You have 150 rounds total, and in the extreme case, this is the equivalent of carrying 149 clips. Ammo management is simply keeping the counter from reaching zero – but I guess that’s an oversimplification since any kind of management is maintaining a supply.

If games counted clips, that 150 round total means you have, let’s say for example, 5 clips (30 rounds each). If you put three in someone’s center mass and then reload, you just threw away 27 rounds.

Forced to keep track of both counts would make you think about how you approach each exchange because the number of bullets remaining in the clip after the first fight will drastically affect how you approach subsequent executions.

There is an E3 teaser on Gametrailers. It’s underwhelming. What gave me the biggest reaction was the teaser’s description – did Gametrailers write it, did Square give them this copy, I don’t know.

Since when is turning a “turn-based strategy game” into a “third-person action shooter” an evolution? I didn’t realize it was an inferior genre.