ExurbanKevin

Too much knowledge is a dangerous thing...

I'm just amazed at those pictures. In my lifetime, I've gone from playing Kamfgruppe on my C-64.... ... to CM:BN. Man, I love living in the future!

It's important to keep open-topped vehicles out of inclement weather, but that might be a little extreme...

PFC John McClane defending Chateau Nakatomi from Oberleutnant Hanz Gruber and company.

If it's a choice between fighting in the bocage or the island-hopping battles of the Scheldt, gimme the country lanes of Normandy any day!

Bring it on.

They're not in the Fortifications menu already? It's an outrage! How long will Battlefront leave this problem unaddressed! How long, I say! :) And have an unlit cigar in their mouth, along with either a belt of .30 cal MG ammo draped over their shoulders or an eyepatch over one eye, depending on whether the player prefers DC or Marvel. I like the idea of buying an Elite M5A1 unit with a unique, dare I say almost supernatural ability to spot trouble before it happens. Having a G.I. Robot or the Creature Commandoes for purchase in Quick Battle might be asking too much though, but I can always dream...

"They think you're de Gaulle!" Graffiti. "Kilroy was here" is obvious, but Lorraine crosses are conspicuously absent in all the villages of Normandy so far....

Also, a playable "Downfall" parody in the eventual Russian Front module.

And as any Call of Duty player will tell you, there's no better cover than dead cows.

Bagpipes. All Commonwealth units within earshot of the regimental bagpiper gain a motivational level.

Can't wait to build some battles around the breakout from Juno Beach and the epic struggle for Caen. Up The Johns!

"Here's to Fritz and all the pieces of him we couldn't find."

Wait'll you start tossing in some battleship rounds. Mjölnir ain't got NUTHIN' on that!

He's obviously strapped on an extra clip to the side of rifle for a fast reload.

In CMv1, I cheered for squads: When one of my teams stood their ground or pulled off a successful charge, I rejoiced in their success. In CM:BN, I cheer for individual squad members. For instance, at the end of the demo game "The Road to Berlin", the BAR gunner from my 1st squad went "Rambo" on me, with spectacular results. "Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more!" The BAR gunner sets up on the other side of the lane and starts to lay down covering fire... ... with devastating results. But despite the withering fire headed their way, there's still some fight left in Jerry. CM:BN takes everything I loved about CMv1 and turns it up to 11. Well done, Battlefront, well done.

I've just been messing around with the demo for a bit, waiting for the first slew of patches to hit before I buy the whole game, but my goodness, is CM:BN a remarkable improvement over CMv1! Saw this at the end of "The Road to Berlin" and it reminded me of the "news" photos the P.R. flacks on both sides of the war would put out, so a few little Photoshop tricks later... And it's the little things that get me about this game. For instance, I'm your typical American "gun nut" (well, actually I'm a Canadian citizen, so maybe I'm not THAT typical...), and one of the rules of gun safety is "Keep your finger off the trigger until you're ready to shoot." And Fritz's trigger finger is off the bang switch as he moves. Nice touch! Also, Battlefront modeled recoil. I mean watching shell casings fly out of a BAR laying down cover fire is one thing, but watching a soldier's arm and upper body move as he sucks up the recoil from firing his P-01 is something else! Now all we need is animations of the slide locking back and another round of 9mm ball entering the chamber... :D

ROFL! :D

"Dodge this."

"What kind is it?" // "The kind that blows up! How the hell do I know what kind it is?" - Crapgame

Assault soon.

No Mac links active yet. I'll download it tomorrow if (and that's a BIG if) I can get to sleep tonight.

Aim... breathe... hold.... squeeze F5.

"How come I have to be 'Mr. Pink'?"

The journey was difficult. The road was long. We faced this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of our limitations. But we also faced it with limitless faith in the capacity of the people at Battlefront. Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then it is absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. Ummn, and we got a new computer game demo. That too.