Here’s an interesting look at a handful of the glitches that are apparently present in Gears of War 2. Personally, I don’t play Gears of War online because, well, I suck at it, but these glitches turn me off even more to the idea of playing online. Check it out.
If you’re a fan of first person shooters then you’ve probably already picked up your copy of Call of Duty: World at War and possibly Gears of War 2. And you’ve probably read or experienced The Horde Mode in Gears of War 2 and/or Nazi Zombies in Call of Duty: World at War. If you haven’t heard of these two modes let me explain a little. The new trend in game modes seems to be the “Survival” game mode, or if we’re talking about Left 4 Dead, that’s just the entire game in general (kind of). Unlike Left 4 Dead, Gears of War 2 and CoD:WaW have these little extras to go along with the actual game. GoW2 has The Horde mode and CoD:WaW has Nazi Zombies. Essentially they are the same idea, but both are unique in their execution. Read on for my take on each game mode.
Update: Call of Duty: World at War on sale for $34.99 at amazon right now!
If you’ve been reading this site or know me personally, you can tell that I love the Call of Duty series, well I guess I should say that I’m a huge fan of Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Like a lot of people I was quite disappointed in Treyarch’s attempt at continuing the series with Call of Duty 3, but I’m not here to bash them for that one. I’m here to give you my impressions/review of their latest attempt, Call of Duty: World at War.
I participated in the beta for this game a few months ago, you can read my impressions of the beta here, so I held off on actually purchasing the game and got it for Christmas last week which is why it’s taken so long to write this review. And with the time off from work I actually had a good amount of time to sit down and finish the game. After finishing the campaign in about 8 hours (on hardened) I can confidently say that while I don’t feel the game lives up to Modern Warfare, it is definitely a great game and I would highly recommend it.
Apparently there are such things as Modded Xbox 360 Controllers that are basically turbo controllers. I guess they are used in games like Call of Duty and other first person shooters. I only know this because I was just accused of using one in Call of Duty 4. I’ve honestly never even heard of people using them until last night when we were at my cousin’s house for Christmas and his kid was talking about them. I knew there were turbo controllers back in the NES and SNES days, but I had no clue people still used them on modern consoles.
I’ll admit, I play Call of Duty 4 a little more than normal, but it’s a great game and I’ve always been good at it. Ever since Call of Duty 2 and the M1 Garand, I’ve always liked using the single shot guns more due to the low level of recoil. Naturally I just developed a retardedly fast trigger finger. Especially in CoD2 since the Garand couldn’t be reloaded mid-clip, you had to run the clip all the way out in order to reload, so I got good at emptying clips at people so I got a reload. In Call of Duty 4, I’ve been using the G3 ever since I unlocked it and I guess I just never realized how fast I’m able to empty a clip. I didn’t even win the matches I was playing in, which is actually odd for me, but these guys were decent. So I don’t even know why they thought I had one of these controllers. Now I’m curious if I have a faster finger than these modified controllers. If I really cared that these kids think I use a modded controller I might make a video showing off my ridiculously creepy fingers, but I actually take it as a compliment so I’ll let them think what they want to think.
Does anyone have one of these controllers? Are they really that much of a help? Seems like they’d only be worth it with single shot guns, and those guns aren’t that powerful… I guess they could be used in Gears of War 2 to win chainsaw battles, but that just seems stupid.
Update: So after watching a few videos on YouTube of these modded controllers, I guess I can kinda see why these guys thought I had one. The video above is an example of a modded controller shooting the G3, which is what I use, and the Desert Eagle pistol. I think I’m pretty comparable to the G3, but there is no way in hell I can pull the trigger that fast with the Deagle. But that’s only one video, there must be more than one way to mod these controllers because another video I watched last night (which I can’t embed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFA39vYryPM ) had the G3 shooting way faster than this video does. There’s no way I can pull my finger as fast as that mod.
Apparently in Gears of War 2 there is a way to make everyone in the game wear a cowboy hat, and yes that includes the enemies. All you have to do is shoot the 3 hidden cowboy hats in sequencial order on Insane difficulty on Chapter 3 Act 1. The video above shows you how to do it, the video below shows a crippler wearing a cowboy hat… nice.
Seriously? What is this crap? Playstation Home came out of closed beta last week and is now in “Open beta”, which basically means it’s available, but if it’s buggy as hell you can’t blame Sony because it’s still in beta… right. The following are my experiences with Playstation Home last Thursday.
I actually got home from work early on Thursday since we had our work holiday party and once it was over we got to go home. It wasn’t much of a party we just went out to lunch and got gift cards to Best Buy, which come to think of of it we haven’t gotten yet, but anyways. I got home early and started the download which is only about 77 megs so it went pretty quickly with no issues. Keep in mind that the 77 megs is just the initial download, the program asks you to set aside a little over 3GB for stuff that you may download or other sections of the “world”. The download finished and I launched the app… and that was as far as I got on Thursday. Nothing but errors. I couldn’t even get to the EULA, I kept getting some weird error and had to back out and try again. After a while I finally got the EULA and accepted, but I couldn’t connect to any servers or anything. I gave up.
Friday after work I decided to try to connect again and was able to get in this time. I’m sure Thursday’s issues were just from the amount of people downloading it and trying to connect. So I make an avatar guy and head out into the Home world. I’m dumped into an empty apartment and have no desire to spend real money to buy furniture, I leave. Now I have to wait for the thing to download the main area of Home. And even though it was only ~20 megs, it took about 15 minutes to download.
So here I am in the central area of the Home world. It’s basically like a little outdoor mall/park area with a fountain and entrances to things like a bowling alley, movie theater and shopping mall. Each of these different sections requires another small download, but those seemed to go a lot faster than the main area download. So there I am in the main area walking around… and that’s it, that’s all there is to Playstation Home, you walk around. I guess it’s meant as a sort of interactive chat room type thing to find friends and start games, but the Playstation 3 does not come standard with a headset or a keyboard so talking to people is pretty difficult. There are preset greetings and replies that you can use, but “Yes, No and Thanks!” get old after a while. So with conversation out of the picture, the only thing left to do is dance.
I don’t know why but I was pretty amused by the dancing. In the central area there is a spot with a big TV that plays music and people just congregate over there and dance. And most of the time it’s just a bunch of dudes dancing with each other, so I nicknamed this area “The Jackhammer”. Every once in a while you would get a girl that would wonder into The Jackhammer to do a few moves, but once she gets raped by about 12 dudes, she would run away in fear. So after dancing for about 2 seconds I got bored and decided the only thing to do in this place is to annoy the hell out of the guys that were actually trying to pick up girls in this place. And to be honest I’m pretty sure most of the chicks in Home are actually dudes that just want to fuck with people. So I spent way too much time running up to a guy and a girl that were actually having a conversation, saying “Thanks!” and then doing some extremely gay “Rock N Roll” dance right next to them until they ran away, then I would follow them and do it again… lame, I know, but I couldn’t find anything else to do.
I went into the bowling alley, but all the lanes were taken as were the video games and the pool tables. What is the point of going to pretend bowling alley when all of the lanes are taken. If I wanted to sit around and wait for a lane I would have gone to a real bowling alley. At least there I could enjoy a real beer and check out the jailbait running around. So I left the bowling alley and went to the mall.
The mall is just as lame. It looks like a real shopping mall where you can spend real money to buy furniture for your fake apartment or avatar. Who the fuck would spend $1 to get a pair of jeans for a video game character? Or a couch for your apartment? Not me. So I wandered around the mall and found a bunch of people dancing in front of a big tv that was showing videos of some sort, so I joined the dance party and started making inappropriate comments to the chick dancing next to me, then I sat on the ground and made more lude comments for about 30 seconds until I got bored and quit.
And that was my experience with Playstation Home…. it’s stupid and pointless. I mean, did I miss something? Is there more to it than just running around, hitting on chicks that are probably dudes and dancing at the gay club known as The Jackhammer? If there is would someone please tell me, because I sure as hell couldn’t find anything else to do.
So basically, stay away, it’s dumb and pointless unless you want to pretend dance with a bunch of dudes or hit on trannys. Did anyone else try this crap? What do you think?
If you weren’t watching the Spike Video Game Awards last night you missed out on a few things. One of them being the announcement of the Gears of War 2 map back and the fact that it was released last night! The map pack includes the maps: Flood, Gold Rush and Fuel Station and will set you back about $10. So if you’re really into Gears multiplayer and already need some new maps, what are you waiting for, go pick these up. Personally, I am no good at Gears when it comes to the multiplayer outside of Horde. I don’t know what it is, I just can’t kill anyone, but give me Call of Duty 4, and that’s a whole different story.
Here’s a video full of glitches in the new Left 4 Dead game. It doesn’t tell you how to actually do them, but some of them are pretty interesting, like becoming ridiculously huge!
Apparently there is a bonus track on Ludacris’ new album “Theater of Mind” called, “Press The Start Button” and it’s all about video games. I’ve had the new Ludacris album for a few weeks now and it’s actually really good. I haven’t liked any new hip-hop in a long time and this album has actually impressed me, even without this track. So now with the addition of this one it just got a little better. Check it out.
It was announced at an In-Game ad conference today that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will hit shelves Fall of 2009 and will be developed by Infinity Ward. I’m sure most people out there are excited about this news, I know I am, I can’t wait for a new Modern Warfare game. I don’t mind World at War, but I think we were spoiled by Infinity Ward when we got some updated weapons and gear and then disappointed when Treyarch went back in time. Oh well, only a year to go.
source: MTV Multiplayer
