Comments on: RPS Advent Game-o-Calendar: December 11th

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:50:34 +0000

Remember, Hamachi (free edition) gives you a virtual LAN over Internet on PC. Just love it. You can play just about any game with LAN network functionality over the Internet with you buddies stopping evil corporations trapping you inside their crappy networks.

By: Ghiest

Ghiest — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:21:17 +0000

Playing this game with my brother in the same room was won of the best gaming experiences of last year (not just on the 360 as well), but playing it again on the pc was a bit of a let down after some other great shooters this year. The co-op on the 360 was superb really, and friends (who were watching it) really remarked on how cinematic it felt watching it.

I like the game but it should really have stayed on the 360 in my opinion.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:08:26 +0000

dhex: I loved it. I thought it was note perfect.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:05:36 +0000

Oh yeah, forgot about the install time, which was utterly ridiculous. I’ve installed games off six separate CDs in far less time.

By: Mouj

Mouj — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:55:42 +0000

omnomnomnom.com was hilarious, thanks for the link.

By: dhex

dhex — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:52:27 +0000

i also think i may have been one of three people in the western world to have actually liked the original gears of war ad. it was a cute juxtaposition.

By: dhex

dhex — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:45:43 +0000

got this for my birthday. seems to run pretty good all told.

the install time, however, was ridiculous and took nearly an hour. gave me plenty of time to download the patch, i guess.

i haven’t played it enough to really develop a feel for it.

By: The_B

The_B — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:10:47 +0000

Cruz: My mistake, just checked and you can play Co-Op with other silver members for free, you just don’t get the matchmaking stuff, and people can set their games to “Gold only” if they choose to be eltist.

By: Monkfish

Monkfish — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:38:18 +0000

Haven’t got ’round to buying this as there was so much else going on games-wise in November to distract me, and my poor wallet was begging for mercy.

I am hoping that Santa will drop it down the chimney, though, so I can experience the joy of thrusting the chainsaw bayonet into Locust Horde face. ‘Tis the season for it…

By: JakethePirate

JakethePirate — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:31:47 +0000

If that had been the actual ad, I would have bought a 360 and the game right there on release.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:42:36 +0000

Gears of War is such an astounding visual and (to some degree) aural experience that it’s almost possible for me to ignore the fact that I’m almost done with one chapter of five and the entire game so far has consisted of finding a convenient spot of cover and poking my head out periodically to shoot bullet sponges. No, really, the whole thing. The visuals are great, the cover mechanic is good if maoverused (and every area ludicrously full of inappropriate cover objects), and I like the interactive reloading. But there really needs to be some actual meat to the game, and so far there isn’t.

I think, in fact, that the cover mechanic in this case aggravates the problem. Because really, brainless run-and-gun with pretty visuals has done me just fine for many years. But the taking cover slows each gunfight down to a crawl and it’s just not dynamic or interesting enough to support that slower pace.

By: Garth

Garth — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:20:42 +0000

Early on the enemies were pretty flimsy. Later they just take (as Lorc said) far more ammo to kill than they should.

I honestly have to admit, I’m completely puzzled by this games positive reviews, or at least how positive they are. Then again, Halo has pretty much shattered any understanding I had for which games do well.