Slyfox » gears http://slyfox.za.net Concentrated awesome Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:29:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Gears of War 2: Retrospect http://slyfox.za.net/2008/12/gears-of-war-2-retrospect/ http://slyfox.za.net/2008/12/gears-of-war-2-retrospect/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:00:11 +0000 slyfox http://slyfox.za.net/?p=47 I finished Gears of War 2 last night with my girlfriend (we started playing the campaign in split-screen co-op mode a while ago). Now, having completed the game, I’m undecided as to which is actually the better game. Gears of War 2 is absolutely stunning visually, and the storyline is much more detailed and polished than its predecessor. On the other hand, the ending left me feeling vaguely disappointed. In Gears of War 1, taking down RAAM was ultimately a much more satisfying experience for me than its sequel’s ending, which basically consists of mowing down a horde of stock-standard Locust, culminating in you and Dom hijacking a Brumak and mowing down more Locust with the daft amount of firepower mounted on the beast. The final “boss battle” (and I surround that phrase in double quotes because it didn’t really feel like much of one) consists of you blasting the everliving shit out of the now-Lambent Brumak with the Hammer of Dawn. A couple of satellite beam blasts and you nuke Brumak, cutting to the ending cinematic.

Wait, what?

So yeah, while I did enjoy the game, the ending left me feeling a bit of a “okay, what’s next?” vibe.

Oh well, now to carry on with Fallout 3.

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All in all, Gears of War 2 is definitely a nice improvement on the first game, although some of the sections halfway through the game are a bit annoying, especially the Centaur driving section, which caused me a quite a bit of cussin’. Besides that, I’ll definitely have more memorable moments from this installment of Gears than the first game. Co-op mode is also a really cool way of playing the game, since you don’t have to deal with the sometimes idiotic computer player behaviour in your squad!

I still have to properly get into Fallout 3, since I’ve mostly been fucking around not really doing too much except exploring the Wasteland. I’m probably going to reload an earlier save and Do Things Properly.

Fable 2 screenshot

Fable 2 screenshot

The same applies for Fable 2, but in that game it’s actually a selling point that you can fuck around all you want! Such as murdering an entire village and feeling a warm, evil glow of satisfaction as your character’s appearance becomes oh so wonderfully demonic.

The Hero of Bowerstone? I prefer the title the Demon of Bowerstone, thank you very much!

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