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16 September 2011 | | Format
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Gears Of War 3
Review
After a teary six-month delay and plenty of reassurances from the mighty Cliff Bleszinkski on the Jimmy Fallon show, Gears of War 3 has finally found its way onto our Xbox 360 – and the end result is a bombastic finale for what is arguably the manliest gaming series our joypad junky generation has ever played.
Proving that developer Epic Games is the master of the fist-pumping third person shooters, Gears of War 3 delivers, and delivers BIG. Series tropes are present (chainsaws, space marines and the Locust) but nestled underneath are a gorgeously crafted world and a deftly woven storyline that’s filled with numerous emotional payoffs – all rolled out with consummate panache, easily erasing the disjointed attempts the team desperately tried to execute in Gears of War 2.
Picking up where its predecessor left off, GoW3 sees Marcus Fenix and the remaining COG soldiers eking out an existence onboard gargantuan sea-barges, constantly locked in chaotic skirmishes with the Locust Horde and a new, more dangerous enemy called the Lambent. With this new breed of foe comes a fresh way to fight – brawls will sometimes unfurl into three way shootouts between you, the Locust and the Lambent, before you’re hurled into yet another of its jaw-dropping set pieces throughout the 12 hour campaign.
It’s a master class in game design, and despite the odd stumble in Marcus Fenix’s swansong, Gears of War 3 is the series’s finest moment that, in pulling together everything that made the first two games so memorable, ties up numerous loose ends while at the same time leaving you frantically craving more. Mix in four-player campaign co-op, five-player online co-op, stacks of achievements, medals and a wondrously crafted roster of multiplayer modes and you’ve got Epic’s crowning achievement on Microsoft’s box of tricks. Cue the fist-pumping.
Reviewed by Sebastian Williamson
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| Brilliant Game | | Fantastic Campaign, the characters are brilliant, the DLC is brilliant, act 3 contains the greatest video-game death ever, great ending, great maps and fantastic game modes in Horde and Beast, one of my favourite games. ... More | | | Posted by Gears of Kong at 19:22, 16 May 2012 | Report This Post | |
| | | not as good as it thinks it is | | was really looking forward to this loved the other 2 sorry but this is not as good as the first 2,dont get me wrong the story the graphics and the gameplay were excellant as ever but the battles were a let down they were to small and dare i say it just felt repetative .... ... More | | | Posted by purplegnome at 12:56, 08 November 2011 | Report This Post | |
| | | Gears of War 3: Review | | Gears of War 3 is a very good game. The story is great, the game modes are good and more cooler things to do in the game then the last two. I have to say Gears 1 & 2 were good games, but Gears of War 3 is just great. I Have to say before playing it I was just expecting to be playing the same old gears, nothing special but with's twists in the story and more games to play online it makes it out to be a great game, Now as much as it is a great game it dose have it's problems, like in story som... More | | | Posted by Edward9630 at 01:13, 25 September 2011 | Report This Post | |
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