(Late) Birthday 2017 Review - Call of Duty: WWII 

beta being better than release is fucking idiotic i would probably give it 0.5/5

Happy Birthday man!The review was pretty spot on.

you only need one thing to enjoy the story, you just need to be 14y old and if you find the gameplay too difficult, just sprint throught the levels to the checkpoint triggers, enemies will suddenly die or retreat and all allies will regroup at your location, no need to shoot (no really that's how this shit works)

While i don't particularly hate this but the game feel incredibly dated. It a 2003 game with a skin of a 2017 game. The story and character is so boring and generic it's funny, i was bust into laughing when the French lady told the protagonist of how nazis kill her family because of how bad the the dialogue was. The only purpose the story exist is to string a bunch of levels together in a WW2 theme shooter. So that leave us with the gameplay which just bog standard military shooter so basic all the features can be done in a ps2 machine. If their intention is to replicate the feel of a 15 years old game, they are succeeded.

You really shouldn't review garbage games on your birthday.

Love yer channel.

Dude, glad to see you here

oh my indeed

Love yer channel ggmanlives I’ve watched every video you’ve ever done on RU-vid

Gggmalives enjoyed this game. Lol. I did too, though I admit it is generic call of duty, just with a shiny new ww2 paint job.

Luke Chew -continues to play overwatch

Which is sad.

Agreed. I mean, I'm not exactly underage but I am relatively young for a millennial gamer and even I am interested in games from the 2000's. Dunno, maybe out of curiosity than simple nostalgia.

Hey now. This review doesn't need to be 3 hours long.

Fitzy When I was experiencing that scene for the first time, my thought was "this shit is set in ww2 right?" Because this Daniel guy didn't even get hurt once ONCE. And don't even get me started with how that one poorly voiced French woman just causally walks into frame amongst all of the destruction and chaos just be like "sup". After that I just had to pause the game and reflect upon what I just experienced by talking to myself.

Vietnam or korean war would have been awesome, and I am so sick of "well, didn't we get vietnam in the first black ops?" VIETNAM WAS ONLY PART OF THE CAMPAIGN YOU DIPSHITS!!!

Frankly any of those ideas you mention would be infinitely more interesting than (insert American campaign here). Sadly we'll never get one.

You know what would be interesting, regarding choices? When you carry your injured friend (Zussman ?) in Call of Duty WWII, and you have to defend him from enemies. At the end of the section, make your friend need a medkit in order to survive. If the player used all of his medkits when defending him, then your friend dies. If you spared at least one, then your friend lives. And you can have many sections like this, where your options affect the outcome. Instead everything needed to be 100% scripted.

There is actually a game that has a German/Nazi campaign however it is arma like "Iron Front" store.steampowered.com/app/91330/Iron_Front_Digital_War_Edition/ They even speak German and you can enable subtitles or just have them speak in English which is boring.

"Imagine a WWII game, where you can play as a soldier from "evil" side: Italian, German, Japanese, that would be interesting. To see a war from different perspective but ultimately with same individual goal. That is, survive the goddam war and return to your family (if alive)." Unfortunately Nazi Germans are portrayed in media as the most evil humans in history so much that is pretty much impossible to have a Nazi campaign. Just look at the Wolfenstein games as the Germans are demonized (still love all the games though).

I just linked a game that has a Nazi campaign.

Graphics do matter though. Ugly games aren't as fun. But what he means is that pretty graphics can't save a repetitive experience.

Because nobody remembers it unless they're a history nerd or Finnish.

DWTerminator I could see it being interesting as a set piece to a larger story about WW2.

I'm pretty confused by that last statement. I think you might've misspelled something.

DWTerminator it was a reference to the infamous review by theneedledrop were he gave the album damn a just a 7 and has since became a meme in anything that’s a review

Ah, yeah I wouldn't have gotten that one. Thanks for clarifying.

probably captured or maybe "borrowed" weapons from the jappaneese.Idk

Hogan's Heroes is at least campy and isn't meant to be taken all that seriously. I'm much more lenient on things that aren't supposed to be taken seriously.

"I know nothing, NOTHING" -Sgt Schultz. That is pretty much Sledgehammer Games in a nutshell.

Nobody expects the German Inquisition.

Almost one and a half, actually.

They really do. It's sad.

Only thing missing is shaky cam.

*corrected. Thank you sir. Glad to see one of your CoD series reviews that do not borrow entire sentences from the excellent Noah Caldwell Gervois "Complete Call of Duty Retroperspective" video, like in your World At War, Ghosts and certainly others.

Most certainly do not respect the Wehrmacht, the amount of war crimes compared to the US and the Wehrmacht, makes the US look like a kiddie playground.

taten007 Somehow the Wheremacht were friendly to the POWs from the west, but on the East, that’s where the Wheremacht commited so many *[REDACTED]*

I had work that day, so no to both.

Obviously the same people who drop magic loot boxes from the sky onto the beaches of Normandy.

I have a bachelor's degree in it.

I think our only hope at this point is a second industry crash.

The Winter War would be amusing. You'd end up with a lot of people complaining that it's completely over the top or Finnish propaganda... and then it turns out that Finland actually *did* smack the Russians around that badly and those people complaining suddenly find their jaws on the floor.

Thanks, and it is indeed the second-longest video after Fallout 4.

I am the opposite. I am that person that owns every WWII game, regardless of quality, every tv show, book, movie, and everything else, and still can't get enough. I don't know what it is about WWII, but something about it just grabs my attention. I have spent years of life studying various aspects of it, and I still find and learn new things all of the time. Where this game may lack in some areas, I find an outlet to dig through the development of the game and the game itself to find some scraps of information that send me on another research binge to learn more. That is just me, though, and I am the exception to the rule. Many bad games can still be good for a single afternoon, and they can be important to seeing what does work, doesn't work, or just needs different/better execution.

Simultaneous feasting and birthday party? Sounds like a plan.

Bitte.

Not really. It just happened that way a couple times.

Exactly. It drives me up the wall when people act like games have an expiration date.

Officers sometimes used their personal sidearms. It's certainly possible those were British-made.

They're still in the rotation. Their last game was Infinite Warfare, and with Treyarch doing this year's CoD game, their next one will be next year's CoD.

Yeah, I've read in a magazine that Activision switches between Infinity Ward/Treyarch/Sledgehammer in sequential years.

That have great stories? No. But Call of Duty 1, United Offensive, and 2 all tried (successfully) to treat WWII with respect while still being really good FPS's.

And as I've said several times... there's really nothing stopping people from picking up older games and playing them.

DWTerminator That's not the point. The point is that these games are new to somebody, which gives them a reason to exist.

Ignorance is no excuse.

What on earth are you on about? The point is: company announces WW2 game. Casual kid gamer knows these games have existed before, but are they going to go out of their way to buy an old console and games? No, they'll think "Oh, that's cool. I can play a WW2 game on that thing that I own." Again, not everyone is an adult "hardcore" gamer. Casual gamers, especially those who are children, are going to buy (or really get their parents to buy) things for the things they own. It's basically almost the ENTIRE idea behind why remasters exist.

Most younger people have absolutely no interest in WWII (or just history in general, for that matter) so I'm not really sure where you're getting that. They just see "Call of Duty" on the box and by association want "the big game for the year." Casual gamers are pretty much the same way. That said... go out of your way to buy an old console and games? With the internet, the entirety of gaming a Google search away. You can buy a used PS2 for $50 (usually less), then snag a couple of the old console Medal of Honor or Call of Duty games for about $5 a piece or less, and you're still more cost-effective than what you get if you buy a new copy of Call of Duty: WWII at $60 US. Hell you're even playing better games than this piece of trash while you're at it. Despite what many think, video games really aren't "disposable." They don't have an "expiration date" unless you're talking about multiplayer games whose communities die out or online-only games whose servers are shut down. Hence, ignorance is no excuse. There's really nothing stopping people from going out and playing most older games anymore. There are certainly a few exceptions here and there (ie. particularly rare or expensive games or stuff on faulty hardware like the Jaguar CD), but for WWII games in particular there are simply so many out there and that are so readily available that there's really no way you can claim ignorance of older games. To not know about the WWII Call of Duty or Medal of Honor games is basically saying you're either so young you probably shouldn't be playing those kinds of games in the first place (the last WWII MoH game was released in 2007... that would make those people are 11 or under), or you've been living under a rock for the past nearly 20 years.

No mercy.

It really wasn't.

Riku DreamEater what

Call of Duty 1 + United Offensive and Call of Duty 2.

Not if they're armored, which is most enemies.

@@DWTerminator my bad, the name Wolfenstein takes my mind to Return To Castle Wolfenstein by default I don't remember New Order and Old Blood that much, and I haven't played Youngblood (not planning to) or New Colossus yet, but from what I've heard it's the worst in those 2

New Colossus is awful. New Order's passable but gradually gets worse over time, and Old Blood is just New Order with zombies. Lots of zombies.

Ugh man, those games don't have the best graphics but lord did I enjoy them.

Vietcong was playable, but weak.

Only the first one