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On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 03:00:56 +0100, "Trimble Bracegirdle"
<no-spam@never.spam> wrote:

>Multi player only.

Yes Rising Storm / Red Orchestra are competitive, team objective based
tactical shooters.

One of the elements that sets Tripwire's games apart is that they FEEL
like proper PC games.  None of this "designed for console but we'll
figure out the PC port later" shit.  They do a good job of capturing
what made early online team games great to begin with.

>(Thinks ) There are many WWII shooters and quite a number in Vietnam,
>but has there ever been one set in Korea ? 
>Current concerns re. North Korea don't mention that
>it date's back to the Korean War  1950 -53.
>which involved just about every major Country one way or another.

I've always thought the number of WWII offerings were disproportionate
to everything else.  There are actually very few Vietnam first person
team shooters ever created.  Battlefield Vietnam (2004) and the
Vietnam expansion for Battlefield Bad Company 2 are about the only
memorable entries, but I enjoyed the hell out of both.

I enjoyed the single player of Vietcong when it was released.  The
multiplayer wasn't particularly memorable, partially because the lobby
servers were powered by Gamespy, which was pretty common for the time,
but just like with many multiplayer titles of that area, getting a
reasonable online game going is not as straightfoward as it is today.

About games for the Korean war, even if I look up the sparse list of
games that even touch on it in some way, I can only claim having
played a few of them (Chuck Yeagers Air Combat Simulator comes to
mind, but I doubt anyone would call that a Korean war game, only
planes of that era).

Perhaps the relatively short duration of the Korean war, or perhaps a
lowered perception of societal impact compared to something like WWII
or Vietnam is the reason there are not a lot of movies or video games
about it.  In the USA when you say Korean War most people my age
probably remember the TV show M.A.S.H., which lasted almost four times
as many years as the war that was portrayed within it.