The Weekend Rant: World War Edition.

The Weekend Rant is a new weekly feature here on the Videogame Vagabond were the Vagabond will tackle a subject about the Videogames Industry that annoyed him during the past week.


"Heres yet another game were you shoot Nazis"

"Another world war two shooter announced"

"This world war two shooter is better then all the other world war two shoots"

"Time to kill another 3 million Nazis"

Stop it.

Right now Stop it, your all acting like children.

It seems that every time there is a FPS set during World War two the whole world seems to explode in to proclaiming it as just "another world war 2 shooter" and that its all been done before. True that there have been many a FPS set during the bleak days of world war two but I am here to stop the howling and complaining that it is "played out".


Lets start by taking a look at shooters based on it. It seems that every year at least one game based on it comes out. Now i will say that most of these games are just variations of games that came before it but one in a blue moon one does some thing a little diffrent, Call of Duty: World at war reminded us why the UN banned flame throwers for instance.

Another thing that these games could try is basing the game on some other front then the western front, I will be the first one to amite that we have stormed the beachs of Normandy a few to many times. I would love to see a game based on the Mediterranean campaigns or the Eastern front, or prehapes the Pacific front would be a nice change of pace or if they really wanted to try some thing fresh they could base a game around the various resistance movments in Europe and abroad.

Another under utilized grouping is that of World War Two and the RTS/TSG genres. I mean a strategie game based on it seems like a no brainer but it seems that only a few companys seem to see this ( such as Relic's Company of Heros and 1C's up coming Men Of War ).


In the end i am just trying to point out that there is still room for World War Two in our games and that there is still touched potential there. All this said I am still waiting for some one to make a good game based on the American Civil war or World War one, but thats a rant for another weekend...

-The Vagabond.