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You get more experience for completely and working together.  People won't want to level up faster?  They will.  Hell even if its a big action game like Battlefield 2 with light command elements it'll still be awesome, but with a smart reward system they can get people to play as a team.

"Cat Herding Simulator" - haha

Good to see Splinter Cell being a series everyone is really excited to play again.  I love the old style of games but thought Double Agent wasn't really that great, especially considering how great Splinter Cell 3 was.  I suppose you can only do so much of that stealth before you maybe have to try something else (though Splinter Cell 3 was so great I would have kept playing games like that).  Conviction looks great though and I love how awesome Fisher is in that game.  Its a really badass version of Jason Bourne.

This game I think should have been highlighted by Microsoft.  It seems like something a lot of people will like.

I was excited for it going into E3 but this preview on kotaku from e3 really sold it for me. 

Some choice parts:

I had a chance to check out a demonstration of Gearbox Software's cosmetically mercurial Borderlands today, and it felt rather familiar. Take the wasteland environment, role-playing, and first-person shooter elements of Fallout 3, add in a little bit of Diablo-esque looting and weapon generation, and then give the whole thing a strong focus on co-operative multiplayer and there you have Borderlands...and that's not a bad recipe whatsoever.

Gearbox President Randy Pitchford himself guided us through the demo, which started with two players working their way through a co-operative kill x number of y type mission. This is the first time we've seen the new graphics in motion, and screenshots really don't do the game justice...which I suppose is a problem with any cel-shaded title. While the areas are bleak and expansive, they are also full of life and character...which I suppose is a plus with any cel-shaded title. The game definitely looks sweet in motion.

During the brief Q&A session afterwards, I questions Randy about the Fallout 3 similarities. "The difference here is that Fallout is a roleplaying game with first-person shooter elements. We started as a first-person shooter and then added roleplaying elements to it."

"On top of that, I loved (Fallout) and I was having a great time, but there was also something missing - I couldn't play with my friends - I could never have anyone join in with me. We're actually the first game that's delivered these genres ever that's offering that feature (on consoles)."

Awesome.