When you play videogames, you expect a certain level of strangeness; I mean, everybody’s played Super Mario Bros., and when you really think about it, the premise of that game — a plumber who has to save a mushroom princess from a giant turtle — is downright bizarre. A certain suspension of disbelief is required for all games; even “realistic” games like Call of Duty feature soldiers who can heal bullet wounds by staying behind cover for a few seconds, and despite growing more realistic with each iteration, GTA still lets you murder hundreds of random people with reckless abandon. Whether you’re playing as some Call of Duty super soldier, an elf who has to fight a giant pig, or even a rapping dog, games, by their very nature, place you into some very bizarre situations when you think about it… but there’s your standard video game weirdness which we’ve all grown numb to, and then there’s the truly weird stuff that even the most experienced gamers have a hard time comprehending.
But instead of mocking these games, we should applaud them for their willingness to try something new. With the gaming industry dominated by increasingly safe, generic shooters and creatively bankrupt sequels and quick cash-ins, it’s games like the ones I’m about to list that help keep originality alive. Sure, they may not exactly be the best games out there, and they may not necessarily reflect the best qualities of gaming culture, but hey, at least they’re unique. If games are ever going to be taken as seriously as movies, books, or music, there has to be acceptance for titles like this; just as there’s an audience for avante-garde, abstract movies to go along with the droves who watch summer blockbusters, the gaming community should appreciate these titles, not in spite of but because of their strangeness. While these games will never replace a good Half-Life or Zelda, they’re good examples of the breadth of experiences that gaming can provide beyond plain old murder simulation, and hey, at the very least, who doesn’t enjoy seeing something completely bizarre now and then?
Dinner Date
Dinner Date puts you in the shoes of Julian Luxembourg, a introverted British chap who’s waiting for his dinner date, who predictably never shows up. As you virtually experience getting stood up, Julian waxes poetic about a number of topics about his life: work, his friends, his hobbies, yellow fever, food, and he even manages to recite a few verses of Lord Byron. It becomes pretty clear over the course of the night why Julian’s date has ditched him, but despite him being kind of a wanker, I’m sure any guy who’s ever been rejected will identify with Julian’s night of self-pity and misdirected frustration.
If it sounds strange, it is, but Dinner Date is a strangely compelling experience: the dialogue is well written and acted, and watching Julian gradually go from anxious to impatient to angry is strangely entertaining, much in the same way watching a couple argue or seeing a train wreck is. Dinner Date isn’t much of a game, as its a very short experience with no discernible goals (well, other than gaining a strangely fulfilling feeling of pity or schadenfreude, depending on how much you identify with Julian,) but it’s certainly an interesting and unique way to spend an hour, and it’s well worth the $5 asking price on Steam, provided you’re willing to try something different.
Dino D-Day
Nazis and dinosaurs have been enemies in a lot of games, and it’s easy to see why: Killing evil Nazis allows you to gun down people without all of the pesky guilty that’s associated with killing a person, and dinosaurs are just, well, bad-ass, and who doesn’t want the chance to fight one (and actually win)? Dino D-Day manages to combine two of gaming’s most favored opponents and put them into one highly ridiculous, but thoroughly entertaining scenario.
Set in an alternate version of World War 2 where the Nazis have mastered control of dinosaurs and are using them to fight back against the Allies, Dino D-Day finally allows gamers to see if America’s Greatest Generation can hold their own against prehistory’s most successful hunters. The game suffers from some balance issues — the dinosaurs are extremely overpowered — but Dino D-Day still provides some hilarious multiplayer fun provided you don’t take it too seriously, and it manages to inject some much needed life into the stagnant WW2 shooter genre. Dino D-Day won’t make you forget about Team Fortress 2 or Call of Duty, but if you’re in the mood for some light-hearted fun, I can’t think of a better combination than velicoraptors and blowing gibs off of SS soldiers.
Gal Gun
Now, I hate to reinforce the stereotypes that Japanese games are weird and that Japanese otaku culture panders to perverts, but honestly, sometimes Japanese games really are weird, and really do pander to perverts. Case in point: Gal Gun, by respected Japanese developer Inticreates, best known for their work on Mega Man 9 and the Mega Man Zero series. Despite the developer, Gal Gun is a very different game from Mega Man; instead of a hardcore, 2D action-platformer, Gal Gun is on rails, and instead of fighting your way through an army of vicious robot masters, Gal Gun forces you to fight your way through an army of Japanese school girls. Who you defeat by squirting them with phermones and one stage even ends with you fighting a hentai tentacle monster. Yep, that’s Japanese alright.
While the other games on this list possess genuinely interesting or fun ideas, Gal Gun is really the type of thing you can only enjoy if you’re a pervert. While the game doesn’t have any actual nudity and never does anything *ahem* “hardcore,” it certainly does revel in its perversion; instead of going for headshots, critical hits are delivered by shooting your *ahem* “phermones” at specific body parts (take a guess as to which ones,) and the girls in this game have a penchant for wearing short skirts while standing in high places, and apparently they all hate bras and love to jump up and down. So hey, if you want to ever give up on being with an actual girl, give Gal Gun a try. Who knows? It might actually be a decent “shooter.”
Catherine
If Gal Gun represents the extreme end of sexual immaturity in games, than Catherine would be on the opposite end of that scale: where as most games treat sex and romance as a means to titillate, Catherine is one of the rare “Mature” rated games that’s actually for genuinely mature, sophisticated adult audiences. It’s story is a study on commitment, infidelity, and responsibility that is leagues beyond the teenage angst and sexual exploitation that you’d usually expect from a video game, or any piece of popular media for that matter. Of course, you wouldn’t know that by looking at the game, as publisher Atlus was keen on playing up the sexual aspects of it’s presentation (hey, it sells games,) but while Catherine may superficially resemble cheesecake wank material like Gal Gun, it’s an actually a respectable piece of fiction.
But while finding a narrative of Catherine’s caliber in a game (and a Japanese developed one, at that,) is a rare, strange sight indeed, it’s gameplay make it’s just unique: At it’s heart, Catherine is a puzzle game, and a pretty damn good one at that. Not only are the puzzles a metaphor for protagonist Vincent’s completely inability to understand women, but the way they’re presented — with nightmarish imagery and lots and lots of sheep — make even the bizarre presentation of other Shin Megami Tensei games seem tame by comparison. Catherine is definitely weird for a lot of reasons, but it’s also probably the best, most genuinely great title on this list.
Prime Minister Questions: The Game
While similar in purpose, the British Parliament is very different from the Congressional system we use here in the US: instead of each member of the House or Senate getting their turn at the floor, the Prime Minister and the head of the opposition party merely stand in the center of a room and take turns taking verbal pot shots at each other while their respective parties hurl cheers and insults from the stands. It’s far livelier than the faux-emotional rhetoric spewing that goes on in the US Congress, and while it’s just as blindly partisan and depressingly ineffectual, at least the Brits are more honest about it.
Prime Minister Questions: The Game turns these lively debates into a sort of 8-bit fighting game, where baseless accusations and passive-aggressive insults take the place of punches and kicks. Now, the engine powering the game isn’t anything fancy, so you obviously shouldn’t expect Street Fighter, but despite the actual simplicity of the product itself, Prime Minister Questions: The Game deserves some recognition for its concept alone. At the very least, the game is free (downloadable here) so if you want to take a very snarky look at the British government, give it a shot. It’s no where near as brutal as the real arguments, but it’s a fun diversion nonetheless.
Desirai
this article would be better if it didn’t have so many grammar errors and spelling mistakes…… ^___^
Nick Hernandez
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Jameel Aboulhosn
Dino D-Day is an awesome ass game so you better applaud it. Bitches.
Neilo150
Why is it always stupid American’s in WW2 games??? Where were they at the start of it…..scratching their backsides and hoping it would blow over. Make a game about the REAL heroes of WW2, the British Tommy!
Don Pedro
Sour grapes! Them “stupid americans” saved you’re posteriors, not to say you guys were’nt tough as nails, but the fact is they turned the tide.
SuperGuest
That’s easy to do if you wait for everyone else to kill each other and come in at the last minute.
lololololololol
Sam-shinar
I have no doubt America Helped the War effort but its a strong statement to say they ‘turned the tide’. If they did turn the tide of the war then things would have started to go a lot differently from 1941 onwards. Whereas it didnt really. If anybody really helped a massive amount I would say it was, as much as any American would hate to Admit, The Russians. At the end of the day every allied nation did its best and helped in massive ways. If Britian didn’t hold out in 1940 during the battle of Britain then i have no doubt that Hitler would have won the war. If Russia didn’t hold out then the War would have been lost without a doubt. The American Government would have joined the War Earlier i’m sure but the American people weren’t behind it. And without support of the people then they would not march in… So the American Government had to do their ‘false flag policy’ and Provoke Japan into attacking them… But thats another issue.. :p
bouzane
Well over eighty percent of the German soldiers killed in WWII were killed by the Soviets (not just the Russians). The Luftwaffe was defeated in the Battle of Kursk and it is worth noting that the Battle of Berlin was won by the Soviets. If anybody turned the tide of WWII, it was the Soviets, not the Americas. it is also worth noting that the Soviet invasion of Manchuria saw approximately 35k Soviet and 724k Japanese casualties. The atomic bombings conducted against Japan served two purposes:1. To demonstrate America’s new weapon to the Soviets, not the Japanese.2. To prevent a full scale Soviet invasion of Japan.The USSR turned the tide in WWII, not America.
Cougar_football54
if this is true who stopped the advancement on the western front? not to mention north africa. and the only reason the russians advanced was because the germans were spread thin fighting on both sides will do that to u. the battle of berlin was not much of a battle either. The German defences were mainly led by Helmuth Weidling and consisted of several depleted, badly equipped, and disorganised Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS divisions, the latter which ironically included many SS foreign volunteers, as well as many Volkssturm and Hitler Youth members.
Tony
Exactly. The Brits where one air raid away from being taken by the Germans
Robert Westfall
If it wasnt for the stupid americans lol Tommy was on the Verge of surrending to JERRY! soo thats why…twatter
Xephon
The Americans didn’t start coming in till the end of the war and we, the British had done most of the work, all it took was a push back from the coast of Dover and we started pushing the jerry’s back.
A fair bit of what the Americans did was sending supply lines to the UK which a fair bit of got destroyed by the jerry subs
Oh and we were close to surrendering ? We took on country 3x our size + it’s expanding empire through-out Europe and still held them off and we were ‘ surrendering’ . Interesting.
Not to say we would have won the war alone but we dam well did more than our fair share than was expected of us!
Neilo150
Americans! Mist if them debt realise there are other countries outside their own…and we did pretty well in the battle of Britain where we defeated the Germans and were vastly out numbered. i would suggest reading a book but i don’t think it would help….u have to know how to read. as for saving our back sides….. Nat i think not. it was only when u lot got attacked that u thought you would defend yourselves and get involved. tatters indeed!!! Over here we call people like you bell ends.
Neilo150
My predictive text took the sting out if that some what!!
sindeslroyer
Your English is quite horrible. At least the writing is. Normally I get annoyed with people that point out spelling and grammatical errors on the internet but whenever somebody is stating that one person needs to know how to read to get their point and then has worse writing than a 5 year old I must say something. Now for the war? I get annoyed when people talk about it. Is the involvement of the US often exaggerated? Sure it is but it does not matter in the end. Nobody is stating America won the war, it would be foolish to take claim for what was an international effort. You did do well in the Battle of Britain. As for your final statement. If we enter a conflict, then we are evil people sticking our noses into other people’s business. If we wait until we are directly involved then we are bell ends. Make up your mind.
Now although I am an American and apparently lack any intelligence whatsoever, you should take some of my advice. If you are going to type something in frustration take a deep breath so that whatever it is you type is actually legible. Another piece of advice, calm down man. You just freaked out over a game about WW II and DINOSAURS. Do you really expect a game that combines Nazis with dinosaurs to be historically accurate? Historically all of the soldiers that fought for the Allies were heroes in my eyes and most others. It does not matter if they were Russian, British, American or any other Nationality. When it came down to it and the world was thrust into chaos they were the ones who stood up and risked there lives. To downplay any one of the and their country is a shameful thing to do at best. Maybe there were not as many American deaths as British or Russian deaths but remember we did come to help even though you were far from our shores. Many of our men were drafted into the war and many of them died side by side in camaraderie with your soldiers. They died so that the world could be a better place, not so that a bunch of people from around the world can insult each other and debate over who was the most effective.
Now good day to you.
Australian
I will concede your point and you are very smart but you didn’t fight to help us you did to save face after being attacked and then revealed your trump card and nuked a CIVILIAN town so while you did help you are also idiots who should have never developed that weapon because if a war breaks out everyone has nukes and we would all die if not the explosions the radiation so yes you did your part you also royally f***** us all over if a nuke war does break out expect a very angry letter but then i would probably be set to prison forever for crimes of ‘terrorism’ by complaining so yes you’re right but on another note the government at the time of ww2 were all idiots however we should not argue and bicker for something that has long since passed
Grovel
Go back to the history books and try again.
Michael Lacerna
Thank you all who commented here for realizing the secret pro-America political agenda behind Dino D-Day. I never would’ve thought a game about shooting dinosaurs could spawn a discussion as un-ironically stupid as this. *golf clap*
Killians45
REAL heroes of ww2? Well, I’d say many of the popular developers are from US or Canada, that would be why. As far as America turning the tide, yeah thats a bit of a stretch. I’m American, and I admit we HELPED turn the tide by providing relief via troops and supplies, and midway was a biggie but the ones who are the true bad asses during this time, as listed below are in fact the Russians. We came in at the end of the war, and we didn’t provide the turning tide though we WERE the final nail in the coffin… the ones who did most of the work I’d say are the Russians.
Grovel
Are you sure you’re from the US?
John
As you’re intellegent i will say that you were the final nail in the coffinn and won’t deny Hitler died commiting suicide facing you
American
If you ever played Call of Duty roads to victory for psp you play as America, Canada, and Great Brittan. Also you could piss off ALOT of americans by the first part of your comment, me being one of them.
Grovel
And the downside to that is… What now?
Kraecruz
I’d like to point out america paid to rebuild europe
Funnyjoke
lol
Glover
Dear, Kraecruz
Just so you know…America did not rebuild Europe in an attempt to help it. It rebuilt it in an attempt to enslave Europe through banking cartels. In addition, It isn’t that hard to print out some pieces of paper now is it? Europe would’ve rebuilt itself sooner or later. It’s not money that will rebuild your house. It’s you, your will and your knowledge of craftsmanship that would rebuild your house.
Bamcis
Don’t worry you can sit in your crappy crountry that we got back for you.
Bob
Except the Americans only helped the war effort after they got bombed and then decided the best decision they could make was to nuke a country that was barely staying in the war when they could have nuked Germany or a larger contributer to the enemy but instead decided to be idiots and save face revealing their trump card on a CIVILIAN town instead of a military base instead being idiot’s and now your economy dead you’re in 14 trillion dollars debt and could be wiped out by someone asking for their money because you have no natural recources besides scrap metal funneled all you’re money into the military and your government when they see fit can take control of everything so you’re just like the communists you seem to hate so much and the only reason no one’s called in you’re debt to them is because they want to milk you of all you got
Guten tag
The US really gave out money to try and convince countries from becoming communist. The most money was given to countries not affected by the war
Me
I like Cherrio’s. Are they Brittish?
Guest
You people are all crazy. The fact of the matter is that America contributed more to the war effort than any other Allied nation. Now, I’m not trying to diminish the roles played by the other Allies or anything. The Russians, for example, kept a large part of the German forces busy for quite a while, and they even made a lot of progress. However, it cannot be denied that the US military won nearly every single major battle of the war after joining. Couple that with economic superiority and a good amount of innovation and it becomes easy to see that the US definitely was the key player. Most people who say otherwise are either a part of the modern anti-American nonsense that seems to be so popular these days or simply ignorant of history.
Ross Pera
Finally a voice of reason!
Bouzane
Sorry but your statements are revisionism at its finest. Read up on the Battle of Kursk and the Axis-Soviet front afterward. America certainly aided the war effort but it was neither essential to Allied victory nor did they contribute more than the USSR. There is no way to downplay the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany while overstating America’s importance to such a degree without appearing delusional. The Soviets defeated the Wermacht and Luftwaffe and successfully invaded Nazi Germany. The only major contribution from the Americans on that front was some intelligence.
Justinian Ansar
yes but ussr didnt fight on two major fronts against the japanese and the nazi party now did they?
Suckbigones
sir, you are ignorant the us did not fight on two fronts…d day was a collaboration of allied forces not a solo effort by americans. brush up on your history before making ignorant claims typical of uneducated americans
Bamcis
Your a retard Suckbigones. He was referring to the Europe campaign and the Pacific campaign. Thats two fronts d-day was a battle for normandy that the U.S. pretty much dominated there too. You need to stop sucingbigones and read your history.
Bamcis
Sorry Germany was pretty much steam rolling over Europe and Russia before America got involved. Once the U.S. was involved there was a pretty quick turn around. Not only did we save the British and the French but we also fought against the Japs in the Pacific with very little help from anyone. We dominated then and we dominate now. Hell we even beat the British in 2 wars.
Kieran Brannigan
USA joined the war when Britain was on the offensive when we needed saving USA wasn’t anywhere to be seen . Battle of Normandy on D-day was a USA mistake they landed on the wrong beach they were meant to of meet up with Britain on an other beach. The taking of Berlin, Russia was meant to capture it from one side USA and Britain the other side but USA refused to go into Berlin so Britain had to go it alone hence USA did not save Britain or the rest of the world they just contributed.
robbo316
Real surprise, a country that is 47 times larger than Britain had a larger effect on the war. That really is a “stop the presses” moment! But, how come this amazing nation that “single handedly” won the first and second world wars, couldn’t even defeat a p***ant nation like Vietnam after TWENTY years? And then we come to the more recent times, such as the Gulf War (1991), did you know that more British servicemen and women were killed by “friendly fire” than by the enemy? This “friendly fire” was by….the USA. Then in Somalia, the US intervened and quickly had to run away. Yep, American military history is certainly one to be proud of!
Oh, and before anybody blasts me as being a “typical brit”, I would just point out that my heritage goes back to
1) Boston, Mass.,
2) Great Sioux Nation
3) Norway
4) Germany
5) Ireland
6) Japan
I myself was born in Ireland, so I am no supporter of the British. I am however a great lover of history and really dislike it when history is skewed to make a nation feel better, for example:
WW1
War Began 4th August 1914
USA Entry 6th April 1917
War Ended 11th November 1918
Treaty Signed 28th June 1919
Now, are you really trying to tell me that in 19 months the USA had more effect than the previous 32 months of fighting? Were the allies and axis just waiting around with their fingers up their butts waiting for the “Wonderful” Americans to come over? Somehow that doesn’t really square with history, indeed with the history I have read in the 12 volumes of books I have on “The Great War”. Can you please tell me as well, how the hell the USA have dominated in Irag and Afghanistan? It seems like a dominant nation wouldn’t need anybody else to help with nations like that, but you seem to. Even the USSR did better than you in Afghanistan, 30-odd years ago.
I also take it that you have forgotten about, Canada, India, China, Britain, etc, etc, who also fought in the Pacific Theater? China was not really a fightey nation, but helped a lot with logistics, which happens to be vital in a war. Please, I implore you, stop trying to make history different just to fit your feeling of superiority over the rest of the world. You are no better and no worse than any other nation out there.
Falk
First of all I agree with you that we are no better or worse then anyone else. There are three reasons we lost vietnam, one a lot of the people in the country at the time did not support it, two the beurocrats were the ones calling the shots, three we were fighting a war that was not our business. As for ww1 and ww2 if it weren’t for the cooperation of ALL the countries on the allied side either war could very well have ended differently. Also not all of us feel we are superior to the rest of the world. Please keep that in mind.
robbo316
Thank you for an intelligent reply. I know not all Americans feel superior to the rest of the world, half of my family are either American of descended from Americans. I myself lived in Los Angeles for 4 years, It was just that moron annoyed me, he seems to think that everyone else is either useless or a pinko! The cooperation was needed to defeat the Axis powers which numbered which numbered FORTY countries, and the Allies numbered FIFTEEN countries; without the cooperation we would have all been eating bratwurst and wearing lederhosen! I actually remember the last couple of years of the Vietnam war, as I was born in ’69, and saw quite a lot on the news. It’s funny but we all seem to stick our noses into others business; Especially Britain under Tony Blair, how they got involved in some of the wars I will never know. I spoke to a friend of mine when the second Gulf War had just began, and he mentioned that Blair wanted to be the saviour of the world but would end up destroying the world, which is totally correct, the problem is too many politicians and bureaucrats have no knowledge outside of their insular little world, at one time a lot of politicians especially, were from business or the military, which gave them an idea of what happens in real liife.
Jerilyn Nighy
Stalin merely threw Russia’s civilian soldiers at the Wermacht like an endless supply of cannon fodder, why they were “successful.”
Bouzane
9.9 million Axis soldiers were killed / captured by the Soviets which accounts for the vast, vast majority of their casualties.
Grovel
You’ve mistaken ‘fact’ for ‘TV version’.
America joined after the allies already had the war won – all they did was speed it up a little.
Bamcis
grovel your wrong. british had been invaded and france was occupied. Russia was pushed to Stalingrad. Sounds won too me.
Grovel
England was not invaded. The Russians turned the tide against the Reich on their own. You’re right about France though, I guess 1/3 is not a bad result for someone educated in the US.
BanzaiKen
Mmm, yes because Dunkirk was such a HUGE success, the Hurricanes were so effective against the M109, France’s massive tank divisions didn’t have swastika’s painted on them by that time, Czech’s Skoda factories weren’t cranking out Wehrmacht tanks for use on Russia, Finland wasn’t stopping the Red Army and harassing any advances, Switzerland wasn’t selling arms for gold, and Rommel totally wasn’t beating the pants off of anyone who dared set foot in Africa with an absolute joke of an Italian army. Oh and V1/V2’s raining down at will on an island nation launched from their former ally and being spanked with U-boats completely signifies Germany’s imminent capitulation. You must be referring to ’42 onwards, when a US/British invasion overwhelmed the Germans 2:1 in Africa, and US Lend-Lease supplied the Soviets in the middle of Stalingrad with tanks, ammunition, food and supplies, when things were so desperate guardsmen often killed Wehrmacht for their boots, let alone for any sort of national loyalty and Monty could finally counterattack in Egypt using a cheap, fast tank–the Sherman. Yeah, sorry for the ‘tv version.’
Ross Pera
You’re a moron and a douche bag.
Cougar_football54
the british??? ooo those guys that asked for help constantly in the form of troops an money? or do u mean the guys that were pushed back all the way to the english channel? o wait same guys. but i will give it to u, u guys stopped them there and pushed them all the way back to berlin…. damn im wrong again those guys were the americans
Grovel
Let me guess, the sum total of your knowledge of WW2 comes from highschool history class, taught in Northern America…
JaiGuru
We were minding our own business, figuring you Europeans would never be dumb enough to allow Hitler to violate treaties and actually hand over nations just for fun. But hey, for saving your asses from a disaster of your own making for not handling obvious and clear fascists threats easily when you had the chance and for suffering horrific losses on behalf of YOUR people, you sir, are welcome.
SHUTUP
So which lot of you actually fought in the war. Just curious. Generalizations, especially ones made from 70 year old information, is more than ridiculous. How do you know what the majority of Americans are like? Do you know the majority? Shut up, all of you. How will prejudice and discrimination ever end with assholes like you? Governments do not always represent the people, and guess who runs the military! NOT THE PEOPLE, you twats.
SHUTUP New BESTFRIEND
You’re correct except some people have family who did or they themselves did and yes they are being sterotypical and a mature person finally so yes you’re correct about the first thing
SimpsonsGoldenAge
Article writer wrote nazi’s instead of nazis, fail.
Chris Hernandez
Corrected, good catch.
@pandemyx
I absolutely adore Catherine. I had the deluxe edition pre-ordered as soon as it became available. and beat it several times to get all the different endings. While the actual gameplay and “Nightmare” levels were kind of frustrating, the cutscenes and endings made it all worth it. All in all a very funny game.
Ross Pera
You just go ahead and ask any non American allied forces that are still alive today about who turned the tide of the war. And another thing the Russians originally allied themselves with the Germans, cowards. the only reason they fought the Germans was for revenge and land. they wanted to seize as much land as they could and not to mention the hundreds of thousands of German woman and girls they rapped. Russians lost millions of soldiers against the German army who were fighting a war on all fronts, this is not something for Russians to brag. And the united states moved faster seized more territory and captured more enemy soldiers faster then any of the allied forces. Matter of fact General Patton did so. And I may be American, but I still commend the German soldiers for there fighting prowess during world war II
Fus....ROH DAH!
The USSR and US were, are, and always going to be equals in terms of prowess and intelligence. The Russians may have been affected worse by WW2 because of the 2millions Russians lost trying to get past a mile of Germans forces slightly SW of Germany but the Russians did have to get past one of the most secured areas of Nazi forces. The US then later annihilated German forces West and SW of Germany with the German to US casualties being of around 6:1. The USSR did take out the Luftwaffe which helped the Allies from anymore assaults from them.
P.S: Hitler was an insane, homicidal, genius. So sad that he had to be
corrupt because the World could have used such a strong leader but I
guess that every positive has it’s negative.
P.P.S: Remember your place Redcoats. The US kicked ur arses in the Revolution, before the Revolution, and the War of 1812! Keep screwing with us with your false “superiority” and we’ll shove a 200megaton Mountain Buster bomb up your backsides!
Balljohn74
Uh You didn’t win the war of 1812, The war of 1812 was the attempt of America to “force Liberty” on the Canadian People. Seeing as Canadians are still Canadians and all that I’d say you lost that battle. If you don’t believe it ask why the White House is white. Also America didn’t engage in WW2 till late in the game.
Anonymous
fck you stupid american bigot
Bamcis
no we won 1812 and the revolution. I remember kicking the british asses.
African We have computers
Actually this is the amount of dead British 3,321 and this is dead Americans15,000 I would say yep you totally won especially with your kill count being 3,321 and there’s being in the 15,000 s compared to your 3,000 I would say England won
Mexican
You’re so stupid brute force isn’t the only way to win a war England calls in your debt and BOOM you’re gone
American
You’re stupidity amazes me the only thing that contributed to the war effort you did before being attacked was not attack us other than that you sat on your asses and probably would have attacked the winner and took their recources if you wern’t dragged into it so while helping a little after it was almost won you also seem to forget that the Russians contributed more than most other countries and only did what they had to to protect their people
Erwin Miskovic1811
why isn’t: ” detuned ” in the top 5 weirdest games? :p
Blahblahblahblahblah
Dear Neilo150
You are such a dumb ass. Go sit back down and have your gay ass tea and crumpets and shut your fuckin’ mouth or I’ll personally make a trip over there and knock your fuckin’ gopher teeth all the way down to your pencil dick. GO USA
YOUBOOBOO
some of these games are stupid
DOODOOFACE
SHUT UP F***ER
Bouzane
I’M A STRIPPER
Neilo150
make me feel good
Bouzane
I will b*tch real good
Bestpaladinman
This guy is nuts.
Bouzane
Dumbass
Neilo150
why my boob look so big
Grovel
Australians were the first to stop the German advance in Africa.
NOproblem
my grandma made this list LOL
Jedidiah Rose
Ah the Japanese never fail showcase their diverse approach to the industry they created. Dino D Day is an awesome concept that should do nothing but work well.
Taan
Wow there is a lot of misconception here about ww2. Russia lost Stalingrad when the Germans marched up there, breaking the treaty of Brest Litovsk. Once the Germans who attempted to invade Russia were defeated, the Soviet Army pushed the German lines with a million men and 10,000 tanks. The Siberian armies played a role in this movement helping thin the Germans numbers. Many of the German troops died due to the extreme cold and lack of resources.
Meanwhile, the western line, made up of British, Scottish, Australian, Canadian, Polish and French Coalition forces, British Commonwealth, Cyprus, India, Belgium, Netherlands, Oslo Group, Portuguese case, Yugoslavia, Brazil, Mexico, Atlantic Charter and the Pan American Union. America actually refused to help and that is not me just saying that. The only reason America got involved is When Japan attacked them. Without Japan attacking America the war would of lasted longer and we would of sustained greater losses, but we would of won. All America did was speed up the process, Lessen casualties and shoot at its own allies on several occasions. Thats not to say they did not help, because they did, even if they try and take all the credit.
How many American planes were there on D-Day when the Nazi air force attempted to neutralise England’s air force, ready for them to invade? none. Even French resistance fighters who came to England flew spitfires, so did German Jews who were lucky enough to escape Germany had the courage to fly. Every allies force contributed in their own way, how ever big or small, they did what they could. When America arrived they did help a lot, they did not win it for us, but they did help in their own way. By doing the same major skirmishes and England did, making winning the war more plausible. Once we got to the rim of the German boarder, all the allies held their positions, knowing that the Soviets would shoot at everyone they saw, even us.
America did not fight Japan by themselves, there were British Commandos and the young SAS( who were formed in England’s African campaign against the Germans). My great Grandad fought there as a commando, so you cannot say to me that America was alone in Japan. The fighting at Japan meant that America Had to train up recruits and civilians and send them to Germany, Leaving their trained army to fight japan, a war they almost lost believe it or not. Due to fighting in unfamiliar territory and being highly outnumbered.
America had to drop two small nuclear warheads on Hiroshima, killing millions of innocent lives to win.
That is the story of ww2 as i have learned, through books, documentaries and stories from the soldiers who were there. From both English and American views. I understand that a lot of people argue a lot about who won ww2. the real answer to all those arguments is ‘we did’. Every country and nation who took part won. no single country claimed victory, but an alliance of countries and nations who stood together, fought together and bleed together. That is who won.
Eric
Wow, that is so not the story of ww2. There are so many errors and false claims that I believe your opinion is skewed. The Russian part you got right thou, and that was horrible theater of war for both sides. But the rest of your post reads like slam against the U.S.,and most of it is untrue.
baddmint666
how did you get from jap perverts to ww2 man your all of subject just to point something out tho to you US lads its only you and us english no one else gives a shite where is the rest of the world when british and american solders are dieing for a bunch of ungrateful ragheads and the rest of europe/world dose not care simple solution leave them to it let the closest countries like italy,turkey,greece.pakistan,india leave them to sort it out after all when the suicide bombers are out in force they will spill over into the next countries
TheProphetIsAlive
You Are ALL WRONG!
You Are ALL WRONG!
1. The Nazis won WW1 but was made to look like
they “lost” by signing a “treaty” made so the Nazi Alien Overlord From
the inner earth would not destroy the Outer earth.
2. The Treaty
signed made all nations agree to become one world nation in due time say
100 years from 1919 hence 2019 One World Order, yet to be confirmed but
quite obviosly a huge possibilty.
3. Once all nations are One The
Supreme Being will take its place amongst us humans as the President of
the world or whatever name our idiotic nations agree upon/ or a
“Council” of one who appears to be many. Think “Hive mind”
4. This
entity will be relying on the fact there will be revolutionaries who
will fight so as to keep wars going fueling the burning fires of global
destruction and pollution so the outer earth is STILL slowly destroyed
over time so one day all outer earth inhabitants will die leaving all
inner earth inhabitants in peace and harmony and great success as to the
matter of WW1 finally becoming a Victory achieved not by sheer force
and an extremely short amount of time but instead over a very long
period of time where a delusional world where everyone thought
everything was A.O.K. and was deceived their perceptions of reality in a
way that if thought about is severely torturing and menacingly
horrifyingly to the human being mind.
5. Everyone will say this is a
completely mentally ill response and completely false and deny the fact
of the matter that this, Is the ultimate truth and all those who
disagree ARE the enemy and are already apart of the hive mind and a true
sign showing that in 2119 the world will end by some sort of
atmospheric failure either resulting in a huge evacuation of oxygen from
the outer earth or a complete change in the majority of chemical
compounds and makeup of earths atmosphere resulting in a hydrogen or
methane based outer earth.
6. Deny it all you want but this is MY
knowledge and will most likely be gone in an hour or left here so as to
deceive all of the truth in falsifying this as a “hoax” or plainly
handicapped response.
7. They will all respond to this, all of them
the hive mind entity which is slowly working its way into all of us, our
minds, our souls.
8.If you respond negatively to this i can only
assume you are a part of them or blind to reality, either way is just as
bad as the other.
Have a nice day x_x
P.S. WW2 was a front/cover up to make everyone think it was all done with… why has hitler never been confirmed as dead…
hdf sdhf
How do outer earth people get to inner earth as to survive
Elijah
Wht da h is up wif dinner date?
Ben Curtiss
thats why they’re in the weird games section
jeff
SHUTUP you have the best comment on here. first, no one on here was there, and second why the hell did all this start over fucking Dino D-Day? No common sense!
hdf sdhf
You are all talking about this why? what prompted grown men to bicker like children over a game you are all idiots most of the the things you’re saying are just stupid and just untruthful and ww2 talk after seeing a dinosaur game any of you ignorant enough to get in a petty squabble over a video game i have four words to say to you GET A FUCKING LIFE
Shaley Whiffing
Why does it matter? It’s just a video game..
Kevin
Note to igxpro. Don’t mention politics. It is a lose lose situation. Don’t believe me? Read everything below.
My Ass
Nazi dinossaurs?!…Seriously?
JustMe
American or British, are we doing any of our ancestor’s proud by arguing over historical facts, many of them wrong, on a thread talking about a game featuring Nazi’s and Zombies? None of them died so we could sit around and claim ‘we’ won the war and ‘you’ needed ‘us’, get on with your lives!
MelodicMetal80
omg…IT WAS THE SOVIETS WHO ‘TURNED THE TIDE” Because the Germans had to send more troops to counter attack on the western front they spread their forces too thin in Africa and eastern front… America came in a a time when the Germans were retreating anyway…And i am German..i know…
Logic
First of all, there is no doubt that America was a huge contributor to the war effort. There is no denying it. However, the Soviet Union was an equally great contributor, and many American jingoists would have liked to deny that, back in the cold war. I sincerely believe that World War II could not have been won by allied forces without the help of the Americans, but that doesn’t mean that Americans alone fought the war. Europe needed a country whose lands had not been destroyed by the war, and could supply an army. Europe could not do that, since the entire continent had been razed by war. America did not join the war out of selfishness as well. The Marshall Plan paid for the reconstruction of Europe, something the Soviet Union cared nothing about. This is not to say that in the postwar era, America has not made mistakes. The Vietnam war was a huge mistake, based on a lie. The American people did not support that war, and it was only the government that dragged it along. Anti-american sentiment can be expressed against a government, but it cannot be used as a weapon against a people. I am an Indian, and I have lived in America since I was 2 years old. I understand this country and my own, so I can speak with knowledge of both sides.
DAveISaGEEK
I don’t want to sound patronising as I’m not much of a video-game user of late. But for two reasons this article made me laugh out loud – Ioved the awkward British simulated stand-up and Prime Ministers Questions. I can’t think of anything more pointless to make into a videogame and I’m virtually crying tears, so funny! On the plus, I would love to play the Nazis and dinosaurs. that’s videogame territory for real. Pure nonsense, with heart, I’m convinced (to combine nazis with t-rex & co) impressed. thanks.
Dick Grayson
Can’t we all agree that games can be fun and we all are living breathing humans; and when playing games nationality & patriotism isn’t relevant?
scotjam
While most of the comments seem to have descended into a discussion about who was “best” in WWII, I actually enjoyed the article – thanks! One more I would add is “Masq” (check it out at alteraction dot com) – was voted one of PC Gamer’s top games of all time. Very interesting to play through.
That guy
Well holy shit, how did we ever come together to win the war in the first place? People need to stop hating everyone else so much. It doesn’t matter who is the “best”, go do something with your lives.