History VideoGame / CallOfDutyWWII

* AnAdventurerIsYou: Classes in the Multiplayer select one of six divisions (five on launch, with one added via patches), specializing in a class of primary weapon and learning various perk-like bonuses over time.
** The Infantry division specializes in Rifles and Assault Rifles, attaching a bayonet to ones they carry. This functions as a quick melee attachment that gets one-hit kills from the front as well as granting bayonet charge, a burst of speed into a lunging stab. Learns bonuses that enhance their weapons and weapon use, such as more primary attachments and ammo stock, and faster speed while aiming down sights. Their prestige Basic Training, Scoped, gives you their enhanced ADS movement and less idle sway.
** The Airborne division specializes in Sub-Machine Guns, being able to attach and remove a suppressor and choose when to stay off radar or use the weapon's full range potential. Learns bonuses that enhance maneuverability and speed, such as increasing sprint speed and duration, and climbing over obstacles faster. Their Basic Training, Energetic, gives you increased sprint cooldown speed and removes fall damage.
** The Armored division specializes in Light Machine Guns, attaching a bipod to ones they carry. When resting the weapon on a surface they can manually mount it, drastically increasing accuracy and reload speed in exchange for limited turn radius and not being able to move. Learns bonuses that enhance resistance, such as reduced explosive damage, reduced fire damage and immunity to tactical grenades as well as the disorientation from explosions (known as shellshock). Hunker grants you the same resistance to explosives as Armored.
** The Mountain division specializes in Sniper Rifles, using the Sharpshooter ability to stabilize the scope, block out peripheral vision, and spot enemies easier. Learns bonuses that enhance stealth such as invisibility to Recon Planes and player-controlled streaks, and silent movement. Inconspicuous grants you quiet movement, as well as no movement penalty when crouched.
** The Expeditionary division specializes in Shotguns, allowing the manual loading of Incendiary shells that launch deadly flaming pellets that can burn enemies to death. Learns equipment based bonuses such as allowing them to pack more, to resupply them from enemies, and to throw them faster, farther, and while sprinting. Concussed gives you the ability to have two lethals and a concussion grenade on your class.
** The Resistance division specializes in Pistols, wielding them with a tactical knife attachment allowing for one-hit melee kills at a quick speed. Learns bonuses that enhance pistol use and close-range utility such as an extra secondary attachment, scrambling nearby enemy radar, and detecting the direction of nearby enemies. Shifty is a unique perk across the entire franchise, as not only does it give an additional pistol attachment, but it also reloads your pistol automatically upon switching to it, but also provides unlimited pistol ammunition.

** A number of weapons have their reload procedures altered, seemingly to streamline reloading. The [=Kar98k=], Lee Enfield and Springfield all only reload with stripper clips, even when there is ammo still in the magazine that makes it impossible for a full stripper clip's worth of ammo to fit (though this has been the way for clips since the original ''Call of Duty'', and for that matter every other game with clip-loaded firearms that doesn't pride itself on ridiculous realism), or when a scope is blocking the magazine[[note]]In which case, the reload will look like the soldier shoved a clip in diagonally. Compare with other [=CoD=] entries like ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'', in which scoped rifles can only reload by individual rounds[[/note]]. In the Lee-Enfield's case, it also reloads 10 rounds with just one 5-round clip, despite earlier games having it properly load with two clips. More than a few magazines were also depicted as being detachable when they're internal magazines that are not detachable, namely the Extended Magazine for the bolt-action rifles and the Kbsp wz. 38M.

* EliteMooks: Nazi Waffen SS troops start showing up in the last few levels. Realistically, they're not noticeably physically tougher than standard troops, but tend to be better equipped (often using the STG 44 assault rifle).

* AmericaWonWorldWarII: This game plays this trope straight unlike the original World War 2 ''Call Of Duty'' games which showed the British and the Red Army campaigns. The final level is [[spoiler:liberating a concentration camp]] in Germany, and after that the story concludes with everybody going home, no mention of how the Soviets took Berlin and forced Germany into surrendering.

* HollywoodHistory: The game plays AmericaWonWorldWarII straight unlike the original COD WWII games which showed the British and the Red Army campaigns. The final level is [[spoiler:liberating a concentration camp]] and after that the story concludes with everybody going home, no mention of how the Soviets took Berlin and forced Germany into surrendering.

* HollywoodHistory: The game plays AmericaWonWorldWarII straight unlike the original COD WWII games which showed the British and the Red Army campaigns. Related to that, the game focuses on the French resistance, which like most resistance movements in Europe, was of marginal military importance. The only truly effective resistance movement in the entire war, was in the Balkans, among the Yugoslavians. And even then, the Poles mounted the largest partisan operation in the entire war, the Greeks and the Italian partigiani were also more prominent and directly impactful in their respective turfs.

* RuleOfFun: As mention above in TheCoconutEffect, the game compresses the size of Omaha Beach to fit with people's preconceptions about it. The multiplayer Operation Neptune compresses the beach even further for gameplay purposes, creating a ludicrously short Omaha Beach at just ''30 meters''.

* RuleOfFun: As mention above in TheCoconutEffect, the game compresses the size of Omaha Beach to fit with people's preconceptions about it. The multiplayer Operation Neptune compresses the beach even further for gameplay purposes, creating a ludicrously short Omaha Beach at just ''50 meters''.

* BondVillainStupidity: The German Tank Commander that [[spoiler: fatally wounds Turner]] at the end of Hill 493 takes the time to monologue at Turner and Daniels instead of just shooting them, giving Daniels time to kill him with Turner's sidearm. Granted, the Tank Commander did need to stop to reload his gun, but keeps on talking even well after he finishes reloading.

** Knocked out tank equals dead crew members, right? Wrong. Daniels and Turner find this out the hard way when [[spoiler: the tank commander of a King Tiger emerges from his knocked out tank and badly wounds the latter]].

* BondVillainStupidity: The German Tank Commander that [[spoiler: fatally wounds Turner]] at the end of Death Factory takes the time to monologue at Turner and Daniels instead of just shooting them, giving Daniels time to kill him with Turner's sidearm. Granted, the Tank Commander did need to stop to reload his gun, but keeps on talking even well after he finishes reloading.

* AnachronismStew: Late in the opening cutscene for the second campaign mission, the tank commander mentions someone getting an Article 15. Article 15 is a chapter of the modern '''U'''niform '''C'''ode of '''M'''ilitary '''J'''ustice. The [=UCMJ=] wasn't created until 1950, 5 years after the war ended.

** The Armored division specializes in Light Machine Guns, attaching a bipod to ones they carry. When resting the weapon on a surface they can manually mount it, drastically increasing accuracy in exchange for limited turn radius and not being able to move. Learns bonuses that enhance resistance, such as reduced explosive damage, reduced fire damage and immunity to tactical grenades as well as the disorientation from explosions (known as shellshock). Hunker grants you the same resistance to explosives as Armored.

** The Infantry division specializes in Rifles and Assault Rifles, attaching a bayonet to ones they carry. This functions as a quick melee attachment that gets one-hit kills from the front as well as granting bayonet charge, a burst of speed into a lunging stab. Learns bonuses that enhance their weapons and weapon use, such as more primary attachments and ammo stock, and faster speed while aiming down sights.
** The Airborne division specializes in Sub-Machine Guns, being able to attach and remove a suppressor and choose when to stay off radar or use the weapon's full range potential. Learns bonuses that enhance maneuverability and speed, such as increasing sprint speed and duration, and climbing over obstacles faster.
** The Armored division specializes in Light Machine Guns, attaching a bipod to ones they carry. When resting the weapon on a surface they can manually mount it, drastically increasing accuracy in exchange for limited turn radius and not being able to move. Learns bonuses that enhance resistance, such as reduced explosive damage, reduced fire damage and immunity to tactical grenades as well as the disorientation from explosions (known as shellshock).
** The Mountain division specializes in Sniper Rifles, using the Sharpshooter ability to stabilize the scope, block out peripheral vision, and spot enemies easier. Learns bonuses that enhance stealth such as invisibility to Recon Planes and player-controlled streaks, and silent movement.
** The Expeditionary division specializes in Shotguns, allowing the manual loading of Incendiary shells that launch deadly flaming pellets that can burn enemies to death. Learns equipment based bonuses such as allowing them to pack more, to resupply them from enemies, and to throw them faster, farther, and while sprinting.
** The Resistance division specializes in Pistols, wielding them with a tactical knife attachment allowing for one-hit melee kills at a quick speed. Learns bonuses that enhance pistol use and close-range utility such as an extra secondary attachment, scrambling nearby enemy radar, and detecting the direction of nearby enemies.

* AKA47: While most guns use some variation of their real name (some more generic than others, like the Winchester Model 1897 being called the "Combat Shotgun"), the MP 28 gets the very bizarre rename of "Waffe 28", which means "Weapon 28" in German.

* AnAdventurerIsYou: Classes in the Multiplayer select one of five divisions, specializing in a class of primary weapon and learning various perk-like bonuses over time.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Turner, after being gutshot, willingly stays behind to hold off the German advance while his men retreat from Hill 294.]]

* ForeignCussWord: Like all ''Call of Duty'' games, this game don't shy away from this. One notable instance is when Perez shouts "Mierda", as well as this exchange in the church basement entrance.

* SergeantRock: Pierson actually starts the game off like this, being far more reasonable and even complimenting and showing concern for Zussman after he comes back from his stab wound. It's only during the battle of Hill 294 that he goes off the rails.

** A number of weapons have their reload procedures altered, seemingly to streamline reloading. The [=Kar98k=], Lee Enfield and Springfield all only reload with stripper clips, even when there is ammo still in the magazine that makes it impossible for a full stripper clip's worth of ammo to fit (though this has been the way for clips since the original ''Call of Duty'', and for that matter every other game with clip-loaded firearms that doesn't pride itself on ridiculous realism), or when a scope is blocking the magazine[[note]]In which case, the reload will look like the soldier shoved a clip in diagonally. An apt comparison is with the older entries set in WWII like ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'', in which scoped rifles can only reload by individual rounds[[/note]]. In the Lee-Enfield's case, it also reloads 10 rounds with just one 5-round clip, despite earlier games having it properly load with two clips. More than a few magazines were also depicted as being detachable when they're internal magazines that are not detachable, namely the Extended Magazine for the bolt-action rifles and the Kbsp wz. 38M.

* ForeignCussWord: Like all ''Call of Duty'' games, this game don't shy away from this. One notable instance is when Perez shouts 'Mierda' and in the church basement entrance.

'''German Soldier:'' ''Scheiße!''

** While they may seem like examples of ImproperlyPlacedFirearms, the Soviet [=PPSh=]-41 and SVT-40 were indeed used by the [[https://ww2militaria.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/ppsh_germanforces.jpg Germans]], as they had captured thousands of examples on the Eastern Front. Some of the captured [=PPShs=] were rechambered to fire 9mm rounds, and used under the designation [=MP41(r)=], while the unmodified guns, re-designated as [=MP717(r)=], were fed 7.63x25mm Mauser rounds with no issue. The SVT-40s saw widespread use under the designation G.259(r), as Germans were short of self-loading rifles, with the weapon itself serving as the basis/inspiration for the Walther [=G43=] self-loading rifle.

* AnachronismStew: Late in the opening cutscene for the second campaign mission, the tank commander mentions someone getting an Article 15. Article 15 is a chapter of the modern '''U'''niform '''C'''ode of '''M'''ilitary '''J'''ustice. The [=UCMJ=] wasn't created until 1950. 5 years after the war ended.

** Apparently, modern ''Call of Duty'' multiplayer requires there to be at least one semi-automatic shotgun with a detachable magazine. However, there are no shotguns during WWII that are like that (the concept is a very modern development), so the developers gave the Toggle Action fully fictional detachable magazines, replacing the weapon's own [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfiahO3vfAc unique internal tube magazine]].
** A number of weapons have their reload procedures altered, seemingly to streamline reloading. [=Kar98k=], Lee Enfield and the Springfield all only reload with stripper clips, even when there is remaining ammo in the magazine that makes it impossible for a stripper clip's worth of ammo to fit (though this has been the way for clips since the original Call of Duty), or when a scope is blocking the magazine[[note]]In which case, the reload will look like the soldier shoved a clip in diagonally. An apt comparison is with the older entries set in WWII like ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'', in which scoped rifles can only reload by individual rounds[[/note]]. In Lee Enfield's case, it also reloads 10 rounds with just one 5-round clip. More than a few magazines were also depicted as being detachable when they're internal magazines that are not detachable, namely the Extended Magazine for the bolt-action rifles and the Kbsp wz. 38M.

* ForeignCussWord: Like all ''CallOfDuty'' games, this game don't shy away from this. One notable instance is when Perez shouts 'Mierda' and in the church basement entrance.
--> Daniels: ''Shit!''
--> German Soldier: ''Scheiße!''

* JerkassHasAPoint: Pierson is an asshat, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold (most of the time)]] but he's not wrong when he tells Turner that the mission comes first and that all of them are expendable. [[RealityEnsues Or when he tells Daniels that his maverick attitude isn't going to fly.]]

** Despite most rifle extended magazines in the game are incorrectly depicted as being detachable, the M1 Garand is one of the few cases where it is appropriate, since [[https://forgottenfirearms.blogspot.jp/2011/03/bizarre-offspring-of-m1-garand.html there are]] experimental variants with detachable BAR magazines. Some of these eventually evolved into the M14.

** Despite the game featuring many cases where the extended magazine for a rifle is incorrectly depicted as being detachable, the M1 Garand is one of the only cases where it is appropriate, since [[https://forgottenfirearms.blogspot.jp/2011/03/bizarre-offspring-of-m1-garand.html there are]] experimental variants with detachable BAR magazines. Some of these eventually evolved into the M14.