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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Down the street from a Kroger shopping centre and a Wal-Mart in Marietta, Georgia lies an arsenal. The Empire Swords shop looks unassuming enough from the outside, but once you step through the doors…
The Gears of War Lancer replica is certainly cool to pose with and the Nerf version is definitely… cute. But neither packs the actual killing power of the real-life version with working chainsaw attachment.
Gears of War 2 is a hard game for me to write about. Partly because (drum roll, please) I didn’t play the first one and mostly because of all the restrictions placed on last week’s three-day GOW2 marathon. I’m not really allowed to talk about campaign mode’s “plot spoilers” and I can’t talk about the glorious Horde mode multiplayer until October 15 (not sure if that includes co-op campaign mode).
So I FINISHED THE FIGHT last night. Had a blast, but one of the things that struck me towards the end of the game was how many weapons I’d been through. Felt like dozens of the things. Some were trusted and familiar, some were new, some were great, some were a bit crap. One thing they all had in common, though, was that they looked both nice and functional. How’d Bungie achieve that? Pseudoscience. In other words, if you’re making a piece of sci-fi kit, base it on something real, it’ll go down better: The [Spartan Laser]may be fantastical, but like many Halo 3 weapons, the designers at Bungie Studios — the company that makes Halo — actually based it on a real-world object: The Galilean telescope beam expander.
Glad they went with Spartan Laser. It’s catchier. Sci-Fi, Serendipity Spawn Halo 3′s New Weapons [Wired]
One of the main draws of the Halo franchise is futuristic weaponry, so it sorta makes sense that the Discovery Channel’s Future Weapons show tie in with the third installment’s impending launch. How exactly it will tie in remains to be seen. I’m hoping it isn’t just old episodes with Halo 3 advertainment sprinkled liberally throughout. I suppose we’ll find out tonight at 8PM Eastern.
Halo 3 Future Weapons Commercial [YouTube via The Xbox Domain]
