With a fantastic graphical designs, along with innovative controls, Gears of War brings us to a whole new gaming level.

User Rating: 9.5 | Gears of War PC
By Neo_Zeon | Review Date:
Tired of the repetitive FPS games where you run out in the open and just mindlessly shoot? If you think about it, those games are very unrealistic (meaning that if you were in that situation, you wouldn't just run out and shoot people). However, Gears of War takes us to a whole new level of shooting. Instead of relying all on firepower, objects are now your best friend when playing this game. With a simple tap of the spacebar, it allows you slam into an object (such as a car) and hide behind it. During that time you can switch guns, or even stick your gun out, only exposing your hand, and randomly shoot (quite useless but cool feature). Once you are ready, you right-click and the character stands back up for you to aim and shoot. Yet that doesn't mean that you're invincible. If you hide in a not so well position, small parts of your body (maybe your knee or elbow) would stick out, and with a sniper, you could easily be taken out.

Even in reloading, it takes skills to do a good one. If you "active-reload" (sometimes loading screens tell you how), the bullets become much stronger. However, if you attempted to active reload and failed, the weapon is jammed, and takes extra long to recover. The graphics in Gears of War is also very amazing. The environment has a realistic feel to it, and just the surroundings can give you the mood of the situation. One of the most attractive feature of this game, to me, is the co-op mode. It is where you LAN with another human player to do the story. It is much more realistic, and it really feels like war.

Although Gears of War has everything a shooting game needs, and more, there are some drawbacks. The one I must mention, is the fact that the game crashes. A lot. It is definitely not my computer, because I have checked Epic Forums and they are claiming the same problem too. Apparently, you launch the game, and 10 seconds later, it crashes. Some fixes include messing around with your systems registry values and such, and others require installation of microsoft programs. Really, a customer already spent 50 bucks, and can't even run the game.

There are also some gameplay drawbacks as well. I must mention that the story mode is extremely short. I finished the story in co-op in under 8 hours, not to mention I'm horrible at shooting games. The lack of weapons also annoy me greatly. In the story mode, I've been using 2 same weapons the whole time. There are...like 10 weapons? Although the graphic is very pleasing, it demands a lot - (Fastest AMD Dual Core, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 8800GTS 512mb superclocked) there are still some occasional lags. Last but not least, the game's replayability isn't so great. There's no instant action like other games where you just play one single deathmatch game to kill time. So all you have is the story mode.

To conclude this review, I would say Gears of War is one of the most unique and fun games to come out in these few year. Although there are some technical issues, and a short story, this is still a game that must be bought.

Have fun gaming!
-NeoZeon

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