If only they got actual Germans to speak the voicelines of the villains this time.

so glad i saved $60 and just watched the cut scenes.

Historians watching this: *dying inside*

We never knew about Novak, unfortunately. Just one mission with no backstory and a goodbye you’re dead.

How to write the plots for new CoD games: *International commando team enters Tempelhof Airport* Pregnant Anne Frank: "Remember, no German." *ominous Zakhaev Airport music starts playing* See how easy that was?

And then Allied fighters shoot them down shortly after, all of the members die in the crash, along with all of the valuable intelligence. 11/10 ending

"Project aether: reviving the dead" sounds like zombies too me

Watch some mysterious masked character show up in one of this games seasons and it turns out to be Novak.

None of this makes sense, the main German guy is a lieutenant while his subordinates are Captains lmao

You know this is bad when I’m feeling bad for the bad guys

Realistically all of them would’ve been shot after they were captured because of the commando order.

There were *real* special forces groups that went on more dangerous, exciting, and interesting missions in *real* life. They could have covered that. Imagine if they had the balls to do a Call Of Duty from the German perspective. Follow a single squad. Half of which don’t believe in the cause, but are fighting to protect their home, and the other half could be full on Nazi believers willing to do whatever they are told. They could tell an incredibly interesting and thought provoking story about the complexity of how regular *German* soldiers saw the war. But of course that would never happen since COD would never dream of taking a *risk* like that.

1:28 Lol imagine if it was a grenade, main character got clapped at the start cuz some idiot threw a frag in a train carriage

Okay so In actual history polina woulda been executed on sight or assaulted as the germans hated that the red army allowed women.

It's still sad to see that we couldn't play on the Axis side or have an Axis DLC Campaign, where it includes Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire. Not gonna lie, I think it would've been cool if we could go up against task force Vanguard as the enemy.

The agenda made this game exhausting to play. The cutscenes were more like animated HR Consultant presentations.

The graphics is this game looks superrealistic thanks for the cut scenes!!

That's cute... The developers let their 10-year old kids write the plot.

Project Nova: Nova 6 Project Aether: Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies Series.

Novak had more character potential than any of them, and he was a silent protagonist

Just shows that we cant trust American game developers to create a game about ww2 without including a shitty agenda, the overuse of poc, really bad cliche plot, and inaccurate details.

I love watching these, been up for hours because I am sick and these are nice to watch.

You know, this was good until the entire campaign became a flashback. I’m not even being sarcastic. If they had actually *tried* to go all the way with the alternate universe part of the campaign it could’ve been really cool. It also could’ve justified the butchering of these beloved WW2 guns, or at least the German ones. Going to South America and seeing how the Germans basically deified their weapons from WW2, refusing to move on from them since they were used during Germany’s “glorious” rise would’ve been really cool world building. Then having these commandos not trust each other, showing how they were either racist or sexist, and having them slowly learn to trust each other beyond simply completing a mission would’ve once again been fascinating if done well. They would’ve have an excuse to both, have missions take place in multiple theaters, *and* have some basic justification for the Nazis doing what Steven Spielberg and George Lucas did to that poor Stormtrooper.

I think Vanguard has one of the best looking Cutscenes in any cod. While the older games have that Video Game cutscene charm, this game has scenes that almost look real, like the battle of Midway cutscenes.

My theory is that at the end of the story since they were flying a German plane, they were probably shot down since allies had total air superiority and maybe that’s why no one ever heard of vanguard because they died and burned along the info and the allies covered it up

13:05 Great historical accuracy there. An Allgemeine-SS Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant) giving orders to a Waffen SS Haupsturmführer (Captain) and Captain replies : "It'll be my pleasure Sir." Not to mention how an Allgemeine-SS can give orders to Waffen SS member, but the guy recieved orders had superior rank than him. That Waffen SS Captain shouldn't be in his Office, Waffen SS were combatative units of SS and all of them were at the front (except General Staff and high ranking Waffen SS like Colonel). Allgemeine SS were tasked with making reports and keeping the order within cities. They were bureaucrats. Also that Allgemeine SS guy is just a Second Lieutenant, in the game we saw he's controlling every thing. Other funny thing is look at his right arm, you see a symbol that is "V". It's name is "Ehrenwinkel der Alten Kämpfer". That was a reward was given to SS members who joined any party organisation before 30 January 1933. Thing is, only some of SS high ranking officers and General Staff had that reward, for example Himmler, Ulrich Graf, Emil Maurice, Max Amann, and bearer of Blutfahne Jakob Grimminger. Not a Second Lieutenant, because every SS who deserved to wear it was already a high ranking personnel in SS when NSDAP seized power in Germany. Fascinating historical accuracy I can say.

They need to take a break from making call of duty for a couple years..

Man, just watched this after watching the cinematic cutscenes for ‘The Last Tiger’ mission of battlefield V… Ones a single mission, the other a full fledged campaign, and yet… the former has infinitely more interesting characters, emotional impact, decent historical accuracy, a compelling plot, and overall seemingly better quality then the latter. It’s actually pretty bloody gutting to see a single mission of battlefield do so much better than a how-many-hours-long campaign from Call of Duty.

Bland story overall - kinda wish we got an Axis campaign.

At this point, I feel the COD devs are just trolling us They keep making the complete polar opposites of what we are asking

When I saw that Richter had died, I was thinking that they should have taken him as an POW.

These games make the biggest war in history seem like a playground.

Shame that there is no campaign where you play as the Axis would have been cool to be a panzergrenadier or fallschrimjager or a japanese soldier from early-late war. Also because german ww2 uniforms look awesome for the amount of drip they exude.

5:12 Did we lose Steiner? Yes, i got it why Steiner's attack failed.

Wade is like the funniest in half of the clip and when he was thrown in the sell he put is hand up like ohhh hey budss

The visuals look great sure, but the story looks straight up awful. Good grief how contrived. Was there not enough historical information to make a good story from or something?

Black/female savior complex game...sole winners of WW2.

1:04 in and already I'm glad I didn't buy this game. SOE is British, why the fuck would they be recruiting an international team? A Soviet sniper? In the Special Operations Executive (precursor to MI6). Really? I'm already getting Battlefield 5 vibes.

Sadly Novak had no backstory nor we never knew who he was or witch country he was fighting for

Never was a fan to be frank of CoD cinematic cutscenes which became the norm after Advanced Warfare. They were always putting me out of the immersion, especially when they were obviosly not done on game engine. Probably why I never had such issues with Black Ops 2.

Japanese Soldier: Do you speak Japanese? Me: No. I don't speak Japanese. I speak Italian

Ahhh sheeeeeit Hitler, you done messed up my weave!

There are more blacks and women in a single cut scene than the entire French Resistance Division. Yes I am all up for diversity but don't bring it when it was non existent. Out of all soldiers of all armies allied and axis in WW2 only 6.25% we're black. Also all female fighters represented 3% of the fighting force. Historical accuracy is really important. It's not racism to feel pressured by the forced inclusion. It would be nicer to do properly. Like call of duty 3 back in the day.

This game taught me a valuable lesson German bad.

I love how they try to intermingle hints of social justice into historical fiction. It makes me want to claw my fucking eyes out.

Secret v-2 facility, "you think you can fly one of those" So dumb

I can see how CGI versions of dead actors in new movies are gonna become more mainstream in coming years.....will be kind of creepy but interesting.

I don't like the way they portray the British as treating Australians with contempt when that wasn't the case at all.

@39:57 … why the SS would use the Coat of Arms of their (former) rival organisation SA for a secret project and put it with the projects title on an invitation letter explicitly stating that this project is too „delicate“ to describe it in writing is beyond me. Just as much as other things mentioned in the comments before.

I like how they come out in the comics with Novak with a full face, History and even speech then the game has him mute, No face reveal and he doesn't survive past the first mission.

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They got the rank insignia all wrong or they don't understand chain of command. They have a hauptsturmfuhrer (captain) answering to an untersturmfuhrer (second lieutenant). Wade Jackson seems a terribly fictionalized Wade McCluskey, and there is no way a Zero would follow a Dauntless into a dive like that. The pilot would lose control of his aircraft at those speeds. It was one of the more glaring weaknesses of the Zero. Finally, maybe I missed something, but the plot seems to jump inexplicably from June, 1944 to late April, 1945 as soon as the team got captured. The whole story is a mess.

28:43 "If Wade was exaggerating, it was only by a little." 28:57 Wade:

herman has different medals from the 1st to the 2nd scene. In the first scene he has a wound badge in gold but the 2nd scene its black. curious someone with multiple wound awards, who doesn't have any iron crosses in any class def for a SS officer

"Marrying your women"...what's that about...then you are one of them if done forcefully.

I wasn’t expecting much from COD this time and yet they disappointed me again anyway.

I got huge BFV intro vibes at the intro to Merville. I swear it’s the same voice too

17:00 I was thinking about this scene where fresinger is on the phone and I was thinking who he could be talking to? Because he mentioned about a traitor among the officers and to dispose of them with the other none essentials

i always thought that vanguard campaign wasn't done yet,i mean it's like not the whole story just a flashback and last mission literally. i'd really hope this was true but sadly it's not. They even cut the arthur's quote "Bravery comes after,not where you at the moment",i thought it was gonna show up on the scene where they heading towards the coastal gun

That Bougainville scene reminds me of the Millennium Falcon trying to evade imperial fighters by flying right into a huge asteroid and through its canyons until they finally found a cave to seek shelter in from 'The Empire Strikes Back'.

Very nice. Game looked beautiful. Very fun alternate history plotline

You can hear a combination of the German voice actors from CODWW2,COD WAW and COD 2 39:20

That guy really hates chairs

At first the "representation" thing in CoD, and making the token black be OP was just cringe, but at 6:02 I was laughing my ass off. I'm not even sad games are at this point anymore, it's just funny now. edit: 14:27 is pure fucking gold

At least they kept it slightly accurate with the Swazika

Love Lucas's banter

how hard is that to hire a russian voice actor for polina to not have that pseudo-russian language

Dude, the animations are so realistic. A few years ago i though bf 4 animations were top notch, then bf5 animations and now vangaurd

42:26 Can someone explain why he was so shocked seeing all those dead bodies. When he's part of the SS?

Quite nearly one full hour of cutscenes? These Devs should just make a movie instead.

I've learnt far more from the comment section than I intended to. Came here for the visuals, leaving with a "Hey, why the heck didn't they actually be historically accurate?"

Say what you will about the game itself, but holy shit these cutscenes are fucking amazing

After MW3 at this point I don’t even care how bad this was, I’m just pretending this is a serious version of Inglorious Basterds

I just realized some of those German voice lines from around 39:30 are literally straight from COD2

the cigarettes that that Richter has are called Muckenstich, German for (mosquito sting.) I dont think it's was a real company, but wonder if it meant anything or is a reference?

Every time I see a new COD game, I ask myself, will this be the game there the developers stop jerking their meat red and raw for the events of WW2, and instead focus on OTHER conflicts that the US has been drawn into. I get there's 'Modern War' COD games to disprove in some way what I'm saying in some light, but the reality is the only campaigns we get now are the ones where we can over glorify America's involvement in ANY action that needed war, WW2 being a prime example of that. Just once I'd love to see something like COD: Civil War, COD: Korean War, COD: Vietnam, COD: Afghanistan, COD: 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'....just anything but the same ol' same ol'. (and to those who want to argue the moral implications of making a Call of Duty game centered around the Civil War, Vietnam War, and the Middle East conflicts are SUPER gray need to realize it's only gray because we've made so many of these subjects hot-topics to debate without end vs coming to a place of acceptance that we might be the villains on occasion. Why I liked COD:4)

2 years ALREADY!? wow time flies by

The legend says that this is the last game with russian campaign on it

Really you put a Black box on the subtitles we all know what he said because its an insult.

next CoD I'm buying it will only be if they allow me to play against these main characters, they're rly soo baad and unauthentic, just like the modifications of the weapons in-game :)))))

If they just labelled this as "alternate history Wolfenstein-like game", it would've probably succeeded.

WW2 the new frontier with Jimmy Brilnaski from Griffin's Patrol "A Midnight clear" 1992.

These cutscenes kept me playing the game until I finished it.

This is insane!

These cutscenes were probably longer than the actual gameplay 😂. Great graphics and story though but I wish they had more missions. 9 is definitely not enough even though they were kinda long.

A 2nd Lieutenant who has Captains reporting to him and senior officers and generals saluting him?

I havent played the game so can anyone explain to me why the hell all of the crates have the long since put out of use and serivce SA insignia?

no where near as good or emotional as WaW.This shit is a romanticized version of ww2.

Me knowing that I can’t getting the game, makes this video impressive

as an reenactor who knows uniforms pretty well, this game is literreal brain cancer

They could’ve made the twist that the Nazis were buying time before their only axis nation of Draka succeed in taking over East Antarctica and all of Lemuria and thus escape to Draka and assure sanctuary when the Soviets and west allies mobilize to Berlin.

This game hurts my brain. It’s shit, like tf is the history in this game. Honestly it’s disrespectful they made this game.

When I played this the first night it was released. I knew their was a massive amount of historical inaccuracy

Haputsturmfurher shoulder straps aren't right,the shoulder straps that he's wearing is form ohh oberfurher or standartenfurher

Since when does a Sturmhauptfuehrer take orders from a Sturmfuehrer?

I actually enjoy this gameplay.

I’m not a big fan of cod anymore but might get this one play it and add it to my collection of ww2 games

Freisinger could have hugged one of them while burning or he could have lit the barrel on fire

If you want to enjoy the story you absolutely MUST think of it as alternate history rather than something meant to take place in our timeline.

If we wait any longer there won't be a fucking greenlight