After about fifteen minutes of playing the game... I didn't see anything special. It was a rather normal game, without anything that particularly wowed me. It was the PS3's crackdown.

So I decided to take a break. Then I checked my watch. I had been playing for three hours straight.

Gorram. Thought it was a 15 min session.

And that's pretty much the highest praise you can give a game, if having fun is why you got it (and that's why I did get it).

"Strikingly similar?" "Achingly similar?" When did you develop a penchant for weasal words?

They both have character models that take cover. There's nothing about that quality that compels the use of such dramatic intesifiers.

I wouldn't even bother mentioning Time Crisis or Kill Switch as inspirations. Pointing out that they employeed a cover system before Gears or Uncharted is not the same as saying they inspired either of those games. For me, it's just a more convenient way of making Uncharted detractors look foolish for thinking Gears invented something unique, which deludes them into thinking that any game that uses a cover system post-Gears must have been "inspired" by it.

Pariah_001

Ah, good old Pariah.

You're wrong. Plain and simple. It's not "character models and cover".

The cover system is nothing short of identical. The ammo/weapons management is also "strikingly similar", for that matter. It's not about there being a cover system or not. It's about execution.

The cover system uses the exact same configuration of one button to enter/exit cover. Cover exit is contextual through icons depicting the action to be taken. Same main actions are possible. The feel is well beyond similar. Anyone who has played Gears will be able to use Uncharted's cover system with no need for adjustment. Can't say that for Kill.switch/Time Crisis/GRAW/Whatever players.

Weapons management is based on the four main digital pad directions, with one spot dedicated to grenades. Same inventory management system, same grenade-throwing mechanic (which is quite uncommon in showing you the expected trajectory, btw). The difference is that Uncharted has a redundant "reload" button because it doesn't differentiate between an assault/long weapon and sidearm, like Gears does.

Your use of a straw man to argue against something nobody is saying doesn't make you win the argument, you know?

[QUOTE="G-T-A---M-A-D"]Of course the PS3 will last 10 years, because Pioneer only a few days ago announced that they have released a PS3 compatible 400gb BLuray Disc. In theory they could make a game 8 times more realistic than MGS4(it used up 50GB) Also Pioneer are working on a 1TB disc now that is what i call INSANESpinoRaptor24

Dude no dev is going to make game with 400gb of data. Stop dreaming.

[QUOTE="4u70"][QUOTE="FirstDiscovery"]The PS2 was outdated within a year, so?samam005

You'd have a point.

Except that the grizzled, scowling space marine in impractical armor is the very definition of "video game cliché".

It's not that Killzone rips off Gears. It's that both take one of the most common hero archetypes in gaming.

They can't really do this as bringing out a new console so soon will make people question the value of their 360 purchase, the idea of a console is cheap and long lasting as apposed to a PC which constantly needs upgrading to keep up.sumner1456