why are there no WW1 games?

[Voicuboyy]

a shooter ww1 game would be pretty interesting and fun

 

[AceDefective]

Trench warfare wouldn't be the most fun thing in a game.

This

On a second thought, it could prolly work for an RTS game

Empire earth is all the time in the world

 

[Inverse Skies]

WWI was a shocking travesty when it came to warfare and how it was fought. It involved sitting around in trenches being shot to pieces by mortar fire/chemical attacks, and when you did charge it was through muddy barb-wire ridden fields with nothing but machine guns facing you. It wouldn't work as a game, there's no movement or goal. They just sat there the whole time. The Western Front virtually didn't move from 1914 onwards, and the Eastern Front only moved because the Bolshevicks overthrew the Tsar in 1917 and pulled Russia out of the war. It wasn't a pretty war at all.

 

[Oopsie]

I would love to see one. I for one absolutely loved the medal of honour hoen where you stormed the beach. Chaos, I love it.

 

[PureChaos]

no-one really known about WW1. well, they know about the war but people know more about WW2 than they do about WW1. something people tend to not know: WW2 was against the Nazis, what was WW1 against?

the germans xD

yes, but what was the reason for it? everyone knows about the concentration camps, invasion of Poland but not many people know the details of WW1 (though someone did say what happened in a previous reply)

d'oh I know what happened it was just ya' know a funny reply being Nazi's and germans the same people

ACTUALLY IT'S OUR FAULT that ww2 happened because the nazi party rose thanks to the anger of the german people at the large fines we put on them for partly causing WW1

oh i see, i'm with you now. i'm a bit slow these days (most days, asctually).
well if they hadn't started WW1 to begin with, they wouldn't have been given the fines in the first place.

 

[sadpolice]

http://fangaming.com/gameinfo.php?gameid=487

This is a new game which is as far as I know on demo, its set in WWI and looks pretty good.

 

[Jake0fTrades]

I wouldn't mind playing WWI game if it showed the game from every point of view. I think if they desperately tried to capture the horror of war someone could make a survival-horror out of WW1.

 

[LivemeLifefree]

http://www.thetrenches.net/
It's a half-life mod and it's a WWI FPS.

 

[MattRooney06]

A WWI game from the Canadian perspective would be interesting.

aggreed

 

[gh0ti]

Think about it:

- No sub machine guns
- Most of the fighting is done from long distance (i.e. firing sporadically from one trench to the next)
- Artillery was the biggest killer (would you really want a game where most deaths would be accrued from enemies you couldn't even see?)
- Enemy not 'sexy' enough (imperial powers slugging it out in the mud doesn't have the same appeal as "FREEDOM!!!" screaming Americans taking on genocidal Nazis)
- Obligatory tank mission would involve moving slower than walking pace and breaking down every dozen metres

There are loads more. Some wars simply don't lend themselves to video gaming.

 

[Damo004]

A WWI game from the Canadian perspective would be interesting.

the Australian one would be interesting due ot the fact they thought every british officer was incompitent

OR the fact they regularly disobeyed british officers orders unless it was a tactical plan in battle

 

[Bob_Marley42]

Think about it:

- No sub machine guns
- Most of the fighting is done from long distance (i.e. firing sporadically from one trench to the next)
- Artillery was the biggest killer (would you really want a game where most deaths would be accrued from enemies you couldn't even see?)
- Enemy not 'sexy' enough (imperial powers slugging it out in the mud doesn't have the same appeal as "FREEDOM!!!" screaming Americans taking on genocidal Nazis)
- Obligatory tank mission would involve moving slower than walking pace and breaking down every dozen metres

There are loads more. Some wars simply don't lend themselves to video gaming.

1. Lies. Both the Bergmann MP.18 and the Villar-Perosa were used during the Great War. Hell, there was even a what we would now call an assault rifle in service at the time, the Russian Fedorov Avtomat.

2. Once again, wholly inaccurate. Most fighting took place at ranges of less than 300 meters and most kills occuring within 100 meters. Almost exactly the same as in WWII and Korea.

3. Such off-map weapons have been sucessful in games with more modern settings (artillery in BF2 and CoD: UO, Airstrikes in CoD 4, etc)

5. Simply not true. Not all thanks of the first world war were the Mk.1s that featured in the Somme. Tanks like the British Whippet, noted for its speed, and the French FT-17 would be perfectly adequate for such a mission if it were to be included.

As for the complaints about weapons being restricted to bolt action rifles there were LMGs like the Lewis Gun, the Hotchkiss and the Chauchat.

You mean the gun that French soldiers used to use by tying a string to the trigger because they were afraid it was going to explode? The one with a bipod which would regularly bend out of proportion? The Lewis and Hotchkiss were reasonably successful weapons, but give players a realistically-portrayed Chauchat and they'll cry.

Wow wow wow... Who said anything about realism? Everyone knows realistic games don't sell well! But fair enough, it is well known that the Chauchat was rather craptastic.

 

[nathan-dts]

Trench warfare wouldn't be the most fun thing in a game.

While loading the thread I was thinking the exact same think with the exact same wording.

 

[cooper1147]

america was in world war one for 1917-1918 even thought it was only the last year it still counts.

 

[clicketycrack]

A better question is why arent there any Korean war games? Or for that matter there should be a game set during the "troubles" of ireland and england, it could be like a splinter cell meets COD4.

That sounds awesome, but would you play as the Irish or English? I'd probably prefer Irish myself.

 

[Wyatt]

Trench warfare wouldn't be the most fun thing in a game.

While loading the thread I was thinking the exact same think with the exact same wording.

me too kinda. then i got to really thinking about it and im not sure i agree. i think it would be fun in a Europa Universalis kind of game, where your not just fighting a war but actualy controlling a nation. the old hex combat system coupled with the need to keep your nation in the war could be fun.

i think the real reason though is that no one knows much of the details or actual history involved with it. it doesnt hold the excitment or the flash of WWII because no one but history or military buffs (im both btw) can understand what really went on. add that too the fact that most people still alive KNOW someone who fought in WWII and DONT know anyone from the WWI era than there you have it.

one last aspect is that while i find the political goals and aspects of WWI very interesting, they are a bit too dry when put side by side with Nazism or communism and the 'war of ideals' that WWII was.

i challange anyone here though that says WWI was an 'accident', or boring for that matter, to read the Book "Dreadnought" by Robert K. Massie. one of the best books ive ever read on the subject.

 

[Klagermeister]

1. All the weapons would be inaccurate as hell.
2. You'd stand in a trench all day while your foot grew like an Amazonian fungus.
3. Lots of "politically incorrect" propaganda would likely show up.
4. A "No Man's Land" level would be impossible as hell.
5. There'd be no primary goal you'd fight toward, like Call of Duty with Berlin.