If you get an application cannot start error of "0xc0150002" you may need to installing the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package" available free for download from Microsoft.com.
You can get it for 32-bit Windows from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... aspx?id=29
or for 64-bit Windows from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... x?id=15336
Then restarting the game.
If that does not work, try also installing the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package" packages.
For 32-bit Windows:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... px?id=5582
and 64-bit Windows:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... px?id=2092