@redfrog I know what you mean about Blizzard but they're very different to other developers in how they release games. They perfect and balance thier games for months they iron out the bugs properly, they don't simpley wait till lator and use patches. Blizard takes thier time to make sure thier games are perfect and they won't listen to the execs trying to force the game out sooner which is for a large part due to the hardcore gamer audience meaning that the seasonal nature of the gaming industry dosn't effect them. On top of that they're a small studio and so can only work on one new project at a time, they managed to make the Lich king at the same time as that was very little programming work and largely content which can be left to artists and designers to add which weren't needed at the point for Starcraft 2 as the programmers were making the engine, later they could start working on Diablo 3 as the concept artists and programers had finished with the Lich King and Starcraft (just a few programmers kept back for bug fixing).

@Easy_big_b I do love Dawn of war but for me that's pretty much the limit of how action oriantated i like my RTS. World in Conflict was only good because it did the action parts so well and because of how the classes forced teamwork.

@Zertos I know what you mean, i liked the RA2 FMVs, the actors had more substance espescially eva, Gemma Atkinson is all looks but no substance like the RA2 one was. Though you should note that RA2's eva (Athena Massey) mostly stared in erotic thrillers ;)

@hellaquin Have to agree with you there, they took the stupidity too far, Red Alert is supposed to be a series with some tupid units but that are taken seriously. Otherwise the whole game just looks like a joke. The units in RA2 didn't look stupid but some of the ideas were but only to add to the gameplay and not for stupidities sake. Some of thee units in RA3 are good ideas like that Soviet walker with the fly hop manuver and i understand why those units look like they do as inspiration was taken form the Hind helicopter but that dosn't mean that super heavy Apocalypse tanks should look the same.

Maybe sometime Will Wright will og back to making proper god games (simcity is a god game not a stratergy, will has never made a strategy game), he hasn't made a good game since Simcity 4. hopefully the mod community will start up again for the old strategy games as alot of the new ones are pretty bad. They keep throwing you into the action quicker and such but base building is one of the crucial parts of the genre and there shouldn't be unit caps either as this also limits steamrolling and turtling stratergies. Sid Meier seems to be the only person still making proper stratergy games these days.

@classic player that would be nice on GS but dosn't belong in this article, go to tomshardware for that sort of thing GS can't do hardware well

Avast is better than AVG and norton, it misses less and uses alot less system resorces, neither does it have that annoying popup that AVG has when installing updates which will crash any full screen app you're using and slow your computer to a crawl. It's also free :) WMP has enough photo and video caperbilities for the average user too. . Though you could always not get a prebuilt, that's the best option. It's only worth getting prebuilt for laptops and personally i i wanted to wipe the crap off it i'ld just reformat and install from a copy direct from M$ (local pc shops will lend you one if you don't have one)

the 320mb gts is overclocked so it has a higher core clock speed and memory clock speed

Well i can't see any real diference, there seems to be a slight change in particle effects and lighting and some sort of depth of field has been added. Looking at the frame rates it looks like a bad console conversion or an unefeicent engine. My guess is we won't see a proper use of DX10 to at least crysis unreal 3 should have some DX10 toys toobut it wont get in to full swing for at least 6 months (possibly more)