Just asking: is there any game you play as Nazi? - game idea?

First of all, no, I do not support Nazis and their stupid view of the world, but I'm interessted if there is actually any game where you play as a Nazi?

Sure everyone loves to play as american superhero who frees the world by shooting anything that comes in his way, but I was thinking about a FPS where you're actually on the other side. Sure the Nazis shouldn't be portraid in a good manner, you could be a soldier forced to do what they tell you so you and you family doesn't get killed. You can actually add a lot of depth to a character not knowing what to do. Should he kill innocent jews or should he risk losing his family and his own life? Stuff like that. I'd really like to see some more depth in FPSes and I guess this setting would allow a lot of character depth and it could end Hali:Reach style @ DDay or something like that.

After the scene where you could kill innocents in an airport I guess there's no taboo left for FPSes and why not use it to create something unique, something more than "I'm an America, I have a gun and a lot of ammo ... dieeee"

So now, what do you think?
Is there a game you play as Nazi?¨
Is there a lack of interessting character and story in FPSes?
Would you buy and play a FPS where you can play as a Nazi?

I hope nobody feels offended, if so I apologise for it. It was just something that came to my mind while I was having lunch andI had to share it ^^

One of the few games that I can remember where you have the ability to play as a Nazi is a PC game called Panzers.

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Red Orchestra 2 will have a German campaign. Also, it's Germans, not Nazis. The majority of Germans weren't Nazis. I'd suggest reading up on the various military orginizations that made up the German military.

If you mean a game where you play as the Wehrmacht, there are a few - mainly multilayer - games out there that allow you to do so, such as Battlefield 1942 and Red Orchestra. Men of War: Assault Squad also features a few single player missions as the Germans, but it's not anything story-driven.

I'd be willing to play as almost anything, if only to avoid the tiresome square-chinned American superhero cliché that plagues so many games.

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victoria IV

I think nearly every WWII mulitplayer game that ever existed had this option.:roll:

Not that I know of but like others have said, there apparently are ones where you can do so. Although it seems exploitative to me to do it.

Thanks for all the replies. I wasn't aware that there are so many games that let you play as a Nazi, but I guess it's mainly MP? Is there any SP focussed on the life of a Nazi / any enemy of the US? And maybe something more than some mascular man doind mascular stuff? i'm knida burn-out of FPSes lately and the Borderland cure seems to vanish ^^

Silent Hunter III lets you play as a Kriegsmarine U-boat captain and SHIV has a mission pack that adds German U-boats to the game as well as SHV (I don't recommend this to anyone though) takes you back to the Atlantic campaign. The iL2 series allows you to play as a Luftwaffe pilot to take on Soviet forces on the Eastern front. Yes, Panzers Phase One allows you to play as the Werhmacht.

It seems as if everyone wants to play just FPSes and not try other genres of games (I am somewhat guilty of it as I do not like RPGs and would not try them) and they end up missing out on some good games because of it. The end result are threads similar to this.

Silent Hunter III lets you play as a Kriegsmarine U-boat captain and SHIV has a mission pack that adds German U-boats to the game as well as SHV (I don't recommend this to anyone though) takes you back to the Atlantic campaign. The iL2 series allows you to play as a Luftwaffe pilot to take on Soviet forces on the Eastern front. Yes, Panzers Phase One allows you to play as the Werhmacht.

It seems as if everyone wants to play just FPSes and not try other genres of games (I am somewhat guilty of it as I do not like RPGs and would not try them) and they end up missing out on some good games because of it. The end result are threads similar to this.

WhiteKnight77

Not sure if it's directed to me, but I'm someone who play pretty much every genre (well maybe everything but spotrs), my fav genre is SRPG and my fav game sthis gen include Disgaea 3, Katamari Forever and Resonance of Fate. But as said, I play anything, including FPS and I somewhat got burnt-out of them, it would be nice to have something different. I would really really like to see an Anime-FPS (like XIII was a Comic FPS xD). Anyway, I guess a game with more story than *hey strong guy, kill them because they're evil" would be nice

I don't like this idea of a nazi being "forced" to kill innocents to save his family. That just sounds incredibly generic and cliche. If a nazi were to ever be portrayed in a game. I would want him to be a regular soldier just like any other campaign. I don't want him thinking that he is on the wrong side and he is doing bad things. That just makes the whole point of playing as the bad guys pointless.