pad152 Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Infantry Having just tried the demo of Faces of War, (aka Soldiers: Heroes of WII, part II) the infantry look great. The infantry in Theatre of War also look very good. Why can't someone make a turn-based game with infantry looking this good? I wonder why some one hasn't licensed one of these RTS games and turned it into a turned based tactical wargame. There hasn't been a good tactical squad based game, sense the original x-com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMC Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Silent Storm wasn't that bad. It had the X-com feel, but did not have realistic combat ranges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moon Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 CMSF. Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denwad Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Silent Storm was pretty fun, i felt so cool when i got my hands onto the ZB26 for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pad152 Posted August 12, 2006 Author Share Posted August 12, 2006 Silent Storm was ok until the mech and lazer guns showed up, that just killed it for me, some of the missions where poorly designed. CMSF - when? I here it's now end of year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howardb Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Originally posted by pad152: Silent Storm was ok until the mech and lazer guns showed up, that just killed it for meThat was my opinion exactly as well. Edit to add: I can't honestly understand why game designers do that, add lazers, tesla guns and cowbells (well more cowbell is always good). If the game is good the average idiot will play it anyway. If the units and weapons are realistic you'll expand your customer base to people such as ourselves too. Take CM eg. not many would think a game with such realism would seduce the average gamer, but it did. It even made a lot of people interested in WWII. I know because a lot of people joined our community interested to learn more. That's my gripe about Total War too. They're dumbing it more and more down for each sequel. I understand there's something called playability and fun, but please "screeching head hurling morale killing women?" Missile units with more pyrotechnics than the bombing of Dresden? Platoons of Olympic gold medal runners? I think they're doing a huge mistake because they're loosing their original fanbase (which made it to what it is today). I've even heard average players saying "Total War is great and it's how they fought in those days". Historical credibility is a selling point not the opposite. Oh well there's always Total War Realism... [ August 12, 2006, 05:45 AM: Message edited by: howardb ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kellysheroes Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 But you didn't mind using them in X-Com? And I agree we need a new graphics update to the very popular X-Com engine. But, in a WWII era of play and no lasers and whatnot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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