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Gears of War 2 Introduces “Linked Achievements”

Daz — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:41:08 +0000

Looks like people better get playing the original Gears leading up to November!!! (I know I will be… )

Gears of War 2 will feature ‘linked Achievements,’ meaning that Achievements earned in the original Gears will help unlock bonuses in the sequel.

Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski took the stage at Comic-Con to demonstrate to a live audience the E3 Sinkhole level and describe a new “linked achievements” feature for Gears 2 where achievements unlocked in the first Gears game would open features in the upcoming sequel.

He offered three examples of how the system would work:

Complete Act One in Gears Of War and receive a playable Anthony Carmine in Gears of War 2

Find 10 COG tags in Gears Of War and get Minh Young Kim in Gears of War 2

Kill Raam in Gears Of War and earn a playable Raam in Gears of War 2

Questions such as whether all Gears of Wars achievements will be linked to the sequel and what other goodies can be grabbed besides characters won’t be answered until closer to the game’s November 7 release.

via The Escapist

First Gears of War 2 Footage

Daz — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:50:51 +0000

Time to get that pre-order on, this looks like it’s going to be awesome…

COD4 Is Awesome!

Daz — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:20:00 +0000

Late to the game as always, I finally got onto COD4 last night.

Oh. my. god. This game is frigging awesome!

I had no idea what I was doing half the time, and spent most of the night watching replays of how I died, but I haven’t had a laugh like this with a game since Gears of War came out. Halo 3 was good, great even - but it just didn’t have that stand out ‘you’re gonna remember this’ feeling to it, it was just more, well, Halo.

Maybe this is because COD4 is my first COD game and i’ve just been missing out all of these years (the WWII stuff never really appealed).

Anyway, enough of my rambling… If you own a machine capable of gaming in anyway, be it Xbox, PS3, Wii, PC, your toaster, whatever - you need to try out COD4.

Oh, and for real giggles, try an 18 player free-for-all on the world’s smallest map ‘Shipment’. I think I had on average about 5 seconds between respawns!