2011年1月28日星期五

trenches and a catastrophic casualty list

But, hey, we'd like to know about you. That way you won't be some faceless blob - and we might feel a tinge of guilt when we ban ya. Or not, because really we're incapable of human emotion.Question: What is the worst thing about video games?”Christmas is a time for looking back at the year passed, processing what's been most replica Vacheron Constantin 42008/000g-9060 watch important for you over the past twelve months. For me, and video games, one such thing was surprisingly Xbox Live Arcade game Toy Soldiers.I'm not normally one for shouting “UNDERRATED!” about a game, because it's a pointless pursuit. People dig different things, and what you dig, many others may not.

But in one key way, my love for Toy Soldiers is based on something I think a lot of people didn't even know, let alone be given the chance to appreciate: it's the best game about the First World War ever made.OK, so there's not a lot of replica Vacheron Constantin 47400.0 Men's watch competition in that regard. Some flight sims, some strategy games and a weird alternate-history shooter are about the sum of games set during the Great War.But there's a reason for that: the First World War was a terrible thing. There were no dashing commanders. No exciting breakthroughs. No iconic symbols of victory.

Just mud, trenches and a catastrophic casualty list.Most games based on the conflict have tried to circumvent or rewrite this fact. Strategy games have usually seen you trying to avoid the trench ware that categorised the war on the Western Front. Flight sims have done the same thing, putting you in the shoes of some of the war's few genuine replica Vacheron Constantin 81500/000g-9104 watch celebrities, the first fighter pilots.What Toy Soldiers does, though, is drop you right in the middle of what made the First World War so terrible.You are commanding the machine guns that mow down men in their hundreds without pausing.