GOW is truly and excellent game, one of the best by MS Studios. My only criticism is lack of an option to switch between first and third person shooter. The only multiplayer is pretty good, but I found the storey mode better.
One of the really nice features of GOW, is that you can start a game in storey mode and invite another player in at any time without changing your progress. D -----Original Message----- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 2:32 PM To: CF-Community Subject: [XBOX 360] My First Criticism of "Gears of War" So, I finally decided to stop playing Final Fantasy XII. (I'm not "done" but I went through the end of the game and can consider it "completed". Best "Final Fantasy" ever. I'm serious. Amazing.) Anyway I finally dug into "Gears of War" and although it didn't grab me immediately (in fact I almost gave up several times) I think I've finally gotten the hang of things and am enjoying it immensely. It really deserves all of the accolades it's received. I'm sick with a cold and had nothing else to occupy my time so I played for several hours yesterday. Got through Act One and quite a bit into Act Two before I stopped for the night. Now this morning I started back up, eagerly I might add. The "start" of the game consists of several menus. A "kind of game" menu, a "whose going to play" type menu, difficulty and finally a "new or continue" menu. The "new or continue" menu defaults, unlike almost every other game in existence, to "new game". So if you breeze through these menus (as an excited player might do) the default is to start a new game. The problem is that Gears only saves one game position per profile. And it overwrites that position immediately upon starting a new game. So if you make a mistake and start a new game by the time you see the opening movie start you've lost your old progress. This is somewhat offset by the fact that you can start a new game at the beginning of any act you've unlocked, but if (like me) you were heavily into a new act you simply lose that progress. Now luckily the game is so much fun that this isn't a killer issue (and, at least on casual, isn't so difficult - at least so far - that you feel like you've been screwed) but it's still annoying. Just making the default action be (like it is generally) to continue the current game would have fixed this. I guess in the end all I'm saying is that, like anything else, even a small interface issue can derail the best system (or, at the very least annoy the heck out of users). Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:226173 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
