I myself did not follow the manga of FMA. But I did read at a lot of places that brotherhood was following the story of the manga unlike FMA which had alterations, pretty much to the whole story. Aha, I agree with what you just said. FMA was a really good introduction to the series. Darn, I envy you. I can't play ps3 now as, much less use the pc enough. A'levels is so shit. It leeches of all my time. Which games are you playing? Recently I tried the R3 beta when it was out, liked it much because it was substantially different from the other two Resistance games. Incidentally, you should buy Red dead redemption if you haven't played it already. I liked it more than GTA IV, it's that good.