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...actions for your character to perform - putting the same kind of story into a realistic environment. You may find yourself on Monkey Island and set out to explore it, solving puzzles and following clues. Action games have become ultrasophisticated, with realistic lighting and weather effects. Some take place in vast mazes where it's "70 hours before you come back to the same place," says Bodman, as he pilots a flying saucer along a network of tunnels. If action isn't your bag, you can try a real-life simulation like SimCity. It's really "a management sim[ulation]," says...
...while Saudis remain uninterested-or perhaps they're in a state of denial-in the level of Saudi participation in Sept. 11, the country seethes with open loathing for the U.S. and sympathy for bin Laden's cause. Signs of anti-Western militancy are rife throughout this vast kingdom, from the capital, Riyadh-where in June separate car bombs blew up a British banker outside his home and nearly killed an American expatriate-to Abha, a remote mountain city in the southern province of Asir, where four of the hijackers were raised and locals still celebrate all "the Fifteen...
...amount the U.S. imports from Canada, Mexico and Venezuela. That's a far cry from the 25% figure for 1973, when the Saudis, piqued by Israel's victory in that year's war, embargoed oil sales to the U.S. and prompted a 70% rise in crude prices. The Saudis' vast reserves give them the power to manage the worldwide price of oil, making them critical to the smooth running of the global economy. But with promising new oil sources opening up in Russia and Central Asian states like Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, the U.S. has alternatives it didn't have...
...generation ago, vast swaths of the Arabian Peninsula lacked the basic infrastructure of a modern society-roads, running water, electricity. Today nearly half the country's 22 million people live in Riyadh or Jidda, and Saudis make up the biggest market for U.S. consumer products in the Middle East. When they're not fighting city traffic in Cadillac SUVs, middle-class Saudis frequent gleaming shopping malls lined with designer brand names from the U.S. In a country where women are required to wear full-length abayas in public, you can catch Sex and the City on satellite TV every Friday...
...Defense plans set down well before Sept. 11 aim to guarantee “preeminence in any form of conflict within 20 years,” according to this sweeping national-security doctrine, Joint Vision 2020. It calls for “full spectrum dominance,” including vast superiority not only of the military, but also of communications, transportation and information technology. Its authors hope to make the U.S. virtually impervious to international influence...