@funnyman2004 Agreed, I have very high hopes for Heavy Rain ; I have been avoiding the hype as best I can (well, what hype there is), so hopefully I will be able to really be utterly taken aback when I start playing. I am really hoping that it will be as gritty as I imagine it to be, and be released sooner rather than later.

I think this article should have referenced the original endings to the main questline in Junktown in Fallout 1. Originally, the endings were rather grey ; if you chose to help Killian (the apparent good guy) run the criminals out of town, Junktown eventually stagnated under his tyrannical rule, and withered away ; if you chose to help Gizmo however, the apparent gangster, the town flourished due to the revenues generated by the trade stemming from his less than legal dealings. The developers were later forced to revise these endings, because the ratings board did not like the moral ambiguity. The moral of the story (ouch) is, people don't like to consider the fact that they aren't always right, and that sometimes the line that divides the 'good' guys, and the 'bad' guys can be blurred to the point at which it hardly exists. This is visible in the recent outcry over the 'airport scene' in Modern Warfare 2. The average person doesn't want to explore the philosophical possibilties of morality in games, they are much happier dealing with a straight up 'good guys vs baddies' scenario where they are always the hero, no matter what ; it makes them very uncomfortable to have to question whether or not they are in the right.

Why would people care about most of this stuff? I mean, who is going to tear their hair out because it takes half a minute to boot up? (I normally just hit the power button while I get something else done, by the time I'm finished it'll be long done booting up). Who leaves open two or three banks of windows on the taskbar, and then complains about being unable to find what they want (why don't they use some organisation skills and shut the windows they don't NEED open)? Who actually uses gadgets? The only ones I have ever seen were just pointless screen-clutter. The only thing I wanted from this was increased gaming performance over Vista, but it looks like they haven't managed that yet. Unless they add a lot more incentive before release, there is no way I will pay for this.

Wow, when I played Gears 2 I thought that it looked way better than the first, but having looked at these, not a whole lot has changed. That is more than slightly disappointing...

@HaRiZ420 That is the truth... Except for price. That, for me, is the ONLY attraction to console gaming. At least for this generation, I could not afford the costs inherent to maintaining a full-spec gaming rig, and to be honest, it is far too much hassel (as I have learned from experience) constantly fiddling with settings to make a sub-par comp run the latest games. So at least for now, PRICE is the dividing factor.

In my personal opinion, there is almost no noticable difference between these, at least, none that would be worth going through the hassel of staging a comparison.