The fourth installment of the game actually takes place in the past, at least according to game time. Set in 2531, 21 years before the events depicted in Halo: Combat Evolved. This prequel has several substantial differences that may just throw some gamers for a loop. Let's take a look at what's in store.

Civilization has always been one of the greatest RTS series on the PC. Over the years it's become a trend to port PC titles to console titles to try to replicate their success. This usually fails horribly, cough cough sputter sputter...Supreme Commander.

There are plenty of poker variations, but this particular game only includes Texas Hold Em. To play games such as Omaha or Stud, check out World Championship Poker, which is another good selection.

Quick play allows you to play short games without affecting any games saved in career mode. So if you've kicked butt in career mode, but tank during quick play, your career mode rating remains intact. And the quick play option lets you play with others nearby using a Wi-Fi connection.

Unless you're great at Texas Hold Em, you'll spend more time starting over than gloating over your victory. I'm not that good at Texas Hold Em, and you can tell by the number of times I go bust in this game.

I almost didn't buy "World Series of Poker 2008: Battle for the Bracelets". When it comes to Nintendo DS top games, there usually isn't a casino game in the bunch.

This practice has been going on ever since it could be done. For Everquest, another MMORPG, there was so much selling of in-game items for real cash that the BBC did a report that with a exchange rate of game currency to real money that everquest would be the 77th richest country in the world. The developers for EQ made a plea for eBay to stop putting up such trade auctions. This has lead to many specialty sites dedicated to game to real currency exchange. Will Warhammer have the same issue?

The reason for this concern is the issue of latency. Latency is an expression of how much time it takes for a packet of data to get from one designated point to another. This is direly important when it come to on-line gaming in that latency translates into the time that it takes from the moment that a button is pushed to when the action is performed in the game. Often this can mean the difference between life and death. With DSL and Cable the response time is almost immediate, being between 50milliseconds-150milliseconds. The latency for satellite internet is between 600milliseconds-800milliseconds.

On the forums, there were even some complaints that the Nvidia 8800 was getting bad FPS. With a 7600GT, at times the game was choppy, but it was playable. However, if you haven't bought a new card within the past 6 months or so, you can say hello to some god awful cardboard cutout graphics.

True to standard MMO affair, you must first create your ingame avatar. There are 3 factions and dozens of races, but honestly they all seem pretty similar. In fact, there are 6 human races. Besides that, there were a few wolves, gnomes, dwarves, and elves.