I am a big fan of RTS Games, that's short for Real Time Strategy Games. They are the type of games where you can fight your own computer's artificial intelligence, or your friends using virtual soldiers, tanks and some out of this world weaponry. I like them for the fact that you cannot only pretend that you are a general in the midst of the world's greatest battles, you also get to go back into time and recount historical battles as far as the ancient times. For this matter, I usually go for RTS games which recount Word War 1 and World War 2 as they offer a mix of modernity and antiquity. They are also rich in history, the type which we always witness in famous war documentaries and historical war movies.
Amongst all the mission packs available for these strategy games, I prefer the missions that take place in the pacific, more than the ones in Europe and some parts of Asia. In a recent game I played, one of the objectives was to capture the island of
Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean. This scenario is certainly one of the most famous battles World War 2 has ever seen, in fact up to now; the battle of Iwo Jima holds a special part of our consciousness. In fact there's this monument in Arlington, Virginia that immortalizes the special event when U.S. Marines finally raised the American Flag in Iwo Jima, when they finally took full control of the island from the Japanese soldiers.
Truly, these games do not only give us the feeling of being a soldier who is not only fighting for survival, but is also fighting for liberty and honor -- forging history along the way. It brings us back to the time of our fathers, when raising the
American Flag in an island was just as monumental as winning the war for America.
by:
The Flagman
