w00t! Today, I beat my Gamecube game, Defender. Defender was an old-school (word) arcade game, featuring a single starfighter that could engage in countless swarms of enemy aliens threatening our galaxy, in all it's 2-D splendor. The remake is way different. My game has a single starfighter that engages swarms of enemy aliens threatening our galaxy.......in 3-D! The game did have an interesting ending though, instead of the traditional "one pilot takes on an entire enemy race of advanced flying aliens and single handedly destroys them all" or the classic "beat back swarms of aliens then sacrafice himself in a giant explosion that drives the aliens from our home planet," this game had a rather novel ending. The starship "Memory," the largest space station ever built, attaches itself to the moon and drives it into a completely overrun and infected Earth, destroying both in a cataclysmic holocaust. Nicely animated, however I don't really feel like explaining how the physics and mechanics of that scenario do NOT work........better to sit back and enjoy the game than focus on how that small space station's engines could not shift the orbit of the moon away to crash into the Earth and........never mind. I beat the game. Woo-hoo. By the way, now the remaining survivors turn to Mars to rebuild thier glorious civilization, christening it, get this, "Earth II."

P.S.......convoy/escort missions are a biotch