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Kuma Reality Games builds re-creations of real-world events using advanced gaming tools.
KumaWar, the first Kuma Reality Game, is a first and third-person tactical squad-based game that provides multiple updates monthly to the consumer’s computer to reflect unfolding events in the real worldKuma Reality Games builds re-creations of real-world events using advanced gaming tools. KumaWar, the first Kuma Reality Game, is a first and third-person tactical squad-based game that provides multiple updates monthly to the consumer’s computer to reflect unfolding events in the real world including Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan and one based on the hunt for Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay. Each month KumaWar subscribers will receive playable missions, video news shows, extensive intelligence gathered from news sources around the world, and insight from a decorated team of military veterans. Kuma Reality Games, headquartered in New York, New York is a privately held company. [Kuma Reality Games]… Expand
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KumaWar doesnt succeed at being a great game, but the fact that the levels are based on such recent events is a compelling reason to at least try out the game.
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If you can overlook some of the shoddy AI programming, both the enemy and your teammates, you can resign yourself to enjoying a relatively mindless shooter.
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The upside of paying is that new missions appear every month, which offers you a variety of experiences. The downside of the game is that the graphics won’t overwhelm you and the missions get very repetitive once you finish them.
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For all the hype surrounding its real-world missions, when you get down to it youre paying $10 a month for what is at best a budget title shooter.
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While Ive never put a whole heap of focus on graphics, KumaWar actually manages to distract with its graphics. They arent pretty and appear more than few years old think about the original Counter-Strike and at times I mistook building features for enemy snipers.
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If you can stand the graphics, the AI, and weapon physics, this game will be tolerable for you. For the rest of you, I strongly encourage you to look elsewhere.
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Aside from AI being strangely buggy and inconsistent, the enemy placement is simply sadistic.
I played the first level on the easiest difficulty and have decided to name it «Quicksave or Die.» That is currently my only praise for the game — it runs, and the developers have added a working quicksave feature.- All this publication’s reviews
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great graphics, feels like i am really there.
quick download speeds and new real life missions. PLUS its FREE! doesnt get much better thangreat graphics, feels like i am really there. quick download speeds and new real life missions. PLUS its FREE! doesnt get much better than that! I’m looking to start a clan and get a big game goin…whos in?… Expand-
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Great concept. an interactive way to experience the war. I learned more via the intel and game play than watching the news. game play was fun Great concept. an interactive way to experience the war. I learned more via the intel and game play than watching the news.
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I think what the «critics» fail to realize is that Kuma makes completely free games, every week. So fine, maybe the graphics aren’t like theI think what the «critics» fail to realize is that Kuma makes completely free games, every week.
So fine, maybe the graphics aren’t like the developer’s games that take 2 years to develop and 200+ teams, but they are still fun shooter games with real representations of what is going on in the world.I personally love their stuff, and over the years the graphics have gotten a lot better.… Expand
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I felt this was a realistic look at modern war and am expecting much from it in the future. I hope to see more than Iraq.
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For all the old and tired graphics, physics and AI, it’s not too bad.
The fact that there are two new missions a month and it’s now For all the old and tired graphics, physics and AI, it’s not too bad. The fact that there are two new missions a month and it’s now free makes it worth while.… Expand-
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How come the developer’s don’t realize the utter disgustingness of this whole idea? Making money upon having REAL people killed in How come the developer’s don’t realize the utter disgustingness of this whole idea? Making money upon having REAL people killed in REAL life? The main idea is to have LESS war and shooting events in the world, and you already have this kid expecting MORE war content than Iraq!!! Get to your senses, what you’re doing is BAD by essence!!!… Expand
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Latest episode lets players sweep and destroy roadside improvised explosive devices.
Kuma\War attacks Fallujah
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New Fallujah mission released for Kuma\War
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New Stryker Brigade mission available for Kuma\War
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Second Kuma\War Fallujah mission available
The latest installment of the reality-based PC wargame features the failed ambush of the top general.
Kuma\War gets new Fallujah level
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«The Nazis were released, and we were mobilized.» How «patriots» reacted to the exchange of «Azov» fighters for Putin’s godfather
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Released Azov commanders in Turkey commanders and fighters of the Azov regiment (recognized as a «terrorist organization» in Russia), were exchanged for 55 Russian military men and «Putin’s godfather» Viktor Medvedchuk. The exchange became known from the Ukrainian side, and there were no official comments from the Russian authorities for more than 12 hours, which caused the anger of patriotic commentators.
The BBC reports how the largest prisoner exchange since the start of the war was covered in Ukraine and Russia.
- Ukraine exchanged Medvedchuk and 55 Russians for more than 200 of its prisoners, including five commanders from Azovstal
evidence of an exchange. Soon, the national telethon aired a meeting between President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and the head of his office, Andriy Yermak, at which the exchange was officially confirmed.
Yermak reported to Zelensky about the return by Kyiv of 215 prisoners (including 124 officers), 108 of whom are soldiers of the Azov regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard, including those who defended the Mariupol Azovstal plant. As Yermak stressed, 200 Ukrainian soldiers were exchanged from Russia for just one person — «Putin’s godfather» Viktor Medvedchuk.
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Zelensky and Yermak then made video calls to the five released commanders from Azovstal — Denis «Redis» Prokopenko, Sergei «Volina» Volynsky, Svyatoslav «Kalina» Palamar, Denis Shlega and Oleg Khomenko. Zelensky specified that, according to an agreement with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, all five will remain in Turkey «in complete safety and in comfortable conditions» until the end of the war.
In parallel, the Ukrainian media published reports from relatives of Ukrainian servicemen confirming that their loved ones had been released.
As for the Russian participants in the exchange, on Thursday morning, Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets posted on his Telegram channel a photo of servicemen on the bus, signing it: «By the way, these are freed Russian servicemen — young» children «and pensioners of the second army of the world, who, due to the «successes» of the special operation, today are catching on the borders of those who are against general graves.»
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Around noon on Thursday, the Russian Ministry of Defense finally announced that «as a result of a complex negotiation process on the exchange» 55 servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as well as self-proclaimed republics, «who are in captivity» were returned from the territory of Ukraine at night was in mortal danger.
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Since Wednesday evening, major Russian state media have ignored the exchange. News agencies TASS, RIA Novosti and Interfax did not report the incident either with reference to the Ukrainian side or their sources.
At night, unconfirmed information that the plane with Russian prisoners had already landed at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow appeared on telegram channels. Some of them wrote that Ukraine released 87 Russian prisoners of war.
On Thursday morning neither Russian officials nor major TV channels mentioned the exchange either. The messages appeared in several publications, including Izvestiya and Kommersant.
Pro-Kremlin commentators are divided over Moscow’s surprise move in a prisoner exchange, with top propaganda figures urging the return of the Russians to be welcomed.
«It’s early in the morning, the sun is rising, and now I’m thinking that 87 of our soldiers are sleeping at this moment! For the first time in six months.
Nobody will beat them today. They won’t cut off anything from anyone. They won’t shoot any of them. They just sleep. And today, someone’s mother will not howl in the temple, rubbing her knees into the blood, begging for her son,» TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov said in a message posted on his Telegram channel.
«I have said more than once, in order to get our guys out of hell, you can change them even for the hell of a bald man. And this is so. 87 soldiers and officers, 87 of our heroes. And don’t care about image losses. Although with certain approaches, these losses can would have been avoided,» says Yevgeny Poddubny, a military correspondent for the Rossiya TV channel, shared by the head of RT Margarita Simonyan.
At the same time, a wave of indignation arose among users who left comments on such posts. Most commentators were perplexed about the transfer of Ukrainian politician Medvedchuk to Russia, and the fact that the exchange involved Azov fighters, whom the Russian authorities consider Nazis, was called a betrayal.
Anger was also caused by the fact that the exchange became known from the Ukrainian side — and moreover, on the day when «partial» mobilization was announced in Russia.
The Azov fighters, who had been defending Azovstal for almost two months, surrendered in mid-May. The State Duma said they should be tried, and in August the Russian Supreme Court declared the regiment a «terrorist organization.» The head of the self-proclaimed DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that they were going to arrange a trial in occupied Mariupol. Moreover, in July of this year, the separatists lifted the moratorium on the death penalty.
Earlier, several foreigners who served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine were already sentenced to death in the DPR. On the eve it turned out that they were also exchanged — through the mediation of Saudi Arabia. A video circulated on Twitter by the state-run Saudi news agency showing 10 captives getting off the plane. The footage shows Britons Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as Moroccan citizen Saadoun Brahim.
Medvedchuk, accused in Ukraine of treason, Zelensky offered to hand over to Russia as part of an exchange back in April. However, the Kremlin stated that «there is no talk about this» since Medvedchuk is a citizen of Ukraine and is not a military man. «In the case of people who surrendered at Azovstal, we are talking about the military and members of nationalist formations, so these are completely different categories of people, and it is hardly possible to talk about any exchanges here,» Dmitry Peskov said at the time. .
Russian propagandists, including Vladimir Solovyov, also stated that Medvedchuk should not be exchanged for Azov fighters. «What’s going on? You can commit crimes, rape, kill, terrorize for eight years […] so that now they will be replaced with some Medvedchuk?! A Ukrainian citizen? There are 400 of our guys in captivity! No, guys, if we start playing now with this painful topic, the people will not forgive!» — he said in his author’s program in May.
On Thursday, when journalists asked Peskov about participation in the exchange of Medvedchuk and Azov fighters, he replied: «I have no authority to comment on this.»
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