Everything GREAT About Call of Duty: World at War!

A little detail that is easily overlooked during the mission Burn 'em Out: some enemy soldiers will use Indonesian terms while burning and not japanese as a reaction, showing that while being Imperial soldiers they were conscripted from occupied territories. +1 Win

"This was a 5 minute mission" Laughs insanely in veteran mode PTSD

Even when I was a kid I noticed that the very moment Sullivan hits the ground Roebuck's tag changes from Cpl to Sgt, and it felt like a good way to really punch in the fact that even Sullivan, the character who was supposed to have his shit together the most, was expendable to the cause and replaced in an instant.

Another awesome detail that wasn’t mentioned here: During the final missions of each side, the enemy changes. In Shuri castle a lot of the soldiers look younger and have glasses on, showing that “imperfect” soldiers were being let into the emperor’s army. And during Downfall, a lot of the soldiers are either in SS garb, or are wounded and bandaged. Showing you that this is literally their final stand.

“Perhaps ‘Heros’ need not question their actions” The way he says that is a subtle dig at dimitri. The idea that because you’re a ‘hero’ you don’t need to question if what your doing is right.

The ending with 60 million dead. It reminds you, yeah we had a good time in a fun shooty game where we mow down hundreds of mindless AI lead drones who are designed to give you challenge but ultimately fail. But at one point this could have been it. Every mindless drone could have been a person with his life, story, loved ones. Every single "quick death" could and did happen to someone in there.... and it was only 80 years ago. And please, please let there not another one.

This game is astronomically underrated. I cant wrap my head around how people rate this as mid. It is a height of call of duty as a whole. Id say top 3 between BO2 and MW2. Those three games changed my entire young life.

I expected more love for "Black Cats". The soundtrack, the voice acting is SOOOOOO good

Making it through Veteran difficulty was such a pain. The grenades... no one can carry THAT many grenades! But finally planting the flag at the end was worth all the times that I died to get there.

Honestly This COD has the most memories, playing Zombies with my dad and Uncle, playing Multi-player with my cousin, using the Springfield regardless being the worst rifle in the game, I just love this game!

Fun fact, the lyrics of the main menu soundtrack are literally “Brave Soldier, Brave Soldier, Die with me.” Which makes it that much more somber and hard hitting. The soundtrack really carries from the background.

I'm really disappointed that this master piece hasn't had a remaster

I miss when Call of Duty wasn’t afraid of showing war as what it is: the darkest side of humanity. Nowadays it’s like they want to ignore reality for the sake of money.

To me this is STILL the best COD game to come out in the last 20 years, the story, the atmosphere, the gameplay and the introduction of zombies, also that ending, the cutscene of the nuke going off (chefs kiss) perfect, an absolutely phenomenal game BTW for all those people who say the Nazi flag upsets you and offends you and think it can't be shown "History is written by the Victor, History is filled with liars" We cannot forget what happened, to stop something worse from happening which could in the next few years

When I first played this game, me and my dad were really into WW2 history. We bought the game thinking it wouldn't be anything too out there. But I remember the first mission I played with him watching, when you watched the guy get flung up into the tree and blown up, then the Banzai charge, I looked at my dad and he had the most shocked expression I had ever seen. We finished the game 2 days later and we both sat silently as the cinematic rolled, and he said "Wow... that was way more intense than I thought"

I remember playing the game a few years after my grandfather passed away. He died when I was 11 so I never got the chance to tastefully ask about the war or his experience or how he felt about it in his elder years. He wrote a book I still can't finish. But this game in a way is a window to the questions I never got to ask. Things I'll sadly never know. A cushion for the few regrets I have. As brutal and as fucked up as the war was, that was the reality. His reality. Being Polish didn't help it either. Not a day goes by where I don't miss him. And this game is a solemn reminder that his experience was horrible, but his sacrifice at an age younger than I am, was more than needed and more than honorable. Love you Dziadek. Stanislaw Szafran (1923-2012)

23:08 I never actually seen this cutscene all the way through but man absolute chills. The music just building up and then silence is so fucking genius. I think it's time boot up WAW again and go through this fantastic piece of storytelling

I remember being in the penultimate mission, before Chernov was killed, and playing in veteran, and it was simply impossible, I died every so often and I felt so frustrated. So I decided to go up to a building that had a second floor and keep the enemies at bay, but I knew that eventually I would have to go down and repeat the cycle of dying and dying and dying, but, when I am in the middle of the shots, I see Reznov and the others advancing while I covered them, and eventually Reznov asks me to go and the rest happens. I know it doesn't seem like a big deal, but when I play MW1 in veteran I was the one who had to move the story forward, until I passed X point nothing would happen, and then play WaW and I don't feel alone, I feel like I'm part of a group , that I am not the only one who is fighting. It is something I will never forget. Also, my God, the music in the final mission made my skin jitters, those chants while there were gunshots and explosions and Reznov kept screaming. Perhaps the best CoD in history.

One you missed is if you go backwards into the fountain you can find another Soviet playing dead on vendetta

World at War was the only game I've ever played where I organically found myself caught up in a sniper duel with a player on the other team that lasted most of the match. The two of us each had 3 kills and 3 deaths in the last half of the match because we were creeping around blown buildings and hiding from each other