Surprise: I’m delighted that Bohemia Interactive’s big, bizarre remake of Carrier Command can be played with an Xbox 360 pad.* I love Arma II, but its control scheme sometimes feels like it was designed by a randomly picking menus from a… menu. In Carrier Command, meanwhile, you control a small flotilla of vehicles as you attempt to gain control of an archipelago of thirty randomly placed islands, and you can do it quite easily with a joypad. Someone somewhere in Bohemia’s studios has learned a valuable lesson in accessibility, and I want to hug them.

I didn’t hug them. This article can be the hug.(more…)