Gearheads of War

I signed onto FFF this week a little early, but the Gearheads who were on already were playing in public matches, so I popped in a little Mass Effect and got some more done on the way to trying to stop Saren and his treacherous plans.  After a while, I finally sent Blankman a message asking if he was going to play public all night and we got a private room together.

Apparently the new hotness is Warzone for the play type.  I'm not a fan.  I never was in Gears 1 and I'm not in Gears 2 simply because it allows you to finish someone off from a long, long way away.  I think it's a much more strategic game if you have to get up closer to the downed opponent in order to finish them off.  But that's just my personal opinion.  It's tough to play that game type when I literally have only been playing the other game type since 2006.

Any way, I still had a lot of fun playing Gears 2.  It had been a while since I'd played with a full room during FFF so that was really nice.  I will say that I was lucky enough to pick up the Turtle Beach X4 headset for my 360 on Friday so I used it on Friday night.  I entered a contest from a local real estate agent to win a Best Buy gift card and I actually won, so it was subsidized by a real estate agent.  Woo hoo!  And let me just tell you that the headset kicks major ass even though my wife says I look like an air traffic controller now with the things on.  The sound is fantastic and the X4 wireless works fabulously well.

Tell me what you remember from the evening.  I played so poorly that I don't really have a highlight for anything I did.  But I do remember Johann, Suns son going through pretty much our entire team at one point.  Zoso had a couple of remarkable torques.  But other than that, I don't remember much else except for some great battles for the boom under the bridge on River.