[QUOTE="sc_kid42"] Halo revolutionized first person shooters, right? Right. Well, at the end of the day, what makes Halo boring? Why do you put Halo down? Because you're doing the same thing over and over again. It's a first person shooter, and therefore has many limits.
Gears, being in third person mode, brings a lot more innovation and ability to the table. You can roll, evade, and hide behind cover in a much more realistic sense than any other games. The cover system revolutionized many things, because while it had been in other games before where it takes one or two shots to kill you, Gears of war has implemented it like no other.
The down system is also revolutionary, giving players a second chance if they have been hurt too much or out of cover for too long. Allowing players to revive you while downed, but still allowing enemies to finish you off if no teamwork is used has allowed for a sense of forgiveness.
Another thing is teamwork. In Halo, no one cares about teamwork except in maybe capture the flag. You just go around and kill everyone. In Gears, you usually need teamwork to win, considering there are only 4 of you and you don't respawn. Note the revive thing above.
And by the way, I'd appreciate not being referred to as a kid. I think I deserve more respect than that, thank you.
TheCrazed420
Halo didn't revolutionize shooters.
Gears was not the first game to use a cover system.
Reviving downed players has been a part of the Battlefield series for a long time now.
I lovee games with teamwork. gears did encourage that, and that was one of the reasons I enjoyed playing it.
I know it wasn't the first to use cover. That's actually pretty much exactly what I said. It's also good that you're not saying Halo is better than Gears...because it's not. In pretty much any way.
But the reviving system is much different in Gears, and better as well. Don't forget, it's also been in Wolfenstein and other games. It's not a first, but just like many of its nonoriginal features, it does it better than all the games before it, and probably the games after it as well.
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