since i didnt have online multiplayer
This game was the hardest platinum trophy I got. The veteran campaign was killer in the last mission. I remember being a teen sweating my ass off upstairs sneaking a Smirnoff 😂
This game blew my mind when i played the campaign. I had never seen that level of gore in a video game and the mission that begins in a fountain of dead bodies really made a big impression that I still remember it vividly today. Then of course if you sit through the final credits, it introduces the brand new zombie mode. World at War is truly a classic in the franchise.
At 5:00 it’s a reference to a movie called “enemy at the gates”
There's another detail in the 'Black Cats' mission where the sun is slowly rising over the course of the mission
being a ww2 game, i had a very bad joke pop into my head when reading "sun is slowly rising"
~ Here comes the Sun ~
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7:33 Rats?? Rats make me crazy, Crazy? I was crazy once
They put me in a room
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@@agentmc7868a rubber room
a rubber room
A rubber room filled with rats
I had the PS2 version, which had its own completely original campaign for some reason. Aw the memories.
5:55 also in the game at some points if you kill a soviet ally, it will say “you are a traitor to your brothers!”
The "You are a traitor to the motherland" is actually standard, it's also found in CoD2
Hey its also in Call of Duty 1 and Call of Duty: United Offensive.
0:28 "Call of Duty Wo'ad'Wo" Very British
This is definitely the COD I would choose to remaster next. Between campaign, zombies( still the best collection of maps), and a top 3 multiplayer in the franchise. I would love to see this remastered!!
This game was very underrated when it came out. This game came out one year after the massive success that was COD 4: MW. For people that don't know basically since the first Medal of Honor game released in 1999 the 2000's gaming market was oversaturated with WW2 games. The first 3 Call of Duty games were WW2 games too and COD 4 felt like a breath of fresh air. Even though some successful modern war setting games existed before, COD 4 still felt like the first huge mainstream modern war game and it changed the market. When World At War released many people didn't want to go back to WW2 and didn't buy it. I think many people missed out on one of the best WW2 games ever.
can't believe Dmitri we saw dying from gas chamber in Black ops is the same Dmitri we played in Waw, such fantastic plot twist make me appreciated older game even more
yeah the reznov missions in black ops, has reznov and dmitri, and reznov's vendetta continues after the ship level
The amount of attention to detail in this game is crazy. It is many years older than cod ww2 and vanguard but easily the most realistic and accurate one.
well to be fair they got the uniforms wrong pretty badly, especially the soviets
@@tramlink8544 I'm pretty sure that had to do with how they definitely based the first mission off of "Enemy at the Gates". Besides, it's still giving an authentic feel even if it isn't accurate.
there is 1 hidden detail that you miss: in the mission black cat, when you are shooting the planes and rescuing the survivors from ships at the same time, if you manage to rescue about 5 or 6 and so on you will get a congrats from your comrade. but if you rescue less about 1 or 2 you will hear the comrade say that too many kamikaze and couldnt rescue them all.
And that depends on how much damage you do to battleships in the beginning. If you save them for later, you will get more sailors after but if you sink them the first time you will have less.
@@roderickstockdale1678 can you give me more details about this, please? because as I remember correctly, whether you destroy fast or slow battleships, the results wouldn't change much when rescue the sailors.
@@thanhlongvo7092 if you take out some of the stuff on the battleships and leave some for the go around when you rescue the sailors later you’ll get a full five, six of them and if you clear it all on the first run you’ll only grab a couple of them.
6:09 this detail is in call of duty 2 too
There's a couple of things that I saw when replaying the campaign recently. In Black Cats after you've sunk the merchant ships you see in the cut scene a friendly plane gets destroyed in the air after being attacked by the zeros. That plane wasn't shot down, it was sliced by the first zero it encountered. Near the end of the campaign when I was playing on veteran, I think it was the second last level. In the heat of the battle I saw a German soldier hang themselves off of a tree, and it happened more than once.
So glad people still talk about this game. One of my favorites growing up.
7:08 tbh when I played the game last time, I have to say decided that burning to death was way too cruel(maybe because I’m scared of fire but i can’t allow myself to let the Molotovs be thrown, heck I can’t use the flamethrowers without feeling slightly ill. I know it’s a game but I can’t stand even the idea).
6:53 i have to agree with reznov t h
for a game that came out in 2008 there's still things I don't know about there's a reason that this game was beloved
I always thought the blood splatter was the pied piper (pipe in one hand and walking stick in the other) as there is a rather famous statue of children at play in the town square - so it symbolizes the loss of innocence in bloodshed.
Easily one of my favorites and loved the co-op campaign option
I didn't talk about this game, I didn't google call of duty, this morning I just thought about Call of duty world at war and now I see this video in recommended
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I recently watched some of the missions from this game on RUclips for the nostalgia and in "Eviction", in the first room you encounter enemies, this is after the scene with the execution of the lone German soldier begging for his life at the beginning, if you hide and don't immediately open fire on them and if you speak German, you can hear them talking about flooding the metro tunnels, which I thought was a cool detail.
In the Black Cat mission, one of the most unnoticeable detail about that mission is that when you shoot the Japanese ships, it contained multiple prisoners of war who were in an inhuman condition or diseases that were brought from the Unit 731 Experiment. So that means, you also killed friendlies as well.
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me personally before you pointed it out, i thought it looked like a solider holding some sort of rifle, and another (outline cant really be seen) holding the hammer, but not the sickle from the USSR flag, the 'hood' kinda looks a little like a helmet if you look close enough
The blood splatter looked like a boy playing the flute. But that whole fountain makes me think of the starting area in Gorod Krovi still.
Thanks for pointing out the Corporal to Sergeant change I honestly didn’t know that. 👍🏻
9:20 that video was actually what got me back into WaW
at around 7:14 I swear I heard the round opening for zombies, might just be me
Me too
Yeah, just played this yesterday and that particular set of missions has the "round opening" sting as part of the song. It also plays during the treyarch splash screen when booting up the game, so... maybe it was just their theme before zombies popped off.
when I was 10. I played Advanced Warfare's spec ops with my friend. There was a point where you'd have to kill attack dogs. I was sad and hesitant on doing so. Now every time i play a CoD. It's just a part of my mission. But every time i do so I still feel a bit of guilt that can never be healed...
World at War is like a top 3 WW2 game as a whole, game was so good.
5:09 might be an Enemy at the Gates reference
“Black Cats” had one of my favorite soundtracks for a level.. It’s so good!
"You did all that with just a knife? Remind me to never piss you off"
Not World At War, but my favorite detail in Cold War
One detail that I thought was near was the plane that crashed in the beginning of little resistance. During the real invasion of Peleliu, specifically above Beach White 1 where the game takes place, a TBM-1 Torpedo bomber from squadron VT-51 of the Carrier USS San Jacinto and tried dropping ordinance behind the beach. Somehow it's bombs detonated prematurely though and it blew up out of the sky, similar to what we see in the game. Another cool detail is the inclusion of the number 115 in cod lore. This again ties back to the battle of Peleliu in real life, the battle where some of the Marines missions take place in-game. PFC. Eugene Sledge of 5th Reg. 1st Marine Division recalled in his memoir that the temperature soared to 115°F during the battle. This number was later used in the game for element 115 in zombies.
That's... very detailed
3:10 The guy who made that Easter egg lost his job over it. He asked if he could they told him no but he did it anyways. The reason behind it is they wanted to show respect for the ones who fought World War II and they found what he did was very disrespectful also he went against orders.
I thought he didn’t lose his job.
In Vendetta you have infinite ammo, if you run out of bullets in a weapon, Reznov will say “take the shot Dimitry”, and the reserve of the empty weapon will be fully loaded
Its Very Heartwarming that you metion FFOE in this video. A completely underrated and underappreciated Creator and I LOVE his content. His Aesthetics of World at War was my first video and I couldn't stop watching him since. Much Love!
another detail in vendetta is that the knocked out tank in front of the building at the start of the level is a Tiger ll which was not fielded until 1944 long after the battle of Stalingrad and is thus very anachronistic. WaW is an amazing game but it is still not without its flaws.
soviet uniforms were pretty bad too, adn the mosin nagant was the shorter M44 not the full length 91/30
i have all the achievements in this game and it was amazing to get as well. The only down side is that. in multiplayer, there was supposed to be camos for the guns
5:09 probably a reference to when vasily zaytsev was playing dead in that same fountain in the movie enemy at the gates, that whole sequence is actually a reference to that movie. One of the coolest parts of the game
I always thought the double barrel thumb hold was cool when it first came out.
After seeing how much i missed especially the fact i can change the outcome of chernovs journal is enough for me man. My fav cod campaign ever, always looking for a reason to replay
The rats detail is very interesting because the rats are alerting you of incoming signals of something happening but it’s also very missable
5:37 looks like a guy throwing a grenade
I love these Easter eggs. They show me what I missed in games that I played
During the detail at 3:54. You missed another one of Reznov's comments on Dimitri's sniping. If you manage to kill all soldiers and the dog without reloading Reznov will be impressed, remarking that Dimitri is a "true marksman"
To me, the Grim Reaper blood splatter looks more like someone with wings playing a flute.
5:24 is interesting because in the film, Enemy at the Gate with Jude Law the same scene is played out there as well and film came first.
Did anyone else see the QR code?
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Yes
It’s a link to his clips channel.
This is by far my favourite cod. An absolute masterpiece. If they remastered it, I would be so happy.
You don't need them to. It is still a nice-looking game and perfect as it is.
Please don't feed the corporate money hungry machine.
You could pick up a 7th Gen console and a copy for just a small amount more than you would pay for a remaster. It is still very much alive and people will play custom matches for less popular game modes.
We live in a Timeline where Gary Oldman says "No scope, nice"
WaW had to be my favorite. Stuck in my head so much over the years. A classic. That and Big Red One
The Natural Hunter line is the one i got in World At War when doing the Vendetta mission, i didn't know there was an alternate line if you are slow, etc.
Black Cats. Some of the dialogue will change depending on how many sailors you rescue near the end of the mission.
Blood splatter looks like a soldier to me. Head is a helmet, and to the right he's aiming down the sights of a gun.
agreed
Another neat detail you missed that’s similar to the final Japanese one you mentioned is we see a similar thing with the Germans. They look progressively more beat up as the campaign progresses
The one’s where you spare or kill the surrendering soldiers also reflects you characters in the end as Chernov will mention your character Dimitri’s actions and will either call you a hero, evil, or in between
In HITMAN 3 in the mission of HITMAN 1s campaign "CLUB 27" in the bathroom of your room you will find a scale and if you stand on it it's tells you weigh "47".
Interesting details. In chernov's journal he will say different things, and you find this out at the end of the game. If you gave away your position during vendetta, let the German troops bleed out during their land their blood, and shoot the german soldiers, he calls you a hero, do one of these and the rest opposite then he says "maybe a hero doesn't question their actions." Now doing all of them opposite, he calls you a brute like the rest of the red army. (1. Good ending 2. Neutral ending 3. Bad ending) All of these counts as different endings btw
The pistol guy early on was a reference to the Tom Hanks final stand against the tank scene in Saving Private Ryan
You forgot to mention that the beginning of the vendetta mission is clearly inspired by enemy at the gate, where vassili snipes from a fountain
The intro lullaby can be heard faint in some parts of the campaign like in the water leak mission
Back 4 blood came out October 12th. And on the mission “A Clean Sweep” (and probably others) Phillips watch shows the time 10:12
5:41 it brings me several ideas what it looks like
1) Some sort of angel without feathers in it's wings, blowing into some sort of instrument
2) something similar to that medal of honors iconic boy sitting on the moon, only now with something on it's hands, probably a flute
3) someone doing a suicide, but most likely it isn't that
WAW is the only COD game that depicted the true horror of world war 2 than any other COD title
in the aircraft mission youll notice at the end when youve saved sailors from the water that in the aid compartment of the aircraft there will be however many sailors you saved, lying in the bunks
1:09 aww, we're so sorry to catch you when you weren't on that tree. we'll just politely wait, while you climb up there.
Heres a few more coming from someone who’s played way to much of this game;
In Little Resistance. After flanking through the bunker, if you head straight across to the tunnel entrance and head into the final bunker from that direction, there’s another injured Japanese soldier who when he sees the player primes a hand grenade by smacking it against his helmet (this was an actual method of priming them) before blowing himself up.
In Hard Landing, the main building of the airfield (which also turns up in its multiplayer map version) is the exact building they used for Nacht Der Untoten the zombies mode.
In Vendetta, when Daletski and the other soldiers are overrun, Reznov will tell you to hold fire and that there is nothing you can do. However if you try to kill the German soldiers or are too visible at the window, he will call you a fool for giving away your position. This dialogue is bugged and will repeat whichever you got when reloading checkpoints.
The Walther p38 you can pick up after killing the sniper only has a few rounds left. However, if you fire them all, Reznoc wil say “take the shot, Dimitri” and the p38 will gain max ammo.
There is a way out of bounds on Vendetta after killing the sniper. It allows you to run to the German command post which can trigger Amsel to spawn and run to his car, allowing you to run right up to him and kill him. This makes killing him with the pistol for the achievement much easier. You can also swim in the river you jump into at the end of the level but it is difficult to get back out.
Also in Vendetta, Reznov’s injured hand shows he is missing his index finger. In wartime, especially ww2 on the eastern front, captured snipers would have their trigger finger cut off. Reznov ca be seen shooting with his middle finger for the rest of the game. His missing finger is also visible in Black Ops.
On the map Dome, red army soldiers can be heard chanting “ura!” at the bottom of the pit/staircase. You can hear them either by jumping to your death or by flying down in spectator mode. It can only be heard inside the building and not on the streets outside (which are a low-poly version of the larger Reichstag map).
When the game first came out, or if you did not have your console connected to the internet, the Nazi Zombies mode was hidden from the menu and only became available after beating the campaign, meaning when the mode started after the end credits, it really did throw you in the deep end.
They need to make a remaster of this game!
WaW and BO1 are by far my top to favorite CODs, they're by far the best overall games with the single player, zombies and multiplayer are just perfect