CM2:Shock Force

Leopard · #1 10-08-2005, 05:39 PM

Hi folks,

look at this : http://www.battlefront.com/discuss/u...;f=52;t=000289

KG_ThorsHammer · #2 10-08-2005, 06:03 PM

thanks for the post; not sure I like the forced US only campaign option, but there are also good points. Ill stick with my cmbb for quite a while i think:)

GJK · #3 10-08-2005, 06:33 PM

From the threads that I'm reading over there regarding it, I think the "Shock" is from the BFC forum regulars about the subject matter of the next game.

Personally, it doesn't interest me much. As someone said in one of those messages, it lacks history and with no history to relate to it becomes more of a combat sim instead of a traditional wargame - which I think is where BFC wants to go anyways. I guess I'm too old school, having a computer crunch numbers to show me if an Abrams takes out an entrenched T-72 in the desert just doesn't do it for me.

So, I'll stick with CM ClassicÃ‚Â© and playing board wargames via VASSAL and wait another several months to see what their next release will be.

KG_Soldier · #4 10-08-2005, 06:39 PM

My God! they've lost their minds I tell you!

KG_Jag · #5 10-08-2005, 08:30 PM

As I said over at Battlefront, I'm less than excited about their first game, but I will check out the demo and keep an open mind.

If the CMx2 engine is truly a quality product, it would make sense for the first release to be a WW II game in a time and place covered by CMBO, CMBB or CMAK. In that way there could be direct A vs. B comparisons of the two engines, even if the scales and some features were a bit different.

I agree that the lack of history and hypothetical nature of this brush war stuff does not have nearly the same appeal for me, regardless of who is fighting. The fact that this also appears to be desert based is less than enticing.

Space Lobsters may have been a better choice.

KG_Kharkov · #6 10-08-2005, 10:40 PM

Gag. I have zero excitement for this. Just another wargame even if it has the CMx2 engine. Who wants to fight the Syrians when you can fight the Germans?

I wonder how long before the ETO module gets released. Probably a year at least.

KG_Swampfox · #7 10-08-2005, 10:43 PM

@ Jag.... agreed on that, unless nuclear weapons are involved and the whole rotten area can be turned into glass

And make up some drawn butter for the space lobsters

KG_Koz · #8 10-08-2005, 11:07 PM

this is certainly a bummer. I can only hope that the second release occurs quickly. Oh well....at least I can continue to postpone upgrading my graphics card!

KG_Jag · #9 10-09-2005, 12:42 AM

So far about 7 pages of posts in the "Who's Disappointed" thread over at Battlefront in less than about nine hours.

Houston...I think that you have a problem.

KG_Soldier · #10 10-09-2005, 01:34 AM

Watch what you say. We are a reflection of KG as a whole and shouldn't express our opinions publicly if they might hurt BFC's or BTS' staffs' feelings. You could be censored.