why are there no WW1 games?

[Mosstromo]

I have no idea of why not. The war was indeed mainly trenches, but it was not all of it. There were many moments and battles that took place elsewhere and that could be used to make a truly engaging game.

And then we also have "fiction", in case anyone forgot about such a concept in a video game.
Anybody remember the historical and accurate depiction of the WW2 and its Nazis in the Wolfenstein series? Well, imagine a WW1 with some Call of Cthulhu elements added to the mix, or steampunkished personnel and/or their machines.
Or simply some real events but modified or intertwined with others to accommodate the discerning user's need for adrenaline.
I am sure that it would not be a real problem just out of lack of imagination, specially for any developer with the desire.

 

[WolfThomas]

because all the wepons would suck

um, something I just want to mention on this topic. Despite most of these weapons were slow reloading and unreliable, one shot of these at a close range could leave fist sized holes in people. For those hungering a gory war game, they would probabbly really enjoy a WW1 game.

Firstly these weapons weren't slow reloading, to reload a SMLE all you did was place the clip in, you didn't manually load it one by one (but you could if you need too). Unreliable? Bolt action rifles are amongst the most reliable weapons in both world wars 2. Hell a SMLE is probably as reliable if not more than an AK-47 and infinitely more so than any of the ww2 era sub machine guns.

Also as to rate of rife (not mentioned, but often brought up), disciplined soldiers could get "five rounds rapid" off in 4 seconds accurately. A section firing could be mistaken for machine gun fire, to the uninitiated.

Why does everyone assume world war one was fought with muskets?

 

[Bamboochakill]

cuz they don't know ANYTHING about ww1 apparently.

 

[suhlEap]

because all the wepons would suck

um, something I just want to mention on this topic. Despite most of these weapons were slow reloading and unreliable, one shot of these at a close range could leave fist sized holes in people. For those hungering a gory war game, they would probabbly really enjoy a WW1 game.

Firstly these weapons weren't slow reloading, to reload a SMLE all you did was place the clip in, you didn't manually load it one by one (but you could if you need too). Unreliable? Bolt action rifles are amongst the most reliable weapons in both world wars 2. Hell a SMLE is probably as reliable if not more than an AK-47 and infinitely more so than any of the ww2 era sub machine guns.

Also as to rate of rife (not mentioned, but often brought up), disciplined soldiers could get "five rounds rapid" of in 4 seconds accurately. A section firing could be mistaken for machine gun fire, to the initiated.

Why does everyone assume world war one was fought with muskets?

nice to see someone acrually arguing for the guns of WW1. people do seem to think that it's all musket fire and guns that touch a droplet of water and implode.
bolt action rifles in themselves are good in WW2 games, why shouldn't they be in WW1. aside from all the other weapons!

 

[Bamboochakill]

another group are currently making a ww1 mod for company of heroes

 

[Bamboochakill]

bad news peoples, we just got a major failure in the gta 4 ww1 mod, so we expect that it may take an extra 1\2 year to make it finishes, and the demo would not be released before end of q1 2010\ beginning of q2 2010

 

[Emilin_Rose]

more types of guns were around in ww2 than 1.

 

[Bamboochakill]

yeah, but htere where more prototypes in ww1

 

[Octorok]

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.

Northern Ireland was the heart of the troubles,England wasn't affected much and the south had little to nothing to do with it.Sorry but the subject is very close to me.

What? I'll admit I don't know all that much about the subject, but England was pretty central to the start of the troubles. You know, the violent occupation and brutal domination of the people, until the resistance started to fight back. Then started the deal with the North/South divide, the signing of the treaty and the civil fighting.

Ah,Well that dos effect my statement a bit,but Whatever.
I grew up in the troubles and i really want to forget it all but you cant forget somethings ya know.
As for the "Resistance" the IRA they were nothing but Scum,Worthless beings unworthy of being called human.
UDA,UVF and such were scum but were fighting the catholics who were attacking us,still doesn't justify what they did
Its a sad history,but i just can't forgive those people for what they did,lost my mum to those scum.

Belfast is an great place to live now by my standards.

EDIT: i noticed i use "Scum" Alot.

I can understand that. Responding in the way they did was unacceptable by any parameters of moral correctness.

 

[Octorok]

Well said,hard to bealive that people still think they were and still are takeing down the queen...That actually sounds funny.

But, before you can say that, you have to acknowledge the fact that while they responded in such a fashion, they were responding to one of the nastiest and most violent occupations of any country that I can recall. Fighting violence with yet more violence was a redundant idea, and led to a great deal of death and fighting that was supposedly helping the country that the IRA wanted to save.

 

[Taerdin]

Why is this thread still happening?!

There are WW1 games, plenty of them.

There will likely be more...

That is all

Really?? Which ones, and WHERE?
Are you talking about Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron? I dont think that technically counts...

Are you kidding me?! There's at least two on the first page of this thread alone! I myself tracked a bunch down just by random googling and posted in here months ago!

Oh the humanity!

I really don't know why there are NO [http://pc.ign.com/objects/143/14310671.html] World War I [http://www.kongregate.com/games/MateuszSkutnik/covert-front-episode-1] games [http://www.kongregate.com/games/ArmorGames/warfare-1917]

Someone should really get on that! [http://ps3.gamezone.com/gamesell/p33889.htm]

I can't even possibly conceive how no one [http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/necrovision/index.html] has done such a thing yet [http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/gunsofaugust/index.html]

 

[Bamboochakill]

i just heard a "amazing" fact, one guy managed to kill 5000 peoples trough the whole ww1, AND survived, so u guys might have to stop saying the died after some second in a trench.

 

[Bamboochakill]

and someone sure gonna say: well, peoples in ww2 surley killed 10,000 peoples, but the one who killed most peoples in ww2 only killed 2,547 peoples

 

[suhlEap]

hmm that's interesting if it's true. but how could that really be calculated?
i guess in most games you kill a ridiculous amount of people, so it would make sense game wise.

 

[Bamboochakill]

i don't know HOW they calculated it, but they must have done it somehow

 

[Bamboochakill]

has anyone readen the book: the great war?

 

[thestonehill]

its due to the americans loving that the fact that they saved the world from evil that and they bombed japan it submission!