Panzers II lets you play as the Germans, Italians, English, Americans and (I believe a first for any ww2 game) Yugoslavian Partisans. Take that.

Aaaah, but you can control a Yugoslavic partisan in Commandos (1998)! God, I’d love a new Commandos game; just pick up right after Commandos 2, get all the characters back, ignore all the bollocks that’s happened to the series since then…

I don’t know if anyone ever had a go at the stealth in RtCW, but I loved playing it that way. It wasn’t just the two compulsory stealth missions — there were a good few missions where you could take a sneaky approach for ages, playing the same level in at least slightly different ways, even if it was no Deus Ex; it’s something that’s either half-arsed to the point of nonexistence, or just outright ignored by practically every mainstream FPS; hardly ‘generic’. Stealth is the kind of thing that doesn’t get a showing in trailers, so who knows whether Raven have included that flexibility in this new game, but… from the raw boredom throbbing out of the gameplay-bits trailer awhile back (and this one), I doubt it. Hey, prove me wrong…

Shame they couldn’t get past the vehicles of ETQW to see that there was a good if different game. I’ve never understood this mantra of vehicles = bad. Between that and the BF players disliking the game because of the scifi, Activision not advertising opposite their other baby Cod4, and being released alongside what were admittedly more polished games (orange box, CoD4), Quake Wars was doomed :(

Also, why did they speak wiz ze german aksents and then towards the end the one left standing said “nein! nein!”?
If your going to make your own arbitrary rules of language then stick by them.

RTCW had the single best FPS multiplayer ever.

Sing it!

I don’t agree re Quake Wars: it’s so different that’s nothing like RTCW, yes, but it was something else. And not bad.

The problem is the sequels took it off in the wrong direction. The people who played all three games know which one was best. The problem is the majority have only played ET and totally missed out on RTCW.

RTCW multiplayer was magical. There hasn’t been a game since that employed so much strategy in a FPS. RTCW had all the elements of working a fully coordinated team. The classes complemented each other, the special abilities were balanced. The map making took gameplay to the next level and I have yet to see a fps with a more thought to the strategy. You actually have to think. Splash Damage creates a map called “marketgarden”. It can be best described as the map that killed my favorite game. It is a 5 on 5 match with 30 people deathmatching in the middle. Who cares about the objective? It is all about my kill to death ratio. Newbies love it. So of course, id turns this pioneering strategical fps over to the people who understand the strategy of the game the least.

RTCW:ET took that magic and effed with it, but it still had enough of the original to be good. The maps were horrible and flat. The classes were messed with and the whole balance was thrown out the window. It became much more newbie friendly. Hardcore RTCW players weep at what became of their magical game.

Quake Wars effed up that magic and left a pile of dung. Let take all the good stuff out of ET, throw in more horrible maps and add vehicles that show we have no idea what made the first game the best in the series.

Hardcore RTCWers still keep up with each other. We are pining for a game like the original RTCW. Hopefully our pleas have been heard for RTCW2.

The same reason why the Polish jews in Deliverance speak English with Polish accents.