They flooded their own city with grenades, in an effort to kill you Dimitri, and once again, they succeeded.

Fun fact: all German grenades in 1945 were given to the SS honor guard with the stamp “use on veteran” printed on them

They flooded their own metro, in an effort to kill us Dimitri, but once again, they failed.

Veteran, apparently the Nazis had plenty of Grenades in 1945 and wanted to make Dimitri's life especially helllish.

A true warrior has pressed "G" to throw back grenades 5 times in a row while prone and survived

6:29 that triggers my zombies ptsd

World At War was a masterpiece not for its graphics, not for its guns, the way it fucking showed war. brutal, not a fun adventure, horrible. and its one of the only games i know to show the Marines in Japan.

The most brutal CoD, where no matter the faction, you always felt vulnerable and never felt like a hero.

“You see that Russian dude over there?” “Yes commander” “Take this grenade crate and throw every single grenade at him” “May I ask why sir?” “Cause screw him that’s why trooper”

"If you lack the stomach to kill for your country, at least show me that you are willing to die for it!"

6:29 Non WAW players remembered this as the COD Zombie theme but WAW Veteran players remembered this as the Grenade theme

The most brutal game from call of duty. And that's why it was good.

Nothing says "WWII German defences" better than an 88mm Flak cannon.

COD4 and WAW Difficulty Levels Regular: A little bit of grenades. Recruit: A lot of grenades. Hardened: Shit ton of grenades. Veteran: Grenades rain from the sky.

Back when multiplayer was only a side gameplay

They really need to remaster this game

This game taught me that in April 1945, all that was left to protect the Third Reich was about 45,000 Demomen in SS uniforms.

I just love how intense this OST is. It's like they turned sheer hatred into music.

The true meaning of veteran lies here. The enemy is trained to the absolute intent of ending your life, to start over and over again and again. You will fall like the man before you, and the one before him, and the one before him. You will not survive.

The Soviets employed their new super secret weapon without anyone knowing. Dimitri the Grenade Magnet, known to cut down friendly losses from grenade shrapnel by about 90% thanks to this marvelous feat of Soviet engineering.

Fun facts of the actual battle for the Reichstag: The Soviets wanted it because it was the parliament building of Germany. The Germans wanted to defend it because it stood between the Soviets and the Reichs Chancellory and Hitlers Bunker. The Germans completely bricked it up so the Soviets couldn’t get in and the Germans defended it from the inside and outside. The Soviets bombarded it with artillery before their first attack, but it did very little damage. The Soviets then made their first attack, which failed as it was held off by the defenses (including two 88mm flank guns in front of the Reichstag, and four 128mm guns 2km away). The Soviets second attack broke through the outer defenses and their artillery broke a hole through the building allowing them to flood in. The building was defended by about 550 Germans, those troops being the Kreigsmarine (Navy Soldiers), Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger (Elite Airforce Paratroopers), Volkssturm (civilian soldiers) and as said in the mission, Hitlers personal Waffen SS Honor guard, that unit being the “1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” (Known as the LSSAH), absolute fanatics. The battle was room by room, floor by floor, which started on April 30th and didn’t end with complete control by the Soviets until May 2nd. A couple hundred Germans died in the battle, couple hundred surrendered/were wounded, and part of the Waffen SS Leibstandarte escaped the building to go on and fight another day.

"This isn't war! This is murder!" "This is how you END a war, Chernov."

1:00 When the professor says “you can start“ on the toughest exam of the semester

Heart of The Stielhandgranate

One thing I personally loved about WaW soundtrack is it sounds like you're just destroying and crushing the enemy, not necessarily with a goal. It sounds rather menacing and sinister, not necessarily heroic or valorous.

Despite my love for Nazi zombies, I wish more people would associate "Hell's Gate" (6:20) with the charge on the Reichstag rather than the round changing. Such an awesome moment in the campaign, specially on Veteran.

I miss the dark nature of cod now is all bullshit.

Anyone remember this mission on “Veteran” difficulty?

Back when cod made war games!!!

I love how they used campaign sounds for zombies

US v Japan missions: fun asf Russians v Germans : absolutely batshit insane

To anyone else who beat this game on Veteran, you know what true pain is.

Oh no! Dimitri is coming?! Good thing we got that decade supply of nades

No modern cod player can remember the pain in the arse that this mission was in Veteran. Not even "No fighting in the War Room" , the Favela from MW2, or Mile High Club. This is the definition of pain and desperation

You were killed by a grenade. Watch out for the grenade danger indicator.

Most dark cod game ever

When nobody is talking about 1:34 :(

I don't think you will ever see another COD like this one. Not in todays social climate.

Did you know? The Wunderwaffe project did bear fruit by 1945. During the Battle of Berlin the German Army was equipped with magic grenades that would home in on targets and were infinite, as well as cloning machines so they could spawn endless waves of soldiers. I learned this from this level on Veteran. It's true.

When we first played Black Ops 1, when we see Reznov. *Oh sh*t, he's back!* When we find out he died at Volkuta. *Sadness*

Reznov: WE WILL bring this fight to their country, their land, their BLOOD!

Now I see why the Commissar valued grenades more than us

WAW was not just your normal game for anyone. It was for the real men

After playing this game, it felt like I experienced the deadliest conflict in human history.

This song is the meaning of war. The meaning of hatred, of genocide, of fear, of death. This song is the meaning of Veteran.

The part that starts at 6:21 and ends at 7:38 is my favorite part, especially when the electric guitar comes at 7:13 and when it does, you can feel the war's rage. Damn, the music in COD back then was so good. I miss the old days.

They need to make a war game that’s so realistic, so gory, and so horrifying that you need to sign a waiver to buy it. Also make it for VR.

12 years, a military career, and a ton of self therapy later, and that scene where Reznov holds Chernov's hand in his last moments gets stronger each time i see it.

Girls making pillow forts: This is so much fun! After this we should do each other's makeup and watch movies with snacks and prank call our exes. Boys making pillow forts:

Whenever I hear this, I think it has a double meaning. Yes in the mission you and reznov are in the heart of the reich, but the song itself, along with its use in zombies implies a different meaning. Like in the context of zombies, the heart of the reich is almost unkillable and horrific in its presence, the song feels like you’re holding out against an unstoppable tide. Like the heart of the reich has become the undead.

That off-key melody at 2:39 gives this so much personality. it sounds like the climax of a military march, like a soldier faintly remembering false promises of honor and glory in the middle of the horrors of war

I love how this soundtrack has some screaming in the midst of it but I’m not sure if it is but the real reason I love it is because it is a type of revenge or blood lust soundtrack and the Germans weren’t even fighting to keep the reich standing, they fought for their lives because the Germans die even when surrendering. Overall this is a great track because it encapsulates the feeling of revenge and blood lust and hatred.

After the embarassment of Vanguard, I played WAW again and, after so many years, appreciated it more than before for how it perfectly described WW2. The destroyed landscapes, the barbarism and brutality, the excessive destruction, the fitting grey and brown colors, the depressing atmosphere, the undecisive and forebodding soundtrack... it's soul-crushing. And aside from some historical mishaps here and there, I actually _felt like I was in WW2,_ from Stalingrad to Peleliu, and Berlin to Okinawa. I could picture myself as a German soldier desperately defending the capital despite knowing everything was lost, or as a Marine Raider begging to come back alive while waiting for the next Japanese attack. And the ending, with the montage and the nuclear bomb and the somber atmosphere, tells you not as a player, but as a person: _this event happened, it wasn't pretty, and it had _*_consequences._* That's why I hate Vanguard: beyond the stupid attachments and the out-of-place multiplayer, it's simply a spit in the face to everyone who fought, died, or were mentally/physically scarred by the war. It's nothing more than a bunch of SJW babble, historical inacurracies that'll make serious historians commit seppuku in their classrooms, incoherent storylines, cartoonish good vs evil gimmicks with unlikeable, boring protagonists (minus the Australian), and obvious contempt for the history of what happened. Then again, the main writer was a fricking SJW.

Ah, yes. The Reichstag. That famous grenade factory.

6:20 nostalgia

the guitars playing at 1:00 and the drum kicks at 1:34 sound an awful lot like a machine gun, this is easily my favorite track from WAW just because of this detail. You’ll never see that much creative effort brought into a video game.

10:25 R.I.P Chernov

If they made this in vr in the near future, it would be an experience in this mission that I would never forget

Personally, the best COD soundtrack ever! You earned a sub! Keep up the great work!

In this game, Reznov taught me 3 Russian words: Mudak, Chyort & Svoloch

anybody in 2021 Still Hearing this music?

This soundtrack is so awesome, it's like it's own genre, creepy ww2 djent

In the missions you would hear Wehrmacht in the game yell: "KOMMUNISTERNNNNN!!!" and start shooting at you time to time when they spotted you.

The last mission I swear almost gave me ptsd, you realize the men you are fighting are in bandages, they know they will not be spared, and death would come faster or slower. Then as you pass a certain hall, soviets mercilessly killing german soldiers. And the ending cutscene telling you the effects of ww2 was bone chilling.

"He wants mercy, what mercy did they show us?" *shoots kruat*

6:20 who would’ve thought modern electronic rock music would fit a gritty WW2 game so well

The song that starts at 6:30 gets stuck in my head like twice per week even if I haven’t played this game in years

They need to remaster this game... it's been 11 years since I played it. I was 8 years old. I want to relive the campaign just as I remember it: with hyper-realistic graphics that made it so tense...

everyone talks about the brutality and such in this game that made it great, but let us not forget the amazing ost's this game had, every damn track is unique and gives a great atmosphere, it creates nostalgia

World at War had such a fantastic soundtrack that complimented its dark, unapologetic and (mostly) authentic campaign. It legitimately felt like a war, that everyone had blood on their hands and there was no turning back, and it especially felt like that there were no winners...only the victims of men who thought they were right.

9:32 Damn, that scream shows how gritty and dark treyarch made this game and it's soundtrack, it makes me think about a soldier that became mad during all the horrible things he saw during the war... (Sorry for my English)

9:30 - When the PTSD and survival instincts kick in

This is some of the best soundtrack in the game!

Damn me being a zoomer, I really missed out on what people call the "glory days". This OST scares me shitless...and I think it's supposed to be this way. I love it

A lot of people say the Black Ops games had the hardest soundtracks in COD, while I do agree that “Rooftops” and “115” go hard as shit, but “Heart of the Reich” and “Black Cats” from WaW are underrated as hell. 🤘

people have gone soft these days , call of duty will never be this brutal/raw again

6:20 - 7:40 is easily one of the greatest game soundtracks in history

Playing black ops broke my heart seeing what happened to Dimitri after all he endured. Russians soldiers never truly got the recognition they deserved );

If you beat this game on Veteran, than you know how much of a badass you are

Song of 2022

Одна из лучших частей call of duty....

Teacher: Okay students. We will travel to germany. Girls: I wonder what german food tastes like Boys:

This mission has got to be in the top 5 of COD missions/battles. It's absolutely insane, intense, chilling, thrilling, nightmarish and fucking badass! I wish COD still felt like you were trapped in a heavy metal concert in the midst of the most deadly and destructive war in history absolutely captivated by the carnage in front of you. Not to glorify war or specifically WW2 because it was horrifying beyond comprehension for people who didn't experience it, but this is the closest it comes to experiencing it

On me this game will forever be in my Top 5 best COD, eventhough the new Generation says it isn't i remenber playing this when I was 14 years old now im 26

4:48 That paranoid feeling you get when a faint grenade indicator appears on your screen and slowly gets more visible as the nade rolls towards you

Interesting history trivia by mistake the 20 Pzg (panzer grenadiers), 18 Pzg, 11 SS Pzg, and 9Fj (Fallschirmjäger) division supply for grenades (about 2 mounts worth) was shipped to the reichstag. Due to a failure in communication within the logistical department was forgotten just before the siege started when the last desperate defenders found the enormous supply of grenades a unknown officer was quoted as saying "Dimitri leck meinen Arsch", before giving the order to have all of his man be supplied with 2 box's each (15 in a box). However statements recovered from a Russians war diary revealed that the Germans took the liberty of taking up to 5 boxes as of today its yet unknown who the officer was referring to. Tho some have proposed the idea it was just a outer version of "Ivan" a generic term used by the Germans many more have taken issue with this as the same diary mentioned to a "Demitri" more then once. marvels thing history is it not ? such small and intriguing story's in such a vast event.

I miss this kind of cod, they should really remaster it, it would sell so well. We should make a petition

In COD series, IMO, Dimitri is the toughest badass player. He survived from insane grenades explosion from enemies, machine guns heavy fire on him, riding the tank and eliminate all enemy's panzers, survived the flood, and the shoot when he was carrying the flag. Indeed, he is hero.

6:20 sounds like someone screaming "DIE" in a demonic voice.

As someone said before: Grenade Simulator 1945.

We are in the final hours of berlins downfall we must all play our part That single line cured my depression

The most difficult CoD mission on veteran of all time... Imagine being an actual soldier in this battle.

The random grenades... The fake covers.... The random spawns.... Our own stupidity.... They are all over, now. For something worse.

No ones talking about 5:47 😔 the best spawn theme

mad respect to the german soldier behind that Flak Gun, for he was alone that day

0:01. Couple minute break before the assault on Reichstag. 1:00. Light German resistance while taking a left flank. 5:31. Moments before the assault on Reichstag. 6:20. Assaulting the Reichstag while encountering a heavy German defenses. 10:25. Chernov's sacrifice.

this was the closest we got to historical accuracy in call of duty

So many great memories. Hearing the flute as the final battle rages arouns the Reichstag; first time we see the SS in black uniforms (the game called them the Honour Guard)- finally completing this and the last mission, and unlocking the first ever zombies game... My teen years and some of the fondest memories are enclosed in this game

Me playing this level at night: STOP, WITH, THE, GRENADES

I think cod waw has the best soundtrack in the entire series It's dark, scary, gives you adrenaline. Perfectly portrays WW2 as a whole.