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I think company of heroes was a pack of douche. it was oversimplified much like dawn of war, except it was cool, overblown and inherantly fun like DOW. it just dosnt feel beefy. the two sides are just slight variations of each other, i found it possible to forget who i was playing as. I found you never had more than 8 or so units at any given time so the tacticalness is pretty poor. graphics are SHINY. i just thought it was a boring attempt to take DOW to WWII. DOW ftw if you like simple rts. it owns. COH = collestral bag

Its a book fourillogry (That is there are four books in the seirse) by Harry Turtledove. Check them out, the first one is called WorldWar: In the Balence

HAARP wrote:

Zoombie wrote:Also...someone needs to make a Worldwar mod for this. Worldwar, in a nut shell, is "Halfway through WWII...and BAMPH! Aliens invade, forcing humanity to band together against them. So its Jew with Nazi, American with Japanese, German with Russian, all against a bunch of Lizards with helicopters, assault rifles, nuclear weapons, jet airplanes, spaceships, advanced radar, moder computer chips, and modern tanks"

What about that doesn't sound cool? I mean...its WWII...but different!

Was this your idea? Sounds interesting.

Harry Turtledove book. He has some really interesting stuff:

World War Series: The one Zoombie described

Darkness Series- recreates World War I with magic, dragons, and other standard fantasy ideas

and there is another one that explores what would happen if the South won the Civil War (or atleast didn't stay part of the USA).

The Great War series is the sequel to the south winning the civil war, and its about how the US allies itself with Germany in WWI and the Confederated States (CS) allies with their long time French and British Allies and a friggen huge trench line opens up down the middle of North America.

Weird, but surprisingly believable when you start to read it...

That's so incredibly stupid. How can both the Union and the Confederacy ally with Germany?

Sorry...I meant British for the Confeds

Thanks, I'll have a look at it when I have some time. Alternate history, sounds good (:

Oh great. It's one of those retarded games that check some imaginary system requirements in the installer. And it wants to require XP or Vista (pro tip: The correct way to test for system requirements is just to run and crash if it really doesn't work, don't check in the installer). Can anyone post the registry settings it creates (of course blanking out his key)?

And anyone taking bets on the amount of bribery/pressure from Microsoft involved here?

EDIT: Ah, okay, seems it's linked against some XP-specific stuff. Okay, I'll run the game when Vista is released. I'm on an MSDNAA university so upgrading costs me nothing but my father has XP installed and every time I see its "userfriendly" interface changes I want to take a sledgehammer to the computer. So XP is not an option.