There's all this talk about games being released that are rip-offs of other games such as God of War, Gears of War, or Halo.  The problem is that I don't have the time or the budget to play the games that are the basis for the inspiration of future games.  I never played Gears, God of War, or Halo so I can't judge upcoming games on something I haven't experienced. 

During the Terminator: Salvation QL, the GB crew kept mentioning that this game was released in a post-Gears world and that was the basis for their judgement of the game.  I know Gears is popular and I am familiar about how they took the Kill.Switch formula and improved on it.  But I don't know nor do I have the desire to find out  just how good Gears is.

Maybe it's the fact that I'm getting older, but it's like I don't even know about video games anymore. 


Consider this... how would you rate games if Gears, God of War, or Halo never existed?