Same! I played the hell out of it when the 360 first came out, I remember being stunned at how good the graphics were for the time. Hate feeling old when I'm not even out of my 20s lmao
What really cracks me up me about this game is the "watch out! Enemy grenade" line. As if when you have a grenade at your feet about to explode it makes a difference who threw it.
Welcome to my ted talk. Today we'll be talking about the grenade at your feet. Where did it come from? Why is it there? What does it do? We will soon find out-YOU HAVE BEEN KILLED BY A GRENADE, WATCH OUT FOR THE GRENADE DANGER INDICATOR.
I did in CoD 1 and 2 too and every other cod too , even in MOHAA breakthrough and Spearhead and allied Assault , I act like friends with bots but then I remember it's game , I always talk
The standards surely changed till then, but for its time, it's truly looking very good! This game felt so consistent in its visuals, the world textures feel very nicely combined, the props and entity models blend very nicely as well, the lighting, although aged, works fine for what it is and yeah! It does look good! No wonder COD games until BO2 had that COD2's feeling in them. COD1 may have started the franchise, but COD2 started the main COD engine.
Man those were the days. I remember seeing a buddy of mine play this when the 360 first came out my 8th grade year and I was just stunned at how good it looked. The lighting, effects like fire and smoke particles, and the detail of the environment were far beyond anything I had ever seen before. The graphical leap between the original Xbox and the 360 just can't be overstated, it was huge. The game was really good too, multiplayer was a blast!
@@TonyMichaels166 Yeah Halo 3's lighting and shading still holds up extremely well, the main thing that let it down was the character models but apart from that, damn fine looking game to this day 👌
I have not played COD 2 but I IMMEDIATELY recognize the voice of Cpl. Dima (Russian). He played Pavel Morozov, one of the main "Red Line" characters in METRO: Last Light. I think it was Mark Ivanir.
I remember this being my Christmas gift along with an xbox 360 back in 2005. My jaw hit the floor by how much better the game's graphic fidelity looked compared to last gen CoD games.
What can I say about COD2... It's truly a masterpiece. For me it still stands between some of the best COD games. The simplicity in its gameplay made it so solid that feels good to revisit it on veteran even to this day. I myself had replayed it on veteran a few months ago and it was a blast. Sure it has the moments where it saves right before you die, and grenade spam, but besides that it's very fun to play if you chose to go in slow pace taking cover to cover, peeking through corners, using rifles for longshots and saving ammo, and smgs for closeups, and STG/BAR/BREN for both! The guns, although deep down unbalanced, feel right, rifles feel like rifles, smgs like smgs, and so on. The chaotic mission design makes it very authentic as well, despite the unavoidable historical inconsistencies that every game has now and then. Thing is, that when those "inaccuraciess" are so trivial, it doesn't take away from the authenticity of the experience. Something newer ww2 games suffer from. Very happy you had fun with this, it's one of my top favorites, and having revisited it on veteran multiple times in the last few years, I have to welcome you to the club! And Merry Christmas!
@@gooseegg617 Really was more of a technical limitation than anything. It's why there aren't ever that many enemies on screen in MoH1, and why MoH Underground's framerate would tank sometimes, trying to push more enemies on screen than the system could comfortably handle. And there wasn't really any other shooter on the market, save Rainbow Six on PC, that had you fighting alongside allies. It was just part of FPS design at the time. Given the time, the first few MoH games were amazing. And they're honestly still fun, I've been playing them the last few days - it just takes extra effort to suspend your disbelief. CoD definitely blew them all away when it came out, though.
Considering he just did MoH:AA recently, I'm reminded why I don't play MOH:AA and its expansion packs on HARD. Breakthrough as a kid made my ass into no-man's land ON EASY. Also, saying MOH sucks kind of hurts my inner child, that was my childhood and I still own my PS1 copies of MOH/MOH:Underground. I still got nightmares from those goddamn dogs in Panzerknacker Unleashed!
This was my first experience with COD as a kid. I was blown away by this campaign, and it also sparked my interest in actual WWII history, as I am Jewish too.
I appreciate the simple "people did this." during the Pointe du Hoc landing. No OTT youtuber reaction, just paying respect to the reality the game is emulating
I applaud your effort replicating the Eisenhower speech. It’s a piece of history and a iconic mission opening to an iconic game, so I’m unironically glad you did that.
I hated vet on cod 2, no running / nade spam, but my greatest memory was at the end of level were you attempt to take out a tiger in a german town at night, towards the end were you reach the final house, i walked(no sprinting mechanics) so hard that i actually went behind the German spawn point and mowed down a whole npc line with a mp44, the burst of dopamine i got was strong, such a solid memory! Such a fun game
Fun fact: Some of the German soldiers in the Europe levels are actually Spanish "Blue Division" volunteers. You can tell because of the Spanish flag on the side of their helmets. They're not supposed to be present on the western front. They only volunteered for the eastern front. That was a stipulation set by Francisco Franco. Still it's nice they were included in the game.
This game taught me English. I have memorized nearly all of it's lines. More importantly this game introduced me to German. After learning some more i was blown away with the German quotes. Because they are not random. They give each other real time information about your position. Play this in German and modern warfare modes. You won't be dissapointed.
1:35:40 hearing the German voices when you find the guns is actually such a nice detail. Historically, the the 2 GI's that found and spiked the guns did so right under the nose of a German platoon getting their attack orders from their officer in the ajacent field, which is what you hear :)
This was my first COD game and it made me fall in love with the series ever since, Also the first time where I met the Legend himself, Captain Price. Man! The nostalgia😪
It took me a solid month to finish this super long video but it was a good ride from start to finish! Hoping COD 3 will be the next one you tackle, I remember playing the demo of it as a kid on my 360 a million times because I never got the game myself
I remember getting this game around 12 years old. I was at best buy. When I got home there was like 8 install disks, I remember it taking forever to get it downloaded on my old xp machine. It was a blast and I remember it fondly to this day
My absolute favorite Call of Duty and a extremely underrated one at that! I played the campaign over and over when it first came out, lots of great memories..
I remember when I first saw gameplay of COD 2 was when someone at Best Buy was playing the campaign demo they had on one of those Xbox stands. Coming from playing MOH: Frontline, I thought it was the most realistic and mind blowing graphics
I literally just FOUND and then INSTALLED my original COD (2003) game on Windows 10... 2 CDs... etc... I can't believe you JUST uploaded COD and now COD 2 (10 days ago) - NICE VIDEOS! I liked & subbed...
Don't know if you realized it, but you can use the binoculars in the tank missions to fire at distant targets. I was yesterday years old when I realized that.
This made me nostalgic even though I was a Medal of Honor kid back when these games were coming out. Hey, maybe 10 years from now when you finish the rest of the COD campaigns, you can go back and play the Medal of Honor games on their hardest difficulties.
Could you play cod 2 big red one? I know many people think it's bad, but it was my first cod and it's my favorite. I would love to see you play it on veteran.
I dont think people say its bad, its just that its a console exclusive which cancels out a huge part of the community then and especially now. I personally really want to play it, but im too lazy to set up the necessary steps to play it.
@@Hamentsios10 It's pretty mediocre in most aspects. The only thing it had going for it was a star studded voice cast and some unique factions/battles that weren't portrayed much in games (you fought the vichy french at the beginning and got to use some french guns which was cool, and the italians later).
CoD 2 was such a memorable game for the graphics leap. I remember being blown away by how good the graphics were when this came out. This and CoD 4 were the two that had that effect.
played this when i was 6 in 2009, my dad worked at a pawn shop so he got this for me. This vid made me want to cry from nostalgia, and bringing my 360 to my grandmas house and playing while she makes supper.
Seeing this makes me appreciate the health system of the original Call of Duty a hell of a lot more, you can get away with so much in this one to the point that you naturally become more careless. I never realised just how huge a difference it makes until I watched the play through of the first game followed by this one. Makes me want to see a return of health pack shooters tbh.
I remember playing this in one of those game displays walmart used to have set up. My first call of duty experience and by far one of the best in the series
I must say, that this video is just brilliant. A nearly 3-hour-long video, and subtitled all the way so I can watch it while going to sleep, without having to wear headphones 🤯 also, timestamped all the way. Can't imagine the amount of work making these videos takes. Pure legend, earned a sub here 🤝
My CoD experience mostly falls in with CoD2, W@W, and CoD4. That being said, of those titles, I think CoD2 is by far the most forgiving on veteran. You'll still die in 3 kar98K rounds, there will be moments where the entire German platoon opts to throw grenades in your specific direction, there's a lack of a sprint or throw back grenade function, and occasionally Germans will throw back your grenade with precision in timing and vector with no option to cook your grenade to prevent this, but it is by and far the most forgiving of campaigns on veteran. The time it takes for you to die is significantly shorter on CoD4.
@@matteulberg3690 CoD4 indeed is rather unforgiving on higher difficulties. On normal, you can expect to die in seven shots, hardened you can expect to die in five, and veteran you can expect to die in three - all from ARs and SMGs of course. Snipers are far and few between, but they'll kill you in two. Explosions will always one-shot in the right radius and melee will always two-shot regardless of difficulty.
COD4 and basically every other call of duty for the next 8 entries was essentially built off of the base engine of Call of Duty 2 so they got some great use out of the systems built for that game. Though Call of Duty 3 had an entirely unique engine, the same one used for Spiderman 2 oddly enough.
seeing you try to run everytime reminds me of trying to play any of the og halos when there was no running you just end up throwing random stuff everytime you press shift xD
Noting the beginning of the British campaign, most troops in North Africa were provided with US-made Thompsons for the first half of the war. The likes of the Sten, Grease Gun and PPS-42 were more present in the second half for reasons of cost, efficiency and ease of manufacturing. However, you can't beat the feeling of a Chicago Typewriter with 50 rounds on tap.
Tidbit of history: Ships hosted a "last meal" feast for the solders, making the sea sickness 10x worse. There was much vomit on the way up to the beach.
There is a potato only mod for a souls like game called salt and sanctuary.... A RU-vidr named the backlogs has done a potato only run. Entertaining stuff. If* it was possible for cod games it'd be beyond hilarious haha.
Growing up, it was this game, and all the old console releases like Finest hour. I hope you play Big Red One after this it's such a memorable one with a really awesome campaign.
Hot up Big Red 1! It’s by far one of the best. Not to mention action packed cutscenes! Edit: Reading this I realize the intro to the mission where you’re riding in the jeep while avoiding bombs n shit isn’t quite a cutscene.
This video is more nostalgic than I expected, I remember playing this almost everyday as a kid, my hard drive was full and I didn’t know how to fix it so I’d have to restart from the beginning everytime I got off. It’s funny to me that when you’re a kid you don’t understand anything storywise you just play for the experience like I had no idea what the Soviet Union is or really anything and now that I know a lot about world war 2 it’s funny thinking of me as a kid going full comrade mode with a PPSH
When I watched your COD 4 video I thought maybe I'm having better gameplay than you. Seeing this, man you're definitely better than me. And much funnier lol
I’m 28 now, this is my childhood. I remember my father getting me out of bed at 1 am on school nights to have me smash a lobby because some random dude on the internet was giving him shit. He’d just keep the headset on him and pretend it was him playing until mom showed up and put an end to the fun
