Gaming New Shooters, which one is going to rise to the top?

[Drizzt Do'urden]

In the coming days/weeks there are a number of shooters coming out. In particular I'm speaking of Gears of War 2, Call of Duty 5, and Fallout 3. I'm interested in finding out which one you think will come out on top at first? Which/if another will take over as the year goes on? Which one are you planning on picking up?

To answer my own questions: I think Call of Duty will be the one that will take off the fastest due to the popularity of its multiplayer system. I think though that Fallout will do better as more multiplayer games come out, and I'm picking up Gears myself. Just because the servers will be less lagy at first.

By and by, if anyone plays a lot of multiplayer via Xbox live add me. SSGT TYO

[gamer0080]

I think that gears 2 will take off the best for a few reasons.

1.) I work at GameStop and at the moment we have over 200 reserves for gears 2 and less then 100 for COD5.

2.) There are a lot of people who aren't going to buy COD5 because it's being made by the people that made 3 and 3 was, for the most part, a complete failure.

3.) Gears 1 was an awesome game and i've played the multiplayer for gears2 already and its freaking awesome. And there wont be nearly as much lag because they are configuring the way people connect a bit differently this time around.


My gamertag is gamer0080 if anybody ever wants to play.

[Sephiroth]

[COLOR="Red"]I have played GoW2 quite extensively, and it is a great game. 4 Player horde mode on Insane difficulty is complete mayhem.

I wouldn't really class Fallout 3 as a shooter

CoD 5, I have a few friends who extensively tested the beta, they have all cancelled their preorder's of the game, they said it was "ok" at best and not worth shelling out $60/£40, I guess we will have to wait for CoD 6 which is being done by Infinity Ward

One shooter worth mentioning is Left 4 Dead on PC/360, I've been following it for almost 2 years now and in my opinion it is a very strong contender for game of the year[/COLOR]

[Doublehex]

[quote name='Sephiroth'][COLOR="Red"]I have played GoW2 quite extensively, and it is a great game. 4 Player horde mode on Insane difficulty is complete mayhem.[/quote][/color]

Gears of War 2 came out? :animedepr

[QUOTE][COLOR="Red"]I wouldn't really class Fallout 3 as a shooter[/QUOTE][/color]

You are very wise, sir.

[QUOTE][COLOR="Red"]CoD 5, I have a few friends who extensively tested the beta, they have all cancelled their preorder's of the game, they said it was "ok" at best and not worth shelling out $60/£40, I guess we will have to wait for CoD 6 which is being done by Infinity Ward[/QUOTE][/color]

I played very little of the CoD series, despite my love for WW2

[quote][COLOR="Red"]One shooter worth mentioning is Left 4 Dead on PC/360, I've been following it for almost 2 years now and in my opinion it is a very strong contender for game of the year[/COLOR][/QUOTE]

You know, I think I heard about that, way, way back in an old Game Informer issue. It involves zombies, right?

[Sephiroth]

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Gears of War 2 came out? :animedepr

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You are very wise, sir.

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I played very little of the CoD series, despite my love for WW2



You know, I think I heard about that, way, way back in an old Game Informer issue. It involves zombies, right?[/QUOTE]

[COLOR="Red"]Gears of War 2 isn't out until next week, my friend has had a leaked copy for about 3 weeks now and we've played the hell out of it. Fortunately he is going to buy the game at release (Mostly because he can't play his leaked version online). I will buy the Limited Edition version on release, local game store is having a midnight launch for it.

CoD 4 is arguably the best of the CoD series, closely followed by 2, both we're done by Infinity Ward. CoD 5 is being done by the people who made the horrible CoD 3 so I wasn't expecting much from them, and judging from beta test players my fears have been confirmed.

Left 4 Dead is a PC/360 game being released towards the end of November in Europe (USA gets it in 1-2 weeks, I forget the exact date), it runs using the STEAM engine and is online only. The game is a team based shooter, the setting is basically a city gets infected by a zombie virus and the 4 human controlled players must escape. While trying to escape you are constantly being chased by swarms of zombies, the fast kind like from 28 days later. These zombies will jump out of windows, climb up fences, break through doors, just to get to you, it's really intense and damn scary. 4 players control the human survivors trying to escape, and 4 players control special "super zombies" on the zombie side, super zombies can always respawn when killed and they always know where the humans are. Also worth adding that the game is split into several maps, and no 2 playthrough's are ever the same because of a special game ai which spawns zombies in locations etc as well as ammo depending on how well/badly your doing.

There's so much more I can say about the game, for now I'll just leave it at that, also here's a link to some gameplay footage, may not be suitable for minors as it has excess gore and swearing.

[url]http://www.gametrailers.com/player/39530.html[/url]

First thing I'm going to do when I buy this game is go online and join a game, pick human side and get ready to be scared senseless, lol. [/COLOR]