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Played big red one on my cousins Xbox whenever I would visit. Completing the game really felt like I just watched a movie, although the ending was quite underwhelming, I was expecting at least another round. Still it was my first COD and I’ll never forget it

Correction: in big red one, you do not fight the French. The Germans are using French weapons because Germany seized weapon factories in France during the war. Love the video though!

I got Finest Hour & Big Red One as part of a double pack for the PS2 in the early 2010s. At the time, I knew there was something not right with how both games played a bit differently from one another. Of course, it wouldn't be years later that I found out that they were made by different developers. I will say that by the time I played World At War Final Fronts, I had already played some of the 7th generation entries, and going back to PS2 era gameplay made me wish I was playing the newer games. In my opinion it's the worst Call of Duty game that I've ever played, which is saying a lot since a lot of people are saying the campaign in MW3 (2023)is the absolute worst.

Sony ps2 was fun but man lobby’s online were empty all hell n64 was stil
The goat and you all KNOW IT AND don’t get me started on the Atari system Jesus fucking Christ.

If I had a word for all
These games except big red one was the GOAT THE FIRST GOAT.

Everything else is censored cringe and gay as all hell can be.😂😂

Finest hour was way worse than ps2 waw

Big Red One was the best Call of Duty up until Infinite Warfare. I hope they release it on Gamepass soon!
Yes, I said it, IW and BRO is better than CoD 4!

Amazing vid mate!

Big Red One was one of the best WW2 campaigns I've ever played

Brooklyn dying is ingrained into my childhood !

Big Red One is one of the best games I’ve ever played, wish we could get a remaster, but I know that will never happen.

Need a port or reboot of these on PC

Finest Hour was really tough for me as a kid… I feel it’s aged the worst. However these are all good games, Big Red One is one of my favorite shooters ever, the campaign is great! Final Fronts was rated unfairly when it launched in the shadow of its 7th gen version. It’s a good game though and I like its pacific campaign a lot

Someone is finally talking about finest hour and big red one

Everyone pretends they dont exist and treats Modern warfare and world at war as the first 2 call of duty games and its annoying because these games are great

*B24 bombing mission.

I'd honestly rather play World At War Final Fronts then play Vanguard again. And trust me I've played through most games so I know how bad both are.

Brian Johnson – Sergeant Starkey

COD Big red one is the best ww2 game of all time, it covers generally unexplored fronts and enemies of ww2

There was definitely reused voice acting from Big Red One in WaW final frotns, Call of Duty 3 even reuses some.

Having Mark Hamill narrate is more than just a celebrity name. In 1980, (yes same year he starred in Empire Strikes Back), Hamill also starred in the movie “The Big Red One”. If anything this game is an adaptation of that instead of Band of Brothers, following one squad from North Africa to liberating a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. It’s a great movie you guys should check out.

Big red one could use a remaster in my opinion. I was playing it way before i was a teen and Vic's death made me cry because he was my favorite character

The first two are best played on the GameCube

Big Red One really set my teen years, me and my buddies would spend hours trying to beat it on all the difficulty levels. Glad I still have my OG Xbox copy. A timeless classic.

Im glad people still remember both big red one and finest hour. Finest hour was my first ever Fps and while it wasnt it perfect it was a great start! And Big red one was my golden goose, still a personal favorite and it was the first time next to cold war where you actually are playing as a random soldier compared to a name character

Finest Hour is great. It doesn't feel like CoD at all, but it's great as it's own game. Every campaign feels different, every new idea is actually used like long and awesome tank levels.

I used to have all the games but now, only final fronts

Finally, someone acknowledges Big Red One, the BEST CoD game.

Final Fronts was way better than Finest Hour.

Big Red One was the best spinoff but also marked Treyarch's entry into the series, COD 3 they had only months to develop but World At War they put more time and effort into it and felt awesome especially with it's gruesome nature and dark and creepy ambiance

Have to disagree hard with the Big Red One review, the characters are absolutely well done and everyone who I've met that played/shared their first experiences with the game mentions how they were caught off by the deaths.

This was the first time in any call of duty game that you had permant characters through the campaign with their own little unique cinematics and dialogue, you usually only saw lead members like Sgt Moody and Cpt Foley do them so the mission could progress, rather than the story progress.

As for the silent protag part, it's more of a Call of Duty tradition and in general the idea of letting the player self insert himself into the game. When CoD WW2 came out I saw alot of people complain about Daniels, it's mostly each to their own accord but I believe silent protags do a better job at inserting you into the story than a character whos already got a story that you can't relate to or experience.

Great video! Loved the narration! Brought back some childhood memories! WaW Final Fronts was my first CoD in 2009… A few months later i played MW2 and realized how trash it is lol keep up the great work!

Man i hate to be that guy but that wasn't a K98 at 4:48 it was more then likely a M1891 (Mosin Nagant)

Big Red One did character deaths better than WAW. Particularly because WAW didn't really have characters to begin with outside of Reznov and Chernov. On the American side there wasn't really anything that set Sullivan and Roebuck apart, not to mention that they killed Sullivan off before I realized that he was even supposed to be a character. And Polonsky was just kind of… there.
BR1 did it best by letting the characters bake for the first half of the game, and then having them get killed at seemingly random unclimactic moments and replacing them with new people who you are stuck with for the rest of the game. Sometimes they didn't even kill the characters. Sgt. Hawkins was wounded and evacuated, which added to the realism since that would have been statistically more likely to happen.

I do agree though that Finest Hour aged really poorly. Even at the time I could tell that the gameplay design was weak compared to other CoD games. The walking, turning, and aiming mechanics were so sluggish it felt like the player was always at a major disadvantage. And the "protect the M12" level was hell. I ended up using cheat codes to unlock all the missions because it was such bs.

Big Red One was the Goat

As someone whose first ever COD experience was unfortunately the ps2 world at war.

Even though I may not sure that same feeling now, child me however absolutely loved it. Probably because it was my first ever FPS game and shooting guns blew my mind.

Now that I have access to far superior technology. I picked up the first 2 black ops game, the first ever Modern Warfare.. And also close to touching Mw2 and 3.

But oh boy did World at War make an impression on me. Playing the inferior ps2 version gave me a sort of nostalgia, as well as me experiencing a completely different game.

So yeah… Old COD rules.. But not too old.

Final Fronts was so weird but boy howdy did Activision tried to sell as this special thing. Even the box art did backflips to try and sound interesting.

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