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However, I would like to see more exploration of other areas of the war. 75% of the games seem to focus on the European conflict, mostly from an American perspective. I think there’s lots of open territory to explore in many different genres, like the naval battles in the pacific, island battles in the pacific, tank battles in north africa, air war in burma, and the list goes on.

Even though it’s still a little ways off, I give props to Activision for setting the next CoD installment in the eastern and pacific fronts of WWII.

Is TW:Empire a FPS though? All the TW titles thus far are more of a RTS type game with great formations. I think if one could get the AI right to do a First Person perspective and a viable phalanx, it would be epic.

My point on ‘older era’ gunpowder games is that a whole game mechanic would need to be created to handle the tedious reloading process that was in place. Granted, bolt action weapons are emulated in most shooter genres, but flintlocks and other things would be tougher.

I grant you the WW1 pre-trench stuff would be interesting, but then short of the uniforms would it not be similar enough to the WW2 stuff? I would think you could probably take a decent ww2 title and make a mod for it and have a ww1 game.

It will be interesting to see where FPS goes in the future, that is for sure. I just hope it doesn’t do what air combat sims did and just vanish.

With epic franchises like Halo and Halflife, it seems unlikely, but then Jane’s and EA were the mega franchise of flight sims and poof… almost nothing now.

Maybe the FPS is going to continue to go to the online realm? Most MMORPGs are FP combat games.

And also the Vietnam ones. Sure, the last one (‘Nam 1964 I think) was made a little while ago, but I can’t help and get the feeling it wasn’t the last of them.

There’s definitely something to be said about the ‘balance’ and such in WW 2, but IMHO that is a balance that was created in the game and one that need not be relevant for the real hardware.

btw : WW 1 was not a complete trench-war at the very start it was literally a race between both sides to try and find a weak spot in the defenses. There are plenty of equally interesting battles, but the problem is that most people are unaware of these things as the media have painted this image of an extremely static/boring/horrible war. Just like WW 2 isn’t America vs Germany … WW 1 is far more than French/English vs Germany.

Games like GRAW proof that it is possible to create a good game in a (fictional) modern settig without having to worry about missiles and artillery. The latter was also available in WW 2, but most WW 2 games conveniently ‘forget’ that …