(***very minor spoilers***)
The Story is simple: Dubai is ravaged by sandstorms, and an American regiment, the "Damned" 33rd, is dispatched/volunteers to rescue the population. The sandstorms close in and nor they nor the population left in Dubai are heard from in some time. Now, three Delta Force soldiers are sent in to find out the truth. And what they find is not pleasant at all. No, sir!
The game mechanics are simple but adequate, the mood, color and surrounding are excellent, and you will be shooting enemies in no time. In fact, you probably will get TOO used to it...
Based somewhat on Apocalypse Now (the movie) and Heart of Darkness (the book), this game really tells us that war is hell. Another review said "Call of Duty, this is not", and I cannot sum it up better. While the mechanics are similar (3rd person instead of 1st), this is a far cry from the over-the-top American heroics of COD. If COD is a Michael Bay movie, this surely is a Francis Ford Coppola movie. Your character will start up thinking he is the hero and doing good, but before the end of this game, you will find out that the morality of war is not as easily defined. You will be forced to make hard choices, often choices where there is no upside at all. And you will be changed in your outlook on war because of it.
However, it is still only a game. You can choose to look at the gore and be excited and ignore the moral questions. You can refuse to acknowledge what is written on the loading screens, that aptly sums up where you are in the game and in your mind. But if you do this, you are damned in another way that I was, and you will still learn something about yourself. Damned if you do, damned if you don't!!!
Play this game, at least once, if you want to know what the current state of games is. I sometimes say, that the best writers in the business today are not doing movies; they are doing computer games and television series. So it is quite fitting, that i should review this game on a movie site. Please make the action movies of today more like this game.
The Story is simple: Dubai is ravaged by sandstorms, and an American regiment, the "Damned" 33rd, is dispatched/volunteers to rescue the population. The sandstorms close in and nor they nor the population left in Dubai are heard from in some time. Now, three Delta Force soldiers are sent in to find out the truth. And what they find is not pleasant at all. No, sir!
The game mechanics are simple but adequate, the mood, color and surrounding are excellent, and you will be shooting enemies in no time. In fact, you probably will get TOO used to it...
Based somewhat on Apocalypse Now (the movie) and Heart of Darkness (the book), this game really tells us that war is hell. Another review said "Call of Duty, this is not", and I cannot sum it up better. While the mechanics are similar (3rd person instead of 1st), this is a far cry from the over-the-top American heroics of COD. If COD is a Michael Bay movie, this surely is a Francis Ford Coppola movie. Your character will start up thinking he is the hero and doing good, but before the end of this game, you will find out that the morality of war is not as easily defined. You will be forced to make hard choices, often choices where there is no upside at all. And you will be changed in your outlook on war because of it.
However, it is still only a game. You can choose to look at the gore and be excited and ignore the moral questions. You can refuse to acknowledge what is written on the loading screens, that aptly sums up where you are in the game and in your mind. But if you do this, you are damned in another way that I was, and you will still learn something about yourself. Damned if you do, damned if you don't!!!
Play this game, at least once, if you want to know what the current state of games is. I sometimes say, that the best writers in the business today are not doing movies; they are doing computer games and television series. So it is quite fitting, that i should review this game on a movie site. Please make the action movies of today more like this game.
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