Talk:Bolo (video game)

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[edit] Other Bolo titles

This was an Apple II game before it was a Mac game...I'll probably try to work in a brief comment about that, though someone else with more info would be welcome to do it.Beska Miltar 16:09, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I remember that one. This was, in fact, based on Keith Laumer's Bolo series. You played a tank in a large maze, and enemy craft would emerge from four bases. Destroy all four bases and you win. The first level of difficulty is OK, but each level adds another type of enemy craft, which is diabolical even on level 2. Afalbrig 07:50, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

There is another computer game with that name by "[Dongleware]", having the follower "Dia-Bolo" see http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=3313

Either a section on each Bolo game or a separate article. Either way, Bolo (disambiguation) needs to include these other titles. Cburnett June 29, 2005 23:50 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure this is the Bolo... :-) Evercat 30 June 2005 01:25 (UTC)

Regardless, they should be included in some form. Cburnett June 30, 2005 04:28 (UTC)

I'd argue strongly that the Mac bolo was clearly inspired by the Apple ][ Bolo. it has the same core gameplay, the same scale, the same control system, and the same name. The "original" Bolo stories described a very different sort of tank. So I think it's an uphill battle to say that the Mac Bolo isn't, at its heart, Apple ][ Bolo with multiplay. Nandesuka 14:34, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

The origin of the game should be described under a "history" section heading. The game as it is currently known (the one pictured in screen shot etc), is the mutiplayer version by Stuart Cheshire. The current version should be the focus of the opening spiel... not what it was based on. Flimsyq 03:03, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Remove "early" Bolo?

This page is basically about the Mac Bolo and the games that developed from it. Yet the infobar merges that version along with the earlier, and generally forgotten, BBB version. The platform list is similarly confusing. I suggest we remove this. Maury 19:03, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

There are multiple notable computer games named "Bolo", and so this page needs to be a disambig page pointing to the different versions. Tempshill (talk) 07:01, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Real-time tactics?

Is this really a real-time tactics game? It seems you only control one tank, which would make it a shooter, possibly even a tactical shooter. SharkD 14:06, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Depends on where you draw the line. The game supports multiple users, such that players can form teams to carry out objectives in-game that go beyond your typical shooter (waypoint control in the form of "bases", resource acquisition and deployment in the form of "pillboxes"). That each player controls a single tank seems immaterial when considering multiplay. D. Brodale 19:28, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
Compare:
Tactical shooter: "In multiplayer games, the term can have a different meaning. A multiplayer tactical shooter focuses on team cooperation to achieve objectives, rather than simply eliminating the enemy (as in traditional deathmatch games). The tactical emphasis is thus on joint goals and assisting team members, rather than on overcoming realistic individual limitations, for example, in games such as Counter-Strike or Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory."
MMORTS: "Massively multiplayer online real-time strategy (MMORTS) is a genre of online computer game that combines real-time strategy (RTS) with a large number of simultaneous players over the Internet. Players will often assume the role of a general, king or figurehead of some kind, leading an army into battle, while at the sametime maintaining the resources needed for such warfare."
RTT games are more closely related to RTS games than shooters, hence why I use them as an example.
SharkD 21:15, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
Like I said, it depends on where the line is drawn. The game is clearly not a simple shooter, nor is it an MMORTS. Given the above sample catgorizations, you seem correct to place it in the "Tactical Shooter" camp at the present time. D. Brodale 21:27, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
OK, I changed the genre. SharkD 21:37, 27 October 2007 (UTC)