Gears of War Comments by Kristan Reed

"Gears of Wars looks good but not as good as the excellent looking Resistance: Fall of Man"

Oh fuck off with this troll bait shit.

"Gears of Wars looks good but not as good as the excellent looking Resistance: Fall of Man "

lol yellowtruck you kill me, you're so incessant it's incredible.

Thanks EG for half-resolution screenshots. This perfectly suit such a next-gen game with gorgeous graphics.

so its only 1 better than NFS:C then.

Maybe EA are onto a winner with their tired, rehashed old franchise and sloppy framerate

yellowtruck: Why do you have to remain at that level. It doesnt matter. They are two different games, by two different developers. There is a competition yes but since those two games are exclusive to two DIFFERENT platforms that competition is _highly_ irrelevant.

EG should ditch reviews and just have bitching instead.

The biggest lol of all, however, is reserved for the twat bringing FFXII up.

Psst, the same twat even mentioned Ico further down that page. :-D

Does anyone really care about the score at the end of the review anymore?
Eurogamer usually write pretty decent reviews, but the end score rarely matches the review.
If you look at the reviews list the game scores are all over the place, in my opinion.

Oh good Yellowtruck has finished his homework.

I liked the review. I will play it next week and see what score sits best with me.

The score for Tiger Woods is a 7 not 8 no 7....9?....No 7.

Definitely 8.

Nice review Kristan.

"Does anyone really care about the score at the end of the review anymore?
Eurogamer usually write pretty decent reviews, but the end score rarely matches the review.
If you look at the reviews list the game scores are all over the place, in my opinion."

I read the review before I check the score, but the score is like a cumshot in the pornographic gallery that is gaming culture on the Internet

8? Good enough.. sounds ace from the review. This is the game to beat this xmas if you are into action.

weeno: The score matches the text in my opinion. Reading a review is highly subjective as well you know, diluted by your expectations for the game. You'll see everything in a good or bad light. The reviewer writes the words and tries his best to sum up his thoughts and then puts a arbitrary number at the end.

An 8 is a good solid score.

(Damn Edge for awarding it to Ico and Shadow of the Colossus though...)

Hooray, everyone's fave Sony fanboy has made it to the party. Show some love BustedTruck.

This review only confirmed my interest in GoW. What's wrong with an excellently executed blockbuster anyway? As mentioned previously, there's something very enjoyable about a well made game that sticks to its task, as opposed to an innovative one that fails in it's aims.

I'm just hoping the multiplayer lives up to its potential, as I really liked UT & UT2004 for their unrelenting bullet ballet and hopefully this will prove an adequate udate of epic's formula.

Dizzy: Are you sure? When is Rainbow 6 Vegas coming out?

These guys are fools:


1up.com (Shoe’s review) – 10/10
GamesRadar – 10/10
OXM US – 10/10
OXM Australia – 10/10
X-Play – 5/5
360 Mag UK – 5/5
Gamespot – 9.6/10
TeamXbox.com – 9.6/10
IGN – 9.4
OXM UK – 9/10
GamePro – 4.75/5
Yahoo Games – 4.5/5

They just love to be different.

the first one arrives...

I'm not sure that is the first one.

8/10? Pfffft, expected nothing less from SonyGamer. If it's not the "real next-gen" it's not "next-gen", should be EG's new motto.

I'm surprised by some of the reactions here. Since when is 8/10 on EG not a very good score?

8/10 from EG - good enough for me. The score seems at odds with everybody else but it's only one opinion. And something has to be very special indeed to score a 9 or 10 around here.

Jaysus I really hope the review of Resistance doesn't get a 10 (rather likely considering the gushing preview) this place will be a fucking nightmare.

Fuck off yellowtruck

/drinks

To me this game is what MS wants their Xbox content to be:
loud, masculine and good looking.

So it's definitely worth picking if you're a alpha male.

@ disc - It has it's moments, ('cept when tossers beat me at pro evo)....but how anyone can complain when on average there is at least two 8+/10 games coming out a month is beyond me!

I remember me PS2 at launch - it took a while to kick off esp with Fifa 2001 as a launch title!

I haven't really been keeping up with the hype of this game and therefore have little weight of expectation. From what I had seen I knew that I didn't expect it to reinvent the wheel and that was never an issue for me, so as a well crafted shooter, I expect it'll be a good game (and I am pretty much 90% likely to buy it), as Eurogamer outlined well in this review, and were not afraid to expose some of the games faults and shortcomings so that the game isn't completely swallowed by a miasma of internet-review-hype and inflated scores proclaiming it to be the next big thing after a whirlwind of promotional hype, something I'm sure we've all been stung by before. I'd just like more of it, if gaming outlets could be equally honest with franchises like Halo for example, that'd be fantastic, but I digress. This game always looked like a fairly typical shooter at its core but with an incredible level of presenation and visceral sheen that probably make it a game worth experiencing, I look forward to seeing for myself without expecting anything that will change the future of gaming in anything but a graphical/visual sense.

Has anybody told yellowtroll to fuck off yet?

Suprise suprise.
I just knew EG would hold the character design against it. I'm sure if he was a skinny teen with a giant sword, it would be ok.

Other than that, it seems a pretty balanced review. But I just hate the fact that people still hold the design against them (but don't mind seeing other character design over and over again.
It just seems a bit snubbish to me, like you just had to control your hatred for it.

But a decent review non the less.

There's not been nearly enough drinking yet... =(

A review is just the opinion of 1 person, that's why they don't mean everything..

If by far most reviewers of reliable gamesites give a game a 9+ you can bet it's a very good game.. There's no game outthere that gets just 9+ reviews though.. There's always someone outthere that doesn't totally like a game and therefor gives it a somewhat lower rating.. Kristan Reed of EG happens to be one of those people.. Who cares? The 10/10 of 1UP is kindof silly aswell..

People should not get so worked up over reviews.. They are just an indication, and you still have to find out for yourself if a game is your thing.. I know already GoW is my thing, so I'm not worried about a 8/10 on EG.. Besides that, 8/10 is still not bad, and other big gamesites all give it a 9+..

Hahahaha

Let's see, from his Doom 3 review:

"It may not feel like it's taking gaming forward to any appreciable degree in terms of astounding new ideas, but when it's as all round immersive and entertaining, who cares?"

And now...

"But if Epic had applied the same widescreen scope and ambition to the gameplay as it did to the engine we'd be much more excited than we are."

This guy's a hack.

The Bodybuilder: lol, that's such an apt nickname for someone who is offended by their comments on "alpha males"! =D

"It may not feel like it's taking gaming forward to any appreciable degree in terms of astounding new ideas, but when it's as all round immersive and entertaining, who cares?"

cackle

For the first time ever I disagree... at least in theory, i'll let you know when i've played it ;)

Seriously though an 8 puts it into saints row and Test Drive terriotry and it's obviously at least 2 better than those from effort alone :)

1up and gamespot say it rocks and we all understand it's "nothing new" and that it's "superficial" but if it rocks along the way then it's gotta score high, otherwise you better go and knock 2 off of all your past 360 review scores!!! ;P

EG is usually below average according to gamerankings. That goes for several platforms (-7,4 % 360), (-8,8 %PS2). So dont sweat it.
That said I find it odd that the Liveoption is secluded and still give a score. Doesnt make sense. Same thing happened to Halo 2. Will you do the same with the PS3 or is it only happening to xbox-blockbusters? Just wondering.

8 is high

And I can't remember the last game of this kind to have 20hrs play? Halo was 10 hrs, and even SC:DA is about 10hrs.

But yet it's a bad thing here?

8/10 is good score at EG. I'll be getting it now

"Hahahaha

Let's see, from his Doom 3 review:"

Doom 3 is over two years old. Higher expectations?

"And I can't remember the last game of this kind to have 20hrs play? Halo was 10 hrs"

and Halo got an 8!

bodybuilder - I suspect EG-reviewers are pretty easy targets when it comes to hype. Remember the "real nextgen"-comment regarding the PS3 after some Sony-conference?

i agree gears of war is a technological achievement in terms of graphics and animation. it has certainly set the standard for future xbox 360 games, but once you look beyond that, its just a plain game offering the old gameplay we've played many times before. i'm not buying it because i knew it all along

Eight out of ten? From you guys? Great. I'll call it a nine as the protagonists don't remind me of the guys that beat me up on the way to school each morning.

Good review. The negatives are the same old stuff (and they're not things that remotely bother me), so I'll politely ignore them.

Looking forward to you reappraising Chromehounds for the online too...

"Well think about how many gameplay hours and levels Resistance will have, And you get the picture. It's not something Xbox 360 is going to be able to compete with due to DVD9. So let's make an issue out of it. 360 devs are going to have to focus on quality and innovative ways to fill the short hours with worthy entertainment."

amazing post

"Well think about how many gameplay hours and levels Resistance will have, And you get the picture. It's not something Xbox 360 is going to be able to compete with due to DVD9."

lmao Wonger... I hope that was a joke.

Great.. now we can write "As good at Gears then" for every 8/10 review in the future :)

Kristan just loves to purposely underscore any hyped games.

Splinter Cell 4 9, Gears of War 8? Joke.

Nice review tho I must admit 10 hours gameplay is plenty for me. If the MP is any good then thats another million hours potentially.

Will be interesting to see how it weighs in against COD3 and R6 Vegas in the online steaks tho.

Thread lives up to expectations.

"Will you be making similar comments with the next generic spiky hair gheylord standard design animι rip-off character in just about every J game?"

I hope so. But this is not a Japanese game, so the reviewer wouldn't be able to comment on it in this review, would he? But this and the teenage-macho-style criticism of GoW ARE fair comments to make.