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[The Dear Leader]

Red Orchestra 2 and Rising Storm, only WWII shooter that I've played that captured the realism that I wanted out a game depicting historical events. Oh and Call of Duty 2 and the Brothers in Arms series are pretty good too.

 

[Fonz72]

Is that the trainyard area? I remember that part being such bs.

I think so, haven't started it yet. There are a lot of BS moments just because of the age. Poor trigger moments and whatnot.

 

[antitrop]

I played so much Day of Defeat, it was ridiculous. Way before CoD ever came out. I remember anticipating the patch that added the "real" Omaha Beach map. The early versions of DoD had a very lame version of the map, super tiny. I think it was like late 2001 they finally added like a full-scale, no-shit Omaha Beach and it was incredible.

Day of Defeat was the only thing that could pull me away from Counter-Strike, in those days.

 

[BPoole]

Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm

 

[Llyranor]

Red Orchestra 2 / Rising Storm answers the OP's actual criteria.

CoD1/xpac/2 were fun Hollywood shooters, though.

Brothers-in-Arm felt like a one-trick pony game.

 

[ghst]

Red Orchestra 2 / Rising Storm answers the OP's actual criteria.

maybe every answer should begin with "[x] is a better answer to the OPs conditions than RO2/rising storm because..."

 

[SneakyStephan]

BF1942 or RTCW
medal of honor AA a fairly distant third

cod was a poor man's moh:aa clone

 

[CartridgeBlower]

No love for the original Medal of Honor games? They probably don't hold up especially well, but at the time they were something special. Also, were any of the PS2 ones any good? Which was the one where you could drop in anywhere on the map? That one always looked like it might be a return to form, and at least tried to shake-up the standard FPS formula.

 

[No_Style]

RTCW

More like GreatTaste.

 

[DTKT]

It's a shame that RO2 tanks/vehicles never went further than one tank for each side. Plus, I can't believe they left out the MG-42.

 

[Syphon Filter]

BF1942 or RTCW
medal of honor AA a fairly distant third

cod was a poor man's moh:aa clone

Naw cod was innovative at the time. Campaign and multiplayer.

 

[Krappadizzle]

red orchestra 2 + rising storm for all categories. it's really, really great. it's still very much an action game, but samples some of the more mechanically rewarding and atmospherically traumatic elements of simulation games.

nothing really comes close.

+1

Some games of RO2 can be straight up terrifying. It's tough as nails, but immensely satisfying.

 

[cafemomo]

Is there a WW2 FPS that let's you play through the perspective of the Japanese or Germans?

 

[Ragnarok Flames]

Call of Duty: World at War

 

[Ghost Cell]

Call of Duty: Big Red One.

 

[antitrop]

Call of Duty: Big Red One.

OOOohhhh, controversial.

 

[Possum]

Enemy Front!

Spoiler

loljkitscod2

 

[vanty]

Is there a WW2 FPS that let's you play through the perspective of the Japanese or Germans?

Battlefield 1942 does. MP only of course. It is also easily the best WW2 game, though for realism and stuff Forgotten Hope and Red Orchestra are best.

 

[Broadbandito]

Moh AA! The mp is untouched

 

[zero shift]

red orchestra 2 + rising storm for all categories. it's really, really great. it's still very much an action game, but samples some of the more mechanically rewarding and atmospherically traumatic elements of simulation games.

nothing really comes close.

 

[nampad]

For multiplayer, I'll go with Enemy Territory or Day of Defeat: Source.

 

[cbox]

MOHAA, loved the V2 Rocket level in MP and Stalingrad. Though I do remember having a blast playing COD2 at school during breaks with friends.

 

[SpartanN92]

WaW

Gary Oldman/Kiefer Sutherland...nuff said

 

[ArkkAngel007]

Is there a WW2 FPS that let's you play through the perspective of the Japanese or Germans?

The Rising Storm expansion of Red Orchestra 2 allows you to play as the Japanese. Pretty cool too, since they factor in things such as banzai charges apparently.

 

[foxtrot3d]

Yup, gonna have to go with COD2.

 

[Muppet of a Man]

The original Medal of Honor on PS1.

 

[amnesiac]

Why aren't there any WWII shooters around anymore? The only one I can think of is the new Wolfenstein game. All of the shooters are modern now

Guess I should go play COD 2.

 

[CountAntonius]

Day of Defeat
RTCW

The guns still make this my favorite setting for FPS games. The risk and accuracy of bolt action rifle. DoD Kar98 is probably my favorite weapon in any game.

 

[maximum360]

Call of Duty 2, was amazing.

Ditto.

 

[TheSeks]

I actually preferred CoD 1 over CoD 2.

Why? It's pretty damn rough and Veteran was pretty impossible in 1.

 

[CountAntonius]

RO2 still have an active community on the west coast? Never got around to playing it but this thread is making me curious.

 

[alterno69]

Allied Assault?

Yes, amazing game, the original Call of Duty was great too but AA will always have a special place in my heart.

 

[DrSlek]

Gonna have to go with CoD2

 

[Saganator]

Why aren't there any WWII shooters around anymore? The only one I can think of is the new Wolfenstein game. All of the shooters are modern now

Guess I should go play COD 2.

There was a time when there was nothing but WW2 shooters, and people got tired of them. Kinda like how there are nothing but modern shooters right now and people are getting tired of it.

Oh and my favorite WW2 shooter is CoD2 for SP and RTCW for MP, with CoD2's MP in a close second. Have some good LAN party memories with CoD. Honorable mention goes to pre-Source DoD.

 

[Sanke__]

one of the brothers in arms games

 

[tim.mbp]

1943: The Battle of Midway

 

[leroidys]

Man sooo many people that have never played a Red Orchestra combined arms map in here.

 

[Ultimatepancake]

Idk about best, but I loved the PS2 MoH series. Frontline in particular was excellent.

 

[psilva]

I came here to say Call of Duty 2.

 

[SomeOneInaHat]

 

[Fahrenheit]

Allied Assault?

Should of been first one said

 

[jambo]

Call of Duty Uno.

The Russian campaign is just amazing.

 

[HalfwayOrb]

Brothers in Arms. What a fun series.

 

[Gorillaz]

I'll agree with the others on CoD 2 but I felt World at War was a nice final push in WW2 shooters

 

[Luixfern]

Multi-Player: DoD

The correct answer.

 

[PastorOfMuppets]

We should give a shout out to the original Day of Defeat for multiplayer. If you ever won a round on the Normandy Beach level as the Allies, it felt like an accomplishment.

dod_overlord and dod_avalanche were two terribly unbalanced maps. Avalanche was made worse because of the dreaded grenade bug.

 

[LordBaztion]

Ok, I think I'm buying CoD2 this month.

 

[speedpop]

For beauty in mayhem it would be BF1942. For realism in single player, it would be CoD2.

If you're not adverse to an online venture of two, it's highly recommended you play Red Orchestra. All of them.

 

[Kocolino67]

Brothers in Arms 1 & 2 of course - and the Forgotten Hope mods for BF1942 and BF2

 

[The Dear Leader]

I'm in fucking tears over here, that's the funniest shit I've seen in a fort night.