Wonder whats good in world war theme games?

i still wondered...
games such as COD...etc...lots of people played

whats fun of using old junk weapons compare soldiers who use hi-tech weapons and gadgets such as ghost recon...

please post your opinions here

 

Because those junk weapons still kill.

 

Well I mean it's just a theme.

You could ask why medieval games are so popular too. Why would someone find swords so cool when guns are more efficient at killing(or lightsabers in Star Wars' case lol ). Also, let's not forget the superb hygiene of the Middle Ages .

WW games are a theme connecting the shooter variety and since they're based on an actual event, people can relate to those games more easily in terms of theme & setting. There's also games based on the Vietnam War and other wars. I mean, it's harder to relate to futuristic sci-fi shooters like Crysis or FEAR.

 

Also, comparing for example the Battlefield Series. Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2, and Battlefield 2142 were all good games. But lotsa people (or I think I do) like the modern-historic game more than the future one since, I dunno, for me it's easier to envision the late and not-so-distant past (1942, or WW themed games and games based off the Iraqi War or something) than trying to predict how a soldier would look in the future. We all have different concepts of how the future would look like, if at all, while if we talk about past we could all agree how a certain thing looked like back then.

Although my personal preference goes like this:

Modern >> WW-themed >> Futuristic

Except of course Mecha games. I'm a sucker for mechas. (That's why I tried BF2142, lol)

Have yet to try CoD: WaW though.

 

I'd say Call of Duty 5 is a good WW2 game and so is medal of honor airborne.

 

World War II is the changing point in history, as such there is a lot history and importance to those weapons. Those 'old junk weapons' are the deadliest weapons in human history... Futuristic stuff has always seemed fake and unrealistic to me. I rather play something that is more realistic (COD does a surprisingly good job with realism for being such a popular game).

With many WW2 shooters, they're fun because you can choose which side your on... Want to go shoot some evil Nazis? Have at it. Want to shoot some evil Bolshevists? Have at it. Want to shoot some Allies? Go ahead. Where as in futuristic games they're pretty much one sided "good vs. evil". COD does a wonderful job attaching importance to the battles, especially Stalingrad. When I first played that mission, I felt as if I was actually helping win the war... I saw thousands of Russians charging pointlessly at German machine gun nests but I also knew why they did, for their country. Historically themed games tell history in a new art form that aims to educate and thrill today's youth. Futuristic games lack that importance in my opinion.

I guess it just matters on whether you appreciate history and realism. I love history but that doesn't stop me from playing science-fiction games either.

 

Screw modern warfare, that technology is so cheap-shot.I wouldn't call them junk weapons, after all modern weapons still use the same technology from 60 years ago, all they did was add fancy scopes and red dot sights on it.Don't forget the AK-47 was design only 2 years after WWII, and that's the best gun in the world.Modern warfare is full of , you think they are so tech but they are nothing new.As you can see COD 4, the old STG 44(German WWII Assault rifle) it can still kick even against modern soldiers.

I can't stand modern warfare, it's so cheap-shot.If I'm going to die, I want to die from another trained soldiers, not a cheap shot laser guided bomb.And of course, because you aren't using cheap-shot technology in WWII games, it actually requires skill.Nowadays, we've gone from to evenly match armies fighting each other(WWII), to modern soldiers fighting farmers with guns.I dont see how that makes a fun game at all.

 

I think it falls to a matter of taste. It can be for some that 'historical' events are a trigger for them, or the 'realism' of the scenarios. Particularly I have never been so attracted to contemporary war games (say WWI and onwards) be it FPS or RTS (like Company of Heroes or World in Conflict), I am more geared towards sci-fi or hi-tech kind of games. But again, it is a matter of taste.

 

I actually prefer Ghost Recon to the MoH and CoD WW2 shooters...it's not as story driven as CoD or MoH or Brothers in Arms, but it's not sci-fi either. Most (if not all) of the weapons in GRAW are already real-life weapons, and I don't think the HUD/Cross-Com is too far off...

And as far as realism, you sure can take a lot of bullets in the CoD or MoH series...in CoD 4, your vision gets blurry and red for a few seconds and then if you hide, you're all better...at least, the designers didn't use health kits or med packs...and modern weapons are probably as deadly as anything available in the 1940's...

In the end, I've never been in actual ground combat so I'm not sure if any video game approaches the realism, carnage and traumatization of combat...Regardless of what time period we select as gamers, we can turn off the computer and walk away...little bit different for soldiers in the field...

What was the big innovation in WW2 weaponry from pre-WW2 weaponry?

Huh? Don't confuse most common with best...it's a cheap and fairly reliable (low maintenance) semi-automatic/automatic weapon, but I wouldn't call it the best...not by a long shot...

Back to gaming...I agree with you that in the gaming world, some modern era FPS seem to provide several advantages to the technologically superior side...I did finish CoD4 with many fewer deaths than CoD2...However, it took me forever to finish GRAW...after being immersed in twitch shooters for so long, one bullet from a Mexican rebel's gun ending my mission because I wasn't clearing a street corner properly with my squad was a big surprise...

I play both WW2 and modern era (and sci-fi) shooters...in my case, I tend to prefer the more deliberate, open ended, tactical, squad based mechanics of GRAW vs the frantic, story driven, linear combat presented in CoD or MoH...it's not so much what time period is represented, but the type of FPS shooter that the developers did within a time period...

Not so sure we'll ever see a musket era FPS...what's the fun in firing and then hoping you don't get a ball in your gullet while you spend 30-60 seconds reloading your weapon? But who knows? There are probably people who like an even slower-paced FPS than I prefer...and it would create some real tension to have no defense/offense for 60 seconds at a time...

 

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Rifles only

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