Gears 2 - A WTF Moment With Cliff Bleszinski In Australia

TheIneffableBob - 423 days 16 hours ago

Why would they show a 5-6 month old build if the game is gold?

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gaminoz - 423 days 19 hours ago

Well my first guess would be EB, followed by GAME. I'm a bit 'meh' about GOW2, only because there are so many great games sitting near the 360 waiting to be played. I'm sure I'll enjoy it when I get to it, but it does seem a bit 'more of the same' to me. I loved the original, except for the stupid AI for Dom when I wasn't playing co-op and the need for teamwork in online multi.

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XboxOZ360 - 423 days 19 hours ago

Well if I find out, I'll pop it up as soon as I can, I think GAME will have, and most likely out at Parramatta in the Sydney area as it's one of their biggest stores.

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XboxOZ360 - 423 days 19 hours ago

I'm the same, great guy to chat with, game left me a bit flat actually on the night. Not sure how the final product will go, but I'm not expecting HUGE changes or leaps and bounds from Gears 1.

Sure, it'll be good, but it certainly isn't the second coming of christ or anything like many of the Gears-mad fans seem to think it is. Left 4 Dead shows more promise imo

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XboxOZ360 - 423 days 18 hours ago

See, they can't even give it away (jk btw) . .I remember Gears 1 - you couldn't get the LE for anything less that $100 until a week or two after launch, now they have it at $30 below RRP before its release - makes you wonder - doesn't it ?

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gaminoz - 423 days 17 hours ago

You can trade 3 games in for it at JB too when it is out...that's for the LE. Of course there is always an exclusion list...

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moparful99 - 423 days 15 hours ago

Its all media... I played halo 1 and 2 and i played gears. They were far over hyped. Microsoft has its hands in all kinds of media therefore its very easy for them to start viral advertising campaigns for their games.. The features in R2 blow gears away but the hype train isnt as large because sony lets the games sell themselves.....

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XboxOZ360 - 423 days 13 hours ago

While I disagree, I agree . . Odd one eh . . one of those catch 22 situations. R2 is even panned by some of the most respected media writers. One previewed BOTH R2 and KZ2 and had severe things to say about R2, yet gave KZ2 great [praise, and he was/is a Sony supporter. SO there's no bias there.

While youmight think that Sony allow games to "sell themselves", that is actually not true. They simply do NOT have the budget to do so, especially now that the PS3 will basically no bring in any profit for the platform at all over its life time, and they will have to rely on software and other means to bring things into line.

MS on the other hand HAVE the spare cash (in excess of $US25billion is surplus CASH - compared to Sony's $US3 billion or less right now) So in essence, they can't spend the $US10- $US15+ Million on Advertising alone to promote ONE single game, let alone several at once, whereas MS-Xbox DIv do have that ability.

Sony are behind the eightball in that regard, but if they had the funds, then they would make just as much fuss as MS-Xbox Div do, probably more

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XboxOZ360 - 423 days 7 hours ago

He said to Scott, hey man, this is scary, like only a handful of people knew that stuff . . next thing he'll be saying don't get on the airplane as it could have a problem, then I would be scared" . .or words to that affect . .

I believe that if you want to talk about something, then know what you're going to be talking about. The two best books to really give you an HONEST background on the Xbox Platform are Dean Takahashi's Opening The Xbox and Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Both of which show the 360 was in the works as early as 2002. When I tell ppl this they think I', nuts. Or when I mention that the 1st-gen xbox was never meant to have a life other than 5 yrs at the most, they simply brush it off saying it was MS's fault for pulling the plug on it. It had a job to do.

Get developers on board, and get ppl involved in LIVE, that was it's sole purpose in life. The 360 was aimed at coming in 5 years after its launch, and they were discussing that and the plan for that in late 2002 and had a white paper on it in 2003. You can't go wrong in grabbing those two books, even if you don't have a 1st-gen xbox, you'll learn heaps about Sony, and their team and also the Xbox team that kicked the whole thing off. 10 gamers started it all.

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GiantEnemyLobster - 423 days 20 hours ago

Truely a remarkable video game developer.

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GiantEnemyLobster - 423 days 20 hours ago

Everyone will have forgotten about those C-grade games titled 'resistance 2' and 'killzone 2'.

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BLUR111 - 423 days 17 hours ago

Man cliffy is the sh!t, made the best masterpiece ever in video games

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theEnemy - 423 days 17 hours ago

you used all your bubbles and yet you still don't make any sense.

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Acj2323 - 423 days 16 hours ago

he does make sense, and i agree with him, Gears of War was in its own league thrashing the other games out on the market easy, and i Gears of War 2 wont fall short of beating even that record.

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XboxOZ360 - 423 days 19 hours ago

Well if it's true, it's true. No use playing something up that's not what it claims to be. I might be a Xbox supporter, but I'm not blind or a fanboi . .

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elorm9 - 423 days 17 hours ago

I totally agree with Prosecutor, it's good to see that not all Xbox owners are so biased. I think that next year, Microsoft doesn't really have much to show off aside from Alan Wake, Halo Wars, and Halo: Recon. I stand corrected though.

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XboxOZ360 - 423 days 19 hours ago

Yes, and the fact that - well - it's not news after all, just because the Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, Xbox 360 mag, X360 mag, etc etc etc all covered it, it can't be NEWS . . dimwhits.

Learn what the "report" button is for and the "comments" button is . .the two are vastly different. Besides, I didn't think Cliff was THAT way inclined, even if he did put his arm around me . . heheheh

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XboxOZ360 - 423 days 17 hours ago

Totally DISAGREE there mate . I'm an Xbox fan, but NOT a fanboi . . . Good is good, not GREAT.

Check out Left 4 Dead videos from link above, then tell me Gears 2 is better, and I'll know that you're a fanboi pure and simple.

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silverchode - 423 days 17 hours ago

grayzone, constipation= xbox360 exclusives ?

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XboxOZ360 - 423 days 13 hours ago

Both games are similar in so far as their main selling points are MP mayhem . . .How many buy Gears for the story - come on . .Not that many . . Most are in it for the mass carnage they can bring about online - period.

Geasr is great, no doubt about that, but L4D is also about MP carnage, and one where you WILL have to work as a team. While they say you have to in Gears, many don't, in L4D, you simply won't survive if you don't.

So that upsets some people, so what . . One shouldn't be blinded to the fact that both games are more about MP gaming than anything else. Both are about survival and getting through hordes (no pun intended) of crazed enemies out for blood and will stop at nothing to kill you, and your team..

So what difference is there in that? They simply go about it in a different fashion. If we followed that train of thought, then no two games could ever be compared, as none (well a huge % of them anyhow) are not the same as each other. But most have a core theme.

These two have a core theme, Survival and Horror . .and also working either as one, which many do in gears, por havingto work as a team in l4d.

Many gamers find it difficultto work as a cohesive team, they hate those teams that do, and call them MP nerds or worse. Simply because they do work as a team. In gears you can get away with some breaking of the rules.

So why not look at both instead of righting one off over the other. Gears offers gamers a unique approach, so does L4D, so each does have a right to be seen and heard in its own right, yet also compared where there are similarities. And they are similar in the pure fact they are both horror based, both are about surviving, both are about guns, lots of them, and both are about killing as many of the enemy as possible. so what's so NOT similar about them.

The other side of the coin is, that one may have played Gears 2, but has anyone actually played L4D yet, and has anyone seen the lastest in-game actual MP gameplay of the game . . .It's extremely intense . . and frantic . .so playing both will leave gamers wanting more, but it's fair to say that both are similar, yet also dis-similar in their own right.

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XboxOZ360 - 423 days 10 hours ago

Afraid not mate, various reviewers that have SEEN and PLAYED it, which many Sony gamers have not, have said it lacks a level of quality that it should have, but KZ 2 kicks it's butt . . that was by a Sony reviewer to I might add . . .

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