OK, everbody! I'm back!
Let's look at what I've been doing!!
http://www.2kgames.com/index.php?p=games&title=sunionthis is a game called Shattered Union, and while it's a bit boring in actuality. (it's rather long and monotonous, though
I learned a great deal of geography if the game is even slightly accurate.
) I think the premise is quite fun and I
enjoyed visiting all of the major american cities, even if a few of them DID blow up along the way...
Here are somepersonal screenshots I picked out from my ventures in the game.
this is washington DC, or rather, what's left of it after a nuke blows it up... This is the incident that shatters the US in
the game, creating several factions. Including my own... I started off in chicago, my hometown, so it took a while for
my armies to finally reach the place. (I stopped in NYC on the way, and there was a lot of fighting there... Thankfully
not too much in the city proper, but regretfully, a few enemies sought cover there, thinking I would be a sissy and so
there's a few black scorchmarks where some skyscrapers once stood.... oh well...
)
This is much later ingame, I was retaking the ozarks. the city highlighted in green is Independence, Mo. (a bit far from
where I lived in arkansas, but they're both on the same "map" ingame, even though where I lived was too small to
be of importance (and thus be represented here)....
Though the cool thing about independence was it's importance
on the famous oregon trail. just look up independence rock.
(the city and rock were named as such because you wanted to get there before the 4 of july, so you would know
you're on shcedule.)
anyways, *ehem* on we go through the pics...
This is the houston/Fort worth area.
as you can see from the pic, it sustained serious damage from fighting. Now this is
just as I had gotten to it.
the US ingame had split into several factions ingame, and this particular territory changed hands rather often, so I
knew that I had to be very careful here. I really didn't want to add to the already nasty damage here, and with the
exception of a small laser guided tactical missle, I suceeded in preventing any fire from hitting the city.
Looking back on this, (I've already beaten the game) I'll say that this was easily the worst damaged city I've seen
besides washington (but washington doesn't count, since it started off that way ingame)
Hey, look what we have here, it's Edwards AFB! It was apparently abandoned, as I encountered no resistance here.
this did not surprise me too much, because this was the last territory I needed to complete the continental '48, and I
had already beaten the last surviving faction several times over in a blitzkrieg-like fashion, taking much of the later
western states without really any resistance.. all that was left was to take Los angeles.. and that was just around
the corner...
Incidently, Los angeles also took some damage from fighting well before I had arrived, but it really wasn't all that
bad. the famous Hollywood sign had survived, though, and I made sure I didn't damage that, either. there was only
scattered resistance here, most of it being civilian partisians with armed and armored station wagons. (I kid you not,
it was quite funny to watch myself.)
after this, I had pretty much finished the game. There was a little movie at this part that even made me feel a little
patriotic, but then they had to ruin it with a totally corny "God bless america" bit. though I had yet to save alaska
from the ones who had nuked Washington and then subsequently invaded alaska, but I'll not spoil that for you.
Whadya think? I really liked this game's premise, and it delieved very nicely, but It was boring (often having to defend
the same territories over and over again, before you can finally start invading) and damned near impossible to play at
the beginning due to being attacked, draining my funds, preventing me from making any progress.
Despite that though, I give it a B+ pretty darned good.
lemme know what you think.
(by the way. you can also play as european "peacekeepers"
The only thing I didn't like was that european reason
for being in america was for reuniting the states. The problem being was that it was obvious that *I* was going to
be the one to do that, (or at least it was obvious to me...
) anyway, europe attacked NYC while it was in my
custody and I then was forced to kick their asses. no hard feelings, though. we can still be friends afterwards,
right?
)
Post Edited ( 10-22-05 06:29 )
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