Steel beasts Pro

[Jammydodger]

Only just found out about this game but it does look good, its a tank simulation game, only problem is that it costs, wait for it.......................$125.













Here's a video of some action - 29mb vid


And here's a review of the game- Review


Now the question is would you spend $125 on a tank sim?

[sackynut]

Re: Steel beasts Pro

I know people who live in the ghetto, who bought Steel Battalion for 200$ for the xbox, I bet someone will buy this...

[imported_GR|M|IN]

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I know people who live in the ghetto, who bought Steel Battalion for 200$ for the xbox, I bet someone will buy this...

Steel battalion was a fun game.....for about an hour.

[imported_Apostle]

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It does look nice. I like the detail on the far away hill in the second picture.

How much is $125, about £60-70? I would be prepared to spend that on a very special game, one that I really really wanted. I guess I'd read more about the game, and it's features etc, but I don't I would spend that much on a simulation type game.

You could buy both GR:AW and Enemy Territory:QW and still have some money left over, right? That would be my main consideration.

[King Cockery]

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Well simulation genre is going to develop so much that games aren't really games anymore. They start to be more like tools and programs, and that's why the prices are that high.

[Karl]

Re: Steel beasts Pro

Ill stick to my Red Orchestra

[imported_Apostle]

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Well simulation genre is going to develop so much that games aren't really games anymore. They start to be more like tools and programs, and that's why the prices are that high.

Did make me wonder whether this sim was developed for training purposes.

There has been a few 'games' that have been used like this, one that springs to mind was Full Spectrum Warrior, I'm sure there are others too.

So yeah, I agree with your comment. Making such a realistic game is gonna force prices up, which is ok if you sell it to the Brittish army, or get some similar big deal to recoup costs.

[wootoow]

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I read an article a while back that stated this game was indeed intended as a training tool. They dumbed it down a bit to get the revenue from us die-hard sim fans.

I also think what Sir KC said was a proper analysis of the sim genre.

[Guidon666]

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Before deploying to Iraq. We had a copy of a pre-release version of the game. It was OK. Definately not worth the $125 (Unless you are comparing it to getting a Cav Troop into SIMNET to train).

Wasnt overly impressed but I guess it taught some BASIC fundementals...
Of course I never saw the benefit of FPS games teaching anything about MOUT/UO that you couldnt do better by simply "doing it". Get better training walking through and describing the actions that take place as oposed to moving a mouse/controller to 'play'.
-Just my opinion