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Old 12th August 2011, 21:34
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Re: Favourite War Film

PS ... Slightly off topic ...

Ok, I'll admit that I have a soft spot for PC games.

After almost a decade of mainly (combat) flight sims I have switched to playing mainly first person war shooters and real time strategy.

Specifically I've been playing Call of Duty Black Ops and Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Medal of Honor (in Afghanistan). On he other side it has been Warhammer 40k Dawn of War 2, Company of Heroes series and Total War Empire/Napoleon.

Sorry for the long intro, but a week ago I finished the single player campaign of Black Ops and back to topic I have to say that a game experience like this brings movies and games pretty close together. Once you have Hollywood grade actors doing the voice acting combined with state of the art graphics you are no "just playing a game" you are experiencing an interactive adventure.

With the next Call of Duty (MW4) and Battlefield (3) about to be released in Q4 I'll be having more fun than "just" watching a movie.

...ps I've recently installed Project Strike Fighter 2, the updated version with a couple of add ons, and it appears to be a good looking cold war sim that doesn't require a long study of the manual. But I'm not totally lost to the genre.

Hugely OT, I know...
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