I don't often post here as you'll see from my post count (I sure have read a whole lot though, thanks for all the tips guys!) but seeing my other favorite ww2 game getting some bad PR I think I'll pipe up.
Red Orchestra Ostfront 41-45 is a game that grew up from an Unreal 2004 modification. The guys won a big contest giving them the actual unreal engine to build a real game on (worth about $250,000) and made their retail version of Red Orchestra.
The game is NOT like your traditional first person shooter games. It doesn't have the unrealistic pace of games like Doom, Quake, DoD 2, or BF2. It's a bit slower paced, and far more realistic. The guns, the vehicles, everything operate realistically. The team making it is devoted to realism and have spent endless hours researching and insuring that things are as realistic and accurate as possible. The mod version had some problems, but this new version is supposed to be pretty darn rock solid with all the major problems being resolved from simply having access to the engines source code.
If you've ever played a first person shooter and have any interest at all in being a single soldier (be it a rifleman, or a tanker) then you might want to try this game's demo when it comes out. Personally I love both games like CMBB and then games like RO. I had some trouble with the new DoD as it was too fast paced an unrealistic. RO doesn't have that problem.
Anyhow, don't dismiss it as just another shooter game...there will be a demo out in a few weeks from what I hear so give it a whirl.
Things I really like about it:
- realistic balistics on weapons
- realistic movement speeds
- realistic death (you get shot you generally die, none of this I can take 20 bullets and run at full speed stuff)
- actual teamwork during gameplay
- artillery is modelled realistically (authentic salvo amounts etc.)
- vehicle combat is realistic and stronly encourages full crews to be combat effective
- Ah...there's too many things. I'll stop now. =)
Monk