I played a bit of Gears of War: E-Day and it's really very dull. I haven't played any of these since the first one on the Xbox 360 - there have been, what, seven or eight of them since and yet somehow it's exactly the same.
Basically all you do is push forward and shoot stuff. In every single area I seemed to reach the exit only to find it was "padlocked" for at least a minute while one of the tedious dudebros finished off some sort of exposition in the background. Quite often the game would prevent me from running, or shooting, or doing anything other than walking forward slowly, while it talked to itself at length. All of this while repeatedly stressing how urgent everything is and how we need to save people as quickly as possible.
Anyway I've uninstalled it now. Rubbish.
Switch Sports Resort is pretty good, especially after the lacklustre last couple of entries. You get nine sports - tennis, bowling, golf, archery, volleyball, basketball, table tennis, boxing and, erm, thumb wrestling - plus prop planes, skateboards and power cruisers allowing you to explore the island and look for hidden secrets.
It feels like a big, generous package and there's much more in the way of single-player stuff to do in this than there has been before, with lots of unlocks and a full "Island Crown" mode leading you up through twenty different ranks in each of the sports. Plus full split-screen multiplayer and online, of course.
It's just nice to have one of these back on a system I own (haven't played one really since Wii Sports Resort) and we're having a lot of fun with it.
Not sure where to post this, but BioWare have just announced they are being closed down.
The games industry is absolutely screwed, isn’t it?
Absolute madness, the game is enormous already. Complaining they were cut is just ridiculous.
I’m buying it, obviously. I’m never going to finish this game.
Garwoofoo