akbob

USA is my favorite. Mostly because I am a very enthusiastic turtler. Nothing like watching eleventy billion Alpha Auroras leveling every building in the enemy base in a single attack. Plus, the whole screen goes white if it is done right. I think I know who you're talking about. Jaque Littlefield, right? He throws the block party at his house. Those tanks are big.

EA is losing their grip. As far as the CNC franchise, that died when Westwood stopped being Westwood. CNC has been dead for years. CNC Generals and Zero Hour were CNC games in name only. They were not really CNC games. They were the start of a new franchise, as RA3 is. Whatever Petroglyph makes is the real RA3. All of the old Westwood employees quitting is a sign of how completely they have lost control of the CNC franchise. Even Blizzard has better game support. That makes more sense if you play WOW on Dethecus server, where the tech support is worse than the U.S. national debt. In summary, EA had their chance. Now I lay my hopes with Petroglyph.

Hmmm... obviously a leadup to RA3. Not necessarily a bad sign, though. Might mean that they want control of this market and realize that the fans of this genre are a little more expectant than the fans of games like the sims and rollercoaster tycoon. I really desperately hope that it means that they will step up to the plate on RA3, but i am not sure. :? (crosses fingers hoping that they will step up the quality. Please???)

One of the major factors that led to the downfall of Germany in WWII was that the Japanese attacked America instead of Russia. if russia had been forced to wage war on two fronts they likely would have lost. American isolationist policy would have lasted untill the soviets and europe had fallen. without allies and with no place to land in europe, waging war on two fronts america would have fallen. the current language would depend on whether the german or japanese armies had taken higher losses. the nation with the advantage would have declared war, and conquered the other. the world would have been unified under a terrifying and cruel facist rule. as far as an american war with china, the result was made apparent during the Korean War. more advanced tech, artillery, and air supremacy versus 3/4 million guys with soviet era armaments will end in a long drawn out conflict that will cripple and destroy both involved parties(100 years war), or internal pressure on both sides would force some sort of a peace resolution. America's war record is not perfect, but every nation loses wars. Rome, the nation that in my humble opinion was the most powerful nation of all time(not called the eternal empire for no reason), had much greater defeats than Vietnam. i hold up for example the legions that they sent to quell the rebellions in gaul. four legions were decimated, with nearly no survivors, trying and failing to conquer it. they were slaughtered with nothing to show for it. about 20,000 men in an era where to kill someone you had to stab them, and factoring in population differences between 1960's america and rome, is a worse defeat than vietnam. (yet again, in my humble opinion) not to say vietnam wasn't a defeat. 1812, however, was not a complete defeat. america remained a nation. having the capitol torched doesn't mean defeat. if it did, britain lost WWII. the capitol was bombed and buzzed worse than washington was burned in 1812. somalia was a lack of effort and a politician who spent 2102400 minutes in his term trying to get reelected.(for those of you who are lazy, that is 35040 hours or 1460 days or 4 years or his whole term) bay of pigs was the mentally retarded brainchild of kennedy and the CIA director. not america's most brilliant moment. in summary, post vietnam american defeats have been caused by selfish politicians and low levels of public support. History lesson/Insane rant is over.