Unused World War 2 Settings
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Yeah, I agree with you guys. I have seen next to nothing about pre-American involvement in World War 2 with the exception of Battlefield 1942 (But then again, these guys are pretty thorough about their work).
For Europe, A few games about the various resistances would be interesting, Denmark's resistance and their impressive feat of sneaking out most of their Jewish population and Poland's ever so rabid (for very good reason) resistance seem very interesting. North Africa and the Mideast, Italy, and Sub hunting in the Atlantic seem viable as well.
Edit: Apparently the Italians switched sides after the Allies landed. That could work too.
For Asia, once again, the resistances are a good choice. China, Burma, the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam...the list goes on. Also, there was minor British involvement it India and New Guinea that could work. Could do some American Battles as well. Google "Taffy 3 Battle of Samar" and see if that would not be an awesome level.
Gonna get a lot of flak for this, but why not play on the other side a little bit? I'm not in favor of having players commit "pacification" on different ethnicities. What I envision is some of the famous and not so famous battle from the PoV of the Axis Powers.
For Europe, A few games about the various resistances would be interesting, Denmark's resistance and their impressive feat of sneaking out most of their Jewish population and Poland's ever so rabid (for very good reason) resistance seem very interesting. North Africa and the Mideast, Italy, and Sub hunting in the Atlantic seem viable as well.
Edit: Apparently the Italians switched sides after the Allies landed. That could work too.
For Asia, once again, the resistances are a good choice. China, Burma, the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam...the list goes on. Also, there was minor British involvement it India and New Guinea that could work. Could do some American Battles as well. Google "Taffy 3 Battle of Samar" and see if that would not be an awesome level.
Gonna get a lot of flak for this, but why not play on the other side a little bit? I'm not in favor of having players commit "pacification" on different ethnicities. What I envision is some of the famous and not so famous battle from the PoV of the Axis Powers.
So it goes.Austin Howe said:
I'd love to see a horror-survival/puzzle-platformish game starring Kurt Vonnegut or Billy Pilgrim.vietfighter said:
Alaska.
Japan actually invaded several Alaskan islands and it took over two years to get them out.
Japan actually invaded several Alaskan islands and it took over two years to get them out.
I think some canadian battles in Italy where they proved their mettle, I think street fighting Ortona and the moro valley would be pretty intense
The only WWII game even featuring Burma that I can think of was Commandos 2 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commandos_2:_Men_of_Courage]. It was only one mission though, if I remember correctly.Redlin5 said:
If the story is true (which is uncertain), it could very well have been an MG34 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_34]. The two are similar enough that they could've been confused.Major Tom said:
What if instead of changing the setting, you just changed the way the setting was used?
Have a combination of strategy and FPS. Allow me to explain.
You have a map of the world, and there are set missions you can do in different countries. When you do certain missions, others are unlocked, and others become easier or harder depending on how well you did, if you succeeded or failed, or just what effects the mission had on the opposition in general.
When you do a mission, the game becomes an FPS where you go through the missions in traditional CoD/MoH/whatever game style.
On the enemy's turn they do the same thing, except if they are doing a mission in certain areas, then you can take control of your forces, and fight against them as an FPS. The missions could consist of killing a certain amount of enemies, holding out for a certain period of time, destroying or capturing certain objectives, etc.
It would make the game a little less linear and allow for the player to have more choice in what happens. It also means that there's a way to lose, so that if you don't make good choices about your missions, or just do poorly during those missions, then you can lose the war. It also adds more replay value since you can go through the same thing with different choices.
Does anyone else think that something like this would work? Hell, it could turn into a whole series of games where each game covers different wars if you wanted to.
Have a combination of strategy and FPS. Allow me to explain.
You have a map of the world, and there are set missions you can do in different countries. When you do certain missions, others are unlocked, and others become easier or harder depending on how well you did, if you succeeded or failed, or just what effects the mission had on the opposition in general.
When you do a mission, the game becomes an FPS where you go through the missions in traditional CoD/MoH/whatever game style.
On the enemy's turn they do the same thing, except if they are doing a mission in certain areas, then you can take control of your forces, and fight against them as an FPS. The missions could consist of killing a certain amount of enemies, holding out for a certain period of time, destroying or capturing certain objectives, etc.
It would make the game a little less linear and allow for the player to have more choice in what happens. It also means that there's a way to lose, so that if you don't make good choices about your missions, or just do poorly during those missions, then you can lose the war. It also adds more replay value since you can go through the same thing with different choices.
Does anyone else think that something like this would work? Hell, it could turn into a whole series of games where each game covers different wars if you wanted to.
I think the biggest problem with WW2 games is they are almost always big action FPS games or RTS.
I think Velvet Assassin and The Sabataur(sp?) are the only games I can think of that were other types.
I'd love to see more resistance based games. The resistance in many countries pulled of amazing stuff and I don't think that's been explored. A possibly unpopular but facinating choice would be the German Resistance movements.
Games based in North Africa might be interesting as well.
I think Velvet Assassin and The Sabataur(sp?) are the only games I can think of that were other types.
I'd love to see more resistance based games. The resistance in many countries pulled of amazing stuff and I don't think that's been explored. A possibly unpopular but facinating choice would be the German Resistance movements.
Games based in North Africa might be interesting as well.
mazzjammin22 said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Days_Offensive Not just the Somme.Soviet Heavy said:
Anyway, have they done an African campaign? Properly?
They did an African campaign in Medal of Honor: European Assault (I know that sounds ridiculous, but google it; it's true.) Can't remember if it was any good...ChromeAlchemist said:
A lot of unexpected battlefields crop up in the Commandos games. Fighting in Norway, the Philippines, Paris (the actual retaking, not just D-Day), and other good ones.
That's actually a pretty sweet tank, never heard of it before. As far as I mean for the importation of crap was that it took years to get up to date equipment.Major Tom said:
Hehe, A Danish Resistance made like a WW2 Hitman game. Ends up with you having to defend a house L4D Survival style getting rushed by germans until death.
Or youknow, The France/Poland/Norway resistances. Since games are made by American firms though, all those games have the large chance of either 1. Stereotyping to the MAX. Or 2. Alienating the gamer.
Or youknow, The France/Poland/Norway resistances. Since games are made by American firms though, all those games have the large chance of either 1. Stereotyping to the MAX. Or 2. Alienating the gamer.
I agree, we need more WW2 games with canadians. And australians. And Ukrainians.
How about also a campaign from the point of view of the japanese?
The thing is, I doubt we'll be seeing any more WW2 games right now. People are just too sick of them to care.
How about also a campaign from the point of view of the japanese?
The thing is, I doubt we'll be seeing any more WW2 games right now. People are just too sick of them to care.
A Rape of Nanjing mission? I don't know if that will fly with the general public.Goldeneye103X2 said:
Ergh....I dunno. Just make some missions where you play as the japanese during one of their succesful missions.Pingieking said:
I'm not too good at this am I?
Well, the Rape of Nanjing mission could be counted as "successful".Goldeneye103X2 said:
The general idea is that people will object to it in a similar fashion to objecting to Nazi missions. Perhaps not as much in the west, but the Chinese, Koreans, and a shitload of people all over East Asia would flip out. For good reason too, since the Japs had more of a "we like killing everyone equally" than a "we like killing Jews the most" attitude.