The Other Call Of Duty Game No One Talks About 

the part in the mission when the Soviet commissar gives a speech to the soldiers in the factory before rushing into an open courtyard full of MGs, will forever be ingrained in my mind.

Finally! Nobody ever talks about this game when talking about COD. I grew up playing this game on the PS2 and it was my first cod game. I played it for the first time again recently on PS2 and it's rough. Very rough. It's got a great atmosphere, but the gameplay is extremely dated. Aiming feels like scrolling a mouse attached to a large rock and the enemies have the most obvious aimbot in any COD game. If an enemy is shooting from behind a corner, they won't adjust their aim, they just shoot you without adjusting their aim. The tank gameplay and levels are superb. Some parts of the game (Like the sewer level) are so dark you can't even see anything. The soundtrack is a gem. I still listen to the tracks to this day. Truly an underrated gem in a field of gems.

To this day me and my brothers still quote this game every now and then, “Do not count days! Do not count miles! Count only the number of Germans you have killed!” They truely gave such a good history lesson for this game and how much emotion it had

Big Red One and Finest Hour were my intro to Call of Duty all those years ago. Between really loving Cpl Kelly in BR1, and the memorable first Mission of Finest Hour, I truly wish these games got a remaster. “DO NOT COUNT DAYS, DO NOT COUNT MILES, COUNT ONLY THE NUMBER OF GERMANS YOU HAVE KILLED”

Im 24 now and wow this is so nostalgic. Just realized this game is responsible for some of my first video game memories ever. This cod will forever have a special place in my heart and also it's cool to say that I've been playing cod since the beginning

I don't think anyone has said it yet, but Sergeant Bob Starkey is voiced by AC/DC's Brian Johnson.

So many good memories with this game. My dad, brother, and I would always take turns. You should do metal of honor rising sun next.

I loved playing as the Russian sniper. It was just kinda of a nice touch to have it be a female which was actually the case for a lot of snipers in the Soviet Union. The desert rats stuff is also just a lot of fun. The 761st getting some representation in video was also on of the coolest things this franchise ever did. The battle of Remagen is also amazing. Too bad all this juicy stuff gets buried under all the other games in the series. I’d love a steam port of Big Red One and Finest Hour for pc on steam. I’d probably dump a lot of time into those.

Even the cutscenes are better than new ones, history lessons and amazing graphics (for the time)

I traded in about 5 games to get this on my PS2 and it was my first ever FPS and COD game. I think I beat this campaign about 10 times, it was so challenging to beat as a kid. Good memories and got me really interested in WWII history.

Finest hour is such a good game. BR1 is too. I wish they made still made some campaigns about soldiers, and not just super soldiers with jet packs and exoskeletons.

Playing this game for the first time was truly one of the finest hours of my childhood

Grew up playing this on the Gamecube and boy oh boy did it kick my ass..specifically the mission where you have to escort the tank destroyer through the city. The little details were always neat though. Like seeing that Tanya did survive the building getting shot by the tank or in the 2nd Russian tank mission when the enemies are on top of your friendly tank, if you use your machine gun they thank you and regroup to help with the rest of the mission where if you shoot with the main gun or ignore it then they die. Nothing big but always love to see little things like that. Always glad to see these older console COD games getting played, thank you for the video, was definitely entertaining!

I remember seeing the trailer for this during a commercial break on WWE, It was so awesome that I asked my parents to buy me it when I saw it on bestbuy. I remember having a hard time during the first russian mission to take down the flags. I remember beating it and saving, only to have my ps2 memory card save file get corrupted, I cried because it took me a long time to beat lol. This game was very hard especially at the end at the bridge during the american campaign. Thanks for the video.

2:53 That’s exactly how I felt when I first played that mission. Actually, almost EVERY mission felt like that it was both confusing and enjoyable at the same time.

Brings back memories for me, this was a hard game to beat for someone who had never played a FPS before. I remember I wanted CoD 3 at the time since all my friends had it, my mom got this for my birthday, went to game stop and bought the first CoD game she saw on the shelf lol good times

Lots of good memories with this game. Lots of easter eggs too. Flying saucers, giant apple, and a private dance party are just a few of them! I loved this game growing up and had a handwritten list of all the easter eggs in the game.

Finest Hour was the first one I ever played and it really got me into history

If you were a kid at the time who played the original PC CoD games you had a lot of trouble explaining to people that Finest Hour wasn’t the entire franchise let alone a footnote in it. For a lot of people, this was their introduction to CoD

My first video game console was an original xbox and this game. Opened it Christmas morning 2004. Fond memories.

Crazy to have never heard of this Call of Duty or played it. This was my first Call of Duty, all the sounds, soundtrack and levels are engrained in my head, every level was bringing me back so hard.

So you were supposed to use your machine gun while in the tank to save your fellow tanker when in the airplane hanger lmao. If you do he thanks you and fights with you. I played this game so many damn times as a kid I have the game memorized. The opening video when you launch the game still gives me chills. Amazing game that holds up and deserves to be remastered, it is the one that started it all

The fact you played these two games back to back and finest hour being my very first game ever on the GameCube really hit. I’m almost 25 now and I can still remember the lines and music. And I bet I was the only one who did this but in my lil kid brain if I picked up a gun i liked I wouldn’t drop it unless I shot all the ammo cause I didn’t want the Germans to pick it up lol

One of the most underrated games ever made - its soundtrack is out of this world

Finest Hour & Big Red One are some of my favorite games. Great video!

I was 9, it was at least 11pm at night and I was up past my bed time in my room. The room was pitch black other than the screen. I will never forget seeing that 'not one step back' cut scene for the first time.

I haven’t played and seen this game for so long it brings back child nostalgia when I rage when I couldn’t pass some missions or check points

First COD game I ever played, on PS2. I was 4 years old. Never got very far but this is perhaps one of the fondest memories I have of a video game, when my dad was still around. Thank you for this video.

for me my introduction of cod was Call of duty 1 and Its expansion pack United offensive one of the greatest games for me at least . great video btw great video

Still my favorite COD of all time. This game impacted my life in a postive way and indefinitley. Thansk for playing and sharing it.

Michael Giacchino absolutely slam dunked the soundtrack for this game!!! He then goes on to make music for LOST, Rogue One, and others...Nothing will compare to the first time hearing "The Flag Must Fall". Thank you for playing this for us!

I honestly think the starter mission in this game was better than the starter mission for the Russian campaign in the original game. Climbing up that hill felt far more intense and once you reached the other side of that tunnel and saw the orange engulfed atmosphere it felt like you'd stepped into hell - the music was also incredibly intense and atmospheric and sat well with the vibe of the game. I remember the music in some of the other missions actually being extremely unsettling, like in the sewer segment, it was almost like music from a horror film. All CoD games have a brilliant score, but this one was very memorable for me. I'd also like to give this game a big shout out for being the first CoD to have a female playable character in it and so early in the series. The inclusion was very historically accurate too, as many of the service women in the Russian army (in Stalingrad in particular) were some of the best snipers during the war, with one even being dubbed the Lady Of Death. Other neat additions would be the tank graffiti on the T34's, which were often painted by tank crews with messages for their foes and the Russian tank crews wearing leather jackets instead of regular infantry outfits. This game had a lot of little inclusions that many games nowadays would neglect, another one I just noticed was what looked to be a Libyan soldier among the British in the North African missions - very good attention to detail. One day I'll come back to this game once I've gotten a better PC set up, or if I get a PS2 again. This was a bitch to play as a kid and I never actually completed it, I had to use cheats to see what the rest of the campaign was like 😂 I'll finish the job one day though.

oh man, this is a call back, im so happy i got this guy posting on my feed.

It’s been nearly 20 years since I first played that game. And i can still recite the opening speech by the commissar by heart. Amazing game!

Loved the Soviet and British parts of the campaign, absolutely hated the US missions with an undying passion lol

thank u for making this video, i loved this game.

The main menu title screen is the best. I will never forget the relaxing tall grass with the faint flashes of artillery shells booming in the distant. *chefs kiss*

My first call of duty and still remember playing through the first mission constantly.

This brings back memories I remember renting this game at a DVD store as a kid and I always thought Tanya was cool with the ghillied mosin nagant (also she survives the explosion and can be seen on a stretcher in the area where the katyusha rockets were) great video 👍

One of my favourite CoDs. I really enjoyed the cutscenes leading up to gameplay and learning the stories of our protagonist’s.

This was the first Call of Duty game that I remember playing first, either this or World At War: Final Fronts.

The intro mixed with the beginning mission has been forever engraved into my brain. I’m certain this was one of the very if not the 1st CoD’s I ever played. It’s my second favourite, coming 2nd after WaW

Finest Hour and Big Red One were the first CoDs I played and those games really helped start my love for fps games.

Man its crazy to think that i haven't played this since the xbox 360 came out, this video was super nostalgic as this game was one of the first more mature games i ever played

Bro, yo COD BR1 vid was popular because it was a major nostalgia hit, ty for that!

I remember playing this game as a kid. Playing this on the OG Xbox was great on the weekends or after school. Wish I could go back to being a kid 🥲

This gives me so much nostalgia, the red hit markers, the stance symbols, picking up health, the voicelines that have been hardcoded in my brain... "German sniper! Look out comrade!" Agh.

unlocked so many core memories for me lol. loved this game as a kid.

When I was a kid, I was never able to finish the final act of securing the bridge. I always wondered what the ending would be like after that and this video gave me closure. Well done!

For me it was Big Red One, I remember playing that game to the end of the earth, and nobody else seemed to have remembered it haha.

Such a kick ass game, brings back the memories. I remember this and big red one were my first two cods. I don’t remember the order I played them in but they were so good!

I loved this game as a kid. Replayed it dozens of times

I remember being in first grade and watching my brother beat this and Big Red One multiple times and it was awesome, I ended up beating both games myself, real nostalgic

This was the first call of duty I played. Brings back memories

I was like 6 and this was my first exposure to ww2, my little kid brain couldnt wrap my head around the idea that this "happened"

First COD game I played. Amazing history and representation. This was back when games were story built and engaging for the player. Weapons are well done characters were amazing and the battle fields were beautiful. I really loved the tank battle in battle of the buldge. Great way to reference and honor one of the most badass tank crews in ww2, the 761st tank battalion. The amount of diversity and historical representation of different soldiers and battalions on the allied side was something I loved as a kid. Since I always watched the history channel constantly. Thanks for the review and for playing a great og game.

this game and big red one were my intro to the series. The first 3 of them on ps2 I replayed so many times before I had internet capable of online interactions

That M12 escort mission was the bane of my existance when I was a kid. I tried and tried, took extended breaks and came back every couple of months to try it again but couldn't beat it. One day I finally made it to the end while the M12 had a slither of health and my heart was beating so fast! You don't get many feelings in games like that these days.

Just now I found this game at my local thrift store so I decided to look it up and I thankfully came across this beautiful looking video you created!

What an interesting format for a gameplay commentary video. Keep it up!!

I absolutely loved the big red one 2. I could never get past the bunker mission in finest hour but it was amazing too!

This was my first Call of Duty Game i ever played. 7 year old me had some incredible memories playing this amazing game

music in this game is spot on for every mission just perfect

This was my first CoD ever, dad got it for me when we bought the PS2, i was 6/7 years old. I was enthralled; would play it over and over and then recreate the missions with my toy soldiers.

Literally my first video game. I still go back and play it

As soon as u said 2004 I felt old af playing cod since 2003 that's wild

This was my first COD on ps2, and I never have really heard anyone talk about it. Always COD 2 (Xbox 360 days) or Big red one. I had thought this was the original lol. Just seeing that artwork brings back so many memories. . .

Right in the feels, I’m old . Such a great game

Was my first ever game I played and reminds me of when I was younger! Such a good game

Glad your back

You can tell how much dedication went into this game 😊

Big Red One and Finest Hour were my first memories of CoD and some of the missions in Finest hour were some of the funnest I had. But that second level where you're going in the tunnel is hell if you're trying to play it on the GameCube with the colored plug ins adapted to HDMI.

My introduction was Finest Hour, absolutely the best cod game in my opinion, still play it til this day, that song in That flag must fall always gives me goosebumps

I was waiting for this video

Finally you are playing this game thank you my friend

I saw the Big red one and I’m glad your doing this one and I will die on this hill but finest hour has the best music in any cod and is also the hardest cod

this game was my introduction to Call of Duty, the soundtrack is just as good as i remember. played big red one sometime after, loved my playstation 2

I have a vivid memory of my grandma watching me play the last mission. Her late cousin was the first to cross the river over the Rhine.

This was my first COD. I remember playing this game in Kinder on my xbox. We went to Walmart and I had choice between this or another WW2 game and I choose this one. Because of the tanks in the back of the box and seeing different flags. I choose a dad helped be a the level in the tank factory since I couldn't get through it. Me and my dad loved this game and I played it for years. One thing I regret not doing is playing XBOX LIVE back in the day. But luckily Insignia helped live those dreams I wasn't able to back in the day. That generation of console was very unique and only the games in that era could really come out in that era. Thanks of the weed now It was amazing and brought me back almost 20 years ago. Thanks for making me feel like a soon to be 25 year old boomer.

Amazing video man, now I'd love to see you do Road to Victory for the PSP, it was my childhood cod and I'd love to see you play it!

The big red one was my first cod and this was the 2nd one I played 😍😍 loved these games

I got this for Christmas one year for ps2, pretty sure it was shortly after it released because I had never heard of it until around that time. This game was kind of hard in the later missions for me as a kid.

This is first game I played in my life. The stories, level design, characters, sounds, music... Everything !!! This made my childhood. I remember me playing soldier pretending I was sgt. Puskov.

this game made my cod history start, underrated game fosho!

YES YES YES now if you get around playing Medal of honor Rising sun and Medal of Honor frontline that would be a huge part of my childhood

This was the first Call of Duty I owned. I got it for Christmas in 2005 after my Granddad introduced me to the first Call of Duty game at his house

finest hour was my first COD game on my cousins PS2, I moved to PC by the time COD2 came out but I'll always have fond memories of taking turns playing Finest Hour with my cousin on sleep overs

This is ultimately my favourite call of duty game so many fond memories

KELVIN: This is the dumbest gun I've ever seen. Lewis gun: Allow me to introduce myself.

Finest Hour was my first CoD and its one of my favorites! Right now I am playing CoD 3 and its amazing!!!!

First COD I played back on the original Xbox. I still remember the multiplayer.

This game had some creepy easter eggs. The sewer baby cradle will haunt my nightmares forever.

The first 2 levels are amazing but the game gets difficult but it was my childhood 😢❤ also the bonus videos are awesome the behind the scenes were cool too

what's crazy this was my first cod game and i had it on gamecube and honestly had fun playing it as a kid

Big red one was my first cod game too I love that game so much. We need a remaster for it.

My first Call of Duty and one of my favorites.

I was like 5 when this came out and remember playing it haha

This was my first and is my favorite cod. I didn't grow up with a pc so i missed out a little with pc exclusives

I just bought a ps2 a couple of weeks ago. I just had to do it when I saw it came with the big red one. I played it as a child and boy, the nostalgia I got when playing this game after 15+ plus years is insane . And that my boys for only 30 euros hahaha ✌🏻💯♥️

@13:19 The DP28 MG used what's known as a pan magazine that feeds the bullets into the machinegun through the top of the chamber. it kinda works similar to what you'd see on a Lewis gun, the pan actually rotates on there as it feeds the rounds through. But just like with drum magazines on SMGs such as the Thompson, once you use up all the bullets in them they're a pain to refill with more bullets and likely took up alot more space on a soldier's equipment belt than stick mags. A similar complaint was voiced about using Drum magazines on the Thompson instead of 20-30 round sized stick mags.