War is Hell, according to General William Tecumseh Sherman.

Given that whole “the best way to cure a gangrene bullet wound is with a bone saw” methodology espoused by Civil War doctors, I’d say Mr. Sherman was on to something. Trying to play any sort of RTS game on a console gives credence to the General’s brash claim. Playing RTS’s with a controller gets me in touch with my inner Civil War amputee, mostly because the clunky controls make me feel like I’m missing a hand.
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There are certain genres that some people think don’t belong on consoles. One of those genres used to be first-person shooters, until Rare proved the naysayers wrong with GoldenEye for the Nintendo 64. Now, it’s the real-time strategy genre that’s struggling. Games like EA’s The Battle for Middle Earth and Command & Conquer 3 have given RTS games on a console a bad rap, and deservedly so. But Ubisoft thinks they can change the minds of gamers with Tom Clancy: EndWar.

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