Poll: Would you play a game about the American Revolution?

[Canadamus Prime]

Only if I get to choose my side so I don't have to play as the Americans.

Yes... but I would preffer it to be an RPG similar to Oblivion or Fallout in design, with the ability to join the faction of your choice as you progress through the historical setting (British, Americans... Iroquois.... PIRATES!)

Also, I would require the mechanics to allow a backflip tomahawk kill ablility...

Yeah something like that would do nicely. I think I'd join the Iroquois.

 

[L1gh7Sp33d]

They could probably make a game like that pretty fun, assuming they took some creative liberties with the fire rate of muskets (as the Civil War game did).

If the game was based from the American perspective, the action might be loaded towards the end of the game, because the Americans spent the first few years of the war just running from the British, winning a few battles here and there.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Absolutely, if there was a good story behind it, also a great way to educate kids further.

But it needs to be done right, don't just slap CoD with some muskets and call it the best game evar.

 

[Dark1Elder]

It just occurred to me that outside of the strategy genre, there are few - if any - games about or set during the American Revolutionary War. Frankly, I think this is a rich subject and open to a variety of different styles of play.

Further discussion: What sort of game would you make about the Revolution?

There actually already was atleast 1 game based on the revolutionary war between The Union and the Confederacy
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/3/933873_77015_front.jpg

 

[Zorpheus]

Everyone is complaining about the theoretical reload times and all of that for a revolutionary war FPS. I have the perfect solution! Make reloading the gun an accurate experience by requiring quicktime events to simulate the process!

... wow, that would be the most annoying game ever.

 

[The Youth Counselor]

the revolution had a good history but you have to look at it logically from a publishers perspective:

-if the game were to be a FPS then the guns would have to take over a minute to reload and have horrible accuracy even at close range (like playing CoD4 using sniper rifles from the hip essentially)
-the only market interested in a revolution type game would be the people from that nation (US citizens would be the ones most interested in the US revolution game)
-if it were an rts then the number of units would be very small in number by only allowing cavalry, infantry, and artillery
-while the fights back then were brutal, they were slow (sieges would last days) and battle formations and trench warfare were huge back then (playing as a soldier poping his head out of a trench every few minutes to shoot isnt very entertaining and standing in a line waiting for your turn to should is dull)

in truth, i would love to play a game set during the american revolution but i think it is simply impossible to do this without horrible mechanics

There is a Half-Life multiplayer mod was known as The Battlegrounds [bgmod.com]. It was a first person shooter with guns that took almost a minute to reload and had horrible accuracy even at close range. Even for it's time and as a free mod, it had terrible graphics.

Yet it is my favorite Half-Life 1 multiplayer mod of all time.

It's a different type of shooter, and hard to get into, but it has a dedicated community and the most teamwork I've ever seen in a FPS. Because of the horrible accuracy and reloading times of the guns, everyone would form complicated line and column formations because it can sometimes take an entire squad to bring down a single man. The coordination in that game was amazing. Entire teams would fire their single bullets simultaneously, and charge simultaneously to clash bayonets, swords, and knifes.

Compare that to the average FPS with team deathmatch, which just means there are some other guys you don't shoot while you run around on your own trying to boost your own score.


^^The above isn't a rare occurrence with a clan in a private server. That happens all the time in a game of BG.

 

[nbamaniac]

A great idea for this would be you would play as one of the British soldiers being shipped as reinforcements in the States. Then the game would reach its climax when the ship you're in hits an iceberg. This then culminates into a Shakespeare-esque drama with your lover (who for some reason, is with you in the voyage) as the ship slowly sinks. The game ends when the ship splits in half, the stern goes vertical and finally sinks, you die of hypothermia and your gal survives.

Wait....

 

[Jimmy T. Malice]

If it's Assassin's Creed, then yes.