Infinity Ward has had a great success with its recent foray into the Call of Duty franchise. Aside from the excellent multi-player, first-rate set pieces and accomplished control system; one of the much talked about reasons for its success was its move into the modern era. As you may already know, Call of Duty 4 ditched its historical roots of simulating World War 2 combat. And employed today's technological advancements in various locations within Russia and a non-distinct Middle Eastern country, no prizes for guessing which.
However it is now widely believed that Call of Duty 5, minus Infinity Ward, will attempt to tackle WW2 again. When officially announced, this will come as bad news to many gamers and journalists, who see the WW2 era as overused and rather unoriginal. Granted this era has lead to many great games, the Call of Duty and Medal of Honour franchises being responsible for many of these. And there could still be more to come, the forthcoming Brothers in Arms game looks very promising. There have also been some real bad games as well to come out of this conflict, such as Hour of Victory and the latest History Channel exploit. However, good or bad, many believe it is time to put this conflict to rest, at least for the time being, and move on. This begs the question though, move on to what?
There have been many memorable historical combats that have all the elements necessary to make it as a video game. In many ways WW2 is actually the perfect example of such a conflict, it has an interesting context and potential story lines, formidable and varied weapons, range of environments and a single 'bad guy'. There are many such examples; however few have the qualities needed for a successful FPS. This is an attempt to prove the designers out there with some extra ideas:
Sony is in the middle of an FPS crisis, but bringing back two much-loved PlayStation shooters could easily be the solution.
I honestly don't think we'll be seeing these anytime soon, if ever. Insomniac is officially on Marvel duty since it seems that all they're working on based off the leaks, and Horizon is more of what the casuals want these days. And I now I'll get a bunch of disagrees, but keep in mind that Resistance last got a game on the PS3 (2011) and Killzone was a launch title for the PS4 (2013). 10 years is a long time to make a game, if had any interest they would've done it by now, add InFamous to that list.
Resistance 3 turned me off to the series but I’d love a reboot. KillZone I think can stay dead. Give me a new Resistance like 1or 2 and I’ll be happy.
I honestly never cared or liked killzone. Huge resistance fan though. I remember so many nights playing melee only on USS Lexington, and I like the alt history vibe.
The Metal Gear series, led by Kojima, pioneered the stealth genre, creating a masterclass in storytelling and gameplay.
No. But MGS5: Ground Zeroes might actually be one of the greatest Game Demo ever, if not the best.
Meh
Great stealth gameplay but the game was just average.
Bland open world that felt lifeless, the story felt shoehorned in, unfinished story etc. The whole thing was just average to me compared to the other main titled games.
I would have rather preferred it if they kept Ground Zeroes for the main game as the opening and the rest of the game turns into a Metal Gear 1 & 2 remake to bring things full circle.
Like hell it is. That was the first time I became aware of being sold an unfinished game and was blown away about blind fanboys saying it was some perfect game.
Yea, the first few chapters were great until they do that thing halfway and make you replay all the missions again. Then little things like capturing animals but only seeing a JPEG unlike 3 where everything was modeled out. Areas were massive, desolate, and boring to look at.
Game was a massive let down for me and the potential was so high for it. Honestly, this was one of the most disappointing games I ever played. What’s worse is it starts off brilliant. You literally play through until you get to the point where you could tell they just stopped developing and then quickly used glue and construction paper to “finish” it and then sold it. Quite frankly, that’s insulting to consumers and fans.
Yes and no. In many ways in was a great game; there's a very strong argument that it has the best gameplay of any MGS game, and that it is one of the more interesting open world "playgrounds" we have gotten, in terms of how the world operates. But as an MGS narrative, it is pretty far down the list, for many reasons.
17 years on from release and 5 years into a botting epidemic, Team Fortress 2 is on its knees, and it's high time Valve stepped in to fix it.
Ah yes, pc gaming aka the bastion of fairness and equity and everlasting online playerbase, all i can say is lmao
Not to mention that these tf2 idiots were the progenitor of mrx in gaming
although you would still be fighting the Germans. It should feel different though not fighting specifically against the Nazi and there would be different counties in alliance like the Turkey.
The Napoleonic Wars would be a great change but i am not sure about fighting in formations or even a calvary charge. I don't know how that could be incorporate into fuild gameplay that we are use to in modern warfare. Imagine reloading a musket fire after every shot. Using a saber mix with gun play could be exciting though.
I for one would like to see a WW1 game. People may not talk about this war as much as WW2 but this war was still important. So I think WW1 could really work well as a FPS game and would like to see what developers could do with the WW1 setting.
I also think the Korean War might not be a bad idea too.
Another setting I would like to see more in games would be Vietnam.