Both VG24/7 and the Gaming Examiner recently ran the comments of Rebellion studio's Steve Hart who believes gamers are ready for titles set within World War II again as the setting is a “breath of fresh air” compared to those with modern conflicts.
“… I think the market is ready for World War Two. You’ve seen the extra press the likes of Red Orchestra 2 have gotten because all of a sudden WW2 is a breath of fresh air whereas modern conflicts perhaps aren’t.
I wouldn’t say developers moved on, instead they gave it the respect it needed and said ‘Right, we’ve done that to death, let’s go look at something else.’ It just so happens that our timing for a World War Two game is better than others out there, and gamers are ready for that now. Even better for us is that we’re coming out before perhaps another Call of Duty set during World War Two, as I’m sure we’ll be seeing another one of those at some point.”
Now, naturally I love WWII games, and I think it'd be great to get some new ones with the graphics and physics engines newer systems do provide by now. Still, what I really want is not a rehash of the one thousandth Call of Duty clone. Give me something new, give me something daring and fresh. Mix genres. Tell engaging stories. Don't tell me for the tenth time how US troops parachuted down into Normandie on the night before D-Day (or if you do it, do it really well^^). Give me a covert ops campaign, a commando campaign. Use the OSS or the SAS for protagonists.
Hell, give me German FPS campaign! That'd be new, and it'd require some really good storywriting. Make it a compelling moral tale spanning the whole war in some 20 missions or so.
Or make it an alternative history wargame! Or how about a RTS game based on the real European map? Use Google Earth and randomly generated terrain sets and frame it into a dynamic multiplayer setting in, say, the Western Front 1944? Fully destructible terrain, on a Free2Play basis?
Hell, give me German FPS campaign! That'd be new, and it'd require some really good storywriting. Make it a compelling moral tale spanning the whole war in some 20 missions or so.
Or make it an alternative history wargame! Or how about a RTS game based on the real European map? Use Google Earth and randomly generated terrain sets and frame it into a dynamic multiplayer setting in, say, the Western Front 1944? Fully destructible terrain, on a Free2Play basis?
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