I've played the demo. Brilliant art style, and generally very polished and "solid" feeling. Pity it plays more like Dragon's Lair than an FPS. 

Although there are these keyboard/mouse adapters out recently... 

In the demo I thought that the controls were bloody terrible and unresponsive, and the thing where your head/POV looked all over the place when you reloaded was annoying. It took about half an hour to ready and throw a grenade, which always seem to bounce off doorways back into the room you are standing in even if you are standing smack in the middle of said doorway being shot to bits. The PS2 pad does not lend itself well to FPS games obviously, but this is a fairly weak attempt at coping with the dubious positioning of the sticks and their big "dead zone". Other games have managed far better.

It did look great for a PS2 game, although the Helghast (bad guys) are just anonymous black shapes with glowing eyes unless you're standing right next to them. And the art is a wasted effort when the gameplay is below par.

Apparently the full game has chronic framerate issues, especially in multiplayer. All in all, it's a bit of a shame, I was really looking forward to it until playing the demo. I'll probably still buy it eventually, but most likely only when you can pick it up second hand for a tenner.

It's out this Friday in the UK... I think it might have already been released in the US, any of you crazy kids played it? 

If it weren't for Hitler and Orwell, war games would look quite a bit different. 

There would be more Zeppelins dropping bombs and Kaisers as end game bosses. 

If it wasn't for Hitler and friends, WARs would have been quite different. 

Well, I can't say I like World War 2, at least what actually happened (World War 2 as entertainment rocks!) but the Nazis had some uber cool costume designs. Some were real badass. Futuristic almost. Looked like cybernetic ninja assassin people. Cool stuff. 

Funny, I just came across this quote and your post above came instantly to mind; from George Orwell: "Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac." 

his Hommage to Catalonia. Great biographical narrative.

He joins the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War, only to find himself being used as a puppet on the string by a bunch of homocidal, power hungry thugs being made into heroes by the Western media of his day.

I'm not sure how that changed wargame history though. 

I don't read things that might beneficially increase my cultural awareness. That's exactly what they want me to do. 

So Logic says that you don't read anything, which we know isn't true. Is that Schrodinger's cat I hear scratching? 

I was refering to things along the lines of high and medium culture, and not pop and low culture.

Also, is this really reading? Or is it just talking in a drawn out fashion for the mock-deaf? We may never know... 

... just like Schrodinger :-) 

 

you know, we have a thing called an Xray machine nowadays, and they're advanced enough to tell if the damn cat is alive or not. 

oh, it is dead alright, and Schrodinger killed it! The entire theory is a construct to hide the fact! 

... was made of lead. And of course you don't KNOW that the cat is dead or alive. 

you know, we have a thing called an Xray machine nowadays, and they're advanced enough to tell if the damn cat is alive or not.

But of course, that's the whole point; as soon as you make the measurement, the cat's wavefunction collapses and the cat assumes one of it's discrete possible states of existence. 

you know, we have a thing called an Xray machine nowadays, and they're advanced enough to tell if the damn cat is alive or not.

But of course, that's the whole point; as soon as you make the measurement, the cat's wavefunction collapses and the cat assumes one of it's discrete possible states of existence. 

Looks like there's even a quantum-duality thing going on with the double-post above o_O 

How many licks does it take to get to the center of Hitler's brain?

*walks off, occasionally slamming head against passing walls* 

Right, so there's this guy called Odin, and he lives in Valhalla, you know, that hugely old Norse mythic place up in the clouds where dead warriors are, taken there by them valkyries.

Anyway, so in this Valhalla place there's, like, this really huge hall, a mess hall really, and there's, like, this huge banquet that just never stops and just, you know, keeps going forever.

So, we got the warriors, the hall and the banquet and everything, but then there's this table in the middle, and on this very table, because I'm getting to the point, is this pig, well, boar really. Then there are all these dead warriors, except that they aren't really dead, because they're in Valhalla, and they just eat and eat eat. And the boar is all happy and stuff, even though it's being cut up all the time, but it just won't die, and just grows back the missing parts over and over again.

What is the pig's name? 

czg? 

P� taket til Valhall g�r geiten L�rand og hjorten Eiktryme. De spiser av grenene p� det store treet Yggdrasil. Fra melken deres lager kokken Andrimner mj�d. Kokken har ogs� en gris som het S�rrimne. Den er slik at den kan spises igjen og igjen! Med en gang den er ferdigspist, blir den hel igjen, og kan tilberedes p� nytt. 

M�ste inte!