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". Not too sure where it comes from, though >_>" It's Mike Mignola, probably a Nazi scientist about to summon Hellboy for the first time.

I have 15 turns left and control 38 regions as the English, unfortunately I will not be beating the game because I need Jerusalem which is being held by the Timurids, and whenever I fight them on the battlemap an unspecified crash error occurs, and my armies aren't strong enough to auto battle them. Probably my aging card which hasen't had a driver update in a year and on the verge of being discontinued.

Cricket and Baseball remind me too much of roundball, which is a kid's game where I come from, it's just barely a sport, like golf.

Bloodlines was an awesome game, unfortunately it got worse as you hit the last parts of the game, a testament to running out of time and funds more than anything else, I mean they released it with a fatal bug at the conclusion of one of the missions for heaven's sake. On the other hand the Quai jin conlusion was excellent. I don't think there was anything wrong with the ending(s) they just weren't spectacular, like many segment of the game were. Unreal 2 was never supposed to be a single player game, they just slapped together something willy nilly and didn't even include multiplayer functionality, a complete waste of money.

I have a question, how do you explore the new world and fight the incas ? I have almost run out of turns and I never got the option.

Just love of the dicipline really. As you may know I have been a long time proponent of the introduction of olympic axes to the death, to spruce up an otherwize pretty pointless parade of mostly non-sports, like walking and syncronous swimming,

Grizly hunting, with a fireman's axe, now thats interesting.

One side tries to knock a thingie off a wooden construction while the other side stries to whack the ball away, then they either run furiously or start beating eachother up. A bit like baseball I guess.

Oddball sport.

HL did well in the atmosphere department I think, except for the dopey aliens.

It's a sun sign, not a swastika, the Nazis stole the design.

They wrote the requirements before the invention of PCI express, so no you don't.

" Well, I guess if you didn't like the first one enough to think it's worth replaying, then the updated graphics aren't going to entice you, now, are they?" I liked it quite a lot, but I played it once already. Just changing the graphics is en't getting me excited.

The army is the wrong place for political conviction. Yes, the war in Iraq was illegal in the sense that it was a breach of the UN charter which the US is a signitary to, but the big boys break the UN charter all the time, nothing ever comes of it. In any case national law trumphs international law.

So the same ****, only prettier. uhh, whats the big deal ?

I think the word is that too long is definately no good. As for the campaign, it depends, when all your bases are belongs to us = win. There are 20 areas in the map and you have to figth your way to each enemy's stronghold and hold onto it.

Is there any way to slow down the speed in the campaign mode. I always play at slow, or slower and up the difficulty level as I don't particularly consider speed of clickage to be an interesting challenge.

Zerg rush

Homeworld two suffers a from the supposed inovation of adaptive AI. It punishes you for playing well and rewards you for playing like ****. That would be fine if it was adjusted inbetween missions, but knowing that if you manage to kill those enemy wings fast, another two are just going to show up - it just kinda ruins the whole single player experience. Multiplayer is good though. Have you played homeworld cataclysm ?

Limitless hours of Doctor Zhivago,, ugh..

Ohh one thing about DOW and Dark Crusade; why is there no keymapping ? A pretty noob mistake for devs whos should know the basics.

Grayside, darkside and ligthside are like confused teenagers, allways switching sides.

The first game, Homeworld, did have poor selection and interface, but it was fixed to satisfaction in the sequals.

It's not easy capturing a battlecruiser, but it's immensely satisfying, as is having a full compliment of heavy corvettes kill a battlecruiser with only light figther support. These are some of the same game mechanics to standard RTS, but they are immensely more satisfying. The tide of the battle can be affected by the first few waves of fighters to get to the crunch point, or motherloade of resources. I also like the fact that with a large number of players, the battle really isen't over untill your last carrier is gone. A comeback is entirely possible as the more mighty focus their attention on eachther.

I much prefer recourcing, building and unit production to be easily managable, which is why I am such a fan of the homeworld series. The notion of strategic points seems a little too unrealisitc to me, and I find most of these standard RTS games where you lead your army of green selection markers to destroy the enemy's bulidings to be somewhat tedious, but the DOW series isen't bad for what it is, the best of a genre I don't really like, and I have played it online some.