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Really? Didn't feel like Gears at all to me. Gears is all about cover, shoot, move, repeat. This is all about brutally killing stuff in the most epic possible ways. I'd say it's more akin to God of War, but with less contrived ATE's. From the looks of it it actually may have quite the story as well. But then again, I'm a sucker for all things W40k, and this looks to be one of the most polished titles ever released under the license.

W40k: Space Marine, verdict so far: It lives up to it's previews. Demo is more than enough to convince me of that. Pros: Smooth action, good controls, awesome visuals and voices, bloody good fun! Cons: Camera gets wonky at times, some buttons aren't explained (grenades, zoom), didn't realize i had more than 1 gun until i scrolled accidentally. XD All in all, looks to be worth your money! Definitely worth downloading and giving it a try, even if action games aren't your thing. Very satisfying to play. Not all the controls are explained very well, so here are the important ones: WASD: Move Mouse: Look Left-click: Shoot Right-click: Melee attack F: Stun (also used in various combos, which are shown in the combat controls) E: Execution move. Very important after you stun, as brutal executions are your only means of regaining health. It is glorious. Also your end-all interaction/use key. T: When that Ultramarine symbols fills up after some good stompin', press this and UNLEASH THE FURY! Q: Grenades. Careful, they are on a short fuse. Not sure if you can cook off, i think you just toss and forget. R: Reload/Grenade detonation (for a certain weapon) Space: Dodge/roll. Shift: Sprint. You don't need to hold it down to keep sprinting. Ctrl: Zoom. Important for getting those headshots with the "sniper" rifles. Scroll wheel: cycle through your different weapons. Bolt pistol (default), Bolter, Sticky Grenade launcher (detonated with "R"), and a laser weapon (cant remember). EDIT: Good preview here as well: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/08/23/space-marine-demo-2/

I have no problem with it being on 9/11. If anything, at least for us gaming lovers, it's a testament to the strength of the free world. Heinous acts of heartless violence were committed that day to dishearten, discourage, and strike fear into the people of America and our allies. 10 years later we're still here, standing strong as ever amongst great friends and allies. Our freedom and our way of life remains unchanged and unhindered. Now lets stick it to some digital terrorists and zombies and honor (in our own way) those who have died, fought, and sacrificed so that we may get together and celebrate this community and our lives as citizens of a free world!

I like the tournament idea. L4D2 is a solid choice, any others that lots of people have though? Starcraft 2? League of Legends? Dawn of War 2? Company of Heroes?

I've got 8GB and I have a hard time even getting my RAM use above 50%. But if there was ever a time to get RAM, the time is now. Now if only SSD's would go down in price....

Another good one on Netflix is Hobo with a Shotgun. Excellent grindhouse film with some great gore and even better one-liners.

Plus, American military doesn't use anything made by H&K. Idk about the Russians, but I'm sure most of their weaponry is their own. Of course DICE took some creative liberties with the available weapons, which ones to unlock, etc. You're basically just a Marine grunt on the front lines, with all the weapons that our special forces and force recon use as well. So, having lots of European weapons would be weird and out of place. Everything I've seen in the game looks pretty modern to me. As for map size, I wouldn't get your hopes up for LOTS of big maps. The only gamemode that will likely have these big maps are the Conquest 64 maps. Name explains it all. However from what I remember about early reports, the old maps like Strike at Karkand, Sharqi Peninsula, Wake Island, etc have been revamped and some of them made bigger (both vertically and horizontally).

Time expensive, yes. But you don't HAVE to buy anything. I've only ever bought premium account time.

@Custard: Wasn't suggesting CoD4 is a bad game and didn't sell well. But it did remain very overpriced years after it came out. Especially with an annual franchise like CoD, older games should almost immediately be put on sale and drop 20 dollars (or more) in price, just like old sports games do. EA puts out a new Madden game, FIFA, what have you and all the previous years end up in bargain bins for 20 dollars or less each year. " I disagree that any game not sold on the steam platform will be any more expensive and or be any more difficult to purchase, update or play. " I didn't say any of those things. Origin is OK for what it does. Never suggested it would make a purchase more difficult, harder to update, etc. Inconvenient, but not hard. What I did suggest however is that EA now has the vast majority of the games market in its clutches and if it so chooses, it can simply deny their games to be sold on any other platform save their own. It's not so much the profit-margin excuse that bothers me. Every company has a right to make a profit. But I doubt seeing many, if any, sales on their system. I'm basing this on their track record and on the EA Download store, which is what Origin is just re-skinned. With so much control of the market, what reason would they have for lowering prices? If there's nobody to compete with, there's no reason for them to. They certainly wouldn't do it out of kindness or love for their customers. History has taught me that. They'd rather you uninstall the game, forget about it for a while, or get a new computer, try and re-download it only to have their customers re-purchase it because when you bought it digitally, your "right" to dl the game expired after the first year of purchase. I'm not making this up.

New gameplay walkthrough.

And look how many pirated it, and it's later versions....

Not if I stab you first!!!

The thing that worries me the most about a publisher (EA in particular, since they are the largest) selling their products direct is now they have absolutely zero competition/reason to lower prices in the digital market. Despite the huge amount of savings selling digitally through Steam or other services, prices for new games have stayed the same. This has usually been attributed to publishers and their physical retail deals, giving digital games little edge over the competition outside of convenience. If it were up to Valve I'm sure new games would be far less expensive, but they don't control the prices, publishers do. And now EA has all the power in their hands, since they can offer hundreds of new games each year exclusively through their service on their terms. EA does not have a pretty history when it comes to engaging in fair business practices. True competition would be to offer their products on all distribution platforms, but offer a better service and better prices/deals through their own. But we all know EA will never do this. They'd rather take over half the game industry's products and funnel it exclusively through themselves. Eliminating distributors isn't competition, it's a late-game power grab. Origin isn't horrible, but its no Steam. And contrary to popular belief, you do have to have it running during your games. Had to have it on for the BF3 Alpha. The whole "restrictive ToS" with Valve is a line of total BS from EA. To this day, nobody but EA have any idea what they're talking about. Valve doesn't even know what part of Steam's ToS is restrictive. There's some speculation that it has to do with DLC, but that's BS too since plenty of other developers offer DLC through Steam as well as other platforms without a problem. It's EA simply making up an issue out of nothing as an excuse to get people to buy through their service instead. They couldn't find it in their empty souls to offer good, clean competition, so they do things the dirty way as they always have. What's worse is that they know no matter how much it pisses off their customers and builds resentment, people will still buy it. People who say they will boycott the game are lying to themselves.

When you've fired many weapons and have the right to own as many as you please, you'll understand. ;) Our imaginations are just as big, they just usually involve bigger guns. XD

Yes Viper, we know. You're in a rather small minority I'm afraid. Not like Origin's ToS are any different. You don't "own" any games you buy through that service either.

Yeah, it was kept secret. Just a surprise gift for those who pre-ordered on Origin. It wasn't advertised.

I'm still gonna pre-order on Origin eventually. Back to Karkand DLC is a must-have, plus you get a free game (Mass Effect 2, Dead Space 2, or MoH). Can't argue with free. My hate for EA, though great, will never exceed my love for DICE and the BF franchise.

This game makes me so happy. All of you will probably be wonderfully surprised that this game doesn't take as much of a beast to run as you may think. If you can run BC2 fine, you can more than run BF3 fine. But if you want everything on ultra with all the bells and whistles, that option is there too and will put all that hard-spent money on enthusiast machines on full display. IMPORTANT UPDATE: Comma-Rose is back for the PC edition!!!!!!!! Source: http://www.gaminglives.com/2011/08/16/exclusive-interview-with-karl-magnus-troedsson-on-battlefield-3/

Cannot. Wait.

64. You'll never look back.

^^ What the last two posters said. Got myself an Android powered HTC EVO Shift 4G. Haven't regretted it yet.

Unfortunately the UK is highly restrictive on (defensive) firearms. While there may be some merit to this philosophy, I'd rather have the general public access/rights to firearms than only police and criminals. We'll see how this whole thing shakes down, but the fact that its gone this far is a little worrying. Stay strong UK brothers/sisters. We here in America fully support your police and hope and pray order will be restored in London very soon. <3

Good analysis on the trailer, but not on the map itself. I'm interested to see what this map will be like in Conquest mode, because its really unbalanced in Rush atm. Defenders easily win 90% of the time. There are so many entrenchments around the objectives it's nearly impossible to penetrate an even slightly coordinated defense. You're lucky if you make it to the 3rd set of objectives (out of 4). There's one above ground in the park, then moves to the first section of the subway. The LAV can only drive into the entrance of that section, no further. From then on for the next two sets of objectives it's all close-quarters. The second set of objectives aren't too bad to take. But the third set is nearly impossible. Attackers have a few options to attack, but all are killzones and chokepoints. Either you fight your way through a long cooridor, exchanging rocket fire, or your fighting upwards on an escalator. If you happen to get a few squads up the stairs, you're basically stuck there because the only way to make it to the nearest objective is across a wide open space with ticketing gates you have to shoot through in the middle. As an attacker I only made it to the fourth and final set of objectives once, which was above ground in the streets. Needless to say we lost because by that time we had barely any tickets left on our team. The streets are equally barren and open (if you make it past the stairs to get above ground). And fighting through buildings is no easy task. All-in-all, fun game, but that map in particular needs some balancing done for the Rush mode. Spawning on squad-leaders only worked less than half the time, so that also hindered attackers from making any significant gains in ground control.

Just attended and recorded my friends' band Nerves the other night. After a ton of wussy indie bands, they put on a killer set that rocked the foundations and made ears bleed. Here's the opening song. If you're wondering why the camera is so shaky in the beginning, it's because I was moshing and trying to film at the same time, LOL. (also, it's all instrumental, so don't worry about vocals)

"Heck, just watching/reading news gets me depressed. Intentional ignorance can be rather stress-free." ^^ The problem. While I agree that yes, most news sources are skewed and manipulated for a better story, that doesn't mean we should tune it out. Whether people like it or not, the world is on fire right now. Ignoring it is only worsening our situation. The world needs more people that are awake and aware of everything going around them, particularly in the political arena. We've been living far too long in blissful ignorance and the time for awareness and action is now. If we wait any longer, or simply give way for others to do the work for us like in the past, nothing will change and the world as we know it today will be a distant memory. Tyranny isn't something that happens overnight. It plucks away at freedom ever so slowly and subtly for tens, perhaps even hundreds, of years. well, America, Europe, and much of the world is at a tipping point. Either radical change is needed in the way people think, vote, and pay attention, or we will find ourselves in quite a pickle in less than a decade. EDIT: I know this rant has little to do with the subject of the riots and the killing of a man in the UK, but FP brought up a severely worrisome flaw in modern thinking, whether it was intentional or not.