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Anyone else here grow up watching the G.I. Joe cartoon and collecting the action figures? Looks like Hasbro green-lighted a "mature" animated version (with blood and dead Joes) that's worth a look for a trip down memory lane ... US residents can watch it on AdultSwim.com, but for all of us outside the US there's always YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/ea3dfx Final episode coming April 25th ...

After many years following the GR franchise, it's getting pretty obvious over the past several years that Ubi brass has an unstated policy implemented for blackout of info on a title until basically they want you to know about it. The rationale behind exactly why they are doing this because they don't want to distract the limelight from current titles or they just don't hire enough PR staff is something we fans will never know, and complaints from us here won't change this policy. Personally, I think Ubi could learn from other game companies that do a much better job communicating with

Hi Pat! Good to see you posting again on these forums Sounds like you guys are working on a winner here. Looking forward to hearing more info on it. (Hopefully your PR guys know how to do a better job than Ubi ) With regards to the regenerative health, I'd be curious what the consultants (Marines) on the game think about it. There's always a fine balance between gameplay and realism.

Congrats on the new rig WK! What are you playing on it so far? Also do you have plans to upgrade your monitor? I have a friend who has a computer store and still have some gamers coming in looking for old CRTs because of the better refresh rates I know I recommended getting a 24" LCD, but I found with some newer games running them at native 1920x1200 res with 4x+ AA and AF turned on slow down the framerates, so perhaps a 20-22" with 1680x1050 res is the best compromise ...

Only individual I know on these boards (or anywhere so far for that matter) with an i7 so far is WK - ask him for his first-hand experience

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Thanks for the reply Pave! Sounds like a great setup. I actually don't watch a lot of TV, so I still haven't upgraded our old CRT for the family. My only HD screens at home are computer monitors, so if I ever get into Blu-Ray it will probably be on my computer first

Just curious if anyone here has a Blu-Ray drive for their PC and what's your setup and experience like? (video card HDMI, what kind of monitor you use, etc)

So ... IE8 has been out for a week or so. Anyone here try it yet? Any probs? I tried it in the Windows 7 Beta and was underwhelmed I just tried to install it in an older XP computer (with all the updates) and keep getting errors when I try to install the Adobe Flash plugin I would advise holding off on IE8 for the time being ...

Thanks to both of you for your comments! I finally dusted off my 360 and dloaded Halo Wars. Very nice looking but definitely simplistic compared to PC RTS's. Very interesting how they made the various new units and Covenant and UNSC buildings. Had a fun time with both single player (very linear) and the 1 vs 1 skirmish. What made me roll the eyes a bit was after my Xbox live was updated, there are these new characters you need to chose - bascially MS copying Nintendo's Mii's

Cool, nice find. I wonder who are the 20 RSE employees mentioned here: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22649

WK, if you are going to spend some extra coin on a Falcon system, I'd suggest you seriously consider going for a 24" in monitor. I have a ViewSonic 22" at home (1680x1050 res) and a Dell Ultrasharp 24" at work (1920x1200 res) and the extra 2 inches make a big difference. Also, with a 24" you can properly view 1080p on your computer, and it's nice to have 1200 vertical pixels to do image editing etc. You probably won't buy another monitor for years, so I would argue a larger screen is worth the extra funds. If you don't go for a 24", I wouldn't recommend you settle for less than a 22

Wow!!! That is some impressive packaging!

http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=Mzg1...HVzaWFzdCwsLDE=

I think Ikea is great value compared to years ago, and have quite a bit of Ikea furniture at home and the office nowadays. I really like their new Besta series for storage

The Indeo codec used to be given away free, but after awhile they started charging for it. Not sure what its status is now.

WK, why don't you try to price out the same parts individually and I'll bet you save a cool $1K at least The only things these days boutique system builders like Falcon may be able to do better are cabling/water cooling/over-clocking which it doesn't seem your's is o/c'd What are your current rig specs? If you have a Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz or greater, I wouldn't bother upgrading now unless there is some real system hog game you want to play. BTW, I just was at Ikea and they had a sale for 10 meatball special with potatoes and gravy for $2.99

Welcome back home Saint!

Good balanced reporting Rocky! Check out Dave Perry's blog which has the actual table the article refers to http://www.dperry.com/archives/news/dp_blog/most_least_cons/ Ubi only has 4 titles in the "A" category (wonder which ones?) and 75 in the "F" Metacritic doesn't seem to be an exact scientific way of calculating scores. I'm confounded why the gaming industry puts so much weight on the score. http://www.gamequarry.com/dablog/category/...itic_uncovered/

Do not get WinXP 64 bit. I have it and never use it. It is likely MS support for it will stop long before support for the 32-bit verison. I'd suggest either XP 32 bit or Vista 64-bit.

Besides a small handful of studios like Blizzard and id, most publishers don't make Mac versions. All previous Mac versions of Ubi games were ported by 3rd party publishers like Aspyr or MacSoft, usually a year or more after the PC version came out.

Anyone download and try this out yet? I'm curious what you think of the gamepad controls for an RTS. I need to hook up my 360 again but unfortunately gaming is a bit low on the priority list now, but I'll get around to it ...

If I recall correctly, go to the GR2 website, chose to listen to all 3 of the tracks from the game. Once you've listened to all 3, check your browser cache and you've automatically downloaded the mp3's of all the tracks. http://www.ghostrecon.com/us/ghostrecon2/a...stURL=index.php Also, check out Bill Brown's site to see if he has uploaded tracks from the game.

I was looking for a thread to discuss this interview so I'm glad you started this thread WK. Thanks to you and John for the great read! Hang in there John! A tanking economy sure does limit opportunities but it doesn't negate the fact that you have a great team working with you and great ideas that really appeal to a good chunk of the gaming population.

Check Youtube for vids of hack to play the game in 3rd person