End of exams and GOW3 and Bulletstorm

Righty ho here goes my second post. Exams are finally over and I'm back home for the extended holidays. So just got round to getting Gears of war 3 and Bulletstorm, 2 games both made by epic games.
Both have sufficiently long campaigns to keep you occupied for 18+ hours and with all the extras they both a lot of re-playability.  Bulletstorm is a tongue in cheek FPS which really deserves its 18 rating. This game is so much fun if you don't take it to seriously, keep an open mind about using the surrounding scenery to kill everything in your path this game is truly fantastic. Whilst the story isn't the greatest the skillshot aspect adds a unique spin on the occasionally tiresome fps franchise. The game also looks beautiful especially during the set pieces.

Gears of war  has a well written, well thought out campaign with so many extras as to make your mouth water. This game is designed to be played as a coop game from the addition of horde and beast mode, game types that pitch you as the COG against 50 waves of gibbering beasts and as the gibbering beasts against 12 waves of COG soldiers, and an offline verses mode that allows the addition of bots something that is sorely missing from almost all games these days.

All in all both games are great fun to play with Gears of war being better with someone else and bulletstorm being a game for some light relief.

Any hows that concludes my second post hopefully more to come.

Playing the objective

Over the last 2 years I've spent many an hour on battlefield 3. Having watched most of what youtube has to offer I've concluded that I'll never be as good as any of the folks notching up 3:1 kdr BUT I can play the objective and play it quite well.
This bring me to my point that whist my gameplay may not build up the most impressive stats and recordings I still get a very respectable score at the end and I have fun. Far too many people not only in gaming but also in life fail to look at the bigger picture and just run around almost aimlessly. By giving ourselves goals we can appreciate different ways of achieving them be it playing the objective or by getting a monstrous kdr.
 This pretty pointless monologue leads me on to my first official post: pros and cons of The Chinese guns in Battlefield 3.
The first of these guns is the QBU-88:

This semi-auto sniper rifle is available for the recon class and is unlocked by completing the spec-ops assignment from the back to karkand expansion pack.
I like to use the QBU-88 with the kobra-RDS, bipod and laser sight.
The QBU-88 has a 10 round magazine and whilst it has a slower reload time that both the SKS and the MK11 it has the same rate of fire and some how sounds and looks a lot better than either of the other two. This gun is great for running to and from objectives whilst taking the odd pot shot at campers or newbies just sitting in the open


The next Chinese gun is the QBZ-95:

The QBZ-95 is available for the engineer class after completing the assignment It goes boom.
I have found that this gun performs best at slightly longer ranges than the other carbines due to its much better accuracy and slightly lower
power. I use the Kobra-RDS and the laser sight. Most people would use the heavy barrel with this but for me the engineer class need to be used up close and personal. Whilst this may sound slightly contradictory with my earlier statement about the slight lack of power compared with other carbines if you aim for the head this gun will hit far more frequently than other carbines. I use this gun mainly in TDM especially Karg island.

The final Chinese weapon is the QBB-95: 

This is available for the support class after completing the let it rain assignment.
This gun whilst it looks good on paper, it has the fasted muzzel velocity of any gun (shared with the aug A3) of 670m/s faster even than the M98B, it has 3 rates of fire very unusual for a LMG and when unlocked it starts with the extended mag. However I hate this pile of crap. It just doesn't seem to work however you play it. It doesn't have the fire rate to compete with other LMG such as the M249 or the beastly accuracy at distance of the L86A2. In my humble opinion this gun should not be touched with a barge pole. I'm sure some people could make this gun work but for me it's just to much work.


Hope you enjoyed reading my thoughts hopefully be back soon after exam season is finally over.