The original CoD was pretty dope, it had 3 switching perspectives split pretty evenly between a US grunt a british SAS commando and a Russian trooper, each campaign was a pastiche of basically all the war movies the developers had seen. The Soviet storyline was basically Enemy at the Gates with somewhat more historical parity, with that unfortunate stereotype of 'one man gets a rifle and one man gets a magazine' level, but it was otherwise really sympathetic to the reds, and didn't shy away from their contribution to the war effort. The first game had this really fascinating feature of having these named nobody NPC's running around helping you fight, and it really made you feel like you were part of a collaborative effort.
Unfortunately from what I understand it happened a few times when Stalin first ordered 'no steps back!' but stopped soon after when they noticed it was just making morale worse and killing their own men on the retreat was an ass-backwards idea. Early war Soviet Union was not super good, critical support and all that, but they definitely mistimed their purging of the brass
Yes, and it's actually a riveting experience. Going from Stalingrad to Berlin, I got goosebumps taking the Reichstag at the end when you see your side's tank reinforcements come into the square, a huge relief that the struggle is finally over
Fuckin awesome level in the original CoD
You got to play as Russians in the original?
CoD wasn't as bad back in the old WWII games.
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The original CoD was pretty dope, it had 3 switching perspectives split pretty evenly between a US grunt a british SAS commando and a Russian trooper, each campaign was a pastiche of basically all the war movies the developers had seen. The Soviet storyline was basically Enemy at the Gates with somewhat more historical parity, with that unfortunate stereotype of 'one man gets a rifle and one man gets a magazine' level, but it was otherwise really sympathetic to the reds, and didn't shy away from their contribution to the war effort. The first game had this really fascinating feature of having these named nobody NPC's running around helping you fight, and it really made you feel like you were part of a collaborative effort.
Edit: This is definitely why I wanted to be a Communist when I was like 13
Fuck this game was so dope, where did we go so wrong
The "shooting their own troops" thing is bullshit right?
Unfortunately from what I understand it happened a few times when Stalin first ordered 'no steps back!' but stopped soon after when they noticed it was just making morale worse and killing their own men on the retreat was an ass-backwards idea. Early war Soviet Union was not super good, critical support and all that, but they definitely mistimed their purging of the brass
Yes, and it's actually a riveting experience. Going from Stalingrad to Berlin, I got goosebumps taking the Reichstag at the end when you see your side's tank reinforcements come into the square, a huge relief that the struggle is finally over