OXM gives Gears of War 2 9/10

[Paul_Warren]

"You came back for more after totally being crushed earlier.......wow.....do yourself a favor and just stop! It's one review. You might want to wait for some more reviews before you start digging yourself an even bigger hole. It wasnt a 6, or a 7, or even a great score like an 8, it was a [9]. I had no idea a [9] was a bad thing. MGS4 and LBP have both gotten plenty of 9's, and I consider them GOTY contenders. So the day reviewers start at 10 and work there way up....please.....let me know."

I got crushed....I have a question for you, how many weeks in a row was the 360 able to beat the PS3 in Others after having its price reduced to half of the PS3's? Two, man, if I was crushed, then the 360 was annihilated. The PS2's library is the standard of excellence in gaming and during its lifetime it had 62 games in the 9.0-10.0 range and 319 total games in the 80-100 range.

Now that the 360 is nearing the end its lifetime and with Gears 2 supposed to be its last hurrah looking more and more everyday like it will turn into a fizzle instead one sees that the 360 has only managed 17 games in the 9.0-10.0 range and only 120 total games in the 8.0-9.0 range.

Now using the PS2's library as a standard of excellence for console games (only PC's have had more quality games but they've been around since the early eighties), then after hearing all the x-fans talk about the huge number of great games on their console in forum after forum when one goes investigate the matter, they find that the 360 line up has in fact been very disappointing (no 9.0 exclusives yet in 2008? There were years when the PS2 had up to twenty games with 9.0 or better scores).

Looks like MS is doomed to wind up in third this gen.