I'm not sure why WW 2 is so fascinting, maybe to me it is because it was a war based on wits. Sure each side had it's strength and weeknesses, but overall I think they were pretty evenly matched. It just seems to me like the last great war where it was the men that made the difference, not the weaponry. The cool thing about the games their making now is that you're a member of a squad and you get some sense of what it was like simply because you see your squadmates die. I don't know how many times I've replayed missions trying to save my men but if their scripted to die then they die.
The newest one coming out is called Brothers in Arms and it's supposed to be a very realistic and accurate depiction of one squads battle through Normandy from D-Day -1 as part of all the 101st airborne misdrops. It looks a lot like Band of Brothers and is a squad based game where you can actually get your squad mates killed with dumb decisions. Gamespy calls it the new standard for WW 2 games due to it's realism.
I disagree with the game being dangerous, it's not the game that's responsible for the persons distinction between fantasy and reality, it's the persons problem. If you kill yourself or others due to a game, a movie or a song lyric it's not the fault of the medium, it's the fact that you're an unstable lunatic who refuses to take responsiblitity for the fact.
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