Alot ppl say they are sick of ww2 fps, with cod5 apparently going back to this setting. I dont care that much myself, I much prefer fps with real life guns as opposed to sci-fi fps with stupid over the top guns.

But what Iam so very sick off, is that all fps are from the perspective of americans etc, I wanna play game where I can play as the other side. It would be good to be killing americans as apposed to american killing other people.

A modern warfare game set Iraq, but you get to play as the insurgents. There would be lots of good scenarios, for example you get set up a ambush an american convoy with ied's and kill as many possible, then plan your get away before their air power comes in. Also sniping, hit and run attacks on large bases, hitting armoured cars with rpg's.

It could bring alot of tactics when you are fighting a force that has better technology, forcing you to plan and use you wits.

Actually, a guerilla tactics game would be pretty fun. Your dream of playing an Iraqi insurgent will never come to fruition, but there are a variety of historical or fictional settings which could offer similar gameplay without the political baggage.

too controversial :(
but imo would be great fun

I suppose there's a possibility that Iraq wins this war, then invades and subjugates the Americans, in which case the games will be based from the viewpoint of Iraq. Of course, do you really want this to happen?

why not?

Can i mix your idea with Sci-Fi?
That way we can have a game where you play an alien/alien army an invade Earth.

Unfortunately the USA is the biggest market for shooters, and games there pretty much require the US to be the good guys. That's why there are so many WW2 games, as that's the last time they had a clear unambiguous win over an undeniably evil dictator, and made the world a better place. After that it's been all about invading developing countries to stop them from becoming communists or other less exciting reasons, and the outcome has been less than the unconditional surrender of the enemy.

Guerilla warfare would be kind of interesting, but current events might make it just slightly unpopular. Hopefully we'll be seeing more developers from elsewhere on the globe get into the business over the next few years.

"But what Iam so very sick off, is that all fps are from the perspective of americans etc, I wanna play game where I can play as the other side. It would be good to be killing americans as apposed to american killing other people.
A modern warfare game set Iraq, but you get to play as the insurgents. There would be lots of good scenarios, for example you get set up a ambush an american convoy with ied's and kill as many possible, then plan your get away before their air power comes in. Also sniping, hit and run attacks on large bases, hitting armoured cars with rpg's."

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Hey Mister Omar, that's supposed to be REGION, not RELIGION.

If you want to learn how to kill Americans, go join a terrorist training camp.

What's the Australian version of the FBI/CIA? They might find this thread interesting...

Nah, doesn't sound like nearly as much fun as it is now.

I think I would be more interested in a game similar to Trauma Center except for torturing information out of terrorists like Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, etc.... You would of course have to keep them alive and carefully extract the information etc...wouldn't want them to die before they give up their friends.

Sinha, what's so surprising about a non-American rather having Americans as the bad guys for once? Of course he'd rather play as the side that he has more in common with. There are probably a bunch of games and movies already on the way that portray the American occupiers in Iraq as selfless heroes, while everyone who doesn't like them is a terrorist or a member of "pro-Saddam militia".

I have to admit I didn't read his first post all that closely, and now that I do it seems a bit questionably phrased even to me. That being said, we could still use some variety, and less of a 100% American viewpoint in every single game.