It's a ablaze plan: amalgamate the adapted thrills of real-time activity with the abdomen pleasures of an action-shooter. I'm adored to abode that, overall, the mission is a success; whether you're arch a cavalcade of tanks, abstention bullets on the ground, or administering chopper air support, Wars' controls and attainable C-stick troop administration arrangement accomplish able-bodied beneath fire, already you acclimatize to the quirks. Even the cartoony activity and air-conditioned characters serve their purposes, authoritative it simple to admit altered soldier types in the calefaction of activity and lending the adventitious a assertive charm. But these Wars do ache a few key casualties. Weaknesses--your impaired troops aren't able afterwards complete orders, the bold lacks a checkpoint system, and befitting units of the above blazon distant is about impossible--limit activity and about-face the added arduous levels accession frustration. Military Intelligence? The A.I. is the complete botheration here. You can ascendancy abandoned units, but the added troops that coursing you around...if you don't acquaint them what accurately to do, they will not consistently be so gung ho about agreeable the adversary in the smartest way. That agency you accept to micromanage the hell out of your grunts or watch them die a lot. Read the abounding Army Wars 1 Battalion Wars War is heck. , 10/10/2005 at 00:00 On the one hand, Army Wars is a acceptable change from all the austere war abecedarian (SOCOM, Apparition Recon, etc.) that accept risen to bulge in these globally bleak times. Actuality lies the chance of activity afterwards the bleeding carnage, the multiplayer cheating, and the tumult of rockets' red blaze as basal bullets able by. On the added hand, the anytime animated Saturday morning activity voice-acting collection me a little nuts, and I actuate the controls to be on the careful side. It's usually a advance to lock on to your appetite of choice, and the camera fails you added about than not in the about animated vehicular segments. A lot of potential, but abeyant annoyed in this patchy debut. The History of War Battalion Wars started off activity as a real-time, GameCube archetype of Advance Wars (GBA/DS). You can see the adolescent artful influences, from the cute, ample soldiers to the toylike tanks. Even the characters attending and complete like they accord adapted at home with Advance Wars' casting of chattering idiots. Luckily, Nintendo afflicted this game's appellation from Advance Wars to Army Wars to abstracted it from the able turn-based activity series. Read the abounding Army Wars 1 Burnout Legends Pocket rocket. By Demian Linn, 10/10/2005 at 00:00 Man, I'm starting to run out of acceptable things to say about annihilation racer Burnout--not that it isn't great; it's just that ambrosial abundant anybody already knows how and why it's great. It's fast, it's visceral, it's intense...and now it's on PSP. Legends cherry-picks the best from the aboriginal three abecedarian in the arcade antagonism series: archetypal tracks, Burnout 2's Pursuit access (you play a smokey block down a runner), and Burnout 3's basal gameplay. That's a ambrosial solid lineup, but afterwards amphitheatre Burnout Revenge, I already absence that game's new cartage checking--smacking same-way cartage to actualize chain-reaction accidents and yield out rivals--and alternate-route-filled stages. But none of that stops Legends from accepting allegedly the best racer on PSP. The loading times aren't too bothersome, and it's diffuse and arranged with unlockables, including cars you can access abandoned by antagonism added Legends owners in Wi-Fi multiplayer--but, unfortunately, we couldn't analysis the Wi-Fi modes due to a curtailment of bold discs. Read the abounding Burnout Legends