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Gears of War is a tactical third-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It was initially released an as exclusive title for the Xbox 360 on November 12, 2006 in North America, and on November 17, 2006 in Europe outside of Germany, where Microsoft Game Studios did not publish the game after it was denied a rating. A Limited Collector's Edition was also released, which included a disc of bonus content and an art book titled Destroyed Beauty that detailed much of the game's back-story. A Microsoft Windows version of the game was created with additional content and released in North America on November 6, 2007, with a Mac OS X version also confirmed.[

 

The Story

The game’s actual plot begins fourteen years after Emergence Day. Marcus Fenix, a former COG soldier, is reinstated into the military after spending four years in prison. Dominic Santiago successfully extracts him from the prison, and takes him to meet Delta Squad. The group seeks to obtain the "resonator", a device that will map the Locust Tunnel, and later deploy the "Lightmass Bomb", which will destroy the heart of the Locust forces. Fenix and his allies recover the device, but suffer multiple casualties in the process. Amidst the chaos, Fenix leads the remaining soldiers through the ruins of Sera, to a mining facility, and finally into the planet’s depths.

My Thoughts

+ Good, Effective Weapons

+ Simple Controls

+ Excellent Combat/Melee System

+ Good Story

+ Atmospheric

- Stupid AI (Dom)

- Not being able to Chainsaw a Boomer

- Casual - Ok, Hardcore - Very Hard, Insane - Too Hard

 

Reception

OXM - 10/10

IGN - 9.4/10

Edge - 8/10

 

Platforms - Xbox360, Microsoft Windows, Mac

Genre - Third-Person Shooter

Developers - Epic Games

Publishers - Microsoft games Studios

 

 

My Ratings

Sound: 8

Gameplay: 9

Multiplayer: 9

Graphics: 8

Total: 34/40

Recommended :D



    

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Don't bother reading the OP.

The answer is yes.

No explanation is necessary.



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I find insane a bit too easy tbh ;)




ToastyJaguar said:
I find insane a bit too easy tbh ;)

 Are you kidding Insane is hard as nails.



ToastyJaguar said:
I find insane a bit too easy tbh ;)

I don't play on it much, Not very good at it anyway :D lol



    

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Insane just takes practice. I've been through the campaign four times (once was co-op). I started casual, then did hardcore and then finished it twice on Insane (General Raam is a BITCH on Insane).



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Yeah i'm joking, i'm glad there putting in an even easier difficulty setting for Gears 2!

Same again for Ninja Gaiden 2. I don't like my games to be too hard but the insane difficulty isn't impossible on Gears 1, plenty of my friends have done it.

But yeh... Casual is abit too easy, and hardcore is too hard for most.




My only concern with this game is that it looks quite a scary game, and I strongly dislike anything with any horror in (Uncharted took it too far for me)



Munkeh111 said:
My only concern with this game is that it looks quite a scary game, and I strongly dislike anything with any horror in (Uncharted took it too far for me)

I doubt it will be very terrifying.  The first one was adreniline pumping, but not scary in any way.

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starcraft said:
Munkeh111 said:
My only concern with this game is that it looks quite a scary game, and I strongly dislike anything with any horror in (Uncharted took it too far for me)

I doubt it will be very terrifying. The first one was adreniline pumping, but not scary in any way.

You must be made of steel Starcraft! I nearly fainted the first time the berserker came crashing though the wall!