{"id":14000,"date":"2011-09-13T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"warco-the-news-game-is-about-journalism-on-the-front-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14000-warco-the-news-game-is-about-journalism-on-the-front-lines","title":{"rendered":"Warco: The News Game is about journalism on the front lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you bored of playing the same USMC grunt in the same war (OORAH, etc.), over and over again?<\/p>\n

Well, now you can play something… slightly different.<\/p>\n

Okay, you’ll still be shooting vaguely insurgent character models – you can tell by the bandannas – but this time with a camera, not an FN-SCAR.<\/p>\n

That’s the sound of a paradigm not quite shattering, more like creaking under pressure.<\/p>\n

I also might’ve lied about the bandannas, because the graphics in Defiant’s Warco: The News Game<\/a> are actually kind of terrible, and I can’t really decide if those rebels are wearing bandannas or blank expressions.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s that thousand-yard stare I’ve read about, but probably not.<\/p>\n

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The game casts players as a wartime journalist named Jesse DeMarco, armed only with “a flak jacket, a video camera,” and a “burning desire” to report on “current, worldwide-inspired conflicts”.<\/p>\n

Which, coincidentally, is pretty much exactly like being a gaming journalist. Except for the bit about getting a free flak jacket and a video camera. All I got was a Halo T-shirt and a PrtScrn button, but it counts.<\/p>\n

Warco: The News Game is about journalism on the front lines<\/a><\/strong> << Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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