文章基本信息

标题：Kuma War
作者：Johnny Liu
期刊名称：Games for Windows
印刷版ISSN：1933-6160
出版年度：2004
卷号：January 2004
出版社：Ziff Davis Media Inc.

Kuma War

Johnny Liu

Reality hits the PC, and we��re not talking about Joe Millionaire. Kuma War is a subscription-based war game that turns current events into cannon fodder. Did you want to be a part of the squad that took down Uday and Qusay? It��s now possible, thanks to satellite imagery that creates accurate maps of real-world locations.

It might sound like exploitation, but there��s a surprising amount of tact here. ��No real names or faces of allied forces are used in the game,�� says director of game development Dante Anderson. He adds that a council of military advisers ensures realistic scenarios.

The core release includes three missions played in the first or third person, but thanks to a library of textures, weapons, and vehicles, new missions will be available every week. Anderson says gamers can expect one or two months between an actual skirmish and a game scenario. Graphically, what we��ve seen looks passable, but the real hook here will be for news junkies.