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Velvet Assassin - Stealth-Action Game Set In WWII
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It's Based on Violette Szabo's (A british agent) real life
Oh, that makes sense then, thanks.
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If it's like Thief set in WW2... I'm sold.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
That's what I'm hoping for...
Their record has been spotty at best and I just don't like their attitude. Too much Ion Storm vibe.
[Edit] I know that this game is not B&W. Just sayin' is all.
Sounds like an awesome lady who met a very, very unfortunate end. The rest of the Wiki article, spoiler'd for size:
Born Violette Bushell in Paris, France to a French mother and an English taxi-driver father, the family moved to London and she attended school in Brixton until the age of 14. At the start of the war, she was working in Bon Marché department store on the perfume counter. Violette met Etienne Szabo, a French officer of Hungarian descent, at the Bastille Day parade in London in 1940. They married after a whirlwind 42 day romance. Violette was 19, Etienne was 31. Shortly after the birth of their only child, Tania, Etienne was killed as the result of chest wounds received at the Battle of El Alamein in October 1942. Etienne had never seen his new daughter. It was Etienne's death that made Violette, having already joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) in 1941, decide to offer her services to the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
Motivation & mobilisation
After assessing her fluency in French and then a series of searching interviews she was inducted into SOE, and received intensive training in night and daylight navigation, escape and evasion, both Allied and German weapons, unarmed combat, demolitions, explosives, communications and cryptography. A minor accident during parachute training delayed her deployment into the field until 5 April 1944 when she was parachuted into German occupied France, near Cherbourg. Code-named "Louise" she reorganized a French resistance network that had been smashed by the Germans, and led the new group in sabotaging road and rail bridges. Her wireless reports to SOE headquarters on the local factories producing war materials for the Germans were extremely important to establish Allied bombing targets. She returned to England by Lysander on 30 April 1944 after an intense but successful first mission.
Second mission & capture
She was sent back to Limoges in France on 7 June 1944, where she coordinated the local Maquis, led by Jacques Dufour, in sabotaging German communication lines. At an unexpected German roadblock the car that she was travelling in as a passenger was identified as suspicious by German troops and a brief gun battle ensued. Her Maquis minders escaped unharmed in the confusion. She was only captured when her ammunition ran out, around mid-day on 10 June 1944, near Salon-la-Tour. Her captors were most likely from the 1st Battalion of the Deutschland Regiment. In R.J. Minney's biography, she is described as putting up fierce resistance with her Sten gun, a close range infantry weapon. German documents of the incident record no injuries or casualties to German soldiers.
Interrogation, torture & execution
She was transferred to the custody of the SD in Limoges where she was interrogated under torture, enduring rape and brutal assaults. Then she was moved eight times between different locations which included Fresnes prison in Paris, Limoges prison and then in late August 1944 was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where over 92,000 women died. An SOE rescue mission to retrieve her by breaking into lightly guarded Limoges prison was planned but a mere two hours before the rescue attempt, she was moved to Ravensbruck. There she was forced into hard labour and suffered terribly from malnutrition and exhaustion. She also endured three months at Konigsburg on the Russian Front. Violette Szabo was executed on or about February 5, 1945 and her body disposed of in the crematorium. She was just 23 years old.
23 years old. Damn.
Well I guess we know how it ends..
I never asked for this!
Gamecock isn't a developer. They're a publisher.
I think you play as flashbacks from a hospital bed, so it doesn't end that way. I think.
edit: There's a bunch of videos for it, some dating back a few years. I think the dev sounds like a real creep though, so I'm not exactly holding my breath on this one.
http://www.gametrailers.com/game/6363.html
I suppose it was a necessary change so as to not have two WW2 stealth games entitled Sabotage and Saboteur. Use a better fucking name generator, though.
ASS ASS IN MIRITE HURR:P
Well how else are they going to work the Nazis in?
Anyway, I don't mind the WW2 setting, to be honest. It's just another template, like "fantasy" or "space" or "modern day". At least they're trying to do something new within that template. I'd put my money on Saboteur being a much better game, though.
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Try living in South Carolina for 8 years where the state University's mascot is the Gamecock.
And you have people yelled "Go Cocks!" Old people. Fat old people. With lots of missing teeth and/or chromasomes. Oh god, I think my penis just receded inside my body.
Ha Ha! Cocks.
I never asked for this!
Yep. Located in Austin Texas.
Because there can't be too many Stealth-action games set in WW2..
Action! Stealth! Awesome!
I never asked for this!
Its also an actual word, meaning a chicken bred for fighting.
But... Isn't it based on a real person? How could they change the time period drastically and still say it is based on that person?
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Yeah its based on Violette Szabo apparently, a real life spy of the period. I don't know why people don't like WWII settings anyway, I know its used a lot but I like it, lol
Games I've heard of before/played a little:
Fury is a MMO that had to go F2P a month after release because no one was playing it,
the latest Stronghold title looked like digital vomit,
Insectide made game reviewers across the globe cry,
Legendary was a cheap shooter with a shit story.
Titles I've never heard of and didn't do well:
Hail to the Chimp, but a quick google search shows that everyone thought it was at best average,
Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball was even worse.
Titles I've never heard of that did well:
Mushroom Men was appreciated,
Dementium: The Ward was appreciated even more.
So really, I don't expect this game to be any good. I fully expect another Insectide failure.
spoiler'd for huge:
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yeah, after watching videos, I saw that most of the game is like that. I've seen ps2 games that look better graphic wise. And as for that shadow, I think it's hilarious that it's in front of him, and so is the light.
I'm not trying to troll the thread or anything, because the game looks like it could be fun, but it's supposed to be on the 360.
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