Many people feel that the Nintendo DS is born for RTS games. I'm not one of them — frankly, the only interface that I can possibly imagine that would make an RTS game playable to me is one that is inserted through my eye socket to directly interface with my brain. I can't keep up with you hyperactive click-click chimpanzees even with a keyboard full of shortcuts available to me; there's just no way I'm going to be keep up with you omniscient RTS gods with a stylus and only 6 buttons at my disposal.

Still, I realize I'm in the loudmouthed minority on this one. So while the announcement that the release of a clone t of Command & Conquer for the Nintendo DS is imminent might make me personally go rubbery from the crotch down, it's doubtless to be exciting for many of you. The clone is being programmed by Wraggster from dcemu.co.uk, and the screenshots are looking absolutely beautiful.

Want to get me truly excited, oh programmers? An X-Com clone for the Nintendo DS. Make it so. Florian Eckhardt

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