People are out here talking about how fun the series was in the past. I’m remembering the time when these newer games didn’t require you to delete damn near everything on any of your systems just to play them.

"Big Angry Historian Energy", so that is why I feel both enraged and powerful.

Remember: This game had a team of writers who want this game to be the first of a trilogy.

"polina inspired the russians to take back their land" victor reznov: *angry soviet URA*

The absolute biggest sin was them pretending this game was about hunting down Hitler's successor, when in reality it was about talking to a bumbling fool about the standard Call of Duty formula. It's basically the worst of Battlefield's story telling with the overwhelming and paradoxical boredom of Call of Duty explosions going off the entire time.

"heres one of the wars greatest pilot" *immediatly crashes his plane in the mission*

Game Devs: “World War 2 like you’ve never seen it before” Also Game Devs: “So, lets give the Japanese on Bougainville in 1943 some STG-44s with 5 attachments, even though the gun will come out a year later, and attachments weren’t equipped on the gun. You know what? Let’s be nice, give them MG-42s and some revolving shotguns!”

Game in a nutshell: -Nazis REALLY evil -Allied good -Our mcs superheroes, very diverse and ofc VERY politically correct It makes it so obvious it hurts

The history in this game is beyond insulting, but the premise of this game alone makes no sense as a nazi policy at the time of the time was to kill all allied special forces found within occupied territory, they would be all executed during the scene the SS Officer captured them and found none of them had a name they could ransom or use for a propaganda victory.

The sin counter should be renamed to "insult counter" for this game and this game alone

I miss the old COD's where you were just an ordinary soldier fighting with you're nations army to fight the enemy, none of this stupid "Specialist" squad garbage

World at War handled the Pacific Front and jungle fighting much much better. Come to think of it, World at War handled just about everything better.

What disturbs me most is the fact that not a single top manager at Activision looked at the half finished game some months ago and said "This is crap of the highest order, let´s bury it."

It's such a shame how this series went from the peak of WaW portraying a gritty, horrible war in Asia and Europe with the necessary accuracy, gore and care the subject matter warrants, to this horseshit about super soldier covert squads saving the day because friendship or some nonsense.

>Novak >gets beaten to death with a chair >all the guys hold back tears and anger >be Polina >be bitch _"People die"_ This is not a strong woman..

Jesus I could not stop laughing lmao. "How could they mistake Kingsley as a German soldier.......he's black" 😂🤣😂

I laughed my ass off when I found out that Laura Bailey was portraying a Russian. Was it soo hard to CoD to bring a real Russian ?

So COD had a pilot, a plane mission, and a female Russian soldier? Why in the hell didn't they consider making that woman a Night Witch, or something similar? The Night Witches are extremely underrepresented in WW2 media.

"War. War never changes." Activision: Write that down. WRITE THAT DOWN!!

Can't believe that you didn't dropped at least 30 sins for those cringe death screens, that don't have historical characters, but those made up heroes and those made up quotes

If they wanted the hating the English bit to be more believable, they could have just made him Irish. And the reason he gives, would also apply to kiwis, assuming that he's referring to Gallipoli

As someone who loves history the historical inaccuracy of this game pisses me off.

I hate when they don't get real German actors to play German characters. That black guy says "wow your accent sounds like you're from Neustadt" but that American actor trying to croak out a few German words sounds about as German as Borat sounds British.

Cod never was the most realistic. But at least the injuries were. Now every cod character is an action hero shrugging off multiple bullets and stab wounds like it's nothing. I would like to remind everyone that soap the MAIN character of the mw series. Died from ONE stab wound. A wound he didn't even get from the game he died in. His activities caused the wound to open and he bled out. Look how different the series is now. It's the same thing with last of us when Joel was bed ridden from the stab wound while Ellie can walk off a similar wound easily

Speaking of corporate products, There will never be a COD specifically about the Korean War or Vietnam. Given that Communist China was heavily involved in both conflicts, I'm sure Activision doesn't want to upset their Chinese masters by depicting their true role in the conflicts.

Remember lads: this "elite team" was created because the dev team stated that the franchise had no interesting characters of its own. Then they go on to create the most generic and boring cast of characters ever put together.

The funniest thing about this is that Germans pretty much banned shotguns among their troops. The exception? The M30 Luftwaffe Drilling. It has a double barrel shotgun on top and a 9.3×74mmR rifle barrel underneath. German officers used the rifle barrel against infantry and the shotgun against game. The Germans actually said that shotguns were inhumane and caused unjust suffering against their enemies.

I still think the biggest sin is the Lee Enfield in one of those intros (FYI a bolt action rifle) being fired as a semi-auto, even though the character LITERALLY cycles the bolt before firing. How does this even pass development?

I’m surprised you didn’t say anything about the lee endfeild holding 5 shots and not 10 and how in the beginning of the Africa mission the dude says “bugger that rpg” when it was invented in 1958

Vanguard's guns in a nutshell could be summarized as: Let's take MW19 and 'Cold-warify' it for Black ops Cold War, and the 'WW-ify' it for Vanguard. Because I am convinced they literally cannot resist putting red dot sight or holosight in all their games since they felt that modern CoD players can't use the damn iron sight

Just a random thought, but if they want a diverse "progressive" cast why not insert that squad into modern environment? not ww2, not future-tech, current tech... xD mistaking the token black character for a german soldier xD

Can they just stop shitting on one of the most tragic events in human history and make that alternate universe dieselpunk game *THEY OBVIOUSLY WANT TO?* All this wild imagination and fantasy suffering for being crammed into tight historical setting that is obviously no place for it, but the publisher obviously demands "WWII historically accurate" sticker on the box or it won't sell that well. Damn shame

"Maybe this could have all been prevented had the Axis won." Now I know why he didnt like Wolfenstein that much...

“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.” - J.R.R.Tolkien

Cod Vanguard: *Says or does anything pertaining to history* Me: "Wtf that's like wrong in eight different ways" Seriously did they hire the old history channel writers that talked about Nazi UFOs? This crap is so far disconnected from reality I have to ask why even make it a WWII game if you're not even gonna half ass the setting

You guys remember when we used to be able to argue that video games taught us about history to our history teachers?

I will keep saying Call of Duty’s last year of triumph was 2012

Me: Can I get COD: World at War? Mom: We have World at War at home. COD: World at War at home:

One thing I noticed is that the older CODs had real war-related quotes that try to remind you about the realities of war and how much it costs to do so. I think in COD Vanguard, whenever you die, you instead get quotes that all revolve around the fictional characters or the game's story. Not that it's a serious flaw, but the real war-related quotes was something I missed in the newer CODs. Kind of adds a sense of realism and grounded-ness to the games

1:40 this is what made Saving Private Ryan phenomenal. You get to see this small squad make their way through the countryside on a somewhat secret covert mission, but they weren’t all superheroes and decorated veterans, they were just regular people, teachers, farmers, mechanics, who were called to duty. Hmmmm why do those words sound familiar

Activision just needs to do a Ubisoft and state that these games are works of fiction. Acknowledge that these are just blockbuster video games. Coded movies with decent multiplayer. Then go full on Michael Bay with these things. There is a market for this stuff. We know what we are getting. Make big bombastic action movies with the option to do a little stealth. Manage the pacing better. Tell better stories. We will buy that ish. They always look increasingly better on our flat screen TVs and 4K resolutions. Skipped the crap out of this. I’ll pick it up in time. Modern Warfare still has me.

This game is like letting a 10 year old kid feast on Cocaine and only give him FanFictions about WW2 to read to make this game as accurately as possible... Pathetic.

I also love how each member of the team is wearing the uniforms of their previous roles: the Russian is wearing her red army quilted winter gear, the pilot is still wearing his leather bomber jacket, the Aussie is wearing North African campaign desert equipment etc. Wouldn't you equip the whole team with the same commando gear that's specifically designed for the theatre they're fighting in?

5:55 I will add my own sin here: I'm German. That accent is *horrible* - I had to switch from "Doing stuff, watching this from the corner of my eye" to "actively listen in order to understand what's being said"; that's saying something, when I have to concentrate more in order to understand my mother tongue, when the 5 minutes before that I could understand a foreign language without too much of a hassle. Yes, yes, languages in visual media can be difficult, but COME ON, the voice actors could've been paid the extra hours for them to try some at least decent pronunciation - or alternatively they could've just skipped the two sentences of "Oooh, it's German, so historically accurate!" 🙄 And apparently that is a rhineland accent, from Neustadt? I've been to Mannheim before, which is somewhat close to Neustadt - surprisingly enough no one had such an accent.

the original call of duty’s set in WW2 honor the veterans who fought in it and portray and mostly realistically and then sledge hammer comes along and ruins it

The biggest thing wrong with Call of Duty Vanguard is that exist

7:50 careful not to get canceled there bud. What if Arthur identifies as a white German? You can’t just assume people’s identity and race and gender nowadays. This is why diversity and identity is important! Big thanks to activision for making a game full of diverse super soldiers who are definitely not generic af or forced into being created

Well the germans did have a plan in case of occupation it was cooperation werewolf. Pretty much it was Germany training a special forces to fight a insurgent/guerrilla warfare in case of occupation, two things of note was they killed a politician in Holland and sew seeds of doubt and paranoia to the allies in West Berlin about retaliation. They will have been more successful if they knew how many of them were out there, Who was in command and know where were weapons and supplies were buried. Today German farmers and construction crew are still finding the missing stock pile of weapons, grenades and supplies that belong to Operation werewolf.

A sin I think Dartigan missed was when Arthur Kingsley says “This was supposed to be our first and only mission.” Who the actual hell throws some of the nation’s “best” fighters for just one mission. Arthur also says “a coalition of allied commandos.” Commandos are usually Special Forces personnel, like exactly what World At War (an infinitely superior title) did with having the Marine Raiders operate in the Pacific Theater. Most of them are just regular army or personnel. I also did like how you mentioned Wade Jackson was a fucking pilot on a ground mission and none of their skill sets actually benefited or complimented the other’s.

All those lights in the windows during the train ride. Havn't they heard there's a blackout?

16:20 Double that sin, that was a sequence back in MW19 and it felt much better there.

There’s a hundred ways this story could’ve worked AND made sense historically, but they decided to “woke” the sh!t out of it for some reason.

The title is 100% accurate, Everything is wrong with COD Vanguard.

A black 'Special Forces' soldier working for Britain is almost impossible in WW2. The War Office had a low opinion of black soldiers (e.g. withdrawing the 81st West African Division from Burma) and SOE usually employed people who had connections to an occupied country or who 'pass' as a citizen of that nation. Sending a black soldier into Nazi Germany is absurd for these reasons.

21:46 "All you did was keep some deluded Nazis from flying to Argentina" lmao caught me off gaurd

I'm thankful for a Dartigan sins video. I vote for Guardians of The Galaxy.

This is what happens when purple haired kids who skipped history class to play Fortnite write a plot for a WWII game.

No you are mistaken allies don't win ww2 my team did

I don't get why there is a SA insignia on the letter Polina pulls from the dead body at 16:44, since most of the SA was dissolved after the night of the long knives and by 1941 just was considered a military training school, definitly not operating in Russia. Or is this just alternative history again?

The irony of it is, the better the solider, the less information he will be willing to go into war with (or at least i think so, would make sense). And if the writers had two brain cells committed to logic, Vanguard story would never happen.

Just remember: This game is in the same timeline as Cold War, which is in the same timeline as OG Black Ops, which is in the same timeline as World at War. So basically, we could have had another story around WAW but we got this woks mess instead. They should have separated the timelines because I just can’t imagine this happening at the same time Dmitri Petrenko and the 3rd Shock Army are storming the Reichstag.

I would’ve given it 100 sins for all the historical inaccuracies and their attempt to rewrite history. This game is the biggest insult to World War 2 I have ever seen.

the japanese are using MG42s in the part where wade takes off 🤦‍♂️ what makes it worse is that in the following cutscene they're actually using their own machine guns but the devs just didn't bother to actually include them in the missions for whatever reason. and i was watching a stream of the campaign that had this ak-47 looking gun at one point, wtf.

Here’s a video I’ve been waiting for since the release of vanguard, but I’m kinda amazed how he managed to sum up everything wrong with this in less then 25 minutes cause i couldn’t bring my lecture about this game’s campaign under two hours

Oh yes a fresh slice of Dartigan savagery to get me through my day. Can always count on the tripe that is Cod to produce good material for this channel.

9:35 To elaborate a little: Molotov denied that the Soviet air force was bombing Finnish villages (targets of no military value); since the existence of Soviet aircraft flying in the regions in question was undeniable, he claimed that they were dropping food to starving Finnish villagers, as a humanitarian operation. This led to Soviet bombs being sarcastically nicknamed "Molotov breadbaskets," which in turn led to the use of the term "Molotov cocktails" for the wine -bottle petrol bombs that the outgunned Finns used to disable Soviet tanks.

World at War was the last best WW2 Game in Call of Duty.

This team could have been better if it was composed of Reznov, Dimitri, Roebuck(Alt ending), Miller and Chernov

When you brought up the holding someone while using a God pistol I thought back to Advanced Warfare and how you actually couldn’t reload for that one mission because your arm was messed up. I really enjoyed that game….

I have the feeling that the amount of guns in COD decreased with WW2, Cold War and now Vanguard, and in all of those games guns were out of place. WW2 did the best job (I guess), some guns I didn’t even know what they are exactly (Auto 5, Toggle Action (?) ,…) , the PPSCH felt a bit out of place at the western front but I think I read stories that these weapons were used by the Germans from captured Soviets, yet I don’t believe they made their way from the eastern to the western front, still an okay setting for me. Cold War triggered me (as an eastern German), the StaSi most likely didn’t used MP5Ks (no, despite being a „German“ weapon), East Germany was soviet territory, MP5 was issued to westerns and NATO members. They also didn’t use a „Krieg 6“ (or GALIL). I was also shocked that there were only like 3 pistols in the game. Vanguard took the cake, experimental weapons with colorful red dot sights, drum magazines, etc. STG44 in Japan and so on…

Nothing is more impressive than the fact you kept this under 35 minutes.

Villain: Talks in German with a horrible English Accent Protagonist: "Your Rhineland Accent, you must be from Neustadt!" Not only are there around 20 towns in Germany called Neustadt, there's only two very small ones in the Rhineland, so he can't possibly narrow his dialect down to just the two of them. And for fucks sake, and this goes to all American developers, but Activision in particular: if you want to go smart on a character's accent or dialect, at least make the effort to hire a voice actor from that region or at least the same country. It's not that hard to find German voice actors that would be willing to take part in an AAA game. It's so fucking annoying to have to listen to a Nazi speaking German with an English Accent.

why do they still not get a native german to speak the germans in videogames. he dont sounds german he speak german with a very hard accent. probly american or canadien not sure wich he dont talk that much

About the first mission with the trains, Dartigan should've added that this level begins with a very vague date. All it says was Hamburg, 1945. In past COD games set in WW2, every level begins with a specific date that happened to have battles on it in real life. Here, it gives the players a location and year, but not even a friggin month. I was kept guessing when the battle of Hamburg happened until the very last mission when the Nazis mentioned a specific event that I then figured out what was the actual date. 3:12: Dartigan should've pointed out that while black British soldiers did serve in integrated units and it was possible for them to achieve the officer ranks, not one black person served in the SOE during the war. 5:08: That weapon is a real weapon called the Becker Revolving Shotgun and they were made in the 1920's, however, as to their usage in WW2, I could not find any. 6:25: I caught two instances of bullshit in Arthur's monologue to the German officer. The first was that Arthur gave away a fact that he knows German. Had he not done so, he could have picked up some intel without them being none the wiser. The second was a complete historical travesty committed by Sledgehammer to purposely propagate their poppycock agenda into the game. Arthur mentioned black soldiers walking around the place where the German used to live with guns and marrying the local women. That is a historical coverup committed by a company that was just commissioned to develop a real life event game. The soldiers with guns were black colonial French troops, part of a contingent to occupy the Rhineland from 1920 to 1923 after the end of WW1. When Arthur added in "marry your women", that would have earned him a bullet to the head in real life. In reality, a minority did marry the local women, but the majority of what happened with regards to German women was that there were 65+ cases of rape committed by the same black French colonial troops. This omission by Sledgehammer shows that they have no balls in presenting history, especially before WW2, in how things were that would make their "diversity inclusive" image look very bad. 7:49: Not that this has anything to do with race, it has everything to do with anxiety. These guys have just jumped out of a plane into enemy territory and are behind enemy lines. The whole act with Arthur saying "Thunder" is what they're supposed to say when encountering friendly units so that they don't shoot their own. 8:32: Even though the US sent weapons to England as part of the Lend Lease Act, the BAR was distributed mainly to the British Home Guard. Arthur could have been using a Bren LMG in that mission. 9:11: Sure, that or the other book that's titled The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem by Henry Ford. 9:14: Another problem that's prevalent throughout these cutscenes: these German officials, whenever they speak to each other, never speak German. 9:56: Two instances of bullshit here. The first is what Dartigan pointed out: this annoying interchange of languages. The second is that Sledgehammer dared to bring back the most pointless action command in this game from Advanced Warfare: Hold Square To Eat With Your Family. Also, I noticed that before Polina's name was the rank Private. Seeing as how Polina originally was a medic at the beginning of her story, I don't think medics would be given ranks. I tried finding some examples of ranked medics in the Soviet army, but none came up. 10:04: Hell, this was the most baffling thing to be implemented in a Call Of Duty game, no less. The way Polina climbs up the wall, runs across the rooftops, even jumps from place to place made me think I was playing a segment straight out of Mirror's Edge. One KZfaqr, Lack Of Entertainment, called Polina's agilities "Spiderman abilities". Also, I've seen videos of this level titled " Battle Of Stalingrad". This is not a battle, this is an assault on the city. Lack Of Entertainment also pointed that before the assault begins, there's not one banner flying Soviet sayings and there's no picture of the guy the city is named after. Jesus tap dancing Christ, Sledgehammer was criticized before for not having the swastika on any of the Nazi flags in COD WW2. Here, they did the same thing. Was the excuse the same as last time? They didn't want to "offend" anyone? Offend who? The Neo Nazis? 11:08: Which is the most stupidest game mechanic anyone could ever place in an event that happened in real life. If the developers wanted the players to have fun flying a plane, they could have the plane be stocked with unlimited ammo. But if they wanted the plane have limited ammo, it would have provided a good enough challenge to the player to conserve their ammo for important parts. The computer game Aircraft Carriers: Pacific Assault perfectly captures the mechanics of fighter, dive bomber and torpedo planes. 11:21: During the flight towards the carriers, the player gets ambushed by Japanese Zeros. However, the plane never strays off course while it happens. The player is allowed to move to the sides, but nonetheless, stays on the flight route. No chance for an actual dogfight is ever given in this game making this whole flying level less of a thrill to experience combat from the air into a pretty boring standard of "fly from point A to point B". Also, the battle at Midway was way more intense in real life and in Aircraft Carriers: Pacific Assault. Here, Sledgehammer has the player just sit tightly until a command is given to drop ONE bomb that supposedly sunk a full size carrier. Had Sledgehammer given a shit about historical authenticity, they would program this to have the player and the NPCs take turns dropping bombs on 4 Japanese carriers, not just have it be one plane dropping one bomb with the impact force of a freaking bunker buster. 12:59: Once again, the game was being vague again when it came to a specific month out of a specific year. In the game's Wikipedia page, it mentions only this for the level: November 1943 ( a day would have been nice). 13:38: Dartigan misspelled the word naval. 13:58: Japanese animation can be traced back to at least the 1920's, Dartigan. It wouldn't matter to anyone outside of Japan between then and the 40's if they had seen it or not. Also, this game just pulled a very asenine moment. Normally, in situations like this, a Japanese officer would conduct an interrogation and in the POW's language, no less. However, an enlisted translator can be used as well. However, this stupid ass scene had the translator come up to you and with a straight face, asked "Do you speak Japanese" in plain fucking English. If this idiot wanted to know if I speak Japanese, he would have asked me the same thing in Japanese to see if I understood. What's the point of asking a POW if they know YOUR certain language if you asked them in THEIR own language? Such an approach makes the interrogater look stupid as hell. Whoever at Sledgehammer thought this was good to be in the game is a fucking retard. 14:09: Wade went through basic training with a pistol and with planes, not with any other forms of conventional weapons. This is common to teach pilots how to use a sidearm whenever they get shot down in enemy territory as a last way to defend themselves. But here, the basic principle of sidearm training is the same for rifles and machine guns. 14:14: That shot looked like it grazed him from the side to me. 14:21: Dartigan has a point with the grenade. A grenade will cook for 5 seconds before exploding and that little scene there would have had Wade's arm full of shrapnel. However, there is a trick to hold down the mechanism of the grenade after the pin has been pulled giving the thrower more than 5 seconds. 15:04: Finally, everyone, we've now seen a new level of absurdity with the way Sledgehammer and Activision have handled this game and that is in the Numa Numa Trail mission. Keep in mind that this level is set in November 1943 which is the first month of the battle of Bougainville that lasted all the way to August '45 and here we have units of the 93rd Division making their appearance. The absurdly with this is that throughout all of 1943, the 93rd Division were still going through basic training back at their camps in California. The 93rd would not be sent out overseas until January '44 and they would not be sent to Bougainville until March of '44. So here we have a huge historical discrepancy between historical facts and piss poor scholarly research. I remember back in the day, there was a company that did WW2 justice and that company was called Treyarch. What in the fucking hell did Activision do to it? Sledgehammer has consistently disappointed me with how it handled most of Modern Warfare 3, Advanced Warfare, Infinite Warfare and WW2. When will Activision get the fucking message that Sledgehammer is terribly unfit to make a WW2 game? As long as Treyarch keeps getting bypassed on every WW2 project coming out, Activision will be seen as a corporation that's unworthy of respect and their products as things that belongs in the garbage. 16:40: I'm curious as to this Steiner guy being someone Sledgehammer made up as a possible villain or someone who was a real person during the war. My money's on this guy being a fictional character. 16:57: Shit yeah, especially since in real life, the Soviets gave credit to one sniper in helping turn the tide against the Germans at Stalingrad: Vasily Zaitsev, a man. This further proves that Sledgehammer could care less about historical authenticity in favor of a genderwash version they presented all because they FEEL that a woman should have done that.

13:58 " I'm sorry, I don't speak Japanese." Edward Rictofen ZNS

Just when you thought there couldn't be a game more disrespectful to the memories of all those who fought, lived through and died in WW2 than Battlefield V...along comes Vanguard to heap on more disrespect.

"Thats what corporate products engage in" Well, other than EA, Activision/Blizzard is about as corporate as it get's when it comes to video games these days, so this definitely fits.

The use of Black African soldiers by the French during occupation of the Rhineland and Hitler being influenced by Madison Grant's _The Passing of The Great Race_ are true to this game's credit.

16:42 I'll add another sin. This dude apparently works for the SA, despite the fact that the SA had lost practically all of their power before the war and were replaced by the SS. They still existed, but were relatively unimportant.

Ohhhh boy! This one was so quick! Can't wait to see the sins!

14:53 I didn't notice this in my playthrough but these appear to be 76mm Sherman M4 tanks present in the Pacific Theatre in like 42-43ish, which is a bit of an oopsie as they did not even become a thing until near the end of WW2 and I believe only in the European theatre. As the US was invading Germany / France and had to contend with heavy German armor such as the Tiger and Panther, they quickly realized their current 75mm and 54mm Shermans weren't able to reliably penetrate the much thicker frontal armor on these heavy German tanks. As such, the 76mm Sherman M4 (the tank in Fury, if you need a reference) was fielded to solve this issue when it came up.. and it very much did. Needless to say, seeing a version of the Sherman that wasn't even a thing until like '44 and likely only in the European theatre driving around in the Pacific in like '42 or '43, bit odd. I really doubt any 76's were deployed to the Pacific as the very little armor Japan had was.. pretty pathetic. Even the 54mm Shermans could've mopped those. Add another sin for that. Also why is there a German machine gun on this Japanese plane? An MG42 at that, which was by far the more infantry-suited MG between the 34 and 42. 15:37 holy shit what is going on with her pinky?

I wish they would do a Korean War game.

19:08 Extra sin for the "Volkssturmgewehr". The Volkssturm was founded in late 1944. The weapon was first produced in November 1944.

Ive read COD comics, but for the zombies mode, since some were needed for context and characterization, they weren't that bad

8:40 I love how barely anyone notices the fact that that shell-shocked man, after Arthur's encouragement, just walks over to another piece of wood and goes back into his fetal position being shell-shocked.

I like how call of duty used to be like waw. The mission was to survive lol

They could have made something cool out of this very basic premise of " hitlers successor" by fully committing to the Dieselpunk setup and just go full Wolfenstein. Actually alternative history/timeline thing. Then the suspension of disbelief would be easier in some cases. But instead they try to shoehorn this all in as some story that " Might as well have happened" , triggering angry historians. idk. Its this halfway in the middle kind of approach that absolutly misses the mark by a mile.

So they found intel on Project Nova? The plan that's the plot of Call of Duty: Black Ops? A plan that wouldn't exist for another 20 years

I see what Activision was going for with the whole commander ability. It reminds me of Star Wars Commandos. But unlike commandos they didnt commit to actually making it an in-depth part of the game.

Project Phoenix sounds like Operation Wehrwolf but with a way less cool name

The Black guy spoke better German than the " actual" german

Honestly this game would have been better if they would have taken the Battlefield route and done separate war stories. Each person’s story had potential with some fleshing out and reworking imo. If they wanted to make a statement about the contributions of POCs in the war: They could have swapped Arthur with a member of the 93rd. As they’re performing their usual duties, they could have come under fire and rose to the occasion and fended off the Japanese despite being outnumbered, with more limited ammo, or whatever other challenge. Wafe would be an NPC in this scenario and Mateo wouldn’t be there at all. Then they see Wade’s flare and they set out to investigate. They find him and again engage the enemy. Wade initially dismisses them because of his racism, but he has to work with them to get himself off the island. After fighting with them to take the ridge and seeing the sacrifices they made for each other and for him, Wade overcomes his racism. To make a statement about the contributions of women in the war: They could have started with a flashback of Polina and Misha as kids when their father taught them to hunt and use a rifle. During the war, Misha is fighting on the front lines and Polina is a medic and stretcher bearer. During a skirmish and air raid, she actually has to rescue people while under fire (rather than just running away like she does in the game). Afterwards, she returns home to find her father murdered and a German officer rummaging through their apartment. The officer is holding her father’s rifle, which he took as a war souvenir. She, being unarmed, is forced to hide and he leaves without noticing her. During another skirmish in the city, she is running through an apartment when a Soviet sniper is hit in front of her. She tries to save him but she can’t. She picks up his rifle and remembers her father teaching her how to use one. She joins the battle as one of the female snipers in Stalingrad. Over the course of the fighting, she racks up a ton of kills and eliminates several obstacles hindering the Soviet defenses, but she goes unnoticed, especially compared to male snipers like Zaitsev. Nobody even knows her name. During the closing days of the Battle of Stalingrad, she witnesses a German officer executing POWs, one of whom happens to be Misha. The officer happens to be the same one who murdered her father, and he’s holding her father’s rifle. She eliminates him, but not before he gets Misha. She goes out and picks up the rifle. The war story ends with her as an old woman writing her memoir and hoping someone will be interested in her story. She looks at the rifle hanging on her wall as the scene ends.

Well I've never clicked so fast on a video in my life

Love this video! You pointed out basically everything I wish to convince my friend to not buy CODV. Also, it feels like the director of the campaign story was a popcorn movie lover lol

Seriously give this channel a round of applause for being able to sum it up in just 22 minutes…. Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I probably woulda called out the tea pouring where she pours for two seconds stops pouring but the liquid level rises still

Knowing laura baileys voice so well is starting to ruin my immersion when hearing her in a non main character role

Something you missed. When the yank closes his hatch to die, he’s doing it in the wrong order. You would have your canopy closed during dogfights in order to protect yourself, then open the canopy during the dive to stop the windscreen from fogging up

I've just realized something. 99% of the story is told through flashbacks so that Sledgehammer Games can dismiss any and all plot holes and historical inaccuracies as the characters just misremembering things.

16:22 One thing I never understood about that part of the game is why doesn't Steiner shoot when he has you knocked down. Anyone with a brain wouldn't give the person that's hellbent on killing you another chance.