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China creates video game simulating combat against US troops

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Link to article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/17/glorious-mission-chinese-video-game_n_863166.html

The United States Army developed a video game series called "America's Army" - simulating realistic combat. I guess it was aimed to help educate/recruit/act as propaganda/etc. The enemies in the game were of some fictitious European country.

So, China began to develop its own version of the game called "Glorious Mission", but get this: the enemy the People's Liberation Army is targeting is the US Army. It's one thing for a private developing group to create a video game with a real country as an enemy... but for a government to do so?

Just goes to show how great Sino-American relations are right now. :boxedin:
 
Gheheh, well I guess there's a lot of games in the US where you can shoot up ehm VC or Germans and ehm I dunno... probably many more peoples;) Of course these are private companies, but this is not possible in China is it? Everything is state owned, right?

Anyway, does not surprise me very much... We have a game here you can whack moles, geheh or shoot up cows;) geheheheh... Ehm killkillkilletc... Also one you can shoot UP "innocent" civilians!! Ghehheeh in malls and places like that! Vewy funny;) Also one you can drive car and hit women with babies in babycars, huhuhuh;) Is legal, no joke!

Could be a sign relations are worsening, but does not have to... is just a cpu game is it not?
But who knows?
;)
 
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There are American video games where you can fight against the Chinese, Americans, Russians, Germans, British, Confederates, Japanese, Cubans, Vietnamese, North Koreans, Mongolians, French, and the Empire of Carmen Sandiego.

I don't see what the big problem is.
 
Cleon said:
There are American video games where you can fight against the Chinese, Americans, Russians, Germans, British, Confederates, Japanese, Cubans, Vietnamese, North Koreans, Mongolians, French, and the Empire of Carmen Sandiego.

I don't see what the big problem is.
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The big problem is that none of those are state sponsored. As the OP says, it's certainly different for a private company to do it than a state group doing it. It's why the US equivalent - Americas' army - uses a fictional country as the enemy. It could just as easily use the PLA and/or KPA.

McHrozni
 
Nerd said:
It's one thing for a private developing group to create a video game with a real country as an enemy... but for a government to do so?
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When the civilization organizes itself along socialism, has the traditional communist feature of government, most likely the government should do it.


Your reaction is very similar to Venezualans' reaction to the game "Mercenaries 2" where their nation was the primary target. They could not wrap their head around that a private company could do such a thing.
 
McHrozni said:
The big problem is that none of those are state sponsored. As the OP says, it's certainly different for a private company to do it than a state group doing it. It's why the US equivalent - Americas' army - uses a fictional country as the enemy. It could just as easily use the PLA and/or KPA.

McHrozni
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It's the People's Republic of China. Pretty much every company is state-sponsored.
 
Gheheh, yeah...:D

They (the Chinese) might even get in trouble if they would make it without the government, wouldn't they?

Or do you people think that it was deliberately that the Chinese (gov) made this game, to insult the US?

Could be... But then again - if so - I think all countries insult each other once in a while? Maybe Us can make a new game now as well:D so we can play it;) Is this Chinese game to come to EU/US as well? Or is it - internally (and) - for 'the people' only? Then it would be more insulting I guess? Or not?

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It's a game,get over it. On the other hand, the military of all countries constantly war games all sorts of scenarios. Doesn't mean they're actually going to follow through on those scenarios. They are just doing their job of planning for possibilities.
 
Damn, China is slow.

Battlefield 2 was released six years ago. Tom Clancy's SSN was made waaaaayyy back in 1996.
 
Cleon said:
There are American video games where you can fight against the Chinese, Americans, Russians, Germans, British, Confederates, Japanese, Cubans, Vietnamese, North Koreans, Mongolians, French, and the Empire of Carmen Sandiego.

I don't see what the big problem is.
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You read my mind.

Except

I really did not want to nuke the Empire of Carmen Sandiego.

She left me no choice, the land grabbing the vixen! :mad:
 
My reaction upon seeing this thread was, "so"?
Upon learning the Chinese government was sponsoring the game, my reaction is unchanged. The US has been making media where you fight Russians, the Chinese and now recently Middle Eastern terrorists, for an eternity.

You need enemies to fight in wargames. For immersion's sake, sometimes these enemies are actual real-life countries. Tough luck.
 
Seems a case of long-absent and decidedly non-alarming transparency to me.

The US military has used fictitious enemies for decades in training, but it has rarely been difficult to discern whom the enemies represented. More importantly, there is a spectrum of training and planning, ranging from unlikely enemies to most likely and most dangerous. Any nation's military would be criminally negligent not to do something similar.
 
wot-ta-**** CHINA!!
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To properly mask profanity as per Rule 10. Please, do not swear and do not use alternate spellings to evade the auto-censor.


Are you hinting that a video game would cause tension to the already tense Sino-American relationship? Is it a secret attempt by the Chinese Government to instill Anti-US into its people , after which an uprising will spark and a war between the US & China will breakout?... should the US get accustom to eating Chinese food?
All this tension is turning me on :o
 
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Isn't China the baddie in the remake of Red Dawn that's in the works?
 
McHrozni said:
The big problem is that none of those are state sponsored. As the OP says, it's certainly different for a private company to do it than a state group doing it. It's why the US equivalent - Americas' army - uses a fictional country as the enemy. It could just as easily use the PLA and/or KPA.

McHrozni
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The US Army has war games and actual war fighting plans for virtually every nation and grouping of nations on the face of the planet and beyond. I don't understand the proposed outrage of this thread.
 
TShaitanaku said:
The US Army has war games and actual war fighting plans for virtually every nation and grouping of nations on the face of the planet and beyond. I don't understand the proposed outrage of this thread.
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The more the Chinese resemble human beings (IE the ones who play video games), the harder it will be for us to kill them?

I really have no idea.

It probably has cover based game play and regenerating health too - what an abomination.

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