I've always had this dream where you have a gaming environment within which multiple games can co-exist. Each game can be a fully developed game in its own right, even developed by different companies.

As you move from one "arena" to another the new one is primed with the settings from the original. So, as Icecius suggest, move onto planetary invasion and an RTS takes over, switch into the "infantry" eye view and FPS takes over.

If you haven't bought one of the game types it doesn't matter you just get, for example, the high level planetary invasion of the TBS doing its normal thing. I think you should also be able to choose each time whether or not you want the switch to happen, so if you want a pure TBS tonight, you get one.

It is therefore up to you to decide which game types you want to incorporate into your own gaming environment. It is also you to you to choose which of each type you want. Heck, you could even add other genres in like role play when you land a ship, full planetary civ style TBS for planetary development ...

I've seen some folks talking about actually attempting this type of play for themselves just by switching between games manually.

I agree that a single do-everything game is fairly impractical from a commercial / development perspective but something like this could work if a few developers were to get together and agree some ground rules. The main technical problem would obviously be attempting to make the switches between games as seemless as possible. And getting multiple developers to play nice with each other!

But then, I'm a bit of a dreamer.

There was an old game called "Breach" that tried to do that with space combat. Another game along these lines is "Crown of Glory" about the Napoleonic Wars. Very cool diplomacy system linked to a good battle system, although it's a little too abstract for my taste for naval battles. Then, there is the "Total War" series -- it would be tough to make a game that could beat "Total War: Rome".

Of course, none of those have FPS in them. The closest thing that I can think of to a FPS game that features tactics is the supremely excellent "Operation:Flashpoint"

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