The one thing that sounded intriguing was its use of the over-the-shoulder third-person point of view. New mission: Charge over there and kill those guys.
I had played Halo: Combat Evolved a few times and liked it well enough, and of course I had played GoldenEye 007 and Counterstrike and Medal of Honor and Battlefield 2, but a lot of shooters left me with a feeling of gameplay indigestion.
In the days after November 7, whenever I logged on to Xbox LIVE, I noticed that a number of my friends were playing Gears of War, which I had written off as a shooter I doubted I would find terribly interesting. What I was doing was playing the same few games over and over again. While I had an Xbox 360 (unwisely) installed in my office, I was not playing all that many games. At the time, I was living in Rome, Italy, and researching a book about early Christianity. Novemcame and went without much notice from me.
