@joe_anony I think this is a MASSIVE point Tom has missed. A lot of forces personnel play shooters...i dont recall any articles from any of them moaning about the realism in games. Entertainment is a form of escapsim after all.
To some point i agree.... recoil is unrealistic in most shooters but then that's where attachments and upgrades should come in. The recent Ghost Recon was a good example. However, health regeneration must stay. The ONLY part i hated about Halo:CE was the health packs. But then this isn't realistic either.
On the one hit kills point, a british serviceman in iraq survived seven or eight shots to the head from an AK47. His helmet glanced and stopped all of the rounds. Just not the huge headache he had!
@chaplain827 I completely agree. My cousin served two tours of afghan and he would rather play MOH/COD than anything Tom McShea is suggesting!
FIFA is the most authentic football game out there..yet how many descions does the ref get wrong? answer none but i dont see Tom bashing that..whats next top spin
At the end of the day its a form of entertainment as the man said!
i would NOT play a game where one ricochet or stray bullet ends the game. No checkpoints or respawns.
I dont want to play a game where an IED goes off on my second mission and i spend the rest of the game trying to rehabiliate myself and learning to walk again!
If you want a "realistic" game that's practically what your asking for and i dont think anybody would want to play that either.
Authentic means "Made or done in the traditional or original way" so the gear, weapons, settings and even some of the tactics etc... are as close to real as you are going to get and games like MOH,Battlefield and Flashpoint are there.
War must be hell but then why are first person shooters the biggest selling games at the moment? because they are fun to play.
normally chris gets reviews spot on for me but i think he missed the ball on this one! He mentioned Gun smith for about 0.5 seconds! Yet this is probably the most accurate and detailed customisation i have seen in a game to date! None of that "one attachment" crap from COD! I have really been looking forward to this one and the review wont put me off!
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