I was pretty surprised when my daughter's boyfriend goes "hey who's Teal?"
He talked me into doing some of the campaign co-op on Hardcore in full-nerd setting. Pulled out 2 TV's, 2 360s, had them set up at a 90 degree angle and were tearing through it. Man that game is pretty tense in hardcore. It seems if you take more than 2 or 3 shots, you're dead. Some of those bigger mobs are beastly to take down. But it was very very fun stuff. I've never been too into Gears, and it remains to be seen whether I get into this one any more than the previous 2, but it's off to a good start. I didn't know that anybody could just jump in at any time, though. That certainly caught me off guard lol
Got my first real MP action last night. I was playing King of the Hill for about 45 minutes. Its way faster than what I am used to but I had a great time. I held my own for it being the first time. Should be fun...until BF3 arrives
If anyone here preordered Gears 3 from Amazon and hasn't used the preorder bonus "Savage Kantus" character download code, you might want to think about putting it on ebay. I sold mine last night for $31, I can't believe people are willing to pay that for a multiplayer character skin. Combine that with the $20 gift card that they were giving with preorders and the game ended up nearly being free.
So it's been a week or so and I am still absolutely loving this game. They really nailed all the aspects. It's basically as perfect of a game as you can make (NOT a statement on the type/style of game - strictly talking about all of the gameplay elements, interaction and interface).
The ability to freely jump in and out of ALL game modes, decide if you want to do 'Quick Play' or 'Ranked' games, the way penalties are implemented if you ditch on a Ranked game, the game mode types, the party system, the ranking system, the awards and ribbons, character and skin unlocking, co-op and arcade modes, etc...F*cking amazing, really.
I think this may be the most polished video game ever created.
And the graphics...simply mind blowing. It really hit me last night on the Overpass map.
Man, I really wish this game had come our 5-7 years ago when we had much higher DSP participation on our 'Poker Nights'.
HipE wrote:If anyone here preordered Gears 3 from Amazon and hasn't used the preorder bonus "Savage Kantus" character download code, you might want to think about putting it on ebay. I sold mine last night for $31, I can't believe people are willing to pay that for a multiplayer character skin. Combine that with the $20 gift card that they were giving with preorders and the game ended up nearly being free.
WOW, thanks for the heads-up. I completely forgot amazon even emailed me this. I put it on ebay with it a 'buy it now' for $40. Someone bought it 4 hours later. Incredible...
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Got to share this-was just playing Warzone with randoms, and everyone on my team was dead but me, and there were three on their team. I stuck a frag grenade on a column between two sets of stairs, at the bottom. They knew right where I was, and one dude came around the car where I was hiding, he had a boomshot. He shot and missed, and I poured rifle rounds into him, and took him down. The other two were waiting on the stairs, just watching, waiting to ambush me. Once he went down, they both came down the stairs, heard a beep, the BLAM! Both blown to bits. It was friggin' awesome.
Teal wrote:Got to share this-was just playing Warzone with randoms, and everyone on my team was dead but me, and there were three on their team. I stuck a frag grenade on a column between two sets of stairs, at the bottom. They knew right where I was, and one dude came around the car where I was hiding, he had a boomshot. He shot and missed, and I poured rifle rounds into him, and took him down. The other two were waiting on the stairs, just watching, waiting to ambush me. Once he went down, they both came down the stairs, heard a beep, the BLAM! Both blown to bits. It was friggin' awesome.
Moments like these make this game even more amazing. I had one last week where I ended the match by taking out 3 guys ducking behind a car on the Hotel map using the 'Digger'. So great.
I'd like to play through the Gears 3 campaign again (this time Insane/Arcade 4 man co-op) and looking for 1 more co-op partner. I'd also love to play some more Horde.
No one interested in Gears anymore? Such a great series IMO. Even Judgment was better than most games of those kind (Sci Fi 3PS). Another reason I need XB1, now that its another exclusive.
