Gears of War No Longer Has the Best Cover System? Wanted looks to take the Crown

The cover system in Wanted shows a level of realism not seen anywhere else before. You can go behind cover and instead of the simple side to side action we see in most 3rd person shooters, you have the option to use the bullet time action effect when coming out of a cover which is amazing and adds to the experience of the game in a positive perspective.

[Cajun Chicken]

Eat Lead has a pretty decent cover system too.

[SasanovaS777]

i downloaded the demo, tried aiming, said wtf is this shi7, and deleted it.

[ThanatosDMC]

Exactly, i didnt like the demo either. It sucks!

[StephanieBBB]

- The graphics are pretty bad.
- The plane level was extremely repetative.
- The bullet curving is very satisfying. (pretty much the only thing that could make me play through the whole game.)
- The combat moves you get to use are awesome though.

But the cover system in Wanted is still pretty much nothing more or less than anything else. Sure it's quicker to move from cover to cover in Wanted than Gears but you can't sideroll out in the open. You constantly have to move from wall to wall and that sucks.

[bullswar]

Thats the reason whenever I see Hiphopgamer.com has reviewed, previewed, rumored or speculated something ... I know its nothing but BS.

This website is filled with down straight dumb drop dead dip$hit posers. I wish N4G.com stop approving any article coming from this website.

Gears of War not having a best cover system ... Well thats what I have to say, they talk straight out of their A$$. Damn tools.

[morganfell]

Yes Killswitch had a great cover mode...

[ChampIDC]

I do really like how your character moves between the cover in this game, but it just doesn't control as fluently as Gears.

Kill.switch still holds the crown for my favorite cover system, though.

[JokesOnYou]

I played the demo, the cover system is sweet, but the aiming and graphics suck.

JOY

[Baba1906]

i did the exact same thing. i tried the demo for about 5 minutes and was so angry at the world that i had to erase it again. awefull. really!!!

*shakes head*

[Mindboggle]

Is this game based off that crappy Angelina Jolie film ?

[GVON]

the cover reminded me a little of those 8 days vids form a few months ago,not as fluid as that but still ok.But saying that the demo was boring.

[Shepherd 214]

this article must be secretly from sarcastic gamer, because only someone with autism or are completely mental irregular would put up an article like this.

[DARKKNIGHT]

at least the movie is good

[War Perfected]

LOL Gears Of War NEVER had the best cover system,the best cover systems would come from Rainbox Six:Vegas and Uncharted!!

[mal_tez92]

I found the cover in Uncharted to be much easier and it worked a whole lotter better than in Gears of War. They are very similar yes but things like the locked camera angle while not in cover and not being able to switch shoulders on the fly like in Uncharted made aiming frustrating at times in Gears. The locked camera angle was extremely annoying when fighting closer enemies and while trying melee attacks.

The melee in Gears was pretty crap part from the Lancer chainsaw, while uncharted's melee was one of the best I have seen, and yet was so simple and easy. The silent attacks Dake does when you sneak up behind an enemy were always awesome, and I swaer I've done this before but while running at an enemy I dropkicked him in the face! Sick!

The ease of movement in Uncharted due to the unlocked camera angle made moving from cover to cover very easy, it also made run and gun a lot more useful than it is in Gears.

All in all, The above reasons combined with amazing graphics (which Gears of War also has) and unbeatable animation makes Uncharted's controls and cover system the best for cover based shooters.

Holy s#!t I can beleive how much I wrote.

[Naucious]

imma download the demo and make my judgement, but some of the remarks on here are pretty funny i dont know if some are being sarcastic or not, but good humor none the less. I did like the movie though and cant wait for the sequel or prequel dont know exactly what they are doing....

[Legion]

Once again... an EPIC FAIL. An article that is totally WRONG.

Gears doesn't have the best cover system (but it is great), but Wanted does not even come close. It is panned moves and what Is realistic about it again? Bullet time..? WHAT??

Rainbow games (Vegas serious) blows away the cover system.

Even Army of Two had a better cover system then Wanted!!!

HippityHop for the loss!

[Parappa The Rappa]

STOP. TRYING. SERIOUSLY.

[Arsenic13]

Game still isnt that great.

[PrimordialSoupBase]

It's okay. But "adds to the experience of the game in a positive perspective." is not -- hiphopgamer needs to learn how the hell to write properly.

[George Sears]

To bad it's a cover system in a game covered with turd.

[-EvoAnubis-]

I got a kick out of the demo. It's a solid rental, at the least.

[LarVanian]

I always found Uncharted to have the best cover system. You could move about while reloading guns and changing weapons. It worked very smooth as well.
GTAIV and Kane & Lynch have the worst cover systems imo.

[Mindboggle]

I agree uncharteds cover is fantastic and is overall such an underated game. I hope Uncharted 2 will open some peoples eyes to what a great franchise uncharted is....

[dorron]

I tried the demo and found the game to be crappy IMO...

[Kouzmich]

It's very weak game.

[nix]

i was busy dodging the demo. congrates to those who even tried it.

[ThePlaystationFour]

Looking for hits again?

[Panthers]

LOL I liked Uncharteds more anyways.

[SIX]

Now I've heard everything.

[TheMART]

Wrong. Gears 2 still has the best cover system.

And you know whats great? It also works the same online as in SP.
Thats what sucks with KZ2, online the coversystem doesn't work! Major bummer

[chidori666]

you fail.... gears2 is rip off killswitch....

[Nelson M]

It does'nt work
It was never implemented online
It was never supposed to be a feature for online
Single player only
But just for you
The cover system for K2 is Better than Gears
Now off you Trott You Silly BoT

[alster23]

yeah that means call of duty sucks because theres no cover system same with halo

[Magic_The_Celt]

Its not that it doesnt work

its that they deceided not to include it

Idiot..

[Revelation101]

Mart, it's okay to admit that one of Xbox's most popular franchises has been outdone by a game that isn't even good, just its cover system is.

[Zeus Lee]

I respectfully disagree.

[Hypnotic]

Honestly, I think both the Rainbow Six Vegas games had the best cover systems. I could be way more precise with that game than any of those ones.

[LinuxGuru]

Yeah....whatever happened to RS:V fans?

[jack_burt0n]

U can tell ppl who agree with this post have never played Uncharted, installed the wanted demo realised the cover system was pretty much the whole game and that it stank, deleted it.

[Chuk5]

When ever something comes from HHG I'm always like "That's kinda true" but not this time.The cover system is awful because when you are in cover you're stuck. It's so sticky that when you get out, the character feels awkward and loose. When you're out of cover it feels like an fps in a third person view, which isn't a compliment. That honestly was a dumb thing for HHG to say and it is clearly driven by some kind of fanboy intend.

[Stu1981]

Funny. Whenever something from HHG pops up i just think "Oh great, more flamebait that'll be on it's way to the top of N4G whilst generating more hits for the talentless hack behind it".

[Pootie Tang]

i'd say Rainbow Six Vegas had a good cover system, uncharted, Gears, KZ2 if they had a toggle option to stick in cover could have been

[TheMART]

@ helghan 666

No, Gears perfected Killswitch's cover system

@ Nelson M

Why wasn't the cover system ever to be implemented in MP? Maybe they just couldn't get it done

I played both Gears and KZ2 and no, the coversystemm in KZ2 ain't better. Gears coversystem feels a lot more natural and fits the game better.

Now you dissapear dumb Sonytard.

@ alster23

Is there a cover system in the SP of the game? Is there a cover system in SP Halo?

If there is a coversystem in the SP game, it should be there in MP. Now KZ2 is trying to do something like Gears in SP and tries to do something like COD4's multiplayer. Its changing the core gameplay which isn't something I like in todays shooters. Choose a way in the game in total and stick with it. It makes the better experience.

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@ heyheyhey

No not crazy. Its my opinion. And yours is yours.

Second: if the coversystem in KZ2 in your view is realistic and like in real life, why isn't it in the MP experience? Its getting a bit less realistic in MP then you must agree.

@ Magic the Celt or Ali the brit

Why didn't they include the coversystem, it could have made the game much much better. Now its just generic and making the game something like a COD4 clone.

[heyheyhey]

your crazy... KZ2's cover system works like cover should in real life, lending it immersion, a cinematic quality and general awesomeness

not saying that's how all cover systems should be, but the one in KZ2 is certainly the most exciting

[Don_Frappucino]

Im not going to bother replying to all of your comments, but on the kz beta there was a cover system. GG removed it at the request of the beta players and because nobody used it. Think before you post.

[Shane Kim]

Oh shut the f*ck up Mart, if the cover system was to be made for MP they would have. They can make the best looking game there is, put the same amount of lightning sources on one mechanical droid wich all of the 360 exclusives combined could not reach into and you're telling us that they don't know how to implement it on MP? Maybe if you sniff around the web a little you would see that there are articles and interviews with the game designers on why they chose to not have the cover system in MP.

On a side note Mart, why did you even bother buying a PS3 or the games on it? All you ever do is whine, whine and whine like a baby. If you are so butthurt don't play the games.

[Magic_The_Celt]

^^ Im guessing because it would make things wildly unbalanced

being in cover in Killzone 2 online would make things stupidly hard and awkward and everyone would do it

yes yes its in, and works in Gears 2

but guess what

Gears 2 - 10 People online
Killzone 2 - 32 People online

see the difference?

[ZombieNinjaPanda]

Hey Mart, it's a first person cover system in a Three Dimensional battlefield.

I'd love to see you hide behind a wall while you can't kill anything and wait for another person to pop out from behind and shank you.

In gears, you can see all around you because it's third person. Kz2, because it's first you can't.

Maybe that's why they couldn't implement it online?

Use your frickin head if you have one.

[Revelation101]

You sexually assaulting a farm of chickens in deutschland is screwed up. I saw you in the news paper, why the hell would you do that?

[TheMART]

Again Rev. People speaking Dutch, are not in Deutschland.

You're as dumb as the chicken that got screwed by someone. Did you like that?

[siyrobbo]

ive yet to play a game that left me as excited as the first time i used the 'roadie run' to run for cover on gears 1. Wanted was a dissapointment for me, an enemy was behind cover with his head sticking out clearly but i couldnt shoot at him, despite the fact that his head and 50% of his body was out of cover.

The cover system on gears is cool, unchartered was welcome, vegas is good as well, also another cover system i liked was ghost recon AW, at least when it first came out.

[riderofpl4gues]

was garbo

[Magic_The_Celt]

Meh who cares? come on the game is TERRIBLE anyway.

[No FanS Land]

Keep it on HHG, lmao

[threepy]

"The cover system in Wanted shows a level of realism not seen anywhere else before. You can go behind cover and instead of the simple side to side action we see in most 3rd person shooters, you have the option to use the bullet time action..."

I didn't realise that bullet time in fact added to the 'realim'.
Not tried the demo, I wouldn't wate my time in doing it. But I know bullet time is over-used and has been for years. And that bullet time really isn't used for realism...

[AngryTypingGuy]

I've played the WANTED demo, and the cover system is not up to Gears's quality. Gears's control are much more polished and fluid. The game with the best cover system is either Gears or Rainbow Six: Vegas. Rainbow's controls are damn near perfect.

[TheMART]

You seem surprised, were you shouldn't be.

This is HipHopGangster.

He likes to make things up, and diss the 360 with his lies and likes to make the PS3/Sony looks better with made up stuff by his own that are PS3 positive.

Its something like the Sony Defense Force in video, presented by a jobless guy that doesn't know what to do with his life. HipHopGangster you should watch when you're drunk. Then its fun. Like anything is fun when you're drunk.

[Nelson M]

Do you find The RRoD Fun
When Drunk ?

[TheMART]

@ NelsonMuppet

Well I wish I would have been drunk when my PS3 BluRay diode died after 3 weeks of use. A 400 Euro costing machine with a quality on its drive/laser that bad needs a lot of alcohol to be funny.

[freshkid1]

is great its like a combination of gears and mgs but you move way to slow in the game its like all u do is behind cover

[ExXxilE]

A mix between Gears and Metal Gear Solid are you crazy?!? The cover system in both of those games was amazing. The cover in Wanted was horrible, it left so much that it could have done better. Gears cover system was a one button system and that made it flow together easily and take less focus off the cover and into fighting the Locust that were trying to kill you. In Wanted I found myself constantly fighting to get into and out of cover and was worrying more about my cover that the guys shooting at me. This review and game are an EPIC FAIL...

[nombon]

how can he compare a sh!t game like wanted to gears?!?!? Thats like comparing Iron man: the video game to Kill zone :|, what a freakin dumb a$$

[pshizle]

SONY FANBOY

gears2 does have the best cover system to date...if people had a brain they would realize that.

[zaz12]

uncharted has a better cover system

[table]

uncharted clearly is the best cover system in third person games. r6v and killzone2 have the best cover systems for first person games.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Agreed and more specifically Gears 2. Best cover of any game I've played.

[No Way]

Great. A battle of fanboys sayin their game is better. Surprise, surprise..

[ZuperAmazingCooKie]

Uncharted says hello. Uncharted and Killzone 2 are the ones to top now in terms of cover systems and I hope cover becomes standard for FPS from now on, Gears was topped in 2007 by uncharted and Gears 2 didn't do much last year to reclaim its "throne".

[BX81]

Killzone 2 cover system better than gears2? Hmm. Ok probably the worst opinion I've seen to date, if that is infact what you are saying. Uncharted has a really good cover system but I prefer when you can pop from cover to cover in a quick manner like in Gears. I will say this though when you are in a tight space it's kind of annoying when you get stuck from wall to wall in Gears. I think Gears2 has the best cover system for now. I'm sure something will come along and add a different aspect to it. I hope Uncharted 2 makes some good tweaks to it's cover system, I think it's going to be a great game.

[Danieru sho]

The only reason why i watched wanted the movie is because, lyk every decent gamer and anime freak, ive thought about curving bullets....Otherwise, the movie isnt very good. That said, the only reason i wud play WOF is jus so my very old desire of shooting sm1 arnd the corner can come to life....Otherwise, i do not thnk this game deserves to be made.

[Chrisy]

Aha aha aha ahaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

Gears is still king. Cover system king and 3rd person shooter king and will remain king till EPIC makes a new franchise. Seriously gears gameplay is just miles better than any other next gen shooter. So so fun!!

[Don_Frappucino]

The cover system online just lets you wall bounce around making the game more about luck than skill

[likedamaster]

It actually takes skill to "wall bounce" buddy. It sounds like you got pwned bad in Gears. LOL. Good!

[ZILLA]

the cover system is AWSOME,and the bullet slo mo is SICK!!very cool game,ill by it on day 1.

[MrJack]

It was not implemented because whilst the SP is pretty linear, the MP is a complete 360 degree fight, so they fought being stuck behind cover would just put you at a disadvantage.

[thehitman]

that the cover system wouldve been fine in the multiplayer. Maybe added even more tactical approach to it. Who would be dumb enough to use it in the middle of the map anyway?? There are plenty of spots behind walls and doorways I think it would be nice to use it in.

[Shane Kim]

I still think that Uncharted has the best cover mechanics. Can't wait till Uncharted 2.

[DOOMZ]

Now thats funny!

[thehitman]

I thought Uncharted had the best covering system.

[BGDad]

Sorry but gears is a bit dated and no longer impressive. Please find another game to bash Ps3 fanboys with...

Also since ive typed this 19 xbox 360's got RROD and I blame you THEMART...

I have to agree with someone else here and say Uncharted has the best cover currently... Game was seriously under rated. Like most Ps3 games but then again why do I care as I play them...

TheMart you are wrong and you know it. You have paid more for your 360 than any ps3 owner at this point. The ps3 has been bashed for 3 - 4 years and STILL sells... Lets see how the 360 does now that the tables have turned... Now go pay another 49.99 to Microsoft. :)

[Bathyj]

Rainbow 6, Uncharted and Killzone all have better cover systems than Gears. I haven't tried Wanted yet.

[ShAkKa]

uncharted has the best cover system of the games i have played(haven`t play gears so can`t comment on how good or bad it is)

[Socomer 1979]

the cover in gears is stupid. If you want to climb a knee high obstacle you have no choice but to slam your dumb a$$ into it first. Who does that?!?

Gears is ghay. Metal gear online is better but uncharted pisses all over gears.
Even socoms lean peek with sixasis is better. Gears is for 10 year old boys. It should be a shame to find men playing it. Wanted just has about 1000 more animations for cover than gears. That's 999 too many. All you need is 1 more animation to dump on gears cover.

Someone else stated earlier in the week that a JAMES BOND game from the movie the world is not enough invented gears cover & that was ps2. That's so freakin true & the game had slo motion aiming & James had a rappel gun. That game was awesome & the dude that reminded me... Thank you.

Anyway, I can't wait for uncharted 2 & syphon filter.
Mgo map pack & socom patch.

[littlenuthead]

i totally agree with you on the cover system on gears and then not even change it in the second one what a joke

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Blah, Wanted has a pretty decent cover system but it lacks in response and having to wait for the "X>>>>>&qu ot; symbol to pop up.

Sorry, but Gears 2 has the best cover in my opinion. Gears 1 did great, Uncharted did even better than Gears 2 basically took it over the top. I'm not even going to mention KZ2's cover because it is for the most part garbage. I can't count how many times I thought I was in cover only to be crouching and get my head blown off.

[Bathyj]

Thats because, and this is is my opinion only obviously, in keeping in line with Killzones rules based on reality, being in cover is not a bullet proof vest. Sure you're better protected and lessen your chances of being hit, but you cant sit there forever, or you'll be smoked out and being behind a short wall with your head down does not make you invincable. I've personally never been shot from in front while completely in cover, but if you can see them, then they can see you.

[NateNater]

Wanted?!?! Really!? Are they serious? Games based on movies are almost always terrible! Gears has a good cover system, but I think Killzone's is somewhat better. But, Wanted? Are they joking?

[Kyur4ThePain]

HHG, I'd strongly suggest making sure the mushrooms are clean and still good before eating them.

[likedamaster]

Laughed as soon as I saw the contributor. I played the demo, it's a COMPLETE RIPOFF of Gears of War cover system. LOL. Nice try HHG.

[jack who]

that demo lasted 2sec on my hard drive

[MERKD]

What person in their right mind is going to agree with this article? Apart from the obvious PS3 fanboy just looking for an excuse to say something is better than Gears. Imo, Gears has the best third person cover system and Rainbow Six Vegas has the best first person cover system.

[deepio]

Rainbow Six: Vegas had the best cover system for me!

[yojoe26]

uncharted already has the crown.

[belal]

was bulet curving :P that part was fun, but rest of it, i can play waaay better games ;)

[Darrius Cole]

I haven't played all shooters, but I have played Gears, and I have played Uncharted. I can say that Uncharted has a better cover mechanic than Gears of War.

But then, Uncharted does not have online play.

[jamboza]

this game is crap playing it till the end and ran though the game melee all of the dudes, i want more of a challenge...shooting is crap only thing as everyone is basically saying is the sliding from place to place cover system and jumping sliding over boxes...maybe cause the game was set to yssup(backwards word) but whatever would/will never play this again

[OC_MurphysLaw]

Sorry but while the getting in and out of cover for wanted is top notch ...the camera is absolutely trash when in cover. I found myself constantly fighting with it trying to look around the corner of the cover I was in. I NEVER had an issue with that in RV62 or Gears 1 or 2. For my two cents RV62 is the best cover system I have played in a game.