Vietnam - A Belated Gaming Invasion?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday March 31, 2004 @04:07PM from the n-n-nineteen-different-games dept.

Thanks to the New York Times for its article (free reg. req.) discussing the plethora of recent videogames based on the Vietnam War. The piece notes: "Before the year is out, the game industry will have released five major titles involving a conflict that it has largely ignored for nearly two decades", and muses: "World War II games have in principle been simple to design. But because Vietnam changed the rules of engagement, the virtual battles had to be chaotic and the goals less clear." The article ends with a quote from one of the creators of Shellshock: Nam '67, arguing: "With video games, I think you can be more neutral. You can say, this is the environment. Go and experience what it was like and then come up with your own verdict of what you think of war."

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Re:Firsta Posta by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-31 17:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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Re:Vietnam by BoomerSooner · 2004-04-01 02:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'd like to play GWBush in Vietnam. I guess I'd be campaigning for a Republican and periodically picking up a paycheck.

Bush Slogan should be: "Vietnam, only the poor go to war."

I guess the same goes for Iraq as well. The more things change the more they stay the same.