Gears of War 2 Ending

Much to the dismay of my wife, I have been playing Gears of War 2 quite full on for the past week. Last night I finished the campaign mode on Hardcore difficulty, signalling the popup of a number of achievements and also the ending credits. Not being able to skip these credits, I left them on and set about tidying the house.

As I came back to them, the Microsoft copyrights ran through the screen and a Gears of War 2 loading screen came on. What happened there was something you would have expected from the end of a Cloverfield type movie.

A man’s voice kicks in (I won’t divulge as to ruin the ending for people playing it), tells us that the grand plan was a huge mistake. I’m left thinking, “I just spent countless hours sinking Jacinto, how is that a huge mistake?!“. What is does signal is that we are in for a third Gears of War instalment (I can hear the collective sighs of the Xbox widows around the world).

Interested on what other people thought of the ending, I searched Twitter for the phrase: “Gears of War 2 Ending”. Here are the results:

View the rest of the search results here.

As you can see, for some it’s a stroke of genius, for others it’s a similar feeling of: “Is this Halo 2 all over again?!”

For those of you who don’t know what the hell I am talking about, I have embedded the ending below, so if you don’t want to spoil it for yourself, this is a massive SPOILER ALERT!

Have you finished the game? What are your thoughts on the ending? Have you got an idea of what the (insinuated) third instalment will deliver? Hit me up in the comments.

TFI Friday

To those of you in the know, the post title translates as “Thank F**k It’s Friday”. It’s been one of those weeks, it hasn’t been overly long or arduous but it makes you long for the weekend.

That aside, you may have noticed that I have updated the look and feel of the blog, I wanted something that was a bit easier on the eye, kept things where they needed to be and allowed posts to have a bit more screen real estate.

Quickly moving from the virtual world to the real, this weekend looks to be an easy pursuit, not much has been planned other than the possibility of going to see the newest in the “Saw” film franchise; Saw 5.

I have been getting to grips with my new Xbox 360 games, getting stuck into both Fable 2 and Fallout 3. Katie has been none too impressed with being made a 360 widow, not liking the vast expanse of gaming arenas that both games bring. What’s worse is that Gears of War 2 has been released today with me still not anywhere near completing Fallout 3. I may wait until Josh gets his copy and then co-op our way through the toughest difficulty.

I have forgotten to share with you my tattoo that I got a couple of weeks back, both Katie and I got tattoo’s to celebrate our marriage, they are embedded below:

My Tattoo

Katie’s Tattoo

In case you are wondering, my tattoo details our wedding date (7/7/2008) in Roman Numerals. If you have noticed the date today, we are indeed celebrating 4 months of marriage!

The Milk of Human Kindness

It’s not often I would title a blog post with a Macbeth quote but after a rather nice act of kindness from a stranger at the weekend, I have been compelled to use it.

Myself and Katie were in town looking to get a few bits for our holiday. We ventured into a jewellers and found the rings we wanted for our wedding, a very nice assistant making sure we got all we needed as we laid down quite a hefty sum of money.

Moving onto a shop called GAME, Katie wanted me to get Guitar Hero 3, so much so she bought it for me. As we came up to pay, a random guy paying on the till next to me asks me if I want his points, by this he means his GAME reward points. I was like YEAH! and duly gave him my card. Little did I know that the guy was buying a brand new Xbox 360, Guitar Hero 3 and three other games. The points total meant that I received £7.50 in points just from his transaction, meaning that in the future I can get games at a reduced price.

Who says that the art of giving is dead? It’s a shame I wasn’t able to return the favour!