Every Historical Inaccuracy in Call of Duty 2

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What I like about Cod 1-3 and WAW is the fact that despite the historical inaccuracies (mostly due to the studio's limited budget, technology graphics and resources at the time to develop said games), it still respected the time period it was portraying, and it remained authentic (especially WAW).

i have a theory for the inaccuracies that start in 5:20, maybe 20 years after the war ended Vasili is looking though his old war stuff? and everytime a mission starts he's just remisnicing his old memories, he never dies in game anyways.

I would argue that the way vasili holds the mp40 can be attributed to him not having had training with it

The loading screens with the journals may have some anachronistic items in the background, but i always imagined it was because the protagonist is looking back at their own journal of the war many years later, thus having all of the relics and trophies in the background. Fair point anyway though and good video!

It's kinda funny seeing a video about the historical inaccuracies of COD 2 while claiming that World of Tanks is historically accurate

Dude, I wish you'd drop this CinemaSins method of doing inaccuracies. Inaccuracies shouldn't be deducted for doing something right or nichely interesting but instead just tracked separately. And pointing out clear glitches or an oversight due to gameplay (or God forbid a joke) shouldn't be counted towards inaccuracies either.

So I just wanna say, that at least for the American levels, they did actually have a ranger from the period consulting on the game. Which may be why it has less in accuracies than the other levels? Also some are just asset reusing, which I can’t really count against them at this point in the franchise.

History is so damn fascinating, please keep making these episodes they're awesome

As a change of pace: perhaps you should look at every historical inaccuracy in Battlefield 1. Especially since that game shares a lot of similarities with COD WAW in that while it does contain a fair amount of historical inaccuracies, it makes up for it by giving a very faithful and authentic portrayal of WW1.

32:44, That phrase, "Retreat? We're Advancing In Another Direction", is similar to General Oliver P. Smith's quote during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir during Korean War in 1950, “Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.”

As a history teacher and gamer who recently found your channel I want to say thank you for making these videos, subscribed after watching the World At War one.

27:04 I believe this is because the game was made during the time when 4:3 TVs were much more common so hiding this animation made sense for its time. While 16:9 TVs were around, they weren't as common. Besides this, this was a great video for my first ever CoD game!

13:20 Fun fact. Russian coled german grenades "Kolotushka" witch can be translated as "potato masher"

I clicked on this video faster than Germany took Poland

It's kinda funny how many of these can just boil down to resource and engine limitations of the time. Then how depressing it is when you look at the later games that don't have these limitations and all info they need can be instantly obtained.

Honestly for the M1 Garand and the M1 Carbine's rear sight being larger than usual is honestly better for gameplay, because it makes it easier to aim

I think Call of Duty 2: Big Red One might have shown the most respect to history. Besides the Germans you also fight Italians and Vichy French.

6:48 debatable! Many guns from the ww2 era already had feeding problems and mulfunctions due to the magazine: holding the magazine in such way has been shown to not only being fairly common, but also suggested, as it would actually fix some of the feeding problems.

I think the Sten gun's 'reloading same magazine' issue is probably because you're playing in widescreen. In 2005, most people would have still had good old 4:3 CRT TVs, and the magazine would have gone completely off screen.