Call of Duty Retrospective | Treyarch

Published 2024-01-10
Welcome back Appreciators! This is Part 2/4 in my Call of Duty Retrospective series; this time we are speaking about the history of Treyarch and evaluating each game they have developed for the series. Thank you for all the support and down below there is a list of sources that I mentioned and some of the corrections to this video. Please comment, like, and subscribe, joining Appreciation Culture! If I missed anything, please comment below, and correct me if I got any information wrong.

0:00:00 - Introduction
0:10:00 - Call of Duty 3
0:29:05 - World at War
1:08:10 - Black Ops 1
1:41:30 - Black Ops 2
2:14:30 - Music Round
2:29:40 - Black Ops 3
2:55:25 - Black Ops 4
3:14:50 - Black Ops: Cold War
3:39:20 - Where are the Developers now?
3:43:00 - Until Next Time

These developers try their best when making these games and I want to make sure they appreciated to their fullest even if I disagree with them or critique their games.

The Infinity Ward video could be a long while depending on the success of this video so just a heads up if anyone reads down this far.

Corrections:
A. Call of Duty 3's first mission may have not been a demo for Activision although I do remember reading it (unfortunately that is not a source).
B. Call of Duty World at War's multiplayer was not created in under 6 month and that was probably something I heard from a friend and did not fact check.
C. I probably butchered the plot for Black Ops 3... or I didn't. I don't know.
D. Not really a correction but I feel bad for giving Jack Wall a lot of crap and genuinely believe he is a great composer. I just sound negative when speaking on him.
E. Did not touch my feelings on microtransaction systems cause I will do that in Part 4 video.

Sources:
Zombie Origins (Jesse Snyder Haxington) - www.jessesnyder.org/trenches/?p=42&cpage=4#comment…

Black Ops 3 Open World leaks - imgur.com/a/MCAPaQT

Black Ops 4 cancelled plot leaks - archive.vn/CSFag

Black Ops Cold War all problems with multiplayer (Could not find reddit post that I looked over so I'm just tagging an article instead) -
www.pushsquare.com/news/2020/11/call_of_duty_black…

Sources involving anything lawsuit wise that was brought up:
www.reuters.com/legal/activision-blizzard-settles-…

gamerant.com/activision-blizzard-fires-employees-m…

www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/…

www.cbsnews.com/news/activision-blizzard-eeoc-hara….



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All Comments (21)
  • UPDATE: WORK HAS BEGUN ON THE INFINITY WARD VIDEO AND IT WILL RELEASE NEXT MONTH (JULY!) Hope you are all having a great new year! Fact Corrections: A. Call of Duty 3's first mission may have not been a demo for Activision although I do remember reading it (unfortunately that is not a source). B. Call of Duty World at War's multiplayer was not created in under 6 month and that was probably something I heard from a friend and did not fact check. C. Trent Reznor actually composed the Black Ops 2 theme... Not Jack Wall. Things to Note: D. I probably butchered the plot for Black Ops 3... or I didn't. I don't know. E. Not really a correction but I feel bad for giving Jack Wall a lot of crap and genuinely believe he is a great composer. I just sound negative when speaking on him. F. Did not touch my feelings on microtransaction systems because I will do that in Part 4 video.
  • @arronkeegan484
    This slander of CoD3 is just so unwarranted that it hurts, it's such a great game with a brilliant story
  • @winlover37
    While I have great respect for Infinity Ward and love the Modern Warfare trilogy, Treyarch will always be my favorite. Their games tend to be more fun and arcadey, also just very colorful and nice to look at.
  • @StankSack
    Turned it off as soon as the bo1 slander started
  • @WoddCar
    I love world at war, great atmosphere, good gameplay (minus the grenade spam) and a lot of other things come together to make it my favorite cod game
  • @bartzacky9639
    You forgot about part of BO2 Zombies of Tranzit’s Ambition. Treyarch and Jimmy had many ideas of wanting Zombies to have these fun gamemodes while Tranzit was going to be the best map ever, but because Treyarch & Jimmy were too ambitious and Tranzit had trouble running thought the PS3 and Xbox 360, they had to cut the game modes and Tranzit’s ambitions were cut down because the consoles at the time couldn't handle the map, hence, Fog, Lava, and Denizens were implemented by force to slow players down so that the game can load up memory space. This was a dark time for being a COD Zombies fan and Tranzit almost killed COD Zombies until Mob & Origins and Jason stepped in and saved the mode. It’s a shame Jimmy had too much ideas that were fun for Tranzit but had to be cut because of the tech along with Tranzit having massive cut content.
  • COD 3 has an amazing story and great characters. I felt much more attatched to the characters than to any of the ones in the previous COD games. Plus its (afaik) the only game that lets you play as canadian and polish forces. And the soundtrack is just phenomenal.
  • @thew00dsman79
    Odd that no one mentioned here yet that World at War had had custom zombies maps for YEARS, one of the big sells for Black Ops 3 was the customs, yeah, but that hype stemmed from the mod tools being available for the first time in 7 years
  • @Drewsifff
    I don’t ever comment on videos but I want to highly praise how well made this video is, to the script, the great use of footage and the length, love this kind of content
  • @ShaneAlex91
    I started watching this as it was recommended to me on my home page because i love treyarch and their cod games. Then, 20 mins in, i saw you only had 200 subs! Man, I'm blown away. This video is awesome. Keep up the work, and you'll grow so quickly.
  • @lenxgaming7651
    Good video man I watched all the way through with no breaks and I was entertained the whole way through keep it up❤
  • @Loafyx2
    This was and will be my favorite video essay/retrospective on a game/s I’ve played every year since my childhood by far. Great video man very informative and entertaining
  • @johnboy4955
    I grew up with cod 3 and the slander in this video absolutely crushed me as a fan. It was super solid back in the day and was one of the first multi player experiences to keep me hooked for an extended period of time
  • @Xpertfusion
    I can speak for a pretty large part of the hardcore fans of BO4 that stayed on the game even after MW19 released. MW2019’s MP was just not for a lot of us. It was way too casual friendly and lacked any skill-gap. Couldn’t get into it, so I went back to BO4 along with many others. Obviously went back to Zombies too.
  • @yungploomer6476
    Your content deserves more love. Into gave me chills. But that song always does. Good job man 👍
  • @DrBojangles
    just got through the introduction, this will be my meal time show for this week thank you 🙏
  • @kylekozlov3674
    Whenever someone says "if you made it this far in the video, consider liking and subscribing" I usually don't listen much but I saw I was over an hour into an almost 4 hour long video and I love long videos so I was like "Yeahh, I should like and sub lol" Thanks for the great work!
  • @rolando5836
    This retrospective was very well made and engaging. This must have taken forever to make lol thank you for your dedication.
  • COD3 was my first COD, and its very likely I would have never been into COD or WWII without it. It's one of my core childhood memories, literally. This game was bearly 2 years old when I started playing on a 360 when I was learning to play an FPS for the first time at the age of 4. I was completely sucked into the atmosphere thanks to the first level's intro. The upbeat old music playing, the P-47s flyling overhead, then my character being called over and the first thing I do in the game is get a tutorial disguised as a betting game to shoot helmets and throw 'nades into a half-collapsed cabin. For a kid and newbie to FPS games, it was the perfect way to welcome them into what COD3 had to offer. It was short, simple, and taught the bare essentials before throwing you into hell. I most vividly remember the second mission where you're storming the German fortifications, just the rough, muddy, rainy mood, even a kid could understand the tone the devs were trying to get across. I fell in love with the M5 Stuart because of the Stuart Rhinos in that mission. Then the fact I was a 4 year old playing a COD game caught up with me and I got endlessly stuck on the first Canadian mission where you gotta drive the Jeep and for the life of me I couldn't figure out where to go lmao