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Old 10-16-07, 09:02 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by AntEater
"Tom Clancy's (actually it wasnt him) SSN"
The game sucked, but compared to the book, the game was quite good.


The chinese are just comicbook villains while a single US SSN simply massacres the whole people's liberation navy and of course the whole russian navy; which was conveniently sold to China to keep the USS Cheyenne from running out of targets.
Also, the gloating about multiple chinese (and russian) deaths is sometimes sickening. Of course in war novels soldiers die, but SSN makes it sound like stamping out insects.
And if that was not enough, there had to be a chinese über sub as the "boss" in the end.
I totally agree. I had the book on tape from the library, and it struck me as a video game book. Use some imagination, and quit wriiting your computer games missions down.
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