I’ll admit it - many years ago I was hooked (HOOKED!) on a PC game called Panzer General. I’m sure most, if not all, of you have never heard of it (it was circa 1992 after all), but it combined my obsessive fascination with the European campaign of World War II with a nifty turn-based strategy mechanic. I never was much for these kinds of games, but PG just did it right.

15 years later or so, I popped in my brand new copy of Field Commander into the PSP on the train ride this morning, and was immediately reminded those days sitting in front of my PC at 3 AM figuring out just how I was going to destroy that blasted tank unit that was tearing apart my poor infantry.

I know that Field Commander is something just short of a blatant rip-off of Advance Wars, but I am OK with that. Why? Well, for one reason, I don’t have a DS yet (at least until the Lite comes out). Secondly, I am just glad to have a new PSP game that looks like it will be moderately interesting and is not a direct port of some PS2 racing or action game.

Is it good? I have no idea. But it is promising. I have a feeling I’ll be spending more time with it than my 360 this week. I wonder if it will make its way out between sets of the opening act and Pearl Jam tomorrow night. Probably not (my friends will never forget it), but you never know…