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Gears of War Reader Review

Reader Review by DUFFMAN5

10 May, 2007

Gears of WARRRRRRRRRRRR as I like to say while walking around the house (don't we all) I bought GOW with a 360 bundle pack many months ago. I "beat" the game yesterday. I only started playing a couple of weeks ago, due to trying to get 100% on Just Cause (nearly there) and playing DMC 3. The first thing about the game is the look and style, I have a 50" wall mounted plasma tv, so it looked/looks stunning but I do have to say at first I found it had to distinguish between Felix and the boys and the grubs ect. The game is very fair with loads of check-points. I love third person games, which this is although it does play like a FPS.

Throught the five acts I felt as though I were playing a game version of War of the Worlds, which in case you are wondering is a very, very good thing.....so lets fast foward to Pale rider.....well I know a lot of you killed RAAM very easily, I didn't, in the end after many hours (well at least one) and countless obscenities, I asked my wife to help on coop mode. What a brilliant idea to allow any one to drop in at any point, anyway back to the wife we devised a great strategy to beat him, and..........what happend, the wife got killed very quickly, but she managed to fall at RAAM's feet, thereby blocking his charge, and I did the necessary,cue brilliant cut scene and bring on GOW2.

To conclude a great game with replay,good on line mode I'm led to believe (I will give it a go, once I stop playing Dead Rising)great girlfriend/wife co-op.

I scores it 9/10

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Mooks
11/05/07 @ 16:15
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Brilliant graphics and setting, characters are hard to distinguish when combat hots up. My only criticism is that the game feels very much too linear and the difficulty doesnt scale too how well you can play. I prefer Rainbow Six method where the game just gets alot harder in general towards the climax no just very easy combat then a hard boss fight.
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13/05/07 @ 10:33
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I'd always assumed Readers reviews were supposed to tell readers something about the game.
It would have been nice to know a lot more about the game itself instead of telling us about your 50 inches and wife's capacity for falling at the feet of strangers . . .
Must have taken you at least 5 minutes to write it !
I'm left wondering still should I buy the game or not ? [also surely the purpose of a review ?]
2/10 Could do better ! [soz]
DUFFMAN5
13/05/07 @ 11:18
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Hi Joncowcare....."you always assumed readers reviews were" what ?........you are mistaken. Didn't I mention about the game, I think you will find I did........These were my views on completing the game. The reason for the inclusion of my TV is very valid, the game is on a next gen HD machine, so I would think it would be important to know how it looks/plays on a HDTV.
The coment about my wife is commonly referred to as humor, try it some time, although there is a serious point to be made which is that the end boss of the whole game can be beat by a "fluke" which was my reason for including the humorous anecdote.
I'm sure you have read EG review if not I would advise that you do. Buy the game,rent the game but play it.
Thank you for your pointless response. I take all that you have said on board, and will continue to write as I see fit. BTW this response took me 1 hour to write.
HarryPalmer
17/05/07 @ 08:15
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Shit. He's still playing Just Cause, leave it alone.
Carrybagma
17/05/07 @ 16:00
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Gears of WARRRRRRRRRRRR

I'm off to kill my wife!

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