Gears Of War
by Microsoft
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Video Game Reviews of Gears Of War
Customer Review: One of the essential Xbox 360 titles
Summary: 5 Stars
Gears of War, one of the first big titles out for the 360, had the unenviable position of justifying the console to gamers who were still months away from Halo 3, the main reason they all bought 360s in the first place. Despite these astronomic expectations, Gears came through, and came through in a big way.
The first thing you will notice is how good the game looks. Although lacking in vibrant colors (not that you would expect them in a post-apolyptic world), the graphics are superb and seamless. You truly feel as if you are playing the starring role in an action movie.
And if it was a movie, it would have a hard "R" rating. The game features lots of profanity, gore, and all-around violence. Those of you who are squeamish or have sensitive ears should avoid this game. After all, what do you expect when you give a roided-out guy in armor an assualt rifle with a chainsaw on it and tell him to go fight aliens?
The most unique feature of the game, in my opinion, is the intuitive cover system. This game plays like a real firefight, not the circle-and-crouching-fights you would find in something like Halo. One of your buttons is context-sensitive, and if anything looks like cover, it can be used as cover. You can blind-fire around the corner, or peek your head out to get a more accurate shot. This adds a whole new dimension to the realism. Players lack the ability to jump and only have a limited crouch ability, so it truly is take cover or die.
This game is a pure firefight, so don't expect to do a lot of sneaking around (though flanking is a good idea). Despite this, the game never gets old, as you are constantly facing new enemies, gaining new weapons, and fighting in new environments.
Bottom line, as long as you can tolerate all the stuff that gives Gears of War its "Mature" rating, get it. This is almost everything a shooter should be.
Customer Review: Chainsaw fun and games
Summary: 4 Stars
Gears of war is a gripping story of humanitys struggle against the locust. From the moment you get sprung from the slab your thrown into the action. Using an over the shoulderr perspective helps and is a new kind of shooter. The chainsaw on your weapon never gets boring. The grafics are not as good as when it was released, but for 20 bucks it's deffently afordable. The game is however a bit short. It takes under 10 hours on normal. Insane will get you frusterated and they rely to much on that everyone will play with a friend. A single player experiance will be much more differcult because your A.I. partner is not very inteligent. Overall a great game and one you can play again and again.Customer Review: as casual gamer's perspective..
Summary: 2 Stars
by casual i don't mean wii - i play games when i need a diversion from the day to day bs. i like sci-fi, i like a good story and i like good graphics. this game sux, and this is not coming from a halo fanboy or a killzone fanboy or anything else. i think halo sucks too (though for different reasons) and it's the only other pure fps i've every played, but that's beside the point. the cover system in this game gets in the way of the combat. i don't know how many times i've gotten stuck on either side of a doorway when all i wanted to do was go THROUGH the doorway. that REALLY sucked the first time i fought the berserker. also it really sucks to have to take cover behind an obstacle before you can jump over it. i've learned how to do that without too much trouble but it still smacks of bad design. and this is not even to mention the ridiculous stupidity of battling through a warzone that is completely literred with broken highway median concrete slabs. how on earth did they get so far from the highway? this next statement i mean completely literally: when you play this game you end up fighting the controls as much or more so than the enemies. i've only just gotten to the the part of the game with the kryll but i'm just about ready to say screw it. and the story in this game really really really really sucks. all i know about what's going on is that i'm sposed to be finding group of people and getting them out. some games tease you buy just parsing out story details slowly but surely. and this works if the game designers themselves care about the story. i write short stories quite often. a story can be short and spare but still pack a serious punch. this game feels like the designers took maybe a couple hours sticking it together and then moved on. they obviously cared more about the the guns, monsters and boom designs than they did about their story - which is a shame cuz the graphics aren't that cute. they made a ton of money on the game though which is good for them, but still, you know what this game like? a missed opportunity.Customer Review: Gears of Wars
Summary: 5 Stars
My son really has enjoyed this game. He likes to play online with his friends. The game arrived in very good condition and he has had no problems with the performance of the game. He's really happy I ordered it for him.Customer Review: Better late than never.
Summary: 5 Stars
Heard about this game when it first came out 3 years ago. So im 3 years late in playing it. But... better late than never. The game is surprisingly good. Realllly reallly good. It is the only game that i've ever played that made me feel as if I was watching a movie, and playing as the main character in that movie. The game is really just that good. The graphics, gameplay, music, voice work are great. The enemy AI is really impressive, but main thing that I liked about the game was the camera.... it didn't suck. In a few games that I played, I was faced with camera issues that ruined game play and the experience of playing the game a bit. But as I played this game, I didn't have any annoying camera issues that drove me nuts, and I was able to have fun playing the game, especially during combat. A 100% very high quality produced game. Kudos to the team that put this one together. Well done. Looking forward to playing Gears of War II.