Why hasn't anyone tried to

[Joelcool7]

I have thought of this before. However the games would be too difficult if you took a modern shooter like CoD and made it a single life game. Also it would be highly unrealistic when being compared to real combat. Now I know you may be laughing but in real combat soldiers don't face 20-men in a matter of minutes and do so on their own. In real life you don't need to kill 20 guys to get an air strike.

Now if you were to create a game where you died and stayed dead. You would have to make the game more realistic. More like what actually happens in the wars today. I read an article a few years ago about Iraq/Afghanistan saying most soldiers never even saw combat and the majority of soldiers died from IED's. What combat they did see was hit and run, the Taliban or Al-Qaida would spray bullets randomly at Nato soldiers before running like hell or detonating a bomb.

Also AI would be an issue. The majority of forces the US and her allies encounter today are untrained militia's. The AI in CoD for example is far too smart to give you a realistic game. The Taliban have no training and too few bullets for target practice. So when they attack they do so with very little accuracy, they also have no body armour and a single bullet will immobalize them. While Nato soldiers can sustain multiple bullets thanks to their body armour.

In the end I think a realistic war game would be great. A single life (With body armour), easier more realistic AI, No huge groups of 20 CPU's attacking just you. Air strikes called in any time you meet serious opposition. Civilians in cities and being used as human shields.

But in all honesty, such a war game would not appeal to the action junkies who get their kicks playing CoD. They want 50 CPU's attacking them on their own. They want the difficulty of not having air strikes availible to them most of the time. They don't want their enemies to drop from a single bullet.

Fact is do you want that? Do you want a realistic war simulator? or do you want the hollywood experiance?

I myself would love the realistic war simulator. But I know their aren't enough people out their who do. They want the explosions, non-stop gun fire and unlimited lives.