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I haven't tried out Gears of War yet so I can't really make a comparison as of now. From what I saw though, these games look quite different from one another. In Halo, you can run and gun and still come out victorious (depending on your skill level), while in GoW it's all about the cover mechanic that the developers implemented. I guess it just depends on how you like to play the games. Plus I don't know if it's fare comparing a next-gen game like Gears with Halo.
I've never been a big fan of shooters, but what I've seen of Gears of War impresses me greatly.
Halo always bothered me in that you can just run out and shoot things and still have a good chance of coming out ahead. The fact that Gears of War REQUIRES you to make good use of cover is a definite plus in my eyes, and the way the cover system is built into the mechanics is top-notch.
Halo 1 is great fun, Halo 2 is greater fun because you can play as the covenant and run around with an energy sword (which basically makes you a god). I havent played GoW...but from what i've seen and read about it, i'm gonna have to vote GoW, it just seems to have more in depth gameplay than Halo.
Halo = shoot, throw grenades, decide which weapon kills which enemy the fastest, make suicide runs and come out alive
GoW = duck and cover, pray to god you can survive an ememy assault
Not on Legendary you can't. You do need to use tactics in Halo on higher difficulties, and it's not like GoW has a huge amount of tactics either - hide behind something big and bulletproof, lean out and shoot Locust, repeat. It's done incredibly well, but let's not make like it's a better game because it uses a different repetetive mechanic throughout.Quote:
Originally Posted by Behold the Void
I'll definitely admit Halo 1's campaign got repetitive and was even a bit boring in places. However, Bungie made up for that with a fantastic world with a deep, deep background, and improved upon the gameplay greatly in Halo 2. It has one of the best (and I don't know how it could be considered unbalanced, as it seemed pretty damn fair in the several hundred hours of playtime I put into Xbox Live--nearly every weapon combinatinon can be beaten by another if you're skilled enough.) multiplayer systems in any game I've played. I think Halo 2 is the most fun, perfect shooter I've ever played, and I can't wait for Halo 3. Halo's multiplayer is far better than Gears', as well, but the latter is still good fun.
Gears of War is a fantastic game, as well. However, it really doesn't require any more strategy than Halo did if you were playing on the higher difficulties. Epic did a fantastic job, overall, with the cover system, and it's such a different type of game it's almost unfair to compare the two. The pop out of cover and shoot system works really well, but in the end it's not some huge, eye-opening advancement that will change the way shooters work. You have to take cover in pretty much any shooter if you want to survive. Epic just made it a more important aspect of the gameplay. And made it cool.
I, personally, prefer Gears of War's mechanic for strategy over Halo. So in my opinion, I'd say that makes it the better game in my eyes, which is all that matters to me :)Quote:
Originally Posted by I'm my own MILFNot on Legendary you can't. You do need to use tactics in Halo on higher difficulties, and it's not like GoW has a huge amount of tactics either - hide behind something big and bulletproof, lean out and shoot Locust, repeat. It's done incredibly well, but let's not make like it's a better game because it uses a different repetetive mechanic throughout.Quote:
Originally Posted by Behold the Void
As I said I'm not big on shooters. I've no intention of getting dragged into a major argument over which is better, I don't care enough.
Gears of War.
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Ive never played a shooting game quite like it.
I'm going to pick GoW because it finally brought something new to the shooter. Halo was good, but not great. Halo was one of the first shooters that had a really good control scheme for the console and played well on the console, but having played numerous shooter on the PC prior to Halo's release, I was not all that impressed with the gameplay. GoW had added something that has been needed for a long time and that is the use of cover. I'm hoping that GoW marks the end of bunny hopping and circle-strafing.
ever heard of killswitch?
ah well..
And that is all fair enough, you're more than entitled to hold that view and I can't find anything to disagree with, simply to say that I prefer Halo's mechanics. What I was objecting to was the idea that GoW has deeper tactics, when really it's just something new done well. xDQuote:
Originally Posted by Behold the Void
The people who made Gears of War, Epic, have been making shooters for a long long time. Bungie has been making them for a while as well, but they don't have as many in their portfolio as Epic would.
They're both quite different games, and Halo is diverse enough to have an easy mode and a very very hard mode for the single player. Legendary on Halo is harder than Insane on GOW. If Halo used the cover dynamic, it would be a *very* different game.
Still, right now I can't choose fairly between the two :P I'll give Gears of War series a couple more years, because right now Halo would win on epic nostalgia. 16 player matches every week at my college, can't quite top that yet.
My friend Jake, a guy who wouldn't stand a chance against the average halo player in my area, or at least when he first started playing, played Halo on Legendary for his first play through. He did it with relative ease by just running around shooting the :skull::skull::skull::skull: out of everything.Quote:
Originally Posted by I'm my own MILFNot on Legendary you can't. You do need to use tactics in Halo on higher difficulties, and it's not like GoW has a huge amount of tactics either - hide behind something big and bulletproof, lean out and shoot Locust, repeat. It's done incredibly well, but let's not make like it's a better game because it uses a different repetetive mechanic throughout.Quote:
Originally Posted by Behold the Void
Yet when He did this even me, who sucks at shooters, was just a bit worse then him. And all our friends were kicking his butt badly. The Campaign on Halo 1 and 2 are mind numbingly easy, even for people like me who suck at the game
I voted neither, as I havn't played Gears of War and Golden Eye 007 still humilates Halo in every aspect, except graphics.
not to get off topic, but Killzone's easy setting on ps2 is somwhat like Legendary setting on halo.Quote:
Originally Posted by I'm my own MILFNot on Legendary you can't. You do need to use tactics in Halo on higher difficulties, and it's not like GoW has a huge amount of tactics either - hide behind something big and bulletproof, lean out and shoot Locust, repeat. It's done incredibly well, but let's not make like it's a better game because it uses a different repetetive mechanic throughout.Quote:
Originally Posted by Behold the Void
I haven't played Gears of War but I really don't like Halo at all, so I'm going to vote for GoW. :P
Gears of War, because even though the multiplayer doesn't have as many options (which can be fixed through the Download Center in the future), it's better than Halo 2's. In Halo 2, if you had a Rocket Laucher/Sniper Rifle or Sniper Rifle/Shotgun combo, you would practically be invincible, leading to lopsided matches. In Gears of War, those with skill still do best, but it works well enough so that somebody who's only just learned how to play won't get totally destroyed by an expert. Plus, all of the weapons are balanced better, too.