I have to say, the slow shots of the sniping got to me, this looks like something I could enjoy.Įxclusive to Best Buy, Pre-order online (and that is an online specific exclusive) and get some bonus goodies. This trailer should give you a little taste. From the Warsaw Uprising, to the frontlines across France, Germany and the Netherlands CI games is making a point of the ‘historically accurate’ angle… and while FPS fans might not give a fig, the WWII nuts certainly do. Helping the resistance (and getting the scoop of the decade!) Robert will roam the European countryside rendered by Crytek’s Cry Engine, which makes it the envy of all digitally rendered European countryside’s, fighting the good fight. Are you more of a sneaky saboteur? Get in there and stab some Nazis. Developers CI Games are quick to distance themselves from the scripted nature of the ‘go there, shoot that’ thing I mentioned up top, and instead are boasting a player driven experience. Players take the helm as Robert Hawkins, war correspondent, and American on the wrong side of enemy lines. Now, if you’ve got a war, and a weapon, wouldn’t it be more fun to explore an open world and take on your targets as you’d like? Can you sense me getting to the point?Įnemy Front is an Open World FPS, and while I’m sure such a thing has existed before, I can’t easily put my finger on it, which still manages to make my point. The other criticism of the FPS is the whole ‘corridor shooter’ phenomenon, or, put another way ‘go here, shoot this, go there, shoot that’. I myself LOVE a great FPS campaign, one of the best and most important games in history (Half-Life 2) was the FPS, it’s just that the whole genre was co-opted by the multiplayer thing and left largely underutilized for the past five or six years. There can be no denying people like shooting stuff, particularly Nazis, from a first person perspective. They’re calling it ‘the first truly modern WWII FPS’ (I’ll just give you a moment to appreciate the irony / humor of that statement) but they might just be onto something. Arriving June 10th for the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3, its Enemy Front, and it might be the first in a long time to bring something new to a WWII first person shooter. I’d have been pretty confident too, but, this isn’t a week ago and I’m often wrong. If you had asked me a week or so ago what the most played out genre in gaming was, the one that’d be thoroughly tread and devoid of any novelty or fresh ideas, I’d have said WWII Shooter, no hesitation. This time we have Enemy Front, up coming FPS with a Crytek powered open world. Mostly likely because it was arguably the last war with a definitive ‘good guy / bad guy’ angle, and the Third Reich was so easy to hate. World War II has been a popular focus in games… particularly games where you shoot people (and yes, cynical types, there are ‘other kinds’ of games). FOLLOW THROUGH TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE FOR PRE-ORDER LINKS** **SPECIAL NOTE: THIS OFFER IS ONLY AVAILABLE IF YOU PRE-ORDER THE GAME ONLINE THROUGH BESTBUY.CA.