who is gonna want to play as the 300 lbs lady or the flat-chested chick the looks pretty much like a boy? It's not necessailry that people are exploiting sexuality but that people want to play as people they relate to/like to have relations with.

Couldnt I say that game characters are overly masculinized also? Duke Nukem, GeoW, GoW, Killzone, etc etc. Big dudes with 6 packs and big pecs? Videogames are fantasies and most fantasies concern the ideological person and body type

no game I've ever played/seen validated buying an entirely new system. I am gettin a PS3 but because of what it can do and other games that it has.

As for the game. I wouldnt buy it. Already beat the 1st and it was good but not godly. Give me a remake of some Chrono Chross/Chrono Trigger and I'll buy though. I dont NEED it tho, I wont lose any sleep if they didnt remake it

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nope. i think the tactic you are discussing work for long range, zoomed in shooting (at least when I do it) Im talking about being close range, stationary, crosshairs lined up and pointing at an opponent. If there is 3 guys on screen, Im not gonna be shooting 1-2 bullets every 2 seconds in the heat of a battle. Being that I am close and lined up, for head shots, I kinda expect them to hit you know.

IMO the game is not great when it comes to weapons and the likes:
Pistol: Weaksauce. No secondary function. It is weak during close combat because there are like 3 enemies in the whole game with a pistol while everyone else has automatics or shottys or grenade launcher. It is weak for snipin because there is no zoom. What is the point of the pistol exactly?
Sniper: Color scheme makes it hard to see what is in the center of the picture. I thought it was just me coz I was havin trouble coz i was new to it, but I got an army friend who was watchin and was like 'how are you supposed to see what is in the middle of the shot with the color like that in the very middle? Visibility is questionable for sniping for me unless its using night vision with Luger.

I say focus on the tv 1st and then if you want to get speakers and w/e else you need, go for it. Try cnet.com for their hdtv section because they break it down and make things really understandable. Also wikipedia helps.

As for HDTVs worth buying it depends what you are looking for. Since you said price is not an option that crosses out Westinghouse and Vizio, the wholesal, decent but often can be lacking in quality hdtvs. Try going on Amazon.com and reading user reviews on tvs. Brands I'd reccomend are Toshiba, Sony, Pioneer and Samsung. Size matters too. Bigger does not necessarily mean better, so be sure to read up on the viewing distance compared to the tv size on cnet.com.

Best of luck

I bought it at a bargain bin a couple weeks ago. $20 brand new @ EB Canada. It is definitely worth the money but at $20, any game higher than a 6 is worth it imo. The game is far from perfect but is enjoyable. The story is told kinda poorly, I feel like Im just going through the motions. I never look at the mission objectives coz so far its only been 'Get from point A to Point B" type stuff, where Point B is the spot where you meet a friend, find a hostage, leave the building, etc etc. The best (and what equate to a slight learning curve) is the fact that the game looks and sometimes feels like a run n gun, shoot em up, but cover is essential for me. If I run in a room, guns ablazing, I take a beating. I have to wait in between the rounds or when a co-op bot flushes out the enemy or uses cover fire (1st time I had any of that in a game) so I was pretty impressed with that.

With all of that said, Killzone1 got like a 6.9 or something. Not a terrible game but for KZ2 to be great, it has to be more than just a pretty face graphically, they need some gameplay adjustments. Some stuff seems awkwardly hard, like sniping and shooting accurately with a gun other than the pistol or sniper. I know it kinda mirrors real life, but it just is not very fun having every other gun spray wildly around the target when the crosshairs are lined perfectly for a headshot.

Fourth, sony has lost sight and have become complacent and they need to humbled.MarineJcksn

I notice how you don't provide a response to part 4...I think pretty much everyone can agree on that point. PS3 will get great games and be a great system in the future, but in the meantime Sony needs to swallow their pride and apologize to all of us who supported them since day one.

Also, the blu-ray arguement is so dead. It'll be a factor 5 years from now, but not many people care about HD-DVD or blu-ray at the moment. Only 35 percent of the country has an HD-TV, and until the market penetration is up over 75 percent DVD will still reign supreme over all the other formats.

As long as Blu-ray becomes the definitive format Sony has certainly "future-proofed" their console though.