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You see, Cliff, this is where you went wrong. Cliff Bleszinski’s been talking to MTV about Gears of War 2’s film influences, and specifically said that Predator 2 wasn’t one of them.
“[The Empire Strikes Back] is the obvious one that everyone goes to, because it’s darker,” he said. ”Dark Knight as well — doing what the first one did but also having a darker twist on it and going places the first one wouldn’t have had the ba–s to go and also doing everything on a larger scale.
“I think Aliens is also a great one. Seeing dozens or hundreds of Locust pouring out of a hole, whereas in the first Alien, it was just an alien, basically. … I wouldn’t say Predator 2 or Robocop 2 or any of those. Although we do have our share of ’80s Stallone and Schwarzenegger winks and homages and whatnot.”
A trick’s clearly been missed here. The game could have had the bit where the woman cop shouts, “Fuck! They’re dying, man!” at the beginning. Or a Locust whispering, “Danny boy.” Or a massive gang-banger saying, “Shit happens.” Or a Gears 2 King Willy saying, “Him from the other side!” with his sex face on. Or…
And for the record. The “spiritual warrior” bloke is clearly Billy out of Predator.
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Johnny Cullen said:
Trading Far Cry 2 and my PS3 copy of Grand Theft Auto IV later for this, can not wait.
morriss said:
It’s brilliant. It’s very Halo 3 at times and even Portal at one point.
G1GAHURTZ said:
It’s NOTHING like Halo 3.
The end.
morriss said:
It is.
The beginning.
Tonka said:
I’m looking forward to the Portal bit.
G1GAHURTZ said:
Oh no it isn’t!
morriss said:
It’s only an idea taken from Portal, not the gameplay itself. Same with Halo 3. It’s just “atmospheric ideas” borrowed from the two games. Nothing is reflected in actual game play. Well, nothing from Portal anyway.
G1GAHURTZ said:
Now I see where you got the portal bit from…
I suppose you could just go back to where portal got it’s own ‘bit’ from, in Space Oddyssey.
morriss said:
Yeah, I suppose everyone takes fro everyone else. It just reminded me of that though.
airdom said:
Gears 2 is awesome