Is it Time for Call of Duty to Return to WW2?

The king of the first-person shooter, Call of Duty, has strayed a long way from its roots. Here's why the franchise should return to the WW2 setting.

[madpuppy]

I miss the WWII FPS, I want to return to it, I miss urban warfare in towns and cities across Europe, sniping Nazi soldiers or flushing out Nazi snipers. having full environmental destruction and all the other advancements would be wicked cool.

[gamingden]

I totally agree! I find that the WW2 games that did come out in the past all were so focused on the same battles and types of missions (D-Day, Stalingrad, etc.) that there's still tonnes of unused material that's so ripe for gaming. The Saboteur (which isn't an FPS) showed just how unique of a world you can still craft in the WW2 genre, so here's hoping that more developers take the well of material and run with it.

[OrangePowerz]

You must have forgotten the old Medal of Honour games (the Dreamworks made games not the EA made games). Those where awesome. The second games was made by the Sniper Elite guys.

[kraenk12]

I'd prefer a game where one could finally kill some Americans once and for all.

[Majin-vegeta]

Bu bu but people would get butthurt Remember 6 days of fallujah last gen?

[madpuppy]

That won't happen for one main reason, The US is the largest market for gaming, and there are a lot of people in the US that aren't gamers that would get upset and ban the game, Frankly, It is just a game, Besides, gamers kill US police, FBI and CIA all the time in games. for some reason, that seems to be tolerated. The only way you are going to get to kill US soldiers in a mainstream game is to play multi-player. You could hunt down those free games online that are made by programmers from other countries, I remember one made in the middle East that made the US the bad guys and you played as a "freedom Fighter", it looked like a 10 year old game but, they are out there.

[Christopher]

I'm an American and I'd like that as well. People are too afraid to take on our Government. Please do! We need some ass kicking every once in a while. Not like we're some sort of bastion for good deeds, our politicians are just as corrupt as anyone else's.

[kraenk12]

@madpuppy

I know you are right, but that part of political correctness saddens me. It's hypocritical. I'd like a COD which would show all sides, that of an American, French, British or Russian soldier, but also show the sides of a German or Japanese soldier who had a family and was just sent to die by his government...up until there were only children left during the last days. It would give the whole shooting gallery so much more depth.

[kraenk12]

@texag2011

Oh, how cute. A little patriot! Are you even old enough to use the Internet?!

[WellyUK]

You guys just need to get red orchestra 2 and it's expansion, easily one of the very best WW2 games ever made.

[Trolltroll]

Just let the bodys lay there as objects. By the end of a pvp match there would be piles every where. The effect would be amazing/horrifying instead of walking blind into a ambush you would see your comrades lifeless bodies lying just past a gap in two buildings. War sucks but i want to see this.

[d4v0333]

No thanks we had too may WW2 Call of Duty games. How about we go back to WW1? Or a crazy idea go back to Roman empire times with bows and swords and stuff like that :)

[kneon]

I bet even if they did WW1 it would still be told from an American perspective even though the US only showed up for about the last 6 months of the war.

[d4v0333]

Well of course cause it 'Merica!!! We rule the world! /s

[PistolsAtDawn]

WW2 or modern day without all the futuristic stuff that just lends itself to cheap tactics....some of that is ok...but its too much now. WaW,BO1&2 were great IMO and BO3 does some great things..but I could do with it being MORE realistic than the trend its going in

[Immorals]

CoD was best in ww2. It's not been as good since w@w.

[SKullDugger]

I sir agree with your statement.

[MRMagoo123]

I loved killing people with bouncing betties lol and sniping someone with iron sites across the other side of the map getting a head shot while they peeked through a tiny hole was always fun and looked impressive on the kill cam

[gangsta_red]

People were complaining when CoD and other FPS games were over using the WW2 theme. I think that is why Modern Warfare 1 and 2 were such big hits and remembered well.

CoD has a knack for drying out their themes and getting stale quickly.

[PhoenixUp]

I'm glad they moved away from WWII. We don't need the same stout being told again. World at War was a good swansong to that era for this series.

[DefenderOfDoom2]

If COD goes back to WW2 they need to use a new egine to run game . How many times are they going to tweak 'Id Software's' 'Quake 3' engine .

[SKullDugger]

I would love to see a return to ww2 or Modern warfare but this new crap IMO sucks Is it just me or are developers getting lazy just change the way the maps look and add some new jump, hover and wall run. COD games have become stale, boring and very repetitive and the mico transactions are BS if you have new DLC with new weapons just add them to the game don't make the players spend more money and time for a chance at a supply drop with a new weapon its just stupid.

[Livecustoms]

Although Call Of Duty has gone down hill recently, It'll still be one of my favourite franchises from the fact it got me into Multiplayer games with Cod 4.

[HowdyPazuzu]

Too late. With Battlefield 5 set in WW1 or 2 and the Battalion kickstart off and running I think COD missed the uboat.
I am looking forward to the Modern Warfare remaster though.

[MRMagoo123]

MW remaster will probably be the highest selling cod to date if they do it.

[formanbradley]

I would love it if they actually changed the time period between installments... but they are too much of pussies to go against the collective time-setting trend set by the industry as a whole.

[Fist4achin]

Ww1&2 would be awesome to go back and play with. World at War was totally badass

[gamingden]

World War 1 is so under-utilized in gaming. Verdun on Steam is proof of that; it's such a fun game, even though the graphics and polish aren't quite there.

[Godmars290]

Because there was a clear bad guy instead of what's being faced now? Fanatics looking to make other fanatics among their own and willing to victimize a third party for that goal?

[fanboysmackdown]

WWII or nothing, sick of Call of Pooty Advanced Gayfare crap. COD 2 was a great game and even if they remastered that, I'd be kinda happy but I'd like to see a new and epic WWII game.

[jts1891]

God, I wish they would. The old WWII shooters were some of my favorite games on PS2 when I was a teenager. I still fondly remember the old Medal of Honor games. I'd love a return to that era, especially considering the technological advancements. D-Day played out on a modern console? Take my money now.

[gamingden]

Playing Medal of Honour Allied Assault was life back in the day. I would love it if we could see something like that with new tech.

[Scottyxboxoneandps4]

Yes ww2 for sure, leave the future stuff to games that do it properly like Titanfall...

[madpuppy]

I was thinking, you know what would be great, if they did more WWII spy FPS, Like "Operation Gunnerside" sabotaging the Norsk Hydroelectric plant that made heavy water for Nazi Atomic bomb research. Or all the operations that the British Commandos accomplished during the war. there are so many things that were going on all around the world, from the arctic poles to Africa and South America. WW2 FPS doesn't really need to revisit operation market garden, or Operation Overlord...tell some new stories, and the coolest thing about it is that they are all real things that happened.

[kraenk12]

I'd like a COD which would show all sides, that of an American, French, British or Russian soldier, but also show the sides of a German or Japanese soldier who had a family and was just sent to die by his government...up until there were only children left during the last days. It would give the whole shooting gallery so much more depth. Sadly there are only few games which dare to dive into these darker or more real sides of war, I'm thinking of Yager's Spec Ops The Line for example.