Playing the Forgotten, Lowest Rated CoD Campaign 

I was the broke PS2 kid who wanted world at war more than any other game...even more than modern warfare. Compared to the other PS2 cods, I felt like this was actually pretty decent, taking inspiration from real world at war and adding its own spin on things. I would definitely play a remaster/port of this game, as it has some pretty good missions. Seeing it brought up to the same graphical standards as the actual world at war would've made it pretty awesome.

Now we know where Roebuck, Polansky and Miller were between Makin and Peliliu. Would be cool if someone remade these missions with a WaW mod.

I miss when call of duty games were like this and provided some historical context and the feeling of being part of a larger moment in time

The real value to this game is that it was rated “T” as opposed to the regular WaW’s “M” rating. An absolute godsend for us kids who weren’t allowed to play M-rated games growing up, but wanted to play CoD.

I had no idea there was a next gen version of this game when I was a kid. It wasn't until like 2010 when I played the PS3 version. I was blown away at the differences

This feels like a world at war prequel and I’m all for it

i played this game all the time as a kid but no one seemed to have heard of it. awesome to see you cover it i'm about to get all nostalgic :)

Did you really edit in the subtitles by yourself? Wow the dedication is insane

On the subject of VAs, the British squad leader in COD: Finest Hour was voiced by a member of AC/DC, and said the line "Get ready to break, ready to dash!" as a subtle reference.

I remember getting this after I got the actual World at War for the PS3 just because I was curious to see how the PS2 one played. I ended up realizing the single redeeming quality were the soundtrack songs that didn't appear in the regular World at War

I was one of the few kids in high school that thoroughly enjoyed Final Fronts and replayed it multiple times. I was raised on Medal of Honor, so this was the first CoD game I ever purchased. I knew from my conversations with friends that the 360 version of WaW was something totally different, but I still enjoyed this game nonetheless.

The 6th Airbourne in Bastogne mission is something of a hidden gem The atmosphere and music, the snow, the pacing and situational context, variety of encounters and rapid transitions between loud shootouts and tense quiet moments, what a standout As for the rest of the game... yeah, what a bore

THIS EXISTS????? oh this is gonna be great

Fun thing about the flamer: If you hit the head hitbox with it, they'll die like getting a head shot from a normal gun

i remember playing this game as a kid and being really confused about how zombies mode wasnt in it. i beat the entire campaign on veteran mode thinking maybe thats how. and it just never appeared. i didnt learn until a few months later that this is a different version of the game without it and i was extremely upset as i did not have a ps3/360 for years

"Don't worry sweetie. Just try your best and they'll see how well you're doing." Me, trying my best: 42:54

That's wild, I always thought I remembered playing the actual World at War on the PS2 but it was this game the whole time...Didn't realize until I saw you shoot the helmets off the dummys. Brought back all the memories at once.

I remember getting the hand-me-down PS2 from my cousin, renting this game from Blockbuster for the weekend, and being so pissed that this wasn't the World at War my cousin let me play at this house. This video definitely unlocked some sort of core memory.

This game....... Definitely different than world at war lol. It's crazy how much Cod big red one sound effects are used. Only played through it once. Really appreciate you bringing this to light not a lot of people know this exists

COD World at War was something I saw a friend's dad playing when I lived in the States. I was just a kid and it scared the hell out of me. When I returned to Japan, I found out it was the only game in the COD series that was banned in Japan

Oh boy honey, new CoD upload. This might make me pull out my DS copy of MW2 and play through that, haha. Side note, I applaud the effort you put into subtitling your videos (through youtube and the video itself!) Gives it that extra layer of polish that, while simple on the surface, makes me genuinely excited to watch your new videos.

S0ur, watching all these old CoD videos like this one and finest hour have just been simply, amazing. thank you for making these and letting me relive my childhood brother! cod will never be the same again.

Why did they let that guy say bastogne like that and leave the spelling mistake in and then immediately get it right at the start of the mission lol

I remember playing this year's ago on PS2 when i couldn't get a 360, i treasured it for what it was and i thought it would've been like the next gen version lmao

Haha as a kid, I used to replay some of the checkpoints all over again in a couple Pacific missions just because the IJA banzai charges would make me laugh very much

i've played this when it first came out and as forgettable as it may be i still loved spending time on this game

I appreciate that you added some in game subtitles +1

Honestly haven't played this game so I can't give my cohesive thoughts on this, the fact it includes a british campaign ain't too surprising considering WAW had that planned and them scrapped very late into development. Also If you got a XBOX One or Series X I'd recommend playing COD3 on that instead (Xbox 360 emulation is also janky and has lots of visual bugs right now so that can get thrown out the window). PS3 Emulation is decent but the FMVs bug out and go too fast if you uncap the framerate (their important to the game actually) and the PS3 port is way more glitchy and has weird janky motion controls. and the last gen versions look bleh, XBOX 360 was the main version that was used for development aside from the original Xbox.

I was so confused when you said this was a Rebellion title, I was like "hold on I'm %100 World at War is a Treyarch title." But I guess that's how obscure this strange spin off is.

Ive had this copy for most of my life and yeah it truly is the most cod of all time.

You know, I find this version abit more endearing in a certain way. (Atleast from a story perspective) Theres alot more character to the *american* ((pacific)) slient protag in this version Than there ever was for the 360/PS3/PC version of WaW here. like, You never got introduced to who Miller *even was*. You kinda just get plopped into him after roebrucks narration of Carlsson's raid, when he ((once again Miller)) was about to get-got by the IJA officer. ((Edit: Hell, Roebruck Feels more like *thee main player character* here than you do as a matter of fact, especially now hearing *Miller's narration* of the missions))

how is this a reskin of cod 3 and big red one yet worse than both

Had a World at War strat guide. Read the book, especially the Nazi Zombies section, WAY too many times. Wanted game. Only had the PS2. Told father. Father bought game. Started playing. Thought it was weird that none of the missions lined up with the book, even though some characters were the same. Didn't give it too much thought. Beat the campaign. No Nazi Zombies. Visibly confused. Find out that Final Fronts is weird spin-off thing. Want to preform ritual to curse developer. Can not do so because same developer made Sniper Elite V2. That said, it was an interesting idea to take a game, rework the stories, and then release it on the PS2. An interesting thing that I thought really showed the difference in hardware capabilities was in this game, the flamethrower just felt like a weird machine gun considering it didn't actually set anything on fire whereas the World at War flamethrower would actually light things on fire that would then burn and become charred. Another interesting note is the reuse of CoD 3 German voices. Also, it actually makes sense for you not to pick up too much ammo from an enemy's gun since you're taking the ammo from the gun, not their person. Also, that guy was not actually Tank's VA.

This game looks worse than cod 2 big red one graphically even though it´s a couple years younger, that´s an achievement in of itself. This game reminds me of that History channel game, battle for the Pacific. That game was definitely something.

This was probably the first game I ever played. But I didn't have a memory card so I had to play the campaign all over again each time. That first mission is imprinted forever in my brain.

Every time I hear Sgt. Roebuck yell I think Big Boss is yelling at me on MSF

Did you played psp cod called roads to victory?

44:11 I remember seeing this soldier as a kid and always felt so bad for him. 1945 Germany must've been absolutely apocalyptic.

Utterly fascinating. I can pick out a bunch of stuff from at least CoD 2, buildings, houses, doors, voices, sounds. There are so many things blended in here form 360 WaW that it almost feels like an internal beta build got published.

I grew up on the call of duty games on the Nintendo DS, would be hilarious to see u play those

I actually hooked my PS2 up and remembered why I got into geographical history, politics, and military history. It was my first cod game I got since I didn’t get a PS3 till 2011. Some of the things you mentioned are just broken because of emulation but others are strange occurrences or broken AI I’ve never experienced. I believe this is a forgotten gem like Roads To Victory

Damn that PS2 startup hits hard

that is indeed Steve Blum voicing that one character you mentioned

I like that it’s still Keifer Sutherland as Sgt. Roebuck but they have Brian Bloom narrating as Miller.

My aunt bought this game for my cousin back in the day, I remember that he got it for Christmas. At first when he started it, we were pretty amazed how we were fighting on the pacific theater (or maybe mostly me). I thought to myself how violent this game was and how cool it felt using the flamethrower for the first time in a game. By you playing this game you reminded me all of those levels were I died so many times and had to peak around corners to survive the tense situations. Now that time has passed and after many playthroughs of my younger self enjoying this game, I'm glad somebody played it to remind me of those memories from the past.

at the start of the game I heard the narrator who is Varric from Dragon age and I immediately imagined a dwarf with a crossbow running through and causing mayhem across the pacific front

i haven't heard the voice of the sergeant since that era of games, idk if it was just the mic quality getting better that has made any other work of his unrecognizable to me, but every time i hear his voice in these "older" games it peaks something in my brain

What was great about this game was that BOTH Roebuck and Polonsky surviving was canon. That scene in WaW where you have to pick to save one or the other is just a cutscene in Final Fronts

I remember the first few times i played this game as a kid, i had absolutely NO IDEA what the British narrator was saying in those three briefings. 😂

This was pretty infamous when it came out. People were constantly laughing about how bad it was compared to the 360/ps3 version

The funniest part is that they could definitely repackage this game for mobile devices so they still can earn money from this, though the source files are probably long gone by now.

20:25 London PSA

I know that damn voice. That’s a young Brian Bloom as the player, Miller.

This game is a pillar of my childhood!!!!! Such an influencial game for me in my younger days and is part of why I'm si interested in a large part of the history I usually consume. It forever has a special place in my heart.

I got this game along with the Finest Hour/Big Red One combo when I was 10, never had a 360 or PS3 until I was 13 and couldn't play M rated games, so this port was perfect for me. That was when I was 10 however. Then I got the 'actual' WaW when I was 14 and never played this port again, until a few months or so ago. I had such a rough time playing it on the PS2 almost a decade later that my eyes started to hurt because of it lol Also the input lag was really brutal with such a blurry screen and aiming with a PS2 controller, I don't know how 10 y/o me beat it.

I've heard of every single COD Game except for this one, I loved World At War when it came out so i might have to try track this down.

Bro your videos literally helped me finish modern warfare remastered 100% that pesky counter mvp challenge was my last 1... im nearly up to 31000 melee kills.

>be me >wanted WoW on ps2 because I had it in ps3 and thought it would be the same >disappointed

Wasn’t Roebuck a corporal at the beginning of World at War? Regardless of the lore it’s interesting to see the similarities between this game and the older cods. Obviously a ton of world at war but there’s a bit of the 6th gen console cod thrown in as well. Very interesting

Tbh, the new campaign missions on the European side were good compared to the Pacific side

I remember playing this and LOVING it at the age of around 8 or so. I then went to a friends house and seen his dad playing World at War on an Xbox 360 and it all looked so different. I was in aww at how different the campaign actually was. I then bought a copy for my PS3 and the rest is history, but I still have a big heart for the PS2 version of World War 2, because in my young mind it was amazing.

I remember playing this at a buddies house, when I told him about the actual WaW campaign, he had to go get it from a bargain bin and play it because the whole time, he thought WaW was Final Fronts. I found the Bastogne tank mission, and the entire game toward the end to get frustrating, but it's still nothing compared to how angry United Offensive made me.

Not this one, people still remembers it, the forgotten COD campaign one would be the COD2 Pocket edition one I legit just know of it a few weeks ago

Man this port was bad. I couldn't tell when I was younger, but HOW did they make it look this bad! Compared to the main WaW

Haha only reason i knew about this was because my friend had it. I don’t think it was coop so we would switch off when we would die. We also played a lot of Battlefront and Micro Machines. What a good time.

To bad they never did a WAW expansion. I would have loved to see this campaign with the WAW graphics

41:45 the halftrack doing a 360 was HILARIOUS!

Pretty sure the American sergeant in the European front is an anime voice actor, Steve Blum, he sounds extremely familiar.

Reminds me of when I played the CoD2 demo at walmart at told my Dad I wanted it, and for Christmas he got me CoD2: Big Red One instead because I had a ps2. Cool to think the later generation probably had the same bamboozle effect with getting this instead of WAW haha

I remember playing this but I couldn't remember what COD game it was. Thanks for bringing back the memories brother! _👍😙👌_

I remember I got so pissed when this version didn’t have Nazi zombies 😡🤦🏽‍♂️😭 but I would play this all the time since didn’t have the ps3 yet. Going from ps2 to ps3 was incredible you notice the difference and gameplay immediately same with the force unleashed very different

That’s the strongest aim assist I’ve ever seen in a cod game. Imagine if this was in a modern cod game in multiplayer. That would be utterly broken.

Maybe you could look at the nintendo ds cods

All of the training events were taken from Call of Duty 3. Not the actual course itself, but the basics including the yellowed window frames on a barn. It made the game more welcoming to me, because I really enjoyed Call of Duty 3.

I bought this years after I got the ps3 version and it was impressive. Loved it. Who cares what critics say. Plus rebellion makes good games like the black hawk down game

I can see why this is the lowest rated campaign. Those poor ps2 kids were robbed blind of the man, the myth, the legend that is...Victor Reznov. Makes the game literally unplayable.

I think the snow missions where my favorite the environment, The music, The characters, Just hit so different especially on the one where your in that one town with the British

as someone who owned and played every COD till this day i have to say i completely forgot about final fronts. Didnt even realize i owned the disc. My favorite game of all time tho is COD Big Red One

Hey mate, I am not sure if this is the case but I think you missed Call of Duty: Roads to Victory. Please add it too; I remember playing it on psp and would like to see being played by you

Wait a minute…is this the same thing they released for the DS?? I played all the CODs that came out on the DS. Idk why but I vividly remember all of them and this looks very close to it

I from Brazil and was the kid that always had the older generation console from the group of friends, and this was not only my first Call of Duty experience as it was my first PS2 game, i also remember to this day the first and second words i learned from english was because of this game, it was Hold and Swap, nowadays i have played most of the games in this series (from 1 to Cold War) and learned how to speak and write in english thanks to the incredible campaings this games provided over the years, thanks for taking me down memory lane.

for my 12 year old me this was great value. Particularly liked the pacific theather missions

It sounds like it is, but it's amazing that they still used Kiefer Sutherland for Roebuck in this version.

I didn't even know this existed. So these were the characters in the 'next-gen' World at War campaign. Kiefer Sutherland played Roebuck, I believe, but here they have a soundalike.

Hey S0ur have you ever played Brothers in arms?, there is 3 of them, they are WW2 games and they are really good, if you haven’t played them would you consider playing them? road to Hill 30 then earned in blood then Hells highway

I remember when I was young and I only had PS2, I told my mom that I would like to have World At War one day... Well, she bought me this!

I played the shit out of this along with the Big Red One... I wore out the discs three times and had to get new ones 😂

0:16 Oh hey. It me. Twice.

Crazy, I just finished uploading my last parts for the World at War original. Including the last part of the Pacific Campaign when I saw a spider and took like 4 minutes to kill and set its corpse in fire. I think I did play this, I do remember this stuff

What i noticed is the same sounds and even intro like mission from CoD 3 on Playstation. And also looks and sounds from = CoD : Big Red One.

Cant wait for COD 3, The Germans ate all the donuts and drank all the coffee...time for Sour to kick their asses

Ah, final fronts, one of the first games ive played. Got scammed twice thinking it is world at war. And i was scared of it because i couldn't press R3 and that golden dummy scared me. Good times.

38:37 That road does look clear (: Hope nothing bad happens to it.

This looks like a hybrid of finest hour and world at war, which is just kinda messing with my head

2:25 “Second Division Marine Corps. Some soldier i was going to be” first sign the game wasn’t made with love

19:03 fun fact one of the 2 Japanese solders in that room is not shooting you its some kind of glitch that haven’t been fixed since 2008 like many other or maybe he’s just a friendly solder who has no enemies

absolutely loved this game, first played it in maybe 3rd or 4th grade, and looking back on it now, there’s a clear answer as to why im still not giving up on joining the marines😂

I loved this game as a kid but as a adult not as much but they did get one thing great on it having American campaigns both in the pacific and Europe

Was that Kiefer Sutherland? Great voice actor, haven't heard his voice in gaming in a while

I didn't even know about this game. Great video as always!