http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:45:19 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/06/27/041249.php#comment-729302 I only can say: Bring 'em on! 729302@blogcritics.org Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:45:19 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/06/27/041249.php#comment-729271 Mainly because WW2 was the last "good war." There is no controversy in it for the most part. Vietnam, Iraq, Korea: these wars all have additional political baggage associated with them that could overshadow game play. WW2, for the most part, had a clear cut villain and therefore a clear cut hero. The other wars are more grey as to who exactly was there to help whom. 729271@blogcritics.org Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:25:12 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/06/27/041249.php#comment-729241 I'm fairly sure the industry could "creatively bend" the truth to make trench warfare more interesting in game form. And if that doesn't work for you, they could always just trash everything and give us another WWIII. In space. 729241@blogcritics.org Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:49:20 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/06/27/041249.php#comment-729180 I think that has mainly to do with the fact that being a soldier in WWI mainly involved sitting in a trench picking nits out of your clothes, enduring endless artillery duels over which you had no control, and eventually going over the top and directly into the teeth of unseen machine gun nests before being recalled. That plus the politics that started the war are difficult to convey in the medium of a video game. All in all it just doesn't make for a particularly entertaining time. There have been a number of WWI themed flight simulator games though. 729180@blogcritics.org Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:38:20 EDT