- Hey, y'all Scott here. All I've got in my pocket is a receipt for a Hungry Man meal. Does it look like I'm doing okay? I really need something
to make me realize God I could be doing a whole lot worse. I could be 13 and the only games I have to play are first person shooters for the DS. Why does this keep happening to me? Yeah, you can get laid on the go. Call of Duty is everybody's
favorite best-selling first person war shooter franchise. I've been on Wikipedia. Call of Duty was and still is a giant. But I'd argue it was truly at its biggest during the Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 era. That was when you couldn't escape it. Everybody was playing the single player the multiplayer each and every year when the new one came out. That's probably why there
was so much negativity surrounding the franchise
for a while there. God, everybody hated this series back then but now ... ... I mean I think most stopped caring. It was all because it was
the trendy game back then, the one everybody was playing and you should know by
now many video game fans will hate a game just
because it's popular. It still does insanely well, every year topping the charts, but Call of Duty doesn't get
talked about nearly as much. It's not really the trendy game anymore. It's more so just an inevitability like Call of Duty comes out every year. A lot of people play because oh the new Call of Duty came out. A year passes, the next
one comes out. The end. The people who play it, play. And then you have those who originally wouldn't be caught dead
playing a Call of Duty not caring about the fact
new games come out every year because like there's nothing
they can do about it. It's kind of like measles. Like, yeah, you don't like it, but hey are you gonna do
anything about it now? But during the 360 and PS3 days these games were the
biggest deals out there. Every kid on the playground wanted these games with ding, ding, ding. Now of course, if you
wanted the true experience you had to get these games on either the PC, Xbox
360 or PlayStation 3. If you wanted one of the games five years after they released you get them on a Mac. If you didn't have any of these systems and only had a Wii ... Well, Wii versions of these
games were okay overall. They were graphically downgraded, lacked some content, didn't
have the same online community but you'd be surprised
how many people will still defend these games. You get a level of
precision and embarrassment from using the Wii modes
pointer that you simply can't achieve on standard controllers but most people would agree these games go below the others, but if you didn't have a Wii, well I mean if you had to play these games ... (dramatic music) Your developer was
playing Brain Age instead. Oh, Call of Duty, honey, come on. It only made sense, two screens. And Xbox, and the DS was
made for these games. I find it weird how every
mainline Call of Duty from Call of Duty 4 all
the way to Modern Warfare 3 got DS versions. The Wii skipped out on Modern Warfare 2. The PSP only got one Call of Duty game and it was a spin-off from Call of Duty 3 back when the series
wasn't nearly as popular. What about the successor to the DS? The 3DS, it got no such thing
called the Call of Duty? These versions must've done pretty well and/or were easy and cheap to produce if they didn't skip a single beat. I mean, they all came
out the exact same day as the console versions like they were serious about these games. Well now I can finally say
I've played two versions of Call of Duty 4. Let's pile through these and
take them on a test drive. So all the Call of Duty games for the DS were developed by n-Space. You may know them for Geist, right. Please respond. During the DS era, they were the Kings of making first person
shooters for the platform. If you wanted an FPS on
the DS, you called n-Space. Their phones must have been
going off the (beep) hook. So Call of Duty 4:
Modern Warfare is pretty much a bizarro take on
the console versions. It has similar beats, but it
kind of does its own thing which I mean, they could have at least taken the story from the console versions. They could have taken a lot
from the console versions but they decided to make their own (beep) version of Call of Duty. Yeah. The Call of Duty DS developers. Yeah, those guys have integrity. I gotta hand it to them. It looks like (beep) (beep) but that's only because
of the console it's on. Like they make the most
of being on a console. Some people used as a cookbook. Things are relatively easy to decipher. It's not hard to look at. It just looks outdated and sad but that's just how it looks. How do you play a first
person shooter on a this? So we have a single D pad
everything's in order so far you can't play Call of
Duty without a D pad. This is how things are working. We move with the D pad,
aim with the touchscreen, shoot with the shoulder button. And if you have no clue
what this thing is and more so use this thing to write then you can move with
the face buttons instead. This control scheme isn't the worst. I mean for what it is, it's fine, it works but it's a control scheme
created out of limitations. Nobody says, this is great. I feel like I'm taking notes and that's all you can really say about Modern Warfare on the DS. It works and that's about it. They have these puzzles. You use the touchscreen on like
it's time to disarm a bomb. Did you bring your DS Stylus? I honestly, kind of like these things. I got a little bummed
out when I finished one because I meant I had to play the game. Other than that, I gotta be honest, I'm really scraping for
things to say at this point. I fell through the floor
and gave up 40 minutes in. See, this is the kind of game that's fine but you just feel like a
(beep) loser for playing. Did they Photoshop the
screenshots on the back. This is not what the game looks like. Well, hopefully World at
War picks up the slack. This is the same game. Literally, I really
can't tell the difference between these two is that bad. Listen, I may be known as the resident doesn't really play Call of Duty player, but I can at least generally
tell the difference between the games. And I would probably assume
this was World at War but if you told me this
was the bonus jungle stage in Modern Warfare 3, I would
nod my head like crazy. We don't have landmine
disarming mini games on the touchscreen. I really wish they'd make more
use of the DS's microphone. I always wanted to disarm
a bomb by yelling at it. So Modern Warfare feature, local
multiplayer for you to play with all your friends on
the bus, but no online. World at War fixes that
problem gracefully. You gotta be kidding me. You might want to be sitting for this but World at War DS doesn't
work online anymore. Well, my weekend's (beep). The next year n-Space returned with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 scratch that Call of Duty:
Modern Warfare Mobilized. Listen, I get putting a
subtitle on it because this is a separate entity from
the actual Modern Warfare 2 but why drop the 2. While online multiplayer's back is it currently online, give
me a B, give me a (beep). (beep) I do have to say the games
do improve as time goes on. It's obvious n-Space is
really getting a knack for putting large scale first
person shooters on the DS. The only problem is they're on the DS. The games consistently
keep running better. They look better. AI and design keeps improving. It's really nice to see but there's only so much
you can do with this thing. Look at the difficulty select,
each one is represented by this guy at different
stages of chewing. Now with Black Ops, we have a
glorious moment for society. They included a new
option when it comes to controlling the game. So I've had a Nintendo 3DS capture card for about a year now. You connect it to your
computer with a USB cable and bam, I can play my 3DS games here and on a computer screen, no hassle. Well, you know how things
are. Accidents do happen. What the (beep), it broke. Yeah, it stopped working so I had to turn to something. I just don't like doing. Yes, playing these games
on the Nintendo DS emulator after downloading copies of these games for free off the internet. What have I become? Now I do own every single
one of these games legally. and I don't think Activision
is sitting there going that son of a bitch, that son of a bitch, for downloading ROMs of Call of Duty: World at War on the DS. Pretty sure somebody
called Stalin existed. I heard he was pretty bad, but sure. I ganked Call of Duty games from the DS. Satan, save a spot for me down there. But playing these games on
the computer is wretched. To simulate using the touchscreen we have to click down on the
bottom screen and scrub around. You have to do this the
entire time to aim, it's hard. It's like this for the first three games. This is the only way you can control it. But with Black Ops moving forward they give you the option
to use the D pad to move and the face buttons to aim. So all we have to do is
pair a Bluetooth controller, map the buttons to the
analog sticks and bam, we can play Black Ops DS
like a regular Call of Duty. I still feel like a
(beep) loser playing this. Yes. Black Ops is a bit
more on the playable side of things on an emulator
and even on a normal DS it's definitely the best one so far. And when we move on to
Modern Warfare 3: Defiance, okay I got to ask, so these
two, you had subtitles, this one you took out the number and then this one, you brought it back. Why didn't any journalist ask Activision about the point of that? Also, what the hell kind of
a logo title screen is this, but yeah, it's probably
the best one of the bunch. I don't, I don't know. The Call of Duty games on
DS are totally worthless. Now, not in terms of monetary value but more so in terms of
what you get out of them. If anything, at all, they're
incredibly interesting parts of the Nintendo DS library. I'm not trying to
downplay any of n-Space's accomplishments with these titles. It's seriously impressive. They could create a Call of
Duty experience five times in a row without skimping
on the quality all too much. They legitimately did the
best they really could with the DS hardware. The fact they got full
blown, original campaigns with voice acting and online
slash local multiplayer on most, it shows they really cared. This wasn't some throwaway product to simply get Call of Duty on the DS. This was really about supplying DS owners with legitimate first person shooters. Back in the day I'd say these were solid pickups for DS fans if you wanted a first
person shooter on the go or just wanted more Call of
Duty, these weren't bad at all. Now the problem is it's 2019 and there is no reason to play these other than for novelty purposes. They aren't fun or interesting on their own to warrant picking them up. The only reason you'd ever
want to play these now is because it's Call of Duty on the DS. This must be terrible. You then play it and go, oh
God that wasn't bad at all. That was, I was just depressingly okay. I wish I could say more about
these games, but to be honest play an hour of one of these games you've played the entirety of them all. There's no real reason
to play these today other than for novelty purposes. And even then none of
these games are so bad. They're good are all too
interesting, to be honest. However, these games bring me back to a wonderful time where
developers wanted to put games like Call of Duty on hardware that had absolutely no business running it. It's honestly astonishing they could get games like
this to run on the DS. The visuals and sound are
pretty bad by today's standards but for the DS, they are fantastic. The controls work and these
games have quite a bit to them all, but I'll be dead in the grave if somebody ever catches me
playing Call of Duty on the DS. Oh, the past nine minutes. No, of course I wasn't playing
Call of Duty on the DS. I was just scratching two
brownies with a toothpick. Why would I be playing
Call of Duty on the DS? I would look like an idiot. (upbeat music)
Strangely enough, my friends and I in my high school science class talked about Call of Duty DS a lot for some reason.
Also... n-Space made geist as in the cancelled geist DS?
I'm so glad this video exists. The consoles I had were a hand me down PS1 from my cousin, a bootleg NES and a Wii so the only times I got to play Call of Duty games were when I went to my friends places. That being said, I did have a DS so when CoD came out on it, i immediately begged my parents for it and played a lot. I think I had World at War, Modern Warfare Mobilised and Black Ops.
My greatest achievement in gaming that nothing I've done since then has topped was in Call of Duty: Black Ops for the DS. I don't remember the exact map, it was some desert canyon with some rundown buildings and a trench of sorts in the canyon. There was a network of tunnels in the canyon walls on the far side of each map to maintain a sort of symmetry on the map. That was when from one side, from one opening in the tunnel, I somehow got a headshot with a pistol on someone in the tunnel opening on the other side and got a kill (pistols were weak but any headshot, no matter what was always 1 shot 1 kill).
So yeah, that's one fond memory I have of these games.