A new FPS idea?

JackBauer

JackBauer

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I was just wondering why no design studio gave us a World War one or a new Vietnam or even Iraq war game?

Maybe World at war is close enough to the feel of Iraq but there is still lots of moola to be made....
 
World War I was boring trench warfare is not exactly prime action game material. Vietman is still too fresh in peoples mind. As for Iraq, look at what happened to 6 days in Fullaja (Spelling) and those where ex-soldiers making it. The right path to take is what MW does, near future, fictional wars. This way you wont step on any sensitive subject matter.
 
JackBauer said:
I was just wondering why no design studio gave us a World War one or a new Vietnam or even Iraq war game?

Maybe World at war is close enough to the feel of Iraq but there is still lots of moola to be made....
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Vietnam - that would have been hard with old tech, but I can see crysis engine handling this today! But the reason it wont be made is because America lost that one :p
 
What about a Anglo-boer war? lol with old mauser's and lee-enfield's. Could be endless fun (farcry 2 with old weapons)
 
JackBauer said:
What about a Anglo-boer war? lol with old mauser's and lee-enfield's. Could be endless fun (farcry 2 with old weapons)
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Now that is a great idea, the main character should be Piet, wif his rifles in hand, shooting bad guys to free his wife from a British concentration camps.
 
wow, Sockmonkey, I never realised how awesome your signature is till I tried to brush my screen there...
lol
 
Raven Gold said:
:eek: I missread, I read "Angola" :o

Heres something i actualy have never seen. World War 2 FPS where you can play from a german point of veiw, it's allway the 'maricons.
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it might be hard if they had it from the German's point of view, cos you'd just end up losing... unless they went all imaginary and let them win the war, but then again that'd have various moral implications, you know, the holocaust, someone who is all uppity would inevitably throw a fit about the whole thing calling it Pro-Nazi and all that.
OR they could only focus on a campaign from the beggining of the war where the Germans pwned, and then stop abrubtly when they invaded Russia and failed epically. And then the game could go to the Japanese point of view cos they pretty much pwned the whole time until America resorted to atom bombs. They'd have to leave the Italians out completely cos they kinda sucked at warfare.

But yes, I guess what I'm saying is it would be pretty rad to do that.
 
AdrWin said:
it might be hard if they had it from the German's point of view, cos you'd just end up losing... unless they went all imaginary and let them win the war, but then again that'd have various moral implications, you know, the holocaust, someone who is all uppity would inevitably throw a fit about the whole thing calling it Pro-Nazi and all that.
OR they could only focus on a campaign from the beggining of the war where the Germans pwned, and then stop abrubtly when they invaded Russia and failed epically. And then the game could go to the Japanese point of view cos they pretty much pwned the whole time until America resorted to atom bombs. They'd have to leave the Italians out completely cos they kinda sucked at warfare.

But yes, I guess what I'm saying is it would be pretty rad to do that.
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There are alot of other game genres where you can play from the german/axis points of view, Company of Heros: opposing fronts and Axis and Allies just to mention two RTS, and I think there is a combat flight sim out there too somewhere. but why has it never been done in an FPS?
 
Raven Gold said:
There are alot of other game genres where you can play from the german/axis points of view, Company of Heros: opposing fronts and Axis and Allies just to mention two RTS, and I think there is a combat flight sim out there too somewhere. but why has it never been done in an FPS?
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People dont want people pretending to be nazi's. Its still a very sensitive subject in europe and the US. so yeah.
 
It would be nice to play from the Italian perspective or Japanese in WW2. Don't think it really matters if they lost or not. Jungle warfare and desert warfare!
 
A Napoleonic war or American Civil War would also be nice. Look at the fun of playing Call of Juarez Bound in Blood where you play as a confederate soldier (i think...). Old school weapons and cannons. I can dynamite Neo instead of nading him..... :)
 
AdrWin said:
wow, Sockmonkey, I never realised how awesome your signature is till I tried to brush my screen there...
lol
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Thanks, whoever made it did a very good job, it fooled me as well when I first saw it.

There were so many epic battles in early SA history that could easily translate well into a FPS.
 
They should make a small fps of that incident a couple of years back when SA went into Lesotho to help calm some fighting and we got our asses handed to us in the mountains. It lasted 2 days or something tard like that. lol

But seriously, although it's race based, it would be cool to make a Border War fps with Recces. They were pretty damn hardcore. Could take the out the race issues and just base it on the war.
 
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