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HL2 gets a nod from me too, Bioshock also gets manatee appreciation. I haven't played any COD4, so can't comment on that. I'll get flamed into little black crispy chunks for saying this, but Halo 3 made some big strides for a console game. Solid Coop, with plenty return life in the SP...

And my point was that people were comparing GoW2 (which they cannot have an opinion about) to Haze and KZ2 (which they cannot have an opinion about) and mostly unfavourably. Clearly, that's a fanboy approach or just plain being daft. We can speculate before it's release; we review and compare...

Why does it have to be relevant? Can't it just be fun? If you're looking for innovation, then Gears of War with destructable envs will be pretty interesting; adds a dimension to the cover mechanic that other cover shooters (R6, GRAW, Mass Effect, etc) didn't use. They already showed with the...

Haze is consistently in PS3 fanboy lists for exclusives that make the 360 redundant, but it overlooks the fact that it's not strictly a PS3 exclusive; it was cancelled for the other platforms. The developers probably didn't intend to keep it for Sony. Also, much has been made of all it BRAND...

I thought this was a pretty interesting piece of research actually. It may be telling Escapists what we had already figured out, but I should imagine that our prejudice free viewpoint (ha!) is not shared by the wider world, who seem dedicated to miscontruing video game content and their target...

I'm surprised skate hasn't seen a metacritic of voer 90: it was a well recieved game from what I've seen. Maybe that review by Mr. T. Hawk dragged its average down.

So how do twitch-gmaes like UT fit with that? They're not based around any foresighted planning, but there's no questioning that they're hardcore... or is there? Is there actually a definition for a hardcore game? A casual game would be one that you can drop into instatnly - most of the Wii...

SPOLIERS: The Titan is in the game. Winter Crusade, final level... Okay, it's not useable, but in the fluff, those thigns are rare - even Baneblades are rare, as they're all carrying technology that humans can't really fashion anymore. that's supposed to be reflected in the points cost...

I think it's pretty positive that we're speaking about a game thats' four years old, and what else they can do with it... let's hope Relic are listening, because DoW2 could have some serious legs (and I mean Starcraft 2 stomping legs). I think the issue with putting in more units is the way...

The Citadel Journal had Baneblade (unofficial) rules back in 2nd Ed; the new Apocalypse ruleset for 4th ed allows the use of baneblades and equivalent superheavy tanks (even titans I think). The whole tabletop bloodthirster vs baneblade depends on range. an early summoning and a big battlefield...

There's lots of big guns that break all manner of sticks in 40K. The bloodthirster is still powerful, but it's not unbeatable.

Bloodthirster would probably win 1v1 in DoW. Avatar would be second. Both those units are clearly desigend for taking out elite, small units, rather than wholesale infantry destruction (Squiggoth, Monolith, Gnarloc). Banebalde excels at destroying structures though - fantastic for wiping out Ork...

It's been put back again though, til the next fiscal year (i.e. April'08 to MArch '09). Seeing as before that official redate, it was due in Apr '08 anyway, it's starting to look as if March '09 will be it. It looked intersting as a Halo 3 competitor, but it's starting to look like it'll be...

"The reason i hated this game is generally based on my absolute boredom of the cookie cutter FPS's that come out 3 a week. If this game brought any type of actual ingenuity to the genre, " Eh? Are you talking about Gears of War? It wasn't cookie cutter FPS (aside from not being FPS at all, of...

RROD is nothing to do with the 360's multimedia facilities; it's simply a design issue, of where the DVD drive, heat sink and GPU are all located. They're all fundamental to the 360 being able to play games, so it would have TRL'd with or without being a media hub. In fact, the 360 has moved...