Gears of war is a third person shooter game. Its not just a run and gun
shooter. This game is a tactical shooter or stop and pop as Epic
explains it.
Gears of war’s gameplay is nothing short of amazing. The game makes you
use cover if you want to survive more than a minute. The games cover is
all done through the “a” button which will quickly become the most used
button in the game for you. This action button controls roadie run
(ducking and sprinting at the same time), entering cover, and use the
action with the analog sick to before action rolls and swat rolls in
cover. The stop and pop works simple in the game just as the cover
does, you simply use the left trigger to aim and right trigger to
shoot, you can just shoot with out aiming but its pretty much useless
unless with a shotgun. The controls in the game are smooth, and you can
tell they have worked on the for a long time so it’s conferrable for
the player. It’s a shooter game, so how are the guns? Well they are
amazing, well balanced and strong. The main weapon which is the lancer
is the normal assault rifle, included with a chainsaw. Now the chainsaw
is a fun and easy weapon to use, you simply press and hold the “b”
button and then pull the right trigger when close to a enemy. The other
guns all have melee attacks done by the same button, and are also
pretty strong. The multiplayer doesn’t play to much different from the
single player story mode. The chainsaw is there, and everything else
that is all fun. There are three modes that all are fun. The one thing
you can do more in multiplayer than in single player is curb stomping,
when a enemy falls on all fours run up to him and shoot him, chainsaw
him, or well curb em.
The story in gears of war isn’t as bad as every one says. I recommend
you start on the hardcore difficulty. This difficulty makes you use the
cover more often, and it also takes longer to beat this great game. The
story in general is not too bad. Its not a RPG so don’t come into it
expecting this huge epic story. It’s a shooter so it was a story like
every other shooter. As you guessed there is not closure to the story,
simply because they want to leave room for a second game.
The graphics in gears of war are… simple stunning. They are the best
graphics you will see on xbox 360, or ps3 this year. The graphics are
amazing, in on act you will be outside and there is rain just pouring
down. And you look at the ground and you can see every drop hitting the
puddles. The animations in this game are great, the players move their
mouths when talking or laughing. The lighting effects are also the best
this year. The games cut scenes are all done in real time, so their
sometimes is a little bit of a frame rate drop at the start of them.
The sound in this game is brilliant. The guns pack the punch you want
from them. The chainsaw sounds great. The sound of your gun getting hit
by the bullets even sounds great. Everything down to the rain sounds
great. The music in the game is amazing; it really has that feeling to
it when you’re running through these levels. The only problem with the
music is, you can’t really remember it. It doesn’t really have its own
theme song like halo does. The voice acting really brings the game to
life, its not just some cheap voice acting like in some shooters. No
they really brought the game to life with the actors.
This game is worth the full price you pay for it, with the great single
player, and the great multiplayer. You will be playing this game for a
long time!
