'Glorious Resolve' promises the ultimate experience of a successful Swat operation, but lags because of weak design
Video games have come a long way since the good ol' PlayStation days.
Today, all leading professional sectors use gaming in various applications. From science and education, to marketing and HR: you just need to be creative enough to use video games to your advantage.
The US Army has done a game from an HR perspective. It’s called the ‘American Army’, and its main objective is to give people an idea of what life would be like as an armed forces serviceman or woman.
The US Navy too, once launched a game just so that they could document strategies deployed by gamers which could later be integrated in the AI brain of their non-piloted submarine.
Following in these footsteps, the Pakistan Army recently launched their own game, called ‘Glorious Resolve’, which seems like it was created to give users an experience of how a successful military operation pans out.
I recently downloaded the game on my phone and gave it a shot. Here are some of my thoughts:
Game play
This is a BIG game! Don’t get me wrong: the story itself isn’t too long, and the campaign is pretty straight forward — but the map is massive, which takes a toll on the game’s performance.
The massive map is also pretty monotonous, which means each of the campaigns drags on for a bit too long. Right now, I am stuck on the second Peochar campaign.
As a huge FPS fan, I have literally grown up playing Counter Strike on LAN and gaming zones before finally settling for consoles.
The problem with Glorious Resolve is that it views mobile gaming as being similar to PC and console gaming. It lags on my Xiaomi Mi A1, and I had to exercise glorious patience during the first mission, where helicopter control was was so bad that it took a lot of extra effort to just have the helicopter focus its aim on the miscreants on the ground.
I like the overall concept of the first mission though. During active war zones, the helicopter troop transport is usually accompanied by an Apache helicopter, which makes sure the enemies on the ground don’t bring the troop helicopter down.
Graphics and story-telling