Opening Movie for WitW

[Baelfiin]

Simply the best I have ever seen. Hats off to the folks who put it together.

[KenchiSulla]

I only just now (after your post) took the time to watch it.. You are right, it is very nicely done.

[VilleYrjola]

Any chance to make it run again after the first time I start the game? I pressed esc during the cutscenes in order to set full screen on.

[Helpless]

You need to switch back to window mode or open it manually from the \dat\video folder.

[Erik Rutins]

In the default windowed mode it will play every time you launch the game, just hit Escape if you want to skip it.

I'm glad you all like it. Barry Munden and I worked on that and it took quite a few iterations between the choice of music (which we were also working with Marco on for the game) and the edits/composition of the video until we felt we had it just right. I hope it provides the proper inspiration for your games. [8D]

Regards,

- Erik

[Gilmer]

The music and video are very good. I liked it immediately.

[DuskoPopov]

Honestly it's nothing special IMO. Just a bunch o generic images and I haven't spotted a single one featuring the Axis side. Great game though.

[RayWolfe]

ORIGINAL: Baelfiin

Simply the best I have ever seen. Hats off to the folks who put it together.

I totally agree - provided that you think that the war in the west was a 97.35% US effort.
Cynical - moi?

[Erik Rutins]

We actually had trouble in terms of finding enough historical footage at a high enough resolution to showcase more of the Allies. If you watch, you will see it's not just US forces, but the video is roughly 80% US because the high quality footage available to us was mostly US footage. We put a few more pieces of Allied footage in the victory video.

DuskoPopov, we did want the intro video to focus on the "War of Liberation" theme. You can see more of an Axis focus in the Axis victory video.

Regards,

- Erik

[KenchiSulla]

ORIGINAL: RayWolfe

ORIGINAL: Baelfiin

Simply the best I have ever seen. Hats off to the folks who put it together.

I totally agree - provided that you think that the war in the west was a 97.35% US effort.
Cynical - moi?

No, it was actually for a large part Soviet. Red Banner anyone?

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Cannonfodder

ORIGINAL: RayWolfe

ORIGINAL: Baelfiin

Simply the best I have ever seen. Hats off to the folks who put it together.

I totally agree - provided that you think that the war in the west was a 97.35% US effort.
Cynical - moi?

No, it was actually for a large part Soviet. Red Banner anyone?

warspite1

War In The West was for a large part Soviet?

[KenchiSulla]

Enabled by the Soviets. No War in the West without a War in the East. Or do you think that the western allies would have had a lot of success against 3 million German defenders?

[Meteor2]

I was a little bit disappointed, that only pictures and films of the allies were to be seen.
That is far better in WitE.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Cannonfodder

Enabled by the Soviets. No War in the West without a War in the East. Or do you think that the western allies would have had a lot of success against 3 million German defenders?

warspite1

[&:]

Of course the brunt of the land war was fought between the Germans and Soviets - everyone who knows anything about WWII knows that.

But the game is called War In The West - the Eastern Front is abstract using a box. On that basis why would you need to show any Soviets at all?

[KenchiSulla]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Cannonfodder

Enabled by the Soviets. No War in the West without a War in the East. Or do you think that the western allies would have had a lot of success against 3 million German defenders?

warspite1

[&:]

Of course the brunt of the land war was fought between the Germans and Soviets - everyone who knows anything about WWII knows that.

But the game is called War In The West - the Eastern Front is abstract using a box. On that basis why would you need to show any Soviets at all?

It was a joke....

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Cannonfodder

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Cannonfodder

Enabled by the Soviets. No War in the West without a War in the East. Or do you think that the western allies would have had a lot of success against 3 million German defenders?

warspite1

[&:]

Of course the brunt of the land war was fought between the Germans and Soviets - everyone who knows anything about WWII knows that.

But the game is called War In The West - the Eastern Front is abstract using a box. On that basis why would you need to show any Soviets at all?

It was a joke....

warspite1

Oh....

[KenchiSulla]

You didn't get it...

[warspite1]

Evidently not........

[KenchiSulla]

Or are you angry about the lack of enough English soldiers displayed in the intro? Or the fact that Warspite is not in it...

[warspite1]

Angry? No of course not. English? No this isn't the 1500's [;)]

Personally I think it would have been nice to have more of the Commonwealth/Free French and Polish forces represented in the titles (we do seem to be something of an afterthought) although it is only right that the US should have the lion's share of the credits.

As for the missing Warspite, yes I am absolutely livid about that - there is no excuse for missing off the ship that won World War II [;)]