Fave WW2 games(FPS, flight sims, RTS, etc)

Mine:

Commandos 1, Call of Duty, bits of Wolf3D & Return to Castle Wolfenstein

I like the first Medal of Honor a lot at the time, but I didn't have many good games on Playstation except Resident Evil. When was Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis set? That was full of Nazis!

I'm saying cannon fodder but I'm not sure it was WW2, there was a vietnam feel to some of the jungle levels... though there was snow on some

jops, nooooooooooooo!

I was thinking of starting this thread. Over the past few months I've played several hundred thousand WW2 FPS games, most of which were Medal of Honors. Call of Duty stood head and shoulders above them all. What an amazingly well-executed and fun game. The Medal of Honor series varies in style and depth, but Allied Assault was probably the best. Pacific Assault was probably the worst (v. nice graphics/environments, but almost every new gameplay conceit was TERRIBLE). Return to Castle Wolfenstein really sucked in my opinion, but it was an interesting experience as I'd played it only a month or two after Doom 3, and the parallels were inescapable. but I suppose the parallels between any scifi-ish FPS and the next are inescapable.

I used to view the WW2 shooter craze - and really any quasi-realistic war FPS in its wake, including the tom clancy games - as sort of distasteful and grotesque. eventually I sort of realized that they're no more objectionable than any of the genuinely disgusting stuff that I love, like the GTA games. the abstract qualities of Counter-Strike made it easy to swallow, but vietnam games and games that take place in modern conflicts etc etc, it's still slightly bizarre for me?

That's the thing; there'll always be WWII games. When we finally have holodecks, one of the first games will probably be set then.

and maybe it'll look like that one ep of Voyager where they're all french resistance members.

anyway, i liked the Nazi bits of RtCW. the Zombie bits, not as much.

as, as BF1942 shows, WWII games can have a great balance between variance of weapons & vehicles. Just the right level of technology.

Knights of the Sky, a really old PC game, was an absolute classic. You played a fighter pilot in, I think, World War 1. It was crazy, it really glamorised it all and you had a sort of career and character complete with posh British newspaper stories after you completed a mission successfully etc.

Brilliant game, nothing like going on a mission and nailing loads of German planes (watching the instant replays of your kills), and then when you land it cuts to a headline like "DOES THIS GREAT MAN'S VALOUR KNOW NO BOUNDS?".

Neat.

yeah, bionic commando was great too. Tho it was an odd meld of "sci-fi ww2"...

Call of Duty 2 demo is out

About 656 Mb.

Find it here:

http://videogames.yahoo.com/download?eid=398695
http://www.filerush.com/download.php?target=cod2demo.exe
http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=7733

i'm getting about 80kb/s on the torrent

Return to Castle Wolfenstein was way better than its reputation projects. Enemy Territory was my online game of choice for like a year and a half.

i never did play Enemy Territory. of course, i didn't really play anyhting online until getting SW:BF last year

Ok, beat the demo. You play a soldier in a British regiment in 1942 Egypt.

The game feels pretty much like COD1, except that you have the option to throw both frag grenades/potato mashers/steilhandgranates and smoke grenades, which changes tactics somewhat. Also, you now get a pair of binocs that you can toggle with a click of a button instead on relying on only a scoped rifle to see any distance.

Super-pretty graphics are possible here, but you can click a switch to "Force DirectX 7 Mode", which simplifies some of the smoke/light patterns, but sent my framerate into 60+. Still looks great.

Still, scripted as hell, but every bit as immersive as the first one was. We really have hit a plateau where subsequent editions of a game only incrementally improve things, as opposed to major jumps. Here, there's much emphasis on smoke/fog/particulate air physics, including a slider for the "Zfeather" effect on the smoke. HOW pretty do you want your smoke grenades? Why, feel free to season to taste.

thumbs up to the demo.

the raining/sniper level on Medal Of Honour was sweet, very atmospheric. This was great on PC.

I'm going to be a mentalist and nominate '1942', I still load this up on Mame for a great blast. I reset though if I die before getting the first power up.

1942 was fun, but i did prefer 1943...