Quote Originally Posted by Kraxis
I wonder what is keeping them back. Can't be the politics or ethics of being the 'evil' Germans as you can already play them in other types of games.
Well, other games let you command counters of German units in hex-based wargame or tiny toy soliders in a Blitzkrieg type RTS. It's kind of impersonal. But to play as a WW2 German in a shooter, killing young American, Russian or British boys when you can see the whites of their eyes... That's a little different. I don't think it is anything about ethics per se - shooters already let you play serial killers, vampires etc. But it may be marketing - I am not sure it would go down well with American kids and their moralistic protectors. It would give me pause for thought, although I would be interested if it was a reasonably authentic, atmospheric shooter like Vietcong.