Anyone else think Gears of War is overrated?

To me its a rental game at best. The campaign in the first 1 was horrible and the multiplayer gets old fast. The 2nd one is better but not by much. Compared to the Halo, COD, Battlefield and SW Battlefront series the multiplayer is a joke. And there's nothing special about the story at all IMO.

It has a chainsaw bayonet dude.AAllxxjjnn

Gears is probably my second favourite console shooter, behind Halo. I prefered Gears 1, mainly because the multiplayer in 2 was glitchy & laggy while I owned it, but I loved Horde mode in 2. I want to buy it again, but there are a lot of other games I haven't played yet still to buy.

It has a chainsaw bayonet dude.AAllxxjjnn

One of the reasons why it's so overrated, I imagine. The single player in the first game nearly put me to sleep. I really can't see why people like these games so much. The first Army of Two honestly offered a funner and more unique campaign, and that scored a much lower 6.5. I will never get what goes through some peoples' heads...

No Gears of War is fantastic. Gears 2 is even better ;)

[QUOTE="AAllxxjjnn"]It has a chainsaw bayonet dude.Y2Jfan23

[QUOTE="AAllxxjjnn"]It has a chainsaw bayonet dude.Master_ShakeXXX

One of the reasons why it's so overrated, I imagine. The single player in the first game nearly put me to sleep. I really can't see why people like these games so much. The first Army of Two honestly offered a funner and more unique campaign, and that scored a much lower 6.5. I will never get what goes through some peoples' heads...

[QUOTE="AAllxxjjnn"]It has a chainsaw bayonet dude.Master_ShakeXXX

One of the reasons why it's so overrated, I imagine. The single player in the first game nearly put me to sleep. I really can't see why people like these games so much. The first Army of Two honestly offered a funner and more unique campaign, and that scored a much lower 6.5. I will never get what goes through some peoples' heads...

Seriously, Army of Two was kind of **** in nearly every category.

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

[QUOTE="AAllxxjjnn"]It has a chainsaw bayonet dude.AAllxxjjnn

One of the reasons why it's so overrated, I imagine. The single player in the first game nearly put me to sleep. I really can't see why people like these games so much. The first Army of Two honestly offered a funner and more unique campaign, and that scored a much lower 6.5. I will never get what goes through some peoples' heads...

Seriously, Army of Two was kind of **** in nearly every category.

Prove me wrong then. You did the same exact crap throughout the whole campaign of Gears. Run into enemies, take cover, shoot enemies, proceed, run into more enemies, take cover, shoot, kill, proceed, rince/repeat. Ao2 actually had the whole team play thing going on to break up the monotiny.Sure, there was the small vehicle section in Gears, but nobody even seemed to like that part. Ao2 actually did alot of different things throughout the whole campaign, and there is no arguing that it's coop completely destroys Gears' coop.

[QUOTE="AAllxxjjnn"]It has a chainsaw bayonet dude.Master_ShakeXXX

One of the reasons why it's so overrated, I imagine. The single player in the first game nearly put me to sleep. I really can't see why people like these games so much. The first Army of Two honestly offered a funner and more unique campaign, and that scored a much lower 6.5. I will never get what goes through some peoples' heads...

[QUOTE="AAllxxjjnn"]

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

One of the reasons why it's so overrated, I imagine. The single player in the first game nearly put me to sleep. I really can't see why people like these games so much. The first Army of Two honestly offered a funner and more unique campaign, and that scored a much lower 6.5. I will never get what goes through some peoples' heads...

Seriously, Army of Two was kind of **** in nearly every category.

Prove me wrong then. You did that same exact crap throughout the whole campaign of Gears. Sure, there was thesmall vehicle section, but nobody even seemed to like that part. Ao2 actually did alot of different things throughout the whole campaign, and there is no arguing that it's coop completely destroys Gears' coop.

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

[QUOTE="AAllxxjjnn"]It has a chainsaw bayonet dude.doobie1975

One of the reasons why it's so overrated, I imagine. The single player in the first game nearly put me to sleep. I really can't see why people like these games so much. The first Army of Two honestly offered a funner and more unique campaign, and that scored a much lower 6.5. I will never get what goes through some peoples' heads...

And that is total bull, as I absolutely LOVE Left 4 Dead and Halo 3. But those are actually great games. Gears is not.

[QUOTE="AAllxxjjnn"]

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

One of the reasons why it's so overrated, I imagine. The single player in the first game nearly put me to sleep. I really can't see why people like these games so much. The first Army of Two honestly offered a funner and more unique campaign, and that scored a much lower 6.5. I will never get what goes through some peoples' heads...

Seriously, Army of Two was kind of **** in nearly every category.

Prove me wrong then. You did the same exact crap throughout the whole campaign of Gears. Run into enemies, take cover, shoot enemies, proceed, run into more enemies, take cover, shoot, kill proceed, rince/repeat. Ao2 actually had the whole team play going to break up the monotiny.Sure, there was the small vehicle section in Gears, but nobody even seemed to like that part. Ao2 actually did alot of different things throughout the whole campaign, and there is no arguing that it's coop completely destroys Gears' coop.

[QUOTE="AAllxxjjnn"]

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

One of the reasons why it's so overrated, I imagine. The single player in the first game nearly put me to sleep. I really can't see why people like these games so much. The first Army of Two honestly offered a funner and more unique campaign, and that scored a much lower 6.5. I will never get what goes through some peoples' heads...

Master_ShakeXXX

Seriously, Army of Two was kind of **** in nearly every category.

Prove me wrong then. You did that same exact crap throughout the whole campaign of Gears. Sure, there was thesmall vehicle section, but nobody even seemed to like that part. Ao2 actually did alot of different things throughout the whole campaign, and there is no arguing that it's coop completely destroys Gears' coop.

Besides the chainsaw bayonet, you get to ride a Brumak in GeoW2.

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

[QUOTE="AAllxxjjnn"] Army of Two better than Gears? I will never get what goes through some peoples' heads...

Seriously, Army of Two was kind of **** in nearly every category.

Dibdibdobdobo

Prove me wrong then. You did the same exact crap throughout the whole campaign of Gears. Run into enemies, take cover, shoot enemies, proceed, run into more enemies, take cover, shoot, kill proceed, rince/repeat. Ao2 actually had the whole team play going to break up the monotiny.Sure, there was the small vehicle section in Gears, but nobody even seemed to like that part. Ao2 actually did alot of different things throughout the whole campaign, and there is no arguing that it's coop completely destroys Gears' coop.

No, you can't use that argument for God of War, because again, it did alot of things differently. It broke up the killing with interesting puzzels, platforming, and awesome boss fights that all felt unique. Gears literally did nothing to change up from the endless killing.

[QUOTE="Dibdibdobdobo"][QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

Prove me wrong then. You did the same exact crap throughout the whole campaign of Gears. Run into enemies, take cover, shoot enemies, proceed, run into more enemies, take cover, shoot, kill proceed, rince/repeat. Ao2 actually had the whole team play going to break up the monotiny.Sure, there was the small vehicle section in Gears, but nobody even seemed to like that part. Ao2 actually did alot of different things throughout the whole campaign, and there is no arguing that it's coop completely destroys Gears' coop.

No, you can't use that argument for God of War, because again, it did alot of things differently. It broke up the killing with interesting puzzels, platforming, and awesome boss fights that all felt unique. Gears literally did nothing to change up from the endless killing.

Gears was pretty cool, kind of stale now. Gears 2 just kind of sucked.DragonfireXZ95

I actually thought the campaign in Gears 2 was alot better than Gears 1. It actually changed things up a bit with the chases and huge boss fights. The level design was also way more interesting than the boring corridor shooting crap in gears 1.

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

[QUOTE="Dibdibdobdobo"] You could dumb down anygame down to like that. Lets use God of War as a example. kill enemies, move on, kill more enemies, move on, kill more enemies, move on.... Gears of War is a fun game but the online is atrocious.Dibdibdobdobo

No, you can't use that argument for God of War, because again, it did alot of things differently. It broke up the killing with interesting puzzels, platforming, and awesome boss fights that all felt unique. Gears literally did nothing to change up from the endless killing.

Way to completely ignore the puzzels and platforming. Those things are just as big a part of GoW as the combat. Have you even played them?

Yea, Gears of War 1 and 2 both sucked pretty hard. I couldn't even convince my little brother to play the coop with me past the few first missions. Gears of Snore is what it should have been called. The problem with it is that all the battles are pretty much the same. It's one of the few games were the repetitivity truly kills it for me.

[QUOTE="Dibdibdobdobo"][QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

No, you can't use that argument for God of War, because again, it did alot of things differently. It broke up the killing with interesting puzzels, platforming, and awesome boss fights that all felt unique. Gears literally did nothing to change up from the endless killing.

Way to completely ignore the puzzels and platforming. Those things are just as big a part of GoW as the combat. Have you even played them?

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

[QUOTE="Dibdibdobdobo"] Already done so. When it comes down to it thats all God of War is... Kill, Move on, Kill, Move on... !! nothing wrong with it but its nothing new.Dibdibdobdobo

Way to completely ignore the puzzels and platforming. Those things are just as big a part of GoW as the combat. Have you even played them?

GoW's bare bones is it's combat, puzzels, platforming, and boss fights. Gears' bare bones = duck behind cover, shoot. What else is there, I mean really?

[QUOTE="Dibdibdobdobo"][QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

Way to completely ignore the puzzels and platforming. Those things are just as big a part of GoW as the combat. Have you even played them?

GoW's bare bones is it's combat, puzzels, platforming, and boss fights. Gears' bare bones = duck behind cover, shoot. What else is there, I mean really?

[QUOTE="Dibdibdobdobo"][QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

Way to completely ignore the puzzels and platforming. Those things are just as big a part of GoW as the combat. Have you even played them?

GoW's bare bones is it's combat, puzzels, platforming, and boss fights. Gears' bare bones = duck behind cover, shoot. What else is there, I mean really?

Yes.

However it an great, dumb shooter, one of the most notable and influential this generation.

Which is odd.

As I have two Locust figurines sitting on my desk next to me.

There's driving segments, on rails segments, boss fights, the nightfall running from light to light to avoid Kryll in Gears 1, and there's a few quiet parts where no enemies pop out, just to build suspense :)locopatho

A little. A fun game to play (ecpecially co-op), but I haven't tried multi-player, which is what would might have pevented it from feeling repetitive..

[QUOTE="locopatho"]There's driving segments, on rails segments, boss fights, the nightfall running from light to light to avoid Kryll in Gears 1, and there's a few quiet parts where no enemies pop out, just to build suspense :)skrat_01

[QUOTE="skrat_01"][QUOTE="locopatho"]There's driving segments, on rails segments, boss fights, the nightfall running from light to light to avoid Kryll in Gears 1, and there's a few quiet parts where no enemies pop out, just to build suspense :)locopatho

Honestly that is what GeOW boils down to, cover shooting. Everything but the vehicle section is a variation of the same systems and design. Things like the Kryll at interesting variables to the mix, but well, thats it. And that really isn't a bad thing.

No more complex than a game like Doom I have to say, to me the vehicle sections felt like those obligatory vehicle sections that so many shooters have to break the pace and offer a little variety; locking the player into vehicle - which isn't necessary, if you keep your core design systems interesting (with examples like the Kryll) it should still remain compelling

/mini rant.

in its day it was awesome. i got the first as soon as it was released and that first play through with my mates was, at the time, jaw dropping. good times

No. Gears 1 is my favorite game of all time. Gears 2 is great also but the smaller skill gap makes me angry.Ugalde-

The game doesn't try and wow you with "innovative" new ideas, nor does it try and redefine what an action game is. It's a big, dumb, gory shooting game. Scratch that. It's the best big, dumb, gory shooting game.

Gears of War 1 definitely is not overrated. GeoW2 probably is, but not by much (IMO it's a 8.5 game).

I honestly dont care for the series. I gave it a shot twice with 1&2 and I dont care about the characters,story and world. Its all very boring to me. THe MP is fun,but I find uncharted 2 mp better.

I like this bit of Destructoid's review of Gears of War 2:

The game doesn't try and wow you with "innovative" new ideas, nor does it try and redefine what an action game is. It's a big, dumb, gory shooting game. Scratch that. It's the best big, dumb, gory shooting game.Salt_The_Fries

I could never think of Gears of War series as overrated.

I love the GeoW series, they remind me of old-school Contra games somehow. In fact GeoW is the only reason I keep my 360. Can't wait for the third game.

[QUOTE="AAllxxjjnn"]

[QUOTE="Master_ShakeXXX"]

One of the reasons why it's so overrated, I imagine. The single player in the first game nearly put me to sleep. I really can't see why people like these games so much. The first Army of Two honestly offered a funner and more unique campaign, and that scored a much lower 6.5. I will never get what goes through some peoples' heads...

Master_ShakeXXX

Seriously, Army of Two was kind of **** in nearly every category.

Prove me wrong then. You did the same exact crap throughout the whole campaign of Gears. Run into enemies, take cover, shoot enemies, proceed, run into more enemies, take cover, shoot, kill, proceed, rince/repeat. Ao2 actually had the whole team play thing going on to break up the monotiny.Sure, there was the small vehicle section in Gears, but nobody even seemed to like that part. Ao2 actually did alot of different things throughout the whole campaign, and there is no arguing that it's coop completely destroys Gears' coop.

you do that in nearly every shooter, so tell me what's new?

it's the boss battles and the variety it gives you despite the severe linearity. something Halo can't do, while being much less.

linearity, that's where you could've started.