Real Infantry tactics in a video game

I remember that game... Pretty cool, except when you take cover behind a car (what are they thinking!). I don't think you can have a realistic infantry battle in a video game unless every single soldier is played by a real human. Raven Shield and Red Orchestra really make you think and coordinate with your team, only it's not as rigid as the squad movement in Full Spectrum Warrior so your teammates have to know how to do all these things individually without instruction. A well-ordered team of poor shooters will almost always win over a disorganized team of excellent shooters with great reflexes.
 
You guys should really check out Bad Company; battlefield for the PS3, it's incredibly accurate graphics and weapon performance will have you addicted in no time. The weapon unlocks and progress through a realistic rank structure are other key highlights.
 
I enjoy realism games, but "Bad Company" is not one of them, the battlefield series are known to be practically arcade style. But there is a very popular modification for Battlefield 2 called "Project Reality".
The retail realism games with infantry like Armed Assault or Operation Flashpoint get the right weapon realism, but not the visual realism that gives no sense of excitement that the more mainstream games have, this is why there are community made "mods" that take the arcade games and give them realism.
http://www.realitymod.com/ -Requires Battlefield 2
http://www.smod-tactical.com/
-Requires Counter-Strike: Source
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Half-Life 2: The Lost Coast
Half-Life 2
http://www.forum.resistanceandliberation.com/index.php? -Requires Half Life 2
http://www.insmod.net/ -Requires Half Life 2

One of the most reknowned of the community mods "Infiltration" http://infiltration.sentrystudios.net/
which I have heard so much about, is from what I've seen to be the best so far.
 
I forgot to mention the Half-Life 1 mod Hostile Intent. It's one of the more realistic tatical shooters, to the point that you literally have to check in with your teammates on the radio to see if they're still alive. You can play as NATO (catch-all for The West, in fact depending on the map the NATO team can be anybody ranging from Navy SEALs to the local SWAT team) or Tango (criminals, terrorists, or just enemy soldiers). Despite the old graphics, the sensation of firing your weapon comes closer to the real thing than any other game, but you have to play it to understand.

A poorly coordinated attacking team stands virtually no chance, and since NATO is usually attacking, they are the harder team to play as.

I personally enjoy the variety of playing as the bad guy in a modern tactical shooter, which is usually not allowed. You can be an arms smuggler hiding in the corner of your warehouse with a suppressed MAC-11, a Colombian drug lord crouched in the bushes with an AK, or a Russian nationalist with a AKS-74U fighting for the Motherland, to name just a few.
 
I agree with one of the comments major liability posted below, in respect to being able to play as the bad guys.............. The closest I've gotten to modern-day FPS games is the CoD franchise, (as I vastly prefer the likes of Rome TW and it's newer brother Medieval TW), but I get frustrated with not being able to play the defender in any of the CoD's.........

Likewise, I get frustrated that there aren't scenarios written detailing ANZAC & other Commonwealth forces in some of the campaigns we fought in... I understand that they're looking at a CoD set in the Pacific, yet nothing about New Guinea, Borneo or anything like that............ :|
 
Ski8799 said:
You guys should really check out Bad Company; battlefield for the PS3, it's incredibly accurate graphics and weapon performance will have you addicted in no time. The weapon unlocks and progress through a realistic rank structure are other key highlights.
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Alot of people compare Bad Company to COD 4 or a good version of counter strike.
 
My favorite Battlefield is 2142, I don't really enjoy the infantry combat in the other titles. It feels really awkward and arcade-like, and a lot of the time it seems like the winner is determined by whoever is lucky enough to have the majority of his bullets spray in a favorable pattern to score more hits. The weapons are more powerful and you have a ton of gadgets at your disposal in 2142 so it's a lot more fun playing as infantry, though the hovertank and walkers are pretty cool too.

The sequel to Armed Assault is coming out soon, it looks fairly impressive so far:
http://www.bistudio.com/arma2.html

It's the civilian version of Virtual Battlefield Simulator 2. If it lives up to the claims made it'll undoubtedly be my new favorite game.
 
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