Best Video WWII Game?

Well you own a PC right? I mean how else would you have looked it up. Or is your PC just crappy?

@frimmel:

@Pvt.Ryan:

So they are making a game called Red Orchestra:Heroes of Stalingrad. Sounds fun and it’s coming in August.

What style will it be? RTS? Turn-based? FPS? Is it PC only?

The first one - which is awesome and first introduced to me on this board (should still be available on Steam) - was an FPS.  It had a “combined arms” approach to the game, which is vehicles & infantry combat, but many maps also isolated one or the other.  It limits the weapon and class availability depending on map to make sure things are balanced.  Only a handful of guys get MGs, SMGs, or semiauto rifles…the grand majority only have rifles.  And if you want to operate a tank, you have to spawn as a tankman class that mainly has a pistol.  Lots of fun back in the day…assaulting a Russian town as the Germans with only 2 half tracks and you never know where people are.

This game looks like it has single player campaigns for both sides, some new mechanics (cover system, fire team deployment, ranking, coop, etc.), and new visuals.  I’ve seen some gameplay videos and it looks pretty good.  Might have to get a dedicated PC to hit this.

I would say Close Combat II, A bridge too far. One of the best WWII PC/video-games I have ever played.

@Herr:

I would say Close Combat II, A bridge too far. One of the best WWII PC/video-games I have ever played.

That was truly the best one, IMO.  Another awesome thing about it - the disc held a Windows & Mac install, not common for games at anytime.

Panzer, Allied, and Pacific General

@suprise:

Panzer, Allied, and Pacific General

I also totally enjoyed playing them.

Big fan of Panzer and Allied General. Pacific General never made it to PS1. Really wish a new or updated version would hit modern consoles.

Strategy seems to have become a lost cause or means RTS. Shame.

I agree with you frimmel. A shame!

Actually I’d love to see A&A on the major consoles. Black Elk posted something like that on the forums a while ago. I bought an AA41 app for my phone but it kind of sucks, not all that fun.

For a realistic 3D tactical simulation, go over to Battlefront any try their Combat Mission series.

That would be sweet to see the Pac, Alli, Panz. Generals re-released

@suprise:

That would be sweet to see the Pac, Alli, Panz. Generals re-released

Try “Panzer Corps” at Matrix Games - inspired by the PG series, with some improvements.

http://www.matrixgames.com/products/?p=19&a=3

The arcade game 1942!  8-)

I also had Steel Panthers about 15 years ago but can’t play it on newer, faster computers.
The offboard bombardment was awesome.  Frustrating how squads would get “pinned” so often and not be able to do anything, though.

Cool scenarios including Japanese invasion of San Fran

Panzer General 3D.

And the Medal of Honor 1 + 2 games right as they came out.

Nothing else was quite like the Saving Private Ryan MOH experience  Or the Call of Duty King Tiger Tank capture level lol  Epic!

And lets not forget… WOLFENSTIEN!

Secret Weapons Over Normandy: Flight simulator

My personal favorite

@Uncrustable:

Secret Weapons Over Normandy: Flight simulator

My personal favorite

That one was a good one, I think I still have it packed up somewhere.  It got ridiculous when you could use the ME-262 and experimental planes.  And then you find the codes for the X-Wing & Tie Fighter….well let’s just say there was no way in Hoth Hitler was going to win in that game.

I would like to high light someones post awhile go.

Heart of iron 3 with all its expansions is one of the most indepth strategy games one can find. Not only that but there are several mods to add to gameplay. Pick a nation anywhere at any date from 1936 to 1944 and fight through the entire war and change history!

Also a cold war game called east vs west takes place from 1946 to 1991. Looks very interesting and i will be buying.

It is an older game, but I really liked that first Medal of Honor game. When I first started the game and was on one of the landing boats heading for Omaha beach, I felt as real as is possible in a video game. Maybe it is just nostalgia for a game I played a long time ago, but I remember it as being awesome.

I have that one (got it years after it came out) and it is really great.

Frontline, right?  (I was a latecomer to the MOH games)
I love MOH European assault…