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The story begins...

A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, nothing particularly interesting was happening. And now for something completely different.

In other news, in the near future, life is going to start to SERIOUSLY suck. Like, big time. Oil prices will soar through $75/barrel, gas will cost over $7/gallon here in the USA (Which is still less than what it costs in Europe anyway, because they tax the stuff like mad and it pays for their roads and trains and such), our economy will be on the brink of colapse, and the oil companies will make loads and loads of money. So basically, like right now, only worse. Maybe we can blame it on Bush 3? Nah, the president in this looks like he knows wtf he's doing, not like good ol' monkey boy. But I digress.



The year is [soon], and the oil execs are telling us that we can't do without oil until 2025, at the absolute soonest, 2050 more realistically. Which if you ask me is a load of crap because according to the learned authors of all my favourite magazines, we'll just just about out of the cheap stuff by 2020, and so we're going to have to get our shit together on hydrogen or some other magical new technology, or we're completely fucked. They estimate that hydrogen will really get going in 2030, leaving us with 10 years of having life suck. So the premise of the whole story, while somewhat realistic, has been taken a bit too far. They could have thrown us a bone and said that something dreadful happened somewhere else, or something, like Saudi Arabia got blown up underground or who knows what. So, it's a little shaky getting going... plus I think at $7/gallon the government would step in, and we'd have the 1930's all over again. So, a point off for realism, but not to worry, it'll be back soon enough.

-1

So, in this super-shitty future, we're introduced to our main characters, in Mission one...


The story begins in Libya, where the men and women of Task Force Talon are hunting down some big-cheif terrorist man who apparently sucks. We don't know much about him, just that he's a bad bad man. Our boss, the National Security Advisor (on the right), has sent us off to kill him, under the command of General whatsisface (on the right), so we get to have a little fun in Libya.


Here's Major Jefforson, with Binoculars. He's something like Tanya in Red Alert, he's your super-soldier on the ground.


And here are some soldiers, who Jefforson is leading to go catch Mr. bad-terrorist-man, whose name I can't remember and don't care enough to look up.


So those last few shots were from the sweeeet first mission intro movie, which is so cool and well put together it gets a point. No, two.

+2

Now you get your first taste of playing the game!


Neat, huh? It's a really simple mission, you're supposed to go in and catch Kazim (I rememebred his name! =D), so first you have to kill loads of goons:


Then you find him, and he starts running:


Then apparently some stuff blows up, though I honestly have no idea why.


Then you capture him, and some helicopeters fly in to pick you up...


And then you all go home.


But of course, you can't just leave the base standing. oooh no. This game sets itself up reaally early to be chock-full of explosions. So after you chopper out you get to see...


Yes kids, that's right. That's a B2 Spirit! And it's very angry with the naughty terrorists. So it blows them the hell away!!

BANG!!!!


Weeheehee... awesome! :D Over the course of that mission, there are a couple of in-game screen-corner videos, showing you this that or the other, which really adds to the environment, which is sweet. However, for this first mission there's no breifing, no "here's what you're going to be doing", any of that stuff. You're dumped straight into the game, and while usually I'd be screaming bloody murder at being thrown straight into the game like this, in this case it's not that shoppy at all, and you can pretty much work out what the hell's going on. After all, it's not exactly a very complicated mission, you just have a bunch of soldiers and then you kill a bunch of their soldiers and then you capture their leader and that's the end of that. Pretty straightforward. Nothing too fancy. And you get rewarded with those awesome explosions at the end. =D So, no pluses or minuses for the overall. That means that the total is...


Mission one total: +1

Next, mission two! I promise I'm not quite so screenshot happy. Maybe. <_< >_> <_< >_>

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-AGT