Fun fact: In the remaster of No Russian at the escalator section, if you wait around for a little a look back to where you came in, you can see a wounded Yuri coming holding his pistol before falling over just like in MW3. Not only that, if you shoot Yuri, you get a Game-Over screen saying “friendly fire isn’t tolerated”

What a classic. Being the astronaut for like 5 seconds is something I always remember and the red dot sights going out after the nuke goes off.

Fun fact: At the very start of the first mission while waiting for the building to be demolished, there's some soldiers on their phones filming it. In the original, which released in 2009, these were flip phones since smartphones were still very new and no one knew how prevalent they would be in 2016 (when the game takes place). But in the remaster, which of course released after 2016, they now have smartphones, and at least one of the soldiers isn't filming anymore and instead just scrolling through some social media site or something.

Bonus fun fact because why not, the training course at the beginning of the game is the only place where you can find a SCAR with a foregrip attachment in the entire campaign.

During the DC mission, you could hear the soldiers panicking through the comms trying to fight and it really adds the intensity of the situation

The biggest crime of this video is that no wins were given to Keith David's performance as Sgt. Foley

Bonus win:
If you listen to the ambient sounds during the rush to the Whitehouse, it's actually crazy how much effort put into the invasion radio chatter. It's chilling, haunting, harrowing.

As someone who also grew up playing the modern warfare trilogy I understand your excitement in this video

Actually the reason soap got the name soap is because of the speed and efficiency in which he cleared rooms and houses during infiltration missions

My favorite nod in the remaster is in the first mission when you go into the training pit I immediately shot Shepard in the head without thinking and then got an achievement for it 😂 glad I’m not the only one and they knew it would happen for many of us

Man, Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe really hit it out of the park with the OST. to this day it's one of my favorite soundtracks in just... anything

Missed Win: In the museum, there’s an animation at the airport display where Makarov presses his hand against his own guys and looks over to someone (that being you). This was the original starting animation for “No Russian”, because the meaning of ‘No Russian’ is to not speak it, not leave no Russian alive. Which adds to the twist that Makarov knew and that he wanted to frame America behind the terrorist act.

MW2 had everything you wanted from a shooter of that time: a gripping and adrenaline packed story, a challenging co-op adventure in Spec-Ops and a Multiplayer experience that filled countless days with friends on iconic maps. And damn was the campaign brutal on Veteran, especially the Favela levels were one of the biggest challenges in a shooter campaign ever.

Being nine years old in the multiplayer lobbies was certainly an experience. Way too young to be playing the game, way too young to be playing online with strangers dropping more slurs and curses than a KKK grand wizard. Still, it's a time I look back fondly on and I wouldn't trade it for a thing.

Also, Whiskey Hotel is the best level and soundtrack in the game in my opinion.

I'm just gonna put it out there that Foley and Ramirez deserve to come back at some point in the new MW series.

Small nitpick, but technically not all of Shadow Company is Disciple, that's just one of their units. Butcher (also very fitting) is another unit you fight during the level, and there's also Oxide (Radio officer), Thunder and Warhorse (Helicopters), Excalibur (Artillery), and a handful of other unidentified units heard on radio chatter.

That aside, I have to say the remaster was pretty excellent. The added animation work, updated graphics, I was quite happy with it.

This is my favorite game of all time ever. Everything about it is amazing, I was 9 when it came out and had just suffered a terrible loss, and it helped me feel less alone and keep smiling, such a good game

I'm glad I was old enough to understand some of the gravity of what they were trying to convey in this campaign. My dad, who I played this with, watched Red Dawn with me and told me about how it gave him nightmares because of how plausible it seemed, with him being a teenager at the time. I used to live near DC, I've walked among those monuments you fight through in game. My aunt in Virginia lived in a neighborhood very much like what you clear through in the next mission, and I could imagine my cousins taking cover behind the pool table we always played at as foreign soldiers stormed through their house. MW2 was my generation's Red Dawn.

People in the US don't know how good we have it sometimes. Our geography makes it very difficult to invade, and the memes of "let me show you what we have instead of universal healthcare" have some truth to them. I've lived elsewhere before and I'm glad to be back. I hope it stays that way. More than foreign invasion, with politics getting more polarizing and people listening to each other less I'm worried we're going to have to start calling what happened in the 1860's the First Civil War soon.

4:00 I usually ditch the DEagle while running the pit. I purposely fail the first time because they unlock more weapons to choose from
14:52 Ramirez looking at his hands was in the original

Fun fact : Chocolate bar guy is still there , he is now a ranger,you can see him while walking up the stairs at the start.

The "Till i'll collapse" trailer will allways stay in my mind. Nothing will ever hit THAT hard.