Wherever I look, the war penetrated almost all the layers of pop culture. If Bruce Springsstin in a typical melodic style does not ask.
For which it is good, Ron Perlman mumbles something about his unchanged nature in Fallout 3. As evidenced by the last example, video games are also not new to the topic of war. Moreover, many of them use it as a basis for the entire existence.
Nevertheless, the best military games are those that develop or develop ideas and topics associated with a serious subject, with dexterous judgment and creative balance. They stay with us because of their unique views on a war, enriching our understanding of this phenomenon, although many other names tend to mindlessly glorify it above all. It cannot be said that some of the names below, sometimes do not fall into this temptation, but the scale of their creative ambitions ultimately outweighs the amount of their non-frequent errors.
10. GEARS OF WAR 2
What is this: a third-person shooter and the second game in the exclusive HBOX trilogy from Epic Games. Where can I play: Xbox One with backward compatibility and Xbox 360. Despite the fully fictional plot, Gears of War is a series of games in which the real world events have largely influenced. So why did Gears of War 2 occupy the first place in this list? Well, dramatically wide coverage of the sequel distracts attention from the "mechanism" of the name, instead doubling attention to the "war", dealing with wide strokes and grand gestures to convey the explicit scale of the conflict raging in sulfur.
You fight together with hundreds of COG soldiers, save whole cities from destruction and pay off the giant worm devouring the world from the inside. If you can learn some lesson from Gears of War 2, so this is what war is incessant, constantly consuming and little caring about micro.
9. Battlefield 1.
What is this: first-person shooter and the last game in the Battlefield franchise from DICE, this time the action takes place in the First World War. Where can I play: PS4, Xbox One and PC. Battlefield 1 is a game consisting of two scattered parts. On the one hand, you have a gloomy campaign in which human victims of war are sincerely investigated. In addition, there is a multiplayer regime that turns the atmosphere of the First World War in the arena of digital sport. However, if you postpone multiplayer regime for one second, it is difficult to deny that the team standing behind the Battlefield 1 campaign has perfectly coped with the topics of the First World War, with which we are so familiar - hope, tragedy, heroism, grief - in a manner. Well suits the benefits of the environment.
Its initial level, for example, introduces intelligent rotation to the "game is over" the image, since each death does not lead to instant reset, but becomes an opportunity for gloomy memories, because the camera stops to recall the life of each soldier before the lively transition to another fighter on the field. For a large-budget shooter from the first person, this is really ambitious creative solutions, and together they create what DICE can be proud of.
8. Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
What is this: the seventh of a series of first-person shooters about World War II from Gearbox. Where can I play: PC, Xbox 360, PS3. 2008 was obviously a turning point for team fighting: Battlefield: Bad Company and Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway came out for several months with each other, which caused the admiration of their fans. While Bad Company was a strong debut who lasted the path to another Sixwell, it is Hell's Highway that stands out as a memorable star point for the Brothers in Arms series, with dramatic poetry, emphasizing campaign, effectively combined with cruelty as visual effects, so and gameplay.
Hell's Highway is engaged in issues of brotherhood, post-traumatic stress and leadership, but not without a skirmish, supplemented by the debt mechanical team, which is relevant today.At least play Hell's Highway to understand why people still require continuing Brothers in Arms.
7. Valiant Hearts: The Great War
What is this: an adventure game focused on a puzzle, which tells about the memories and experience of four characters involved in the Great War. Where it can be played: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Xbox 360, PS3, IOS and Android. Remember the horrors and glorify the heroes of the First World War in the framework of the puzzle with the side scroller, to put it mildly, boldly, but Ubisoft Montpellier from the very beginning it clearly knew what did, with Valiant Hearts. The game retains an intimate and deep personal perspective, focusing on a small number of people in the storm of the Great War.
The result is the story, imbued with humanity, demonstrating compassion and community against the background, seemingly endless conflict. This is a piercing work, but it contains (relatively) optimistic material to stay accessible to a wider age audience. Although the game process may sometimes seem rather tapering, the bitter-sweet story of Valiant Hearts will remain in your thoughts for a long time after throwing loans.
6. Age of Empires II HD
What is this: a real-time strategic game from Ensemble Studios, in which players must build civilizations from scratch and win any historical enemies. Where can I play: PC. In addition, pay attention to Age of Empires: Definitive Edition in October of this year, which is an updated version of the original Age of Empires. The fact that I called the original For Honor, the strategic battles of Age of Empires 2 real-time were unfolded in the Middle Ages, allowing players to manage the great armies of knights, Vikings, samurai and many other historical factions. Campaigns inspired by real life often seemed lesson in the history of medieval wars, but the saturated game process of Age of Empires 2 in the real-time strategy genre allowed players to act a battle in terms of its large rates.
You fought not on the front line, but built plans and managed on top, in which the art of war turns into a grandiose strategic game.Of course, medieval warstores of the war could never observe their armies as if they were figures on a chessboard, but the fact of the matter. Age of Empires shows that the war can be for its leaders than anything else, as a great game that imitating a completely new dimension of armed conflict mechanisms.
5. Defcon.
What is this: a real-time strategy based on the iconography of the "Big Board" of the Cold War. Defcon was released more than ten years ago, but taking into account the current climate of international relations, his message and topics, unfortunately, seem more relevant than ever. Playing as a kind of epic digital board game, Defcon gives you a world map and tools for maintaining (or destruction) of a fragile international order.
It is largely inspired by the insane Cold War politics, and the magnificence of the game lies in its ability to imitate psychological stress and emotional paranoia, which are always standing for the maintenance of a nuclear war. Each match is a terrifying hypothetical hypothesis about the human victims of a full-scale international conflict in the modern era. The line between the unreliable world and the total catastrophe in Defcon is thin, and it makes it one of the most exciting military games.
4. This War of Mine
What is this: a game of survival, the action of which occurs in the fictional zone of Gazznavia hostilities, where players take on the role of civilians trying to survive the conflict. Where you can play: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS. Few, if there is generally, the games covered victims of war as well as with the same elegant tact as this War of Mine. In the original project 11 Bit Studio you are not playing for the "hero" of war; You just are trying to survive the real nightmare of an armed conflict from your threshold.
Through the prism of a sad artistic style and smart mechanics of survival This War of Mine affects the experience of those who found themselves in the center of the war, which they never asked about, and creates powerful work in the process. The developers were inspired by the real siege of Sarajevo, which occurred during the Bosnian War in the 1990s, but since civil conflicts continue to rage in the Middle East and in other places, this War of Mine still has to lose their socio-political acute.
3.Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crises
What is this: a military simulator from Bohemia Interactive with a tactical first-person shooter both in a single game and online. Where can I play: PC, Xbox. By offering an updated understanding of what a military simulator may be, Operation Flashpoint indulged by the cold and rigid science of the war, where the threat of death was buried at each corner of her tense campaign. There was no time in the game for stamped ideals of heroism or partnership, and instead she was aimed at scratching the cruel essence of a modern conflict - small-scale fighting of a detachment for a detachment, where cohesive teamwork and patient caution are more important than any ideas about combat actions. Hunt for glory.
Players either on the left persistently follow orders or think of their legs, since one wrong step can lead to fatal failure. Realism is a fashionable word that is often used when they talk about shooters, but few of them have not yet reached the same level of reliability as Operation Flashpoint.
2. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
What is this: the original Infinity Ward epic and first-person shooter based on the realistic of the modern battle of the 21st century. Where you can play in it: Xbox One, PS4 and PC in Modern Warfare Remaster. Before all the time travel, the deception of the mind and intentionally controversial missions of the campaign was the time when Call of Duty was really to say about the nature of the war. Take, for example, "death from above", the level in Modern Warfare, where you hit the target with air strikes, while safe AC-130. Thanks to deliberately low resolution, monochromatic filter, the sequence seems anxiously realistic, creating a cold calculating climate that does not suit the stomach.
What is the message? The war has changed. The revolution in military business means that battles are no longer personal and personal, but they become distant and are not subject to individual responsibility. The Modern Warfare campaign is seasoned with such reflections on the new theater of hostilities, on which we now live, even though it allows you to plunge into battle with equal success.
1. Rome: Total War
What is this: a real-time strategic game from Creative Assembly, in which various conflicts of the most powerful army are renovated in history. Even in the early 2000s, the British TV show called Time Commanders watched once a week on the BBC, using Rome: Total War to recreate famous battles throughout history. This gives you a good idea of how efficiently creative assembly can serve as a model for studying the dynamics of ancient wars, despite the lengthy historical inaccuracies found in its campaigns and some elements of its design.
Each clanger of steel and the commander cry worked in unison, creating impressions of the war, which seemed likely to be, almost tangible in their dramatic reliability. Combining a visual spectacle with tactical depth, Rome: Total War fulfilled his name with one of the best presentations of the historic war today.
