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[Fniff]

I'd prefer one from the German perspective... What can I say, I like seeing both sides of the issue. Plus, my other favorite WW2 setting (The Eastern Front) has gotten a fair amount of games. Besides, as said before, WW2 games are kinda drying up.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

I'd prefer one from the German perspective... What can I say, I like seeing both sides of the issue. Plus, my other favorite WW2 setting (The Eastern Front) has gotten a fair amount of games. Besides, as said before, WW2 games are kinda drying up.

I dont recall any particularly captivating wwII FPSes that have a german storyline, although as fsr ax modernity goes RO2 lets you play as them on the eastern front.

[TheDarkStar]

Why not Italian or from the Japanese side (or even the American side, actually) of the Pacific island-hopping?

[Parsely]

Why not Italian or from the Japanese side (or even the American side, actually) of the Pacific island-hopping?

I played all the WW2 games back in the day, and I'd definitely pick up anything with a fresh perspective. Though I'd say the Italians didn't do crap. It wouldn't be very exciting seeing their campaign.

[WillowLuman]

A WWII game with 2 campaigns, though not necessarily much combat. More of a focus on stealth, character interaction, and other things.

First campaign takes place in Nanking during the occupation, with most of it centered in and around the Safe Zone. You'd either play as a Japanese soldier or one of the refuges, I'm not sure which would work better. You'd meet people, be helped by people, and have to make tough choices involving saving people, keeping secrets, and conflicts of loyalty.

Second campaign takes place in Nagasaki, starting just before the bomb falls. If the first campaign had you play as a Japanese soldier then it would be best for this one to have you play as the same guy.

[Sirus]

Why not Italian or from the Japanese side (or even the American side, actually) of the Pacific island-hopping?

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun did the American perspective, starting with the Pearl Harbor attack. Call of Duty: World at War also did the Pacific campaign as well as Russian missions on the Eastern Front. I would not call either title realistic however

[Parsely]

A WWII game with 2 campaigns, though not necessarily much combat. More of a focus on stealth, character interaction, and other things.

First campaign takes place in Nanking during the occupation, with most of it centered in and around the Safe Zone. You'd either play as a Japanese soldier or one of the refuges, I'm not sure which would work better. You'd meet people, be helped by people, and have to make tough choices involving saving people, keeping secrets, and conflicts of loyalty.

Second campaign takes place in Nagasaki, starting just before the bomb falls. If the first campaign had you play as a Japanese soldier then it would be best for this one to have you play as the same guy.

The Rape of Nanking..? At least from the refugee's standpoint in the first campaign you'd have an experience because you'd be trying to escape. But who would want to play as the Japanese slaughtering innocents? I mean that's all that happened there was they murdered Chinese civilians.

And the destruction of Nagasaki? I mean there's nothing to do aside from watch the place explode, and then try to help the wounded I guess.

[WillowLuman]

If you played as the Japanese soldier, it would be one who questioned what his comrades were doing. The primary draw would be having someone who could plausibly be at both events, though a German missionary or investor would be good for that too, and be in a somewhat better position to not do horrible things.

Both situations have the aspect of interacting with NPCs and making survival choices. While there are no real enemies at Hiroshima, there's still plenty of human drama that could make for good gameplay.

WWII Game =\= FPS

[Neonivek]

I'd prefer one from the German perspective... What can I say, I like seeing both sides of the issue. Plus, my other favorite WW2 setting (The Eastern Front) has gotten a fair amount of games. Besides, as said before, WW2 games are kinda drying up.

It is honestly HARD to find anything sympathetic to the Germans in WW2... They exist but it is rare.

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It isn't that it is hard to do it, after all the Germans were pretty much picked on and placed into a hopeless poverty simply because they lost WW1 and all blame was put on them... and many Germans didn't know about the genocide from what I can tell (I don't know, I never heard anything but "How couldn't they?", but mass ignorance is possible) and NO ONE liked the Jews in WW2 (NO ONE cared about them... NO one... That happened after. Which I only bring up not as a defense of the Germans but as a criticism to the Allies and any depiction where the allies suddenly raise that as their cause...)

The problem is... Well... WW2 Germany has been so thoroughly demonized that not ONLY would you first have to convince the audience that there were good ones or at least non-evil ones... but people are so sensitive to WW2 that if you do not have at least ONE super evil Nazi soldier YIKES.. but the second you include that is that second you turn your "From a Germany Soldier's perspective" into the "One good person".

BUT it exists. Mind you the Germans tend to still be "evil flavored" even when they aren't being played evil.

It is why I kind of like Freedom Force Vs the Third Reich's depiction of Red Sun (a Japanese Super "Villain" who is basically a Ninja Samurai dressed in a Japanese Soldier's uniform with a mask of the Japanese Flag so to speak, the game is a parody of golden/silver age comics), in that he opposed you but he wasn't evil.

As well Valkyria Chronicles also deals with WW2 in its own way... and the Axis do in fact have many sympathetic soldiers and generals, the hatred of Darksins were pretty universal on all sides, and even the allies weren't sympathetic. The Axis are still the villains run by basically an evil person and they do TERRIBLE things, but this isn't Castle Wolfenstien where Hitler had teams of mad scientists and Warlocks working for him.

[Lightningfalcon]

Das Boot is sympathetic to the Germans.  Probably because it is made by them, but still.  It also took place in their submarine force, which was one of the least political forces in the German military.
On that note several of the Silent Hunter games have you play as a German submarine captain.   

[Parsely]

Great movie!

There were sympathetic Germans but when their government is exterminating the educated (universities were shut down and the military ran public schools) there's simply nothing they could possibly do, so those few played along to avoid execution. Most of the Germans in the army were bad people.

The same goes for Japan. With the revival of Bushido and the war giving them more reasons to hate the West, not a single one wanted to surrender. They had a very strong culture and not a lot of world experience; there was no desire to understand outsiders and only until relatively recently have non-natives actually been allowed into Japan. The policy on immigrants was not to have any. They thought white people were pants on head stupid and deserved to be conquered.

Obviously all of these things have mostly by now changed.

[Neonivek]

Most of the Germans in the army were bad people.

>_>

The same goes for Japan

>_>

I don't want to derail this... but I'll say that if the people in the German and Japanese army were predominantly bad people... Then the French, British, Russian, and American soldiers were not much better (In fact they weren't... but that is another story).

[WillowLuman]

We were all Orcs in the Great War

[Mech#4]

I think "Company of Heroes" tended to be rather balanced, or at least not overly critical, of the german factions in the campaigns.

"Company and Heroes 2" I believe was rather different. I think it focused on the negative a lot for both Germany and Soviet Russia, much to the annoyance of the Russian audience.

[Neonivek]

I am not surprised the Russians were annoyed.

It would be like if someone made a game about the Vietnam war were all the American Soldiers were racist genocidal maniacs just because the war was an unjust slaughter.

Actually are there ANY games about the Vietnam war where the Americans ARE the villains? ALL the games I've seen on Vietnam pretty much depict the Americans as the heroes and the Vietnam soldiers as a SINGLE group and villainous.

That is a game I honestly wish existed.