At first, you think this music is way too dramatic. Then you find the MG42.

The ones who played this as a kid, had the best childhood ever.

At 0:54 my school friends used to mimic the Russian charges as we went into school. Obviously the teachers were the fascists

0:54 *Mother Russia intensifies*

Nothing more epic than this theme playing while you and your brothers charging a hill filled with MG42 nest firing at you in the name of the motherland

this music is why finest hour was the best cod

This is what epic truly sounds like

By far the hardest campign

I would purposefully fail this mission just to hear the music again lol

I don't care how old this game gets. it will always be my favorite Call of Duty!

I replayed this mission over and over again when I was kid, I loved it!

somehow, I remember the part that starts at 0:56 as sounding much better. must be nostalgia.

I listen to this song as a clean my 1942 Mosin Nagant. I can see my beloved rifle shed a tear as she hears the music of her homeland.

Favourite level. i felt like i was actually there. Music coupled with the gunfire coming from everywhere and the constant swarm of enemies made it so much fun

""Comrade General, you have been even more tenacious that I thought. What a great threat you are to your enemies. Do me this favor, grace me with your presence in Moscow. So, I may thank you in person."" Yuri, Command & Conquer Red Alert 2

1:05 my favorite part! Remake this game!

Michael Giacchino (The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Up, Mission Impossible 3 and Ghost Protocol, the recent Star Trek movies, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) composed this!

I remember back then at the bottom the people rush into the mgs and I ran with even though I died good times :)

Fun fact the "Soviet Song" is just a Church hymn. Goes by different names. Once to Every Man and Nation, Ebenezer, The Strong Word... etc. (It's a common tune with different lyrics).

You know this song is badass when u hear it in your dreams! ...that was one fuckin epic ass dream i had! 0_O

it wasnt the proper strategy for me to play the game, but in the first level when this music plays and the mass attack commences, i cant help but just suicidally charging forward into the enemy guns with my comrades!

1:09 part in the game where every MG nest see you.....shit

0:55 forward comrades...forward!! Defend your mother....Mother russia!!!

best song for a war game

If they remade this call of duty like they make them now those Germans on the MG42's would have had a freaken' nuke before I even got to them...

Will forever have great memories with this game! I loved every second of playing this game and the intro to it was even greater. Not one step back!

This song gave me the chills very young, this was my First COD that I loved.

0:54 i would sit in game doing nothing just to listen to this part.

"I'm sorry you lost your sergeant, Comrade. We won't let his sacrifice go to waste."

I only skip to this part 0:55

CoD has to revisit WW2, with the historical accuracy it used to have. There are so many, so many places and aspects of the war left back by new games... Not only ww2 in the paccific, but also the terrible war in China, japanese against soviets in Manchuria, the british against the japanese in Birmania, the war in Italy (not enough exploited), the war in Poland, Romania and YUGOSLAVIA. There could be an entire awesome game only about the war in Yugoslavia, with the not usual factions. Also the eastern front can give a lot more, like Leningrad siege, Dniepper Crossing or the Warsaw uprising. There was also the Spanish Civil War... There is so much to put in a new WW2 game... Even the early cold war could be more exploited with chinese civil war until 1949 or the Korean war.

I played this game religiously every day for 6 months straight.

now this was a good COD game that i liked

This game made my fucking childhood man. This, Moh: Frontline, Big red 1, Rising sun, European Assault, And those were pretty much all the games i had for PS2..... Still have them...... I play them frequenly, dont have a ps3 or xbox360, ps2 is the newest system i have...... LOVE THEM

"FORWARDS COMRADES!" "DEFEND YOUR MOTHERLAND!" "GET TO THE GERMAN INVADERS!"

At 1:07, images in my head of Russian soldiers, young and old dashing through the artillary and hailfire of MG42 rounds. It really sets up the giganticness of the battle of Stalingrad

Proud to say I was around to play the best COD ever to date. This game was incredible and this song made the whole mission. Wish I could go back to being a kid 😢

Those were the dayyysssss

I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR YEARS

*Clear the center pillbox*

I just play it and it's best cod ever! Cods on today suck.

First call of duty I ever owned, had it on the game cube :)

I played the game a couple years ago, which then the game felt old already, but fuck did that music hype the shit out of me.

FINALLY THE ONE I WAS LOOKING FOR!½!!

This was the coolest song of my childhood. The most epic song I heard in the game. I loved it.

I remember playing this at my aunts house all the time. Got the African campaign, but lost the disc :(

This song stuck in my head still recent I started humming it aloud. For weeks I tried remembering what game it was from until finally I remembered I played this game when I was 7 years of age. This proof why music matters in a video game.

One of the most stressful games to play. The design team did a great job creating the nightmarish hell-scape of Stalingrad, and the music that accompanied it was equally as terrifying.

thank you! someone who knows history!

2018 and still playing this awesome COD

undoubtedly the most awesome music piece ever written!!!

This should play when A country invade Russia and all of Russia get pissed and they fight back

I actually played this at my grans house. Her boyfriend (not my blood related grandad) had a PS2 and always bought the Call of Duty games for it back in the day and man, I replayed this first Russian level SO MANY TIMES whenever I went round it was that cool!

This is one of my favorite songs in this game

Puskov’s sacrifice did not go to waste.

Para mi uno de los mejores juegos de todos, con la mejor música. Lo adoro❤️❤️

me when im going to take the TV control from my sister with my brothers

I miss this game alot... Dx

best COD soundtrack ever

Best track for the best level of the game

Damn this was more of a banger than i thought

I love that the hymn "Thy Strong Word" is in this piece. It really adds to the song!

This was my first exposure to ww2 as a kid, playing this at my grandpa's I remember asking him about the battle of Stalingrad after I beat this level and having my little mind blown, I couldn't comprehend shit like that actually happened

This song captures everything about that situation, the dire urgency, the glory, the chaos, the tyranny, the comradery

Thats nice, a little salute back to an older game...

0:54 suddenly i have an urge to recklessly charging toward enemy machine gun

God. I remember this! Good times

Everybody gangster until the defacto Red Army theme for the game chimes in

This music defined my dreams at that time! I was 7 or so. I almost beat it, stupid Nazi commander and that MP-40!

This was the game that got me interested in war games and Call of Duty in general. I LOVE IT.

The greatest COD game to predate bo1

Not one step back

This was the best i wish we chould go back to this kind of game

remember playing this mission on Christmas in my cold room while this song was playing it was pure epicness

did much beter than well in the suers that song gave me night mares

Huh. I did not know that. You learn something new everyday...

Damn I would love to see this one remastered, best game of my childhood

1.05 to 2.06 end is literal hype, running through the hill with many bunker shooting at you with machine gun, and my dumb brain as a kid have no idea what to do and try to scavenge medkit cuz i dont understand english yet

"There you are... I've been hunting that bastard all day"

Been looking for this track for years, this is back when Call of Duty was good. It was all based on true stories that accounted dramatic events in young soldiers' lives. Now it's typical Russia vs America with awful killstreaks and unlockables. With the release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare came the death of old Call of Duty. It shall be forever missed.

RTS games are a lot of fun, I will admit. There is something to enjoy watching your forces do all the dirty work while you sit above them and yell orders. One game that my Dad introduced me to around the same time as this game was an RTS named Blitzkrieg. Granted, the inaccuracies with this game were everywhere, such as the inclusion of several MAUS tanks against the U.S. forces, but it was still a great game, and I had a lot of fun with it.

DAMN STRAIGHT

I miss this .... :(

ahhhhhh when call of duty was a game worth my time

Nostalgia

I have very fond memories of charging up that hill, watching the explosions and bullets around me

First CoD game I played; it was really fun.

This song is so damn beautiful.

i love soundtracks that are weird. thats why i love AVP and F.E.A.R

This was the first cod i ever played

still here still rockin

Really wanna buy this game again

my favorite song of the game

@unclerukus2 Actually, we do. Burma, Hong Kong, potential land invasion of Japan, the Aleutian Islands, patrols of the Canadian coast... What on earth made you think we had no involvement? Heck, we played a MAJOR roll in Hong Kong's defense.

"German sniper! Look out, Comrade!"

I got all the CoD games and love all of them!

I remember finding most of the Easter eggs on this game by accident when I was a kid

GREATEST SOUNDTRACK EVER....

I finally found it

very very beautiful!