I am so tired, of developers trying to take what's already been done and do it better. Uncharted 2, Gears of War 2, Bad Company 2, Gran Turismo 5, Forza Motorsport 3, all are just their prequels with a bit of enhancements. Now mind you very rarely you'll get a gem of good development with this tactic (see cryengine 3) but most of the time, it's like buying full price expansion packs! I, for one, don't want the best. I want everything. every single thing you can imagine, in one game. especially on ps3, they have 50gb to put it on! or 250 if they used the layered discs!

I want one game, with realistic driving, (see need for speed shift or GT) like 90 cars, the ability to drive those trains, planes, and boats you see all over the map, GOOD ai driving all that stuff too, the ability to hijack all those without button mashing, instead just model their interiors, so you can punch or shoot the drivers, BUT i don't want grand theft auto. I still want it to have the ability to use iron sights, custom loadouts, destructible environments, a GIANT open world, lots of factions that you can please or anger that sell things to you, jobs the factions or just individuals can pay you to do, and hundreds of weapons to boot. now, this is too much to ask you say? no it isn't! because it can all be done **** i don't care if there are texture pop-ins, or it's not 1080p, or my character has the occasional sharp spot on his face, or if it doesn't save that i've already blown up that little shed over there when i turn my ps3 off, i don't care! just put EVERYTHING in it decently and do nothing great, and it'll be the best game on earth.

Look at mercenaries 2, a FANTASTIC game, very much like what I've described, but it didn't sell 300,000 units even. why? because of the reviewer whores who reside on this very site and all other gaming boards. they ignored the fact that the map was giant, it had over 200 hours of gameplay, you could ride in the back of pick-up trucks with a shotgun, you could car bomb, you could pick stuff up with helis and drop it wherever, you could be disguised as another faction, pick up their giant tank, drop it in the ocean, then RAPE their base because it's defenseless. NOOOOOOOOOOO, these people looked at the poor graphics, all the trees using the same 10 or so animations when you blow them up, the waterfalls being animated bitmaps, and the INABILITY to fly airplanes. They looked at the horrible story that was supposed to comically make fun of all these horrible serious sandbox games. they looked at how you occasionally get glitched into a rock, WHO CARES! me and my friends have spent over 500 hours playing the online co-op of this thing, and it was designed for the PS2 and XBOX! (although released on both generations)