Steel Beasts Pro PE Review

[Russian]

http://www.simhq.com/_land2/land_060a.html

Some might be interested in this sim.

[DREDIOCK]

The first line in the article about sums it up

“A hundred and twenty-five bucks for a game! Are you insane?”

[Russian]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
The first line in the article about sums it up

“A hundred and twenty-five bucks for a game! Are you insane?”

Nice selective reading there, bud.

SB Pro PE is not a computer game, it’s a simulation.

[Eagler]

in a years time, it would be $55 cheaper than playing AH

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Russian
Nice selective reading there, bud.

Oh I read that part too.

125 is still about 75 too much

and speak for yourself with the selective reading

"Sure, we keep saying it’s not a game, but I’m willing to bet that all the members of SimHQ didn’t buy SB Pro PE in a plan to join the Army and become a tanker. We bought it to play as a computer simulation, just like any other game or sim we buy and play "


And call it what you want. its STILL  a game

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Eagler
in a years time, it would be $55 cheaper than playing AH

LOL now there is a point thats hard to agrue against.

Question is. in a years time will I still want to be playing it like I do AH?

[Saintaw]

125$ Are ye nuts? ... dongle, bongles go away... I'll just wait

[Charon]

It's an order of magnitude above AH in the simulation department. Think Falcon 4 with tanks. Niche market, hard core realism -- nothing that comes even close for the realism crowd. A fair price given the market, just like paying $100 for a niche aviation book is acceptable if it meets your interests. If you don't pay that it won't get written because not many people are all that interested in 500 pages of minute detail on the Spitfire or 109. The same with this game, or just about any "hard core" sim.

Charon

[Jackal1]

It comes with a nice spiral binder, a 96-page print manual that has just enough information to cover everything you need to know to get started

A flashback has been recorded.
I melted down an old pin type printer, printing out the entire AW manual.
Still have it.





Saw, you have a burner? Muhahahhahhhaaaaaaaaaaa!

[Saintaw]

Hush hush now, or the red eyed geek bogeyman will show up

[Jackal1]

EeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeK!

[Russian]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK



And call it what you want. its STILL  a game

(FYI 1, military license for one computer to use SBPro = 15,000$)
(FYI 2, ~15 different armies use this as a training tool for tankers)

[Maverick]

Simnet, used by the US Army to train crew in Armor and Helicopter tactics is a SIM. Steel beasts is a game.

A F16/ 15 and whatever else they design a simulator to train crew is a sim, it's not a game just like falcon 1,2,3,4 is not a sim, they are GAMES. Same for MS flight sim, Crimson Skies, AW and AH.

To say that a game can be used to rain folks doesn't make that a sim either. I used an old Apple 2C with a "panzer" game to help illustrate actions after contact ans give my LT's experiance in calling in sit reps and artillery. It didn't make that game a sim either.

[Jackal1]

It`s two.........two.........two mints in one.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Russian
(FYI 1, military license for one computer to use SBPro = 15,000$)
(FYI 2, ~15 different armies use this as a training tool for tankers)

and  its STILL a game.
Anyway you slice it

Even when the military has manuvers they call them "War Games"

A simulation yes. A high end one yes But its got winners its got loosers and nobody really dies Just like AH

No matter what way you try to slice it. No matter what you try to call it

Its a flipping game