Comments on: “I had to lead them… through Hell.”

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:06:10 +0000

Reply to Talonar

Band of Brothers?

Fancy trying that again?

By: Talonar

Talonar — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:56:46 +0000

Band of Brothers games are based on tactical suppress and flank combat. They are not your average WW2 shooter and use testimonies and interviews from actual soldiers to set up each encounter in the game.

Trailer looks aweesome, destructable cover looks awesome, game is going to be just as good as the other two titles.

By: AbyssUK

AbyssUK — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:03:46 +0000

WW2 FPS games.. really somebody needs to think of it all at a fresh angle.. this is just more of the same. Although that means it will sell like hotcakes, but me am bored of the same old rinse and repeat gameplay we are getting these days.

The idea of a blackadder goes forth game made me lol.. oh the possibilities!

By: Ghiest

Ghiest — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:38:04 +0000

That’s because us British did nothing in the war apart from suggest stupid plans and sit back and sip tea and sound stupid, whilst the Americans run riot through Europe and single handedly defeated Hitler. Well according to most WW2 games anyway.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:28:15 +0000

Also, isn’t Anglo British. These men clearly aren’t British soldiers. They don’t have a mustache between the lot of them.

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:01:15 +0000

(Worth noting that the original COH has Germans as a multiplayer side, and the standalone expansion Opposing Fronts has a Panzer Elite campaign).

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:51:12 +0000

If some publisher really, really had balls, he would develop a game from the Wehrmacht perspective. With adventure elements and “meaningful choices”. You know, like when War movies were still called Antiwar movies.

Regarding the game: Yay, another WW2FPS where you play an Anglo! Go uninspired bullshit! At least Call of Duty let you play Russians now and then. Congratulations Gaming Industry, you made me so sick of the scenario I passed up the reportedly great Company of Heroes just because of it.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:34:08 +0000

Reply to Okami
Great, now you’ve killed my buzz. I bet you’re great at parties. My own grand parents were German and Ukranian, so all the “Fritz” stuff is pretty jarring for me. But my great great great great grandpappy fought in the Holy Roman Empire so I know I should probably feel guilty about playing against them in Total War.

I hate the fact so many games spend monthes in capturing textures and particle effects. Then seem to do the ragdolling, the most common and arguably most important part of the physics, in half an hour. After going down the pub.

Watching a “goddamned nazi” execute a perfect backflip on a rocket to the face is really going to ruin the immersion.

It’s almost as if they wanted to get nice still frames instead of a consistent atmosphere and experience. But that’s just crazy thought, no company would ever do that in any medium ever. It’s far too cheeky.

By: Okami

Okami — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:23:15 +0000

Yay! Another chance to kill my grandfathers and their friends over and over again!

By: Dracko

Dracko — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:48:36 +0000

About being Spielberg. You are not Spielberg.

You say that like it’s a bad thing.

By: Adel

Adel — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:48:43 +0000

I enjoy WWII games, but I wish they’d get their inspiration and set pieces from something other than Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers already.

I was really hoping this iteration of Brothers in Arms would’ve followed more along the lines of “A Bridge Too Far” and let us play as the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem.

By: araczynski

araczynski — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:39:33 +0000

i personally will NEVER tire of ww2 games. you can never get tired of killing fricking natzis.