It will work fine--but that doesn't mean there isn't room for more. I enjoy playing 8v8's in Battlefield 2--that doesn't mean I don't like going into a 64 player pub. Granted--those maps scale and I wouldn't expect Halo's map designs to hold up to 64 players..but 24 is not a huge jump over 16.

You're right though, in the end, it will be fine.

8.6 is a great score..GS is just being a tad bit more realistic than some people.

Actually according to Gamespot, it's a "Great" game.

Every console needs a solid FPS at launch.
It helps you sleep well at night.

How many times do I have to mention this in forums for people to get the message. They have, it's in there. Future games will be using it. Unfortunately the Fall Update just rolled around too late for them to get it into Gears.

Can we give these guys a break over there Gears of War score now?Actually 8.6 really is a great score on Gamespot. But then again PDZ got a 9.0. I still don't think that PS3 games are getting that launch game bump that 360 games did--but that should make people here happy.

Maybe it's actually a good game?

Well, personally, I think PDZ was a really great game. I think it deserved its 9.0, and it's even more apparent now when you have Resistance to compare it to. Its omissions, niggles and flaws are exactly the kind of things PDZ got right, right there at launch.

Sure, half of it looks covered in slime, but some levels still work as a showcase for next gen fancyness, especially the rooftops level. It also had online co-op, tons of paths through levels, a bunch of multiplayer modes, and it's frankly quite lengthy too, without resorting to copy/paste level design. It got lots of flak for looking downright weird in places, and suffice to say a lot of people didn't take to the art direction at all, but that's hardly reason enough to keep ripping into it still.

Oh and solo play is out of the question of course, what with its babysitter approach to just about everything.

I actually did in the original thread! Though I still maintain the BS reasons for not reviewing MP and willy waving at EA was a bit lame, IMO. I'm still not convinced on this marking things down purely because "they don't innovate" malarkey either, but if they judge everything that way then fair enough.

I saw Casino Royale this week and thought it was awesome. It does some different things to previous Bond films, but none of these haven't been done before in other action films. Is that a lesser film because it's not "innovating"? Don't think so.

Also I concur with Simon on PDZ, I would play more co-op on that if I had friends who still had it and there wasn't a big pile of other stuff to play through. VP arrived today, NO MORE games for me till Lost Planet!

And one last point on Resistance that I think will be interesting in the long term. I'm keen to see how good (as in technically/lag good) the online is as more and more people get on it. The P2P approach Halo takes certainly scales well, but it can lead to a fair amount of laggy games, cheating and manipulation of connections.

If Resistance as the population ramps up delivers a more consistent experience (as it runs on servers) then I hope that prompts MS to look at things. We're paying for Live, we should get the better QoS. It will be a difficult comparison as I wouldn't expect the Resistance population to get anywhere near Halo 2's, but I'll be watching it for sure.