stop and pop indeed. gears of war is stellar. if you pick up one action title for xmas360 it oughta be this bad mamma.

User Rating: 10 | Gears of War X360
By gaeren | Review Date:
there are a lot of snazzy control effects and pretty colors that most everyone will talk about with GoW. i'm going a different route here. what makes the game amazing? Immersion, pure and simple. the y button acts as an observation key of sorts to direct you to any nifty peripheral action that's going on around you that's important to see. this simple effect places you more in the center of a desperate conflict than anything i've played before. yeah, the detail is off the charts. yes, the cover and dodge mechanics make you feel the danger, and yes the baddies will make you drop some fruit in your looms, but all of that only contributes to the much bigger hd picture of immersion. go snag this game, and get on with the holiday.

addendum- having played so much more of gears now, i want to backtrack on my original assessment... firstly, i gave it 9.6. um, yeah....it's a 10. secondly i focused initially on the ambient immersive nature of the game. and it is amazing, but; the first time you're trapped in an enclosed area and you hear the shrill banshee wail of a pack of wretches, only you don't know which way they're coming from.....well the ambiance is nice, but i'm a little more concerned as to whether i have a full clip in my lancer ready to cut em up.

gears of war is the finest third person shooter i have ever seen. cliffy b has outdone not only himself, but the entire industry with this franchise, and i will wait on pins and needles for the next two installments in the trilogy.

thanx for tolerating my reconsideration of this title.

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