By Jim Rossignol on November 18th, 2011 at 11:56 am.
City Interactive have sent word of a new “gritty” FPS called Enemy Front. They explain: “Enemy Front is the realistic tale of a hardened soldier dropped behind Nazi lines to engage in dynamic, diversified missions ranging from quick skirmishes, espionage assignments, and sabotage activities.” The game is being developed jointly by studios in UK and Poland, and is designed by Stuart Black, who worked on the popular console manshooter, Black. It’s using CryEngine 3, which apparently allows “fully destructible maps that reflect the damage from every bullet fired and every grenade tossed”. So that sounds handsome. I’ve posted three more screenshots of angry or dying soldiers below.
Enemy Front will shoot Nazimen in 2012.
18/11/2011 at 12:00 Teddy Leach says:
Black was a VERY good shooter.
18/11/2011 at 12:02 Moni says:
But Bodycount was a bit rubbish.
18/11/2011 at 12:02 AshEnke says:
But Bodycount, his latest game, wasn’t.
And this new game being from City Interactive, I can’t say I’m looking forward to playing it….
18/11/2011 at 12:06 bear912 says:
I recall hearing somewhere that the brains behind Black left Bodycount sometime during development…
Don’t know if it’s true or not.
18/11/2011 at 14:01 Moni says:
Stuart Black left about a year before Bodycount was released, he’s mostly kept quite mum about the thing, but it seems to have boiled down to Codemasters not giving the studio the level of support Black hoped for.
In hindsight, it does look quite bad on Codemaster’s part since they shut down the studio pretty snappish after the game was released.
Bear in mind, there’s not too many facts there, so all of the above is hearsay and bollocks.
18/11/2011 at 12:06 Dozer says:
Friendly old bum.
18/11/2011 at 18:33 Conor says:
Smelly old wasp!
18/11/2011 at 12:06 westyfield says:
“Diversified.”
18/11/2011 at 12:06 CalleX says:
I´d rather play as a german.
18/11/2011 at 12:13 Teddy Leach says:
If only you could talk to the Germans.
18/11/2011 at 12:16 sneetch says:
Walk with the Germans.
18/11/2011 at 13:20 PoLLeNSKi says:
Grunt and squeak and squawk with the Germans….
…no that doesn’t sound right – Sorry Roger
18/11/2011 at 12:07 LazerBeast says:
World War 2, now with even more grimacing.
19/11/2011 at 13:02 Dreamhacker says:
Featuring a stunning collection of brand new weapons including:
-MP40
-M1 Garand
-Kar 98K
-M1 Thompson
-Luger
-and more!
….Yeah, I’m am sick to death of the WW2 guns. Why can’t someone just, you know, make an alternate history WW2 shooter with new guns?
18/11/2011 at 12:11 Tomhai says:
Realistic tale, right? I wonder why do the soldiers look as if they were from propaganda posters? WWII soldiers hardly looked anything like that. I dont want to bash the game based on four sceen shots, but… oh wait I’m already bashing the game… well then, whotchagonna do… if four screenshots say the games sucks, it sucks;)
18/11/2011 at 12:22 tigershuffle says:
….my first thoughts too “realistic” lol
try “fantastical” or even “Chucknorrisical”
looks a bit too stylised for my liking….but shooting is FUN
18/11/2011 at 12:57 Ross Angus says:
I see what you mean. The art style is nice, but seems at odds with the suggested mood. Perhaps it’s like Beyond Good and Evil!
18/11/2011 at 13:02 PoulWrist says:
You can have a realistic story with stylised visuals :)
18/11/2011 at 22:55 Shortwave says:
I thought the fact they look like they come off of posters is what made my jaw drop.
They are so badass looking, hahaha..
19/11/2011 at 02:30 Beardface says:
The art style seems like an interesting idea. Otherwise, you have to go the ARMA route – which first doesn’t even look that good, second ends up requiring a very beefy PC. Saying that a game cannot be realistic if it doesn’t *look* realistic is simply daft.
18/11/2011 at 12:11 Flukie says:
Yeah Criterion made Black really, not one guy.
Those screens look good but yeah Bodycount isn’t a good impression.
18/11/2011 at 12:27 Magnetude says:
Yep, it was the tech that made that game, not one guy who loves guns. You could really tell it came from the Burnout people.
18/11/2011 at 12:18 bob. says:
Interesting weapon choices there. I see the soldier in the second picture, the one in the background, carries an MP40. The one in the foreground also carries an MP40. And on the first picture, it seems one is firing an MP40 while the other one is holding an MP40. Oh, and you can also see two MP40′s in the third picture.
18/11/2011 at 12:44 Zoomon says:
At least they’re not using MKB42s in Stalingrad! OHMIGODTHEHISTORICALLYINACCURATEHORROR.
18/11/2011 at 13:16 Gaytard Fondue says:
My AVT will destroy you all!
18/11/2011 at 16:48 Waricck says:
Needs more variety of weapons if it’s anything like these pics.
18/11/2011 at 12:25 Khalan says:
“dynamic, diversified missions”
a) randomly generated missions based on your actions
or
b) market-speak for multiple objectives within a total of 10 or so levels.
Would be nice if it actually was the former.
18/11/2011 at 12:27 sneetch says:
The rather dour looking German chappies in these screenshots somehow remind me of Wolfenstein, in a good way. It’s actually been several years since I’ve played a WW2 shooter so I’ll be looking at this with interest (odd how quickly generic Modern Battlefield Warfare has become the new WW2 for me).
Edit: Although “the realistic tale of a hardened soldier dropped behind Nazi lines” should mean you get wounded in the second engagement and slowly die of a combination of exposure and your infected wounds on a mountainside.
18/11/2011 at 12:30 coldvvvave says:
It’s a Polish game, so you could also expect Evil Soviets.
18/11/2011 at 13:39 Frankie The Patrician[PF] says:
Well, you cant say the Soviet side wasn’t somewhat evil overally… the fact they turned coats AFTER they were betrayed dont really change the facts of the atrocities they have commited during the war (or afterwards).
18/11/2011 at 14:31 MistyMike says:
Evil Sovs being a staple of Polish-made games, as evidenced by the likes of Painkiller, The Witcher and Call of Juarez.
18/11/2011 at 17:28 coldvvvave says:
Painkiller’s sequel had Evil Soviets, actually. You could also look up Sniper Elite and War Front Turning Point.
@Frankie The Patrician[PF]
‘Evil’ is a wrong word. Everyone commited atrocities, some just got away with it.
18/11/2011 at 18:33 Eightball says:
Pretty weird for a country invaded by another country to have a dim view of the invading country.
How one could say the Soviet invasion of Poland isn’t evil boggles my mind.
18/11/2011 at 19:24 MistyMike says:
@coldwave
Sniper Elite and War Front turning Point were made in the UK and Hungary, respectively.
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18/11/2011 at 13:06 Archonsod says:
Yep, that was around the point I lost interest too.
20/11/2011 at 01:41 Felixader says:
You made me laugh pretty hard, mostly cause you read my mind.
Stop reading my mind. X-P
18/11/2011 at 13:24 CaspianRoach says:
Are these screenshots or are they artworks? They look slightly cartoonish because of the shading.
18/11/2011 at 13:36 Frankie The Patrician[PF] says:
Right, so is this some alternate history, where all German divisions consisted of SS troops?
18/11/2011 at 14:27 JB says:
Yes, because those four screenshots show the entirety of the German soldiers in the game.
18/11/2011 at 15:38 sneetch says:
They probably do.
18/11/2011 at 14:29 Colthor says:
“Enemy Front: Indecent Exposure in a Time of War”
18/11/2011 at 14:35 skyturnedred says:
No!! It was supposed to go WW2, then modern wars, and next move on to sci-fi war games!
18/11/2011 at 17:29 Inglourious Badger says:
No, no, it’s WW2, then modern shooters and then the universe begins to collapse in on itself reversing time, space and ending in weird wibbly paint like the end of 2001: a Space Odyssey.
I guess
18/11/2011 at 17:53 Dozer says:
2001: A Space Odyssey ends with him playing Guitar Hero, doesn’t it?
18/11/2011 at 15:52 Chaz says:
It doesn’t look very realistic, but I don’t mind playing it Clint Eastwood style, as in the likes of Where Eagles Dare and Kelly’s Heroes, gunning Nazis down by the dozen.
18/11/2011 at 16:49 Shooop says:
“Enemy Front is the realistic tale of a hardened soldier dropped behind Nazi lines to engage in dynamic, diversified missions-.”
My brain forced me to black out right there. Self-defense mechanism.
18/11/2011 at 22:56 Shortwave says:
No doubt right? HA.
18/11/2011 at 16:53 Lord Custard Smingleigh says:
Enemy Front, Friendly Back?
19/11/2011 at 16:38 Squirrelfanatic says:
You might want to have a second look at the article’s title.
18/11/2011 at 22:56 Shortwave says:
I’m excited to see how this plays out. I’m an optimist.
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19/11/2011 at 07:56 Zarunil says:
Trying too hard. 2 / 10.
20/11/2011 at 23:00 FRIENDLYUNIT says:
WW2? Bit of a novel an unusual setting for a first person shooting type game.
It will never take off.