One of the best titles
of the last year arrives finally to PC in a superb form. Exceptional
optimization, fantastic controls and abundant unpublished contents. Gears of
War is an authentic graphical beast that would be a sin to lose it.
What Gears of War supposed
for Xbox 360 the last year was a phenomenon difficult to predict. Its
proclamation like one of the great ones of 2006, its stunning graphical - still
without surpassing a year later -, and the sold of million copies, put the last title of Epic to highest of the
of shooters.
The certain thing is
that Gears of War was one of the most awaited videogames of the console of
Microsoft, but very little people could imagine the authentic phenomenon which
it managed to become. For that reason, months later, when Epic announced that
they would transfer the adventure of Marcus Fenix and company to PC, all the
community of players was excessively glad; the more people can enjoy this jewel
the better.
Now in the heat of
2007 we received with the open arms the PC version of one of the most
revolutionary games of action of the last years. And with its arrival finally
one of the doubts that distressed more PC users is sprightly "I will need
a computer from the NASA to play it?" Answer: NO. Gears of War is a
graphical prodigy that crowns itself like the most shining visual exponent in
PC, but we doesn’t need a beast to play it because the optimization is one of
its multiple virtues.
I must begin
indicating the kindness of the controls in the new Gears of War. The style is
identical to the X360 version, all the actions are made with a same button.
Cover, sprint, jump, etc. It is a simple system and guessed right that
simplifies the movement mechanisms, and that already the last year were
discovered like an authentic success. The aimed system has undergone a
sensational face washing to adapt the mouse-keyboard system with ability, and
it seems that the difficulty level has been readjusted cause it continues being
challenging. Although if we wished it, we can connect ours pad of the 360 and
play in equally comfortable form. Gears of War in PC offers without no type of
adjustments the complete campaign which many already enjoy the last year in the
X360, but with a very important adding. To the five chapters of the console
edition, an epilogue is added with more than one hour, for the certainly brief
last section of the adventure.
One of the keys of the
unusual success of Gears of War was its powerful multiplayer. To the
possibility of completing the campaign accompanied by a colleague, the multiple
maps added for battle, which all together made from Epic’s game the
incontestable king of Xbox Live until the arrival of Halo3.
Now, when the PC
version arrives, we find the same pillars, but with new maps and game modes to
complete the multiplayer experience.
The question that that
many fans is not free of certain logic: In what platform is better Gears of
War? The answer is simple. If we have a powerful PC, forget about the hardware
that is limited in Xbox 360. However, and although it could seem the opposite,
the specifications necessary to run this game are not to the maximum level
of madness that many would be possible
think seeing its overwhelming aspect.
In my PC - Amd Athlon
64 4200 x2, a GPU XFX 7900 GT with 2 gigas of ram, the game has run with all
the graphical options to the maximum, between rates of 30 and 40 fps at very
stable speed, which in these times, is worthy of praise.
New contents and
sensational graphics with a shining optimization, are the main features of Gear
of War. A spectacular, intense and wild campaign; and a multiplayer which, for
obvious reasons, it has been an unquestionable king of Xbox Live, complete the
experience. If you are a fan of the action, you cannot miss this one.
