For serious though some real bangers out there like Power Of Chaos, Dynasty Warriors 4 Hyper, Battlefield 1942 (!) and BF Vietnam (!).
*! these were triple-a games now totally free to play with fan dedicated private servers.
For serious though some real bangers out there like Power Of Chaos, Dynasty Warriors 4 Hyper, Battlefield 1942 (!) and BF Vietnam (!).
*! these were triple-a games now totally free to play with fan dedicated private servers.
I remember when the singleplayer in Battlefield games was just the multiplayer maps with bots, instead of the shitty Hollywood-esque “America, fuck yeah!” style campaigns they began to add since Bad Company just to compete with Call of Duty.
I have some fun memories playing the shit out of the Desert Combat mod for BF1942 on El Alamein 24/7 servers.
While it’s certainly not Wag the Dog, the Bad Company campaigns were at least kind of humorous in their approach to making fun of modern military shooter tropes (talking about “Spec Ops douchebags with heartbeat monitors on their guns”), and also portrayed the US military utilising expendable cannon fodder while largely losing a war with Russia that started for reasons most of the troops don’t understand. Also I connect with the character of Private Terrence Sweetwater on a personal level due to him spending both games constantly correcting people that the Russian Federation is no longer Communist.
It’s just a shame the bots were so crappy but then again this is 2001 through 05 ish.