It almost feels inappropriate to say this after all that, but Tannanberg manages to be a really fun multiplayer shooter too. Again, it’s a sobering reminder of just how awful real warfare is, and between the grisly combat and loading screens giving us the backstory of the real world battle that inspired each map, Tannenberg take’s its historical teachings seriously. There’s no revive mechanic here, so all we can do is listen to their pleas as they wait for the end. Occasionally downed soldiers will scream out long after they’ve been hit, crying and whimpering in quite a disturbing way. Bullets whizz by our ears with surprising accuracy, soldiers yell out orders in their native tongues, and the rifles and weaponry hit with a bang. Killed soldier’s exhibit fairly simple damage on their corpses – there’s no dismemberment that I saw – and the visuals are pretty basic by today’s standards. It’s not the most visually graphic depiction of warfare though. Add in unseen mortar strikes, grenades and gas attacks and Tannenberg can be really quite harrowing. There’s very little room for error too, as despite the slow pace of gunfire all it takes is a single shot to finish us off from almost any weapon. We’ve got a few mod-cons – a radar, overhead map and hit confirmation reticules – but the bleak, rural battlefields make spotting enemy soldiers hard, and using the basic iron sights on a rifle makes hitting them even harder. It’s a stark contrast to the likes of Modern Warfare, and does a good job of truly presenting just how terrifying being involved in that conflict must have been. Tannenberg is based around battles from World War 1 this means an almost primitive approach to warfare, with single shot rifles, pipe grenades, and leather gas masks being the best we’re going to get to defend ourselves with. There are a fair few smaller titles out there though, and Tannenberg deserves its fair share of the action. ![]() ![]() Obviously titles such as Call of Duty and Battlefield are two of the biggest, meddling in modern as well as historical warfare. With the rise of online gaming over the last 20 years it’s not an outlandish thing to say that war-based shooters are one of the most popular entries into the genre.
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