China and Korea Declare Virtual War
Korean and Chinese gamers have found a new favorite past time online:
Last year, an American game titled Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault became one of the most popular games in China. This game replays the blood war history between the United States and the Japanese during the second World War. Many of the game players say something like: “Never mind the screens and the sound effects. When you take the machine gun and spray fire on the little Japanese until they get ripped to pieces, that is what is called ‘cool’!”
If Korean and Chinese gamers are not getting a thrill killing Japanese soldiers in Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault then they turn to killing each other:
Team China
VS:
Team Korea
But more recently, the players from China and Korea engaged in another full-scale ‘war’.
This time, the battlefield was in front of the China City formed by dozens of Chinese players. This city was besieged by an alliance of Korean players. The Koreans have played this game longer and therefore have good ‘battle endurance.’ The China City was about to fall into their hands, when the defenders issued an SOS appeal.
At this point, an astonishing phenomenon occurred. Hordes of supporters showed up like tides and most of their names were appended by .cn! They were all Chinese.
In the end, the Koreans were repelled. According to the computer tally, more than one hundred Koreans ‘died’ in front of the gates of China City, but they killed at least 2,000 Chinese defenders and their supporters. Most of the reinforcements had low ‘battle skills’ and they fought like as if they were suicide squads.
After the win, the Chinese defenders thanked these unknown reinforcements and found out that not all of these Chinese people came from China. There were some from Singapore, Malaysia, United States and Canada, but they all said that they were Chinese.
There was one supporting battalion of about 200 persons, but only 9 of them survived in the end. They told the Chinese defenders: “We are from Taiwan and this is the sum total of all the fighters that we can offer. When you have problems, we will come to help for sure because we are brothers!”
Maybe the South Koreans can recruit a few gamers from the one internet cafe in North Korea to help them out next time.
(Hat Tip: Japundit)
