Modern Military Shooters BEFORE Modern Warfare

Ah, the early 2000s. When every military game was “Desert Storm Operation Ops Force”

“The video would be 100 minutes long” Don’t threaten me with a good time.

12:23 "Welcome to my nightmare." Said without a shred of irony, 100% sincerity. My God, I miss the 2003 days.

Frank Hayden saying “CRAP!!!” when he realized he can’t disarm the bomb in time, along with YEETING the bomb into a helicopter, is one of the funniest cinematic sequences in history

"The video would be 100 minutes long." I'm not hearing any complaints from our end Ray.

"sir, the texture has to be a png, not a jpeg if you want it transparent" "does it look like I know what a jpeg is? I just want my gun to have a God damn ironsight"

Incidente em Varginha was made by my game-design teacher. it's a mess, yes, but the man's a freaking legend here in Brazil. And moreover, game design has grown a lot, so it's small beginings. :)

I remember playing America's Army: True Soldier as a kid, it was the first shooter (or "gun game" as I called it) that I was allowed to play at like age 10. The only thing I remember is that they let you choose what state you were from, and that I was really upset that everyone called me Yankee for being from New England. I had no idea that was a word that existed outside of baseball. I sold it for like $4 at a yard sale, good times.

Frank Hayden, with a nuke about to go off: "Ah, beans."

I ain't gonna lie the Did X rip off Red Mercury gag got me good

Delta Force was absolutely mindblowing when it came out. Even running at 15 FPS and looking way way worse than what you capture today. But Delta Force was a total game changer and basically inspired the genre.

Oh man, I remember playing BLACK, it's one of the coolest game ever!

Hard to remember a time when Call of Duty was the gold standard of video games for the right reasons instead of the wrong ones.

"These cutscenes are trying so, SO hard." Pfft how hard they possibly hav- Steve Blum starts talking OH FUUUUU

I was so confused while watching the Delta Force: Black Hawk Down segment. I remembered it having ragdoll physics. With a quick Google search. I found multiple 2005 articles stating that "In game cutscenes, ragdoll physics, and realistic bullet penetration to buildings" were added in the PS2 version. ps. I only remember this so vividly because we would have 4 player split screen matches. Where everyone would meet up and C4 ourselves across the map. It was absolutely hilarious to us at the time. Great video by the way!

I remember owning and playing Shadow Ops: Red Mercury as a kid. And it holds fast as one of those fever dream games where I'm never really sure what it was, what happened or if it was ever even real.

That reveal about America's Army at the end truly got me. That's insane how someone thought that game was permissible after seeing what came just days prior.

"It's so vapid you'd think it was written by Godsmack" is a very good line.

Battlefield 2 always felt like the first big modern war game to me, and was pretty unusual for having China be one of the three main factions that put you in Asian theatres and maps over the more typical desert ME ones of the period. While it didn't seem to get as much limelight, the Special Forces expansion was neat for having the ability to operate NVGs on the fly as well.

I remember playing Delta Force 1 or 2 and man this game was damn hard. No healthbar no regeneration you die from a single or up to two bullets, large ass maps where you had to move on foot against enemies, motorized infantry, choppers etc Despite it was hard and old, the game still was very enjoyable!