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Title: Crikes
Post by: aldo_14 on April 13, 2004, 12:44:57 pm: (http://www.brothersinarmsgame.com/images/assault_lg.jpg)

http://www.brothersinarmsgame.com/d-0.asp

I'm not sure if this is an ingame screenshot or not - but if it is, i'm impressed.

Then again, I'm very easily impressed..........
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Post by: Tiara on April 13, 2004, 12:47:02 pm: :wtf: @ bullets
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Post by: J3Vr6 on April 13, 2004, 12:59:33 pm: What? They could be tracer rounds, no?

That looks pretty nice, graphic wise.
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Post by: HotSnoJ on April 13, 2004, 03:15:47 pm: (http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/images/smilies/jaw.gif)

It's from GEARBOX...they guys who ported Halo over from the XBox!
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Post by: Unknown Target on April 13, 2004, 03:22:54 pm: Sooo...it's gonna suck?

Seriously, Gearbox did a pretty lousy job, all things considered.

Anyway, that looks like an edited screenshot, you know, with some blur and color adjustments applied. I've seen the same thing done with IL-2 screenies. (You should check them out, they look EXACTLY like the real thing).
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Post by: Fineus on April 13, 2004, 03:28:37 pm: It's...in...game...ohmygod...yes. This is going to rock.
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Post by: J3Vr6 on April 13, 2004, 04:02:19 pm: And I'll never be able to play it unless I spend another 400 beans on my computer :(
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Post by: Rictor on April 13, 2004, 04:05:37 pm: oh yay! another WW2 game!

Seriously, lthe graphics rock, but the "borthers in arms" angle has been played since MOHAA. I don't see any revolutionary gameplay comming from this game. Home come there are no gmes where you play as the Russians?

Band of Brothers the game.

edit: I am a very, very bad speller. Just thought it'de be easier to inform than to correct the mistakes.
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Post by: Flipside on April 13, 2004, 04:09:47 pm: http://www.brothersinarmsgame.com/images/house_lg.jpg

The scenery etc is based on photographs etc taken by soldiers during a real WW2 mission, so it at least contains some accuracy. Interesting looking, but I think I'll wait and see how things come along before making a decision.
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Post by: Tiara on April 13, 2004, 04:10:52 pm: Play as the Russians? You'd be playing only to freeze your ass of in Siberia.

"WHOA! A polar bear!"

*Aims AK-47*

*AK-47 barrel breaks due to extreme cold*

"Aw crap..."

:p
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Post by: Splinter on April 13, 2004, 04:25:17 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Rictor
oh yay! another WW2 game!

Seriously, lthe graphics rock, but the "borthers in arms" angle has been played since MOHAA. I don't see any revolutionary gameplay comming from this game. Home come there are no gmes where you play as the Russians?

havnt played Call of Duty have you. ;)
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Post by: Fineus on April 13, 2004, 04:27:42 pm: BF1942 allows you to play as Russians as well... though it's not exactly exclusive to Russians.
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Post by: Rictor on April 13, 2004, 04:30:26 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Splinter

havnt played Call of Duty have you. ;)

*smacks head*

Thats right, it did have a Russian campaign. I never played it, but I know it had a Russian SP element, which was the last and hardest of the three, correct?
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Post by: Splinter on April 13, 2004, 05:36:15 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Rictor

*smacks head*

Thats right, it did have a Russian campaign. I never played it, but I know it had a Russian SP element, which was the last and hardest of the three, correct?

yeah also in my opinion the funnest
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Post by: Martinus on April 13, 2004, 05:39:22 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Rictor
oh yay! another WW2 game!

Seriously, lthe graphics rock, but the "borthers in arms" angle has been played since MOHAA. I don't see any revolutionary gameplay comming from this game. Home come there are no gmes where you play as the Russians?

[color=66ff00]Because in mother Russia the game plays you! :D
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Post by: Tiara on April 13, 2004, 05:42:11 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Maeglamor

[color=66ff00]Because in mother Russia the game plays you! :D
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But... but... think of our children!!!!1111oneoneoneone
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Post by: Fineus on April 13, 2004, 05:44:19 pm: In mother Russia, the children think of you! :D

(is that right?)
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Post by: adwight on April 13, 2004, 05:45:06 pm: When I first saw it, I thought it was a real picture. Wow that's amazing.
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Post by: Tiara on April 13, 2004, 06:11:12 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kalfireth
In mother Russia, the children think of you! :D

(is that right?)

In a way... the state owns the children untill they are 18. So they think for them and thus think of you... and how to own you as well :p
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Post by: IceFire on April 13, 2004, 08:18:59 pm: In WWII Russian infantry didn't use the AK-47. I forget the name of the weapon but it was pre-WWI in origin. Although many weapons used by infantry were pre-WWI origin anyways. General Russian infantry at the beginning were underequipped. By the end they were much better armed.

Retouched IL2 screenshots look good...but not THAT good. Certainly what I've seen from UT2004, Far Cry, and a couple of others suggests this is well within the realm of possible.
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Post by: Rictor on April 13, 2004, 08:42:50 pm: Yup, this is definitely a screenshot. What it looks like to me is a combination of whatever "soft light" (ba dum pssssh) techniques are used in Novalogic's Joint Operations and good 'ol bloom effect ala Prince of Persia.

Impressive, I must say, especially considering Gearbox has a long history of putting out titles with mediocre graphics to servicable graphics.
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Post by: Splinter on April 14, 2004, 05:35:25 am: Quote
Originally posted by IceFire
In WWII Russian infantry didn't use the AK-47. I forget the name of the weapon but it was pre-WWI in origin. Although many weapons used by infantry were pre-WWI origin anyways.

the Mosin-Nagant?
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Post by: aldo_14 on April 14, 2004, 05:42:56 am: ppSH?
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Post by: kasperl on April 14, 2004, 06:01:28 am: Quote
Originally posted by Splinter

the Mosin-Nagant?

wasn't that a sniper rifle?
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Post by: Tiara on April 14, 2004, 06:03:29 am: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
ppSH?

It's PPSh dumbass :p :D

j/k
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Post by: Tiara on April 14, 2004, 06:05:00 am: Quote
Originally posted by kasperl

wasn't that a sniper rifle?

No and yes... It can be used as a normal rifle but a sniper scope can be attached to it. :)
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Post by: Splinter on April 14, 2004, 06:11:07 am: Quote
Originally posted by Tiara

No and yes... It can be used as a normal rifle but a sniper scope can be attached to it. :)

zigactly
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Post by: Setekh on April 14, 2004, 08:37:34 am: I'll raise your crikes to a crikey. :eek2:

I'll inform you all when I have my Pentium VIII and can play this game.
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Post by: Gloriano on April 14, 2004, 09:30:19 am: looks good :)
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Post by: Splinter on April 14, 2004, 10:05:43 am: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh
I'll raise your crikes to a crikey. :eek2:

I'll inform you all when I have my Pentium VIII and can play this game.

bah i spit on you punny pentium 4

AMD all the way ma man :D :yes:
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Post by: Nico on April 14, 2004, 10:25:29 am: looking good, but I'm bored with WW2 games, so I'll stick to doom3 :D
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on April 14, 2004, 10:26:30 am: Does anyone else think that the guy in the shot (The only one whose face we can see) looks like Michael Jackson?
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Post by: Splinter on April 14, 2004, 10:29:40 am: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Does anyone else think that the guy in the shot (The only one whose face we can see) looks like Michael Jackson?

:wtf: :eek2: :nervous:
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Post by: Tiara on April 14, 2004, 10:30:30 am: Quote
Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Does anyone else think that the guy in the shot (The only one whose face we can see) looks like Michael Jackson?

You, sir, have an unhealthy obsession with MJ. :ick:

:p
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Post by: Unknown Target on April 14, 2004, 11:16:27 am: Graphics look awesome, but...it's ANOTHER FREAKING WWII GAME!!! God! I have gotten SO TIRED of re-hash after re-hash.
First we had MOHAA, then we had a bunch of clones of MOHAA, then we had Call of Duty, now we're getting the clones :doubt:
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Post by: aldo_14 on April 14, 2004, 11:20:55 am: Quote
Originally posted by Unknown Target
Graphics look awesome, but...it's ANOTHER FREAKING WWII GAME!!! God! I have gotten SO TIRED of re-hash after re-hash.
First we had MOHAA, then we had a bunch of clones of MOHAA, then we had Call of Duty, now we're getting the clones :doubt:

How many 'clones' of MOHAA can you actually name, though?

I can't think of any offhand (and games simply also set in WW2 do not count as clones - i.e BF:1942 & Hidden & Dangerous are totally different types of game)
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Post by: Rictor on April 14, 2004, 11:23:05 am: Well, the CoD team is to a large degree the same team that made MOHAA, they just left and formed their own company.

I'de like to see a game where the morality of it is a bit better devloped. In most WW2 games, its Allies=angels, Axis=devils. Not saying that the Axis were nice chaps, not even close, but it would be interesting to at least hear a few words from their side of the fence. Mostly, I would say that it adults who play these games, so I'de like to see a bit more depth than that. Show the rape of Nanking, the A-bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, show the concentration camps. Show everything that happened.
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Post by: Nico on April 14, 2004, 11:25:38 am: Quote
Originally posted by Rictor
Show the rape of Nanking, the A-bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, show the concentration camps. Show everything that happened.

That wouldn't make very interesting FPS levels, tho :p
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Post by: aldo_14 on April 14, 2004, 11:27:23 am: Quote
Originally posted by Rictor
Well, the CoD team is to a large degree the same team that made MOHAA, they just left and formed their own company.

I'de like to see a game where the morality of it is a bit better devloped. In most WW2 games, its Allies=angels, Axis=devils. Not saying that the Axis were nice chaps, not even close, but it would be interesting to at least hear a few words from their side of the fence. Mostly, I would say that it adults who play these games, so I'de like to see a bit more depth than that. Show the rape of Nanking, the A-bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, show the concentration camps. Show everything that happened.

Dunno about other games, but CoD never shown the axis as 'devils'. They were just the other side - you shoot them, they shoot you. I wouldn;t exactly call it villification.
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Post by: Flipside on April 14, 2004, 12:36:26 pm: And how many gamers wouldn't enjoy wandering through a town spraying bullets randomly and killing everyone? Hell, most of us do that whether we are supposed to or not, at one point or another, and we're supposed to be the good guys ;)
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Post by: kasperl on April 14, 2004, 01:07:38 pm: well, i saw most of the imagery in History class, all uncensored and let's just say that WWII really, really dampened my apetite.