Reaction to Call of Duty: VANGUARD (Historian REACTS) 

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It's nice to see a non American recognizing that my country is actively rewriting history right now.

At this point, I just rolled my eyes when the trailer first hit. This is just exactly like when Battlefield 5 first came out. Sanitized, politically correct, made for modern audiences Fast and Furious WWII. But Activision actually managed to even be more woke then Battlefield.

We really all want another Brothers in Arms game.

Reznov, Dimitri, Roebuck, Sullivan, Miller Polonski: Alright let's show these idiots who's the best.

The entirety of the WW2 conflict lasted from 1936 to 1945 (if we count the chinese-japanese war and the spanish civil war) and they still take the same 4 battle EVERY FUCKING TIME

I love that idea about a axis centered story where you play as a German, itialin or any soldier

being Italian, having a game focusing on one of the Italian campaigns would be amazing for me

The earlier CoDs were much better in terms of the levels and representation even though the latter isn't so important. Strange isn't it? In Finest Hour you had the female Sov sniper and the black US tankers who got their fair shake. In 3, you had Free Poles. In Finest Hour, you fought against Vichy French and Italians.

Greetings from Finland. Glad to hear you'd consider Finns as part of COD. In reality, we all know its not going to happen because we fought side by side with Germans against a common enemy. Altough we were just fighting against tyranny and for our freedom, we are still considered the bad guys (by some people, not all). I am also super bored with all the same missions in the same environments, but also super angry for alternating history and the incompetence for getting things done right, meaning not having Tiger tanks in 1939 etc. And the political correctness.. Well Im not going to say anything about that..

Completely agree with you. WWII is so diverse that they can pick almost any country, African and Asian, and it probably participated.

I think they'd mentally break down if they had to make an Axis focused campaign. They would have to invest time in to researching German soldiers and such, and may see humanity in a lot of them.

Hell Let Loose is an amazing WW2 game where you can use the Germans also. I highly recommend it.

Man I miss gritty realistic games.

This is the big problem with devs trying to make ww2 games, if you want to make a good ww2 game you gotta have balls, and thats what most devs not have because they want to appeal to everyone and be politically correct so that they don't get cancelled or some shit, if you're not gonna tell a good ww2 story then don't do it

We will not see a actual historically accurate cod for a while. Things have to be politically correct and not offend anyone. It’s bull. I would’ve been fine if they said this game was alternate history and not historically accurate, but they did the exact opposite. This game is full of political nonsense meant to push an agenda that doesn’t belong in a WW2 game. I’m mad because they claimed the game to be one thing, and did the complete opposite. It’s a disgrace to the veterans and soldiers who fought in the war. It’s a disgrace to history itself.

The biggest inaccuracies was the Stalingrad Campaign. The Nazis with it's Luftwaffe (Luftflotte 4) first bombed the city on August 23, 1942 (And would keep on doing it daily onwards until their troops got to close) (and the bombers were around 4000 meters high give or take) . The Wehrmacht would not enter the city until September 14, 1942 at 0630 local (a full 22 days later). And they struck the north and center of the city It's objective was securing a hill call Mamayev Kurgan, before moving inwards. The 51st Corp led that charge. The 4th Panzer was to attack from the southeast of Stalingrad shortly after the 51st Corp. The 14th Corp later struck from the North (Orlovka, Rynok and Spartanovka,) (Note they They did not even reach the center of the city until September 21st, 1942 and would not declare it "Secured" until September 24, 1942. (Had to make corrections involving the 14th Corp. I stated they struck Orlovka, Rynok and Spartanovka, on September 14, 1942. But they attacked those areas on August 23, 1942. They did not launch any offensive on Stalingrad proper until later. They mainly defended the Northern Flanks of the 51st Corp which was attacking the city proper)

The definition of WW1/WW2 alternate history now is just that war but more diverse. But I'm hoping I'm wrong and they go balls deep in this alt history

Correction on what you said about the “showing a black paratrooper on D-Day” thing. One of the main characters of the game, Sgt Arthur Kingsley is based on a actual British paratrooper named Sydney Cornell, a Afro-British Para who served as a runner for B Company, 7th Para. For his excellence in combat during the Normandy Campaign, he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and promoted to Sergeant. He continued to fight with B Company until April 7th, 1945 when he and 24 other paratroopers were killed by a demolished bridge Neustadt while they were capturing said bridge. And also the American soldiers in the pacific mission are actually troops from the 25th Infantry Regiment of the 93rd Infantry Division

15:17 Well, in Call of Duty World at War, there was a mission called "Black Cats", were you have to destroy a fleet of ammunition carriers with 2 PBY's and afterwords you had to fight against a bunch of Zeros and rescue your team mates from a attacked fleet, so that kind of mission isn't really new ^^

2:36 Made me realize we need a White Death COD game. Or maybe it could be a different franchise so it could actually be tolerable and playable. Great idea!

I would love a cod game that focused on the axis forces especially if they did historically correct as well.

17:12 also did u notice how Activision completely fucked up the closed bolt system of the stem gun😂😂 like if the sten actually worked like that, the bolt wouldn’t kept hitting the shooters face bruising it 😂😂 lmfao.... how could Activision make such an obvious mistake... so obvious that a 5yr old kid can spot

I would love for just one Second World War game to include the Royal Hungarian Army my great-grandfather served in.

It’s not ww2 game it’s Fantasy. As a reenactor the clothes are the easiest thing to get right on the character models. None of them are right, literally none. Also British paratroopers demobilised some batteries near the beaches.

Me after seeing Call of Duty Vanguard : Meh , I rather play Enlisted which is a free to play game and somehow kinda good.

I would like to see a Call of Duty Volkssturm XD I mean they seem to have a preference for late war German weapons.

That's really dumb COD keeps "telling a story about how everyone are human! Except Germans, they're not human" They keep making these scenes with Germans killing civilians and how they're *horrible* but the protagonists kill thousands of Germans without a second thought.

2:35 WW2 gaming needs more Finland. The Winter War was a relatively short, but extremely dramatic part of the larger conflict that gets too little attention in media outside of Finland itself. Poland, too, needs more attention. Interestingly, both of these theatres of war have the Soviets as the "bad guys" and for some reason that's not a popular reality.

Actually, the thing with the pistol has actually happened. An American pilot did use his Colt 45. to shoot down a zero fighter, while though, he was parachuting out of his damaged aircraft, like, ever crazier, he took the pilot out, while in mid air. Search it up. Also, world at war is fucking awesome

Thank god you didn´t see the "not-working like this" Sten Gun or the ridiculous wrong Ju87 Stuka / which wouldn´t be able to fly with this "loadout"

I remember in COD 1(?) where you had the mission of pegasus bridge. I mean that was something totally different that we don't see anymore. These small missions that no one knows about

I can’t wait to play as my fellow Aussies in North Africa

It's sad to see the one man army power trip of the Exo, Black ops and MW series has finally infected a WW2 game as well.

I’d love an Axis focused game, there are so many untold stories that could make for amazing fresh experiences.

It's a shame they omitted portraying when Russia liberated Italy from the japanese. But I can expect it to be part of the next CoD.

When I see games like these. It makes me want to play as the other side.

Been saying this for years I’m so happy to see someone with the same mind. I would love to play as the Spanish blue division or Leon degrelle’s wallonia division in the battle of cherkassy. Give me anything from that side. Just to mention my grandad was in the British army as a dispatch rider for the whole North African campaign. However I love the German side.

The black soldier is based on Sidney Cornell he is the First Black paratrooper of the 7th parachute battalion 🇬🇧 to Land in Normandy behind enemy lines on D-Day he Earned the DCM for Bravery he was killed on 7/8 April 1945 aged 29

Why has the battle of Iwo Jima never been covered except for history channels wwii game…one of the most important battles of WWII and its completely neglected…at least from a major developer

I wish they went the COD 5 route…… with modern technology we could have had a stand alone campaign for more than one country. Like how battlefield has war stories but at a larger scale (battlefield stories are too short imo) imagine being able to play as a Japanese pilot bombing Pearl Harbor and then playing as an American pilot for coral sea or midway or both sides of the war in Stalingrad!

Rewriting history for games is totally wrong on so many levels.

I'm sticking with Call Of Duty 2 (2005), and Call Of Duty World At War. They are compatible for the Xbox One. Also if you want a WW2 game based on Operation Market Garden I recommend Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway. It's also compatible for the Xbox one.

I’d like to play a WW2 game where you play as that American Japanese division based out of Texas. Dudes were legit.

There is another incorrect technique In the scene of black British Paratropper : his sten gun is cocking like a bolt action rifle. LoL

As a Brazilian i would like to see a game showing the history of the Smoking snakes. 25000 of brazilian soldiers were deployed to fought against the germans in italy.

This is the video that made me a subscriber. 👍

damn being from Ploiesti and hearing you mentioned the city felt great

Almost like there's a concerted effort to write Europeans out of their own history or something

Love your videos 👍👍 greetings from a German army vet 👍👍👍👍

Playing as the Germans would trigger too many snowflakes.

I would love to see a ww1 or 2 game focused on the axis or central powers

I agree. I switched years and years ago from Call of Duty (s) to grand strategy games, as I got tired of always killing the same enemies over and over again!

3:20 the caps they are wearing are not even World War 2 caps, but rather the Vietnam War standard issue service cap 15:10 it actually isn’t copied, American and Japanese soldiers who saw the “Akagi” aircraft carrier explode said that it was a chain explosion, starting from the bow.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the Germans employed Panzer 4 with the upgraded long-barrel 75mm during the African campaign until way later.

As you rightly pointed out... 2.6 million Indians fought in WW2 from the British side.....so many WW2 games still not a single Indian character portrayed.....Congrats on the book 👍

I'm shocked you misses the stens bolt just phasing out the rear of the weapon

Hahaha what the hell was going on with the bolt coming out of the back of the receiver!!! 😅😅😅

“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.” - J.R.R.Tolkien

A "man in the high castle" inspired alt history game could be fantastic...... Or a hot woke mess. To be honest, I'm done with these types of games, can't even honour the fallen anymore. The game playing as a Gurkha fighting through Burma.... Back in the roim

Got to love the sten gun bolt being the wrong way round and firing out the back of the smg (which would not work at all)

Really good video. Greetings from Germany🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪

I could see so much potential in a game where you'd play as either a German soldier from the beginning of Barbarossa through the end of Stalingrad and possibly beyond or a Chinese/Japanese soldier fighting in the late 30s. There's no way any devs would be willing to touch either of these ideas with a 30 foot pole though.

I am a romanian and the idea of an Axis call of duty where you also play as romania, would be a dream come true

didn't you notice the finnish skull / "Pääkallopataljoona", skull battalion mark on that soldiers stahlhelm? 9:22

I'm a Vietnamese and I really really like to see a Vietnamese Mg42 crew hahaha. Anw, good content bro.

love that you added the football feet per burger unit system for the American audience

I would like to see a game about Spanish Blue Division in the battle of Krasny Bor

13:22 after coming back to this trailer after seeing the game, what I don't understand is that the trailer had the type 99 mg for the japanese, yet in the game its nowhere to be found and instead the japanese have mg42's

16:57 why focus on goggles when the entire bolt of his sten gun is backwards and pulverizing his hand through the back of the reciver

that sten at 15:51 is not how it works. it doesnt go bop your eye out. it should be where the bolt and charging handle should be reciprocating

In the western front campaign I think they actually potrayed Sergeant Sidney Cornell which was a black british parathropper. So it could be historically accurate in that moment instead of being unhistorically accurate.

I don't play ww2 games anymore. I'm so tired of shooting at germans as if they were zombies, we are not in the early 2000's anymore games nowadays should be deeper. Also wokeness is a plague that ruins everything, movies, videogames, comedy, companies, academia, everyone outside the woke bubble is tired of it. I would totally play a FPS from the axis perspective, I don't think it would be controversial at all but of course many journalists who don't care about history or videogames at all would try to outrage that tiny section of society unable to live their own lives, that just dedicate all their time to tell others on internet what is moral and what is not, and bully everyone that disagrees. So we won't have any FPS with an axis single player campaign for a very long time. At most, strategy games, because selecting units and telling them to go shoot at americans is ok, but shooting americans in first person is the worst crime ever.

World War II: one of the most diverse wars in history Activision: we should rewrite history and add more diversity to it

As an Italian historyan I can relate i would really love to play cod on the Italian side

This dude is the chad of history, keep it up bro 👍

9:22 this is a much more original vehicle than usual.

The Battlefield 2042 where the pilot jumps out and shoots the other plane was a reference when the first dude did that in BF3 or at least the first dude that recorded/streamed it

id play the shit out of an axis focused ww2 game. that sounds dope

You should react to assassins creed to see how historically true it is and your opinions

If there was any Axis focused mission in a WW2 cod, it would literally be a reskinned version of “No Russian” from MW2

Wish CoD to have Asia-Pacific perspectives. I knew CoD WaW have covered Pacific, but there are more WW2 battles waiting to be explored in Asia-Pacific. From Battle of Shanghai, Battle of Khalkhin Gol, Battle of Hong Kong, Battle of Manila, Battle of Kokoda Track, Battle of Singapore, Battle of Changsha, Battle of Imphal and Kohima, Soviet Invasion of Manchuria, and so many to be explored.

I think that a axis call of duty would be intresting but the neofasci problem would be really serius

15:50 the bolt from the sten shoots backwards out of the rear.

Well 10 months later we finally have the knowledge we don't even get an aircraft carrier map

"At least we're not getting a saving Private Ryan rehearsal." ~ Famous last words.

Bro, happy for the accuracy in the beginning but gonna regret it afterwards.

9:23 ah yes, the famous "get closer I want to shoot them with my pistol" tank commander

Ik this is six months old, and may never be seen, but I would personally love a COD game where you start as a down on your luck German and the prologue mission is you as a civilian getting into the NSDAP and working up the ranks into the paramilitary of the party, then it ends with you pledging loyalty to Hitler as a member of the SS, before they take power officially. Then it cuts to you as a trooper in the Heer on the day of the invasion of Poland and the first two-three missions after the prologue focus on the invasion of Poland, then the first arch ends with you marching alongside the Soviets in the historic German-Soviet victory parade. Then it cuts to you as a young man in the Italian army on the eve of the Yugoslavian invasion and the next few missions focus on the Italian war in Yugoslavia and Greece. Then you can have a choice to finish the game as an Italian trooper who fights in the East, then dies on the last day of the Italian civil war or that German trooper who commands his own unit and survives until surrendering to the allies in the American occupation zone on the east bank of the Rhine. There could also be an option to play an alt history campaign as a Spaniard who fights though the civil war on the side of Franco, then joins the Blue Division and actually helps the axis take Leningrad and secure a German-Soviet armistice after your unit helps take Moscow once the Leningrad missions end. The final mission sees you marching into Moscow with your unit in a victory parade, but well on parade you find and shoot Stalin. After he’s confirmed dead the credits roll on the alternate history campaign.

i thought those planes were probably in the parade, that is why they flew so slow and so low.. maybe it is a victory parade?

17:05 even the sten gun was animated wrong. the bolt doesnt go that back and hit you in the face. Yes its an open bolt submachine gun that has a heavy bolt, but you would've failed as a gunsmith to even have the bolt hit your face. Heck if the bolt comes out that far back the gas pressure from the cartridge would have more space to go out, therefore making the gun explode

It may be a bomber raid over Romania. But those are He111s if I'm not wrong

3:21: the bombers are obviously Heinkel He-111 with their recognizable wing shape ;) otherwise I totally agree with you

I think the last scene was based off of the band of brothers series.

16:30 or about the Greeks that held the Gremans for ,I think, more than the French annd had the batlle of Crete?

11:06 that part was based on a story about world war II where a guy managed to shoot a Japanese plane down by shooting the pilot in the head

Spot on You the Man!

well as one i think the greeks are forgoten by every one even tho h1tler and churchill said we had the best defense (for poorly trained everyday people) (btw the resistance was help for 229 days)

An American bomber Pilot (allegedly) shot down a Ki-43 with a 1911 while in a parachute after he bailed out of his b-24. His name was Owen John bagget.

I love how they say you will fight on every front while ignoring Italy, Poland, the battle of France, Yugoslavia, China, Czechoslovakia, etc.