Hello there. It appears an overly verbose clarification is needed. There is nothing funny about the surname Nichols. That random guy's absurd CoD3 review, saying that he didn't like the game because he thought "Nickles "was a dumb name, is what was funny. I also found it more funny that it was, because I saw that review before playing, and expected to run into some side character with the nickname "Nickles". Instead Nichols was simply the protagonist, with that obviously being his normal last name, so it caught me off guard. With how much time I spent reading that review, and how clear I was that I knew it was a normal surname, I don't understand how so many people missed all of that. "What's funny about the name Nichols???" Nothing, holy cannoli bros you're killing me
Man, this game still had an active multiplayer on XBOX One as of like, 2018? Insane how it was so long ago now thst I'm saying it. Wonder if it's still going strong today This was the first CoD game I ever played, it was about 2012 probably (I was eight and it was the only one my mum would let me play)... The nostalgia is strong, but even at the time I knew those characters were well written and some of those moments have stuck with me now at 19 years of age albeit not remembering the names. That initial wall boost in the opening mission, what seemed like main characters dying at random chaotic moments, and that goddamned forest which will always haunt me. Shit, I miss those days, and rest in peace Dix, swear I shed a tear for ya as a little man, soldier 😭
Okay I gotta tell this pretty funny story from my childhood. So I was like 7 when I played this game so 2008 I think. Absolutely loved the game and still use some of the voice lines that are shouted in this game. One of the more funny ones that my dad still reminds me of was me shouting "pappelooden" (or whatever the fuck they actually yell when Germans throw a nade) that I used to say a ton as a kid when playing soldier. Well to the story. I had just got my first phone, some old Nokia, so I could call my parents after school etc. Well I fell in love with the menu song of this game and I recorded it on my phone from the menu. I used to go to our sauna and pretend the benches of the sauna were the benches on the back of a truck and played that song, whilst pretending to be moved to the front XD Childhood was fucking awesome back then honestly. Really appreciate my parents for getting me surplus gear to play soldier in as a child. Even got a real M1 helmet from Normandy when we visited that place. Anyway, I had to tell that story since I cherish that memory and don't really get to tell it.
The ending in this game brought me to tears as a kid which is stupid but I still have fond memories of it. Something about the music and the insurmountable odds with the limitless Germans and actually running out of ammo to keep fighting made it really epic to me back then.
Theres something about these old ww2 games like medal of honour and the old cods that if you didnt grow up playing them and looking at the laura croft level graphics you cant appreciate how well made they were and still are
I liked throwing all my remaining grenades, smokes, and meleeing into the air to celebrate victory with all the other AI teamates after the finale, good times.
Fun fact the guy your playing as in the British missions "Sgt Doyle" is the same guy from the British missions in United offensive and Major ingram is another returning character.
This was my first CoD game ever, and was the first CoD game I beat on Veteran. I cannot count the amount of times I would yell at how *awful* the Forest mission was, the checkpoints in this game were BRUTAL.
A lot of the missions in this game were rough on veteran. I remember falaise road and the mace being awful and the final push on the island and the forest. EDIT: good to see him suffering as much on falaise road as i did lol and the fuel plant too
I think this was my first CoD also. I think I only played the earlier CoDs on PC a few years later after I got to PC gaming. I love that my dad had all these "old" games so I could get to experience these games. Although CoD 3 definitely was new. Still remember how hyped I was when dad bought CoD Modern Warfare, and it didn't work on our PC. Or he might've actually just lied to me so he could play it XD
One thing I never thought about is that being a Sergeant npc is the kiss of death in cod 3. Sgt McCullin, Sgt Callard, Sgt Kowalski, and Sgt. Dixon all die. Guzzo's days are numbered after he got promoted at the end
An underrated game. Very unpolished but it has its charm and bigger graphical update from 2. It was nice going from small villages or farm fights to some urban settings.
One thing this game did better than any other at the time was audio, the gunfire sounds loud and scary and when there’s a big battle it sounds deafening and chaotic The other WWII games in the series and even a lot of the newer ones just don’t have the same overwhelming cacophony
As a WW2 nerd this one always had a special place in my heart because a it focuses a lot on the often glossed over parts of WWII like the badass French resistance and the Polish armored divisions getting sweet revenge on the Nzis. I played this to death as a kid and is probably the reason for my pursuit of history coupled with AoE2.
This cod has my favourite theme song in the franchise! When it kicks in during the last stand at the end, goosebumps! Funny thing is that this was the first game I ever played and beat on the hardest difficulty. Now I never play on anything but the hardest difficulty lol.
“You’re supposed to throw the grenade not the pin” line gives me ptsd from my childhood. That line is seared into my mind from playing this game on the Wii so much
You may remember Sergeant Doyle from Call of Duty United Offensive. This is the second time he's been forced to bail out of a plane and gotten stuck in a tree. And of course this is the return of Major Ingram, also from UO.
Even if the execution itself is a little stilted, and quite unpolished (except maybe the Polish Tankers, heh), the characters are still pretty charmingly voice acted and written especially for such a short and overlooked game. For real though everyone's favorite COD characters are guys like Woods, Price, and then go and snub my homie Robichaud as one of the COD GOAT's lmao. Mfer is an LT. who jumps into battle alongside his guys with a fucking beret and whole ass Bren shouting "watch, out, 42!" every 5 seconds. The only annoying thing is that drama between characters feels like it happens for basically no reason and some arcs definitely weren't given enough time to simmer and be resolved in a satisfying manner, like McCullin goes from macho man squad leader to jaded shell shocked shambled mess 2 missions in when literally nothing notable or out of the ordinary happens to him. Stark contrast to something like the Brothers in Arms series were Baker gets his friends suddenly and unceremoniously taken out after long grueling missions to warrant that type of character arc swing.
@@queuedjar4578 I keep wondering why everything thinks McCullin goes from normal to PTSD with nothing in-between. We never see McCullin normal. His introduction, where he gives up on giving a Rule #2, saying they're all gonna die anyway makes clear that this dude is not doing so hot mentally. Also, threatening to kill Guzzo and manically claiming, "IT'LL BE THE SANEST THING I'VE EVER DONE" is not the behaviour of a man with all his screws tightened. This is a guy who is clearly in mental freefall from the very first mission, and you see how quickly it brings him down. Is the whole arc done a little too quick? Absolutely, but it definitely never felt out of left field to me in the slightest.
@@innoclarke7435 Okay that is actually fair. He is depicted as being completely unhinged even from the start. It has been a while since I actually played the game so his whole arc wasn't fresh in my mind. Then yeah the best criticism probably is that the whole arc is just a little too underdeveloped and way too rushed. Another interesting one is Cpl. Keith and Laroche/Marcel. It's kind of implied that Marcel could have been a double agent, but basically nothing implicates this other than he was hiding in a basement when first introduced, and he hardly speaks English. Keith hates Laroche because...he's French I guess. It's drama that could maybe happen between the most petty fucking people on Earth, but not something you would expect from a member of the most elite special forces in the world at the time and people who are very clearly fighting against an occupied force. Ultimately, it feels like there's basically no proper justification or even a resolution to Cpl. Keith's suspicions, especially if you don't know the history of things like the British and French relations or the fact that both Vichy and Free France existed, or maybe there could have been an offhand mention of SAS soldiers being sold out by people loyal to Vichy France to warrant Keith's concerns, or something like that. The intrigue of the whole situation just isn't fleshed out.
@@innoclarke7435 something was definitely cut though. He has a prominent dent in his helmet in the third mission where he starts falling apart that isn't there in prior missions that's clearly a remnant from a cutscene or mission that was scrapped.
Love how the last Achievement you get is called Win the war even tho we got a full year to go before the war is ended and this was the story of the road to liberate Paris
Hopefully one day people will stop looking back on CoD3 as "just another WW2 shooter" and instead appreciate the great squad stories they tried to tell across four very different and memorable squads
This game is where I properly developed my interest in Military History and the Falaise Gap, that I had never heard of before. Love that it gives an overview of more than just the Americans being the heroes etc
COD 3 on the PS2 was my first shooter and first COD game. Loved it so much as a kid with no internet at the time, so I would replay the campaign over and over. I look at 3 as sort of the “Forgotten COD” as this came out right after 2 (a must have for the brand new Xbox 360) and MW 1 (which literally blew everything out of the water). Hell, it even feels like TreyArch only remembers up to W@W when it comes to putting nostalgia for their current games. But for me personally, this was a first stepping stone into the COD franchise .
MW1 came out about a year after this, I think part of the reason it is forgotten is this was at the very very end of the era of WW2 shooters and the fatigue had long set in. MW1 coming out very soon after didn't help
I love watching a playthrough of this game from someone who's not played it before. This was THE cod I grew up with, and for all its flaws, I will always love it for the memories it gave me. Also these shaders and better fps make this game far better looking than it has any right to be XD Thx for suffering through it on Veteran, I know it had to have been tough (thus far only watched 12 minutes in).
this was my first cod. first played it when i was 8 and yeah even tho its buggy it still holds a special place in my heart. one of the best cods campaign wise imo
I think the sarge was supposed to be shaken up after the rowing section because of the encounter he had with the radio operator when he threatened to off him for retreating. They make mentions of the sarge being quiet and distant for a few days prior to crossing the river. Ik it’s just a cod title but I think that’s what they were building up to. The sarge had a mental break and almost took out his own soldier, and is filled with regret thereafter.
Absolutely loved this game as a kid. Played both original Xbox and 360 versions. Was waiting for you to get to this one and it was definitely worth the wait!
You not knowing you can shoot the planks in the barn at 22:00 was so relatable. It unlocked a memory I forgot I had of running around in circles for an hour as a kid frustrated because I had no idea where to go lol
Thanks for the shoutout at the end, surprised you only had a few scenarios of enemies aimbotting you through walls considering I specifically remember one part of the clearing house objective in Night Drop and just one soldier snapped at me instantly killing me. (XBOX 360 bug maybe?) Little fun fact about the development of this game: it only has one scrapped mission compared to the several scrapped missions that every call of duty has (Especially Call Of Duty 4 and World At War). As far as I know, it was the planned 2nd mission for the polish campaign that seemingly got scrapped last minute as digging into the PS3 versions files show that there was a folder for "mace1" ("mace2" is the second mission for the polish campaign). Sadly no leftovers relating to that as the entire folder was nuked, as far as it goes there's not much to say about this games development aside from that someone discovered a debug build of COD3 for the original XBOX that had a test map and earlier cinematics which used the Last Gen models afaik, sadly hasn't been uploaded but I know the person who is holding on to it. Besides that I don't actually have much to say for campaign, there are achievements for XBOX 360 which some of them are multiplayer ranked exclusive surprisingly, which by the way COD3 multiplayer is underrated as it's basically COD:UO MP / COD:BRO MP with bigger maps, vehicles and class specific functions (sorta similar to specialists in BO3 and BO4 but not complete ass to deal with) and of course, Eder Dam. Glorious map. Enough with the wall of text about me rambling about Treyarch's 2nd (technically third) COD game, good video.
S0ur, when you're in the darkest times, remember... We gotta get across this road! Pop smoke! Pop smoke! EDIT: Damn the guy at 1:42:00 really went "IDDQD"
I was just watching your Big Red One playthrough and was hoping you'd get around to this game. This and BRO were my childhood COD games. Thank you for the video dude. So many happy memories playing this on the PS2 around Christmas time. A dream is to get a refurbished PS2 and this game to play through it on Veteran which I only managed once.
3:49 Fun fact: The actor who voiced Pvt. Huxley is the same guy who voiced Eric Sparrow in Tony Hawk’s Underground. I recognized the voice immediately so I looked up the cast for both games.
Call of Duty 3's campaign and multiplayer was phenomenal, especially local multiplayer. Months and months we played splitscreen, driving tanks and cars in maps, which I am still really annoyed that the feature basically died after this game.
Oh man, the COD I grew up with and used to play on the PS2 all the time when I was a child. It's actually my first ever COD! Years later our family scrounged up some cash and bought a used 360, along with a copy of COD3. I am ashamed to say that I no longer felt that magic I experienced playing the game as a kid. Still the most memorable COD for me of all times.
Am I the only one who remembers the Bonus movie that came with the game. It was random COD fans that went through challenges and then played against each other in some matches?
I remember getting this game for the PS2 in 2006 when I was 12 . Veteran was extremely challenging at the time. I've beaten most of the CoDs main titles on Veteran as well.
1 hour and 25 minutes in, I actually really enjoy this. I never got to finish Call of Duty 3 and I was super young. Thanks for going through the game. Love the gags and little edits
This game was the first game I played online. This game got me into the history of WW2. This fucking game sparked more learning and fun than all of my history classes in school. Even got me to speak a little German. Danke schön COD3
I loved Call of Duty 3 as a kid. The forest ending nearly broke me until i learned exactly how to get through it on higher difficulties. Use smokes often. You can refill them in a lot of places
Mission 5 in that industrial complex was an absolute nightmare on easy/regular difficulty, I can’t begin to imagine how long it actually took you on spicy mode😩. Brilliant video as usual🤌🏼
Quite possibly my favorite of the old CoDs aside from Big Red One. These, along with the Medal of Honor games. This game stood out to me because it did something the other games never did. Other countries such as the French Resistance and the Polish; so cool to see them represented. And while I came too late to the MP scene, the first CoD with vehicle combat (or so I read). Thanks for playing and I so hope you play the Medal of Honor games too.
@@randylahey1581 Oh yes, I loved Finest Hour too. Can't believe I forgot to mention that one, but I meant vehicle combat in the multiplayer. Apparently it was a point of contention back in the day, but I consider it cool as hell.
I really loved that cod 3 focused in on a specific campaign ya know? It told a story spanning a couple weeks, not the duration of the war. Wish more games would let themselves do that.
and it didn’t just go straight to, D-day, Stalingrad, all the overdone stuff we’ve seen 4000 times. Which is a nice touch considering this is how all the other ww2 games are.
So, Sgt. McCullin was in D-Day, and saw the carnage. It was after the battle that not only did PTSD kick in hard, but he became very cynical, hence his two rules. That's also why he completely shuts down during the Mayenne Bridge mission until their combat engineer is out of commission.
I bought this Cod when I saw you starting your All Campaigns on Veteran. I wanted to play it before you upload your cod 3 on Vet but since my TV Died I didnt get to play it myself so far. Glad to see you having fun. Great Video as always
I always loved this game. Especially the scene at 25:10 where Wilkins is messing up. Always thought it as so cool to hear my name in a video game as a kid.
Hell i remember being 15 when this game came out and being disappointed like crazy cause i could not play it on my old microsoft potato at home. I had played all the cods for pc until then and i just couldn’t believe they did not release it for pc. Love watching the game all these years later on your channel bro seeing what i missed out on in my teens.
This was actually my first Call of Duty :) perhaps it’s just nostalgia but I’ve always thought it’s at least as good as the preceding titles. Sure, some of the storylines are a little anticlimactic and the QTEs aren’t a great addition but I’ve never understood why this sometimes ranks as low as Ghosts for some players’ tier lists.
The campaign isn't as good as the previous 2, nor I it as good as big red one, but it's still solid. The multiplayer is where this game really shines. It's easily the best out of any of the pre-modern warfare cods.
I remember doing COD 2, 3, 4 and MW2 on veteran back in the day on the 360. If memory serves they were toted as being, at the time, some of the hardest achievements to gain. I remember COD 3, and 4 being notably tough.
I remember falling in love with COD Finest Hour on my Gamecube, than i got a Xbox360 with COD 3 and boy i was blown away by the storyline and graphics back than, both amazing games !
The music is absolutely perfect at the main menu. As a child new to WW2 the music made me feel like I was listening to something from 60-70 years ago and it was a very Decorum Est song. The Men on that campaign were honored properly by the song and it feels right.
This was my first ever CoD. Bought it for the PS2 and played it so much that to this day I still remember the dialog for the cutscenes. I then bought a 360 along with another copy of CoD 3 and remember being stunned at how AMAZING it looked on the 360 compared to the PS2. To this day IMHO it still looks so good, at times even better that my fave WaW.
This Was my 1st Call of Duty Game. I remember Getting it For the PS 2 at Walmart and playing it during Elementary School. Best Call of Duty, Better Than any of the Latter Games Story Wise.
If you did that on veteran you are entitled to a veteran discount. I struggled on PS2 on veteran...on Wii though? Holy hell that sounds like a nightmare.
In the Extras that have short bios of the soldier it is stated McCullin was a veteran from the African and Italian campaigns, and both did a number on his mental wellbeing. Basically Guzzo had a point, man really was starting to lose it completely due to PTSD. Also I always found it an oddly nice books ends how the last time we see the americans it is a mirror to the first time we see them
I thought McCullin was supposed to be a WW1 vet but that would make him quite old (then again, so was Jacowitz the Polish tank commander). I always thought that Dixon was referring to WW1 when he says "the Sarge was an engineer back in the day".
Oh hey! You did emulate it. Cool. I hope RPCS3 wasn't a struggle to get working for you. Looking forward to this playthrough. Keep it up. I love these, and I just can't believe how patient you are with these games. Veteran man... It is probably unironically the Darksouls of FPS games. Although probably actually harder, do to the randomness of it all. I do love em'. Looking forward to what is next in this series.
This wasn't only my first CoD. I'm pretty sure this was my first FPS ever. Played it to death on the original Xbox. And I recorded the menu theme to use as my ringtone on my flip phone! Good times.
my very first call of duty game, which I played on the ps2. even if it's not considered by many to be a great cod game, to me this was a gamechanger (pun intended), and I became a big WW2 buff in great part because of it
14:28 This game is the first popular instance of someone shouting "Yeah, boi!" Which would later be made famous by one young man in a short video that would make him an internet icon.
This is random, but I remember my immersion was totally ruined as a kid on the tutorial level because the voice actor is the same guy that voiced Eric in the Tony Hawk Underground games lol. Not the guy I'd pick to be the first voice you hear in the story mode.
Man, this game made my childhood with PS2 alongside with BLACK. The music, the campaign, everthing is so smooth and remembers me a lot from my even child era of playing the first Medal of Honor. Great games, great memories
I still love playing CoD 3 online through PS2 emulator or my PS2 console. I have finished the campaign over 20 times and I still remember everything since the age of 8 when I first played it. Amazing game
How did I forget that one of those soldiers is 100% voiced by the guy who voiced T.H.U.G.'s Eric Sparrow? Also fuck this game on Veteran. I remember being masochistic and unhinged enough about a decade ago when I decided to beat this on the PS3 version, with its wonderful sub-30fps gameplay, almost non-existent checkpoints, weird obligatory forced Sixaxis segments, and random crashing. Oh and it came out before Trophies existed, and never got patched to support them, so you didn't even get the fancy .PNG to flex how much time you wasted suffering through it! MP was a blast though
Funny you mention the individually extruded bricks, there was an exploit on Eder Dam where you used the geometry of one of those bricks to float to the top of the map and access unintended areas
Am I the only one who wants a remaster of this game? This is so nostalgic and the first ever FPS I played in PS2 along with Medal of Honor European Assault.
I just played the veteran campaign this week again after watching your video. The last, smokey room in fuel plant caused me so much more pain than forest, you made it look like a cake walk. Thanks for the video! looking forward to what's next in the series! (maybe a return to our favorite one-way flight in the next game perhaps?)
Hello there. It appears an overly verbose clarification is needed. There is nothing funny about the surname Nichols. That random guy's absurd CoD3 review, saying that he didn't like the game because he thought "Nickles "was a dumb name, is what was funny. I also found it more funny that it was, because I saw that review before playing, and expected to run into some side character with the nickname "Nickles". Instead Nichols was simply the protagonist, with that obviously being his normal last name, so it caught me off guard. With how much time I spent reading that review, and how clear I was that I knew it was a normal surname, I don't understand how so many people missed all of that. "What's funny about the name Nichols???" Nothing, holy cannoli bros you're killing me
Man, this game still had an active multiplayer on XBOX One as of like, 2018? Insane how it was so long ago now thst I'm saying it. Wonder if it's still going strong today
This was the first CoD game I ever played, it was about 2012 probably (I was eight and it was the only one my mum would let me play)...
The nostalgia is strong, but even at the time I knew those characters were well written and some of those moments have stuck with me now at 19 years of age albeit not remembering the names.
That initial wall boost in the opening mission, what seemed like main characters dying at random chaotic moments, and that goddamned forest which will always haunt me.
Shit, I miss those days, and rest in peace Dix, swear I shed a tear for ya as a little man, soldier 😭
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It reminds me of Pickles Nickels 😂
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Great video man, really made me want to find COD 3 and replay it myself.
@@EXOxCON rpcs3
I loved call of duty 3. I've always loved going back here and there to play some of the best cods before the dark times arrived.
Eder dam. The memories
@@terpypanda7105Eder Dam is one of my happy places
I'd say post Black ops 1 was the begining of the dark times that campaign was solid
@@maxweinman03 remember the tower glitch that took two people to do? Or getting in the motorcycle, backing up, getting out, and being under the map?
Okay I gotta tell this pretty funny story from my childhood. So I was like 7 when I played this game so 2008 I think. Absolutely loved the game and still use some of the voice lines that are shouted in this game. One of the more funny ones that my dad still reminds me of was me shouting "pappelooden" (or whatever the fuck they actually yell when Germans throw a nade) that I used to say a ton as a kid when playing soldier.
Well to the story. I had just got my first phone, some old Nokia, so I could call my parents after school etc. Well I fell in love with the menu song of this game and I recorded it on my phone from the menu. I used to go to our sauna and pretend the benches of the sauna were the benches on the back of a truck and played that song, whilst pretending to be moved to the front XD
Childhood was fucking awesome back then honestly. Really appreciate my parents for getting me surplus gear to play soldier in as a child. Even got a real M1 helmet from Normandy when we visited that place.
Anyway, I had to tell that story since I cherish that memory and don't really get to tell it.
"I'm tired of carrying your ass around Nicohls."
" Then you should just carry bills"
Made me laugh out loud. 😂
Time Stamp ??
@@guitarzangoashawn 21:05
Damn that was witty
The ending in this game brought me to tears as a kid which is stupid but I still have fond memories of it. Something about the music and the insurmountable odds with the limitless Germans and actually running out of ammo to keep fighting made it really epic to me back then.
Theres something about these old ww2 games like medal of honour and the old cods that if you didnt grow up playing them and looking at the laura croft level graphics you cant appreciate how well made they were and still are
nothing stupid about a damn good game making you cry, happens to all of us
@@eddieb270medal of honor frontier was my game bro on it everyday
I liked throwing all my remaining grenades, smokes, and meleeing into the air to celebrate victory with all the other AI teamates after the finale, good times.
Yes that music was awesome and that's the moment I fell in love with that particular song on the soundtrack!
Fun fact the guy your playing as in the British missions "Sgt Doyle" is the same guy from the British missions in United offensive and Major ingram is another returning character.
And another fun fact : ww2 Price is related to the modern era Price.
@@Some_Guy6yes not the reboot one I guess
Sgt. Doyle from cod united offensive
@@ChandranPrema123 in reboot is still connected cuz all ww2 cods are still canon
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This was my first CoD game ever, and was the first CoD game I beat on Veteran. I cannot count the amount of times I would yell at how *awful* the Forest mission was, the checkpoints in this game were BRUTAL.
My first cod was finest hour it was pretty easy on hard difficulty
A lot of the missions in this game were rough on veteran. I remember falaise road and the mace being awful and the final push on the island and the forest. EDIT: good to see him suffering as much on falaise road as i did lol and the fuel plant too
I don’t remember a forest. I do remember trenches, though.
Hey COD3 was also my first. My brother used to rent it for me from Blockbuster every couple weeks and eventually he just bought it for me.
I think this was my first CoD also. I think I only played the earlier CoDs on PC a few years later after I got to PC gaming. I love that my dad had all these "old" games so I could get to experience these games. Although CoD 3 definitely was new.
Still remember how hyped I was when dad bought CoD Modern Warfare, and it didn't work on our PC. Or he might've actually just lied to me so he could play it XD
Cod 3 is so nostalgic to me, I remember being blown away by the fact you could drive vehicles in multiplayer which was a new concept to me for cod.
Panzer fights on poisson and motorcycle chases on Eder Dam are some of my most cherished memories
In united offensive you also could drive vehicles .
@@ThePortalGeek1337holy shit eder dammmmmm such a goated map. I’d like to see it recreated in Garry’s mod or some other sandbox type game
@@ThePortalGeek1337bike / car races around Poisson were alway 🐐 tier
3's multiplayer was pretty great looking back
One thing I never thought about is that being a Sergeant npc is the kiss of death in cod 3. Sgt McCullin, Sgt Callard, Sgt Kowalski, and Sgt. Dixon all die. Guzzo's days are numbered after he got promoted at the end
It made me think of World At War cuz the Sergeants seem to die too
Hope so. Guzzo is an unlikeable prick.
@@Nolaris3 at least Sergeant Randall survives.
It continues into the Golden Age too. Lot of Sgts die in those games
@@Nolaris3Reznov survived…until Black Ops
The dude in the tutorial basically said "Bet you 85 bucks you can't hit 4 helmets"
Weird just played this EXACT mission and he didn't call me Nichols AND the bet was 10 bucks!
Weird just played this EXACT mission and he didn't call me Nichols AND the bet was 10 bucks!
@@DJEylisiumThen you must be high
An underrated game. Very unpolished but it has its charm and bigger graphical update from 2. It was nice going from small villages or farm fights to some urban settings.
best cod ever
one thing bout all disssss,, gears came out,,, kilt all... this sold poorly lol
They developed strong characters, original missions, with historical immersion around niche battles. It was real Call of Duty
If you asked me. It's shocking superior graphically to WaW and 4. But it seems they honed more into gameplay and guns.
One thing this game did better than any other at the time was audio, the gunfire sounds loud and scary and when there’s a big battle it sounds deafening and chaotic
The other WWII games in the series and even a lot of the newer ones just don’t have the same overwhelming cacophony
The destruction was also amazing
I don't know, Call of Duty 2 is tied with Call of Duty 3 in that regard. Everything in that game was loud as fuck
@@aegis6485just gave me flashbacks of hearing 8 different lee-enfield’s on almost every british mission
@akaron5498 I ran that campaign on Veteran, and the AI threw NINE grenades at me because I threw one. The sound was overwhelming.
My fav cod love the multiplayer and it still has a community today
As a WW2 nerd this one always had a special place in my heart because a it focuses a lot on the often glossed over parts of WWII like the badass French resistance and the Polish armored divisions getting sweet revenge on the Nzis. I played this to death as a kid and is probably the reason for my pursuit of history coupled with AoE2.
This cod has my favourite theme song in the franchise! When it kicks in during the last stand at the end, goosebumps!
Funny thing is that this was the first game I ever played and beat on the hardest difficulty. Now I never play on anything but the hardest difficulty lol.
Starts with getting coffee and donuts, ends with the liberation of France.
Watching S0ur relive my childhood in CoD games is a little surreal
i still play cod 3 on pc on emulator
“You’re supposed to throw the grenade not the pin” line gives me ptsd from my childhood. That line is seared into my mind from playing this game on the Wii so much
You may remember Sergeant Doyle from Call of Duty United Offensive. This is the second time he's been forced to bail out of a plane and gotten stuck in a tree.
And of course this is the return of Major Ingram, also from UO.
Wow, the story of COD 3 actually really damn good.
The characters are all great. damn.
Even if the execution itself is a little stilted, and quite unpolished (except maybe the Polish Tankers, heh), the characters are still pretty charmingly voice acted and written especially for such a short and overlooked game. For real though everyone's favorite COD characters are guys like Woods, Price, and then go and snub my homie Robichaud as one of the COD GOAT's lmao. Mfer is an LT. who jumps into battle alongside his guys with a fucking beret and whole ass Bren shouting "watch, out, 42!" every 5 seconds. The only annoying thing is that drama between characters feels like it happens for basically no reason and some arcs definitely weren't given enough time to simmer and be resolved in a satisfying manner, like McCullin goes from macho man squad leader to jaded shell shocked shambled mess 2 missions in when literally nothing notable or out of the ordinary happens to him. Stark contrast to something like the Brothers in Arms series were Baker gets his friends suddenly and unceremoniously taken out after long grueling missions to warrant that type of character arc swing.
@@queuedjar4578 I keep wondering why everything thinks McCullin goes from normal to PTSD with nothing in-between. We never see McCullin normal. His introduction, where he gives up on giving a Rule #2, saying they're all gonna die anyway makes clear that this dude is not doing so hot mentally. Also, threatening to kill Guzzo and manically claiming, "IT'LL BE THE SANEST THING I'VE EVER DONE" is not the behaviour of a man with all his screws tightened. This is a guy who is clearly in mental freefall from the very first mission, and you see how quickly it brings him down. Is the whole arc done a little too quick? Absolutely, but it definitely never felt out of left field to me in the slightest.
@@innoclarke7435 Okay that is actually fair. He is depicted as being completely unhinged even from the start. It has been a while since I actually played the game so his whole arc wasn't fresh in my mind. Then yeah the best criticism probably is that the whole arc is just a little too underdeveloped and way too rushed.
Another interesting one is Cpl. Keith and Laroche/Marcel. It's kind of implied that Marcel could have been a double agent, but basically nothing implicates this other than he was hiding in a basement when first introduced, and he hardly speaks English. Keith hates Laroche because...he's French I guess. It's drama that could maybe happen between the most petty fucking people on Earth, but not something you would expect from a member of the most elite special forces in the world at the time and people who are very clearly fighting against an occupied force. Ultimately, it feels like there's basically no proper justification or even a resolution to Cpl. Keith's suspicions, especially if you don't know the history of things like the British and French relations or the fact that both Vichy and Free France existed, or maybe there could have been an offhand mention of SAS soldiers being sold out by people loyal to Vichy France to warrant Keith's concerns, or something like that. The intrigue of the whole situation just isn't fleshed out.
@@innoclarke7435 something was definitely cut though. He has a prominent dent in his helmet in the third mission where he starts falling apart that isn't there in prior missions that's clearly a remnant from a cutscene or mission that was scrapped.
I’ve waited so long. Finally my favorite COD is on the list. Nostalgia overload, you did amazing thank you
1:02:43 "Your mother has the syphilis, my friend."
I love this line. It's my favorite French insult.
this went right over my head when i played the game as a kid
Love how the last Achievement you get is called Win the war even tho we got a full year to go before the war is ended and this was the story of the road to liberate Paris
Should have been win the battle instead
Same. But Normandy kinda did.
ackchually ☝🤓
Achievement unlocked: Normandy liberated.
Hopefully one day people will stop looking back on CoD3 as "just another WW2 shooter" and instead appreciate the great squad stories they tried to tell across four very different and memorable squads
This game is where I properly developed my interest in Military History and the Falaise Gap, that I had never heard of before. Love that it gives an overview of more than just the Americans being the heroes etc
Ya nice to see the polish and Canadians get some recognition.
I’ve been looking forward to this! I believe you’re the first guy to do a commentated run of this game on RUclips. Cheers man
Thanks :) Hah, hard to believe but I guess it's possible
COD 3 on the PS2 was my first shooter and first COD game. Loved it so much as a kid with no internet at the time, so I would replay the campaign over and over.
I look at 3 as sort of the “Forgotten COD” as this came out right after 2 (a must have for the brand new Xbox 360) and MW 1 (which literally blew everything out of the water). Hell, it even feels like TreyArch only remembers up to W@W when it comes to putting nostalgia for their current games.
But for me personally, this was a first stepping stone into the COD franchise .
MW1 came out about a year after this, I think part of the reason it is forgotten is this was at the very very end of the era of WW2 shooters and the fatigue had long set in. MW1 coming out very soon after didn't help
I love watching a playthrough of this game from someone who's not played it before. This was THE cod I grew up with, and for all its flaws, I will always love it for the memories it gave me. Also these shaders and better fps make this game far better looking than it has any right to be XD Thx for suffering through it on Veteran, I know it had to have been tough (thus far only watched 12 minutes in).
this was my first cod. first played it when i was 8 and yeah even tho its buggy it still holds a special place in my heart. one of the best cods campaign wise imo
I think the sarge was supposed to be shaken up after the rowing section because of the encounter he had with the radio operator when he threatened to off him for retreating. They make mentions of the sarge being quiet and distant for a few days prior to crossing the river. Ik it’s just a cod title but I think that’s what they were building up to. The sarge had a mental break and almost took out his own soldier, and is filled with regret thereafter.
Absolutely loved this game as a kid. Played both original Xbox and 360 versions. Was waiting for you to get to this one and it was definitely worth the wait!
This was my first cod and one of the first console games i ever played. it holds up a lot better then i would've thought too, so incredibly nostalgic
You not knowing you can shoot the planks in the barn at 22:00 was so relatable. It unlocked a memory I forgot I had of running around in circles for an hour as a kid frustrated because I had no idea where to go lol
Thanks for the shoutout at the end, surprised you only had a few scenarios of enemies aimbotting you through walls considering I specifically remember one part of the clearing house objective in Night Drop and just one soldier snapped at me instantly killing me. (XBOX 360 bug maybe?)
Little fun fact about the development of this game: it only has one scrapped mission compared to the several scrapped missions that every call of duty has (Especially Call Of Duty 4 and World At War).
As far as I know, it was the planned 2nd mission for the polish campaign that seemingly got scrapped last minute as digging into the PS3 versions files show that there was a folder for "mace1" ("mace2" is the second mission for the polish campaign).
Sadly no leftovers relating to that as the entire folder was nuked, as far as it goes there's not much to say about this games development aside from that someone discovered a debug build of COD3 for the original XBOX that had a test map and earlier cinematics which used the Last Gen models afaik, sadly hasn't been uploaded but I know the person who is holding on to it.
Besides that I don't actually have much to say for campaign, there are achievements for XBOX 360 which some of them are multiplayer ranked exclusive surprisingly, which by the way COD3 multiplayer is underrated as it's basically COD:UO MP / COD:BRO MP with bigger maps, vehicles and class specific functions (sorta similar to specialists in BO3 and BO4 but not complete ass to deal with) and of course, Eder Dam. Glorious map.
Enough with the wall of text about me rambling about Treyarch's 2nd (technically third) COD game, good video.
S0ur, when you're in the darkest times, remember...
We gotta get across this road! Pop smoke! Pop smoke!
EDIT: Damn the guy at 1:42:00 really went "IDDQD"
So cool they referenced New York Drill rapper Pop Smoke. They were way ahead of their time
This was my first COD game as a kid. I remember being too scared to do the quick time event at the beginning, so I always had my dad do it for me 😂
Jesus i wasnt expecting for every cutscene to be perfectly etched into my memory.
I loved this game as a kid, little bits from the campaign are burned in my brain and it makes me so happy reliving them through this
I was just watching your Big Red One playthrough and was hoping you'd get around to this game. This and BRO were my childhood COD games. Thank you for the video dude. So many happy memories playing this on the PS2 around Christmas time. A dream is to get a refurbished PS2 and this game to play through it on Veteran which I only managed once.
Thank God you covered this! I really wanted to see you play it cuz I love cod 3
the multiplayer for this game was so fun back in the day with the vehicles, maps, and game modes
3:49 Fun fact: The actor who voiced Pvt. Huxley is the same guy who voiced Eric Sparrow in Tony Hawk’s Underground. I recognized the voice immediately so I looked up the cast for both games.
Ben Diskin
Call of Duty 3's campaign and multiplayer was phenomenal, especially local multiplayer. Months and months we played splitscreen, driving tanks and cars in maps, which I am still really annoyed that the feature basically died after this game.
I actually like this CoD because you get to play as Canadians and that's just something you don't ever get to see in many other WW2 shooters.
Fun fact, World at War Final Fronts was built with mostly reused assets from CoD 3
Wow
@Jake-xn5of it's practical, especially since the Ps2 was on its way out by then
Oh man, the COD I grew up with and used to play on the PS2 all the time when I was a child. It's actually my first ever COD!
Years later our family scrounged up some cash and bought a used 360, along with a copy of COD3. I am ashamed to say that I no longer felt that magic I experienced playing the game as a kid. Still the most memorable COD for me of all times.
This is the first COD I truly remember playing. The Nostalgia is off the scale
i still play cod 3 on pc on emulator
Been waiting for this video. Cod 3 is my favorite campaign, it's been really fun to watch you play it for the first time.
Am I the only one who remembers the Bonus movie that came with the game. It was random COD fans that went through challenges and then played against each other in some matches?
I remember getting this game for the PS2 in 2006 when I was 12 . Veteran was extremely challenging at the time. I've beaten most of the CoDs main titles on Veteran as well.
I wasn’t super young when I was playing this but “watch out, 42s” is my only recollections from the game
1 hour and 25 minutes in, I actually really enjoy this. I never got to finish Call of Duty 3 and I was super young. Thanks for going through the game. Love the gags and little edits
CoD3 was my first call of duty game. I’ve replayed it so many times that I can quote most of the cutscenes line for line 😂
This is the only channel that makes me want to replay the Call of Duty series again
This game was the first game I played online. This game got me into the history of WW2. This fucking game sparked more learning and fun than all of my history classes in school. Even got me to speak a little German. Danke schön COD3
I loved Call of Duty 3 as a kid. The forest ending nearly broke me until i learned exactly how to get through it on higher difficulties. Use smokes often. You can refill them in a lot of places
the Forest "And we're scoped up right away. Its gonna be a good one." I immediately thought "oh no, he doesnt know...."
Mission 5 in that industrial complex was an absolute nightmare on easy/regular difficulty, I can’t begin to imagine how long it actually took you on spicy mode😩. Brilliant video as usual🤌🏼
Quite possibly my favorite of the old CoDs aside from Big Red One. These, along with the Medal of Honor games. This game stood out to me because it did something the other games never did. Other countries such as the French Resistance and the Polish; so cool to see them represented. And while I came too late to the MP scene, the first CoD with vehicle combat (or so I read). Thanks for playing and I so hope you play the Medal of Honor games too.
Call of duty finest hour had tank missions, but this is a great game none the less
@@randylahey1581 Oh yes, I loved Finest Hour too. Can't believe I forgot to mention that one, but I meant vehicle combat in the multiplayer. Apparently it was a point of contention back in the day, but I consider it cool as hell.
I love the music in call of duty 3, it makes you feel like a hero, like your actually making a difference in the war.
I really loved that cod 3 focused in on a specific campaign ya know? It told a story spanning a couple weeks, not the duration of the war. Wish more games would let themselves do that.
and it didn’t just go straight to, D-day, Stalingrad, all the overdone stuff we’ve seen 4000 times. Which is a nice touch considering this is how all the other ww2 games are.
Christ, watching this is making me feel old... This was my first COD game, followed a couple years later by 1, 2 and 4
CoD 3 was the first Call of Duty game I ever played, I remember coming over to a friends house and we’d play through the game. What a fun time
CoD 3 is super underrated.
The multiplayer in this game was amazing! I still look up the multiplayer trailer from time to time just to relive those good times...
So, Sgt. McCullin was in D-Day, and saw the carnage. It was after the battle that not only did PTSD kick in hard, but he became very cynical, hence his two rules. That's also why he completely shuts down during the Mayenne Bridge mission until their combat engineer is out of commission.
The game also says he served in WW1 if I remember right.
@@KermitTheGamer21 That makes it worse.
I bought this Cod when I saw you starting your All Campaigns on Veteran. I wanted to play it before you upload your cod 3 on Vet but since my TV Died I didnt get to play it myself so far.
Glad to see you having fun.
Great Video as always
i still play cod 3 on pc on emulator
I always loved this game. Especially the scene at 25:10 where Wilkins is messing up. Always thought it as so cool to hear my name in a video game as a kid.
Hell i remember being 15 when this game came out and being disappointed like crazy cause i could not play it on my old microsoft potato at home. I had played all the cods for pc until then and i just couldn’t believe they did not release it for pc. Love watching the game all these years later on your channel bro seeing what i missed out on in my teens.
This was actually my first Call of Duty :) perhaps it’s just nostalgia but I’ve always thought it’s at least as good as the preceding titles. Sure, some of the storylines are a little anticlimactic and the QTEs aren’t a great addition but I’ve never understood why this sometimes ranks as low as Ghosts for some players’ tier lists.
The campaign isn't as good as the previous 2, nor I it as good as big red one, but it's still solid. The multiplayer is where this game really shines. It's easily the best out of any of the pre-modern warfare cods.
I'm looking forward to this video, I recently got the PS3 emulator to try it out on pc finally, and with console commands too
I remember doing COD 2, 3, 4 and MW2 on veteran back in the day on the 360. If memory serves they were toted as being, at the time, some of the hardest achievements to gain. I remember COD 3, and 4 being notably tough.
This was the very first time I played Call of Duty. Just the campaign not multiplayer, was still pretty fun though.
I remember falling in love with COD Finest Hour on my Gamecube, than i got a Xbox360 with COD 3 and boy i was blown away by the storyline and graphics back than, both amazing games !
I remember I had this on ps2 , 9 year old me was stuck in boat crossing part near beginning
The music is absolutely perfect at the main menu. As a child new to WW2 the music made me feel like I was listening to something from 60-70 years ago and it was a very Decorum Est song. The Men on that campaign were honored properly by the song and it feels right.
This was my first ever CoD. Bought it for the PS2 and played it so much that to this day I still remember the dialog for the cutscenes. I then bought a 360 along with another copy of CoD 3 and remember being stunned at how AMAZING it looked on the 360 compared to the PS2. To this day IMHO it still looks so good, at times even better that my fave WaW.
The fact you referred the great escape is amazing
hyped to see you tackle some of the classic medal of honor games
This Was my 1st Call of Duty Game. I remember Getting it For the PS 2 at Walmart and playing it during Elementary School. Best Call of Duty, Better Than any of the Latter Games Story Wise.
Second Best Call of Duty Was Their Finest Hour.
Use to play this bad boy on the wii back in the day
me too bro
If you did that on veteran you are entitled to a veteran discount. I struggled on PS2 on veteran...on Wii though? Holy hell that sounds like a nightmare.
i still play cod 3 on pc on emulator
I played this on Wii and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
7:06 McCullin's quote sticks with me to this day 18 years later.....
In the Extras that have short bios of the soldier it is stated McCullin was a veteran from the African and Italian campaigns, and both did a number on his mental wellbeing. Basically Guzzo had a point, man really was starting to lose it completely due to PTSD.
Also I always found it an oddly nice books ends how the last time we see the americans it is a mirror to the first time we see them
I thought McCullin was supposed to be a WW1 vet but that would make him quite old (then again, so was Jacowitz the Polish tank commander). I always thought that Dixon was referring to WW1 when he says "the Sarge was an engineer back in the day".
@@KermitTheGamer21 Makes it seem really old, but it is just "2 years ago". Still, 2 years spent in frontline duty
Oh hey! You did emulate it. Cool. I hope RPCS3 wasn't a struggle to get working for you. Looking forward to this playthrough. Keep it up. I love these, and I just can't believe how patient you are with these games. Veteran man... It is probably unironically the Darksouls of FPS games. Although probably actually harder, do to the randomness of it all.
I do love em'. Looking forward to what is next in this series.
I have so many fond memories of CoD3. It was my first ever CoD experience, and I amso glad it was 3 I played and not 2 or Big Red One.
This wasn't only my first CoD. I'm pretty sure this was my first FPS ever. Played it to death on the original Xbox. And I recorded the menu theme to use as my ringtone on my flip phone! Good times.
my very first call of duty game, which I played on the ps2. even if it's not considered by many to be a great cod game, to me this was a gamechanger (pun intended), and I became a big WW2 buff in great part because of it
14:28 This game is the first popular instance of someone shouting "Yeah, boi!" Which would later be made famous by one young man in a short video that would make him an internet icon.
This is random, but I remember my immersion was totally ruined as a kid on the tutorial level because the voice actor is the same guy that voiced Eric in the Tony Hawk Underground games lol. Not the guy I'd pick to be the first voice you hear in the story mode.
Call of Duty 3 was my first ever cod game to play
same, on ps2, looked very real back in the day
@@veneps PS2 as well but my copy kept glitching out on the first polish tank stage so years after got it on ps3 and completely finished there
@@aussicilian717 mine kept glitching when sarge died =) dont remember what mission it was, 4th?
nice sicilian pfp
Man, this game made my childhood with PS2 alongside with BLACK. The music, the campaign, everthing is so smooth and remembers me a lot from my even child era of playing the first Medal of Honor. Great games, great memories
COD3 online was amazing. My first online fps game ever played.
I still love playing CoD 3 online through PS2 emulator or my PS2 console. I have finished the campaign over 20 times and I still remember everything since the age of 8 when I first played it. Amazing game
This game is so nostalgic the music is so good
How did I forget that one of those soldiers is 100% voiced by the guy who voiced T.H.U.G.'s Eric Sparrow?
Also fuck this game on Veteran. I remember being masochistic and unhinged enough about a decade ago when I decided to beat this on the PS3 version, with its wonderful sub-30fps gameplay, almost non-existent checkpoints, weird obligatory forced Sixaxis segments, and random crashing. Oh and it came out before Trophies existed, and never got patched to support them, so you didn't even get the fancy .PNG to flex how much time you wasted suffering through it! MP was a blast though
Funny you mention the individually extruded bricks, there was an exploit on Eder Dam where you used the geometry of one of those bricks to float to the top of the map and access unintended areas
Am I the only one who wants a remaster of this game? This is so nostalgic and the first ever FPS I played in PS2 along with Medal of Honor European Assault.
I just played the veteran campaign this week again after watching your video. The last, smokey room in fuel plant caused me so much more pain than forest, you made it look like a cake walk. Thanks for the video! looking forward to what's next in the series! (maybe a return to our favorite one-way flight in the next game perhaps?)
I’m still shocked they still haven’t release COD3 or COdWAW music online, or at least port cod3 to pc
I remember this was the first cod multiplayer i have ever played for xbox 360 and was stunned at how good it was...
Cod 3 was my intro to the cod series. it was great seeing sour have some struggles with it lol
1:29:40 😭 I'm sorry for laughing but that grenade sequence killed me