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Les_the_Sarge_9_1 -> (10/27/2003 9:01:53 PM)
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I think it is safe to say, there will be numerous parallels to the development of Strategic Command and persons desires that it be as much of a game as Advanced Third Reich, with WiF going to cWiF.
I think you would find an equal number of very active and very vocal individuals, if tomorrow it was announced Matrix Games was doing a revised Third Reich PC as well.
I have my faith in Matrix Games though. No Matrix Games is not the centre of the universe, but it is a wargamers type of company.
As to whether cWiF can completely and absolutely be produced as an entirely literal and total translation of the board game, well lets look at some details.
First and most obvious, it has languished now for enough years it might as well be called Road to Moscow :)
I would like to see it manage to be the boardgame reborn on the computer. But I am not holding my breath that it will do so 100% unchanged. If it was an easy task, it would have managed this long ago too.
I would rather cWiF not end up the way Steel Panthers did ie two separate ideals and two seperate creations born out of a single idea.
I don't think anyone at Matrix Games is going to rush to ditch any of the effort to date done on it, doesn't make automatic sense. But if some of the past efforts just don't fly, it will be time to admit it.
Some games will only be doable through a program like VASL where you just don't try to make it a "game" in the normal computer wargame sense of the word. Some will be possible.
I was stunned to see how completely Columbia Games was able to translate their wooden block game East Front into a computer wargame. So it CAN be done. But it might depend on the specific game.
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