What do the veterans think of ww2 computer games?

[southern geordie]

Playing at War..
You cannot PLAY at war. Lesson one in basic training is "to learn how best to kill the enemy".That is not a game. Afterwards in games, the players stand up again, have a few laughs and walk about a bit. In the real thing, the losers (and often the victors also) scream in agony and cry for their mothers, that is, if they are still able to do so. War is a serious matter with no (sensible) 'playing' about it. Like smoking cigarettes, smoking guns in war, can seriously damage your health. Governments should issue public warnings to all of their citizens, not to indulge themselves it it. However, often the time arrives (too often) when war becomes inevitable and then war does become a tradgic reality, for many, many people (God forbid). Once begun the players are not allowed to stop and to go home (and to switch off the P.C.) and go to bed. Amuse yourself if you must but don't deceive yourself that you can 'play' in the reality of war nor to experience, vicariously the true reality of warfare. It is a true saying, worthy of constant remembrance, that "war is hell" and there is no substitute for it. Well that is what I think.
Southern Geordie.

[BulgarianSoldier]

Everybody knows and no one clams that the games can make you experiance the real atmosphere of the war.We already agree on that.
But tell me people if it wasn't Medal of Honor,Call of Duty how much kids whould know about ww2.The games made the war to look interesting in the growing generation, they play the games, and maybe then they start to learn to be interested in it.Game industries know that they cant make the atmosphere of the real war in the game.
PC games about ww2 are made to make you familiar with what happand in the past, even if you watch movies and read books you cant feal the reality of the war.Nobody who wasn't fighting during ww2 cant get the feeling of the real war.
Look at the game that the Kyt mantion before Americas army, the game dont make you feel the war the game shows you the trainings,the responsability of joining US army.
Theres nothing bad in the ww2 games.

[Hawkeye90]

Georgie basically summed what I was going to say. As said before there is no video game that can depict what war really is, mentally and physically. I think its best veterans are not exposed to some modern war games, as they are an insult to these men who have fought in the past. The way some games depict history is simply ridiculous. The enemy in games such as Medal of Honor or Call of Duty are nothing but mindless figures running at you that you have to kill, the single handed slaughter of Axis soldiers presented in these games is pure bull s***. Some games make it seem as though allied casualties were rare and all the killing was done by the allies.

Anyway, there are a few games that seem valid enough, I play Battlefield 1942 often. The sad thing is that some people believe that what they see in a video game is an accurate depiction of a war.

[BulgarianSoldier]

Yes Hawkeye90 i was going to say that in games like Call of Duty your goal is to kill the whole german army by yourself.You kill almost 50 germans by yourself, in reallity isn't that easy.The axis lose soldiers and the allies just lose a few, and you begin to ask yourself 'lol why they didn't beat them at the begining'.And there are games that you could change the history like Battlefield 1942 in Market garden you could win.
There are a few games that you could feel how hard it was to kill someone like the game Red Orchestra it is harder.But anyway games cant make you experians what the veterans did, but many of the games including Call of Duty are based on information given by Veterans.

[Owen]

For added realism, play the games on a laptop on a rainy night, in a self dug slit trench, in the roughest area of town whilst the local yobs throw bricks at you whilst trying to steal your lap top.

If you are then tired, cold and scared that will be somewhere to "feeling" what it was like. By about 1 %.

[marcus69x]

Originally Posted by Owen D

For added realism, play the games on a laptop on a rainy night, in a self dug slit trench, in the roughest area of town whilst the local yobs throw bricks at you whilst trying to steal your lap top.

If you are then tired, cold and scared that will be somewhere to "feeling" what it was like. By about 1 %.

Hahahahahahaha. I might try that over whinney banks.

[BulgarianSoldier]

Drink some Jack Daniels, and something stronger maybe Russian 80 C Vodka and you will feel 2% of what it was like in the Russian army during the summers.