Honestly, I rather detest the Call of Duty series. I own CoD4, and it was fun. Never played online- though I've played the campaign to death. Literally, too (you'll get it if you've finished it). That said, I'd described CoD campaigns as Michael Bay movies in video game form- the goal is to blow up as much stuff as possible.

A game I've recently been playing, Section 8:Prejudice has a fairly short campaign; I had trouble connecting to the characters in a way that made me care about the events occurring during my first playthrough- but the campaign actually held my interest (initially I'd played it only for the tutorial).

Especially a couple of lines near the end-

"Don't you get it?! Everything you fight for is a lie, built on the death of millions!" [roughly that, mind you]
"Killing millions more isn't the answer!"

Rather true, eh?

That said, S8P's campaign held my interest more than CoD4's; it wasn't as much with the scripted explodey scenes, but the dynamic, fast-paced, highly fluid nature of the combat. Bonus points for S8P's skirmish AI (of which CoD4 has none), which consists of the Conquest (objective-oriented teamplay) and Swarm (4p coop 'last-stand' mode). Conquest has been especially fun, since, when spawning in, you start 5000 meters above the battlefield, and LITERALLY dive straight down to the ground. You can even kill an opponent by landing on top of them.

Awesome, no?

I completely agree whit the Cod thing Whiskey, and I used to want Section 8. I never did get around to buying it though

I think it's interesting to note that the majority of the ARM of Orion forces aren't the evil mutant guys. They're fighting for independence and whatnot (I'd have to delve deeper into what little background is there), but for both games it seems to be that the plotline is centered more on this rogue mutant supersoldier fleet, the Spear, and 8th Armoured Infantry (or "Section 8") hunting them down.

Oh, yes, and to answer your question of "which came first?"-

Killzone 1: released mid/late 2004 (late 2005 Japan)
Section 8: September 2009 (Windows/XBox)/early 2010 (PS3)

That said, the wiki article for S8 says that the devs cite the movies Aliens and Blade Runner as sources of inspiration.

All of that being said, I personally have acquired a bit of a distaste for "US IN SPAAACE" factions. Maybe it's just because I live there (in the US), and thus see a lot of fiction with that. But then again, I'm rather more interested in German and Russian cultures (European in general would be fairly accurate), and really like Latin women (es muy caliente! [<-that's about all I can actually say in Spanish, with the caveat that I can attach the term "Tu" ('you' in Spanish) to the front])

Please explain.

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Future history is a lovely thing, because it basically lets you erase such little things like that.

That could work.

Exactly.

The future of war will be Chinese Communism versus Indian Capitalism. IN SPAAAAAAAAAACE!

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There's this thing called human trafficking, and if the Chinese population got into such a bad rut as to be 90% male or more, then hey, the Chinese government would probably realize that either they need to get more immigration, or change their "one child/family" laws, or tap into human trafficking and pay for women to be kidnapped and shipped into their country.

You're also forgetting the slight problem that China contains at least 1 billion people. The Chinese military probably has more people in it than the US has legal citizens. The country's so overpopulated that maybe a 'die-off', as you are hinting would occur, would actually be a *good* thing.

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I really don't know what to say. I mean, you desert the REAL Chatroom for months, if not an entire year, and then you waltz in here, and pretend to be part of the conversation.

You, sir, are quite audacious.

All this being said, welcome back to the REAL Chatroom.

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School depresses me. It's one of those times when I get to meet people who are so incredibly stupid in a very intelligent way, and it really makes me want to become one of those "the world is beneath me" kind of people.

Seriously, the number of people who seem barely worth the air they breathe...

BTW, who here has Fallout New Vegas?

Sometimes I wonder about this too. Then I remember we're talking about stupid people.

On a side note, it impossible for something to be idiot- or fool-proof. An idiot/fool has surprising ingenuity in breaking stuff.

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I didn't really like any of the factions either. I heard that with Yes Man you could control Vegas yourself. And Legate Lanius is amazing. I was going to side with Mr. House on my second time around, but never got around to it.

Okay, have this amusing picture.

From right to left: what British forces were wearing and using five years ago, their gear today, and how far we've got on our FIST programme (basically Future Soldier).

Now, I like what we've done so far. We've massively upgraded the SA80 family, we've got all kinds of new sights, we've got a new multi-cam style uniform, and other bits of our kit have improved, like ration packs, pouches, body armour etc.

But I'd like to point out that just because it works in a sci-fi film doesn't mean it'll work here. Why the torches on either side of the helmet? Torches don't help you at all, they just light you up like a neon "shoot between the flashlights" sign. Secondly, though the helmet will supposedly be able to quiten the noise of battle while still allowing human voices to be heard, have they completely forgotten that a lot of speech recognition in a noisy environment will be lip movement? Nevermind the fact that having a great big mouthpiece will muffle your voice anyway. Seems a bit silly to be honest. We're pouring what little cash we have into helmets that light up and make funny noises; I can get one of those at the local supermarket.