Modern Warfare 2 Review: Bigger, Louder, Stranger and Dumber
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#mw2 #modernwarfare2 #callofduty - Hry
It's ghosting time
Please stop ghosting all over me
Ive been ghosted too many times its not fun anymore Bricky pls respond
Dude, I loved it when Ghost went “It’s Ghostin time,” and ghosted all over the duty men
Ghosts all over you
When Jojo part 6 review?
As a military personnel……the twist being to cover up massive stupidity is actually the most realistic thing about this game’s story.
Former ROKA Soldier here. I Can't agree with you no more.
Joining the french foreign legion in may 2023 here. Can't wait to become jaded and tired of retarded command.
@@decoyhunter8832 it happens very quickly, at least you are prepared
@@doggysupper17 Republic Of Korea Army?
@@alastor8091that is what roka stands for
I thought it was so brave that Activision decided to have your character say it was Ghostin' time.
Then he ghosted all over them, truly one of the characters of all time
When Valeria said "Alejandro, I'm gonna war on drug" and drugged out over Alejandro that was such a meta commentary on the war on drugs, Bravo Infinity Ward
That is the most quote of all time after all.
What are we Soap? Somekind of Call of Duty Ghosts 2013?
Oh my god I’m tired of this morbius shit meme!
"I played 2009 MW2 when it came out, you know what Ghost did in that game? NOTHING"
THANK YOU
I love ghost but I chalk it all up to nostalgia goggles and cool design, that anyone would say he was 'such a great character' I'm just like "????"
thank you for saying what so many are too afraid to
I didn't need him to do more than to look cool, and carry me to safety after being wounded. We had this entire mission to get closer with him, as he was pretty much our only ally during the entire fight, and thats what made it so special. It didn't hurt that it was ghost that died, it was a person you bonded through this mission, and had to rely on got killed so unexpectedly.
It's the boba fett effect. He has a cool design and he basically does nothing in the story
@@VValkyr pretty much this, Ghost was the character that barelly talked buth he was always there and on that mission he was your best and only ally against increíble odds and when you finally think you are safe, you are hit with Shepards betrayal wich hits so much harder.
He did fry that one dude's nips with a car battery though
Pretty sure Gaz (same voice actor) in the CoD4 does and says more than Ghost in MW2. We get his sense of humor in the into when he talks about the good news (the wars in Russia and Middle East) and bad news (they have a new guy). We know he is best of the best as he has the killhouse record time. He "interrogates" Kamarov, your ally, by holding him over an edge. He does a fair amount of stuff and has plenty of lines but people like Ghost more because the mask.
One tiny thing that got me during Bricky's stream: The game constantly refers to the stolen American missiles as 'ballistic missiles'. When we see them launch, they are all cruise missiles- not one ballistic missile in sight.
The writers really had no clue what they were writing.
Yeah. They're ballistic guided antigovernment heat seeking cruise missiles. The most sought after weapon of mass destruction.
@@DogeickBateman Well, they know what a squirter is.
@@commissarcactus1513 Given how incompetent they handled certain details (that sniper mission was REALLY off, Kyle & Price were dialing their scopes at ranges that were visually less than a mile), I'm surprised MWII didn't mean Squirtle the Turtle
I was gonna say...
That smile drop when the words “No Russian” was sent is priceless IMO
Made me cackle, it was great
I watched the full playthrough on his second channel, his entire breakdown at the Makarov reveal at the end of it was the funniest damn thing
@@Zenn_Chanlaughed my ass of in the stream it was priceless
I honestly don't get this guy's problem. Seems like he's angry for no real reason.
@@Bone8380 it's cheap nostalgia baiting. the new MW2 takes so many shortcuts to try to appeal to people who are fans of the original MW2
The most infuriating thing about the final mission is that you have to craft a glass knife while Soap has a whole survival knife strapped to his plate carrier you discover in the next cutscene when Ghost shoots Hassan
and if im not mistaken Hassan shoots soap multiple times with an AK before he drags him to the window but after he gets sniped nothing is wrong with soap😭😭
One thing I’m surprised that Bricky didn’t mention is that no members of the game plays it relatively safe in terms of stakes. By the end of the game, the main roster is Ghost, Gaz, Soap, Price, and Laswell. You can also include Rudolfo,Alejandro and Farah in that. The thing that made Shepherd’s betrayal so affecting in the original MW2 wasn’t that he was revealed to have ulterior motives, it was that he killed Ghost, and ostensibly, you. In nearly every cod game, especially the Modern Warfares, characters die to show how the stakes are elevating which ultimately makes each conclusion have more tension. In this game, the stakes never really feel that high because nobody really feels like they’re in any danger. Nothing reenforces how deadly these missions are because nobody fails at anything.
I think they're saving that for 3, because IIRC ghost and soap were only introduced in this game, I'm 2019 you played as price and gaz. So introducing these iconic characters only to kill them off in the same game would be a disservice.
If it's one thing I've learned from the various media formats I take in stories from, it's that when a story has a segment this long devoted to building up new characters, most of them are about to die. I think most of the team or at least a good 2 or 3 are gonna get clapped by Makarov in 3.
so ghost is bad because hes good? The characters changed? I dont really get the critique?
@@Rainpub what no? it’s worse because the characters never feel like they are in danger. anytime they are they are saved without consequences.
@@MrPenfold666 That's what they did with the original though.
In regards to the Russians listening to Shadow's comms, something that is taught for radio etiquette is never saying actual names like "John" or "Bill" and only using callsigns like Warrior 2-6 or Husky 1-2. Same with mission objectives/updates, instead of saying "we've passed the hill" or "we've passed checkpoint 2" you'd say "Checkpoint Steel" or simply "Steel" therefore if enemies are listening on comms they wont know your exact progress in your route.
especially since it's not hard to assign names in an intentionally nonsensical way
hell if they said "this is the president load the nukes" would have been less suspicious
All about opsec, there's tons of little bits of information that can provide intelligence to the enemy, from how subordinates behave around a superior making them an easier target even without rank insignia to aquireing encrypted radio frequencies off a wounded or dead combatant by aquireing thier radio (or if major screw ups happen like in Ukraine entire Russian CPs with important documents, code books, etc. Are captured intact)
Yeah even in the old MW2 Shepard and the Shadow's weren't dumb they used callsigns from the element like Oxide or some cult like callsign like Disciple and Avatar and let's not forget Shepard's actual callsign which was Gold Eagle and they were saying stuff about a nest which ment that they are evacing Shepard. I love "Just like old times" mission where you can constantly hear the enemies comms chatter.
"Bigger, Louder, Stranger and Dumber" needs to be the tagline for every Call of Duty. Not just the ones after MW2 2022, but every single game. Cause if that doesn't answer the age old question of "what does call of duty actually stand for", idk what does.
@@samanfang5139 sorta, the stuff like radio chatter was insane
The question of "what does call of duty stand for" is very easily answered. It stands for making Activision lots of money without having to produce anything of quality.
@@markberghel275 in the meta-sense, yeah obvs. I meant more in the textual "what message does this game want me to come away with".
@@Lynch2507
The only game with a good story and moral lessons + dilemmas is Advanced Warfare. The rest are dumb shooting galleries. Well Black Ops have decent stories as well I suppose
I think the original games from the series' WW2 days had more to offer than just being mindless explosion-fests, as they also sought to teach a little history as well.
I loved when Price said “I’m a professional in combat tactics, it’s my Call of Duty. Modern Warfare too.” It really elevated my experience and helped me realize I was playing a reboot of a 13 year old game
As a former soldier who can understand that comm traffic at the end, the amount of hell they had to be experiencing is on another level. And the broken arrow bit brought a tear. At that point you know your fucked
Yea during his playthrough, he heard it and said "Fuck, even I know what 'broken arrow' means."
@@MattR8605 I looked it up and it apparently means the loss of a nuclear weapon. Does it mean something else?
@@g33kaholic24 in real life yes it means that, but in We Were Soldiers (Nd it seems like this has become the common understanding of the phrase) the use the code broken arrow to mean an American unit is being overrun and it automatically overwrites the orders of every combat aircraft within range, they will all converge on the location and basically rain hell danger close to help prevent the destruction of the American unit.
@@padraig6200 Broken Arrow has two meanings. A lost nuclear device is a Broken Arrow Incident; a unit being overrun and requesting all available guns to fire on their position is a Broken Arrow. The difference is the level; nukes are strategic, artillery fire is tactical.
@@padraig6200hopefully not a10s otherwise the American unit is dead for sure
The name changes are DEFINITELY supposed to solidify change, cause when Shepard is introduced he’s in blue, when we find out about the missiles and we start questioning he’s a neutral yellow. Then when he starts saying “What are you going to do about it?” The name changes to red. Such a cool way to show who the enemy is.
I don’t know it just feels kind of, frankly childish lmao
that is some pretty sound logic but it does give us the implication that the writers don't have enough confidence in the audience to know who the real badguy is so they gotta make it big and bold and more obvious than it already is.
@@frostsoul4199 eh, i didnt notice it until i saw someone mentioned
@@frostsoul4199 I can’t speak for everyone, but it does feel that after Shepard’s PMC is given orders to kill if resistance from the others was met is a strong enough indicator to the player that Shepard can’t be trusted in their minds. We’re at least given the reason why Shepard did what he did. He buried it for the greater good in his mind while Price retorts “We don’t bury each other with it” Shepard was given a chance to call off Graves and he didn’t, then that’s when we knew Shepard was definitely an enemy.
Im in mixed minds how to feel about that, on one part i love it since its integrating a part of the story into a part of the game, on another it does feel demeaning and it's also something seen like for the 6th time now
To add on to Of Their Own Accord, your mission isn't something grand like reclaiming the White House, it's literally just to protect the evac site. Your entire purpose from stepping outside the bunker is just to protect the civilians evacuating the war zone. For a Call of Duty game, that just makes the mood so much more dire.
The thing is, all the time they're calling the ordnance "Ballistic Missile" when all of we're seeing are Cruise Missile and that proves just how stretching out this game is.
The ai on dmz stretched me out
From their static position, precisely 150m straight fucking up in the air?
seeing the 2022 vehicle chase scene with no music instantly threw me back into Arma 3 Convoying, where there was only silence and the occasional guy on Convoy Net clarifying when the next turn was, or someone telling the guy behind them to get some distance
yeah. the thing to love about Arma 3 though is that the lack of music is uncanny in a good way. it's unsettling and the silence is deafening. you feel like at any moment something wrong can happen, and anybody who doesn't feel the same is gonna feel rocked if it does. whereas in CoD you're the pursuer and it feels so anticlimactic to have all this silence. it makes the chase feel dull.
I agree, the silence on an Arma convoy run is so unnerving. I remember an op we did that was basically all driving for the first 45 minutes and everyone was so tense and expecting an ambush around every turn, every couple of minutes someone would say "Was that an engine I just heard?" or "Can anyone else hear rotors to our left?", the sheer stress was insane and when the trouble did show up it was almost a relief.
I've done vehicle interdictions and chases in Arma too and something I found that set those apart from the MW22 chase was the sheer amount of chatter going on, even with a unit that has pretty tight comms discipline. I was the only medic role so I was on everyone's comms (12 people, 2 squad channels + the command/CAS net) and EVERYONE was talking, not even counting off-radio chatter, true chaos. The Arma chase lasted about a minute, went exactly as planned, and had my heart pumping. The MW22 chase went on for far longer and felt a bit dull after the initial spectacle wore off.
Ahhhh
Arma 3 Convoys
Lotta memories there. Especially memories of getting brake-checked before me and my entire squad were promptly catapulted to the moon. LOTs of fun for the Zeus when it comes to bringing everyone and the vehicles back after that lmao
It is so weird with no music.
Yow brickmeister. Your video on frostpunk made me realize it would be a perfect setting for a dramatic TV series of a few seasons. All i am saying is, if i win the euromillions and have funding for it, i'm casting you as a coal shoveler or scout airship cook.
A thriller drama in that setting would be pretty sick for sure.
Please hire me to be a dead guy beneath a bunch of snow
I remember there was a show with a similar~ish premise a few years back, but instead of city it was train. I think it was Snowpiercer?
I've never watched it but from the very, VERY little of it I saw from advertisements it looked like it covered similar themes. I don't know if it's good or not but if you want to check it out in your off time it may be worth a look. But the coal life never leaves and Bricky should be abducted into the coal gang.
@@DaveyGunface Yes, it's Snowpiercer, directed by the same guy that directed Parasite.
I always thought atmospheric games like Frostpunk would make for really great TV. Funding might be an issue but with art software as accessible as it is now there's no reason to not start. The Saw franchise was born from a ten minute short film which served as the blueprint for the feature film. Couple film buffs in the area, a decent camera, some special effects in Blender and you'd have something pretty neat. You don't even need that much snow and stuff, just alot of implication through interior storytelling. Take "Bioshock Short Film - The Interrogation of Timmy H" for instance. They took a very small part of the game and recreated it in a single room with a couple guys and props.
TLDR: Do what you can with what you have and don't use resource limitations as an excuse. You got this bro!
Can’t believe they had Ghost say “it’s ghosting time” and then ghost all over everyone. Really bold creative decision there from Activision, but I think it pays off.
I'm so glad bricky brought to attention the mw2 2009 DC radio chatter. It's my favorite subtle touch to that game to arguably its best mission. If you're reading this and have the time I highly recommend listening to the subtitled video of the chatter, it provides so much depth and many military professionals have remarked on its accuracy.
There's also the cut radio chatter of what happens if you don't support the Washington Monument troops as you listen to them slowly becoming overrun, to the point the radio operator is in absolute panic once they get to the point the civilians are having to replace the troops in the defense
@@spiritwaker9595 Cut in the original MW2 only. Infinity Ward did the smart thing and restored it in the remaster.
@Mortem Tyrannus I love how that was added back in, also knowing most people here in the US uts unrealistic in the sense they were not immediately picking up arms and shooting back lol
@@josephmontanaro2350it would be dope as hell if you saw civvies with their own guns show up or be referenced tbh, especially considering some of the very nice toys they have.
As nice as it is to see Shadow Company get some development in this game. I did like MW2 2009 where it was implied Shadow was a private army of select US soldiers serving shepherd and his ultranationalist ideas. Considering they used a callsign like Disciple further eluded to what kind of megalomaniac Shepherd was.
Can’t forget the call sign “Gold Eagle” in the last mission either. Such a great conclusion to MW2 ‘09
Still can't get over that the plot is basically "what if Russia did Iran Contra" lmao
"What if we blamed IRL American warcrimes on Russia and in-game American warcrimes didn't bother characters that much"
@@steelbear2063 Wrong game
@@DogeickBateman no it applies to this MW2 as well
@@lolusuck386 The game is the most anti-American "American propaganda" game I have ever seen given how literally no one outside of Laswell turned out to be good (or for that matter remembered)
@@steelbear2063 it didn't rewrite any warcrimes
One cool bit of trivia I noticed is that Shepherd in this game is voiced by the same person who voiced Overlord in the original Modern Warfare 2. I don't think this games version of Shepherd surpasses the original Shepherd by any stretch but I did like that little bit of fanservice since I immediately recognized his voice
I was under the impression that overlord was Shepard’s callsign over the radio net in MW2
@@kasparbaggott4703 Nah Overlord was like the "organizer" of US forces wherever they went, not Shepherd. Glenn Morshower (Gen. Shepherd in MW2 2022) plays that character in like a half dozen different games and movies.
@@xismyhero don’t they call them a handler or something along those lines? Advisor of sorts lmao
He was also Gordon in Battlefield 3, and briefly as an officer in the first Bay Transformers. Dude is just a magnet for military roles.
2009 Shepherd to me gave off "I was on the ground and saw my men die, I got my hands dirty with blood and dust" 2022 Shepherd was more like a detached West Point graduate that only sees numbers, not men.
Shepard in the OG: Complex and somewhat interesting villain who turned evil because he felt responsible for the death of his men and wanted to prevent it from happening again.
Shepard in MW22: "Oopsie whoopsie I made a fucky wucky now you have to go in the forever box"
Bruh OG shepherd wanted a war because he felt patriotism in the US is dying, he wanted glory and credit. He's an ass.
Shepherd 2022 is a grounded man, whose methods are very questionable but his intentions are good and realistic for the modern world. He fits perfectly at the reboot.
@@No_Iceee he also had a mental breakdown because he lost the soldiers to the nuke in the prior game. He was willing to throw the world into war because of his grief
@@No_Iceee He actually wanted war because he was driven insane by tens of thousands of his men dying in a nuclear explosion and wanted his enemies and everyone even remotely responsible dead and was not really giving a shit regarding the cost to do so. Patriotism was certainly on his mind but thinking that was his only goal is a seriously braindead take.
I laughed at "fucky wucky" for way too long... My humor is broken
Complex lmao
The armored enemies took years off my life when I did veteran difficulty. They take way too many rounds to kill and have pin point accuracy while being shot. Which is bad because you die in like 2 shots on veteran.
I felt the same. It wasnt fun and challenging difficult like the original MWs, but frustrating and bullshit difficult.
My coping method was to just beam their heads ASAP. What REALLY fucked me up was the armored shotgun demons deleting my ass during the tank fight
I don’t even bother trying to kill them on realistic without smokes and throwing knives or takedowns
Best way to take them out is to create a head glitch spot and start shooting at their heads as quick as possible. Also Flash Grenades are a huge help
@@decoyhunter8832 If you didn't get an absolute crap gun that is.
Really makes you appreciate literal laser guns in WZ. Went from dropping 20 bombs against real players to barely getting through a chokepoint in campaign.
MW2:
Shepard wants to become a war hero after losing his men in a nuclear blast, and to do that he needs to kick off a war be the hero in...
MW2 2 22:
Shepard does an oopsie and tries to cover it up
Much more realistic but less interesting story telling.
@@justiron2999 Agreed. Shepard in this game(played by the original voice of Overlord, I might add) feels way different than the original because he’s much more realistic. Shepard in 2009 was a guy on the front lines with the rangers in BDUs that lived for the glory of battle and wanted to be remembered as a patriot.
2022 Shepard wants to safeguard his position and his military career by saving himself from his fuck-up. So he brings in people he knows he can trust to remove people who might be a problem later.
I’ll always prefer 2009 Sheppard because his character is so serious yet over the top that he’s still argued about whether he was right to this day. However, I’d be remiss if 2022 Sheppard wasn’t a more realistic take on the concept, even if I’m a bit disappointed that he doesn’t have a mustache.
@@tenacityxl Don't get me wrong this Sheppard's VA is great and you can't beat the classic VA but I just have a preference. But the reasoning for the betrayal feels a little lacking just like the original did if not a little more.
Realistic =/= good
@@tenacityxl rhe only times that i saw anyone argue that shepherd was right in the og mw2 were kids my age, when i was a kid. I've never seen anyone over the mental age of 16 argue that orchestrating a world war over the 30k soldiers was in the same area code of "being right"
I always felt like “new” price was a cuddly teddy bear in comparison to “old” price. From the slight disdain in his voice when he speaks, to the fact that he’s introduced to you by calling you a “muppet”… whereas this Price speaks softer, has this weird facial hair that hides his mouth partly, and just in general looks so much different
The problem with Activision is that they think "Gritty" means "Realistic". Fighting Steampunk mechs in a 1800s setting can be more serious than a military drama.
As a kid, the invasion Washington DC in MW2 was just super wild. Funny that you mentioned the radio chatter, because I would be too scared to progress through the mission, so I would listen to what they're saying... And it scared me so much!
30:10 "Hey if it comes to media, no body no kill, could easily say he remote controling it..."
7 moths later:
Alex: "Heard you died in the tank in South America"
Graves:"I wasn't in that tank"
I will say, the fact that the entire game takes place because a General fucked up doing something illegal is very on-point for the United States military. Modern Warfare indeed.
"When creative freedom died with Infinite Warfare"
Oh man that hits hard, such a fucking good story, the best CoD story by far.
Please make a review of that in the style of this and your newer reviews.
One of the things I really liked in alone is how familiar ghost is with guerilla warfare. Even telling soap on how to craft certain items.
It gave me the idea that the reason he's so stoic is that he's traumatised from extended fighting in a guerilla warfare environment.
I loved the part where Bricky said “Free international shipping" truly an unforgettable Birkcy moment. Thx! I may buy smth
I'm impressed with Bricky's passion and careful points of contention. The ending of this video clearly wraps up everything he said, really tastefully.
"...he can come back with a wicked scar next game" if only he knew
Ghost always reminded me of Emile from Reach.
They both had cool skull masks but otherwise didn't do much except die in a cutscene
except Emile was more of a jerk than Ghost
"Beaning people" was my favorite part of the campaign stream that Bricky did! So much I had to clip it to make it a part of Bricky's national history for all to enjoy!
28:45 remembered me a lot on
"When Dorne killed Alpharius, who was actually Omegon, who was Alpharius all along while pretending to be Omegon, who was killed by Dorne while beeing Alpharius who was lying about beeing Alpharius all along while beeing killed by Dorne"
My absolute favourite episode of you 3.
Bricky, if you listen to the chatter for both missions where its present, you really get a feel about the thought they put into it as well.
it starts with pristine US army comms. everyone follows radio etiquette, its proper US army terminology and usage.
by the end, its melted down to random soldiers picking up radios of their superior to inform command that their companies are reduced to 3 man teams, with the appropriate decrease in communication quality.
even if most people dont understand the terms used (such as Echo 4 Sierra), they understand through the voice acting and context that the situation is beyond dire.
MW2 (2009) does an excellent job at portraying a losing side's communications and overall aesthetic. for 2 whole missions you're hit with low after low; first you evacuate washington DC, then you get EMP'd and are all alone, in a city full of russians.
it may be nostalgia speaking, but the DC missions are some of the most well made in cod history imo. they induce feelings so organically, on a level that no other mission has done. and the radio chatter, which you barely hear, is all part of that.
MW2 009 had a lot of things going for it at the time now that I think about it - the unexpected popularity of MW, Hans Zimmers name on the cover, and extremely large advertising(for a game of its time) from what I remember. That coupled with the lesser need to cater games to younger generations like today made it have far better storytelling, even if the plot was far more ridiculous if people want to nitpick each of them. Slowly realising that the market of popular games is slowly marketing itself towards younger and younger people is pretty sad to see, even if there are far better games today.
love how this game sells itself as realistic then sends in the al-qaeda super soldiers in ironman armor
The moment I saw Price swimming and diving around in his iconic hat, like if that made any sense at all, I knew what kind of game this was gonna be...
in defense of radio moment and big american flag on the missile- that's genuinely the most Accurate American Military Mistake moment in this game. like they Would do that.
He says no body no kill
Graves is back in the New warzone season
The thing I hated about the campaign was how the story didn’t feel as connected to cod mw19.
In the og series every single game was connected and what happens in each is related, where as mw19 and mw22 don’t feel connected at all,with Barkov not even being mentioned once.
It would’ve made it better if they scrapped the “cool ghost opening” and had the motive of the second games villain to be revenge for Barkov or at least something connecting it to the first.
Now that im hearing the radio chatter in the og mw2, it really is a masterpiece of a game
Aye
The soundtrack is beyond the best in the entire franchise black cats in waw tho was good
Ghost is the highlight of the game for me. It's rare that we get a character with an 'edgy' motif that is well written and mature.
I love how Bricky goes from hating this version of Task Force 141 (specifically Ghost and Soap) to actually loving the dynamic between the two in one of the most stealthiest campaign missions of the game!
God, the duality...
The fact that Graves is voiced by the same guy who played Rafe in Uncharted 4 made his character so cool to me. He does such a good job at being charismatic and threatening.
I feel like the prior MW2 found a way to somewhat balance a fairly serious (albeit silly) story and outlandish gameplay. New MW2 hammered story to make a more gritter story but didn't do the same for gameplay.
Maybe if the gameplay had more grit or focus on the rather dark matters of real life engagement, it could of lessened the blacklash.
It’s especially jarring since MW 2019 did a pretty good job of keeping to that darker, grittier tone. I think some of the silly stuff that went on in this version was fun, but it lacked the same bite as the previous game
My favourite part of the last mission is that you need to find something sharp to kill hassan with, and in the final scene, soap HAS A KNIFE ON HIS VEST SHEATHED!
The radio from the OG Modern Warfare 2 was not only great world building but very accurate. They talked to actual vets or did their homework.
THANKYOU FOR THAT END BIT ABOUT THE RADIO COMS. I had noticed it some while playing the game but then found a channel that posted the radio chatter and listened in more detail and holy shit just the gutteral "Broken arrow, broken arrow!" And the solem "Major its been an honor." Or when they call out that the Russians were opening fire on the stadium where civilians were being evaced. . . Christ man its just surprising and overwhelming with how well detailed it was
I know there was a note about the lack of music during a large amount of the campaign (especially in that damn truck chase). The composer actually fought for more music throughout the game entirely, and got overruled by the higher ups. As of 2022, she said she will no longer going to work with Activision because of it. I still mourn all the music we lost because of how much they forced her to cut.
hey, atleast we have SOME music....unlike a game after this one.
23:52
Soap: "Think I'll live that long?"
Ghost: "Probably not"
...
😬😬😬
“I, Cato Sicarius, am illegally transporting American missiles!”
I straight up died when you said "STOP FINGERING MY NOSTALGIA PROSTATE" lol
COD trying to dive into the politics around the cartel, and the Drug War is done as incompetently as I expected.
Personally I think old Gaz and Ghost were cooler because they actually felt like spec op soldiers. As in old Gaz and Price felt like an experienced pair of soldiers vs new Gaz feels like Price’s lapdog. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having characters fuck around like they did in 22, but maybe they could have other less professional characters do it, like i dunno, fucking RANGERS? Also, not every character needs character development. And personally I think stark professionalism would be an awesome contrast to Graves
Yea soap constantly praising ghost and treating him like he was Batman rlly ruined it for me
@@deuce1454
What’s weird is that in MW2 OG Soap outranked Ghost
They legit brought back Al Asad to not bring him up again. They blended the MW and Black Ops universes in Cold War, and they're not doing shit. Like, I wanna see Makerov with Krachenko. I want to see David Mason and Price as a duo. They already blended it together. They might as well do it.
Personally I thought the reason for the Shepherd/Shadow Co. betraying you wasn’t that stupid only forced, but that may have been because I thought the earlier scene of “we need to let this known terrorist go, keeping him prisoner is illegal” after DESTROYING AN ENTIRE MEXICAN TOWN WITH AN AC-130 TO GET HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE was way more stupid.
Also, fun fact, the guy who plays graves was the guy playing Galaga on the heli carrier in avengers that Tony points out lol.
Just discovered your channel off of one of Jevs recent videos. This is all golden. Watched your recent cod rats videos and now I’m here. And I swear you hit the nail on the head for everything I feel about the COD series as a whole, from single player to multiplayer.
8:06 Wait you de-escalate people BY POINTING YOUR GUN AT THEM, did I miss something or like isn't that the exact opposite of de-escalation, like they couldn't be bothered to have Jonathan COD put his hands up for 2 seconds what the fuck.
It feels like we're seeing another side of their characters. It's like what could've been and I enjoy that
Bricky, I am at the 7:32 mark.
I just sat through your Ghost has character rant.
I felt that. Like... I feel that. Now I gotta buy another product from Orchard Eight and disguise it this year as a gift from santa.
And then Graves returned in Warzone teaming up with Farah and Alex after trying to kill Price who Farah is friends with because he "was never in that tank" 10/10 writting, bravo.
When soap said “it’s Soapin’ time” I rethought my entire life up to that point
My biggest critisicm of this game is the lack of music. That driving mission would've been a shit load cooler with some Hans Zimmer.
37:32 "...the background sound of the original MW2." THIS. There're compilations of the MW2 invasion radio chatters and it has entire storyarcs of how the DC invasion was playing out. The only studio that pays that much attention to radio comm is Valve with the Combine Overwatch.
I remember the old mw2. The good, the bad, the danger close one man army noob tubing and dual 1887s. It's a real shame the new one seemed to leave it's legacy behind. I was so baffled by the story and I think you nailed it with the title. It's trying to hard for a franchise that never did so in the first place.
There were a ton of moments that felt like bad Warzone mods in the new MWII.
3rd person vehicles, armor plating, cartoon bomb car/tank boss fights, maps that were so large that the graphics fidelity broke down and didn’t look nearly as polished as the linear levels… the presentation was so sloppy
30:00 bro really predicted the future
As a former employee of a pmc (L3 Communications- (2011-2014) can confirm that they’re well portrayed.
Even though I was a sigint analyst, and not a shooter, the lax-yet-stoic company mindset towards combat ops comes across really well.
During the driving convoy mission I put the original Hans Zimmer MW2 OST on another tab and holy shit it made a world of difference. It's really sad that there wasn't already some in there.
Oh shit I gotta do that, what tracks you put on in particular out of curiosity
@@brade7022 literally just the Rangers theme on loop!
MW2: "I lost thirty thousand men in the blink of an eye. And the world just fuckin' watched."
MWpoo: "I forgot to use code names when doing super crime oops"
23:58 I just realised they used the wrong “tale” in the subtitles, lmfao
30:21 i watched the modern warfare 3 video and couldnt help but not chuckle at this
I did play some CoD games, and Black Ops 1 and 2 campaigns left the biggest impression on me
Seeing Mason lose his grip on reality and keeping hearing the fucking numbers was a disturbing, fascinating and amazing experience to me
And of course, Raul Menendez is a legend tier villain
i really like how in the ad you said the deal was going and said you would delete that section of the video, that is genuinely very helpful and a smart use of the built in youtube editor, so props to you bricky.
They got their boots on the ground, but they also got them stuck in the mud.
Also, as of mw2 season 5, guess who's back? Our favorite condescending asshole, Graves. And they said that he wasn't in the tonk when it blew up. Bricky prediction
Can't wait for him to cover Mw3
The cutscene before wolverines, the one where everyone realises america is under attack i will never ever forget that and the washington DC maps
I wonder if Makarov and his team will have characterization like Graves and Shadow Company, in the original Shadow Company was just there to be "Shepard's men" so I hope Makarov at least has some moments that will make us hate him rather than "he is doing stuff off screen and we gotta stop him"
calling it now, he's gonna kill a good chunk of 141. I can see him killing Alejandro in his first appearance and then getting Price later.
@@Lynch2507 After all that nostalgia bait? Nah, i'm calling it this way: Final mission has you play as Price, he goes completely off-grid to kill Makarov on his own, it ends with a fistfight, final shot involves Makarov dangling from the roof while Price smokes a cigar same as old MW3. Instead of the level being a Juggernaut section it's yet another rehash of Clean House.
@@PJ-kv7oq the only way the nostalgia bait could pay off is if they did a bait and switch. Kill Price instead of Ghost and Soap, have one of them go down in the final mission or something. idk, the COD campaigns have been pretty meh since some of the future ones
@@Lynch2507 welp uh, it was worse
“Do you not feel pandered to?”
Yes. And that’s why I didn’t buy it.
Honestly, I absolutely hate the No Russian text message at the end, not least of all because it perpetuates the stupid meaning that the community took from that line. It didn’t mean “no russians”, “kill all Russians” or anything like that. It meant “don’t speak Russian” hence him saying it after the other guy said something in Russian! Because they were posing as Americans! It makes no damn sense in the context of the new game, it’s pure fan service and it’s just blegh
Yea that shit was stupid they just rely on nostalgia and bringing back old character to get ppl to drool over the game
12:05 I recognized the hack frauds voice instantly, it's nice to know that the Brickster also watches RLMs videos.
Speaking of radio and tone, Black Mesa also did a fantastic job with this. The HECU radio feels real, like it's real soldiers just trying to survive a deteriorating situation, and the emergency broadcasts you can hear periodically over radios give that feeling that the Black Mesa event wasn't confined to the facility, it affected EVERYTHING. Feels like you're in the middle of a real disaster.
the graves name tag color swap: it needed to be done at some point, otherwise it would be silly for the rest of the game for graves to be blue. if it needed to happen, then at that moment was a great time for it. it means whatever coder was paying attention. :)
I'm right now training to be a communications specialist in the Army, and i can say that there is some really good stuff in the old MW2's radio chatter. It's far from perfect. No one over or outs at the end of their transmissions, which is a really important thing. Saying repeat is absolutely not ok, and i have no idea why some random grunt can not only listen into all the chatter going to their HQ, but is also for some reason on the same net as the damn helo pilots.
But for all that the speed, pace and tone of the chatter is very well done, the static and radio effects very convincing, if perhaps a little less severe than reality, and the actual chatter i could very nearly believe from could come from an active warzone. All in all, 7/10. decently done, definitely some of the better stuff out there.
Awesome video, my dude. i pulled an all nighter playing this unspoiled and though i had fun, there was something i couldn't wrap my mind around and you said it to a point. Keep up the good work.
>"You boys have been relieved, thank you for your service."
>My computer crashes
Can't get any better timing than that.
The most surprising part of this video was the ProZD Codenames integration, that shit came out >2 days ago.
The ‘pander’ thing was so accurate. The whole campaign just felt like a member berry.
i still love that the shadow company betrayal only happens to cover up the answer to a question that Ghost asked once at the beginning of the game and then was never asked again by anyone. I mean, really it just happens because it happened in the original game but yknow
As strangely realistic as the military coverup of a botched weapons deal is, the level of incompetence displayed (including the USE OF REAL NAMES ON COMMS) makes me think that the US government would have figured out Shephard's plot eventually anyway.
Finally someone said something about the damn music, the whole soundtrack was designed to blueball you when you think something epic was going to play.
I like the original MW2 the missions are really cool and no russian was a very interesting mission and left us with a lot of questions
Hey don’t worry, they brought Graves back in the most recent season, and explain it away with “oh yeah that wasn’t me in the tank” as if it makes any sense at all.
the only thing i liked about this game was when captain price said "We're ghost squad, from Call of Duty: Ghosts, coming 2013 for the Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, and PC"