Squilliam on 26 October 2008
| Impulsivity said: If it's like Gears of War 1 but slightly better in a few ways (Horde added, expanded campaign, a few new weapons) then a 9 is about right. Gears was a 9 for its time, it was good but not amazing; it had fun multiplayer but with severe limitations (4v4 just doesn't cut it compared to the new 16v16 or bigger multiplayer landscape). What really moved it from a 7 or 8 to a 9 was the coop which was done better then almost any other game I can think of as far as FPS games are concerned. Army of Two, which also had pretty decent coop, looks downright clumsy by comparison (ditto for Resistance, Halo and others). It was a slightly above average shooter when played alone, but a really fun shooter when played with someone else esp on higher dif levels. Some parts of that game really hit that nice spot between painfully hard and fair as far as rewarding skill (the final boss on the hardest dif level for instance). |
At bold: Dude! If you reviewed motorcycles im sure you'd complain that they carried only one or two people instead of up to 12 for the biggest SUVs.
For other pearls of wisdom you might add:
1. Yes its designed to be third person.
2. No it isn't any more Gears 1.5 than any other sequel coming out this year.
3. No it doesn't suck because its on the Xbox 360.
4. No the Xbox 360 isn't maxxed out by this game because A - Its built off a multiplat engine, B they are improving the SDK all the time and C, Tessellation won't be implemented until next year.
Tease.
