Shlevai

I do beleive I screwed myself on the pre-order. The hold that was put on my card appearently did'nt get cancelled out, my card has about $80 on it. So since the hold was put on my card for the pre-order, I now have to wait for the cancellation of the 'hold' to be acknowledged by my Visa card(debit) to purchase the game after the system hiccup of sorts filters out. I should have just waited and merely 'ordered' it today, no hold and no issue. =\ Bummer much? hah!

There are only so many mechanical, klaxon and laser soundeffects to go around. =] [link="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0"]This one[/link] in particular is used often.

I was actually hoping to get the PDF manual up for download on the site so I could read it while waiting for the game to download/be processed. =| I'm a geek for game manuals, backstory, unit info, gameplay in/outs, etc.

I personally don't put faith in any single review, I read atleast five or six to get a general idea of the game, its highs and lows and what each reviewer has to say. Thats the logical thing to do, otherwise how do you know the person that played the game had a stick up their ass or are just a fanboy?

I think the better question is, "At what resolution and graphics settings(low, medium, high)" would your system run the game. I'm running a P4 3ghz, 1gyg of Ram and an ATI Radeon x800 with 256megs; and am thinking I should be able to run atleast medium settings without much of a hitch from what I've read. Corrections; positive or negative to what can be expected?