Watch the Call of Duty WWII worldwide reveal livestream here on April 26 at 10AM PDT. July 10, 2008. Combat Arms is free-to-play FPS created by Korean developer Nexon. The games attempts to implement themes popularized by mainstream franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield and Counter-Strike. When Infinity Ward turned the focus of the already huge Call of Duty franchise away from World War II and towards contemporary conflicts, the scene was set for a perfect storm. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare proved to be a game changer in the field of mass market shooters. Infinity Ward’s high production value of a cinematic single player experience should prove to set the bar for shooters to come. What then happened was that everyone wanted a piece of that new contemporary conflicts pie that so far had mostly been the arena of various Tom Clancy games and Bohemia Interactive’s hyper realistic Operation Flashpoint and ArmA series. The result was a trend that is still going strong five years after the first Modern Warfare game was released. Now there is a plethora of military shooters out there, and none of them has not been affected in one way or the other by the leader of the manshooting pack. ![]() Here we have compiled a list of the 20 most prominent examples of the species ludus modernwarfensis. They all feature cinematic single player campaigns alongside big, many faceted multiplayer modes (though there are of course exceptions like Counterstrike, which has an honorary place on the list). #20 Bulletstorm. What an innovative title. Interestingly enough, the upcoming Call of Duty: Ghosts also sounds a bit much like a certain Tom Clancy’s title on this list. But not just the game’s title was a bit, well, bad and unimaginative. The rest of the game was too, and although it sure looked nice, it was a buggy mess that just couldn’t compete with Activision’s mighter competing title of last year, causing EA to eventually shut the door on the Medal of Honor franchise. At least, for now. #14 Battlefield Bad Company 2. ![]() Before Battlefield 3, there was this. Bad Company 2 is a game that has a somewhat lackluster single player campaign, that scores bonus points for having entertaining characters, and loses a lot with being about a the race between Russian and US special forces to get their hands on a fictional Imperial Japanese superweapon. Clearly it’s the multiplayer in this game that shines. Giving the player control over a wide array of vehicles and huge levels to play in, it’s the core of the Battlefield series. #13 Resistance 3. Because there’s no such quality villain as Nazis, the Killzone franchise took the best parts of them (mostly the uniforms and general aesthetics) and transplanted them to space. ![]() ![]() And yes, they do have to be killed. All of them preferably. Killzone 3 mostly takes place in wintery environments, and offers the player a novelty jetpack to kill Space Nazis from above. Also it was one of the first game to offer stereoscopic 3D, making it possible to kill Space Nazis in 3D. Which makes it a very, very awesome game in my book. Too bad I don’t have a 3DTV. #10 Sniper Elite V2. Who hates Nazis? Snipter Elite V2 pits the players against ze Germans, in the heart of the Reich no less, having the protagonist go after the scientists of the V2 rocket program in war torn Berlin in the last days of World War II (in the European theater, anyway). Unlike Ghost Warrior, this game actually centers a lot on sniping, so much in fact, that close quarters combat is a bit of a letdown in comparison. Those fancy and painful cutaway shots really helped there.
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