Oh, that's *nasty*...
Feb. 23rd, 2003 04:34 pmI went down to Sim Lim Square today and got myself a digital camera after asking around a bit from my colleagues who are into these things - the Canon Powershot G3 (I'm naming it Perseus), which I got for around US$676 plus another 4 percent GST. I also picked up two new games - Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Command and Conquer: Generals (I'm not one for RTS games, but Dad's a C&C freak, so he'll get more mileage out of it).
I just played the training mission for Generals. Everything's going along swimmingly, the usual pixellized mayhem inflicted on a mission where I've been tasked to seek out and destroy a hidden terrorist biowarfare facility. I get to the endgame, blow up the facility, and lo and behold, chunks of blue goo, representing the bioshit scatter across the landscape, and several of my own men choke and die as they turn blue, gasp and fall to the ground in seeming agony. The computer informs me that I'm victorious and ready for field command. Victorious?!?
I don't think I'm going to like this game very much.
But what gets to me is that this is, of course, a frighteningly obvious scenario. The biochem weapons that Iraq allegedly has are all nice and packed and safe. What happens when they start the carpet bombing and release all the crap?
I just played the training mission for Generals. Everything's going along swimmingly, the usual pixellized mayhem inflicted on a mission where I've been tasked to seek out and destroy a hidden terrorist biowarfare facility. I get to the endgame, blow up the facility, and lo and behold, chunks of blue goo, representing the bioshit scatter across the landscape, and several of my own men choke and die as they turn blue, gasp and fall to the ground in seeming agony. The computer informs me that I'm victorious and ready for field command. Victorious?!?
I don't think I'm going to like this game very much.
But what gets to me is that this is, of course, a frighteningly obvious scenario. The biochem weapons that Iraq allegedly has are all nice and packed and safe. What happens when they start the carpet bombing and release all the crap?