jets need to be up by more than one possession at the fourth to come out with a win in this.

Is this the game the Jets kicker kills them in?ohjtbehaaave

friggin kickers lately. Has me more annoyed here than it did last week. Come the **** ON Feely. Your team isn't supposed to be anywhere near this game, and you'd be winning by considerably more if you stopped with the lameness.

well well well, look who's not instantly choking!

[QUOTE="chaoscougar1"][QUOTE="Hakud0ushi"]I've been seen people streaming online, and the game is so awesome i can't describe. It's such an improvement from the first one, amazing graphics, an all better combat gameplay. Probably a GOTY.Hakud0ushi

I tend to agree that with videogames, its not hard to tell whether its a contender for goty or not, whatever month it is. definitely don't crown it, but i think saying it's going to be a candidate is totally reasonable.

still looking forward to playing it. I had fun with Gears 1, playing thru the campaign coop to beat it on the hardest difficultly. Didn't feel the 2nd one was going to be worth a big price tag, so I'm waiting a few years to get it bargain bin, but it'll be a good bargain bin buy when I do! :)

maybe it's trying to save you from such ridiculous stuff

Dammit way bummed by the short nothingness of that review. This is one of the biggest games of the year, and they do a quick little two page summary of things we've known for a long long time now and giant generalizations. I thirst for this game people! Give me five pages of intricate detailed thoughts on every aspect!!! Someone familiar with the first game, who has followed the development of the second, could easily have written that review without ever having actually played the second one.

Do we think people's guesses are leaning too high? I feel like we've already seen some major issues with the game exposed in early reviews...

I'm guessing 7.5-8.5

it happens less than you'd be led to believe.

As for your assertion that we could use less violence in our "best-of-the-year type games", you once again reveal that your own working knowledge of the medium is lacking, since very few of the highest rated games of 2009 contained overtly violent images and scenarios. As a point of fact, save for Fallout 3, 2008' offerings weren't all that gruesome either. There are always going to be titles that push the envelope in terms of content and frankly, your own dissatisfaction with these games is your prerogative. My problem with your comments was and remains the arrogance of assuming that merely because you find the content offensive that by default the violence in these games becomes the product of banality and marketing rather than artistic choice. It's an impossibly puerile assertion and subsequently de-values the effort of talented people merely because you don't care for or cannot relate to their work.

Grammaton-Cleric

Look, my frustration with you is that you're coming at me with assumptions about what I assume. I'm not saying that violence in videogames is bad. I'm not saying that violence isn't an artistic choice, and that there aren't some stories that need violence to be told. I'm not saying that I find violence distasteful or offensive or 'the product of banality'. I realize this is a sensitive issue for gamers, as games are consistently under attack by people who haven't actually spent much time with games so I get your reaction, but I'd appreciate less aggression and assumptions. I also don't think 'puerile' is message-board appropriate language.

Truly though, do you really not think there is room for some more high quality non-violent games? Thats what I'm getting at. I don't/didn't mean to attack violent games, but I guess put forth a desire for more quality games without violence. If I didn't present my meaning accurately I apologize. I want there to be games out there that can be played in front of young children and still be as well-done as the games I've always enjoyed. Lets take a look at 2009 nominations for best game on PC, PS3, and 360 -- Call of Duty, Assassins Creed, Left 4 Dead, Resident Evil, Batman, Dragon Age, Killzone, Demon Souls, Forza, the Sims. With the exception of the last two, all of these games contain violence inappropriate for young kids. All of them are good games, and all of them require the violence they have, but why not also have an RPG like Dragon Age and a platformingish adventure game like Assassins Creed that aren't as brutal? I don't think this is that absurd or out-of-touch a perspective for me to have.