Where Are The WW1 Games?

[insamity]

A tower defense type game where you build trenches, place defences like barbed wire and choose positions for soldiers would be cool. It would make a change from you standard fps war game too.

 

[HerrBobo]

I think it could work if it was done right.

First the game would have to be set on the Westren Front as it is the only one that people care about.

1914 and (late)1917-1918 could be mobile warfare, a slower version of Call of Duty. However in 1918 there were SMGs so combat would be a little faster. 'Nades would be very important in all sections of the game. There would also have to be a very good hand to hand combat system, as that is how most of the fighting took place in the trenches.

There would be more then just rushes over the top. You could include raids of enemy trenches at night for food and prisioners, patrols, wire duty, runners back to the CP, ect.

 

[nolongerhere]

If it avoided trench warfare, it could have potential. If it involved trench warfare, then all I could say was that it better do a good job of showing exactly how horrifying that was.

 

[Harlemura]

I don't think we need any more war games at all.
We already have a bizillion World War 2 games, it won't kill us if we don't have another bizillion based on another war set in a different time.

 

[Ashbax]

You obviously don't know much about the fist world war.
We sat in trenches for weeks at a time, up to our arses in rainwater, got trench foot and a string of other hidious illnesses and ailments. When we went over the fucking top we were instructed, not to run, but to bloody well walk, at a measured pace, into a great line of machineguns.
This does not sound like good gameplay to me. it sound go aweful. Objective 1 - stand here for a week and don't scream to loudly if you get shellshock, or shot. Objective 2 - catch trenchfoot (this will probably happen alongside objective one, but it depends where youre standing I suppose). Objective 3 - recieve some god-aweful orders from someone who should have been hung with their own intestines for their gross incompetance.

I call shenanigans. If you were in the first world war you would be about a hundred years old, so if thats true im not sure you would be on the escapist.

 

[simmeh]

I think maybe the reason it hasn't been done is because a WW1 game would have to be more about atmosphere rather than action, and creating a good atmosphere in a game is a whole lot harder than creating good action.

Also, I think people's perceptions of WW1 are coloured by movies like All Quiet on the Western Front and Gallipoli. While it's true that many battles in WW1 were just men being thrown into a mire of misery under a hail of bullets and artillery shells, there were standout battles that would make for an interesting scenario. There are four years worth of fighting on several fronts to work with here. Any competent developer wouldn't have a problem picking out enough battles to make a complete game

 

[Ashbax]

Also, (Im too lazy too edit earlier post) The bayonet charges would be fun. I actually asked my friends about this exact topic a few days ago ("I hope COD7 is WW1") Id love storming those trenches...And bayoneting the SH*T out of everything.

 

[farmerboy219]

"the darkness" had a few ww1 levels in 1st person shooter.

 

[Ashbax]

also, Last post, (XD) There was a WW1 game, I remember, it was a flight sim for the original xbox...You could use zeppelins and everything. it was great ^^

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Dear god...wall of text.
A game based on the final German offensive of early 1918 and the final victorious allied offensive a few months later could work.
The war was pretty mobile by then, bringing in coordinated artillery, infantry, tank and air attacks. The walk at the enemy guns tactic had been abandoned by the European armies by then. Also weapons such as the German MP18 SMG began showing up.

The main problem I think is the marketability and public perception.

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

The WW1 games are dead, as is the search button.

I've seen threads about this before...a lot.

 

[Plauged1]

MUSTasch

That's not how my Firefox says it's spelled.

We will listen to Firefox when it grows a MUSTASCHE!!!=P

I wouldn't mind a WWI game. Break from the mold, but I would much rather have a Vietnam or Korean war game. Either way, WWII is done and old and needs to be dropped out of the gaming industry forever. But that is never going to happen...=(

 

[quack35]

World War I was kinda boring.

 

[Xerosch]

I hope all WW1 games are buried somewhere where noone can reach them. Seriously, how many FPS in a brown/green/gray environment do you want?

 

[Knight Templar]

Ground warfair?

As I have said in one of the other threads asking "why no WW1 games" ( by the way search next time):

Yeah that'd be great fun, you sit in a ditch I sit in and ditch, we both throw grnades and nobody moves for 6 months.
I'll admit there could be some fun aspects, but not enought to strech into a full/fun game. Again I'm talking ground war here.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

It has come to my attention that there are no games for the next gen consoles (or for that matter no ones spring to mind for the 6th gen either) based ion World War One. Now before you state to me this is because there was no real tactic used in WW1 besides over the top think about it, in the later years the German storm troopers were first introduced, bringing in the blitz tactic which has influenced wars since, or maybe create a RTS, you playing a commander you are given a situation of trenches and have to decide what artillery bombardment to use and for how long (obviously ammo limits would be present) and the which advances on which lines aswell as new trenches dug and defences layers, and, if in later war, where to try and place underground mines to destroy the enemy, it would be really cool, a kind of WW1 fought using modern day hindsight, or maybe a Battlefield 2 feel where you are in a rush and every time your character is killed you go into another view (Im not sure how else to explain it but if you have played the game you know what I mean). Also the landscape lends itself to easy creation, because the majority of the war was fought less then 1 mile either side of the trench line it would be relatively simple to create a very long line or trenches which gave the idea of massive open world whilst being still possible to develop. Also it really lends itself to the gritty realism part of game, imagine a game where you had to stumble around a trench in the dark hearing explosions cracking the air and men with missing limbs lying around bleeding to death, its horrific much more so, in my opinion, then anything else in games (mainly because it actually happened). WW1 was also the introduction of aviation in battle and yet (to my knowledge as a non-flight sim fan) there have been no games on it. Im not saying all war games should be WW1, but I find it very pecular that no major companys have developed a game on a war which is as big as World War 2 in Europe (and very arguable directly caused the second world war). I would like to hear your opinions on a WW1 based game, is it possible, would it be entertaining, is there one already out there?

I once had a chat about this with some mates of mine, and we decided that there isn't much variety to the gameplay:

Run across field
Get shot at
Retreat
Repeat until dead

 

[mikecoulter]

MUSTasch

That's not how my Firefox says it's spelled.

We will listen to Firefox when it grows a MUSTASCHE!!!=P

I see what you mean there....

Like, you would really listen if Earl told you something:

I would.

 

[jBrereton]

Dear god...wall of text.
A game based on the final German offensive of early 1918 and the final victorious allied offensive a few months later could work.

Not really.

"Germans lay down loads of smoke and then shell you a bit before stormtroopers polish you off" for the first bit, "shoot or capture German teenagers" for the next bit. Bleuch.

A "proper" Great War game would involve you basically randomly dying now and then after some arsehole shells your trench. A Great War flight-sim would be a crashathon, and the tank combat was not so hot.