Zoe Connolly pays a multi-part visit to the Secodn Life sim of New Bastogne, which has been created to look like Caen, France in 1944, and is the location for a brilliant roleplay game:
You can play Axis, Allies, or even French citizens (as either collaborators or part of the Resistance). [Above] night falls and battle lines are drawn. The Allies maneuver and hide... waiting for their best opportunity to attack the Nazi occupiers.
The sim runs on the VICE combat system, so this is straight up combat gaming, and I gotta say: This is a great goddamn idea for a sandbox MMO. Second Life is pretty excellent for prototyping game concepts, but I'd love to see a single-shard, massively multiplayer version of New Bastogne running on the latest game engine. Anyway, if you want to visit the city under siege, here's the SLurl to copy/paste into the Second Life viewer of your choice:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/New%20Bastogne/117/158/37
If you need some video to get you in the mood first, watch below:
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I wrote on the area a little more than four years ago. It had already been going on for a while. There's been some changes since then, such as the names of some adjoining sims and starting areas, but the basics remain the same.
http://slnewserplaces.blogspot.com/2010/09/ww2-combat-roleplay.html
Posted by: Bixyl Shuftan | Friday, February 06, 2015 at 10:43 PM