Gears of War 3

I quite enjoyed the England v Wales football match the other night, chalk another one under battling defeat for the records. Good for reputation, bad for ranking. But for me the highlight of the broadcast was the half time Gears of War 3 trailer, it may not have been overly representative of gameplay but it looked damn good.

I got onto xbox quite late on, when I bought my 360 Gears 1 was quite an old game, well thought of but old, and Gears 2 had been out for a bit. I quickly acquired the second game 2nd hand completed it and then went back to the first one, which I never really got going on. But I've played enough to make me quite eager to get my hands on the third (and apparently final) chapter.

Similarly to the other games to catch my interest that are forthcoming, the story seems particularly good here, and has been knocked up by an experienced writer on the series. I like a good story and have also found myself quite interested  by Modern Warfare 3 and Arkham City for the same reasons, and 'cos Batman is cool innit. (Well I say cool, you know what I actually mean)

Also though, Gears 2 had a cracking online section. It's not too often I play online multiplayer, as I find it annoying and generally I suck. But Horde mode was a thing of beauty, and I clocked hours on it (as well as deathmatch etc) and I fully intend to try it out again, along with the reverse mode where you play as locust attacking cogs for a change.

If anyone does fancy a game I'm on live as: eternalcymru don't be shy.

So come September 20th, not far away now I'll either be waiting for my pre-order to be delivered or in Tesco at midnight (who knows, I live life so close to the edge anything could happen)

Modern Warfare 3

Today I saw the 4 trailers for the new Call of Duty game. I must say it looked kind of interesting, and that's not normally something I say about Call of Duty games, even though I almost invariably end up buying and quite enjoying them.

The plot appears to carry on from MW2, or so I'm told, and features attacks by the Russian dude I've forgot the name of on 4 major western cities. In this case New York, London, Paris and Berlin. Yes the western invasion plot has been done now, with the awesome premise, but horrible game of Homefront immediately springing to mind. But call of duty generally has higher production standards and I'm really hoping come 8th November (or whenever it is around there) MW3 will be worth a buy. I'm really not talking a camp out at midnight waiting for game to open so I can get the 'hardened' edition which will inevitably be available, but a normal buy!

However, with homefront as an example and Portal 2 as an exception that proves the rule, when I get enthusiastic about games before release they generally suck and suck hard. I'm sure CoD won't though!!

Downsides are I've only just started getting on with playing Black Ops online, and although there's some considerable months, 2 weddings, a weekend in tenerife etc to go between then. I know I'll get good (I say good... I mean not humiliatingly bad), then everyone will leave it to play MW3 online, I'll drop back behind and get shot by French people all over again, I mean honestly, when you log in on a French server shouldn't you immediately surrender?

By the same standard on a US server you should get +500 for a team kill not minus...

On an unrelated note, I just had some classic 'last nights' pizza for dinner... EPIC.

EDIT: Yes I know Battlefield 3 will be better