Major Nelson's latest battle report comes as a bit of a surprise as Halo 3 was the most-played retail game of last week. With all of the new Gears of War 2 content, we were sure that game would be at the top, but Epic's title only managed to claw its way to fourth place yet again. It was bested by the usual double dose of Call of Duty action in Call of Duty 4 and Call of Duty: World at War.
On the XBLA side, the frenetic tag-based combat of Marvel vs Capcom 2 was too much for the competition. Capcom's brawler enjoyed top placement, finally bumping down Battlefield 1943 to second place. Coming in at third was none other than 'Splosion Man, Twisted Pixel's excellent follow-up to previous Arcade hit, The Maw.
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 11:00AM heimbachae said
i just read today they might add a playable woman character in GOW3.... i thought they should add a playable multiplayer (sarcasm (about the multiplayer not the woman)
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 4:22PM Muckrak3r said
I play gears2 all the time - and I love seeing it down the list on the top 10. It was in first place for like what, 3 weeks? Maybe even less.
The week of comic-con, they didn't release the numbers. Too bad because I could almost GAURANTEE Battlefield 1943 beat Gears2 that week. Oh well.
The more weeks go by where Gears 2 'lags behind' the leaderboards (see what I did there? I added the word lag which PLAGUES the game online) the more time I hope they spend on gears 3.
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The week of comic-con, they didn't release the numbers. Too bad because I could almost GAURANTEE Battlefield 1943 beat Gears2 that week. Oh well.
The more weeks go by where Gears 2 'lags behind' the leaderboards (see what I did there? I added the word lag which PLAGUES the game online) the more time I hope they spend on gears 3.
Posted: Aug 4th 2009 10:08AM Disco Ball said
Who would have thought, at any given time it seems like there is only 5-10 games of MVC2 going on, but I guess that was enough to bump bf1943 out. Though i did play much more mvc2 then bf1943 this week going for that 100 wins cheevo...
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 10:08AM JXCGunrunna said
All this MW2 hype is obviously helping CoD4. At least CoD4 is back above W@W, right were it should be.
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 10:48AM (Unverified) said
I don't know why people are surprised that Gears isn't topping the list. I personally think the multiplayer on that game is terrible. Quite odd coming from a sick single player experience.
I play Halo 3 the most but I can appreciate Cod 4 is a good multiplayer experience too, I just don't understand why Gears is so popular online! :-S
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I play Halo 3 the most but I can appreciate Cod 4 is a good multiplayer experience too, I just don't understand why Gears is so popular online! :-S
Posted: Aug 4th 2009 11:20AM CannabisPrime said
Because a lot of people find the game to be immensely "fun", in spite of all the flaws.
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 11:05AM Accessgranted said
That's cool since I've been playing H3, cod4, and Splosion Man this these past two weeks. I barely got to part 3-2 on Splosion Man so I'll finish it this week. I also play Team Fortress 2 alot on the 360 almost as much as on my pc which is about 3-4 hours a day...
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 11:20AM Gamer X said
Dang. I haven't visited my old friend HALO 3 in awhile. Been on COD4 lately and excited about MW2. Maybe I'll check out Halo this weekend. I love the frantic pace of the multiplayer and lone wolve matches. Damn these games are sweet. I don't mind Gear of War 2 for horde and bots once in awhile. I was never good online though.
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 12:48PM Mazrael said
I've been playing Gears 2 Horde mode (& Bulletwitch) this week.. don;t know if your MP ranking affects teammates for Horde.. Because I'm usually one of worst ones on competitive MP; possibly down to no talks, but soon to bitch when you make a mistake.. but on Horde, I've been usually at the top of the table each round - although Gears 2 is still prone to quitters & idle players that join matches, but just stand there for the easy ranking experience at the end of the round even if they're dead
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 12:34PM Gamer X said
This is a screenshot from the commercial promoting Halo 3 before it came out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCsdPszJLNQ
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCsdPszJLNQ
Posted: Aug 4th 2009 12:53PM (Unverified) said
Thanks! I had never seen that before...pretty damn awesome! Just a little extra to add to my Halo fanboy-dum.
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 9:13PM FNG said
Here you go Timdogg. download the HD version to your 360.
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024d5307e6/?of=2&bt=0&sb=1&p=3
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http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024d5307e6/?of=2&bt=0&sb=1&p=3
Posted: Aug 4th 2009 1:15PM (Unverified) said
rofl mediocre shooter who are u kidding paul, it's one of most played, highest selling, highly rated console shooters and you call it medicore you my sir are a total twit.
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 4:11PM (Unverified) said
"Halo 3 is rubbish it's not even a HD game!"
The console scales it from 640p to 720p, so the game is in HD.
Not native, but it is being displayed in HD.
If you want a game to pick on for not being HD, look at HAZE - it runs at 576p, that's Standard Definition for PAL!
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The console scales it from 640p to 720p, so the game is in HD.
Not native, but it is being displayed in HD.
If you want a game to pick on for not being HD, look at HAZE - it runs at 576p, that's Standard Definition for PAL!
Posted: Aug 4th 2009 2:24PM HalfAznGuy said
I just played some H3 last night for the first time in a while.
Also, I think the pic for this post is still awesome.
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Also, I think the pic for this post is still awesome.
Posted: Aug 4th 2009 4:07PM (Unverified) said
Do you want to know why Gears can't climb any higher?
It's because Epic are a bunch of cheap sh*ts that don't want to add dedicated servers to cut out all the lag, glitching & host bullsh*t.
That's why Gears 2 wont ever get to no.1
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It's because Epic are a bunch of cheap sh*ts that don't want to add dedicated servers to cut out all the lag, glitching & host bullsh*t.
That's why Gears 2 wont ever get to no.1
Posted: Aug 4th 2009 5:50PM AbsoluteZero said
I really am seriously done with GoW2, I'm tired of host advantage and vaccuum chainsaws and people not fliching when I shoot them in the face with their chainsaws revved.
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Posted: Aug 4th 2009 7:38PM Apocalyptic 0n3 said
I am thinking that Halo 3 remaining on top had a LOT to do with DoublEXP weekend being Infection. Infection is an insanely popular gametype.
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