Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nefarious on February 18, 2005, 11:52:19 PM
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Check this link out, Visuals are very good.
http://www.battlefront.com/products/t72/overview.html
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Seems like an rather odd direction for a storyline/situation ...however, agreed the visuals look promising
Tronsky
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This... looks very promising.
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Originally posted by -tronski-
Seems like an rather odd direction for a storyline/situation
No doubt...
Look mom I got extra ethnic cleansing points!
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Oh boy, now I can pretend to be noble and couragous serbian cavalry thwarting NATO aggressors.
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Personaly think they are about a decade early in publishing a game.
Disclaimer: While based on real-world events, this game is not intended as a political statement or support of any of the factions involved in the conflict. The Yugoslavian civil war has been, typically for civil wars, a bloody and violent struggle which left no side innocent, cost civilian lives on both sides, and in which there rarely was a “right” or “wrong” side.
The disclaimer is nice, but there are quite a few people out there that remember this as anything but a game.
Good engine/graphics......very poor taste.
Just my opinion that is.
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There's no time limit anymore. If there is a war there will be a video game about it within the year. How many video games are there with the word Falluja in their title now ?
Why does time affect appropriateness? And if it does, what is the standard?
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Originally posted by Suave
what is the standard?
The standard is set by the public.
If you buy it, then you accept the wholesale commercialisation(word?) of the people that have intimate memories of the slaughter that took place there.
The companies that do this are led by profit. There is no profit if no one buys there crap.
I still feel bad about Vietnam games. Granted, war games are war games, but turning the experience into a bloodlust when there are so many left to see it just seems wrong.
AH is not in this class. It is not a FPS or a recent conflict. I just can't believe that someone used that conflict for a game so soon.
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Hang on I kind of see the issue but arn't we here playing WW2 air combat games. I'm sure there are german survivors of our bombing, britsh survivors of their bombing, not to mention all; the vets from the RAF ,Luftwaffe, USAAF, Japan etc who might find a a game about their horrendous exp a little in poor taste!
Come on guys
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While based on real-world events, this game is not intended as a political statement or support of any of the factions involved in the conflict. The Yugoslavian civil war has been, typically for civil wars, a bloody and violent struggle which left no side innocent, cost civilian lives on both sides, and in which there rarely was a “right” or “wrong” side.
Good enough for me. As long as the game isnt biased, or condones or graphically depicts Acts of genocide.
The simulation’s main focus is on tank combat tactics on the modern battlefield. The inside of the playable tanks is simplified in an easy to use game user interface (GUI) for playability reasons, but it has no impact on realism - all aspects of the tasks of a tank crew are simulated in extreme detail from hand cranking a broken turret to manually shifting gears and applying the parking brakes.
Note the bold text in the second excerpt. This is not a First Person Shooter, It is a sim.
While I agree the the premise of the game being on the Yugolslavian Civil War is kind of erie, They have the right to produce any game with any title they want.
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I sorta doubt their claim of driving the 3 best russian tanks
ever made. If I'd driving a T-34/85 from 1991-5, all I'll be doing
is looking for a place to hide :).
It was the best tank, once, certainly not now. Like driving
a P-51 into Vietnam :)
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looking good
so do I
so it should be good too
speaking from experience with looking good that is
but i digress
cheers!
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