...I only asked one question. The Kinect speech thing was an answer to all the other commenters.

The Kinect is required over a regular microphone because it has speech recognition hardware and software.

The Kinect is required over a regular microphone because it has speech recognition hardware and software.

The Kinect is required over a regular microphone because it has speech recognition hardware and software.

The Kinect is required over a regular microphone because it has speech recognition hardware and software.

The Kinect is required over a regular microphone because it has speech recognition hardware and software.

The Kinect is required over a regular microphone because it has speech recognition hardware and software, not for lip-reading. Maybe that helps, but speech recognition is the big deal.

The Kinect is required over a regular microphone because it has speech recognition hardware and software.

Because Kinect has speech recognition built in. The microphone does not. If you yell "Xbox: Play DVD" into your microphone, it won't play the DVD. The Kinect has the ability to recognize speech and pick out the individual words, and then form sentence. It's much like those robots you talk to on help phone line: "For…

Can you issue a voice command for an ability?

That's only your opinion. And I don't think Bill Gates ever "criminally manipulated" any markets.

I'm sure this isn't the solution you're looking for, but you could get Word for Mac. It has all the same shortcuts, I'm pretty sure.

Yeah, seriously.

I feel like this is exciting for Nintendo fans, who have wanted an HD Wii for a long time.

I believe it's ThwiiThixty.

No. Play4Free has no vehicles and only 3 classes, which are limited in their customization. BF2 is only $8 on Amazon: [www.amazon.com]

So...people who said it looks better than the PS3 and 360...awkward...

It's how it was in BF2 and BF2142. The medic was overpowered in BF2: Special Forces (because it made the G36E available against players who could not use it). Otherwise, the medic's lack of an anti-vehicle capability made it very easy to contain.

So what about the vehicles? Did you try those?

Battlefield 2.