Comments on: Velvet Assassin Review

By: Mike Hudec

Mike Hudec — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:58:53 +0000

Thanks Steve, much appreciated. I’m pretty proud of it.

This review definitely came at a price, though; that trial and error stuff really started to wear on me.

By: Steven Artlip (Steve519)

Steven Artlip (Steve519) — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:33:12 +0000

Great job on the review Mike, I really enjoyed reading it.

By: WVO

WVO — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:32:22 +0000

Right, no problem since your definitely not the only reviewer to be using the term.

Although if we really want to educate people about the differences we should be differentiating between the two. At least that along with many other things is our goal.

Thanks for being so understanding, again great review!

By: Mike Hudec

Mike Hudec — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:41:30 +0000

Hey, thanks for the kind words. As for the Nazi thing, good eye. I just thought that calling the enemy, as a collective, Nazis would be easier to follow; an all-encompassing term, if you will. Perhaps, in retrospect, the clarification would have been the better option.

Either way, I’m glad you enjoyed the game and the review. Again, thanks for the compliments.

By: WVO

WVO — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:44:15 +0000

Good review, although a few things,

Firstly, your use of the term “Nazi” is a bit off. Nazi is a term used to represent members of the Nazi party when they were in power. A majority of German soldiers were not Nazi’s, infact there was much dislike for Nazi party members in the Wehrmacht. Unless they were fighting on the front line you wouldn’t find very many Germans who liked Nazi’s. Hitler and his party were only tolerated by the masses because he was rebuilding Germany. Of course this was happening at a time when a majority of Germans had no idea of the treatment of Jews and others by the Nazi party thanks to propaganda, but that’s a different story.

Less than 10% of Germans were actually Nazi’s during the life span of the Nazi Party. A majority of those 10% had joined solely to further their careers since Nazi party members were prioritized over regular Germans at the time. In some areas of high Nazi official concentration party member ship was required to continue running a business legally, kind of like a union. Because of this in many parts of Germany the unionization system was banned in the 70s/80s.

Other than that great review, I for one liked Velvet Assassin. I didn’t mind killing the asshole Germans; the compassionate ones you mentioned in your review were hard.