Over hyped and short lived.
Ok when you first play this game your going to notice the awesome graphics and nothing beats getting your first chainsaw kill. I have to say when I first went through campaign I thought it was great. The graphics and the sound both added together to make the game feel very cinematic and makes you get into the game. I take for an example; at the end of the first act trying to beat the berserker was such an adrenaline rush. When it comes running towards you screaming you almost jump out your seat. Another positive I found about this game was the locust A.I especially in harder modes like insane. You will find that every time you play through a checkpoint the locust will do something different each time and are pretty smart especially when you play insane mode. Now I’m over with what’s good about this game I will move onto why this game only kept me entertained for a very short amount of time.
So when you complete the campaign (which will take you about 10-15 hours on casual or hardcore difficulty) you are going to be really pleased you purchased this game like I did until I moved onto the multiplayer where I released why there are better shooters out than gears of war *cough* Rainbow six Vegas * cough cough*. The reason for this is I started to realise the game strays away from being a shooter to being a close range combat game. This is because you won’t find people shooting at you with guns but instead chain sawing you, grenade tagging you and pistol beating you. The first few hours of this I thought was pretty cool getting to chainsaw people in half but after about a week I wanted to play a game where you actually shoot someone and when you do you actually feel like your shooting them. Ok I bet your thinking what are you on about you get a freaking machine gun. Yes you do but it's going to take you a full round of this machine gun to get a kill and because there is so many things to get into cover behind you will find it very rare to get a kill with this gun. Other shooters I have played you get a kill with a gun a lot more quickly before someone even has a chance to get back into cover. That is how you are meant to play shoot em up games; with a gun because guns are more powerful than melee attacks meaning melee attacks should be left as a last resort. In gears of war it's different; melee attacks like the chainsaw become the main part of the game. To sum up the graphics and the sound are great making the campaign very enjoyable but if you can see past the pretty graphics and the chainsaw kills you will find the game is unrealistic and nothing like how a shooter should be played.