Unused World War 2 Settings

[Hellsen]

I don't know why the developers haven't used much of the lesser known WWII campaigns that have taken place in the European and African continents. However I can understand why they wouldn't use the Second Sino-Japanese War even though it's an atmospheric and emotion gold mine. The problem with Second Sino-Japanese War is that if it's setting is developed into a game now it would stir up quite a bit of a controversy( namely the international political shit storm type). Since that both participant of that war is suffering from some sort of amnesia, one of them cant remember who actually fought for them in the war, the other one is claiming that the war didn't even happen at all.

 

[Ovoon]

I seriously lold when you said that they market WW2 games by having the major campaigns be American campaigns and not Canadian. How much WW2 history do you know exactly? The Canadian forces were few, and not influential in the victory. So when they had a few levels in CoD 3, I was surprised. And I was also interested in knowing more on what the other allied nations did. Either way, I wouldn't mind an African Campaign or Battle of the Bulge. However, I think the reason why people are being turned off by WW2 games lately isn't because of the repetitious battle usage. But how the games are played out. Honestly, WW2 has FAR more artistic value than "historic battles". What game studios should be doing, is recreating an interactive experience in the style of Band of Brothers or Saving Private Ryan. Brothers in Arms attempts this with the story, but I really don't like that series. In short, theres still potential in WW2 games, they're just not being utilized for artistic value, and instead are being used for "action movie" value. And that gets old.

 

[dday4you]

singapore! cause thats where i live. but the british didnt really put up that much of a fight for us so there isnt much to show

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I have a better question. Why no World War 1 games?

Imagine the mechanics that would need to be in place for things like disease and, filth. Didn't the flu kill more people in WW1 than actual gunshots, bombs and, gas? I could be very wrong but I would still play a WW1 game. Surprised there hasn't been a big one yet.

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How about a colorful Kart-racing game in which you play as one of the nations from the war and then take on a Wacky Races/ Mario Kart sort of campaign? America, Italy, France (or rather, the resistance), Germany, Japan, etc...all shrunken down and made to race around in tracks taking their inspiration from Normandy or, Stalingrad etc. The Nuke can be a power up!

 

[gravitii]

VICHY FRANCE ALL THE WAY BABY!! Few people even know about that, and in short it's described as the french who sided with the nazis, but it's actually way more complicated than that. It would be interesting. The same goes for the battle between axis and allied Italian forces.


If one wanted to throw realism completely out the window one could make a campaign about the race between American and Russian forces to steal German space technology as the war comes to a close, climaxing to a level where a remaining desperate group of german soldiers and scientist are trying to hold off American (or perhaps more general, the soon to be capitalist Western powers) soldiers on one side and Russian (respectively communist Eastern powers) on the other, until they can charge up "the bell" and hopefully escape to another dimension, at which point all hell could break loose. Again this would be a very camp game and would be meant to not be realistic in any way, although it could be used to describe the straining politics between America and Russia at the end of WWII with the cold war on it's way.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Apparently the last calvery charge ever was by the Polish, towards a MG42 thats mowed them all down, in 1939. And alot or nasty shit happened in China as well. Hmm, what about the bombing of Dunkirk?

To my knowledge, the last real successful cavalry charge was the charge of the Australian Light Horse at the battle of Beersheba in 1917. Could make for an interesting mission in a WWI game.

That was part of the Palestine campaign and the last successful mounted (light horse weren't cavalry they were mounted infantry) charge against fortified positions. My great-grandfather was a Light Horseman and fought in that battle.

 

[Neverhoodian]

What about protecting/attacking convoys in the Atlantic or Pacific? Lots of mucking about with submarines, and other things.

Actually, there have been several such games over the years:

-Aces of the Deep
http://www.subsim.com/ssr/commandaces.html

-Wolf Pack
http://www.subsim.com/ssr/wolfpack.html

-Silent Hunter series:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SilentHunterSeries

-Silent Service 1 and 2:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Service_%28video_game%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Service_II

With all the WWII flight games over the years, I'm surprised there hasn't been one about the "Flying Tigers." You'd think the setting and story about a small group of mercenaries standing up to the might of Imperial Japan would be a no-brainer for a compelling combat flight sim.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

singapore! cause thats where i live. but the british didnt really put up that much of a fight for us so there isnt much to show

Well, to be fair(-ish), no one expected the Imperial Japanese Army to basically bicycle down the Malaysain Peninsula and the greatest threat was seen as coming from the sea, so all the defence was aimed at repelling a seaborne invasion... and, of course, if they'd gone for a more balanced defence and a seaborne invasion did come and stomp them good, they'd get criticised for wasting resources 'defending against imaginary threats'.

Also, the British and Commonwealth soldiers did put up a hell of a fight... just that the British command had even less balls than it had brains.

 

[Tiger Sora]

The Balklands resistance. Scandinavia. Southeast Asia. I'd also like to see the Ottomans now Turkey fighting the French and British in WW1. A WW1 fighter plane game like Secret Weapons Over Normandy would be cool to.

 

[Goldeneye1989]

Kokoda track, Seriously.

I would also like to see some Australian based stuff

 

[itsausernamewhatofit]

Apparently the last calvery charge ever was by the Polish, towards a MG42 thats mowed them all down, in 1939. And alot or nasty shit happened in China as well. Hmm, what about the bombing of Dunkirk?

secret weapons over normandy had the bombing of dunkirk. Man i loved that game.

 

[ChocoFace]

I'd play the shit out of a Winter War game as one of the finnish.

 

[Jewrean]

Australia - Gallipoli or Kokoda.

But what I would really like to see is a FPS from the point of view of the resistance farmers and villagers in Poland. Here check #1 on cracked:

http://www.cracked.com/article_19220_the-6-most-badass-weapons-ever-improvised-in-battle_p2.html

 

[Valiant The Gamer]

Maybe a game like 'WW2: Battles of the small'
Could include all those to small wars/ theaters like Battle For Holland(Dutch toke down 1/3 of the Luftwaffe).
Or how the Germans blitzkrieged into France as the Germans.
Because i really want to play as a German once.

 

[Death_Korps_Kommissar]

I'd love to see a free French campaign, were youplay as Frances African corps fro their colonies and it ends with you preparing for D-Day and being told that it's for whites only.
That could be really interesting, I'm thinking of something along the lines of the film days of glory, I think it was called.

 

[Lawyer105]

The biggest unused WW2 setting?

Giving the hell up and making something bloody else at long goddamn last!

Seriously? What's with the endless wave of cloned WW2 games? I think the big Y was probably right when he said that most games companies are American, and WW2 was the last time America had any relevance in a "real" war.

 

[Khravv]

I think a game about the American volunteer pilots who helped defend china would make for a pretty good fighter combat sim.