WWII GI is the invasion of Normandy. The paranoia. The fear. the intensity that was D-Day. You will experience it first hand.
You're in the 101st Airborne, part of the first wave of allied forces to touch down in a no-man's land of twisted shrapnel, dead bodies and heavily armed Nazi-infested machi...
WWII GI is the invasion of Normandy. The paranoia. The fear. the intensity that was D-Day. You will experience it first hand.
You're in the 101st Airborne, part of the first wave of allied forces to touch down in a no-man's land of twisted shrapnel, dead bodies and heavily armed Nazi-infested machine-gun bunkers. Now you must fight your way through hostile beaches, abandoned country roads with tall, sniper infested hedgerows, the narrow streets of devastated villages and more.
This is D-Day!
Close combat gunfights, Sniper strikes, Village shoot-outs, bridge assaults and more!
30 Nazi-infested levels developed by the creators of NAM,
Use true-to-war strategies to successfully complete genuine WWII Normandy military scenarios,
Very accurate depiction of war. Even this old game engine helps to depict the fog of war quite accurate (the military concept). The lack of AI and scripted events make this feel like a real war, chaos and uncertainty, you have no control over the situation, the bullets fly everywhere from unknown positions, everybody is dying around you. Your only friend is the weapon. Try to keep your temper.
Sure, i've played this when i was a kid but i remember that it had the best D-Day of any game. This D-Day makes Medal of Honor and Call of Duty feel like a joke.
If you start yapping about how realistic or un-realistic a war game is you are out of your mind. There is no such thing as a realistic war game, as you're sitting on your ass whilst soaking up dopamine hits playing a game. This, along with NAM, may be the closest thing to war games. It's absolute chaos, nothing makes sense, but if for some odd reason you're still alive when it's over you'll take a deep breath and move on. If Doom 1 and Hexen are your jam, go for it. If you need some sort of expectation to be fulfilled, there are plenty of games for you out there.
Have you ever wondered what a Medal of Honor game might have looked like in Duke Nukem 3D's Build Engine? Okay, probably not a question many ever asked, but World War II: GI gives you the answer anyway!
This game actually technically predates the original PS1 Medal of Honor by a few months. It feels, as you might expect, like a Duke 3D Total Conversion mod, but it is a damn fine one at that. Graphics are actually quite excellent for the time, with textures being rather high quality.
The game makes great use of scripted events in levels, much the same way Medal of Honor's and early Call of Duty's would have. You'll see explosions from artillery going off, hazy smoke, minefields, bombing runs, squadrons of planes in the air, and friendly soldiers on the ground (though the friendlies are mostly there for aesthetics rather than doing a whole lot, but medic soldiers can actually heal you, like in MoH).
The run speed is slowed down and you have to wait for medkits to gradually heal you, to make the game more realistic than Duke. You have a good selection of famous WW2 weapons--Thompson, MP40, BAR, etc. that you'd expect.
The enemy a.i. isn't very good, mostly just standing in place and letting you shoot them. They don't chase you or take cover or anything, but bullets can be rather deadly even on Normal difficulty. However, this is not too surprising, since this is a Build engine game, so it's fine.
The real value of this game is in the good level design, which convincingly feels like its setting, and scripted events that happen as you play them.
While obviously not a must-play FPS, if you're a fan of either the Medal of Honor series or Build engine games like Duke 3D, Shadow Warrior, or Blood, or even a Wolfenstein 3D fan, definitely check this out. It's well done, and the price is very cheap.
P.S. The default DOSBox version is broken. Gunshots don't register when you click half the time. I recommend using Raze source port, an EDuke32 fork that is like GZDoom.
You NEED eDuke to play this. If this was the only game I was allowed to play for the rest of my life, I would get a new hobby. You absolutely MUST have nostalgia to enjoy this.
