The Horn or Siren that plays while the metro is being flooded is haunting and seeing all of those rats running away. Would make an excellent scene in a movie lol.
@@nyeoncolors6949 "push up" Yeah but they throw them if you sit in 1 spot for about 1-2 sec just regen hp or reloading On heart of the riech they throw 3-4 or more around that destroyed tiger 2 with panzershrek during the destroying the 88s
I just beat it again on PC a few days ago. It was surprising easier than on 360. Maybe there’s a porting issue or I was just more patient and picked them off one by one.
World At War was a masterpiece not for its graphics, not for its guns, the way it fucking showed war. brutal, not a fun adventure, horrible. and its one of the only games i know to show the Marines in Japan.
games like call of duty world war 2 is just like a fucking hollywood movie its so staged and doesnt feel right, take a look at Polosky (or) Roebuck's death. it happened in a half of a split second and i didnt even know it would happen, plus the Japanese soldiers not giving up. then came it being the grandfather of Nazi Zombies being the one to kick everything off with Nacht Der Untoten (or Toten) but COD WWII just feels off but gives me a COD WAW vibe when using the T-38. it also pisses me off that all bolt action rifles are "snipers" like yeah they *CAN* be snipers but they werent used at snipers A LOT in WWII because Semi-Automatics were coming around and everyone was using Karabiner98ks and M1903A3 springfields and Mosin Nagants but those were replaced by the Gewher 43 and the M1 garand or M1 carbine and the SVT-40 but bolt actions were still standard rifles. like i wanna get a feeling when using the T-38 because i want a bayonet on it to Banzai Charge! but NOPE its a sniper. well thats enough ranting for today... (BTW the japanese didnt have any semi-auto rifle i knew of during WWII besides the experimental M1 Garand copy "Type 5")
“You see that Russian dude over there?” “Yes commander” “Take this grenade crate and throw every single grenade at him” “May I ask why sir?” “Cause screw him that’s why trooper”
@@retrosniperrus I just pictured that scene from prologue of Mafia 2 in my head, but instead of Germans it was just Dmitry who went prone behind sandbags.
@Umbrella Corporation Dont forget they had 128 mm guns and multible 36 mm and 20 mm guns. They were used to defend Berlin against bombers and hold the civilian population safe during the raids. As Berlin got bombed and ruined it were some of the only buildings left with electracity and running water for the civilian population. During the battle of Berlin they used the flak guns on the towers to take out soviet armor in the streets. After the war the allies wanted to remove the towers and packed them with tons of explosives. But could not fully demolish the reinforced structure so they buried it instead. Some parts of the towers at Berlin can still be seen today.
COD4 and WAW Difficulty Levels Regular: A little bit of grenades. Recruit: A lot of grenades. Hardened: Shit ton of grenades. Veteran: Grenades rain from the sky.
That was one side of the people fighting, the other, were women and children that the SS pressed into service. Kids as young as 12 were carrying around MG ammo to feed guns for their older siblings under threat of death from the SS.
Certainly signified that this assault marked the end of a regime that inflicted great suffering, while also fighting desperately against an equally titanic enemy who would also enact great power and control at war's end. The Eastern Front is a conflict that will likely never be matched in its brutality and level of bloodshed given it was the very definition of a war for existence between two authoritarian regimes.
The true meaning of veteran lies here. The enemy is trained to the absolute intent of ending your life, to start over and over again and again. You will fall like the man before you, and the one before him, and the one before him. You will not survive.
The Soviets employed their new super secret weapon without anyone knowing. Dimitri the Grenade Magnet, known to cut down friendly losses from grenade shrapnel by about 90% thanks to this marvelous feat of Soviet engineering.
Fun facts of the actual battle for the Reichstag: The Soviets wanted it because it was the parliament building of Germany. The Germans wanted to defend it because it stood between the Soviets and the Reichs Chancellory and Hitlers Bunker. The Germans completely bricked it up so the Soviets couldn’t get in and the Germans defended it from the inside and outside. The Soviets bombarded it with artillery before their first attack, but it did very little damage. The Soviets then made their first attack, which failed as it was held off by the defenses (including two 88mm flank guns in front of the Reichstag, and four 128mm guns 2km away). The Soviets second attack broke through the outer defenses and their artillery broke a hole through the building allowing them to flood in. The building was defended by about 550 Germans, those troops being the Kreigsmarine (Navy Soldiers), Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger (Elite Airforce Paratroopers), Volkssturm (civilian soldiers) and as said in the mission, Hitlers personal Waffen SS Honor guard, that unit being the “1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” (Known as the LSSAH), absolute fanatics. The battle was room by room, floor by floor, which started on April 30th and didn’t end with complete control by the Soviets until May 2nd. A couple hundred Germans died in the battle, couple hundred surrendered/were wounded, and part of the Waffen SS Leibstandarte escaped the building to go on and fight another day.
they acually broke the bricked up wall on the front staircases by turning a mortar horizontall and fired at it if your interested in more of it go watch mark feltons videos on youtube hes a historian by the way there was also a few paratroopers and a handfull of navy infantry men that defended it
the volksturm were only entitled to 5 rounds of ammo each also the LSSAH fought to the death so they made sure they died by taking down a few soviets berlin was absolutely brutal
One thing I personally loved about WaW soundtrack is it sounds like you're just destroying and crushing the enemy, not necessarily with a goal. It sounds rather menacing and sinister, not necessarily heroic or valorous.
What makes a good gaming experience is when you relate to the music more along with the theme and gameplay. Which makes you feel less of righteous but along side of the brutality of either side. However, even the slow sombre moments just show how much thought/effort was put in these games.
representation and depiction of war without a single strand of propagandistic heroism many of “war stories” seems to tell, it really doesn’t get any better than this
Despite my love for Nazi zombies, I wish more people would associate "Hell's Gate" (6:20) with the charge on the Reichstag rather than the round changing. Such an awesome moment in the campaign, specially on Veteran.
@Dead Op No you dont you play as a cia agent,tier 1 sas operator and london anti terror force there is no "black transgender woman in the game" where did you even get that from?
No modern cod player can remember the pain in the arse that this mission was in Veteran. Not even "No fighting in the War Room" , the Favela from MW2, or Mile High Club. This is the definition of pain and desperation
I’m a modern cod player and I’ve done that mission on veteran. Took me almost a day lmao but I did it. But tbh I stoped playing cod after Bo2 so modern warfare is my first “modern cod” game
@@guardsmangaming3775 Oh yea. The only people that like brown shirts are other brown shirts. I still see no difference between them and the antifa people lmao.
Did you know? The Wunderwaffe project did bear fruit by 1945. During the Battle of Berlin the German Army was equipped with magic grenades that would home in on targets and were infinite, as well as cloning machines so they could spawn endless waves of soldiers. I learned this from this level on Veteran. It's true.
The part that starts at 6:21 and ends at 7:38 is my favorite part, especially when the electric guitar comes at 7:13 and when it does, you can feel the war's rage. Damn, the music in COD back then was so good. I miss the old days.
7:13 Probably represents the rage of the Soviets and the sheer desperation of the Germans as every bullet they shoot is every inch the Soviets gain ground infront of the Reichstag
My favorite part is closer to the end at around the 9:40 10 minute mark. It's building up to the next level, the next part in your journey through this hell.
12 years, a military career, and a ton of self therapy later, and that scene where Reznov holds Chernov's hand in his last moments gets stronger each time i see it.
Girls making pillow forts: This is so much fun! After this we should do each other's makeup and watch movies with snacks and prank call our exes. Boys making pillow forts:
Whenever I hear this, I think it has a double meaning. Yes in the mission you and reznov are in the heart of the reich, but the song itself, along with its use in zombies implies a different meaning. Like in the context of zombies, the heart of the reich is almost unkillable and horrific in its presence, the song feels like you’re holding out against an unstoppable tide. Like the heart of the reich has become the undead.
That off-key melody at 2:39 gives this so much personality. it sounds like the climax of a military march, like a soldier faintly remembering false promises of honor and glory in the middle of the horrors of war
yeah its really great the fact that its off-key really makes it stand out and combined with the guitar it really makes the soundtrack seem espcially hectic as urban combat should be
I love how this soundtrack has some screaming in the midst of it but I’m not sure if it is but the real reason I love it is because it is a type of revenge or blood lust soundtrack and the Germans weren’t even fighting to keep the reich standing, they fought for their lives because the Germans die even when surrendering. Overall this is a great track because it encapsulates the feeling of revenge and blood lust and hatred.
After the embarassment of Vanguard, I played WAW again and, after so many years, appreciated it more than before for how it perfectly described WW2. The destroyed landscapes, the barbarism and brutality, the excessive destruction, the fitting grey and brown colors, the depressing atmosphere, the undecisive and forebodding soundtrack... it's soul-crushing. And aside from some historical mishaps here and there, I actually _felt like I was in WW2,_ from Stalingrad to Peleliu, and Berlin to Okinawa. I could picture myself as a German soldier desperately defending the capital despite knowing everything was lost, or as a Marine Raider begging to come back alive while waiting for the next Japanese attack. And the ending, with the montage and the nuclear bomb and the somber atmosphere, tells you not as a player, but as a person: _this event happened, it wasn't pretty, and it had _*_consequences._* That's why I hate Vanguard: beyond the stupid attachments and the out-of-place multiplayer, it's simply a spit in the face to everyone who fought, died, or were mentally/physically scarred by the war. It's nothing more than a bunch of SJW babble, historical inacurracies that'll make serious historians commit seppuku in their classrooms, incoherent storylines, cartoonish good vs evil gimmicks with unlikeable, boring protagonists (minus the Australian), and obvious contempt for the history of what happened. Then again, the main writer was a fricking SJW.
I do swear Ghosts was a good one. It was modern but still had a certain type of fear in it. To know one of your own, the one who knows you inside out, is there on the loose. He counteracts every move and he goddamn wins in the end despite everything you’ve thrown at him
the guitars playing at 1:00 and the drum kicks at 1:34 sound an awful lot like a machine gun, this is easily my favorite track from WAW just because of this detail. You’ll never see that much creative effort brought into a video game.
The last mission I swear almost gave me ptsd, you realize the men you are fighting are in bandages, they know they will not be spared, and death would come faster or slower. Then as you pass a certain hall, soviets mercilessly killing german soldiers. And the ending cutscene telling you the effects of ww2 was bone chilling.
the whole german army surrendered all at once the chances of being spared would be much higher considering most of the executions were right after the battle ended and the russian soldiers were still filled with adrenaline, and anger. fact of the matter is, all the soldiers who defended the Riechstag were devoted nazi fanatics who preffered to die than to see their racist ideaology fail.
That's so true. The character models told so much. You had old men (WW1 vets), young men in clean SS uniforms (Hitler youths) and men in bandages (Injured soldiers being sent back into the fray)
@@yosefyonin6824 I’d only expect death if I surrendered to the soldiers of a nation which my nation had genocided, or try to surrender on the Western Front.
@@yosefyonin6824 very untrue, German troops, civilians, anyone and everyone was at the mercy of brutal Russian troops who'd already raped and pillaged their own lands and eastern Europe before reaching Germany. All they could do was fight and hold the line so more refugees could flee west
They need to remaster this game... it's been 11 years since I played it. I was 8 years old. I want to relive the campaign just as I remember it: with hyper-realistic graphics that made it so tense...
everyone talks about the brutality and such in this game that made it great, but let us not forget the amazing ost's this game had, every damn track is unique and gives a great atmosphere, it creates nostalgia
World at War had such a fantastic soundtrack that complimented its dark, unapologetic and (mostly) authentic campaign. It legitimately felt like a war, that everyone had blood on their hands and there was no turning back, and it especially felt like that there were no winners...only the victims of men who thought they were right.
9:32 Damn, that scream shows how gritty and dark treyarch made this game and it's soundtrack, it makes me think about a soldier that became mad during all the horrible things he saw during the war... (Sorry for my English)
Damn me being a zoomer, I really missed out on what people call the "glory days". This OST scares me shitless...and I think it's supposed to be this way. I love it
Play it, my first COD was AW, but i got World at War and had a sick feeling at the end, asking myself why WW2 had to be as brutal as it was, why 60 million people had to die in such brutal ways.
A lot of people say the Black Ops games had the hardest soundtracks in COD, while I do agree that “Rooftops” and “115” go hard as shit, but “Heart of the Reich” and “Black Cats” from WaW are underrated as hell. 🤘
Playing black ops broke my heart seeing what happened to Dimitri after all he endured. Russians soldiers never truly got the recognition they deserved );
i have it on ps 3 and i revisit it every once in a while , and its great , the nostalgia the brutality but also the messages and tones it sets , absolute masterpiece
this is exactly what I thought when I went to berlin a few weeks ago, i went to the reichstag, felt like i was in the game lol i could just hear 6:21 in my head
This mission has got to be in the top 5 of COD missions/battles. It's absolutely insane, intense, chilling, thrilling, nightmarish and fucking badass! I wish COD still felt like you were trapped in a heavy metal concert in the midst of the most deadly and destructive war in history absolutely captivated by the carnage in front of you. Not to glorify war or specifically WW2 because it was horrifying beyond comprehension for people who didn't experience it, but this is the closest it comes to experiencing it
On me this game will forever be in my Top 5 best COD, eventhough the new Generation says it isn't i remenber playing this when I was 14 years old now im 26
Interesting history trivia by mistake the 20 Pzg (panzer grenadiers), 18 Pzg, 11 SS Pzg, and 9Fj (Fallschirmjäger) division supply for grenades (about 2 mounts worth) was shipped to the reichstag. Due to a failure in communication within the logistical department was forgotten just before the siege started when the last desperate defenders found the enormous supply of grenades a unknown officer was quoted as saying "Dimitri leck meinen Arsch", before giving the order to have all of his man be supplied with 2 box's each (15 in a box). However statements recovered from a Russians war diary revealed that the Germans took the liberty of taking up to 5 boxes as of today its yet unknown who the officer was referring to. Tho some have proposed the idea it was just a outer version of "Ivan" a generic term used by the Germans many more have taken issue with this as the same diary mentioned to a "Demitri" more then once. marvels thing history is it not ? such small and intriguing story's in such a vast event.
only prob,at the time,people werent so crybabys for games so gritty and dark,but now if you remaster such a realistic,dark and grityy game,they will basically be thanos snapped out of existence with complaints
@@PanzerHistorian even back then they where remember "No Russian" from BO2 remember how every single news article spot and practically media as a whole just kept talking about it even though at the very start of every campaign hell even the first thing you see before gameplay is a warning saying "This content may be offensive to some audience do you wish to proceed" and the media still hated it.
In COD series, IMO, Dimitri is the toughest badass player. He survived from insane grenades explosion from enemies, machine guns heavy fire on him, riding the tank and eliminate all enemy's panzers, survived the flood, and the shoot when he was carrying the flag. Indeed, he is hero.
0:01. Couple minute break before the assault on Reichstag. 1:00. Light German resistance while taking a left flank. 5:31. Moments before the assault on Reichstag. 6:20. Assaulting the Reichstag while encountering a heavy German defenses. 10:25. Chernov's sacrifice.
So many great memories. Hearing the flute as the final battle rages arouns the Reichstag; first time we see the SS in black uniforms (the game called them the Honour Guard)- finally completing this and the last mission, and unlocking the first ever zombies game... My teen years and some of the fondest memories are enclosed in this game
