why are there no WW1 games?

[suhlEap]

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!

 

[Avatar Roku]

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

 

[Grayjack]

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

 

[teisjm]

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

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

 

[Circus Ascendant]

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.

 

[Lios]

There are a few of them, but it's a war most people would rather forget about.

 

[llamastorm.games]

You'd run out of lives oh so very quickly.
Weapons were pants, generals were incompetent, no one knew what to do and spend half a came sitting in a trench being eaten by disease isnt really the gritty realism wanted nowadays.

 

[SniperWolf427]

I wonder things too!!(exclamation point)

But in all seriousness, World War 1 is pretty much a bleak desert for gaming ideas. Trench warfare would be incredibly boring and i don't think the most interesting thing in WW1, that being the introduction of controlled biological warfare, could be implemented into a game.

Really, the only thing they could do is a WW1 RTS. Which, could very well be fun, if developed by the right company.

Orrrr a WW1 flight sim. But i hate flight sims.

 

[mythbuster343]

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

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this indeed

Though you do raise a very good point. I have seen a civil war game (it was crap) yet no WWI games. think 'bout it

 

[suhlEap]

there were other parts to the war than just trenches though. it's not like the entire thing was solely fought in trenches.

There are a few of them, but it's a war most people would rather forget about.

and why do people want to forget that when there were so many more atrocities in WW2?

 

[lizards]

because hanging out in trenchs making full blown charges civil war style and having chemical warfare poured on you doesnt seem like fun

 

[CosmicGrenade]

but you would get to drive the first tank ><

 

[GodsOneMistake]

the weapons sucked

 

[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?

 

[ElephantGuts]

Boring as hell. World War 2 makes for much better gameplay.

 

[malestrithe]

All the things that Americans love about war came from WWII.

 

[Circus Ascendant]

there were other parts to the war than just trenches though. it's not like the entire thing was solely fought in trenches.

There are a few of them, but it's a war most people would rather forget about.

and why do people want to forget that when there were so many more atrocities in WW2?

But the atrocities in WW2 were committed by an unequivocally evil foe, while WW1 dragged on due to the incompetence of the commanders and the total lack of understanding of new weaponry due to no combat testing before the war itself.