Order of War

Raed · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:34 am Post subject: Order of War

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/pc/2009/05/26/order-of-war-preview/1

Apparently Square Enix is developing a PC RTS, which makes absolutely no sense to me since they are based in Japan and have traditionally made RPGs for the last two decades.
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Erwin Rommel · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:57 am Post subject:

Wee another Americans vs. Germans computer game. And an RTS at that

I'd give it a second look if it were another theater Confused

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anonymousity · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:27 am Post subject:

Square Enix? A WW2 strategy game? Strange...
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Hirmuinen · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:15 am Post subject:

Why not eastern front? It would be a lot better and offers so many different battles. Or pacific.

The game could be a better version of Company of Heroes with no base building. I like that idea. Just copy the CoH and the World in Conflict's online multiplayer and you have a best rts there is.
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Erwin Rommel · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:31 am Post subject:

Hirmuinen wrote:

Why not eastern front? It would be a lot better and offers so many different battles. Or pacific.

Because it's designed for Americans, of course. Sometimes it seems like the only war that occured was from 1942-1945 and it was limited to North Africa and West/Southern Europe. The pacific is usually omitted, and I've never quite figured out why. Maybe because a lot of the contemporary opposition to Japan was racially motivated? Or maybe it's the great US-Japan relationship after the war.

What I'd like to see is a great strategic simulation of the early war. You know, Panzer II's and III's duking it out with Matildas and Chars, alongside infantry that don't have really effective ranged AT weapons. That's where blitzkrieg happened, you know. Or how about the Winter War? Asymmetircal warfare is notoriously hard to do, but it's been done well before.

Seriously, though, does anyone know of any good recent titles dealing with the less famous parts of WWII? Until then, I'm sticking with Steel Panthers and Panzer General.
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Tawxic · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:48 pm Post subject:

They are not rts but every ww2 Call of Duty included the eastern front and World at War had pacific theater. For rts you guys might want to look at Men of War.

Stealth · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 12:43 am Post subject:

How bout a game of the cold war?

You know... where America and Russia just builds defenses and stares at each other...?
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Erwin Rommel · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:03 am Post subject:

Do you really think gamers could keep from pushing the big red button?

I didn't think so.
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massive · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:58 am Post subject:

How bout one where Germany starts a 3rd world war, and we have to save the French asshats again.
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anonymousity · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 12:59 pm Post subject:

Quote:

Do you really think gamers could keep from pushing the big red button?

I didn't think so.

That would actually be a pretty good time, if you got to try and outpace the other's military industrial complex and eventually try and storm the other nation, instead of it just being a 'cold war.' More like what if the cold war actually was a war?
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Erwin Rommel · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:44 pm Post subject:

I don't think it would have lasted long.

It would really be fun to play this out though
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CountChocula · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:09 pm Post subject:

anonymousity wrote:

Quote:

Do you really think gamers could keep from pushing the big red button?

I didn't think so.

That would actually be a pretty good time, if you got to try and outpace the other's military industrial complex and eventually try and storm the other nation, instead of it just being a 'cold war.' More like what if the cold war actually was a war?

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anonymousity · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:27 pm Post subject:

Erwin Rommel wrote:

I don't think it would have lasted long.

It would really be fun to play this out though

That was one of the better reads I've seen in a long ass time. Nukes are scary!
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Erwin Rommel · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:54 am Post subject:

You read the whole thing? It's quite impressively detailed,

Anyway, that unsuprisingly won an award from the alternate history site.
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anonymousity · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:11 pm Post subject:

Yeah read it all the way down to the end. Very cryptic - very possible, for that time too. The author has a incredible sense of history.
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