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Bongoboy, designer de Splash Damage porte son commentaire:

«Our Oasis map ended up having relatively little connection to World War II, even though we thought it was going to! There were so many battles in North Africa in WWII involving a wide variety of combatants and materiel: French, British, Italian, German and American. As you suspected, we were very interested in the battles for Tobruk. At one point we were going to make a whole map based on the historical defence of Tobruk but it never developed past the concept stage.
We wanted to make the maps as different from each other as possible so we wanted to make Siwa was just such an amazing location, with such great potential for gameplay; it was more use to us as a scenario location than places where there really were big WWII battles.
Siwa has an amazing history, and could be the subject of a whole game on its own. There really is an Oasis there, as well as an archaeological excavation of an ancient temple.
The dig site in the map is a combination of several different Egyptian archaeological sites, particularly the temple of Karnak at Luxor, Egypt.
The little railway and carts were our homage to the dig site scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, although nobody seemed to recognise them.
The Old City was constructed from several different sources, but primarily from Shali, the actual old town of Siwa.
The Axis base was a fusion of several influences and references, especially the movie Laurence of Arabia. The layout was more inspired by the Axis base in MP_FuelDump than any historical structure. Certainly there is no recorded instance of anti-tank guns being mounted high up in a fortress.».


Gorobei of Real-ET donne son opinion:
Une très bonne carte qui reprend, en le rendant jouable, un principe des commandos. On attaque par le coté le moins défendu pour briser la défense ennemi. Evidement les canons du jeu sont bien trop haut perché et font d'excellentes cibles. Les canons étaient généralement enterrés. Les oasis sont fait en boue séchée et en pierre et il ne reste souvent rien après un bombardement. J'apprécie en particulier la référence à Lawrence d'Arabie, un de mes films cultes comme son acteur principal (Peter O'Toole).