Am I the only one that did not like the original Gears of War?

I played it on PC and I could not get past that "hug the wall" gameplay. Sure it was pretty as hell, but the gameplay was just weak.

Also, did they improve on the game any for 2 and 3?

I prefer the GeoW2.

did u play it with a controller or keyboard/mouse?campzor

kb/m. I readily abmit that when it comes to first/third person shooters, I suck big time on a controller.

I played it on PC and I could not get past that "hug the wall" gameplay. Sure it was pretty as hell, but the gameplay was just weak.

Also, did they improve on the game any for 2 and 3?

Johnny_Rock

It was okay. Not the grandest game ever like some people hype it to be. Gears 2 wasn't much of an improvement, either.

I played it on PC and I could not get past that "hug the wall" gameplay. Sure it was pretty as hell, but the gameplay was just weak.

Also, did they improve on the game any for 2 and 3?

Johnny_Rock

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I played it on PC and I could not get past that "hug the wall" gameplay. Sure it was pretty as hell, but the gameplay was just weak.

Also, did they improve on the game any for 2 and 3?

Plagueless

That sounds like a nice improvement.

[QUOTE="campzor"]did u play it with a controller or keyboard/mouse?Johnny_Rock

kb/m. I readily abmit that when it comes to first/third person shooters, I suck big time on a controller.

[QUOTE="campzor"]

kb/m. I readily abmit that when it comes to first/third person shooters, I suck big time on a controller.

Johnny_Rock

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I played it on PC and I could not get past that "hug the wall" gameplay. Sure it was pretty as hell, but the gameplay was just weak.

Also, did they improve on the game any for 2 and 3?

amaneuvering

[QUOTE="Plagueless"][QUOTE="Johnny_Rock"]

I played it on PC and I could not get past that "hug the wall" gameplay. Sure it was pretty as hell, but the gameplay was just weak.

Also, did they improve on the game any for 2 and 3?

Johnny_Rock

That sounds like a nice improvement.

I played it on the PC, couldn't get in to it. Gears of war 3 on the other hand looks very promising.

Yes...you are the only one. ;)

Seriously of all 3 Gears games the first is my least favorite, but I would still take it over many of the big games this generation.

I like the Gears series as a whole but I think it is over-rated. Halo and Forza are the best Microsoft properties IMO (and Kameo). I am not even sure why Gears 3 gets so much graphics love. I do not think it looks that good but keep in mind I just got off the boat (30 minutes in I guess?)

I am NOT saying it is a bad game and I do think it is a AAA product, but it seems to be getting most of its hype because of the way it looks and not becasue of the more important elements. It is another Crysis. People look over its ho-hum gameplay because it looks so nice. Well, it looks so nice to most people.

Not a big fan of the first or second one, but still plan to rent Gears 3 one day down the road because it looks like they really improved the campaign.

you are not alone, i can't play gears by myself, but with friends its a blast

Yes, you are.

Gears 1 was an unbeatable diamond (360). Gears 2 was horrible, though, and Gears 3 I don't care so much for.

I hate the Gears series (haven't played 3 though) but I'll say that it is one damn good looking game.

Got very bored within 2 hours and never went back to it. It's just not my kind of game. The gameplay is fair but it felt crass and monotonous for some reason.

It was okay, but I couldn't really get into it that much. The gameplay was rather poor. I had also already played Uncharted: DF at that point, so going from the very fluid cover system and gunplay of Uncharted to the very stiff gameplay of GeoW was pretty rough. Good co-op though, so it definitely had that going for it. Horrible pop-in though.

my roomate at the time that game came out had a x box 360, he rented the game and we played it. needless to say while i liked the chainsaw gun, i wasnt big into the huge musclie characters. although id give it another shot seeing as there arent many great co op games around.

It was okay, but I couldn't really get into it that much. The gameplay was rather poor. I had also already played Uncharted: DF at that point, so going from the very fluid cover system and gunplay of Uncharted to the very stiff gameplay of GeoW was pretty rough. Good co-op though, so it definitely had that going for it. Horrible pop-in though.

Pug-Nasty

you gotta love people judging old games by current standards.

everyone flipped out for it back in the day because it was great and probably had the most fluid, fast and action filled cover based shooting that had ever been seen at the time.

when i played 3 at my buddys house all i could think was man this game is slow and kinda clunky.

my buddy and i were all "wow, was it always this slow?" the answer is yes it was always this slow it's just that you didn't notice because everything else out was even slower.

that is not so true these days.

you gotta love people judging old games by current standards.

everyone flipped out for it back in the day because it was great and probably had the most fluid, fast and action filled cover based shooting that had ever been seen at the time.

when i played 3 at my buddys house all i could think was man this game is slow and kinda clunky.

my buddy and i were all "wow, was it always this slow?" the answer is yes it was always this slow it's just that you didn't notice because everything else out was even slower.

that is not so true these days.

Riverwolf007

I played it on PC and I could not get past that "hug the wall" gameplay. Sure it was pretty as hell, but the gameplay was just weak.

Also, did they improve on the game any for 2 and 3?

Johnny_Rock

I played it on PC and I could not get past that "hug the wall" gameplay. Sure it was pretty as hell, but the gameplay was just weak.

Also, did they improve on the game any for 2 and 3?

I played it on PC and I could not get past that "hug the wall" gameplay. Sure it was pretty as hell, but the gameplay was just weak.

Also, did they improve on the game any for 2 and 3?

Compared to Gears2/3 its dated...but it was good for its time.

I thought it was good but the mediocre campaign was significantly overrated. I was addicted to the multiplayer for some time, though. In fact its still one of my favorite titles of all time multiplayer-wise; a factI find amusing because of the fact that EPIC later admitted they never thoughtthe gamewould really take offand gain a community.The versus component was more an obligatory addition than anything. Anyway, I'd recommend picking up the second and third. Gears 2 has, in my opinion, the best campaign in the series. Its well-paced, and so long as you don't mind the majority of it being underground, its really a lot of fun. It also has the best Horde mode in my opinion, for reasons I don't really want to get into here. Gears 3 is amazing though, good campaign (though certainly overrated) and multiplayer that is literally so good I can't see myself getting into anything else for some time. They're all worth it save for maybe the first now.

The first one is meh but the 2nd. one is amazing.

I didnt like it either, never tried the 2nd or 3rd games.