Why Isn't There A WWI Game?
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Actually it last 141 days, 1st July to 21st November. Basically a bunch on mini battles took place during that, but it was all apart of the battle of the somme. You could make the game really realistic, and it would be a moving experiance to find out what it was like to fight in it, but apart from that, it was pretty bland. They were basically fighting a wasteland, looking to take territory, so it would be rather boring to play.
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Hell, you know the game would be about how one American man went and killed all of ze Germans in one big rush.
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A ww1 game would work, but you would need alot of variety. I mean I would personally like it if you were a soldier in a regiment that keeps charging the lines. Unfortunately, it would probably have to be heavily scripted with emotional characters and scenes as you progess to keep the gamers interest going. I think it would work with alot of input.
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Being a video game, a developer would be allowed some creative freedom (I really shouldn't have to say this 
). An extended and playable intro like in HL and HL2 would work well.
How about it begins with you arriving at the front lines, a young lad. You get to see the squalor - dead horses, wounded soldiers, perhaps even people being executed for cowardice - enough to give you some idea how truly awful it must have been. That night it's time to go 'over the top' - the tension builds, soldiers vomit, pray, and as the charge begins all hell breaks lose. It's dark, shells going off, smoke, mines, people caught on barbed wire, bullets flying everywhere. Maybe you get knocked unconscious and when you awake the next morning the frontlines have shifted - what will you do?
I dunno, the point is there's easily enough material to scrape a game together - because the war was largely a battle of attrition doesn't mean you'd have to spend months sitting in a trench.
). An extended and playable intro like in HL and HL2 would work well. How about it begins with you arriving at the front lines, a young lad. You get to see the squalor - dead horses, wounded soldiers, perhaps even people being executed for cowardice - enough to give you some idea how truly awful it must have been. That night it's time to go 'over the top' - the tension builds, soldiers vomit, pray, and as the charge begins all hell breaks lose. It's dark, shells going off, smoke, mines, people caught on barbed wire, bullets flying everywhere. Maybe you get knocked unconscious and when you awake the next morning the frontlines have shifted - what will you do?
I dunno, the point is there's easily enough material to scrape a game together - because the war was largely a battle of attrition doesn't mean you'd have to spend months sitting in a trench.
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