Lost Planet - Xbox 360

[Brian Reed]

I have no idea how the single player campaign is, but the multi-player is fantastic.

[mewelke]

It's next up in my Gamefly queue, but right now I am awaiting History Channel: The Civiil War.

I can't wait to shoot some Yanks and scream "I wish I were in the land of cotton where good times were not forgotten look away! look away! look away dixieland!" If only I could cheaply find me a johnnyreb uniform.

[Brian Reed]

I was warned by some folks that the schools here teach a skewed version of Civil War history. So when Connor first brought his history book home, I read the Civil War chapter out of curiosity.

In a handful of pages it managed to cover all the facets of why the country split down the middle and approach the subject with reverence and intelligence.

I wondered why everyone found this stuff "skewed" and then I remembered that, much like myself, the person telling me this grew up as a Yank and like me, they were all taught that the entire war came down because them racist folks in the south wanted them some slaves and they wasn't gonna take no for an answer.

[mewelke]

See as a historian I can appreciate the attitude that the south were being fuckwitted and bigotted.

However, if you look at the constitution, nowhere in that document does it say that states could not remove themselves from the union.

Also I imagine what's played up more in your new state is what Sherman did. Sherman and other generals did something that in this day in age was really a war crime, even if it was strategically brilliant and at the end of the day a war winning tactic.

[Brian Reed]

See as a historian I can appreciate the attitude that the south were being fuckwitted and bigotted.

However, if you look at the constitution, nowhere in that document does it say that states could not remove themselves from the union.

Also I imagine what's played up more in your new state is what Sherman did. Sherman and other generals did something that in this day in age was really a war crime, even if it was strategically brilliant and at the end of the day a war winning tactic.

This goes more into the states rights, and the economic factors at play, while also giving equal time to the slavery dispute.

[Ascius]

Wow, I should check out Lost Planet, I didn't realize it was so rich with American History.