Gears of Wars is such a huge release, that I and everyone else cannot possibly yet understand the ramifications this one title will have on the history of interactive entertainment (as 'video games' will be referred to in the not-to-distant future).
Yes, the game has design quirks, glitches, and other things that annoy us, but, and a huge but, no other game even comes close to comparing to what GoW does do right.
The PS3's best effort (R:FoM) is laughably lacking when directly compared to GoW IMO. And I am not just talking about the graphics, audio/music. I am talking about the gameplay, and the deceptively simple, but brilliant design choices, like the Active Reload, which will be copied by many a games, in the years/decades to come. The cleverly implemented context sensitive A button use, along with the improvements to the previously used cover system. As well as the new standard in Online Co-op implementation. I can go on and on.
For the aforementioned reasons, and perhaps, because I was bored at work, and needed to come up with something interesting to Post about, I declare that any game coming out after Epic's self-promoting Emergence Day of November 12, 2006, be talked about as having come out POST Emergence Day or PED, and doh, any game that came out prior to Emergence Day, be talked about as having come out BEFORE Emergence Day, or BED. Hey, the historians have their BCs, and their ADs, why can't we gamers have our own historical denotations?!
Case in point, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, very impressive game, with huge potential, that will be released: 1/12/07 or 16.66 PED, exactly 2 months to the day after Emergence Day. This game, may be overshadowed by GoW to the point that it will affect what could have been high sales numbers, had GoW NOT come out. The online multiplayer in this game BETTER quicken its pace, and allow faster aiming, or at least allow you to adjust the speed of the aiming, 'coz as it was in the Demo, it just plain sucked how slow it was.
I leave with a question, what 2007 game are you most looking forward to?
Yes, the game has design quirks, glitches, and other things that annoy us, but, and a huge but, no other game even comes close to comparing to what GoW does do right.
The PS3's best effort (R:FoM) is laughably lacking when directly compared to GoW IMO. And I am not just talking about the graphics, audio/music. I am talking about the gameplay, and the deceptively simple, but brilliant design choices, like the Active Reload, which will be copied by many a games, in the years/decades to come. The cleverly implemented context sensitive A button use, along with the improvements to the previously used cover system. As well as the new standard in Online Co-op implementation. I can go on and on.
For the aforementioned reasons, and perhaps, because I was bored at work, and needed to come up with something interesting to Post about, I declare that any game coming out after Epic's self-promoting Emergence Day of November 12, 2006, be talked about as having come out POST Emergence Day or PED, and doh, any game that came out prior to Emergence Day, be talked about as having come out BEFORE Emergence Day, or BED. Hey, the historians have their BCs, and their ADs, why can't we gamers have our own historical denotations?!
Case in point, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, very impressive game, with huge potential, that will be released: 1/12/07 or 16.66 PED, exactly 2 months to the day after Emergence Day. This game, may be overshadowed by GoW to the point that it will affect what could have been high sales numbers, had GoW NOT come out. The online multiplayer in this game BETTER quicken its pace, and allow faster aiming, or at least allow you to adjust the speed of the aiming, 'coz as it was in the Demo, it just plain sucked how slow it was.
I leave with a question, what 2007 game are you most looking forward to?
