A New Direction for WW2 Games

[sgtshock]

The only WWII games I'd buy now are ones about the war from a German army soldier or French/Italian resistance point of view, in an almost Splinter Cell style of gameplay, minus the linearity.

I'm hoping that someone will come out with a good WWI (THERE WAS A WORLD WAR ONE? GASP.) game someday soon, though. That would be a welcome change of scenery.

You know why there was never a WWI game? Because WWI was nothing but trench warfare.

Imagine the Red Square level in the first Call of Duty (charging suicidally through an open field into machine gun fire and artillery). Now imagine that level, over and over and over, with maybe a break now and then in the form of a shooting gallery where the enemy charges at you. With virtually no change in scenery. That would be a WWI game.

 

[Argentavis]

A Call of Duty/Medal of Honor style FPS where you play as either a German soldier fighting the Russians in the Eastern Front, another German soldiers fighting the Brits and US in the Western Front, and a Japanese soldier fighting the US in the islands. The Axis powers win the war here.

I even have an idea on how will everything go:
Chapter 1: you start as the EF German. You have to break the stalemate of Stalingrad, finally conquering the city. Eventually you destroy Moscow and the Kremlin.
Chapter 2: you play as the Japanese soldier. Repel the US forces attacking Iwo Jima. Then, after retaking the isles, you take Hawaii and prepare for the invasion of the US mainland.
Chapter 3: you play as the WF German. You have to repel the Brits and US forces from what parts of France they managed to retake, including conquering the beaches of Normandy where it all started. You participate in Operation Sealion, the invasion of England, which succeeds.
Chapter 4: you switch between the Japanese and WF soldiers as the invasion of the US takes place. This chapter (and the game) ends up with the WF soldier waving the flag over the White House.

 

[daywalker1776]

personally, I think a cool idea for a WWII game would be as follows. The first two missions have you as a German and Russian in Stalingrad at the height of the bloodshed. Then, out of nowhere, aliens come and demand that all combating nations need to stand down to their rule or suffer dire consequences. For the rest of the game, you play alternating roles as the German soldier and Russian soldier fighting the aliens together. At the climax, you hijack a vessel belonging to them, intercept the "mother ship" and kill the leader. This would prompt them to leave us, but they leave a message stating that they were simply trying to protect the world from this war from developing and it is reviled that the humans attacked first, making us the antagonists in the end. Of course you would encounter Americans, Japanese, British, French, ect.

 

[balimuzz]

Who cares? It's WWII. Can't we just agree that that generation of FPSs is behind us and just move on already? Has COD4 taught us nothing? It obviously hasn't. COD:WAW is evidence of that.

 

[Grumbly]

I think a WWI would be a very cool change of pace. However, the little problem of realism might crop up when the players get wasted over and over by massive amounts of artillery. Oh, and don't forget the machine guns...

 

[dragonflygirl]

ok i have been thinkg for a few mins and have come up with a storyline of sort
In the year 2027 the world is under nuclear war, many nations and countryies have been distroyed, its is only America, Russia and china ( as they are the top 3 countries most like to start the nuclear war)left in the war able to continue thier fighting. With the world going to end, the rest of the world have team together to create a time machine that would take you before WW3 to try and stop it from happening. But something goes wrong and u end up in ww2 ( or a time just b4 ww2). while trying not to get yourself in the bloodybath of ww2. u come to the conclusion that u could change ww2 history and therefore stop ww3 and the end of the world. But you soon find out that someone is trying to stop you from changing history. After decideding or not deciding to change history u find out that the person tring to stop u is your olderself trying stop u from making the biggest mistake or either changing or not changing history.
With the overall conclusion being you can not change the past or the furture, u can only change the present, what happens will happen and nothing can change that. if the world is going to end it is going to end.

P.s please forgive me spelling mistakes and poor grammar

 

[Pyre00]

The only WWII games I'd buy now are ones about the war from a German army soldier or French/Italian resistance point of view, in an almost Splinter Cell style of gameplay, minus the linearity.

I'm hoping that someone will come out with a good WWI (THERE WAS A WORLD WAR ONE? GASP.) game someday soon, though. That would be a welcome change of scenery.

You know why there was never a WWI game? Because WWI was nothing but trench warfare.

Imagine the Red Square level in the first Call of Duty (charging suicidally through an open field into machine gun fire and artillery). Now imagine that level, over and over and over, with maybe a break now and then in the form of a shooting gallery where the enemy charges at you. With virtually no change in scenery. That would be a WWI game.

This is why a WWI game would never work, the war is so poorly understood by most people it's pathetic.

 

[Svenparty]

Personally there is enough WW2 era imagery in non war games. Every single evil villian type army in games is based on the Nazis,though I don't think it would be fun if the Combine/Enclave etc would just be cuddling up to you.

The most interesting WW2 videogame conceptually is Turning Point:Fall of Liberty which actually turned out to be SHIT.

 

[matnatz]

That's exactly why I've being thinking about Rowan Atkinson, i read about the ideas for a fifth series on wikipedia a few days ago.(When trying to find out where they filmed Blackadder the first)
Though they were considering having it about a music band called the Black Adder 5 i remember.
Though it's unlikely they'll ever bother since Hugh Laurie is doing well as "Doctor House"

Very true. Baldrick was going to be the drummer called Bald Rick .

Go for something a little out there and away from the been there done that of WW2 shooters.

You could make a Fighting Jack Churchill [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill] game.

He fought with a sword. Not some POS fencing sword but a fucking claymore! He also got WWIIs only kill with a bow and arrow.

Like Braveheart stranded in Saving private Ryan.

He was gutted when WWII ended as he'd not kicked enough ass yet. He thought he could get another 10 years of war in if the yanks hadnt turned up. Epic levels of badassery.

That's the most awesome thing in the history of awesome.

 

[matnatz]

When I mentioned WW1 I was actually thinking of a strategy game.

 

[LornMind]

The only WWII games I'd buy now are ones about the war from a German army soldier or French/Italian resistance point of view, in an almost Splinter Cell style of gameplay, minus the linearity.

I'm hoping that someone will come out with a good WWI (THERE WAS A WORLD WAR ONE? GASP.) game someday soon, though. That would be a welcome change of scenery.

You know why there was never a WWI game? Because WWI was nothing but trench warfare.

Imagine the Red Square level in the first Call of Duty (charging suicidally through an open field into machine gun fire and artillery). Now imagine that level, over and over and over, with maybe a break now and then in the form of a shooting gallery where the enemy charges at you. With virtually no change in scenery. That would be a WWI game.

This one speaks truth. The trench warfare of WWI, while incredibly brutal wouldn't translate well into games for the reasons mentioned above.

The game would essentially be dying over and over again until at last you broke through by a mere stroke of luck.

 

[VoltySquirrel]

Maybe a game where you are a jewish man stuck in Auschwitz, and you have to escape and help the others

Wasn't a Great Escape game made? It's the same thing, its just POWs instead of starving jews.

 

[suhlEap]

i personally think it doesn't get any better than blitzkrieg 2. play as either the soviets or the nazis! i may not want to be a nazi in real life, but why does noone want to make a game where you play as one?

 

[VoltySquirrel]

sorry to break it to you, but sabatour IS velvet assassin.
For some stupid reason they thought the super bad ass open world/black and white thing wasn't cool i guess, so they changed it to velvet assassin.
But yea its pretty cool. i'll be preordering it ASAP.
I totally agree with the saving private ryan though. they should do some of the romanticized WWII stuff, OR if they try to keep it real they should bring the focus onto other groups, such as the Russians, or maybe resistance fighters. Hell, even africa would be cool. or playing the axis powers...

Same mechanics, different game. Pandemic's doing Saboteur, while South Peak's doing Velvet Assassin. The original title of Velvet was Sabatoge though.

 

[Ghostkai]

a WWII theme mixed with Gears of War? on the Eastern front? A a Russian?
It has to be bloody, violent and gritty.

And damn hard.

 

[Sev72]

I feel like the gaming industry moves through phases... You know, WWII games, generic space marine games ripping off alien and the like. Thats not to say those games produced to suit that phase is bad, its just nice to be in a new setting once and a while. On that note, I would like to see a mech/steampunk (steampunk mech, so steamdriven exoskeloton suit things) game...just because that would be awesome

 

[RAKais]

I feel the only direction WW2 FPSs can go is MMOFPS, in my opinion

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

It seems that game developers forget that Australians and New Zealanders fought and died in World Wars as well as the British and Americans.
Why can't they do a WW2 game where you play as an Australian regiment fighting back the Japanese on the steamy slopes of the Papua New Guinea highlands?

 

[dahmerszombies]

I'd like another Sniper Elite game for the PS3/ 360.
The original was nails, a real change from the usual run 'n' gun.

FTW

 

[Sporky111]

Heres a new direction for WW2 games: