Saturday, March 21, 2009
Hello. The topic for today is:
The Gears of War games are third person shooters. When you see the word "shooter", you know that it involves the killing of other things. In the case of Gears of War, you can either be a human killing aliens, or an alien killing humans.
However, things would be boring if all you ever did was fill your opponent up with enough lead to kill him. So Gears of War spices things up by adding the ability to down your opponents. This means that when you've shot your opponent enough, they will fall to their knees, but they won't be dead yet.
What's the whole point of that? So that you can run up to them and perform one of many finishing moves. And these finishers aren't quick, clean deaths. They are brutal and often very messy. Here are all the ways to die in the Gears of War franchise.
Of course, I've got to mention the Lancer first. This is probably one of the most badass weapons ever created. It's a powerful automatic machine gun that can down an opponent fairly quickly. But Epic, the ones behind the game, decided that it would be to normal, so they decided to make it look more unique.
How? By attaching a freaking chainsaw to its bayonet.
If opponents happen to get in too close, you can rev up your chainsaw and use it to saw your opponent in half. Gears of War 2 added chainsaw duels to further balance the game. When two people rev up their chainsaws at the same time, they will clash their weapons.
Sparks will fly, and smoke will billow from both chainsaws. At this point of time, both players will have to mash a button repeatedly. At the end of a few seconds, the one who hit the button more will get to take his chainsaw through the other.
The next killing method that Gears of War made classic is the curb stomp. When you've downed an opponent, you can rush over to him and use your foot to crush his skull onto the ground. This will cause the opponent's head to explode.
Gears of War 2 took curb stomping even further by allowing you to flip the downed opponent, so that his is facing up and looking at you. Then you step onto his face until his whole head explodes. Sounds sadistic, but there are few things more satisfying than doing that to some one.
In Gears of War two, all the weapons can be used as a bludgeon to club a downed opponent to death, but there are a few weapons with unique finishing animations.
When using the sniper rifle, your character will lift the weapon above his head and bring it down deliberately slowly, and he will deliver the killing blow to the head of the opponent, causing the head to explode.
The shotgun can be used like a golf club. Of course, the opponent's head is the golf ball.
The Boomshield, which is a large portable shield, can be brought down onto an opponent's spine, snapping it on impact.
The Torque Bow's execution animation is probably the coolest in the game. Think of the weapon as a bow made out of metal, and it can fire out explosive arrows that can impale opponents. When using the weapon to finish some one, your character will place the bladed edge of the bow against the opponent's neck, then he will kick the enemy's head. You can imagine what happens.
Grenades can also be made into awesome killing weapons. They are already effective enough when they are being thrown, but in Gears of War, you can actually stick live grenades to opponents. Just get away from them asap, or you will be caught in the messy explosion as well.
If all else fails, you can always get on top of a downed opponent and pound the life out of him. With your bare hands. And you were wondering what the hype surrounding the franchise was all about?
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Man, I'm feeling so lazy today. I really spent the entire of today doing almost nothing at all. I just used my computer, then I played a bit of Xbox, then I used the computer again. And to make things worse, 1) I didn't get to go out at all today and 2) my phone finally got spoilt!!
I've had this w810i for about two years now, and it's be alright so far, but the whole screen just got screwed today. It turned white and all sorts of other colours, and I couldn't see anything on the screen.
So now I need a new phone fast, so my father is suggesting that I get one of the phones on promotion, since he wants to change my plan from the $25/month to the $50/month one. I looked through all the available phones.
When I look for phones, I look for two things. One, must be Sony Ericsson. Yes, Sony is a bitch, but only the gaming division. The rest of them are alright. Two, it must be a Walkman phone. As much as other phones try, nothing can best a Walkman phone when it comes to music.
So far, there are two phones available, w890i and w902. I don't know anything about the both of them, so I'm going to do some research later on.
Ok, I'm done for today. Thanks for reading. [KOAS KW!!] Ending off, see you tomorrow.
posted @ 11:47 PM
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