Ok, quick OT: I like the Way Joe has put "Great" in front of Britain, to me that's an archaic empire word that has long since passed. In reality it should be "Nerf Britain", "WTF Britain" or even "SNAFU Britain". In fact, I'd go with the last one...
BACK OT:
Yeah like Alex mentions, I am not/will not be upgrading to a Win7 for a game, I did this for BF2, so I'll be a console bitch. Yay, 8 vs 8... sigh.
RE: Fighting in the middle east - I don't mind the desert, or Africa, it lends itself to tank/plane warfare suberbly. It's the psychology behind it. Modern warfare games are just done to death right now. I can even speak some arabic because the vocal saturation is now so deep I can go into my local newspaper shop and tell them I am about to throw a grenade, or there is an enemy spy plane above.
However, there isn't really anything I'd like to see, so my arguement falls short, - I want WW2, or a game that encompasses all War, like you start in the middle ages with mele weapons and then some maps are musket and cannon like the crimea, then WW1, WW2, korea, vietnam, and perhaps I'll let a bit of modern warfare in. That game would be super epic. Make it so.