Why Isn't There A WWI Game?

[Dog--]

There is quite an abundance of WWII games, why not WWI?

For a WWI game I think it'd have to be like CoD in terms of gameplay, but more in depth, not just a mindless shooter. I think it'd be cool going over the top, sniping, invading there trenches at night, like you and a partner go in at night, into their trench and try to get documents or something like that. Going over the top would be sweet, the officers blow the whistle and every charges over at the enemy trench, you'd need gas masks for the chlorine gas they used, etc. The main battles that would HAVE to be in this game are Vimy Ridge (Go Canada!), Somme, Ypres, those are the most important anyways IMO. Maybe the inventory system could be like Commandos 3, but in a first person view, not RTS style.

So who thinks a WWI game like this would be cool?

 

[Death.Trap]

Because they used cavalry in WWI.

 

[Warbie]

So who thinks a WWI game like this would be cool?

Me

 

[giant384]

WW1 was just trench fighting......how is that fun?? it could be a game with a goal where you see how many kills you can get before getting shot or killed yourself. idk

 

[bryanf445]

WW1 was just trench fighting......how is that fun?? it could be a game with a goal where you see how many kills you can get before getting shot or killed yourself. idk

Not true. There was alot to ww1. This series did a great job portraying it...http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287535/

I agree, there should be a ww1 game, they could make it awesome.

 

[Slacker]

They made a mod out of the Revoluitonary War (BG2). Not to say it was good or anything, but yeah, it could be done with WWI.

 

[Dog--]

Not true. There was alot to ww1. This series did a great job portraying it...http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287535/

Holy crap! I just finished watching that movie in my History class! That movie is what started this thread, we are studying WWI in case no one can figure it out..

 

[JNightshade]

I'd say the gameplay would be something like this:

spawn, die.
spawn, die.
spawn, lose half of health, get infection, die.
spawn, survive, live rest of life with shellshock
spawn, die.

etc. etc.

 

[bryanf445]

wow i wish i couldve watched that in my history class...Im a sad panda.

 

[Dog--]

There are alot of ignorant people towards WWI in these forums.. WWII was almost the same as WWI in terms of lifestyle overseas, and yet look how much WWII games there are, and somehow, they found a way to put action into it...

 

[Anthraxxx]

WWII has nazis to kill.

edit: and USAF fighter planes and the Luftwaffe and Japanese Zeros and epic naval battles and submarines and those quirky french resistance people who wanted to fight for their country even though they pretty much let the germans invade for free....

 

[CyberPitz]

There is an airplane game comming out/ is out for the 360 that is in the WW1 era...I think at least.

 

[Thunderclap]

I'd love a WWI game. There's an excellent comic called 'Charlie's War', about a seventeen-year-old British recruit at the Battle of the Somme. Brilliant comic, although very macabre. They had very diverse adventures; not all just going over the top (although I would like to see that!)

 

[Bad^Hat]

I'd love a game like the OP described, WWI or not

 

[theotherguy]

WWI could work, it just depends on how the gameplay works.

The problem with WWI was that the infantry were completley defenseless against the static defenses and offensive weaponry of the day. Destructive technology was far better than mobile and defensive technology, so as a result you got alot of sitting around in trenches being shelled and gassed, and you couldn't move because of ubiquitous machinegun fire. Tanks were not very good, and were fairly uncommon. Breaking through a line required thousands of lives over periods of many days, as opposed to WWII where fighting was relatively quick and batallions moved on the treads of tanks and the wheels of jeeps.

However, for a WWI game to be good, it would have to be incredibly realistic and terrifying. I could imgaine right now a single-player game focused on WWI where you are given mission objectives in a sort of freeform gameplay, and you are required to survive (I suppose like flashpoint). It would probably be one of the most frightening experiences for any gamer, not to mention insanely difficult.

 

[sinkoman]

There are alot of ignorant people towards WWI in these forums.. WWII was almost the same as WWI in terms of lifestyle overseas, and yet look how much WWII games there are, and somehow, they found a way to put action into it...

Your knowledge of WWI comes from a highschool history class and a random video...

 

[Mattigus]

Nobody likes to play a wargame that is based on a huge 4 year stalemate.

 

[Gargantou]

http://www.bay12games.com/ww1medic/
There IS a WW1 game!!

 

[CyberPitz]

http://www.bay12games.com/ww1medic/
There IS a WW1 game!!

That game looks pretty damn High Budget!

 

[Asknoone]

So who thinks a WWI game like this would be cool?

Not me.

 

[JNightshade]

Yeah. If it were realistic, it would be awful. If not, it would piss off all the history buffs.

 

[Solaris]

www.thetrenches.net is a allright hl1 ww1 game

I think you could make a goddamn fantastic game of it, if you made it realistic and cinematic.

 

[CR0M]

There are alot of ignorant people towards WWI in these forums.. WWII was almost the same as WWI in terms of lifestyle overseas, and yet look how much WWII games there are, and somehow, they found a way to put action into it...

This made me laugh. Do you not understand the difference between the glory of fighting as a soldier to defend your own country, and being ordered as a soldier to commit suicide in the worst living hell imaginable else be shot by your own country?

Something that you young uns don't seem to appreciate is that any game studio disrepectful enough to pick it up as a source of revenue would be crucified. Imagine somebody like Valve making a fps based in Hiroshima after the bomb, or in Birkenau. Would that also be a 'neat idea'? Learn ye some respect, childs.

Watch this entire series if you really want to learn something, or better yet talk to people who's ancestors actually fought in the war. I can guarantee you won't think a ww1 game would be such a great idea then.

 

[CptStern]

lol! Lost Battalion? starring Ricky Schroder? the little kid from silver spoons? oooh isnt he cute

watch this ww1 movie ..not hollywood escapist popcorn movies masquerading as historical dramas


btw I found it entertaining but not particurarily historically factual

 

[Warbie]

and being ordered as a soldier to commit suicide in the worst living hell imaginable else be shot by your own country?

Sounds like a great premise for a fps to me. Let it show the horrors of WW1 from both sides, going over the top, 'lions led by donkeys' ...

I very much doubt there would be any repercusions for making such a game, or feel that it would be disrepectful either.

 

[kirovman]

Your WWI mission is... sit in the trenches, putting on poison gas masks occassionally, for 4 years.
Oh, driving a tank occassionally, and playing a football game with the enemy on Christmas day.

Let's face it, it was a boring war. albeit bloody war.

 

[VictimOfScience]

What the sh1t?! You guys have never played Wings by Cinemaware before?! I played it way back when on my Amiga 500 and it was one of the best times ever!! Doubling Manfred von Richthofen's confirmed kills was always a good feeling! :thumbs:

 

[Warbie]

Let's face it, it was a boring war. albeit bloody war.

I'm sure developers could find some exciting events to make things interesting

Any truly faithful and realistic war game would be boring as hell for the most part.

 

[CptStern]

interupted by moments of sheer terror

 

[Crushenator 500]

How about a football game set during the christmas truce?

 

[Jangle]

How about a football game set during the christmas truce?

But I think the reason there aren't many WW1 games is that if you left the trench, you died. I'm sure it could be done, but people generally make WW2 games because it's easier to make them exciting. There was a WW1 mod for half life, and I don't think it did that well.

 

[Shift]

Its pretty obvious why WW1 games just would not sell and that is because we have been seeing MANY war games, from all different wars in different time periods, even made up wars, but still no WW1 engine, that is because game developers know that the game would be impractical.

The trench warefare did practically dominate WW1 and it was an utterly hellish thing to endure. It was a matter of sit in the trench, get shelled to hell, sit in the trench longer, get shelled to hell again, fight off attack, go over the top and counter attack, and die basically. Tanks were pretty useless to start with up until 1917 when they started to use them more effectively, mainly to shield troop advances and planes were mainly used to reconnaissance. What Im ultimately getting at is that WW1 was mainly a battle of territory and attrition, basically who could sit in their trenches the longest before running out of the resources and man power for war which in the end Germany lost. It was a massive and utterly brutal war, that was won overwhelming enemy forces and suffering millions of deaths in the process.

WW2 on the other hand was just as big and brutal, but the tactics that were used, and the way the war was fought and won were obviously a lot more advanced. Basically, the context on WW2 and the wide variety of events etc that occured in it give game developers all sorts of areas to use and make a game out of, that would be unique and sell. WW1, it was pretty much the same thing for 4 years, with a few other battles that followed, it was probably the worse war to fight in in modern times because it would have been hell on earth.

Oh and a note to the first post of this topic, you are a fool to think that CoD is a mindless shooter, a VERY big fool indeed.

 

[Dog--]

I don't understand how I am a fool, I've played through the game atleast 7 times, and the only tactic used is hiding behind walls to avoid fire while reloading.. I only died like 1 time on veteran.

Your knowledge of WWI comes from a highschool history class and a random video...

I don't just study it in high school, I watch the history channel, too D:

 

[Gorgon]

because wwi Weapons selection is crap. they used swords 70% of the time.

 

[Warbie]

naw - it was rubber bands and paper clips. Very nasty if you get one in the eye.

 

[Shift]

I don't understand how I am a fool, I've played through the game atleast 7 times, and the only tactic used is hiding behind walls to avoid fire while reloading.. I only died like 1 time on veteran.

CoD was a truely amazing game and stands out as one of the best I have ever played, and I have played A LOT of games, not to mention that it won Game of the Year 2003. Its more than just a mindless shooter, its almost 100% historically accurate and is the first WW2 game that actually put meaning into it and showed that the war was won by the deaths of many soldiers, not won by one man (like Medal of Honour) showed. I cannot believe you have called it a mindless shooter, its anything but a mindless shooter! Plus clearly you haven't played it on Veteran or you are lieing because myself, and the many people I have spoken too about CoD single player (all of which were extremely good players on mulitplayer) said that they found Veteran practically impossible to do, I couldn't even get past the first level on Veteran. GG

 

[Vegeta897]

The whole game should just be you manning the first tank ever deployed and watch all your enemies be like "WTF IS THAT MY BULLETS THEY DO NOTHING!?!?!"

 

[HunterSeeker]

WWI would work better as an RTS, heck the WWI parts of Empire Earth was my favorite in the game.

 

[Steven]

Personally I honestly beleive it's "coz teh gunz sux0rz lolz." Not really enough action with the limited weapon technology from those days.

 

[VictimOfScience]

Guys, there have been a lot of WWI games over the years and the gameplay has never been lacking. It was a very exciting war actually, just not as huge or popular to talk about and make movies about as WWII. Nazis are, in fact, the ultimate videogame enemy.

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