I absolutely hate the new character-design for the COGs. Whatever happened to sleeves and/or shoulder armor?

This is getting ridiculous - I don't think Epic realizes what has always been the most fun in Gears: Shotgun Duels.
Since the release of Gears 2 they seem to have always done their darndest to stop people from playing the way they like and play the way Epic wants them to play, which in my eyes is horrible.

I'm really on the fence about this one - I might rent it just to finish the story, but I'm far from hyped from it, especially in the face of the online-disaster that was Gears 2 - it took them over a year to get the effing game to work somewhat properly...

I totally want those playing cards...

Thanks a lot!

Also, this article alone has managed to revive my love for the god o' Italo-Westerns. I remember always watching them with my family Sunday afternoon.

I've spent the last hour or so simply YouTue-ing all kinds of trailers for them!

Great article.

Mikel, do you know where one could download the theme by Ennio Morricone?
(Preferably legally, of course)

Maybe I just missed it in the review, but are you really not bothered by last-decade style multiplayer with no matchmaking, horrible server structure and no jump-in coop?

That's basically what already put me completely off the game simply after I played the MP-Demo

Wow... not only was Chris' ecstatic laughter at somebody dying slightly disturbing/disgusting, it nearly blew out my f*cking eardrums...

Shouldn't you guys be equalizing the audio?

Geez, how many more Game-Music features are you guys going to pump out?
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm slowly getting tired of them...

The Wikiparez actually did already happen. I uploaded it for the Fanart thread. Might be that I deleted it from my photobucket account by now, though...

@oreomonkey
Recaptcha is the little program that spits out randomized words to ensure you're not a bot whenever you write a message.
As I said, these words are usually random, but sometimes create interesting/funny combinations, like 'morning wood' etc.

PS: Recaptcha: Cumstains Seduce.

Didn't know that...

You should totally take 'in the moment' pictures of the audience/yourself, whenever something new is revealed. I'd love to see the faces of seasoned game journalists facing 'Littlest Pets' shit, haha!

Hahaha, love that video! You should do more of those, maybe even a Vidcast!

It's interesting to see that the Japanese developer preferred to portray the militaristic German from the period when Japan fought Germany (WW1) instead of the period when they were allied...

PS: Seriously reCAPTCHA? Klansman?

Regarding your question what an Adler is: It's German for Eagle - would that make more sense?

Where's Brett by the way?

Yay, I'm a Winrar!

Wait, when Brett said that he probably won't be here next week, because he doesn't like his contract, did he mean that he quit his job at Gamesradar??!

As always, amazing podcast. But is it just me or did you guys forget to mention the Goozex Contest winners?

You're bringing up some great points. There is little to no chance of Bioshock 2 reaching the same heights and creating the same emotions as the first one, but I've gotten used to this experience through so many franchises.
You have to think of Bioshock 2 as what it really is: A sequel to the gameplay and story of Bioshock, not its spirit...

As you said, the spiritual successor will arrive some time - just not with this game...

The first game I can remember pre-ordering must have been the Halo 3 Limited Edition (The normal limited one, not the one with the stupid helmet. I was smart to realize that it wasn't big enough to be put on one's head.)

And no, that doesn't mean that I'm a 12-year old insult-cannon. I just managed to get along for all those years without ever pre-ordering. But since I was actually pretty hyped for Halo 3 (No clue why, I didn't care for either of the first two, but really liked the third.), I chose to just pre-order it...

Love the ending song on this one. If only it wouldn't mean that the podcast ended...