The first thing that happened when news broke that Treyarch was making the next Call of Duty game and it was going to be set during WWII, was people lost it. "HOW DARE THEY GO BACK TO WORLD WAR TWO!"
I loved Call of Duty 2 and 3 and of course got way into Call of Duty 4. And Now being a part of the Call of Duty World at War beta, I realize I really like WWII as a setting way more than a present day battlefield.
The sights and sounds are just way more atmospheric than a modern day battle. It really takes you back to another time when wars were not fought from hundreds and hundreds of miles away with missiles, they were fought up close and personal.
Modern day may have impressive technical weaponry, but it does not have the unique architecture, vehicles, and all around vintage feel. The sounds of an Artillery strike laying waste to the other side of the map is truly something unmatched by a current day air strike.
I also want to talk about some of the Gameplay. In Modern Combat you have Air Strikes and Helicopters as rewards for kill streaks. In World War 2 there were no Helicopters to be found on the battlefield. Instead you have DOGs, this may not sound very menacing but OMG, you don't realize how fearsome rabid attack dogs truly are until you are being killed over and over again by a bite to the neck. Easily you can take one or two down, but can you take down 3 without them ganging up on you and deal with the enemy team firing at you? Its a fantastic change of pace for the multiplayer component and it works extremely well. Whoever at Treyarch Said "I Know, lets do Dogs!" should get a raise.
Maybe I just have not become over saturated with the setting yet due to having Call of Duty being the only real WWII Series I have played but tonight I learned that I like WWII better than Modern Combat.
I feel that although WWII is much more interesting and indeed more chaotic so that it makes a great immersive game, as NEBONES says it has kind of been done to death. It might be time to try some new settings for war games; Boa War, Chrimean War, War of the Roses all would make awesome and revonlutionary fps.
Both games are shit thanks to the prestige garbage and kill streak crap.
Why yes, reward players for simply playing the game longer than the rest of us or having money to buy it on launch day and throw in some rewards for camping.
I will never understand why CoD is so fucking popular.
Yeah, I'd be interested to see someone tackle it. I have a feeling it would hard to balance the realism, meaning you want it to be visceral but you probably don't want to be show the horrors of Vietnam the whole time.
I'm quite surprised how popular CoD4 was considering how many people have family or know somebody actually currently serving in the army...
I personally found it a little close to the bone and there is always something strange about our eagerness to get into the mindset to scope out headshot after headshot.
I too prefer the sound of the old spitfires doing their thing but I'm starting to get tired of the war game as a whole to be honest. Something disrespectful in saturating the subject to me when families are still being torn apart all over the world.
I really hate the beta. Why is it literally the same everything except for new maps and diffrent character models. Most of the stuff is retained from cod4, which REALLY turns me off from playing it.
FPS are my favourite kind of game, I don't know what came over me earlier... But I would like to see some new ideas for plots. I guess Resistance 2, with it's fantasy storyline is more up my street at the moment.
WWII is certainly interesting, I enjoy the entire history of it. It's always what turned my grades around in history back in middle school and my Freshmna-Junior year of high school. Still, it's been beaten to death, and it's kind of... unrewarding at times. You know exactly what's going to happen, when it's going to happen. Games like Brothers in Arms are the best kind of WWII shooter, it takes the gritty realism of the war and adds some "holy shit I wasn't expecting that" moments by having a sweet, character-centric storyline.
@King3vbo
No, he has not. He's as angsty as a 14 year old with a bottle of gin and some cigarettes.
WWII is certainly interesting, I enjoy the entire history of it. It's always what turned my grades around in history back in middle school and my Freshmna-Junior year of high school. Still, it's been beaten to death, and it's kind of... unrewarding at times. You know exactly what's going to happen, when it's going to happen. Games like Brothers in Arms are the best kind of WWII shooter, it takes the gritty realism of the war and adds some "holy shit I wasn't expecting that" moments by having a sweet, character-centric storyline.
@King3vbo
No, he has not. He's as angsty as a 14 year old with a bottle of gin and some cigarettes.
"Why yes, reward players for simply playing the game longer than the rest of us or having money to buy it on launch day"
You do realize that there is no "reward" to prestige mode other than an e-penis enhancing icon next to your name that has no bearing on the outcome of a game?
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I agree with you that WW2 is more interesting, but look at how many WW2 shooters there are on the market.
I feel that although WWII is much more interesting and indeed more chaotic so that it makes a great immersive game, as NEBONES says it has kind of been done to death. It might be time to try some new settings for war games; Boa War, Chrimean War, War of the Roses all would make awesome and revonlutionary fps.
Both games are shit thanks to the prestige garbage and kill streak crap.
Why yes, reward players for simply playing the game longer than the rest of us or having money to buy it on launch day and throw in some rewards for camping.
I will never understand why CoD is so fucking popular.
And if someone could, for once, make a decent Vietnam game, I think that would be great, too.
@Timtheterrible
Yeah, I'd be interested to see someone tackle it. I have a feeling it would hard to balance the realism, meaning you want it to be visceral but you probably don't want to be show the horrors of Vietnam the whole time.
I'm quite surprised how popular CoD4 was considering how many people have family or know somebody actually currently serving in the army...
I personally found it a little close to the bone and there is always something strange about our eagerness to get into the mindset to scope out headshot after headshot.
I too prefer the sound of the old spitfires doing their thing but I'm starting to get tired of the war game as a whole to be honest. Something disrespectful in saturating the subject to me when families are still being torn apart all over the world.
I really hate the beta. Why is it literally the same everything except for new maps and diffrent character models. Most of the stuff is retained from cod4, which REALLY turns me off from playing it.
There's just too many bad WWII games, but the good ones are awesome.
@timtheterrible and ArrestedDeveloper
I've actually been working on a Vietnam game Idea (in my head). Expect a game idea blog eventually...
Now to go watch Full Metal Jacket and Platoon.
If anyone knows any good 'Nam books, I'm all ears.
Wait, wouldn't that make it hard to walk?
I really just love FPS'... I'm not even picky as long as they feel solid and fluent.
FPS are my favourite kind of game, I don't know what came over me earlier... But I would like to see some new ideas for plots. I guess Resistance 2, with it's fantasy storyline is more up my street at the moment.
Has Kyousuke Nanbu ever said anything positive?
He said he had AIDS king, isn't that positive?
WWII is certainly interesting, I enjoy the entire history of it. It's always what turned my grades around in history back in middle school and my Freshmna-Junior year of high school. Still, it's been beaten to death, and it's kind of... unrewarding at times. You know exactly what's going to happen, when it's going to happen. Games like Brothers in Arms are the best kind of WWII shooter, it takes the gritty realism of the war and adds some "holy shit I wasn't expecting that" moments by having a sweet, character-centric storyline.
@King3vbo
No, he has not. He's as angsty as a 14 year old with a bottle of gin and some cigarettes.
WWII is certainly interesting, I enjoy the entire history of it. It's always what turned my grades around in history back in middle school and my Freshmna-Junior year of high school. Still, it's been beaten to death, and it's kind of... unrewarding at times. You know exactly what's going to happen, when it's going to happen. Games like Brothers in Arms are the best kind of WWII shooter, it takes the gritty realism of the war and adds some "holy shit I wasn't expecting that" moments by having a sweet, character-centric storyline.
@King3vbo
No, he has not. He's as angsty as a 14 year old with a bottle of gin and some cigarettes.
I never thought id say this but Kyousuke Nanbu has actually said something that I fully agree with! Dividing by zero has just become possible!
@Kyousuke Nanbu
"Why yes, reward players for simply playing the game longer than the rest of us or having money to buy it on launch day"
You do realize that there is no "reward" to prestige mode other than an e-penis enhancing icon next to your name that has no bearing on the outcome of a game?