Turning Point: Fall of Liberty Comments by Dave McCarthy
The Nazis invade America.
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Tiger_Walts
24/07/07 @ 10:56
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Heh, that taxi cab accident actually occurred IIRC.
Oh, the article mentions that.
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afghan_jones
24/07/07 @ 10:56
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I thought boo hiss, WW2 FPS again.
Then I read the piece and thought, ooh that actually could be good. sorta like freedom fighters on PS2 which I enjoyed a lot. Heres hoping its actually good. |
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@ dredd97 - the storyline of a Soviet invasion of the US is even older than that. See the John Milius film (from 1984) 'Red Dawn'. That earlier inspiration gets a nod from C&C: the first mission of the Soviet campaign involves a paratroop assault on Washington, D.C. and is called 'Operation: Red Dawn.'
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BobsYourUncle
24/07/07 @ 11:20
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The screenshots look nice, but I prefer World in Conflict's setting.
USSR vs USA > Nazis vs USA |
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Rev. Stuart Campbell
24/07/07 @ 11:30
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To see WHO surrendering in 1940?
You should know better, Taurus. Tch. |
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Carbon_Altered
24/07/07 @ 12:51
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"That's where the blimps come from, the troop carriers that are capable of crossing the Atlantic. Why didn't they see it coming? Well it's 1953, there's no satellite"
But there was radar you fcuking idiots. |
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TonyCocaCola
24/07/07 @ 13:07
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Scottland would have probably helped the nazis ;)
This game looks pretty cool, I like the Idea, i dont care how 'unrealistic the blimp is', im sure it wont ruin the game for me. Looking forward to it. |
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Dave_Taurus
24/07/07 @ 13:08
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"To see WHO surrendering in 1940?"
The Scottish and Welsh keep fighting. Maybe. |
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...at the end of the game, Joe six pack stands at New York harbour. Dead german soldiers bodys lay smouldering in the early sun. SUDDENLY A RUSSIAN DESTROYER PULLS UP TO THE QUAY - WE WANT OUR FUCKING WAR BACK!!!!!1!!11!
...and all of 'Gods country, land of the free, freedom feckers' get BLOWN TO BITS - ha ha. |
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"We're not trying to romanticise it or to glorify it: if it's shocking it's because it should be."
Oh, fuck off. I refuse to believe a game containing giant nazi blimps will teach anyone any meaningful lessons about the nature of world conflict. Its just war porn. At least when Red Alert 2 did this several years ago it didn't take itself so bloody seriously.
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YourMessageHere
24/07/07 @ 19:57
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German airships bombed london in the First World War. The US had dirigible aircraft carriers, until they worked out what a huge liability they were. Attack blimps are not new and not advanced. However, airships are unbelievably cool, so I'll let them off.
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I hope the Nazi's win in this game. Make a change anyway. Then in the expansion/sequel, the rest of Europe can overcome their Nazi overlords whilst the Nazi's are drunk after beating Uncle Sam's boys, and rescue the bloody Yanks. Then the Americans get to lick our feet in gratitude for the next 50 years like it should be.
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Thornhillboy
24/07/07 @ 21:50
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"Odd that there's no mention of the event that actually decided the war: Germany's defeat in the Soviet Union."
If the UK had surreneded by 1940, this would have been a huge help to the Germans who could have concentrated almost all of their forces in the East. No single event decided the war, so its unfair on the other Allies to say it was all the Soviets (although granted, they played a huge part). |
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drunkymonkey
24/07/07 @ 21:53
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That other game is World in Conflict.
Spark made Call of Duty Finest Hour, right? That was crap, but probably due to the technical limitations and not the quality of the developers themselves. Even so: WW2 is yawn-inducing for me these days. I think only Airborne will interest me. |
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YourMessageHere, if you're post is directed at me, saying, "However, airships are unbelievably cool, so I'll let them off," just proves my point.
This is an overblown alternate history war game and that's how they should publicise it. I'm tired of games saying how truthfully they depict the horror of war. They just don't. Games are fun. War isn't. Action titles are necessarily geared at making war unbelievably cool. They hardly promote pacifism. As for blimps, if this game was aspiring to depict anything but a pulp fiction invasion of the USA, it seems far more probable the Nazis' rocket research would have a much greater influence on their strategy. |
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YourMessageHere
25/07/07 @ 19:25
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@ jachap
No, not aimed at you at all. I was just surprised at them trying to pass off blimps as amazing high tech advanced vehicles when they're patently not. What you say looks pretty accurate to me, all things considered; I too disapprove of them trying to make out that this is super-realistic when it is clearly another exercise in "what if...?". I suppose I just ignored that as marketing speak. So far as I can see all games seek to portray themselves as The Most X Game Ever or The Game That Makes The Experience Of Y More Realistic Than Ever Before in one way or another. |
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I can't help but agree with those doubting the plausibility of this game. I'm pretty sure that the Nazi government didn't want war with Britain or America - the only reason the US entered the war was Pearl Harbour, and I think the original Nazi battleplan assumed that Britain would ally itself with the Nazis. The Third Reich was (initially at least) only going to consist of France and other territory Germany lost in WWI, plus a chunk of Russia (for oil). Not that i was there or anything ;)
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Thornhillboy
25/07/07 @ 22:47
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If Hitler was powerful enough, I doubt he would have stopped with Europe.
I'm much more likely to believe the Man In the High Castle turn of events. |
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