why are there no WW1 games?

[Bamboochakill]

again, ww1 wast not only about trench-warfare!

 

[Bamboochakill]

Darkest of Days looks promising as a game

 

[Bamboochakill]

now there are 3 FPS ww1 games that are under development (1 ar almost released)

Verdun online, www.verdun-online.com

To end all wars

Darkest of Days (almost released)

 

[WaffleTron]

Because WWI didn't bleed pure "America is awesome."

 

[Bamboochakill]

why does always america gets the glory in games about ww2? they will surley do it in the 3 upcoming ww1 games too

 

[suhlEap]

yeah somehow america will get the glory. unless these games are produced by companies outside the US. which i'm hoping for.

 

[kelsyk]

I don't understand why everyone keep saying that it would be boring because of the trench warfare. Yes most of the stuff in the trenchs is crap and would be a bad game. Thankfully this is a game not a documentary, so we can ignore all tha crap and focus on the usable stuff. Some levels could be the desperate leapfrog from one cover to the next as you advance on a trench, followed by the chaotic close quaters battle to actually take the trench. Downplay their crappyness to give us some good tank battles. Include levels from the begining and end of the war, where the battle were much more open fields like WW2. A level where you are one of the lucky soldiers to have a working gas mask and must defend a trench, or maybe you constantly lose health and must balance killing enemies with retreating to a med station to stay alive.

 

[Bamboochakill]

yeah, something like that would be great

 

[Jark212]

but you would get to drive the first tank ><

At 4 mph

 

[randomrob]

because the weapons were awful and the war has passed from living memory.

 

[Bamboochakill]

it could get up to 11 mph

 

[Bamboochakill]

EVERYONE WHO JUST GONNA SAY THAT A WW1 GAME WOULD BE CRAP, JUST LEAVE THE FORUM AND DON'T LEAVE ANY COMPLAINING MESSAGES ABOUT HOW A WW1 GAME WOULD BE!!

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I imagine there's two reasons:
1. Spending days on end in muddy trenches isn't a very marketable gaming experience.
2. WWI doesn't have any moments that make America look particularly heroic.

 

[Del-Toro]

Not sure. While the Western Front was mostly trenches, the Eastern Front was a more open battlefield.

the problem was that you couldn't be American on the Eastern front, you could only be German or Russian, any other countries in there were totally irrelevant and cannon fodder.

 

[Bamboochakill]

OMG!

 

[Del-Toro]

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 2nd Reich, which wasn't any more evil than anybody else of that time period. There really wasn't a bad guy in that war. Well there were plenty of bad guys but no evil faction persay.

 

[CptCamoPants]

we all know there are many (many) games set in world war 2, and yet there aren't any set in world war 1, and i wonder why this is!

Because there were no heroes in WWI, everybody died horrifically?

Eternal Darkness had a level in a WWI hospital. But a WWI game in the same style as the myriad WWII games wouldn't work. An RPG in the trench quarters that didn't revolve around killing Germans would be cool.

Sergeant York was a good one

 

[Bamboochakill]

the trench is also good

 

[Lord George]

Because sitting on your hands for moths on end before slowing walking towards the enemy machine guns would not be much fun. Well unless you played as the Germans DakaDakaakaDakak.