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Flight Sims and First-person shooter games

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First Person Shooters

I sometimes refer to my teenage son as "a 24 by 7 biological interface to an XBox 360." Among his favorite WWII first-person shooter games are:

• Medal of Honor - Allied Assault
• Call of Duty 3: It is 1944, near St. Lo, France. The Americans must drive the Germans out of France. You are a buck private, and have to learn to pick up your M1 Garand, your Thompson submachine gun, and grenades. You get on the truck and move out. Your first objective is a church full of Germans; after that yo will ride as a spotter on a Sherman tank. A great game, suitable for any level of player.
• Call of Duty 4 (not WW2, but a great game)
• Call of Duty - World at War:

  Some tough fighting in the Pacific, on the island of Pelileu. My favorite is the early Russian sections, reminiscent of the movie "Enemy at the Gates." The scene is Stalingrad, and you are a sniper trying to pick off a German general. I found that more interesting than the typical, large, noisy battles.

  A great game but, for the experienced gamer, the gaming engine is almost identical to COD 4. While that does not take away from the story line or make the game boring, it does mean that anyone who had beaten COD 4 will not find many surprises in 'World at War.' One of the innovations in this game is the flame-thrower, a weapon not seen in many earlier games.

  One problem with the game is the AI: you, the shooter, are targeted far more than other squadmates; at other times, you are being shot at through a wall with far more accuracy than possible in real life.

• Red Orchestra Ostfront*
• Brothers in Arms - Hell's Highway
• Battlefield 1942*
• Sniper Elite*
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• WW2: Panzer Claws*
• Close Combat 4 - Battle of the Bulge
• Blazing Angels - Squadrons of WW2
• Deadly Dozen - Pacific

* PC games only

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