Comments on: First Strike (BF 2142 Mod Review by Consumerist)

By: CONSUMERIST

CONSUMERIST — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:52:07 +0000

But george lucas didn’t sue them. And I did load the battle of yavin. You don’t need to tell me where hte battle of yavin takes place.

By: First Strike Community

First Strike Community — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:43:08 +0000

Consumerist, George Lucas has every right to sue those modders who put the duel of fates in it. Are you really criticizing us for going through the work of recreating the essence of a john williams song without actually mimicking the song? Our sound guy spent countless days working on all of the songs in the mod, and if you actually played more than 2 maps in the mod you would notice that there are some star wars themes placed in our songs. It’s obvious that you did not even bother to load the battle of yavin (death star)

By: lcodefirel

lcodefirel — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:59:39 +0000

Consumerist, it doesn’t matter if they used John Williams music or not. I’m more impressed that they went a different route then other SW mods and made their own.

By: CONSUMERIST

CONSUMERIST — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:00:23 +0000

but modders who inserted duel of the fates, which was not orignally in jedi academy, did not have permission from john williams. Neither did the moviebattles 2 staff.

By: First Strike Community

First Strike Community — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:09:42 +0000

Maybe because it was published by Lucas arts? George Lucas has permission from JW to use his songs.

By: TK-7642

TK-7642 — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:08:54 +0000

I have played almost every single Star Wars game from Dark Forces to Star Wars Galaxies. I have seen all the movies.

I have played First Strike alot.

I can say that this is simply the best Star Wars game ever made.

Although not perfect, It is the highest quality, most immersive, realistic, and accurate Star Wars game of them all.

You feel you are in the movies more than any other Star Wars game ever made.

By: CONSUMERIST

CONSUMERIST — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:48:51 +0000

John williams didn’t sue people when they inserted his music into star wars jedi knight jedi academy without his permission.

By: Omen

Omen — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:34:27 +0000

1. This is nothing like Star Wars battlefront 2, It is not nearly as much as an arcade game as that is and it’s much more lore accurate. Did SWBF2 have the Battle of yavin, Rhen Var, Ryloth, or Movable Capital ships? No.
2. We added 6 more game modes to the 2142 engine. We added space to the game. We added 5 new classes. Simplified Battlefield 2142? I think not
3. I requested that you start reviewing when 1.25 came out, the capital ships were broken in 1.2
4. Titan mode is hardcoded into the game and we can’t use most of the things that it has.
5. Commander is in patch 1.25 and it is only used to direct troops. Like I said before, this mod is based on teamwork.
6. The Squad leaders have a UAV, a Deployable Turret, and a Squad beacon.
7. You seem to address the Battle of Taloraan only. This is 1 out of 12 maps and the majority of these maps are land maps.
8. Battlefield 2142 automatically dumbs down the graphics for us making it so they can’t look any better
9. John Williams would sue us if we used his music.
10. John William’s songs were all with an orchestra.
11. X-wing sounds were taken directly from the movie
12. You say that we didn’t add anything new for the star wars games. How about the first star wars game that you actually have to use teamwork?

Overall it appears that there was little to no effort taken into this review. You obviously played it for no more than an hour and have not played all the maps. This mod does have a learning curve unlike most simple star wars games. If you do a re-review please read the FS wiki and actually play the game long enough to understand it. http://firststrikemod.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
I would say thank you for your time but obviously little or no time was used. We are VERY open to criticism but almost all the criticism in this review wasn’t accurate. Please do a re-review

Thanks for putting up another review.

By: Omen

Omen — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:32:15 +0000

Also when you rate the music, do you take into perspective that if we just stuck in John William’s sound track we would be sued by John Williams himself? Do you take into account that John Williams was paid thousands of dollars to make that song and our sound guy gets paid nothing? Even when you’re rating music you rate it on the quality of the compression not whether or not it’s identical to John Williams. I can’t believe that you have the nerve to say we didn’t take advantage of the 2142 engine. When the team went to the DICE studios and met the team members of DICE, DICE could not believe what they did with the engine. And DICE made the engine themselves.

By: First Strike Community

First Strike Community — Wed, 28 May 2008 10:18:30 +0000

Consumer, if you never saw the option to spawn in a capital ship then obviously you have not reviewed enough. Every single space map has a different gamemode, some use capital ships and some don’t. We can’t move the star destroyer due to the engine’s limitations. People lag when 2 titans move think about the lag when you have a star destroyer 500 times the size of a titan moving.