
[Thanks, Randy]
Basic poll stuff: don't vote if you don't have XBL and a copy of GRAW. And yes, you could spam the poll and throw off the results, but then you'd be a stupid jerk. You're not a stupid jerk, are you?
Good lord, can you imagine having to wait 5 months for GRAW and Oblivion again?
If -- on the other hand -- you'd like to see more screens, click the read link below.
[update: removed (sic) from 'customisation' on account of it being the Queen's English.]
The other leaders had to live to keep the game's tension high: Mexico's president needed to hang around to allow conflict with the rebels, while the U.S. president had remain alive because the elite group of soldiers charged with the rescue are American.
"Basically, for the game, the Canadian guy was the only one that we could actually sacrifice in the story," he said. "We weren't being malicious or anything like that."
In fact, it was Mr. Fernandez-Lacey who took offence at first. Because he was born in Montreal and is half-Canadian and half-Mexican, he joked with the game's creators about hitting him on two fronts.
"When they first sent the scenario to me, I said, 'Look, you're invading my country and you're killing my prime minister,' "
Poor Canucks get no respect. It's bad enough that most Americans can't name a Canadian politician. Now French game developers have deemed them expendable.
The real Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, was in Mexico last week meeting with Presidents Fox and Bush. Not surprisingly, he was unwilling to comment on the unpleasant fate that befell his video game counterpart.
Here's how to save a few bucks on your copy of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfigher:
The Asian region (Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore) can now purchase Xbox 360s specifically for their region. All of these are NTSC-J encoded, the same as the Japanese 360s. So what’s the difference? It’s actually the software. In an effort to bring as many games to the region as possible Microsoft is bringing English language North American titles over. For instance Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter is the same as the USA version and it’s also compatible with US region Xbox 360s. Also all of the Asian version Xbox 360 games are sold at a budget price. Most import retailers are selling them for $39.99, considerably cheaper than the $59.99 price point for North American games.
Indeed, Play-Asia.com is selling what appears to be a region-free version of GRAW for $30.90 plus $3.10 shipping. According to their compatibility chart, it's the only "Asian" game so far that will work on your Peoria-purchased 360. Can anyone confirm that it actually works?
Update: I'm so used to paying through the nose, I forgot to ask: Why is Hong Kong getting bargain rates anyway?
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