Comments on: Flamethrowers And Zeppelins, Together At Last

By: mujadaddy

mujadaddy — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:49:05 +0000

Alez: “nazi elves”

Shadowrun WW2? I’m in!

RTCW was decent. Multiplayer was godly. RTCW:ET, multiplayer only, is God.

If Raven doesn’t neglect the multiplayer aspect, the series could stand this sparkly upgrade.

By: eni1

eni1 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:01:19 +0000

Happy pills don’t work. Alez you need to get some chocolate.

By: Serenegoose

Serenegoose — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:12:30 +0000

I liked that trailer. Looked fun. I’d pay about £15-20 for it. The flamethrower did look poopy, though the rest of the guns looked fun enough.

By: A-Scale

A-Scale — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:51:53 +0000

These videos actually made me care about this game. Looks frantic and fun.

By: TotalBiscuit

TotalBiscuit — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:16:48 +0000

@Dracko – Well…

Heretic (1994)
Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders (1994)
HeXen (1995)
HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel (1996)
HeXen II (1997)
HeXen II: Portal of Praevus (1998)
Heretic II (1998)
Soldier of Fortune (2000)
Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force (2000)
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (2002)
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix (2002)
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (2003)
Quake 4 (2005)

Why yes, all of these were good FPS’s.

By: Jad

Jad — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:00:03 +0000

I thoroughly understand ragging on a new game franchise set in WWII (although I do think there are still some fresh angles that have not been explored — the Saboteur looks interesting, at least) — but already established ones?

Arguing that the world does not need a new Wolfenstein game is a legitimate opinion, but once you’ve accepted a new Wolf, you’ve accepted another WWII game.

Wolfenstein is occult/sci-fi Nazis, and anything else would not be a Wolfenstein game.

Anyway, I don’t have the money for this game (already have at least three or four full-price games that I want this fall, and if some other games that I’m keeping an eye on turn out good I’ll have even more), but this is bringing back happy memories of RTCW. I’ll probably pick it up after the price falls sub-$20.

By: bruno

bruno — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:38:15 +0000

It looks boring. And I thought the same about the flame thrower. It’s worse than in the previous game.

By: Clovus

Clovus — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:44:22 +0000

WW2 isn’t just used because of laziness. It used because it has weaponry that matches perfectly with the gameplay of FPSs, and is the last major war that you can portray without getting into many morally problematic area. Hitler bad, we kill. Nice and simple.

I don’t really want to play through Vietnam, and I suppose Brits don’t want to do the Falkland Islands War in a game. WWI would be pretty boring.

I think it is still possible to do a fresh WWII game. This game isn’t it though.

It is just as lazy to do an FPS in the future that has weapons that are analogues to WWII weaponry. I guess that’s what we normally get though.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:16:19 +0000

I still don’t follow- what does laziness have to do with selling out? You can certainly be called both, but one doesn’t guarantee the other.

By: Acosta

Acosta — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:59:55 +0000

Alez needs to take some happy pills.

By: airtekh

airtekh — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:55:10 +0000

I might be more interested in this if I hadn’t already played RTCW. This seems like RTCW 2.0 with extra sparkliness.

By: Alez

Alez — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:35:16 +0000

alex, but that’s a fact. Like saying grass is green and water is wet.

Lazy developers or piece of shit ones, use world war 2 as an escape from creativity.