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Damnit, man, you get my drift. GAME WHICH PLACES YOU IN A STATE OF HUMAN WAR. ALien war is fine. BUt humans are just boring. In a game I want to experience something very different to what real life offers. I dont want to play football or fight in a war. I want to find the magical ring a Paethagos and kill Azura once and for all.
And why are these WAR games even made? To glorify death and conquering?
BAH
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Humanity's most fertile ground for storytelling has always been war. There is no stronger display of raw, human behavior. It's become a guilty pleasure to satisfy this display of violence without actually endangering yourself.
Although I agree that the WWII and Vietnam genre are completely dead, merely by saturation alone, there is still plenty of room for improvement in modern war scenarios. New weapons, vehicles, game types, and tactics will add to the innovation and engaging gameplay for quite a while.
For example, I was playing the B2 Xbox Live demo earlier today...
Imagine, if you will, your muslim comrades looking out over the grassy knoll your encampment rests upon. Below you, you see a ruined city, complete with bridges, smoldering ruins, dirt streets, and a mosque. It is your task to control this city and ward off the American infidels. You and two of your fellow soldiers pile into a chopper, one manning the Vulcan cannon, one riding in sniping position from the cargo bay, and yourself in the cockpit, and after the storm of dust clears from your rising behemoth, you swoop downward toward a abandoned mosque. Unfortunately, the infidels have beat you to it. Your chopper takes heavy fire, and you are forced to bail out. You scream repeatedly for your comrades to follow suit, but it is too late. The chopper, spurting black smoke into the air, takes a dive to the left, plummeting into a nearby river and effectively killing your teammates in the process. Meanwhile, you've engaged your parachute and bring out your AK-47 just in time to snipe off an American on the roof, obviously unaware of your presence, while still in midair. You land perfectly, hunker down on the roof, and lay in wait while you slowly gain control of this strategically crucial point. A hapless infidel storms out on the roof, only to be greeted warmly by shrapnel from your grenade launcher. His partner, not far behind, will not give you time to reload. You jump down into prone position and somehow, by the grace of Allah, manage to score a perfect head shot, sending the dead American's lifeless body over the roof's wall. You've single-handedly survived a chopper crash and staved off three infidels, all while managing to secure a base for reinforcements. Praise Allah.
True story. Well... true video game story. XD