After the response from Infinite Warfare, Activision had expressed interest in bringing the series «back to its roots», which led to many rumors of a World War
II era game being next.
Not exact matches
The
game takes place, as the other Primes did, between Metroid
II and Super Metroid, in a sort of sideways expansion of the Prime trilogy's
era.
However, with the vastly superior Age of Empires
II HD already in existence with five years of community built up around it, there is little reason to recommend this
game unless you're just dying to play extremely early
era civilizations.
This action
game was developed in 1982 for the Apple
II computer series, and was later submitted it to a variety of video
game publishers of the
era.
The
game would ultimately become a very successful computer
game, with versions of the title being released for a variety of popular computers of the
era, including the Apple
II, Atari 8 - bit family and the Commodore computer series.
Tripwire Interactive and Antimatter
games have released a new update pack for their World War
II -
era first person shooter and 2011 First - Person Shooter of the Year (PC
Gamer), Red Orchestra 2 and it's expansion, Rising Storm.
It seems not too long ago that people were growing tired of Call of Duty World War
II games, now a few years later fans are craving to go back to a simpler
era of Call of Duty.
While there was just an over saturation of computers of the
era, with options including the Atari 8 - bit series, the Apple
II, Commodore VIC - 20 & C64, TRS - 80, Coleco Adam, Texas Instruments TI - 99, Timex Sinclair, among others, these new microcomputers brought a very interesting competition to the video
game marketplace.
Ultra Street Fighter
II: The Final Challengers is a fun fighting
game with interesting new mechanics and touted as the definitive version of Street Fighter
II, but it comes off as lazy and overpriced, padded with a lackluster buddy mode and an unnecessary and almost broken «Way of the Hado» mode reminiscent of the worst of the Wii
era.
Zelda
II may have had blemishes, but so did other
games of that
era, Zelda I and Metroid included.
Battlefront
II spans every
era of the films (and includes content from The Last Jedi), and its exhilarating Starfighter Assault mode offers some of the best space battles you can have in a Star Wars
game.
Star Wars Battlefront
II is three times the size of the previous
game, bringing to life a brand new Star Wars story, space battles, epic new multiplayer experiences across all three Star Wars
eras, with more free content to come.
Rather than being completely out - of - the - loop for 90 % of the
game, Assassin's Creed
II will instantly draw you in with its convoluted story of political struggle and intrigue between the various factions of renaissance -
era Italy.
Victoria
II is a grand strategy
game played during the colonial
era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding it through industrialisation, political...
Black Ops
II is the first original Call of Duty
game developed by Treyarch that plays out modern - day and futuristic scenes, yet a Memorandum of Understanding suggests the studio is prohibited from framing its
games within the «post-Vietnam»
era.
Much like the Symphonic Shades concert held back in 2008 celebrating the music of Amiga -
era composer Chris Huelsbeck (Turrican
II, Great Giana Sisters), a new concert series in June will be honoring his work on a lesser - known C64
game Huelbeck worked on called Katakis.
Originally released for PC in Japan in 2008 as Zwei
II Plus, Zwei: The Ilvard Insurrection brings the cult classic into the modern HD
era with visual improvements and, for the first time, a full English localization complete with over 2000 never - before - voiced lines to bring the
game's strange and eclectic characters to life.
Kantai Collection, also known as KanColle, is a online browser
game in which one assumes the role of an admiral, assembles a fleet of kanmusu («ship girl,» girls based on World War
II era Japanese ships and submarines) and battles against fleets of alien enemy warships.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare first saw light in 2007 and was developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision and it was the first
game in the Call of Duty series to break out of the then well - known World War
II setting and into the modern
era.
In case you missed Valkyria Chronicles when it first released, here's the setup: The
game's story takes place in the year 1935 E.C. and is set against the backdrop of the continent of Europa, which is loosely based on World War
II -
era Europe.
Some of the best two - player
games of its
era are included and ready to play, such as Super Mario Kart and Street Fighter
II Turbo.
Activision and Sledgehammer Games have finally released the official trailer for Call of Duty: WWII's Nazi Zombies mode, which will take
gamers back to the classic World War
II era of zombie survival, and it's one wild ride.
Early leaks indicated that DICE Sweden was following up Battlefield 1 with a World War
II -
era shooter titled Battlefield V. However, more recent rumors have indicated that this year's
game is actually being headed by DICE Los Angeles and is Battlefield: Bad Company 3.
The blog goes into some good details on the previous Call of Duty
games taking place during the World War
II era.
The debut
game spawned one of the most popular franchises in history, which has taken players across multiple theaters and through different
eras, and today we are proud to announce that Call of Duty is returning to its World War
II roots with Call of Duty: WWII»
Star Wars Battlefront
II will have more than three times the content of the previous
game at launch, with a brand new story, a new single - player campaign, new modes, characters, vehicles and planets from all
eras in the Star Wars universe, as well as a live service plan that will continue to add even more fun for the global community.
In this free - to - play, cross-platform military
game you'll be fighting across the open sky in armored vehicles from World War
II and the Cold War
era.
This year, however, Activision is going back to the style of
game that made the series great in the first place: World War
II -
era combat.
Given Apple's history with gaming (mainly from the Apple
II era), I wouldn't be opposed to a high - end Apple
games computer, either.