SWIV 3D
Description of SWIV 3D
Blue Thunder and Airwolf.. what do
these shows have in common? Well, a few things. For a start, they were
all made in the eighties. Secondly, they were both about people zipping
about in well armed helicopters, taking out criminals. And finally,
despite the current Hollywood trend of converting old shows to the big
screen, they have yet to have movie versions made of them. Why is this?
Admittedly, Airwolf was pretty cliched, each episode being more or
less a carbon copy of the last one, usually involving international
terrorists, Russians, or both. Airwolf definitely had a high
'anti-ruskie' factor. And the special effects were more than a tad
dodgy. And so was the plot; this bloke's brother was missing, and he
refused to give back Airwolf, the big helicopter, till the government
found him. All it needs is a good scriptwriter, a massive budget, loads
of gratuitous explosions, and a star, and hey presto, you've got an
instant hit. They certainly shouldn't have any problems with
slaughtering the premise; just look what happened with Mission Impossible.
But what does all this have to do with SWIV 3D, the latest game from S.C.I.? Well, not all that much. Except that in SWIV 3D,
you fly a heavily armed helicopter, a little like those in the
aformentioned eighties series, as you blast your way through a number of
hostile territories. You see, SWIV 3D is no
sim; there's no fuel level to watch, no throttle to fiddle with, just
pure blasting action. And why? I'm afraid you've got me there.
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