

Too much brown: I know it's cliche, but Gears could just as well be played on an old black-and-white monitor and not a lot of information would be lost.Dialog: alright, Marcus isn't exactly a second Cicero when it comes to conversational skills, but those stupid one-liners get old pretty fast.Some things simply don't work, no matter how hard one tries. It's like asking Schwarzenegger to play Shakespeare. The Gears main character are simply not built for stuff like this. If you want to do an emotional story, do it right. What is this emotional bullshit doing in my Gears. Instead I'm just seeing Dom bringing up his wife all the time (just found her yesterday). Stupid story: So far I'm not seeing the better story that was promised.The mini-tank in Gears 2 controls like shit (a bit like the Mass Effect Mako, but worse), and there's too much driving through boring tunnels with nothing else happening. Vehicle sequences: I don't know why FPS designers still torture us with vehicle sequences.

There are a few easy to identify points which I clearly don't like: I'm currently playing through the Gears 2 single player campaign, and I don't know why exactly, but I'm not having very much fun.

But who knows, I wasn't "getting" the Wii either, and look how that turned out (yeah, who am I kidding, it's more likely that Home will turn into a wasteland and Sony will let it die a quiet and slow death in a few months). I refuse to believe that Sony is driven by marketing peeps who thought that Second-Life is the next-big-thing during its short media-hype. Even if Home was "the cool shit", the long startup time kills every impulse to even launch that thing.
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Here's my XBLA wishlist for 2009: downloadable full games, and more price variety for downloadable games (in my opinion, a game like Mirror's Edge would be better if it wouldn't have to fill the shoes of a full-blown 60.- Euro game). Live Arcade GOTYs: Castle Crashers, RezHD, BC: Rearmed and Omega Five (hmm, more great games on XBLA then retail this year.). And I can't get over the fact that this is an EA game. It's an old-school corridor shooter with shiny graphics and rock-solid shooting mechanics. Dead Space is basically "Doom3, done right", and that's all there needs to be said.
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