How to freshen up Call of Duty: Stop using Americans

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Hey, you could always play from the prospective of a Canadia- I'm sorry, I couldn't say it with a straight face. It is never happening.

Except it has already, years ago, in a Call of Duty game no less. Not a ton of missions but point was it was there. I think it even ended the Canadian section with going to reinforce the Poles from the Polish section of the campaign.

Which game was this? I never heard about it.

 

[razor343]

WW2 game from the Axis perspective.

Think about it.

I, for one, would love to see a Holocaust Tycoon game...

Okay I wouldn't but surely I'm not the only one that imagines such a game being made at some point, as heartless as it would be.

 

[GonvilleBromhead]

I'd personally think a game set in the First World War would be rather unique and refreshing.

 

[pirateninj4]

What about you're Hitler and it's an RTS? Where you win every battle and still lose?

Winning idea sir, and now back to you Shelly.

Thanks Tom, in other news from around the globe...

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I'd personally think a game set in the First World War would be rather unique and refreshing.

Yeah, sitting in a trench for 6 months would be riveting

 

[Gearhead mk2]

I put forward the idea of a game played from the perspective of a green-as-grass german man starting with the Nazi rise to power and ending with Russia's assualt on Berlin. We could get a good look at what the german people thought at the time, why people beleived and supported the Nazis, take a look at some of the more sympathetic Nazi figures, and how attitudes changed during the war. Make it have action-packed missions with the occasional pro/anti Nazi moral choice, then have a break between each one like in DE:HR so you can wander around and get a good look at the world and the people in it.

 

[WanderingFool]

WW2 game from the Axis perspective.

Think about it.

I think a game about the nazi side would be interesting.

Have it between two or three different characters: the hardcore facist soldier who becomes a member of the SS, A Hitler Youth idealist that fights for the fatherland while trying hard to ignore the atrocities the nazis commit, and an older soldier who is just fighting because he is. Than tell the events from each of their prospectives.

 

[DarkSoldier84]

I am Canadian. It's just the Yanks don't want to see us being awesome.

Ah, I see. It's hard to determine nationality on a message board.

Hey, you could always play from the prospective of a Canadia- I'm sorry, I couldn't say it with a straight face. It is never happening.

Except it has already, years ago, in a Call of Duty game no less. Not a ton of missions but point was it was there. I think it even ended the Canadian section with going to reinforce the Poles from the Polish section of the campaign.

Which game was this? I never heard about it.

Call of Duty 3, the only CoD game to feature Canadian and Polish player characters.

 

[realist1990]

Every year COD rolls around and just misses thousands of opportunities to make a good and ATMOSPHERIC campaign. They seemed to lose the art of that right after COD 2, and its a damn pity. Being sent into battle, ordered to run into the enemies line of fire, with a single bullet and no rifle... These moments were what made the earlier COD games outstanding.

that was a brilliant opener even though it ripped off "enemy at the gates" so hard.. mind you medal of honour frontline ripped off the opening of "saving private ryan"...maybe more games should rip off famous movie scenes

 

[DionysusSnoopy]

Hey, you could always play from the prospective of a Canadia- I'm sorry, I couldn't say it with a straight face. It is never happening.

Except it has already, years ago, in a Call of Duty game no less. Not a ton of missions but point was it was there. I think it even ended the Canadian section with going to reinforce the Poles from the Polish section of the campaign.

Which game was this? I never heard about it.

Call of Duty 3 you play as a Canadian. Pvt. Cole 4th Canadian Division.

 

[Korten12]

I'm one of those weirdos that bought MW3 and only played the singleplayer. On the whole I found it fun (even though it suffers from the same infuriating problems as its predecessors), but one thing really ticked me off.

See, the first mission is in New York, and you're playing as the Americans. So far, so standard. Next, you're with Price and the International stuff, again something expected. Then you get to the London level, and you're playing the SAS. So now I'm thinking that you're going to play as different nationalities throughout the game.

Nope, next level it's the Americans again. The Paris level? You don't see a single French unit around (sans 7 GIGN soldiers, who are only around for 2/3s of the first of the two Paris missions. The German levels? There are a few German tanks that show up in one tiny segment, but once again it's completely dominated by the Yanks.

There was a huge missed opportunity here! They could have shown us a much broader, intense spectrum of the whole conflict! We could have had some time playing the French, or the Polish or the Germans! Hell, what about the Czech resistance? They were awesome in that one level in Prague, why couldn't we play as them for a bit?

They had the chance to make this interesting, but instead it's all about America saving the day again. And quite frankly, I think they need to stop wanking over the stars and stripes.

But that's just my opinion. What do you think?

"wanking" - evidence OP is not American. so OP, are you just mad they didn't use your nationality in any of the levels?

Well actually that word's origin is british and in most of MW1/2/3 you control british troops. (Though you control the russian, Yuri, for the most part of 3)

 

[Ariseishirou]

Wait, what? Being able to play as more nationalities than just the Americans (fuck yeah) is what has separated CoD from the other realistic military shooters since the very first one came out like a decade ago.

 

[Thyunda]

I wrote a review on this game, and while I was mostly positive, the storyline REALLY fucked me up. I hated it. I hated that America batted away the Russians with one hand and then single-handedly liberated Europe. We got one SAS mission, during which they FAILED to stop a bomb.

It is ridiculous.

I loved World at War because I spent half the story, and the finale, as a Russian soldier. Not a damned American.

 

[w9496]

So like the guy above me pointed out, it's really Britain that's always saving the day, with the Americans only occasionally helping and getting themselves killed.

At the end, Sandman and his squad actually save the other characters(price/yuri) by holding the line so they can evac. i don't see how this classifies as "getting themselves killed".

 

[SnakeoilSage]

Hey, you could always play from the prospective of a Canadia- I'm sorry, I couldn't say it with a straight face. It is never happening.

That's just cute.

 

[GonvilleBromhead]

I'd personally think a game set in the First World War would be rather unique and refreshing.

Yeah, sitting in a trench for 6 months would be riveting

Heh, I appreciate that's the common perception, which may make it tricky to market. But cleverly done, it could be very good. You have a massive shift in tactics and technology, the introduction of weapon systems and all arms combat - by following it chronologically you already have a pretty decent difficulty curve. Naturally, you focus on the exciting parts and ignore the boring bits - like any other war game. Start as training with a Service (wartime Volunteer) battalion in 1915, a couple of minor 1915 style trench raids, the Somme, Messines, Third Ypres, Cambrai (as a tank crewman, perhaps), retreat in the face of operation michael, before finishing with the gruelling open warfare of the last 100 days.


Okay, I'm a WWI buff. I admit it.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I'd personally think a game set in the First World War would be rather unique and refreshing.

Yeah, sitting in a trench for 6 months would be riveting

Heh, I appreciate that's the common perception, which may make it tricky to market. But cleverly done, it could be very good. You have a massive shift in tactics and technology, the introduction of weapon systems and all arms combat - by following it chronologically you already have a pretty decent difficulty curve. Naturally, you focus on the exciting parts and ignore the boring bits - like any other war game. Start as training with a Service (wartime Volunteer) battalion in 1915, a couple of minor 1915 style trench raids, the Somme, Messines, Third Ypres, Cambrai (as a tank crewman, perhaps), retreat in the face of operation michael, before finishing with the gruelling open warfare of the last 100 days.


Okay, I'm a WWI buff. I admit it.

Sounds interesting. It's not like there's no room in the market for a decent WW1 shooter.

Still, we trench warefare so that the witty Blackadder jokes can roll in...

 

[Mr.Squishy]

I would like a WW 2 game where you're a young soldier who's forcefully drafted to fight for a cause the propaganda and your peers try and force down your throat as being 'the right thing', and this being WW 2, you wouldn't be exposed to much in the way of anything to convince you otherwise. Soon, you do the little square dance of bonding with your mates, and starting to see the world in terms more of black and white, and you believe that you're a noble soldier defending your home. All that business with the jews, you're either not told about, or too afraid to speak up about (The SS would quickly dispose of anyone deemed 'traitors', after all.) I doubt anyone would risk making the game so that one soldier could Hold sway over the outcome so that a severely fascist faction triumphed against forces that they only know as evil because the government tells them it is, I mean, that'd be downright stupid/despicable...(cough cough GoW cough Halo cough Killzone cough MW series =P.) Alright, so the last part is me being facetious, but really now, not every german soldier ate kittens, and Master Chief seems like an unquestioning, unfeeling tool that you point at people who disagree with you to make them go away.
*raises flame shield*