Those of you expecting the Cold War realism of Operation Flashpoint may be a little disappointed.
The game we are concerned with today is far less controversial than you might I imagine, considering current events.Īs with most PC games it offers a S more sanitised version of history based loosely on actual operations. Publisher SCi is of course no stranger to controversy after three Carmageddon titles, although they’re at pains to express the game has "nothing to do whatsoever with September 11 or the war in Afghanistan". Then came September 11, Operation Enduring Freedom, and George Bush’s thinly veiled desire to finish what his father had started in Iraq.Ĭonsequently, Conflict: Desert Storm has become something of an interactive hot potato. Still, wars are soon forgotten, and when Conflict: Desert Storm was conceived (the game, not the TV show), the world’s peacekeeping armies had moved through Somalia, the Balkans and East Timor. Of course, the main reason we haven’t had a Gulf War action game until now is because it was and still remains a contentious war, one that whether it was necessary or not, certainly gave EastEnders a battle in the ratings war. Serious Sam can take out 100,000 screaming headless zombies in the time it takes George Bush Sr to call his boy and say: "You go get ’em, son."
Shocking figures indeed, but no more impressive than your typical PC game. However, according to US Central Command, 100,000 Iraqi soldiers were killed, while close to half a million others were either wounded, taken prisoner or were courting execution for desertion. If there is one thing you can guarantee in a war action game it’s a high ratio body count and they don’t come any higher than the six week Desert Storm operation - according to 'official’ figures Iraqi forces managed to kill about 150 of the Coalition forces, with a few more notched up by the US.
So it’s a little strange when you consider that the Gulf War has taken so long to reach our monitors. Just so long as the odds are stacked heavily in our favour. Well, OK then, the number of games featuring the Tet Offensive or Rorke’s Drift have been pretty thin on the ground, and despite the potential carnage, Passchendaele hasn’t seen much in the way of in-game footage, but generally, wherever there is war, us PC gamers are willing to fight. Pick a war any war, and you can pretty much guarantee that it has been done to death on PC already.
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