I have played both Raven Shield and Athena's Sword on PC and yes they were amazing games. The amount of weapons and the ability to set up your own plans was awesome. The single player was very good, but I have to disagree with you on RS:Vegas being one of the most disappointing games of the year. Yes it doesn't have the weapon selection for Rainbow Six 3 but the game play far exceeds both Raven Shield and Athena's Sword. The gun fights are exhilarating, they can be as good as COD at times, the new option to actually take cover instead of just leaning to the left and right like in RS3 is much more realistic and player friendly, and the ability to finally pick up enemy weapons in case you run of ammo or that chance you didn't equip a sniper rifle and you need one and have recently killed enemy sniper. I also like how if you pick up terrorist weapons it adds the weapon permanently to your weapon inventory. I haven't got too far into the story yet since I do not own the game my friend does but the Co-op is amazing on 360. I have played both Vegas and Gears of War and have to say that I much more enjoy Vegas over Gears of War. I have read some reviews though saying the story is some what lacking so I also consider Vegas to be a huge stepping stone for RS4.
I have a 4th gen ipod and the only problem I ever had with mine was I had to softboot it becuase it hung. I have known a few people that have had problems with batteries but since I keep mine charged all the time with the car charger/transmiter its fine.
Firehed I do have one thing to say about your comment on how people preference to use drag and drop. I'm not sure if you know but there actully is a drag and drop feature in iTunes you just have to go into the settings in iTunes select the iPod tab and check the box that says manage your own music. This feature is pretty use too if you do that you can hook up your iPod to any PC with iTunes and drag the music from that person's library to your little iPod icon.
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I have played both Raven Shield and Athena's Sword on PC and yes they were amazing games. The amount of weapons and the ability to set up your own plans was awesome. The single player was very good, but I have to disagree with you on RS:Vegas being one of the most disappointing games of the year. Yes it doesn't have the weapon selection for Rainbow Six 3 but the game play far exceeds both Raven Shield and Athena's Sword. The gun fights are exhilarating, they can be as good as COD at times, the new option to actually take cover instead of just leaning to the left and right like in RS3 is much more realistic and player friendly, and the ability to finally pick up enemy weapons in case you run of ammo or that chance you didn't equip a sniper rifle and you need one and have recently killed enemy sniper. I also like how if you pick up terrorist weapons it adds the weapon permanently to your weapon inventory. I haven't got too far into the story yet since I do not own the game my friend does but the Co-op is amazing on 360. I have played both Vegas and Gears of War and have to say that I much more enjoy Vegas over Gears of War. I have read some reviews though saying the story is some what lacking so I also consider Vegas to be a huge stepping stone for RS4.
I have a 4th gen ipod and the only problem I ever had with mine was I had to softboot it becuase it hung. I have known a few people that have had problems with batteries but since I keep mine charged all the time with the car charger/transmiter its fine. Firehed I do have one thing to say about your comment on how people preference to use drag and drop. I'm not sure if you know but there actully is a drag and drop feature in iTunes you just have to go into the settings in iTunes select the iPod tab and check the box that says manage your own music. This feature is pretty use too if you do that you can hook up your iPod to any PC with iTunes and drag the music from that person's library to your little iPod icon.