Gotta disagree, OG Makarov just brings such massive intimidation whenever he's on screen especially with his actions. New one just doesn't have that.

I think reboot was more of the joker. And had many more military power than og. Although reboot will have more screen time prove himself he is Makarov.

Then you one blind mf

I feel it’s the reverse. The reboot feels more Joker like: Animated, louder, more cocky. OG Makarov was so mellow, he spoke just above a whisper and he was unflappable. New Makarov feels like every other Marvel or Batman style villain. Whereas OG Makarov had something unique you don’t expect from villains: a softness in his speech and mannerisms.

The OG was a action movie villain with little to no back story with no redeeming qualities. And that was a good thing. The new one has more personality and few redeeming qualities but has BIG shoes to fill

I agree, that’s why I loved OG Makarov and considered him more terrifying because you never know when he was gonna show up and cause mayhem.

He still reminds me more of the OG Makarov than New Shepherd reminds me of the OG Shepherd

OG Makarov was mysterious due to very little appearance, but man was he indeed menacing at every spotlight. New one felt like a highschool jock with daddy issues.

Don’t act like og makarov had tons of plot armor too😂 also he was a very one dimensional character compared to the new one. Art of show and don’t tell as opposed to the old one.

Yeah him being seen so rarely really emphasizes how hard is he to find and why that makes him so dangerous

Old Makarov just felt like a little bitch hiding behind his minions the new one actually seems to go out in combat I guarantee you the only combat old Makarov has seen is no Russian

you seem mad? the original Makarov was spetsnaz so he's incredibly experienced@@user-qg4zb6jt9s

Old makarov Displayed a threat and gave off fear The old no russian was more planned to show makarovs intentions Him and price talking in mw2 (old one) during the ending airport scene was amazing.

​@@user-qg4zb6jt9sold Makarov Fight Against the FSB at the Zakaev Airport with only 3 guys. And he's Ex Spetsnaz.

@@vontenezkaiserii8131and thee new one is ex-VDV and ex-spetsnaz too lol

Julian Kostov do his best as an actor hes a perfect Makarov we can agreed with that… The only thing that makes Julian’s Makarov more weightless is the horrible story writing….

My heart fucking sank when in MW3 when trying to protect the president, you open the shuttle and Makarov is just right fucking there and shot you. I was not ready to see that man again after MW2, and here he is. Edit: The dude also had the guts to have a chat while I was bleeding to death, then after the chat he executed me after. Its like he intentionally wanted me to listen the whole conversation and then just kills me after. 💀

@@merimkastrat5846 Bruh entire mission where you play as SAS Sgt Burns and follow Train to stop chemical gas which fails

And also a wanna be russian

The og makarov wasn't really good villain either, in terms of motives, people just blinded by nostalgia

The new one isn't great but Vladimir Makarov has always been a cheesy villan

Julian Kostov I think a perfect choise for the new Makarov the only thing makes his Makarov more weightless is the horrible story wrinting…

I dunno man, cobra commander could be threatening when he wanted to be

New Makarov has a accent while "trying to speak russian", even the face phenotype doesn't match, he looks like a Romanian/Bulgarian mix instead European Russian.

​@@jellyjohn7881anything else 🥱

Big facts

pretty sure i heard a space marine say that quote

truth, this man is a psychopath and insanely self reserved. he doesn't talk that much and when HE TALKS. that's where you just listen. the OG makarov is better than this new one. big talker with a big plan. jared leto's joker for the new makarov.

Also, the old Makarov is to me the most deranged looking human character in any piece of fiction. The new one looks like a food blogger.

@@dudeguy8553 You can absolutely see that OG Makarov was meant to look wolffish. Wolf-like qualities with his hair, features and physical build, and his heterochromia (mismatched eyes) made him all the more unhinged looking when he stared at you. It was a brilliant character design.

it's never going to hit the same, but at least the new guy is trying

@@enderboy90600 Not the new guy's fault. The devs didn't want him to sound like a maniac

@@MyB4llsHurt im not saying its his fault, i like the new guy

@@enderboy90600 Ohk

​@@MyB4llsHurtDevs mistake was to make him speak russian.

MW3 = Makarov MWIII = Colt M1911

MW3 price = Badass MWIII price = WEAK ASF @@SisckoImper

@@KamiKazeD how is he weak in MWIII

play the original MW trilogy then you'll understand@@officer7427

MW3= Makarov MWIII= Mak n Cheeze

Even after all this time it still trips me up. Like I did everything right and still failed.

especially with that menacing guitar in the back. wish they did more scenes where they let you soak in what happened

LITTERALLY. you know that every time he comes on screen he never disappoints. his voice is so menacing

Nahhh... New one was a plot armor pansy. The OG was a man of the shadows, you never knew his plans until a train blows up. And then you have to steal or trade multiple intelligence reports from a dozen countries just to figure out what he was doing. MW2 and MW3 just feels exactly like things are normal and typical until you few missions later you found out what that bastards wants to do. Subtilty... Is an art.

The original was calculating, too, you could only just see how calculative he was in hindsight after the fact. The man was a straight menace to society.

I don't know, the old one feels so much more calculated, like that's what made him so scary everything was overplanned to perfection, in this one you have stupid plans like speeding in an ambulance instead of calming leaving or helping, leaving him to get caught.

the new one was stupid his plans were all just based on luck and plot armour old makarov was scary because he always was one step ahead and whenever he was on screen you knew shit was about to hit the fan

@ptra4realistic not in character but in his motivations, his reactions to the world and how the world reacts to him. 2011 makarov had a genuinely disturbing presence around him, like you wish that character got explored more with that exact same vibe.

Soap death in new cod just cringe moment that tries to be dramatic

Reactionary? how? he plans on killing 141, he has his own grudge with Soap (why the hell he would do a two man bomb, is to split 141 and get Price). Oh he is coming for 141, unlike your OG because he feels like killing the characters.

@@shiberu_7s In OG MWII and MWIII he was always one step ahead of everyone. He was legit terrorist in every sense of the word. All to take over Russia and later Europe and bring America to Heel. New Makarov has no teeth. He barks a lot but has the plot cover his sorry ass 90% of the time. Like come on, how did Gaz and Ghost let him and his goons slip on by and kill Soap?

"realism" shouldnt be in cod. the new cods try so hard to be realistic but fail and seem even more cartoonish lol

that's how it should be, new makarov looks like a 20 year old flexing on social media for his daddy's riches while sitting on a lamborghini and letting the maids all do his work for him.

Because iirc, he was one.

Even modern mw2 was exceptionally better than this one, it simply had MORE to it. This just does things to get it out the way essentially.

OG Makrov managed to create chaos throughout Europe New Makarov is just like Russia right now in Ukraine

OG: ... and attempted to invade US

​@@b.b.wijaya2521the fact that russian army even landed on american soil was next level, let alone besieging its capital. Reboots look like child games.

​@@b.b.wijaya2521 I don't think Makarov had full control of the US invasion since he was still out there doing terrorist stuff

US invasion was just a distraction tbh

Cause there is no face model for him only this new one

That's also literally the writing of the game. OG MW 2 and 3 were straight to the point and didn't try to make the story feel like a tv show episode or a B Movie. Thats the bad thing about games now, they want so hard to be seen as movies and not only that, they also don't want to offend anybody so they lack proper artistic expression. They completely made Soap go out like a bitch in the new game, as if Makarov was on a level so much higher than him, when in fact in the OG series, both Price and Soap could kill Makarov in one on one combat. It was Makarov's sheer attention to detail, genius strategist, extensive underworld/corrupt military connections, his pure ruthlessness and his constant mind games that kept him alive and threw off Price and Soap. Soap was mortally wounded in the OGMW3 due to Makarov's planning, misdirection and deception forcing Soap to protect Yuri from death. He didn't straight get outclassed and reduced to a kid holding a gun as soon as Makarov got the drop on him like they did in the reboot. It was at that point that I dont consider reboot Soap to be the actual Graham MacTavish cause that simply isn't the same man who could pull a knife out of his chest and kill Sheppard with an elite knife throw facing death himself. Funny how they never allowed Soap to even have any moments like that in MW2 or 3. He never killed anyone pivotal to the plot aka the Big Bad like he did in the OG MW 1 &2, he ended up looking like a fool in both games due to getting faked out not actually killing Greaves like he thought he did, by being at the main villains mercy at the end of MW2, nearly dieing by being dragged around like a ragdoll and thrown out of the window if not for Ghost saving him and finally, completely getting outclassed and treated like a bitch by Makarov in MW3 to the point Makarov kills him with one hand while shit talking Price. The reboot writers must really hate Soap as a character to be honest when you really look at it.

@@2Good2BeTrue45so real

@@2Good2BeTrue45its funny you say that with the games being movies standpoint because games always WANTED to be on a level in competition with movies, the best cinematic games never tried to be a generic cinematic, they capitalized off of a certain media and video game-ified as opposed to now where they just movie-fy video games. It gets to the point where it just loses life a bit

@@clawzx1195”always” cap. Onky bad studios does. Game is its own medium, look at nier automata.

Yeah Makarov 2011 was hard to find only because of the Chaos going around. Task Force 141 couldn't be at 2 places. But eventually they did after years... They did find leads and eventually caught up a bit with him ending up disappearing. Makarov 2023 however wanted them to be found so he can Either delay them or try and stall them long enough to plan ahead more. The Missions Highrise, Tundra, Payload, Gora dam, The attack on his base from TF141 And shadow and ulf and the Trojan Horse level were all distractions and basically ways to keep them distracted.

I don’t blame the actor he played his role incredibly I just blame activision for making the plot go to shit and having him more of a bitch boy with daddy issues

Indeed, Yuri was Makarov's best and closest friend, so it hurt him more than he hurt Yuri

The new Makarov killed Ivan all because he wanted to delay the extraction after hearing the other Konni team dealing with more Kastovian guards He then kills him because he doesn't want seconds to wait and just calls him a traitor because of it, which makes him look like a spoiled child

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Russian on Twitch reacted to him and they find him funny with bad pronounciation & accent

@@rpmusic6402 Oh. That’s understandable because they are true Russian while I’m an Mexican American. They know how it should go. From my pov and comparing it with old Makarov, the new guy sounds a bit more Russian compared to older Makarov

@@rpmusic6402yeah his accent is pretty bad. As a native Russian speaker, I honestly think that the OG Makarov sounded better even when speaking Russian. But nevertheless, I don’t understand why developers just won’t hire any Russian speaking actors for such roles, especially when they have to speak Russian in the script

@@Messier_-82 yeah pretty sure og makarov was actually born in russia while the new one is bulgarian and picked up russian later

It's a video game who cares about feeling grounded

funny thing is, i felt MWIII No Russian is more like the Verdansk Stadium attack, not the Russian plane.

@@amapnamedpamexcept the modern warfare reboots advertised itself to be grounded, gritty, and dark? I know one of the biggest marketing to it was that it was apparently supposed to show the “morally grey” area of war, which it seems to have failed in subsequent entries You also forget that there is an entire genre of military shooters at the exact opposite of the arcade spectrum - milsims, which try to be really grounded and quite authentic, and there’s a reason why such genre thrives, because players care about the game being grounded

It's 2011. MW2 was in 2009.

@@OverLorD768 hes saying a decade later they actually made mwiii just mwii