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Conflict: Desert Storm
- PlayStation 2, Xbox
- Price: $39
- Genre: Role Playing
Common Sense Media says
War game may blur line between reality, fantasy.
Parents say
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Kids say
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this is a war game, even though it emphasizes commanding solders and completing tasks while trying to keep people safe. There is violence in each mission, and missions are completed more quickly when players kill enemy soldiers. The fact that this is linked to a real historical event blurs fantasy and reality, which should be discussed with kids who play this game.
What's it about?
While the U.S. military was gearing up for a battle in Iraq, CONFLICT: DESERT STORM's developers were putting the finishing touches on what turns out to be an engaging but slightly generic game. Although the game is set in Iraq during the first Gulf War, it has little to do with the actual conflict or with any of the historical events of the war. The player is dropped in the desert alone and must elude or kill multiple Iraqi soldiers before rescuing a soldier from an Iraqi prison. That soldier is the beginning of a four-person team that will go on to other missions.
In training mode, the player runs through drills to become familiar with gameplay elements as a drill sergeant barks orders from a platform above. Iraqi soldiers become increasingly clever as the action moves from the desert to the urban environment of Baghdad. Learning to control the other players becomes a crucial skill to survival in the urban missions.
Is it any good?
The control scheme is unusually difficult and the game is tough to master. Load times can be long. Due to the design of mission one, when playing in the two-person mode, player number two will not be able to play until the prisoner is rescued from the prison.
Overall the game is an absorbing simulation of the skills and wits needed to command a squad of soldiers in a hostile environment, but it fails to offer any educational value. Although the game is set during a historical period in world history, it fails to offer anything that makes it unique to the Gulf War of 1991. The game could quite easily be set in any environment and it would alter none of the game's value or strategy.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about war. How do you see the difference between a war game and real life? Families can also talk about the historical aspects of the 1991 war in the Persian Gulf.
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AGE
conflict owns
its difficult but if you can complete it the rewards are awesome buy it
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AGE
Fight the first IRAQ war.
Conflict Desert Storm is a cool game. There is blood in there, and a little language, but it is fun, and a good multi-player. This game also is the easiest game to control, it even aims for you!!
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AGE
11 or 12+ Depends on there maturity
It's prety hard but fun -- you need skill and to be a good gamer. Worth buying.
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AGE
A friend and I rented it for a week and are still playing!
The graphics could be alot better for sure. And they are better on the X-Box then on the GameCube and PS2. Although when you kill someone they do a little death dance and then fall over, it's nothing real gory. There is some blood in a pool around a dead person but besides that it's not that bad. I think they have given this game rather harsh reveiws as well as most other of the violent games. Because for 1 violence is already all around us (I mean look at New York City, it's a freaking mess!!), in the news, music, everywhere! A little more isn't gonna kill us. The game itself is a little unrealistic in parts because you can heal a dead person that is in your squad and it takes a couple bullets to kill you. I do agree with commensense's review on the part where they say it might scare litte kids. Becuase you are walking around with a huge machine gun and some c4 along with a rocket launcher and some other people are in tanks tryin to kill ya. Yea it will scare small kids but I'd say 12+ would be fine with it. It does teach you a bit about Operation: Desert Storm but not much to get it soley for that purpose. Not that I'm saying the kids would mind if they played it in Social Studies but yeah. Overall it's a good game, not as gory as most 1st person shooters, fair graphics and fun missions. I give it an A+.
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AGE
Game anyone can play.
This game is awesome. There is no sex, drugs, or any violence to graphic. When you shoot someone, a tiny puddle of blood comes and they fall over, there is nothing bad about that. You learn about real life operations of the Gulf War. And the 4 special forces troops you get are good role models.ANd the positive message is: Too serve and help your country.
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Kid, 12 years old
August 17, 2010
AGE
besides the blood and realistic graphichs its tamer than most shooters.
The good things are that its not a FPS and it has good graphichs for a old school game. the bad things are the good graphichs. normally its good if and old school game has good graphichs, but in this case its bad, because it just makes the blood more realistic (and theres alot of it) also, the graphichs make it even more innapropriate by showing black eyed and bloody faces on an injured or previously torcherd soilder. im not complaning about anything else because otherwise its tamer than most shooters by making it third person and having no bad language whatsoever. and commonsense is right about it being scary, you can go up behind someone and jerk a knife across their throat, which made me a little sick to my stomach.
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AGE
Bad Graphics, Fun Game!
A fun, but yet very generic third person shooter that is fun, but is drastically lacking in good graphics. Puddles of blood are shown when enemies are killed and level 1 shows a chair where they torture POWs (Prisoners of War) and is covered in Blood. Other than That, okay!
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AGE
great
This is a great game but i think that this is a very MATURE game!
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| Platforms: | PlayStation 2, Xbox |
| Available online? | Not available online |
| Genre: | Role Playing |
| Developer: | SCi Entertainment Group |
| Release date: | October 16, 2002 |
| Price: | $39 |
| ESRB rating: | T |
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