I dunno- I think I'm over Rockstar. GTA IV was the anti-thesis of what made the other GTAs worth playing, and they'll rush out a RDR sequel but not put the first one on PC? For shame.
I really, REALLY wanted to like this game, but it has a long way to go. That said, It's never crashed for me. Still, perhaps waiting for a WW2 mod for ARMA 3 might be the way to go. Aerial combat in particular doesn't work very well at all, and that was the part I looked forward to most.
And the graphics are good to great. Dunno WHAT the reviewer was on about there. Sound effects were also of a very high quality.
I'm tempted to fall back on my old 'bring out GTA London '69 already'- but if it is anything, and I do mean ANYTHING like the godawful GTA IV then I'd rather they never went back to it. Bully 2 would be nice, but again- if the handling is anything like GTAIV, then it's a stone better left unturned.
@indicaX They're at least better than SPR and the Raid (OK maybe not Navarone). Sure the Raid was a story that needed to be told but it ended up a bit of a hollow movie. And as for SPR, it started pretty harrowing, but by the end was just as much a popcorn American Allies bashing war movie as any other recent US ww2 film.
By the way, Dirty Dozen and A Bridge too Far fall firmly in the popcorn list too. Dirty Dozen could pretty much be the poster child for it if it weren't for others like Kelly's Heroes.
Get lost- I'll take the Great Escape, Where Eagles Dare, The Guns Of Navarone over Saving Private Ryan, Thin Red Line, The Great Raid anyday.
Yeah- Tom McShea made himself look so unbelievably stupid in this video, I've pretty much lost all respect for the guy. It's like he's trying to dictate to the industry that war shooters aren't allowed to be fun. I'm not particulary interested on MOH either, but I wouldn't sit down with the devs and tell them to change fundamental elements of their game!
@grove12345 @DarthLod Good god I could not agree more. WW2 was, is and always will be the most varied and balanced human conflict we'll ever have. The problem back when there was a glut of ww2 shooters wasn't that there were so many, but that they were all so similar. The American perspective on Operation Overlord has been truly done to death, but there's still a good 95% of WW2 waiting to be made into a great game. And there will always be a market for it- look at COD:WAW- came out right in the ww2 backlash and still did well.
I'll probably enjoy vanilla ARMA 3, but when the WW2 mods come out then it'll REALLY take off for me. Until then, I still see the original OpFlash as the high water mark.
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