Doobie_wop said:
Uncharted 2 is a better shooter than Gears of War 2. Gears of War 1 was a better shooter than Uncharted 1. I'm confident in saying that Uncharted 3 will be a better shooter than Gears 3. Judging by the gameplay trailers, Gears 3 seems to be more Gears, which got boring towards the end of my second playthrough of Gears 2. Unless they can dramatically tighten up the gameplay, not make every enemy soak up as much bullets as an enemy from Uncharted 1 and actually add some versatility to the gameplay, then I'm confident in my statement.
The way Drake manouvers between cover, runs, uses melee, uses stealth, uses platforming and uses the weapons, is near perfection as third person shooter. I played through it the first time by using a mixture of platforming, stealth and standard shooting, the second time I stried to strictly stick to using stealth and platforming and the third time I just went insane and used grenades, launchers and machine guns like a crazy person, without worrying about the loss of ammunition. All three times was fun and all three brought different challenges.
Gears 2 is awesome, but I felt like it's way to similar to Gears 1, which was amazing for a game made in 2006. The running, while looking cool, isn't useful at all. The cover mechanics are clumsy, the characters (their size is probably the reason) are too slow in their movement, the melee is repititive, the shooting is pretty good and the enemies soak up way too much damage without trying to out smart you.
I'll be buying Gears of War 3 at release, but unless it fixes up the character dialogue, updates the cover and shooter mechanic, makes the story somewhat interesting and makes it look as good as Uncharted 2 (both in terms of art and technical prowess), then it will not be close to being my Game of the Year. That battle will be fought between Uncharted 3, Skyrim, Yakuza 4, Infamous 2 and the inevitable Alan wake 2.
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