Blah Blah Blah Posted January 5, 2004 Share Posted January 5, 2004 Gameplanet (New Zealand) Ups: Some neat dust features and some good additions to the order menu. There are NEW ZEALAND units!!! A good selection of scenarios including Crete and Italy. Downs: Some NZ units not included and voices not really of a NZ flavour. Notable omission of both the Maori Battalion and the Indian Unit skins. Graphics are functional but now dated. Bottom Line: A worthy addition to the Combat Mission series with new tile sets and new units. By far the best computer wargame available today. If you are a wargamer and you don't buy this game you should be deported! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salkin Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Nice ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Hmm, the link doesn't work for me for some reason... Martin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrold Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 I think the site is down since I tried to reach it from some Googled links and they were dead. BDH 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ligur Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 We killed the site 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yowie Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Originally posted by Ligur: We killed the site Its alive !! :eek: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivodsi Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Kiwi's appreciate a good game. And why not? It must be one of the few computer games of any kind to actually feature us "Choice mate, we're in the game, gotta git it, eh?". But check this out: To make the most of these new challenges, game controls have been enhanced with some new movement features, such as ‘shoot and scoot Seems the reviewer is comparing it to CMBO, not CMBB. Maybe CMBB didn't make it out there. [i'll duck for cover as kiwis wuggle out of the undergrowth to pick me to dith] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmatt Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 I am not sure what to say with regards to his comments about the Aussie and Kiwi voices. Both sets used native speakers (probably drunk too which is a requirement that the Finnish voice actors began in CMBB) for their respective countries. One rule I always enforce is that only native speakers for a country are used when I make or edit the samples. Oh well... Madmatt 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 Originally posted by Madmatt: I am not sure what to say with regards to his comments about the Aussie and Kiwi voices. Both sets used native speakers (probably drunk too which is a requirement that the Finnish voice actors began in CMBB) for their respective countries. One rule I always enforce is that only native speakers for a country are used when I make or edit the samples. Oh well... Madmatt There are native speakers, and then there are native speakers. Finnish voices in CMBB for example are spoken in Southern Finnish dialect. I'm still waiting for the data disk that adds the missing dialects to the game. Well, most of us probably have grown in rather urban environments with tv's and such available, teaching us the standard language and eroding some of the regional accents. You'd need to hire some real sheep sh... uh, farmers if you wanted to convince everyone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 "There are native speakers, and then there are native speakers." I reside just outside of Boston (U.S., not Britain) and was disappointed the American G.I.s in CMAK lacked a proper Boston accent. "Ahmid cah spahtid, sahgint!" One nice thing about that review is it offered decent representative screenshots of the game. I cringe when I see screenshots that distort what the game is really like. That other review from a week or two ago just showed a couple trucks on a road! [ January 06, 2004, 01:52 PM: Message edited by: MikeyD ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinetree Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 Originally posted by Madmatt: I am not sure what to say with regards to his comments about the Aussie and Kiwi voices. Both sets used native speakers (probably drunk too which is a requirement that the Finnish voice actors began in CMBB) for their respective countries. One rule I always enforce is that only native speakers for a country are used when I make or edit the samples. Oh well... Madmatt The kiwis in the game do sound a bit "funny" tho,maybe tha voice actors have spent too long overseas?(I spent 4 years in London and came back sounding like a cockney!) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UPCdave Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 For the record, all of the NZ voices were done by 4 Kiwi's, with 3 of these never having set foot outside of the place! Could be the Wellingtonian accent;) David 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mies Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 Yes and the 4th one said : "Waâhrom sta ik gvd nie op die teâhring cd?" Mies 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivodsi Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 Have played just one scenario with Kiwis in it and it sounded as authentically Kiwi as you can get to me. Don't know what the complaints are about there. (BTW I am a Kiwi) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stikkypixie Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 Originally posted by Mies: Yes and the 4th one said : "Waâhrom sta ik gvd nie op die teâhring cd?" Mies I didn't know New Zealand sounded that much like dutch! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kozure Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 Originally posted by Madmatt: I am not sure what to say with regards to his comments about the Aussie and Kiwi voices. Both sets used native speakers (probably drunk too which is a requirement that the Finnish voice actors began in CMBB) for their respective countries. One rule I always enforce is that only native speakers for a country are used when I make or edit the samples. Oh well... Madmatt The voices for the Canadians in CM:AK sound right to me (Ontario Canadian)... except for one sample that sounds Southern. I'm not sure if I'm hearing things, but occasionally amongst the firing and shouts of "let 'em have it" I'm almost certain I hear someone speaking with a drawl. It's possible that it's only one .wav file... it certainly doesn't come up often. There are many wild and wonderful accents in Canada (they can very even from Southern to Northern Ontario) but I've never heard a native Canadian speak with what sounded like a Southern American accent. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugfromthearth Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 they may be referring to the text of what they say and not their voices. he does refer to slang. It is possible that the phrases sounded American. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roborat Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 Originally posted by Kozure: Got to the west coast, I have heard some southeast (Interior) B.C. accents that sound much like Southern American 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 Originally posted by stikkypixie: I didn't know New Zealand sounded that much like dutch! Well, it IS called New Zealand! Which btw. also explains the funny accents spoken in Bronx and Harlem. They're all Dutch, I say. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 Originally posted by Roborat: Got to the west coast, I have heard some southeast (Interior) B.C. accents that sound much like Southern American You mean like Spanish or Portuguese? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 Originally posted by Kozure: There are many wild and wonderful accents in Canada (they can very even from Southern to Northern Ontario) but I've never heard a native Canadian speak with what sounded like a Southern American accent. You never watched The Associates? Tamara Hickey was a Canadian with a southern accent 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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