Gears and not God of War deserves the acronym GOW.

[Kasz216]

pearljammer said:

Kasz216 said:

Man said:
Unless the acronym refers to quality, not quantity...

In which case... Gears still wins so uh....

Well to be fair they are both games with good gameplay and crappy stories.

However at least Gears doesn't pretend it's story is good.

I would agree basing this solely from Gears 1 but have you played Gears 2? There was a much greater effort to push the story and, in my opinion, it was very poorly executed.

Also, I would argue that the story telling is far greater in God of War than it is in Gears, regardless of the actual story.

Honestly i haven't played much of Gears 2 outside of Horde mode... based on the premise that the gameplay was all that mattered and Horde mode was going to give the best part of that.

As for the two stories... it's hard to tell.  It's like comparing Street Fighter: The Movie vs Encino Man.

Street Fighter: The Movie is the better move... but it's bad story combined with a complete lack of knowledge about the source matieral makes it more of a screw up.