Enemy Front, Stuart Black's WWII FPS, announced

Have you endured enough modern-day shooters to quietly wish for a return to good old WWII? City Interactive would hope so, as it's announcing Enemy Front, a CryEngine 3-powered WWII FPS with Black creator Stuart Black as chief designer.

Alice O'Connor

November 18, 2011 6:00 AM

Long, long ago, in the dark and distant days of the mid-2000s, players rose up and cried with one voice, "Enough World War II shooters!" But now, after several years of relentless Call to Arms: Modern Battleops, perhaps we'd appreciate a chance to shoot those zany old Nazis back again? City Interactive would certainly hope so, as it's just announced WWII shooter Enemy Front, with Black creator Stuart Black signed on as chief designer. Enemy Front takes place across several years of World War II, ranging from France to Berlin. Dropped behind Nazi lines, you'll dabble in espionage, sabotage, and, of course, shooting faces. It's all built upon CryEngine 3, which is said to power "fully destructible maps." City teases a "realistic tale" which touches on "notable historical threads," including the cracking of the Enigma code and goings-on at Hitler's Eastern Front HQ, the Wolf's Lair. Yet, curiously, you're ultimately working to stop a "terrifying weapon that will all but assure a global Nazis victory." A Nazi superweapon! Gosh, how we've all missed those. Stuart Black's last project was the thoroughly average FPS Bodycount, though he left developer Codemasters Guildford long before that was finished. Enemy Front is headed to PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 in 2012.

Tonight we're gonna shooty like it's 1945

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Have you endured enough modern-day shooters to quietly wish for a return to good old WWII? City Interactive would hope so, as it's announcing Enemy Front, a CryEngine 3-powered WWII FPS with Black creator Stuart Black as chief designer.
- badcaps
  
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  November 18, 2011 7:43 AM
  
  Tonight we're gonna shooty like it's 1945
  
  lol'd
- Helz91
  
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  November 18, 2011 8:02 AM
  
  I like WW2 shooters more then modern stuff, so this is good news :D
- MarcusCalil
  
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  November 18, 2011 8:09 AM
  
  I'd be excited for this if Stuart Black was not behind it because Black and Bodycount both suck. Best WW2 games are the "old" Medal Of Honor games. I love the Airborne one.
  - the archvile
    
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    November 18, 2011 3:31 PM
    
    A tired, long-abandoned subgenre and a washed-up producer don't seem like a promising combination.
- oribiasi
  
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  November 18, 2011 8:24 AM
  
  It's kind of ridiculous to have nostalgia over WW2 shooters...since they aren't very old, but I'd welcome this game.
- abjectblitz
  
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  November 21, 2011 9:21 AM
  
  WW2 on Cryengine? Fuck yeah, gimme now!