More Random Gaming Relays for a Tepid Tuesday
Bad news for PS3 fans looking for a smarter way to interact online. Sony's PS3 Home has been delayed again, moving the open beta back from this spring to fall 2008. How delayed is too delayed? Any more than this fall -- already a full year behind -- and Sony could be asking for serious trouble.
GamePolitics.com has this oddly enough story about GTA IV ads being pulled from Chicago buses due to pressure from more clueless politicians. Hey Chicago readers, do us a favor and stop voting for these guys. What kills me is we're talking the same city that has plenty of prominent billboards hawking strip clubs and adult video stores all over the city. Go consistency!
Videogamer.com brings news of claims that High Voltage Software's new Quantum 3 Wii game engine will yield "Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 visuals on the tiny Wii console." Who's High Voltage Software? The guys behind Ben 10: Protector of the Earth, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law, and Family Guy Video Game! Not exactly promising credentials. Probability? Don't hold your breath.
Someone's suggesting Gears of War 2 "might suck." What's funny about the piece is the way the guy goes out of his way to head off the trolls by claiming he's "a rabid Gears of War junkie." I say why bother. I have no great expectations of Gears of War 2. Gears of War was good but nothing great in my book, not at all as tactically interesting as some made it out to be, and arguably largely about wowing people who'd just dropped major change on a "next-gen" console.
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You forgot to mention that the Team Fortress 2 update STILL isn't out. It's been 2 days Valve, 2 days.....
2 days? wow 2 days is nothing. you can wait, and to Matt, *sniffle* you didnt think gears was awesome?? i just lost respect points for you.
Hey Yuff, I certainly thought it was *very good* (see my review at that link), I just kind of fell off the hype train and got a little bruised when I stood up, looked around, and realized it was just a Really Amazing Looking but otherwise kind of ordinary third-person shooter with some Super Lite tactics. I was expecting a lot more from the tactical play and the team AI. That, and the Pitch Black thievery (the sequences with the light and shadows) felt kind of contrived.
Mind Wide Open for Gears of War 2, though.