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Early Animation Footage Of Eight Days

GameXtract writes "Eight Days was an action title being developed by Sony Computer Entertainment of London exclusively for the Playstation 3. Unfortunately the title was canceled by Sony in order for other projects to place. It's quite a shame to see it go after watching the tech demo shown at E3 in 2005. At least its not ALL gone yet. Little bits of content are still emerging, but mostly just small tech demos, and early footage. The video we have for you today shows off the animation of the characters that was being implemented. I have to admit that the animations are fluid, and up to date with what we see in our video games of today, but it can get repetitive at times. Overall I'm missing this title as the tech demo at E3 2005 had me on edge. Catch the video after the jump!"

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NO_PUDding - 416 days 3 hours ago

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Will post here too.

Holy Sheet.

Gears and Uncharted are dwarfed. Why Sony? What the hell is wrong with your minds?

I guess atleast we know when it will be inevitably released we'll have a great game.

That tech will ahve cost money, and it shan't go to waste.

Sony have the most capable and impressive 1st Party ever.

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Overr8ed - 416 days 3 hours ago

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i wouldnt be surprised if Sony brings this title back to 'life'

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DevilVergilX - 416 days 2 hours ago

1.2 - Didn't sony say

Eye Pet was benefited with this cancellation? A shame... I would have bought THIS instead of eyepet...

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NO_PUDding - 416 days 2 hours ago

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They said that it wasn't viable at the moment, I am sure it will eb broguht back into motion.

EightDays>Gears/Uncharted

Colour me shocked.

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Michael Jackson - 416 days 1 hour ago

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That footage made me sad.. Please come back.. :(

Maybe we can have an online petition for this?

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Winter47th - 416 days 1 hour ago

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What a waste, it actually could'a been something.

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VF34EJ25 - 416 days ago

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yeah too bad it's completely cancelled

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/20...

I just hope Sony puts more of that budget into God of War 3.

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xhi4 - 416 days 3 hours ago

2 - Damnnnn

that has to be the hottest cover gameplay I've ever seen, the most detailed character i've ever seen, and the most natural movement i've ever seen. No wonder those guys said Eight Days was unbe-fricken-lievable!

I geuss Sony has their 10 year life cycle plan and need to keep the postponed games like The Getaway 3 and Eight Days for later in the PS3's life cycle instead of just shoving out all the games in 2009 like KZ2, Ico's new game, Heavy Rain, God of War 3, Insomniacs new game to name a few but save some for 2010,2011,2012 and 2013 etc.

but hell that was one mad video, imagine what all the other unannounced PS3 first party games will be like. It feels so good to own a PS3!

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@Bubbles

Yeah I agree with you there. But the difference between the PS2 and the PS3 is that we had to wait for the END of the PS2's lifecycle to see jaw-dropping games like God of War 1/2 and GTA, but with the PS3 in it's second year (first year was hopeless) and beyond we have jaw-dropping ass-flopping ball-crunching games like Uncharted, Resistance 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, Killzone 2, God of War 3, Little Big Planet and the like.

It's a great feeling to own a PS3 right now!

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Bubbles - 416 days 3 hours ago

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remember how GT4 and God of war made our jaws drop at the end of the ps2's lifespan?

expect a similar transition in the ps3's wit this title and more

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jwatt - 416 days 1 hour ago

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Wow Sony better bring Eightdays back the animations look amazing. I was thinking they may start back up production of the game at a later date but after seeing that Sony definitely needs to start back up again.

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El_Colombiano - 416 days 3 hours ago

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Wow. I'm loving the Uncharted esque cover system. Man the animation is great. Transitions from cover to cover are better and more varied than Uncharted's. Looks like they are building on Uncharted's cover system.

Man I can't wait until this game's development picks up again!

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deep - 416 days 3 hours ago

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WOw - beaten by GameExtract themselves. Well done. Shame you won't get any hits by embedding the video. Sucker.

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El_Colombiano - 416 days 3 hours ago

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LMFAO they took the video off.

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deep - 415 days 19 hours ago

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Haha hilarious. Nutters.

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alan001 - 416 days 3 hours ago

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that was gr8, i hope the put it back in develpment

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whothedog - 416 days 3 hours ago

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They better not have ******* canned this game.

I Wonder if they are releasing the videos to see if people are still interested in this game, WELL I KNOW I AM.

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xhi4 - 416 days 3 hours ago

6.1 - Yoshida said.....

they haven't canceled it, they just have stopped development so the teams can focus on some other game they're working on, the same goes for The Getaway 3.

Expect these games to come out after the team has completed and released the game Yoshida thinks is the most important. Yoshida is a champion, his past precedes him and I have total faith in his judgement, hell he worked with Team Ico for a while he HAS to be good.

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whothedog - 416 days 2 hours ago

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phew thanks for letting me know that, I would of been upset because both games have potential to be great games.

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avacadosnorkel - 416 days 3 hours ago

7 - It was pretty neat for a tech demo

but who knows how hard it would have been to actually get your guy to do that sh1t

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NO_PUDding - 416 days 1 hour ago

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GREAT.. GREAT Point....

Bubbles and agree.

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Sevir04 - 416 days 3 hours ago

8 - man i'm saddened by the the decision to postpone this title, with all that was going into it

in all honesty i dont know why sony put this game on hold. it would have been awesome the animation system gives uncharted a run for it's money in ingame character movements and the transistion from cover to cover to slide to crawl back to cover is just spot on.

i shed tears of dismay because this game could have been out next year.

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Homicide - 416 days 3 hours ago

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That looks so freaking awesome. I'm very impressed by the animation/cover system. I hope they continue to make the game. The E3 06 trailer was incredible. Stupid eyepet.

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jwatt - 416 days 1 hour ago

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Yea I thought Eyepet was cute now I can't stand it.

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SuperM - 415 days 13 hours ago

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Tbh i dont think Eight Days got cancelled because of Eyepet. Eyepet may have benefited from it but i believe people were mainly relocated to work at Home. Because sony has alot of pressure on them to release it on time. If it gets delayed beyond 2008 then they would lose alot of credibility. When Home is finished they might just start working on eight days again, if we are lucky :)

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j-seb - 416 days 2 hours ago

10 - hmmm...

If they don't restart development of this game, I hope Uncharted's sequel will use some of these animation ideas, such as moving smoothly and continuously around a wall, sliding/diving into cover and the almost prone position you can get into depending on the size of the cover (with that last point, enemies in Killzone 2 already do this as you shoot away their cover). I hope this game gets restarted, but this tech demo has actually made me more psyched for Uncharted 2!

and the guy could actually sprint!!

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HeartlesskizZ - 416 days 2 hours ago

11 - Weird

I guess im the only one that played KillSwitch

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Rick Astley - 416 days 1 hour ago

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That's what I said when everyone else said Gears of War invented the 3rd person cover system. Either way this looks better than Gears of War, Kill.Switch, and Uncharted. Maybe Naughty Dog will be able to pull this off with Uncharted 2.

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LastDance - 416 days 1 hour ago

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oi..oi...oi......oi mate........Operation WINBACK

hahaha!

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VMAN_01 - 416 days 2 hours ago

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I think they will bring this back into development Sony have alot on there plates at the moment and I am sure they will bring this title back to life soon.

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Cyrus365 - 416 days 2 hours ago

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Just cause the game is cancelled doesn't mean the tech can't be implemented in future titles, Ie Uncharted 2, or some other Sony First party or 2nd party dev.

You can bet that they'll share tools, and tech they have developed on this project and Getaway too.

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SRuN4 - 416 days 2 hours ago

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Like I said on the other posts, they canned this for EyePet?

They let a potentially great first party game get canned for EyePet, something that will ultimately fail like the rest of the EyeToy products. And these are the types of decisions that put you in third place.

Plus, it was a year out. If they put up with it for 2.5 years, don't you think they could of bit the bullet and waited one more year? It could of been a genre making title and could of brought online coop games to the forefront. Oh well their lose, maybe if there is enough outcry they'll rethink the decision but I doubt it.

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harry190 - 416 days 1 hour ago

14.1 - Let's make this clear:

Eyepet was NOT the reason 8 Days was canned/shelved. It only BENEFITED from it, which means that they now have more resources free to work on Eyepet than before. Both games were at the same stage of pre-production when they decided to cancel 8 days. It could well have been Eye[et which could have been canceled, but it was not, since it obviously represented something Sony was willing to invest into to generate potential rewards with a relatively higher profit margin due to a wider audience, lower production cost and media attention. Tell me why Wii Fit is still mentioned in every health or lifestyle magazine out there without the need for Nintendo to spend a single dollar? Because it's different.

For all we know, 8Days probably had problems we have not heard about yet that were quite critical at this stage. It simply did not pass the selection test because the team's presentation was flawed. Not Eyepet's fault. But what more can I say? People NEED to put the blame on someone or something and it turns out Eyepet is the perfect scapegoat.

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SRuN4 - 415 days 23 hours ago

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"I think the official comment was that the London studio decided to shift its focus from 'hard core' games to 'lifestyle' games and that Eight Days did not fit into the budget for the next financial year.

To be honest, it would have been easier to accept it's cancellation if the game wasn't very good."

That's a comment to the video from the lead animator, anyway you slice it they are no longer developing hardcore games at the London Studio. It was one year away from it's scheduled release, it couldn't of been that horrible if it made it that far. That'd be like if they came out this past February and said, "Killzone 2 is no longer in production."

Sure the tech they developed is gonna be shared but why go through all of that hardwork for one game and then not even push it out the door? At that point, isn't the game due it's time in the spotlight even if it's not that great?

And please point me to something that used the EyeToy and actually became a success? Cause I can't think of one thing that acutally made an impact and it's been out for years now. Sorry but if nothing great has come of it yet, I doubt EyePet is really going to change that.

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VMAN_01 - 416 days 2 hours ago

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Its not canceled Yoshida just stated that development had been stopped so that they can concentrate on titles like Hardware 2.

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SRuN4 - 416 days 2 hours ago

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On the lead animators youtube account, where the video comes from, he says it was cancelled and they were basically told London Studios were now concentrating on social/casual games from here on out.

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Old Snake - 416 days 2 hours ago

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GOd dayum I was pissed when they canceled this and now I'm even more so. That looked f**king awesome. Why don't other games look like that?

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gdguide - 416 days 2 hours ago

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As kiddy and as gay looking EyePet is, if they market it enough to little kids, EyePet could sell a crapload. Have you guys seen the trailer? That could easily be the next Nintendogs for sure.

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SRuN4 - 416 days 1 hour ago

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Do you really think parents are gonna shell out for the eyetoy, eyepet and ps3? Sorry but that's a pretty big investment to become mainstream and casual.

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jwatt - 416 days 1 hour ago

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Eye pet looks very good for the casual but they shouldn't of cancelled Eightdays. I bet if we do a petition for this it would be the most sign out of all the other petitions.

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jwatt - 416 days 1 hour ago

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All that stuff has nothing to do with how the animations look.

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stuntman_mike - 416 days 1 hour ago

19 - i say...

good animation its a shame they canceled it i'm not a big fan of these so called "casual games", they don't last 5 mins i would rather have eight days than eyepet.

hope they restart development again a few years down the line.

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Some_One_Plays - 416 days 1 hour ago

20 - That's disappointing...

This video demonstration reminds me of Bad Boys 2 I just hope Sony secured the IP (Intellectual Property) for later on. I also wanted to see the Gateaway 3 for the PlayStation 3 because Grand Theft Auto only used 8.54GB. The Getaway would have used 50GB or something very close to it.

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Killjoy3000 - 416 days 1 hour ago

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Looked as good if not better than Uncharted.

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VMAN_01 - 416 days 1 hour ago

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Imagine the intense fire fights with a cover system like that.

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juuken - 416 days 2 hours ago

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Sony should be strangled for canceling this game. >.<
I just hope they bring it back someday.

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militant07 - 416 days 2 hours ago

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to be honest the gameplay sucks.
they did well to cancel it and make better games idk what they replaced it for but its better !

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DavidMacDougall - 416 days 2 hours ago

1.2 - @militant07

Your a known bot nobody cares what you think being that you are biased

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LOL yeah i said that once turns out he is like 10 (Someone told me) well he owns an xbox he would have to be

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juuken - 415 days 15 hours ago

1.3 - militant07

...militant, I didn't know you worked for Sony and played the game already.

That's new to me...considering that was a really stupid comment.

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militant07 - 415 days 13 hours ago

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gameplay video ?!

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juuken - 415 days 13 hours ago

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Uh...that doesn't count if the game wasn't even finished to begin with? :/

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militant07 - 415 days 9 hours ago

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btw juuken your the only ps3 fan that can speak with because sometimes you speak trouth

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DA_SHREDDER - 416 days 1 hour ago

2 - "to be honest the gameplay sucks"

Said the guy with the gay little avatar. Anyways, If I remember correctly, this game was a single player only game. I think Sony would be smart to take the tech from this game, and incorporate it in a game like MAG or just make a new IP with the same cover system. This is the first time I ever seen a Third person shooter that actually looked cool. Everything just runs so flawlessly. I know Sony is not dumb and they will more then likely build take what they got from this game and make something even bigger then a what this game was originally was planned too be.

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harry190 - 416 days 1 hour ago

2.1 - Man,come on

It's not gay(not in the 'happy' sense), it's from Trusty Bell. It's cool,only the picture, not the individual hiding behind it.

But what I can't understand is how someone can dare form an uneducated opinion based on not even actual gameplay footage. It is frankly very unintelligent and shows a lack of common sense.

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play_b3yond - 416 days ago

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They shouldn't have canceled it. Uncharted was a single player game too but it sold about 2 million copies and is one of the best third person shoter games this generation. I actully don't think they have canceled the game. Sony just wants to keep this game and Gateway as a backup. They already have lots of AAA exclusives coming next year so there is no reason to have these two games released in 2009 as well. I am sure Sometime in 2009 Sony will announce that these two games are back on track and will be released in 2010.

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xaviertooth - 415 days 22 hours ago

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agreed play_beyond. right now the code for this kind of animation might be shared across all sony studios. imagine how ps3 games will look like in the coming months.

@militant: what's the envy? have u played it already to call the gameplay sucks? you are a typical sh*tbox tard!

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ThatCanadianguy420 - 416 days 1 hour ago

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Im sure SCE will bring it back one day.Maybe in like 2010-2011.It'll be a nice surprise when it does! This game was looking pretty badass.But atleast there's plenty of other AAA games coming!

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Patchstation 3 - 416 days 1 hour ago

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This is the first title that made me think of purchasing a PS3...Sony cancelled it and I cancelled that thought.

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harry190 - 416 days ago

4.1 - So...now

you just comment on a console you never owned and still act like you do?
Not cool, not cool at all.

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Kaneda - 415 days 23 hours ago

5 - Sony

Sony cancelled games better looking than any xbox 360 released games...

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ELite_Ghost - 415 days 9 hours ago

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it's not that hard to do.

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DA_SHREDDER - 415 days 22 hours ago

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Sony has not even started to put out games that have yet to define what next gen really is. I know all you bots think that Gears 2 is the next coming, but honestly Fable 2 is the better game. Im really surprised that you bots haven't praised it as much as your precious GEOW2 . That right there just shows how immature and pathetic you bots really are. You wouldn't know a good game if it slapped you across your face and called you momma.

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