Comments on: Moments in Games Journalism

By: Troy

Troy — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:56:48 +0000

Maybe it’s just me then. I didn’t get a real sense that the Germans were the bad guys from the text, though I certainly walked in with the preconception that the Nazis are evil.

Of course, the Germans are the aggressors in the tale, and we don’t get to play the defense of Berlin or anything ahistorical that might give the Wehrmacht the veneer of heroic defender like we have for the Soviets in their missions.

In all, a good game, though. As De Vries writes in his review, the MP is a pain, but the DS is a fundamentally private platform, I think. You’re supposed to play it alone most of the time.

By: Jon Shafer

Jon Shafer — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:48:21 +0000

Honestly, I got the same impression as Jack, although I wouldn’t say it’s out of lack for political correctness. Some comments were clearly made to portray the Germans as the bad guys, and the Allies the good guys. I’m playing a strategy game, I don’t want to be bombarded by rhetoric – good or bad – before and after every mission so that someone can make a point.

Jon

By: Dave Long

Dave Long — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:42:14 +0000

Heh, it’s funny that Troy caught onto this because I was kinda like “Ok, yeah, that’s odd” when I read that part too.

The initial reason Troy found out about the review is because I found another review on the net that reads an awful lot like this one that’s pretty clearly plagiarism.

By: Scott R. Krol

Scott R. Krol — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:04:18 +0000

Aw man, you made us have to Google the review to read the whole shebang. ;)

Strange, I never took the German officer comments as eeeevvilll. This also dovetails into one my pet peeves, the fact that Communism always gets a free pass when the Soviets were far worse than the Germans.