I was interested in this game, now I'm not. I respect developers taking on taboo and controversial subject matter, but if the message they're trying to get out is, "The only good communist is a DEAD COMMUNIST!", I will not indulge them with this jingoistic bullshit. Oddly enough, it was the two videos of the suicide bomber and the captured Korean soldier that had sparked my interest because it drew such obvious parallels to what has happen in the wars in the Middle East. It turns those wars on its ear and reverses the role of the
Occupying Force that America so often finds itself and could change the way we Americans, who have never been through an occupation by a foreign military, look at war. But after watching this, I'm only filled with contempt and disgust.
As for Dr. Forstchen, I'll admit that I don't know enough about EMP's or electronics's to challenge his theories on a weaponize one. That said, his statement that all weapons are eventually used is just not true. There are
lists of weapons that were developed, tested, and manufactured for war but were never actually used, like the
Ekranoplan. People might say I'm picking apart words, but claiming to be such a "Military Historian" I would think he would choose his words a little more carefully. Otherwise, I assume he thinks people who play games aren't very bright. What really turned me off was his advocating the U.S. congress to impose a more aggressive foreign policy on a country we already put intense sanctions on to the point where the people living there have to
eat grass to survive and have openly express going to war with said country.
This man may be an expert on a lot of things, but foreign policy is not one of them and making such claims without some hard facts is totally irresponsible. I'm no fan of the Korean Workers Party or the "Dear Leader"(who deserves a bullet in the brain), but using this or any other medium to entice fear and xenophobia is deplorable and boarders on propaganda. I only hope that Kaos studios puts little more class and consideration into their finale product and THQ won't bring out any more "experts" to promote their game.
