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Any one that codes for XNA can use avatars, I would guess this is just a homebrew - don't get too excited :)

It's a completely different game - venues, models, game play (harmonies) - it's all custom to the beatles. You wouldn't want their models singing other songs and vice versa.

"this seems almost as bad franchise whoring as Guitarhero"

except the beatles are considered one of the greatest bands of all time - if they didn't get their own game who would? there's hardly a muscian around today that didn't have the Beatles as an influence. if you don't like the beatles then I'm sorry to hear it - this game isn't for you, same as Metallica and Aerosmith and AC/DC weren't for me. I would guess this one won't be in the bargain bin as fast as those - can't even GIVE away Aerosmith...

I remember playing the first GoW for months, single player campaign a bunch of times and multiplayer non stop. The same 12 or so of my closer friends did the same, I think that number dropped to about three for GoW2. Not sure what happened, but the magic seems gone from the series for a lot of us and it's a lot more than the bugs (of which there were apparently even more than I thought (which was already a lot)).

Whatever happened to the idea of using player made content over Live? I thought that was one of the reasons UT3 was delayed so much...

You get played made content working and you'd see these map packs drop to almost nothing if not nothing...

I remember playing the original UT for YEARS since we always had a steady stream of new maps/content, I ended up buying the game a few times and having new people pay for the game itself years after it came out...

I can never figure out why take a 2D interface that takes a few seconds to navigate and do something and actually make it a 'chore' by making it 3D and increasing the time it takes to do what you want?

So instead of clicking on a single line of text to get what you want in 3 seconds, you can log in with an avatar, leave your house, go to the office, open the filing cabinet and pull out the file you want - its awesome!!

So a quick viewing of the HTML source shows this URL:

http://gearsofwar.xbox.com/lastday/service/EasterEggService.ashx

With hundreds and hundreds of links for ya, for example:

http://gearsofwar.xbox.com/lastday/downloads/ascii2of2_9dda34ffd7ac447093c1882a3fdd643c.jpg

now u too can get all the icons/wallpaper/etc. without knowing all the cog ids :)

wow, looks just like city of heroes but worse... and that came out years ago

No matter how much you like the PS3, SoE is notorious for messing up every MMO they've touched/launched...

Argue any of the points I brought up and I'll gladly sell it and my blue ray movies - else i'll stick with it for my movies and my occasional game. Why do some Sony fan boys feel like you must love it or stfu - I have both, I like the 360 better for games and the PS3 better for movies - shocking...

Anyone that gets 'offended' by this ad is an idiot, all it is, is a play of words. We have 'Beautifully Executed' because the game is about a hitman, and if anyone didn't know, they 'execute' people for a living, and in this ad we have a 'beautiful' woman (although I agree with some other posters, she looks more like Bowie than a hottie :) so you get Beautifully (woman/nice job in shooting her) Executed...get it? get it? anyone? Bueller, Bueller?

And for anyone complaining about 'it's ok to kill polygons but not real people' - well let me tell you about something called 'make-believe' and 'not real'

She's not improperly dressed (I mean seriously Doritos commercials are selling more sex than this) and it's not gorey - we have one clean bullet hole in her noggin and some difficult to see blood on the sheets.

Get over it, if you are offended by this ad, I recommend you not watch any television starting at 8pm - I'm sure some people 'offended' by this ad have no problem watchin CSI or other shows that have much more violence than this ad (or this game) and much more sex appeal than this ad.

If you're offended by both, well then just chanage the channel or turn the page and let the rest of us be.