It's a game about music where you don't need to keep a beat. It's a game about puzzles where you can hit stuff with a stick without letting one synapse ever fire. It's a game about cooking where you can order out for pizza. It's a game about World War II but it's in space and there aren't any Nazis or Japanese people. It's a game about massively multiplayer gaming where you never know anybody else is there. It's a game about Tron except it's interesting and good. It's a game about world conquest where you can just plant and harvest radishes. It's a game about Sudoku except you use machine guns and there are bears.
Yeah, I'm with those grumpy about the history one. Heck, Civilization is about as loose as history gets.
Still, for all the bad things that qualify and better ones that don't, I'm a bit ashamed for how long it took me to remember that time Einstein went back in time to kill Hitler. I guess THAT counts as pretty loose with history.
I wish I could be more optimistic about this, but I get veeeery uneasy about anybody mucking about with this franchise. I don't know that anybody trying to make a successful commercial product in this day and age can or even should be capable of doing justice to the original. They will end up looking very silly, or very dead. Or both.
Fantastic addition to the team. I've been getting frustrated lately trying to get a decent source of news updates. I'd love a dedicated news RSS feed, but the podcast thing... 5 minutes of headlines with a Giant Bomb personality every day would finally give my ears a purpose.
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