Gearheads of War

Yes, I played Gears of War last night with some of the regulars.  We got Grymm, Robbins, Jambi, Poland, ChrisB, MDK and Abe.  I probably hadn't played Gears with MDK in maybe six months, so that was fun.  And it was most definitely a blast to catch up with the rest of the folks too as my presence on FFF lately hasn't been very consistent of late.

I do think that I possibly had my best kill ever last night.  And that's nearly two years of playing Gears.  Grymm was on the other team in Gridlock and he was running straight through the middle by nades towards our spawn side stairs.  I led him perfectly and blew him to smithereens.  It was pretty.  Very pretty.

Robbins had several sick head shots on me.  Once when MDK told me that the sniper was dead so I stuck my head out like a noob.  That's a pretty dangerous game when Robbins is actually still alive and just waiting for someone to stand there like a dolt asking, "Please de-nogginize me.  Please?"  Robbins was more than happy to oblige.  Oh and ChrisB was a monster last night.  I mean I think he led our team two or three times in points.  The saw was cranking last night.  I enjoyed using the torque quite a few times as well.  I'm best with the Boom, no doubt, but my favorite to use is really the torque.  I love the sweet "thunk" sound someone hears right before they die.  I had at least five of those kills last night.  I just don't often get to pick up the TB because someone on my team is usually better than me with it.  That's going to become a goal of mine to get more skilled with the TB in Gears 2.  Hopefully the bots can help with that.

We then moved to Call of Duty: World at War and my initial impression wasn't good.  David Ellis, who joined us for the COD time, makes an outstanding point on Game Videos about the beta.  The fact is that there doesn't really seem to be a good starting weapon like the M-16A4 in COD4.  You immediately feel like a helpless noob.  I do want to play it a little bit more before I give you my real impressions.  But my initial thought is that I might be canceling my preorder on this one.

Also, I got a chance to try the Resistance 2 beta today and my impression of that isn't necessarily the greatest either.  But I plan a separate post about that one too.

What happened in your Gears FFF games?