CG Online's Real War Preview is up, looking ahead at this upcoming RTS in the works at Rival Interactive. The article offers impressions of the game, focusing along the way on the incongruity of the title, as it obviously probably won't require as many actual body bags as the name suggests. Part of the reasoning for the title is because Real War is based on a generic tool Rival created for the US military to help teach strategy, and as they point out, "while it's still definitely a game, it at least has an unimpeachable military pedigree." They go on to highlight the most "real" part of the game as being the authentic military units it uses, while saying that in converting the training tool to a commercial game a focus has been made on playability and accessibility. They also describe the most fictional aspect of the game, which is the made up opponent the US forces face off against, which is justified like this: "The US military is so technologically advanced and powerful that there really isn't any one plausible adversary that could match it, so Rival has created the ILA, an international force dedicated to ridding its half of the world of US influence." The preview is illustrated by a half-dozen screenshots.