Mmm. Shifting the focus a bit, I must comment that there are a select few FPS/RTS games that are worth playing.
If you haven't played Myth, both the original and the sequel, they are *well* worth your time. They don't involve resource gathering, just troop management. The multiplayer implimentation is nothing short of brilliant, with amazingly well focused game types, and stunning team play. No gaming experiance has come CLOSE to the team tournaments I played in. Unit dynamics are excellent and trading is implimented well(sounds very similar to the DYO in CM). Anyway, if you haven't played them, and ever liked the RTS genre, you should grab them. They also have an excellent single-player campaign, to rival any other RTS single-player campaign. Anyway, end promotion speech.
(Yes, I know the sig looks ugly, I'm just too lazy to go fix it.)
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Drew E. Harry
Moses Brown School
"This calls for a subtle combination of mathematics and extreme violence." - The Cube