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RubberWhistleHistle on 24 August 2015
WoodenPints said:
RubberWhistleHistle said:
i played this game in 2007 and i really did love its new take on the shooting genre. i did try to play it maybe 3 years ago to achievement hunt, and man the game certainly did not age well at all. the framerate was horrible and the cutscenes did not look cool anymore and were atrocious. im sure this remaster fixes all those problems, but at the same time, i STILL dont understand why they limited the remaster to just one game? why not remaster the whole trilogy?

Back in May I did a Gears marathon doing 1-3 and I also felt Gears 1 actually seems someewhat old compared to 2-3 with all the extra ploishing and improvements campaign wise and although Gears 2 took the multiplayer back 10 years and then gears 3 brought it forward 10 years the origional at the core was always the best online, With the Ultimate Edition beta the game felt so smooth and amazing and actually no lag what so ever ( yea you could aim your shotgun at someone rather than half a screen away predicting the host lag) My first impressions were "Damn how will gears 4 be able to beat this" I was that good.

I also though graphical wise 2 and 3 didn't really require a remaster and their campaigns played well and I think the main reason only the origional was remade to get the hype going and get poeple back into playing the online game they loved.

well even though gears 1 did not age well compared to the other two, they could still benefit from a remaster, dont you think? remastering one game in a trilogy just seems like a cheap thing to do. more content is just better. youre hooking up your x1 faithfuls and assuring them that buying your console was a good choice. especially when you consider the GOW3 port on the PS4, people would look at the gears trilogy on X1, and it would have just been a way better value. 



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jason1637 on 24 August 2015
KiigelHeart said:
Deserves at least 90. Gamespot gave 9.6 to original and now 7.. Come on..


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Puppyroach on 24 August 2015
Eddie_Raja said:
Puppyroach said:
Kind of expected, even though I would claim this game deserves at least an average score of 90.

I completely disagree.  I tried the first Gears of War again like 1-2 years ago and my god has that series aged badly.  It was good for its time, but today is just completely outdated in everyway.

I don't agree at all, had this game been released today it would have gotten massive attention and great reviews. But it has gotten great scores considering a lot of reviewers often knock out more than a few point for old games.



Justagamer on 24 August 2015

Gears hasn't aged well?! Wtf are some of you talking about? It still plays better than all the games that borrow it's game play mechanics. I still, to this day, have not played a game that uses the gears style game play better than gears itsself.



Zekkyou on 24 August 2015
Justagamer said:
Gears hasn't aged well?! Wtf are some of you talking about? It still plays better than all the games that borrow it's game play mechanics. I still, to this day, have not played a game that uses the gears style game play better than gears itsself.

I don't personally think it's aged overly well, nor any other 3rd person shooter from 2006/7. Stuff like the first Gears and Uncharted feel really unrefined to me now, where as I think Gears 3 and Uncharted 3 feel great. I think the genre as a whole has progressed quite far, especially between 2006 to 2011. I suppose it's all fairly subjective though ^^



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Burek on 24 August 2015
Mr Puggsly said:
Burek said:
Wow, I really expected the score to be about 5-6 points higher, especially with the value proposition of the entire series on BC.

They cant include the BC content in the review because its technically not part of the package. They arent reviewing a bundle.

Those BC titles are going to be available to anyone that plays Gears Ultimate on their profile before the end of the year. My guess is codes are going to be sent out.

Oh, OK. I thought those other games come in the box as well (Ultimate edition and all that).

But still I thought it will get scored higher anyway.



starcraft on 24 August 2015

The game is currently sitting at 85 on metacritic. Its broadly an enhanced version of a decade-old game. Landmark though it may have been, its mechanics have been refined and improved upon.

Surely 85 has to have been at the extreme upper end of all reasonable expectations...



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Mr Puggsly on 24 August 2015
Burek said:
Mr Puggsly said:

They cant include the BC content in the review because its technically not part of the package. They arent reviewing a bundle.

Those BC titles are going to be available to anyone that plays Gears Ultimate on their profile before the end of the year. My guess is codes are going to be sent out.

Oh, OK. I thought those other games come in the box as well (Ultimate edition and all that).

But still I thought it will get scored higher anyway.

Eh, its a solid score.

Maybe other games are just over rated.



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gooch_destroyer on 24 August 2015

C'mon guys, 84 meta isn't a bad score.



gooch_destroyer on 24 August 2015
NobleTeam360 said:
85 meta, in line with my prediction.


So close...