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

>Multi player only.
>
>(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.


There weren't any shooters set in the Korean War, but there were a few
games that used that conflict (police action! :) as a backdrop. In the
flight-sim genre, there was "Saber Ace" and "MIG Alley", while on the
strategy front you had "Conflict Korea" as an old-school war-game,
whereas "Korea: Forgotten Conflict" was more tactical (sort of like
the old "Commandos" games).

Other games -including shooters - have used Korea as part of the
setting but usually are focused on the post-war period. Flight-sims
remained the most common: "Falcon 4.0" had a whole campaign set there,
as did the Janes' Longbow expansion "Flashpoint Korea"; "A-10
Thunderbolt II: Silent Thunder" had some missions set there as well.
On the shooter front, I recall that one of the missions in "Splinter
Cell II" had you infiltrate a North Korean Base, and the attrocious
"Rogue Warrior" had some missions set there too. Arguably, all of the
"Homefront" games are set in Korea, since that nation annexed the USA
and all its territory is considered part of the greater korean empire
;-)

I think one of the major reasons that we don't see new games featuring
that setting is that South Korea is a major market and they don't
actually like thinking about that conflict too much (understandable,
considering it is technically still in effect and the threat their
Northern cousins still pose).  It being a civil war also meant that
the divisions weren't as clear cut as the current boundaries suggest.
Also, at least for a shooter, the war wasn't too different from the
ground-pounder's viewpoint than that in WW2; it was mostly the same
weapons and tactics, so it would play out pretty similarly to any
other WW2 game. Given this and the historic baggage, its no wonder
developers have focused more on the "heroic" battles of WW2 and left
the Korean conflict a mostly forgotten chapter in gaming history. 

Hell, the war is barely touched on by OTHER media (TV, movies) so we
shouldn't be too surprised that games leave it alone too. I mean,
other than MASH, can you name one movie or TV show set during that
period off the top of your head? ;-)