Yeah I'm actually interested in playing those games. Gears 3 comes out on Tuesday, but after that, it will be 2 weeks until Rage arrives, and 3 weeks after that BF3. Lots of time in there that could be spent playing these modern classics, just would require $3-400.
DL'ing the demo now. Graphics look old, but maybe good gameplay and storyline will make it worth getting.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Definitely, story and gameplay are quite good, but atmosphere is the show stealer. The atmosphere is quite tightly intertwined with the story actually.
"You are not free whose liberty is won by the rigour of other, more righteous souls. Your are merely protected. Your freedom is parasitic, you suck the honourable man dry and offer nothing in return. You who have enjoyed freedom, who have done nothing to earn it, your time has come. This time you will stand alone and fight for yourselves. Now you will pay for your freedom in the currency of honest toil and human blood."
- Inquisitor Czevak