[QUOTE="Ninja-Hippo"][QUOTE="leejohnson7"]Actually I think it is one of those games that shouldn't have a sequel; the core gameplay was all flash over substance way back when the first came out. By now I should imagine that people have had their fix of that laggy online play and strange chainsaw animations.
I mean look at that crap... two people chainsawing each others guns.... It just wouldn't happen, and why does the locust just decide to stop fighting and stand there and take a chainsaw to the head after a dual? Never understood the concept of chainsaws in combat... It just wouldn't work at all.
leejohnson7
I think you missed the point completely if you're going to criticise gears for more flash than substance. It's like having a pop at Indiana Jones for not having intricate dialogue. Gears was all about pure, unadulterated fun. It was an action game from start to finish. You had a ball because you're playing as such a badass, with a small squad of fellow-badasses, taking it to the bad guys in the most intense, visceral, flashy manner possible.
Also, the locust doesn't just stop fighting. You clearly over-power him and slash the chainsaw down on him. Hence why the movement is so quick compared to the normal chainsaw attack. And when questioning the realism of chainsaws in battle; you realise you're playing as a man wearing about a tonne of armour, with boots with size of most people's torsos, who can soak up a burst of machine gun in the chest, and just grunt it off? Who carries a gun the size of something you'd get on the back of a hummer.
Come on.
The game is based off real life concepts, to a degree. Rambo can accurately fire two heavy machine guns at the same time from a standing position when it is inaccurate from a prone position with only one, but it isn't that hard to believe.
The chainsaw dual looked bad.... It showed two guys doing some leaning into one another, and all of a sudden, one of them just gave up and then the older animation came back in... You know the one, where you wiggle your arms instead of walking or leaning backwards as your natural reflexes would make you do (because for that chainsaw to do mortal damage while you are stood up, you would literally have to lean against it).
Now okay... I see what you mean, but it simply pissed me off online when I was running away, but then I turned around and wiggled my arms and got suckered into some lame instant and predictable kill.
Things that "look" cool at a first glance don't work well in a competitive and repetitive online game mode, it just attracts a rather annoying community of scrubs who make up their own rules about what guns you can and can't use with or without being called a "n00b".
Obviously, Marcus Fenix has greater physical power. :)
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