I think waw feels authentic to the horrors of ww2 even if it's not always accurate, I think people tend to be picky over tiny details and get pressed over stuff like grenades not being green in 1942 when that's not really a big deal. Great video
Absolutely, and thank you for the comment! I think as long as the story they are showcasing is trying their best to tell the real stories of these events, then it's OK. That's why I want to try and highlight some of the stories of the people that took part in them to essentially expand on what's being shown and put faces to events
Of course, this is true, but for a game that's trying to show the war as it was and inform the player, mistakes such as "1937 Indochina" and getting dates wrong is just lazy and harder to get wrong than it is to get it right, and just confuses the player at best or misinforms him at worst
@@maximilianodelrio it's not that big of a deal. Anyone interested enough to analyse tiny details like that will research it or already know it's wrong. It's a bad mistake but still eh.
I know it's a long shot, but could you do a video, reacting on how accurate the battlefield 5 pacific theater trailer would be. I know it would be a shorter video since the trailer is not that long but it would be very interesting to watch you break it down, even though it's been out for awhile. Also enjoying your videos.
Finally, I love the Pacific campaign in WAW, its just so enthralling and epic. I know there are several inaccuracies and mistakes, but this is one of those games where you just don't care about issues.
Idk, I sure enjoyed the hell out of the game but looking back knowing all the blatant mistakes, it just feels like they got lazy or something, considering how much effort they put towards giving context and explaining the war, but then making these ridiculous mistakes/choices (especially the last mission of the Pacific)
the soundtrack has stuck with me to this day. the music made everything so much more memorable and immersive, i will never forget the heavy metal riffs while being knee deep in mud and blood in the jungle or the haunting choir while fighting through smoke and rubble. the sounds of this game made all the emotions and themes so much more impactful. i probably wouldnt remember this game nearly as much as i do if it wasn't for the magic Sean Murray worked into the soundtrack. something about the music grips you and pulls you in, it makes you soak in the horror around you. if you've ever taken a second to just sit behind some cover and listen to music while watching your comrades fight and die, just observing the brutal struggle while hearing that chilling music. ive seen alot of people say the heavy metal isnt very fitting and clashes with the serious tones of the setting, but i have to disagree and maybe its because of personal bias but i find the idea that metal is inherently "not serious" pretty ignorant and the way its used in the game is pretty tasteful and adds to that feeling of being in a horrifying and brutal battle that you are unlikely too survive. the grinding of guitars with the the scratching violions and the crunching of bones come together to create a symphony of death. this game does not make you feel like a hero, it does not glorify killing, there is no satisfaction in shooting an enemy, only relief that he is not shooting back. its an atmosphere very few shooters have been able to capture. (hell this is probably the only CoD game that has done its successfully. not even a diss against some of the other golden era games, they just leaned towards an action movie vibe while World At War was a horror movie set in a war.)
I truly think that Black Cat captured the true visual experience of the war in the Pacific. With a mix of S&D and response and rescue. Visiting Pearl Harbor and most recently Hiroshima just made the mission feel more impactful to me. Because the war in the Pacific was started by an attack from the air and ended in an attack from the air.
Oh man, I love WaW for touching on the Pacific alone, my great granddad fought in the Pacific, 2nd Marines on Siapan, he saw the last and largest banzai charge of WW2, Peleliu was the defining factor in doctrinal changes of the Japanese as a whole, shifting from suicidal Banzai attacks to ambush, I read Eugene Sledge's book With The Old Breed, it was hell on a coral infested island, seventy three days the Marines were there, after being told the island would be secure in 3, it cost a lot of needless blood in my book.
Despite the game not being 100% historically accurate, it gets the picture of WW2 much better than COD Vanguard and COD WW2. There’s mods out there that fix some anachronistic uniforms
It's so hard to see the modern cods fail so hard compared to waw, WW2 was actually pretty good imo but it still lacked a ton of stuff that the game released 9 years before it had, and let's not even talk about vanguard
I come from the Philippines. Out of all our colonizers, Japan was the worst offender. 3 years of Japanese rule caused more destruction than 333 years of Spanish rule. Just the stories we hear from our great grandparents is so gross and disgusting.
Listen the game might not be accurate, but unlike recent games is trying to be as accurate as possible, the idea of dimitri cheating death during ww2 is interesting since in ww2 the russians we're the ones who lost most trooops. And we can see the brutality of the n@zis and ussr how the deeper the soviets went into German territory how blood thirsty they become as the germans we're. Is an interesting topic something that wasn't doen back than
CoD does SO much better when it at least partially recognizes that the reality of war is more closer to horror than it is EPIC ACTION with EPIC HEROES.
I absolutely love this game, but i think people shouldn't let that love and nostalgia get in the way of seeing how many mistakes and flaws he game had, especially when it came in the way of wrong dates and wrong information in a game thats trying to inform you about the war and how brutal it was, this information is so incredibly easy to find that its hard to believe these mistakes weren't intentional, and it wouldn't have made a difference in the enjoyment in the game, so the argument that it was done for playability's sake just doesnt make sense. Stuff like this can't just be overlooked the way they did
I like that you focus more on explaining the history rather than bashing the game. A game is made to be fun and to capture the audience, if historical facts make the gameplay too boring or are to complex to capture the audience (the cod audience is hardly historians) then the game fails. I think WaW makes a nice compromise between giving a "feeling of reality" and fun gameplay and story.
Yes, the only issue is that some of the mistakes they made just makes no sense, are hard to get wrong, and it wouldn't change how fun it is if they actually got the data right instead of showing wrong info for no reason
@@maximilianodelrio Black Ops is complete garbage with no redeeming qualities to speak of. Call of Duty 4 was a masterpiece but MW2 and 3 were profoundly disappointiing
