Please help me identify a game

[TurbosSuck]

Hi folks,

This is a bit of a strange one but I'm hoping that someone might be able to identify a game that me and my friend used to play when we were younger from the clues below:

• It was a PC came and it would have been out around the late 90's, if I had to guess I'd say 98/99 (I might be way out on this!)

• It was a first person shooter a bit like COD but more open world

• You could get in and drive a bunch of vehicles (I think even a plane at one point)

• It was set in an alternate reality where the Nazis had won ww2

And that's pretty much all I have to go on I'm afraid. It keeps coming up in conversation but neither of us have been able to find out what it is.

Thanks!

Edited by TurbosSuck on Saturday 2nd December 11:24

[craste]

Wolfenstein?

[myvision]

Saboteur?

[TurbosSuck]

Not Wolfenstein.

Not sure about cut scenes, I remember an intro video at the start of the game with Zeplins flying over New York.

The Saboteur, nope wasn't that.

Honestly, if my mate didn't remember it too I'd think I imagined it...

[Dr Slotter]

This sounded familiar to me, particularly the setup, so got Googling and it looks like you are remembering Mortyr 2093-1944. Although that doesn't ring a bell at all with me!

https://www.mobygames.com/game/mortyr-2093-1944

[soad]

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty?

Edit - can't be, a later game.

[TurbosSuck]

Just figured this out! I'm such an idiot, it wasn't Nazis, it was Russians

This game was called Codename Eagle, here's a video of the 1st mission:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHwXoeD796U

And the intro I could remember:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amIaFm7TJ48

No wonder we couldn't find it, wrong bad guys!!

[soad]

Very basic graphics, quite amazing how far the technology has advanced since then.

[TurbosSuck]

soad said:

Very basic graphics, quite amazing how far the technology has advanced since then.

Very true, but I don't feel like I enjoy games as much as I did back then. With all of the technology and graphics most games just feel like more of the same. Some of the VR and augmented reality stuff looks like it might be a game changer though!

[soad]

It just might be that you're getting older.

[TurbosSuck]

Haha it could be. I do still enjoy games though, just things that are a bit different from what I have played before. Until Dawn on the PS4 stands out recently.

[SturdyHSV]

Not exactly on topic, but I thought you might be describing Soldier Of Fortune. I had forgotten that game existed, but damn it was good fun

A snippet from Wikipedia for you:

Soldier of Fortune was best known for its graphic depictions of firearms dismembering the human body. This graphic violence is the game's main stylistic attraction, much like the destructible environments of Red Faction or bullet time of Max Payne. The GHOUL engine enables depiction of extreme graphic violence, in which character models are based on body parts that can each independently sustain damage (gore zones). There are 26 zones in total: a shot to the head with a powerful gun will often make the target's head explode, leaving nothing but the bloody stump of the neck remaining; a close-range shot to the stomach with a shotgun will leave an enemy's bowels in a bloody mess, and a shot to the nether regions will cause the victims to clutch their groin in agony for a few seconds before kneeling over dead. It is possible to shoot off an enemy's limbs (head, arms, legs) leaving nothing left but a bloody torso.

[ApOrbital]

I still have SOF.

[ozzuk]

I hated SOF until I shot someone at close range, then loved it!

[Squirrelofwoe]

TurbosSuck said:

Just figured this out! I'm such an idiot, it wasn't Nazis, it was Russians

This game was called Codename Eagle, here's a video of the 1st mission:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHwXoeD796U

And the intro I could remember:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amIaFm7TJ48

No wonder we couldn't find it, wrong bad guys!!

I had the demo of that as it came on one of the PC Gamer disks, I remember being amazed at being able to fly the airship, and drive all of the vehicles.

I played the hell out of it but never got around to buying the full game for some reason- I remember thinking that between Codename Eagle and Hidden & Dangerous, PC games couldn't get much better than this!

Then a couple of years later Battlefield 1942 came out

The rate that games moved on back then is remarkable.

[Hilts]

I remember SoF2 - Double Helix, played it through twice.

Trying to remember a game although I only had the demo, it may not have been released. This would have been somewhere around 2000-2005.

It was a bit like Crazy Taxi although from a first person/driver point of view.

The vehicle sort of hovered on top of a river like road, not much to do in the demo apart from drive/hover into nowhere!