Hey guys! Welcome back to another post of the Games Insiders! Where today we are going to be talking about one of the most popular game series: CALL OF DUTY!! But we are not just going to be talking about the series. We are going to be talking about the most recent Call of Duty game. Call of Duty: World War II. Without any farther to do let's start today's post!!!!About
Call of Duty: WWII is a first person shooter game, developed by Sledgehammer Games, and published by Activision Blizzard (creator of Overwatch). Call of Duty series has been here for a quite a long time now, however this game was published November 3rd, 2017, so it's quite recent. This game is released for PS4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows. This game is set during the World War 2, which gives us interesting story. It is quite similar to Battlefield 1, where you fight in a war. But with zombies and other things. Let's now talk about a little about the modes. We will discuss more later.
The campaign mode is set in the European Theater, and is centered around a squad in the 1st Infantry Division, following their battles one the western front and set mainly in the historical events of Western Front. It is mostly set in the during the historical events of Operation Overlord. The character that you will be controlling is Ronald Red Daniels. Red, so ironic. Anyways, you can also have squad
mates that can heal or give you extra supplies like grenades.
The multiplayer mode features map location, that were not featured in the campaign. The mode also features a new division system replacing the create-a-class sort of thing that previous games had used. Social features had also been added, adding something called a Headquarter, which allows players to interact with other players.Sledgehammer games was seriously considering whether or not they should add the game in 2014, as they had just made a game called: Call of Duty Advanced Warfare. They thought it wouldn't really be impressive if they did World War 2 sort of game, straight after an advanced technology sort of warfare. However ultimately they decided to develop this game, and that is how we have this cool game. They had also decided to add atrocities and Nazi extermination camps that was during the time period they were developing off, to make the game more interesting.
Copies Sold
As soon as the game was released, it had received many great comments from the people who had played the game and gained popularity immediately. Most people were glad to return to the World War series the company had left off. The audience also really like the modes they had added into the game: Zombie mode, Campaign mode, and Multiplayer mode. However, all games have their cons, and the cons of this game was the fact they were lacking innovation of single player mode, and the game was similar to the other games they had made around the same era. It gained 500 million USD in the first 3 days of it's released, and at the end of 2017, the game had received over 1 billion USD and had been award for the most revenue in North America 2017.
Campaign Plot
On June 6, 1944, U.S. Army Private First Class Ronald "Red" Daniels (Brett Zimmerman) of the 1st Infantry Division takes part in the Normandy landings with his platoon, consisting of Private First Class Robert Zussman (Jonathan Tucker), Private Drew Stiles (Kevin Coubal), Technician Fifth Grade Frank Aiello (Jeff Schine), Technical Sergeant William Pierson (Josh Duhamel) and First Lieutenant Joseph Turner (Jeffrey Pierce). Zussman is stabbed by a German soldier, resulting in his hospitalization for several weeks.
Zussman returns to duty in time for Operation Cobra, where American forces successfully push to reclaim the town of Marigny. The platoon is ordered by Colonel Davis (Matt Riedy) to conduct an operation with British Special Operations Executive officers Major Arthur Crowley (David Alpay) and Vivian (Helen Sadler) to intercept a German armored train carrying V2-rockets. Daniels and Zussman successfully derail the train before being escorted back to their squad by French Resistance leader Rousseau (Bella Dayne).
A week later, Rousseau and Crowley infiltrate a German garrison in Paris to retrieve explosives in preparation for the platoon's assault upon it. Midway through, Rousseau kills SS-und Polizeiführer Heinrich (J. Paul Boehmer) in retaliation for his murder of her family. The platoon then liberates Paris.
Two months later, the platoon enters Aachen, and is saved from a German attack by support from tank commander Staff Sergeant Augustine Pérez (Christian Lanz). They are then ordered to take over a German-occupied hotel. They discover civilians inside the hotel, and Turner orders their evacuation, to Pierson's dismay. A young girl named Anna (Lilith Max) goes missing, and Daniels rescues her. German soldiers open fire on a truck carrying the civilians, killing Anna's older sister. Pierson sends the truck away without protection, creating a rift with Turner.
At the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, the platoon is ordered to take Hill 493. Turner splits the platoon into two groups; Pierson and Zussman are tasked with advancing towards the hill, while Turner and Daniels cover them until they can meet at the bottom. Turner's squad soon receives a transmission revealing that Pierson ordered an attack on the hill against Turner's orders, forcing Turner to join in. The platoon destroys artillery positions, but the Germans counterattack with a Tiger II tank. Daniels is knocked out trying to disable the tank, which is destroyed by Pérez. Turner is fatally wounded rescuing Daniels, and orders Daniels to abandon him while he covers the platoon's escape. Pierson becomes head of the platoon and makes Daniels his second-in-command, promoting him to Corporal.
At the height of the Battle of the Bulge, the platoon is surrounded by Germans. Daniels meets an African-American technician, Howard (Russell Richardson), who helps the platoon contact air support. The platoon captures several German soldiers, and discovers that the Germans plan to destroy a bridge at Remagen, the last bridge over the Rhine. After destroying the explosives in transit, Pierson orders the platoon to attack a nearby air base to destroy the remaining explosives. The attack fails, resulting in Daniels and Zussman being surrounded by enemy troops. Daniels is saved by Howard, while Zussman is captured and taken to a German prisoner of war camp, Stalag IX-B. Daniels disobeys Pierson and attempts to pursue the German truck carrying Zussman, but ends up injuring himself in the process and letting the truck escape. He is then hospitalized, with Pierson denying him from the platoon. In Stalag IX-B, Zussman is interrogated on his Jewish heritage by SS officer Metz (George Regout), then is beaten and sent to a concentration camp.
After recovering for eight weeks, Daniels learns from Davis about the events that changed Pierson in the Battle of Kasserine Pass: instead of recklessly leading his men to their deaths, like everyone thought, he risked his and his men's lives in vain to save part of his platoon that was trapped. Daniels later confronts Pierson in his tent and tears up his honorable discharge papers in order to rejoin the platoon. They successfully capture the last bridge over the Rhine. The platoon heads into Germany, liberating concentration camps in search of Zussman, eventually reaching the Berga concentration camp, which they find abandoned; the camp's survivors were sent on a death march. Daniels finds and saves Zussman by killing Metz before he can execute him.
At the end of the war, Daniels parts ways with his platoon and returns to Texas, reuniting with his wife and newborn son. He visits the grave of his older brother, Paul (Chris Browning), who died while fighting a wolf when Red failed to shoot it in time. He places his Bronze Star medal on the grave, saying that his brother deserves it for teaching him how to fight for himself and for his brothers.
Well, that was long. Anyways let's talk about the Nazi Zombie mode now. Oh wait, what's that heading that is under this statement? Oh that's right it's
Nazi Zombies
Alright, the plot is coming out. Get ready, take a deep breath and...
Austrian engineer Marie Fischer (Katheryn Winnick) is sent on a mission to her hometown village of Mittelburg, Bavaria by her commanding officer, Major Rideau (Darin De Paul), to retrieve lost artifacts stolen by the Nazis for experimentation, as well as rescue her brother, Klaus, who provided the information. Klaus has been unwillingly working with their lead scientist Peter Straub (Udo Kier) and weapons expert Colonel Heinz Richter (Tomm Voss) on a project to exploit a new energy dubbed "Geistkraft" (literally translates as: ‘Spiritforce’) to assist the Nazi party's war efforts. Marie is accompanied by Scottish ex-art thief Drostan Hynd (David Tennant), Art Historian turned French Resistance fighter Olivia Durant (Élodie Yung) and United States Army captain Jefferson Potts (Ving Rhames), all of whom have significant knowledge on the stolen arts and relics. However, on their train ride to Mittelburg, the group is attacked by an unidentified colossal being. Marie is stranded from the others, and finds herself taking temporary refuge at a small house nearby, where she holds out against hordes of dead German soldiers reanimated by Geistkraft, until she is able to make her way to the village.
After reuniting with the other three, Marie and the group proceed further down into the village's hidden bunker, where Straub has set up his laboratory. There, they fend off against Straub's undead horde, as well as Richter, whose obsession on weaponization of Geistkraft puts him at odds with Straub. Eventually, the group recovers the artifact, the hilt of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa's sword. They then encounter the creature from earlier, a humanoid-shaped amalgam of numerous body parts sewn and stitched together, dubbed the Panzermörder, with Klaus fused into the creature's chest. Using special
magnetized batteries, the group manages to stun the Panzermörder and attach the batteries onto it, causing it to be attracted to Richter's zeppelin flying above the village. The zeppelin explodes, killing the Panzermörder and freeing Klaus from its body. The hilt's power somehow revives Klaus, causing him to be possessed by an unknown force. Klaus staggers into the village, telling Marie and the group to continue fighting, and that the Emperor must not return, before activating a fire trap, seemingly killing himself.
Days later, the crew receives intel of Straub's sighting at the islands of Heligoland, where he has been storing numerous of his zombies. They travel to the island in pursuit of Straub, as well as the next piece of Barbarossa's sword. The crew comes into struggle with the Nazi Kriegsmarine forces protecting the island as well as Straub's latest undead creations, as he prepares for an assault on Britain. While on the island, Drostan shares with the group details of his prior employment by Heinrich Himmler to search for an artifact on this island, and how he narrowly escaped death at the Nazis' hands while also recovering several ancient scrolls. Upon solving several riddles, they find a ritual chamber dedicated to the goddess Nerthus, where they acquire the pommel of Barbarossa's sword. The crew then calls in an airstrike to destroy the facility on the island; they stow away on one of Straub's zeppelins, as he and his forces return to Berlin in response to Adolf Hitler's call for rescue.
So all I am saying is this. They went to an island. They found some zombies. Remind you of something? That's right, it sounds so familiar like the Jurassic Park.
Review
Call of Duty is a great game with great reviews. The guns are evenly balanced and the game isn't too hard. Like the other games in the series, there are so much violence and the game is very bloody. If you are a kind of person who can nauseous when you see blood, DO NOT play this game. This game can also have some improvements, like being more original. Also the Black Ops 3 is still a little better than WWII, so Sledgehammer Games, maybe do better next time! However overall, I really like the story and it is really good.
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