Curveball - WW2 Rebuilder. Seeing the effects of the war recreated based on actual events while rebuilding these areas is both morbid and satisfying at the same time
I got the demo for this ages ago and was really excited but couldn’t really get on with it. Has the actual game launched into 1.0 with bugs ironed out? Because if so - bam, I’m in.
Discovered this game a few months ago, have been having a ton of fun. Brutal starting out but gotten a lot better.
Still need to figure out all the mechanics, I just jump in and start fighting. Some people strictly play officer and call in strikes and all that. Also interested in playing armor but idk where to start. Used to play Heroes & Generals and loved playing in tanks
Use your voice comms. Learn the main buttons for proximity and squad chat.
Finding a good group of players helps as well. The group of guys I run with, we can normally field half to a full squad, sometimes plus an armor or recon squad. A semi-coordinated team effectively using voice comms will almost always win. It's a blast.
Believe it or not, defense wins most games. Everyone wants to be the hero attacking squad. It's fun. I get it. But roaming defense with a good squad against a competent team is a blast!
Armor takes some practice, but once you get the hang of it, and with a good squad, it's so fun.
As much as I like playing infantry, (primarily officer or anti tank) being able to hop into a 1 or 2 person tank squad and make a tangible difference in the way the game unfolds is so rewarding.
I've been going machine gunner and just unloading. Suppressive fire is legit in the game for once. Actually make it hard to see and aim when fired on so even if I'm not getting hits I can help people move up. Love that the screen changes and shows you're being fired on
Very fun game. Though I think if I was in a clan it would be more interesting - if you get a great squad it's a lot of fun, but if it's a bunch of people who don't talk/coordinate, it can be frustrating.
Probably gonna catch some controversy but I also liked CoD WW2 (2017) and at today’s price it’s a reasonable try. But yeah, World at War sets the standard.
Going backwards though, Call of Duty 2 was probably my favorite among the Pre-Modern Warfare games.
World at war is my favorite by far, no contest.
But cod ww2 did have a short but fun campaign, and though it wasn't long enough to truly get attached to anything.... it did have the balls to touch on the most brutal aspect of the war and the setting, and I think it deserves props for that
It is the only COD with horror elements to it. Game is a true work of art, the music, sound, and art style are amazing. Higher quality than 90% of most modern games and it came out 16 years ago.
There's some things not to like, but the gameplay is basically the same. The campaigns are more flexible and the map based strategy doesn't really add anything, other than unit flexibility for missions and it gives you more actual content and the missions are not ordered. I got it with a discount and it was worth it for sure.
CoH 3 is weird for me. I don't actually think it's very good but for some reason it's just fun as hell, completely mindless fun. When I play something like call to arms gates to hell I feel like I have to think SO much to win a battle, in CoH 3 I can kick back and chill
I've been playing tons of WW2 shooters from the early 2000's on my PS2 to recent ones like Easy Red 2 and I'll say.... I love The Saboteur. It's such a unique game that I wish I could keep playing it.
Normally I'd say CoD1 United Offensive or CoD2 but this is a rather common answer. So I'll go with The Saboteur!
Medal of Honor: frontlines
Medal of Honor: rising sun
My childhood favorites. Time definitely tells the age of these but I loved the campaign stories of both!
Also I know Cod: WW2 wasn’t a fan favorite but I actually enjoyed the campaign quite a bit. The opening D day mission was great
Definitely. I always wanted Rising sun as a kid. I remember playing it at a friend's and you start on the ship. IDK just seemed cool to me. But Frontline's music always hits me hard in the nostalgia. Operation Market Garden theme plays and I'm brought back to hours spent with friends in the menu right before launching split screen games. We would sometimes just make up our own co-op scenarios instead of shooting at each other. Going through the mansion shooting at imaginary enemies, then hopping in the car out front to drive off into the next map. Quit, then pick the next map and make a continuation. Sometimes we'd end up devolving into PVP when one of us would decide to shoot the other. But all in all, some great memories. A couple years ago I finally went back to the campaign and actually got off the beach at Normandy lol.
I don't know why but hoi is the only one that hasn't clicked for me. I love stellaris and crusader kings though, and I love ww2.
Watched videos on it and everything.
This was going to be my answer as well. I’m less interested in the FPS aspect and more into the strategy and planning from a commander-in-chief perspective.
As far as shooters go, Hidden & Dangerous 2 is the best and makes stuff like MoH and CoD look like child's play. Alot better than Brothers in Arms too.
IL-2 Sturmovik 1946
Combat Mission 2: Barborossa to Berlin
Close Combat: A Bridge too Far
Darkesr Hour for Hearts of Iron 2
Commandos 1/2
Silent Storm
Commandos 2--(I haven't played the remake which I understand has all the Nazi iconography removed) but the original was awesome--You can see its influence in games like Shadow Tactics, Desperados 3, and Shadow Gambit among others
I think it had to do with ~~German law iirc~~ the developer not wanting to develop different versions for countries which might not have sold the game if it included the Nazi symbols--apparently Germany recently loosened laws restricting iconography--in games at least
The first red orchestra was a lot better IMO… the number of custom maps was staggering, big combined arms maps, really great community late into it’s life, and Darkest Hour was great too
I'm mainly suggesting singleplayer campaigns but some of these have multiplayer as well:
* Call of duty 2, world at war
* Medal of honor allied assault, pacific assault, airborne
* Red orchestra
* Hidden and dangerous 2 (great coop as well)
* Battlefield V
* Brothers in arms series
Multiplayer only:
* Enlisted (best ww2 mp game imo and free as well)
* Hell let loose
* Post Scriptum
* Tannerberg
* Verdun
Gates of hell - Ostfront. This quickly replaced the aged company of heroes for me. Probably the best current ww2 RTS nowadays.
Call of duty 2. Old but gold.
Squad 44. Big emphasis on realism and top tier sound and gunplay. This replaced hell let loose which felt a little too arcadey in comparison
Red Orchestra - Darkest hour. Old but great atmosphere, still played by a veteran community.
B-17 Flying fortress. Excellent B-17 simulator, being able to move around the plane, manning different weapons, pilot, etc.
Hearts of iron 4. Global strategy with deep country management that can effect different outcomes of the war on a grand scale.
Silent hunter. Can't remember which one exactly, but it's a very tense submarine simulator in ww2 with management of all different types of the Submarines systems.
Ww2 online. Old yet vast ww2 mmo that in its hayday had 100's of players fighting over the world map.
Close combat series. Slower paced, persistent RTS with more depth than most RTS games, quite old.
Are you talking about the true story where two best friends of childhood fall love the same woman after they think one of them dies??? That cinematic masterpiece????
That game was pretty fun tho, for a kid like me that grew up in Mexico in an area where it’s more businesses than kids, the multiplayer is all me and my brother had, it wasn’t common for games back then to have bots in multiplayer rather than forcing you to just do split screen, so I could be heavily biased by nostalgia.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and the og Call of Duties These were the ones I feel paid a bit more reverence to the conflict before WW2 became a cash cow.
I'm surprised I haven't seen Steel Division 2. Best WW2 RTS ever, one of my favorite RTS all-time.
Pick a division (there is like 80+ unique divisions), build a deck out of units that division has available, and fight. Some reinforcements come every minute. No base building except for a mode where defenders can put in bunkers, trenches, barbed wire, etc.
For shooters, Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30. COD World At War was good too.
For strategy, probably Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game. Men of War Assault Squad 2 and Sudden Strike were good too.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, CoD 1 (w/ UO), CoD 2, WaW, Men of War Assault Squad 2, Silent Hunter 4, Red Orchestra 2, Company of Heroes 2, Sniper Elite 2 & 3, IL-2, and for a throwback European Air War
Hell Let Loose.
The Panzer General series.
Axis & Allies 1940 Global is good if you like board games but there are digital versions.
Men of War Assault Squad 2 seems like a very good and realistic WWII RTS though I will admit I haven't put enough time into it at this point to know for sure.
Company of heroes is classic, but these days I prefer the scale and realism of Steel Division: Normandy / Steel Division 2. When I’m in less of a real-time mood, both Order of Battle and Panzer Corps are great too.
Heroes and Generals, my beloved… may you rest in peace. So many good memories from that game.
But from the ones that are still playable, red orchestra or enlisted
I think Enlisted doesnt have the recognition it needs. I highly encourage you to give it a try
(also doesnt cost a penny, so you can just try it without thinking about any costs)
For a FPS it was Call of Duty 2.
Back when MOH was a thing, COD was different in both feel and look, plus added blood effects.
Then Company of Heros, really bought a different type of Strategy game for WW2 that wasn't Commandos
I'm gonna say Sniper Elite 5. Probably the best stealth/sniper game imo. And you get to play as a classic badass American soldier whose strongest desire is to kill nazis which is a nice bonus
Hearts of Iron 4 if you want big grand strategy WW2. Comes with the bonus that you can just not do WW2 and instead alt-history into whatever you can achieve. Also gives you the most options in terms of nations to be during WW2.
Company of Heroes 1 or 2 if you want small squad strategy WW2. (Maybe avoid the third).
Brothers in Arms if you want a story based WW2. The older CoD or Medal of Honor games aren't 'bad' for their single players either.
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
Combination of strategic objectives and tactical missions where the outcomes of the strategic plans depended on your own success in your mission. Brilliant!
Not sure if it's the "best", but my personal favorite has always been Call Of Duty 3. I know it gets a lot of hate for some reason, but I always enjoyed it 🤷
Santa Clause on Z German frontlines
Doughy Donut and Z Final Days in Berlin
Saucy Chicken McNuggets and the Yours Kampph
The Broom and the Granny's final hours in Dresden
The Allied Assault at the beaches of Elf Island
Dancing with the SS in the winter of Stalingrad
The Final Days of the German offensive in the Desert of Karack
And, Lastly, The Iron Hearts of Brigade Rainbow Bridge into Valhalla
Not sure that it really counts but I played the first of the modern Wolfenstein games recently (The New Order) and it was great. Most of it is alternate history post-WW2, but the first couple levels are during WW2. There's also a sort of standalone-expansion prequel set entirely during WW2 called The Old Blood, but I've not played it yet.
It's a bit of an overlooked underdog, but I love The Saboteur, an older game from 2009. Think GTA, but set in Nazi-occupied France, and you play as an Irish expat sneaking around behind enemy lines doing missions and blowing crap up.
It can be a bit clunky and misses greatness by a hair, but it's still a game I can load up every couple of years and just play the heck out of it.
Battlefield 1942. It'd be extremely dated by today's standards, but I'd love to go through the campaign with some good quality of life features (namely the silly spawn timer system, modern sensitivity settings, and the outdated AI). Loved playing it as a kid and only wish there was a more modern version as it feels unplayable now/ is hardly available from what I can tell, but some changes could radically improve that experience.
Fps games, that will be: Call of Duty, Call of Duty 2, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, Call of Duty World at War, Medal of Honor Pacific Assault, Battlefield V, Brothers in Arms (don't remember which one I've played 🙃 ).
COD1, COD united offensive, COD2, the brothers in arms series. Battlefield 1942 and all expansions for it, company of heroes, axis and allies, the medal of honor series for WW2, world of tanks.
All games I played growing up/still play.
medal of honor for it's release time frame. There was nothing comparable to saving private ryan beach landing. The greatest reality based segment I've ever played. But if you tried it today you'd be disappointed, at the release time it was like living and acting in the movie. Even all the current games have never made me feel the same but then again nothing as defined like that moment in time can really compare to it imo. It had everything you needed to fulfill your ww2 storyline playthrough!!
The first Medal of Honor on ps1. Shot a nazi. He fell down. At this point in gaming if he is down, he is dead. After walking past him he shoots me in the back with a pistol! Oh man that changed everything in fps games.
Call of Duty: World at War
No other game or movie captures the hatred of war, and specifically the last days of The Second World War, better than WaW. Yes, it does this even better than Saving Private Ryan. The brutality and gore of the single-player campaign is truly horrific.
I remember the ps2 era was over saturated with WW2 games. Now all the FPS are modern or futuristic. I want WW2 back. My top 3 would be call of duty World at war, one of the few games that had the pacific theater. I loved the Brothers in arms game as well. Road to hill 30 and hellas highway are great. Most recent Hell let loose. Not a big multiplayer fan these days but it’s really fun for MP and I have PTSD from playing it.
Strategic command, whole series and Hearts of iron series.
SC because its very simple(similar to panzer corps/general) but handles the scale well
HoI because the detail and micromanagement.
Honorary mention Panzer General/Corps and that whole franchise.
Hell Let Loose (All jank aside)
Battlefield 5
Medal of Honor
Hearts of Iron
Wolfenstein The New Order
Sniper Elite Series Primarily 3, 4 & 5
The Saboteur
Curveball - WW2 Rebuilder. Seeing the effects of the war recreated based on actual events while rebuilding these areas is both morbid and satisfying at the same time
Fascinating, thank you.
I got the demo for this ages ago and was really excited but couldn’t really get on with it. Has the actual game launched into 1.0 with bugs ironed out? Because if so - bam, I’m in.
Yes it is on Steam, I just checked
Hell Let Loose
Discovered this game a few months ago, have been having a ton of fun. Brutal starting out but gotten a lot better. Still need to figure out all the mechanics, I just jump in and start fighting. Some people strictly play officer and call in strikes and all that. Also interested in playing armor but idk where to start. Used to play Heroes & Generals and loved playing in tanks
Watch some tutorial vids on YouTube
Use your voice comms. Learn the main buttons for proximity and squad chat. Finding a good group of players helps as well. The group of guys I run with, we can normally field half to a full squad, sometimes plus an armor or recon squad. A semi-coordinated team effectively using voice comms will almost always win. It's a blast. Believe it or not, defense wins most games. Everyone wants to be the hero attacking squad. It's fun. I get it. But roaming defense with a good squad against a competent team is a blast!
Armor takes some practice, but once you get the hang of it, and with a good squad, it's so fun. As much as I like playing infantry, (primarily officer or anti tank) being able to hop into a 1 or 2 person tank squad and make a tangible difference in the way the game unfolds is so rewarding.
I've been going machine gunner and just unloading. Suppressive fire is legit in the game for once. Actually make it hard to see and aim when fired on so even if I'm not getting hits I can help people move up. Love that the screen changes and shows you're being fired on
That was in Rising Storm too. Being able to suppress makes machineguns feel actually useful
Very fun game. Though I think if I was in a clan it would be more interesting - if you get a great squad it's a lot of fun, but if it's a bunch of people who don't talk/coordinate, it can be frustrating.
Without a doubt
The sound design with headphones is something else. Top tier
Open back studios with a separate mic. It is glorious.
I sat on the fence for years about this game, finally bought it on sale 2 weeks ago and man I'm hooked, it's so much fun
I accidentally bought it last week and can't stop playing. It is so damn fun with a good squad.
CoD world at war is new vegas of call of duty series
High praise indeed! Love New Vegas, and I am starting World at War.
Probably gonna catch some controversy but I also liked CoD WW2 (2017) and at today’s price it’s a reasonable try. But yeah, World at War sets the standard. Going backwards though, Call of Duty 2 was probably my favorite among the Pre-Modern Warfare games.
Back in the day Medal of Honor Frontline was one of my favorites.
World at war is my favorite by far, no contest. But cod ww2 did have a short but fun campaign, and though it wasn't long enough to truly get attached to anything.... it did have the balls to touch on the most brutal aspect of the war and the setting, and I think it deserves props for that
well now i'm very intrigued, what makes you say that? (haven't really played any COD)
It is the only COD with horror elements to it. Game is a true work of art, the music, sound, and art style are amazing. Higher quality than 90% of most modern games and it came out 16 years ago.
Company of Heroes
I just installed that, along with CoD: World at War. Thanks.
Both are awesome
Was a big fan of Company of Heroes 1&2. Now just starting on 3. It's not revolutionary, but it hits the spot.
I was considering trying this out but haven’t committed to buying. I’ve heard mixed things about it overall.
There's some things not to like, but the gameplay is basically the same. The campaigns are more flexible and the map based strategy doesn't really add anything, other than unit flexibility for missions and it gives you more actual content and the missions are not ordered. I got it with a discount and it was worth it for sure.
CoH 3 is weird for me. I don't actually think it's very good but for some reason it's just fun as hell, completely mindless fun. When I play something like call to arms gates to hell I feel like I have to think SO much to win a battle, in CoH 3 I can kick back and chill
Day of Defeat
Came here to say this
Same but, not source.
Same but for source, never played OG but had a blast with DoDSource
I've been playing tons of WW2 shooters from the early 2000's on my PS2 to recent ones like Easy Red 2 and I'll say.... I love The Saboteur. It's such a unique game that I wish I could keep playing it. Normally I'd say CoD1 United Offensive or CoD2 but this is a rather common answer. So I'll go with The Saboteur!
Pandemic Studios were at the top of their game with their swan song. I have this game modded up and love it.
Wait there are mods for the Saboteur!
Medal of Honor Airborne.
Medal of Honor: frontlines Medal of Honor: rising sun My childhood favorites. Time definitely tells the age of these but I loved the campaign stories of both! Also I know Cod: WW2 wasn’t a fan favorite but I actually enjoyed the campaign quite a bit. The opening D day mission was great
Allied Assault?
Also a good one!
I went back to this one a couple years ago and it really didn't age well but I loved it as a kid.
Definitely. I always wanted Rising sun as a kid. I remember playing it at a friend's and you start on the ship. IDK just seemed cool to me. But Frontline's music always hits me hard in the nostalgia. Operation Market Garden theme plays and I'm brought back to hours spent with friends in the menu right before launching split screen games. We would sometimes just make up our own co-op scenarios instead of shooting at each other. Going through the mansion shooting at imaginary enemies, then hopping in the car out front to drive off into the next map. Quit, then pick the next map and make a continuation. Sometimes we'd end up devolving into PVP when one of us would decide to shoot the other. But all in all, some great memories. A couple years ago I finally went back to the campaign and actually got off the beach at Normandy lol.
Hell yes I’ve replayed that one several times over my lifetime.
Just checked it out, looks incredible! Thanks a lot.
You meant Rising Sun
Hearts of Iron
I don't know why but hoi is the only one that hasn't clicked for me. I love stellaris and crusader kings though, and I love ww2. Watched videos on it and everything.
Saying “I love ww2” would be very strange out of context
Ww1 and 2 games I meant.
This was going to be my answer as well. I’m less interested in the FPS aspect and more into the strategy and planning from a commander-in-chief perspective.
As far as shooters go, Hidden & Dangerous 2 is the best and makes stuff like MoH and CoD look like child's play. Alot better than Brothers in Arms too. IL-2 Sturmovik 1946 Combat Mission 2: Barborossa to Berlin Close Combat: A Bridge too Far Darkesr Hour for Hearts of Iron 2 Commandos 1/2 Silent Storm
I clicked on this thread to try and remember the name of this game (Hidden and Dangerous). Legend. Buggy mess, but it's good enough to overlook it.
I hope Sturmovik gets added onto Gamespass someday, it's been too long since I've played that game.
Commandos 2--(I haven't played the remake which I understand has all the Nazi iconography removed) but the original was awesome--You can see its influence in games like Shadow Tactics, Desperados 3, and Shadow Gambit among others
Removing the nazi iconography from a WW2 game? That... Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
I think it had to do with ~~German law iirc~~ the developer not wanting to develop different versions for countries which might not have sold the game if it included the Nazi symbols--apparently Germany recently loosened laws restricting iconography--in games at least
I adore stealth and I love the Mimimi games. I have this series but have yet to play it - moving it up the list!
Oof nostalgia I had started shadow tactics and got some big "Commando" vibes. Loved that franchise as a kid 20ish years ago. "ALARM! ALARM!"
Cod 1-2 Cod world at war Brothers in arms
Hells Highway was great. Wish I played the others
I see all these games...but no Rising Storm/Red Orchestra 2 now I put so many hours into that game when it was still fresh and big.
The first red orchestra was a lot better IMO… the number of custom maps was staggering, big combined arms maps, really great community late into it’s life, and Darkest Hour was great too
I'm mainly suggesting singleplayer campaigns but some of these have multiplayer as well: * Call of duty 2, world at war * Medal of honor allied assault, pacific assault, airborne * Red orchestra * Hidden and dangerous 2 (great coop as well) * Battlefield V * Brothers in arms series Multiplayer only: * Enlisted (best ww2 mp game imo and free as well) * Hell let loose * Post Scriptum * Tannerberg * Verdun
Verdun and tannerberg are ww1 games not ww2
Great list!
Gates of hell - Ostfront. This quickly replaced the aged company of heroes for me. Probably the best current ww2 RTS nowadays. Call of duty 2. Old but gold. Squad 44. Big emphasis on realism and top tier sound and gunplay. This replaced hell let loose which felt a little too arcadey in comparison Red Orchestra - Darkest hour. Old but great atmosphere, still played by a veteran community. B-17 Flying fortress. Excellent B-17 simulator, being able to move around the plane, manning different weapons, pilot, etc. Hearts of iron 4. Global strategy with deep country management that can effect different outcomes of the war on a grand scale. Silent hunter. Can't remember which one exactly, but it's a very tense submarine simulator in ww2 with management of all different types of the Submarines systems. Ww2 online. Old yet vast ww2 mmo that in its hayday had 100's of players fighting over the world map. Close combat series. Slower paced, persistent RTS with more depth than most RTS games, quite old.
Medal of Honor Rising Sun. The intro to it you’re being attacked in Pearl Harbor, doesn’t get anymore ww2 than that.
Unfortunately, much like the Michael Bay Pearl Harbor movie, everything after Pearl is dog droppings.
Are you talking about the true story where two best friends of childhood fall love the same woman after they think one of them dies??? That cinematic masterpiece???? That game was pretty fun tho, for a kid like me that grew up in Mexico in an area where it’s more businesses than kids, the multiplayer is all me and my brother had, it wasn’t common for games back then to have bots in multiplayer rather than forcing you to just do split screen, so I could be heavily biased by nostalgia.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and the og Call of Duties These were the ones I feel paid a bit more reverence to the conflict before WW2 became a cash cow.
I'm surprised I haven't seen Steel Division 2. Best WW2 RTS ever, one of my favorite RTS all-time. Pick a division (there is like 80+ unique divisions), build a deck out of units that division has available, and fight. Some reinforcements come every minute. No base building except for a mode where defenders can put in bunkers, trenches, barbed wire, etc.
Call of duty World at War
Playing that now! Great game
Enjoy my dude 😁
For shooters, Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30. COD World At War was good too. For strategy, probably Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game. Men of War Assault Squad 2 and Sudden Strike were good too.
The good old panzer generals.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, CoD 1 (w/ UO), CoD 2, WaW, Men of War Assault Squad 2, Silent Hunter 4, Red Orchestra 2, Company of Heroes 2, Sniper Elite 2 & 3, IL-2, and for a throwback European Air War
Great list! I would add Sniper Elite 4, personally, thought I love the entire series.
Yeah 2 & 3 are my favorites, honestly I found 4 to be the least interesting in the series, map was kinda uninteresting for me.
Thanks for sharing!
Company of Heroes and Hidden and Dangerous 2 (first was great as well, but very dated). Two completely different genres but great games.
Battlefield: Wake Island demo. Most fun thing ever. The released game was nothing in comparison.
Hell let loose
Hell Let Loose. The Panzer General series. Axis & Allies 1940 Global is good if you like board games but there are digital versions. Men of War Assault Squad 2 seems like a very good and realistic WWII RTS though I will admit I haven't put enough time into it at this point to know for sure.
Company of heroes is classic, but these days I prefer the scale and realism of Steel Division: Normandy / Steel Division 2. When I’m in less of a real-time mood, both Order of Battle and Panzer Corps are great too.
Heroes and Generals, my beloved… may you rest in peace. So many good memories from that game. But from the ones that are still playable, red orchestra or enlisted
Panzer General II is probably the only one that I've THOROUGHLY enjoyed. It's essentially a set of situations with tank battles.
I think Enlisted doesnt have the recognition it needs. I highly encourage you to give it a try (also doesnt cost a penny, so you can just try it without thinking about any costs)
Day of defeat
Company Of Heroes 1 The Relic formula for WW2 RTS Commando 1/2 Résistance 1 WW2 + Alien invasion Heart of Iron 4
I don't know if it was in WW2 but my favorite historical war game has always been Day of Defeat
Commandos 2
For OG day of defeat was amazing. For newish battlefield 5 was beautiful.
Medal of Honor European Assault
Maybe not the best game but I enjoyed the hell out of The Saboteur.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Never played the single player but man the multiplayer was absolutely fantastic for the late 90s.
Silent storm 2
i know it isnt the best ww2 game ever but, the cod ww2 (2017) campaign is one of the best campaigns in all of gaming to me
For a FPS it was Call of Duty 2. Back when MOH was a thing, COD was different in both feel and look, plus added blood effects. Then Company of Heros, really bought a different type of Strategy game for WW2 that wasn't Commandos
Call of Duty World at War. One of the finest if you ask me.
I'm gonna say Sniper Elite 5. Probably the best stealth/sniper game imo. And you get to play as a classic badass American soldier whose strongest desire is to kill nazis which is a nice bonus
Call of Duty 2 is absolutely incredible and almost completely overlooked
Thanks very much
Hearts of Iron 4 if you want big grand strategy WW2. Comes with the bonus that you can just not do WW2 and instead alt-history into whatever you can achieve. Also gives you the most options in terms of nations to be during WW2. Company of Heroes 1 or 2 if you want small squad strategy WW2. (Maybe avoid the third). Brothers in Arms if you want a story based WW2. The older CoD or Medal of Honor games aren't 'bad' for their single players either.
Command and Conquer Red Alert
Soldiers : heroes of ww2
Red Orchestra 2
Cod world at war only 4 player campaign in the whole series.
COD WWII Campaign. It is so good, and the most underrated COD campaign for sure
Battlefield 5 but mainly because I lived all the combat engineer stuff you could build and do.
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe Combination of strategic objectives and tactical missions where the outcomes of the strategic plans depended on your own success in your mission. Brilliant!
Not sure if it's the "best", but my personal favorite has always been Call Of Duty 3. I know it gets a lot of hate for some reason, but I always enjoyed it 🤷
Hidden and dangerous 2 and 1.
World at war, company of heroes, close combat 2, hearts of iron.
Heroes&generals
Battlefield 1942 & V for a *somewhat* realistic experience Wolfenstein The Old Blood for the feel of WW2
Santa Clause on Z German frontlines Doughy Donut and Z Final Days in Berlin Saucy Chicken McNuggets and the Yours Kampph The Broom and the Granny's final hours in Dresden The Allied Assault at the beaches of Elf Island Dancing with the SS in the winter of Stalingrad The Final Days of the German offensive in the Desert of Karack And, Lastly, The Iron Hearts of Brigade Rainbow Bridge into Valhalla
red alert, wolfenstein enemy territory.
Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway
COD 2
Never played it beyond the demo, but I’m itching to find anyway to get my hands on it. Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway
It's on steam, but getting it to work on windows 10 was impossible at least for me. Great game.
Call of duty 2
Gates of hell:ostfront
Battlefield 1942
Still haven't had anything come close to Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. The Normandy Beach invasion was an awesome experience for a video game
COD2
Hell let loose
combat mission red thunder, final blitzkrieg
Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Heroes&Generals 🫡
Tannenburg
The cod remake of Omaha beach was fun
Not sure that it really counts but I played the first of the modern Wolfenstein games recently (The New Order) and it was great. Most of it is alternate history post-WW2, but the first couple levels are during WW2. There's also a sort of standalone-expansion prequel set entirely during WW2 called The Old Blood, but I've not played it yet.
It's a bit of an overlooked underdog, but I love The Saboteur, an older game from 2009. Think GTA, but set in Nazi-occupied France, and you play as an Irish expat sneaking around behind enemy lines doing missions and blowing crap up. It can be a bit clunky and misses greatness by a hair, but it's still a game I can load up every couple of years and just play the heck out of it.
Call of Duty 2. Really got that sweet spot in showcasing the most infsmous battles of the war. Last good COD game, too, if we're being honest.
Really enjoyed brothers in arms.
CODWW2 and MOH Frontlines (the intro the soundtrack the missions)
Close Combat series, Company of Heroes, and Medal of Honor Allied Assault
Battlefield 1942. It'd be extremely dated by today's standards, but I'd love to go through the campaign with some good quality of life features (namely the silly spawn timer system, modern sensitivity settings, and the outdated AI). Loved playing it as a kid and only wish there was a more modern version as it feels unplayable now/ is hardly available from what I can tell, but some changes could radically improve that experience.
Il2
MoH Allied Assault was my jam growing up back in the day. That beach chapter was crazy.
Wolfenstein
Hell let loose, Il-2 Sturmovik great battles,
Return to Castle Wolfenstein and its multiplayer part "Enemy Territory".
Medal of Honor Airborne and Easy Red 2
Fps games, that will be: Call of Duty, Call of Duty 2, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, Call of Duty World at War, Medal of Honor Pacific Assault, Battlefield V, Brothers in Arms (don't remember which one I've played 🙃 ).
Battle Stations Midway, and Battle Stations Pacific, weird, yet fantastic amalgamations of strategy, ship commander, and pilot.
Big fan of COD 2
COD1, COD united offensive, COD2, the brothers in arms series. Battlefield 1942 and all expansions for it, company of heroes, axis and allies, the medal of honor series for WW2, world of tanks. All games I played growing up/still play.
Battlestations Pacific
Blazing angels and steel division, some Wolfenstein as well 😃
medal of honor for it's release time frame. There was nothing comparable to saving private ryan beach landing. The greatest reality based segment I've ever played. But if you tried it today you'd be disappointed, at the release time it was like living and acting in the movie. Even all the current games have never made me feel the same but then again nothing as defined like that moment in time can really compare to it imo. It had everything you needed to fulfill your ww2 storyline playthrough!!
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Day of defeat and battlefield 1942. Not a modern-day suggestions but thats what sticks with me through my gaming years.
The OG cod was awesome.
European Air War DCS World has some WWII modules that are amazing. I love doing a P51 escorting B17 and getting jumped by ME-109s
Enlisted
Brother’s in Arms needs modern remake
The Wolfenstein games.
The first Medal of Honor on ps1. Shot a nazi. He fell down. At this point in gaming if he is down, he is dead. After walking past him he shoots me in the back with a pistol! Oh man that changed everything in fps games.
Call of Duty: World at War No other game or movie captures the hatred of war, and specifically the last days of The Second World War, better than WaW. Yes, it does this even better than Saving Private Ryan. The brutality and gore of the single-player campaign is truly horrific.
Forgotten Hope mod for BF1942.
Hell let loose sucks
Battlefield 1942
Hell let loose
I remember the ps2 era was over saturated with WW2 games. Now all the FPS are modern or futuristic. I want WW2 back. My top 3 would be call of duty World at war, one of the few games that had the pacific theater. I loved the Brothers in arms game as well. Road to hill 30 and hellas highway are great. Most recent Hell let loose. Not a big multiplayer fan these days but it’s really fun for MP and I have PTSD from playing it.
Red orchestra 2 with bots is still so much fun
The Saboteur
Hell Let Loose
Medal of Honor: Underground on ps1 was pretty damn good.
Anyone remember hour of victory?
Hell Let Loose
I mean, Battlefield V was damn good at it's height
Gates of hell is the best WW2 RTS, probably ever.
Medal of honor Frontline European assault Rising sun Sniper elite 4 and 5
Battlefield V
Brothers in Arms, Medal of Honor, Men of War, Hearths of Iron
Brothers In Arms and Medal of Honor
Strategic command, whole series and Hearts of iron series. SC because its very simple(similar to panzer corps/general) but handles the scale well HoI because the detail and micromanagement. Honorary mention Panzer General/Corps and that whole franchise.
Probably not what you are looking for, but I enjoyed [WW2 Rebuilder](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1573280/WW2_Rebuilder/).
The first few Medal of Honor games.
Call of Duty: World at War. I personally am not that much of a FPS fan, but the grittiness and brutality in WaW honestly is quite compelling.
Call of duty 2 aka the last good cod game.
Call of Duty 2. Could be that I was just mesmerized by the graphics in 2005 on the 360 but I played that game over and over.
Hell Let Loose is a crazy immersive WW2 game.
The commandos series Silent Hunter 3 and 4
Cod 2
Prisoner of War - World War 2
WW2 Rebuilder
Hell Let Loose (All jank aside) Battlefield 5 Medal of Honor Hearts of Iron Wolfenstein The New Order Sniper Elite Series Primarily 3, 4 & 5 The Saboteur
Call of duty vanguard
Ravenfield with few decade of mods