Growing up as a kid, I was in an era where many FPS games were set in World War 2. The big two titles involved in this era were Call of Duty and Medal of Honor. My first game on the PS2 was Medal of Honor: Frontline and I was thoroughly immersed in the game. That game was followed up by Call of Duty 3. In this day and age, CoD and MoH have left behind the WWII shell and are now involved within modern day shooters. I'm not saying modern shooters are bad, but I believe what they were back then really brought them to where they are now and really left a place in the heart of gamers within that era. The combat was far more punishing in that era with no health regen and plenty of enemies around every corner. The music was superb with such deep emotional music to the jerky and upbeat songs in those large firefights. Even today, I still get chills every time I take a listen to the MoH:F main theme song. I really wish we can still have these WWII shooters come back to us. For EA, it was a generous gift on the PS3 when they bundled the HD remaster of MoH:F with their modern shooter MoH. Even CoD: BO (I think?) also had the copy of the first Call of Duty for hardened and prestige edition buyers. With the technology today, I hope we can bring the WWII era of shooters back into the light. I wish not all shooters have to take place in modern times or the future. It really makes some of us wish we could be shooting Nazis instead of fighting terrorists or Russians in every damn modern shooter. In short, I hope to see more shooters go back into the WW2 era or even other historical eras (and hope they don't CoD-ify those games). Prove to us that every FPS isn't all the same and can bring a satisfying Singleplayer experience to us.
While I think we got our fill back in the PS2 days, it will be nice to see a coming back to that era. As Sessler said recently however, "it's hard to miss something if it doesn't stay gone." I wouldn't like to see a huge reemerging of those shooters, but one or two wouldn't be bad. Sci-fi spinoffs of the era like the new Wolfenstein are more than satisfying enough for me.
