Gears of War Comments by Kristan Reed

Good review, all i got to do now is get the damn money for the game so i can go through the singleplayer with a mate over live. Any confirmation its region free yet?

hehe loads of bitching going on here, i wonder what would happen if the multiplayer update boosted it to a 10 :P

"I had to make a profile here after seeing your review."

On Gamerankings, yeah? No doubt the first time you'd heard of the place :p

I had to make a profile here after seeing your review.
Any respect you had with me as a site is now gone forever and i wonder how much money sony payed to lower your score or if they didnt there is seriously something wrong with you people here because gears realy isnt a game for 8.

Boy oh boy, Xbox fans are scary.

Nice review. Sounds like a buy for me. Can't believe some people are complaining about an 8 though.
Feels wierd that it's actually coming out next week. Where does all the time go? o_o

Ah, I see the fanboy double-team has shown up :/

Awesome. I can feel the fanboy indignation coursing through the thread. I can imagine them all, hunched over their computers and frothing at the mouth because someone on the internet gave a game 1 point less than they feel it deserves - despite never having played it :D

Yep. 'Nuff Said.

I might well get this, it's been a while since I enjoyed a glorious bit of big dumb blow-shit-up entertainment.

I had to make a profile here after seeing your review.
Any respect you had with me as a site is now gone forever and i wonder how much money sony payed to lower your score or if they didnt there is seriously something wrong with you people here because gears realy isnt a game for 8.

You registered just to show us how much of a total twat you are? That's dedication.

NO! Its utterly stupid, ok its a million miles better than the last game. But its not a 9.


A million miles better than Chaos Theory?!?!

YOU, OUTSIDE, NOW!!!

So. Who has cancelled their preorder because it is 'just an 8'?

This game will be perfect for me:

Big guns - good
Big explosions - good
Chainsaws - good

Lex is the furthest thing from an X360 fanboy that I could possibly imagine yellowtruck. Stop being a child.

First of all, I wish all reviews would do away with the scores at the end... they offer nothing extra to the review, and in some cases even confuse things. From what I've read, the bad points raised really don't sound like anything that would matter at all to me (macho character design, tried and tested gameplay... not a problem). It's very important to me that the Live multiplayer is a blast, most of my gaming these days is done online, so I'm just hoping that side of things will be very good. Afterall I would have sold on Splinter Cell: DA already if it was'nt for the great online multiplayer modes. Talking of which, I must admit to being very surprised when Double Agent got a 9/10 score... the 'choices' that you have to make were very thin, and did'nt offer much to the game in reality, apart from those additions the game safely followed the typical Splinter Cell formula we're used to, but I did enjoy it)... sorry for going a little off topic there, the Splinter Cell review was raised earlier, so just putting in my thoughts.

The second worst review score ever after Halo, come on 8/10 your taking the piss mate your taking the piss.

Lex_Luthor a 360 bot? Now THAT is LOL

I don't have any issue with a score of 8... I haven't even played the game, so how can I judge. I do, however, have a very strong issue with releasing an incomplete review of a game. Multiplayer, these days, is as much a part of any game as the single player and to not even have touched that aspect of the game before reviewing it is unprofessional in my opinion.

It's like reviewing a car without the engine installed. Really... it's awful journalism. "I've played half of what the game offers, yet I'm qualified to give you a review!!!"

Yeah... right.

8/10 big fucking deal, those who like the type of game will buy it, those who don't won't end of, who really in the right minds cares what the fucking score is and whether it is any worse or better than resistance.

GET A FUCKIN LIFE

Oh dear lord the guy who said that EG would Preview Resistance before the GeoW because GeoW got a lower than expected score was right. o_O props to the guys paranoia.

First of all, I wish all reviews would do away with the scores at the end... they offer nothing extra to the review

Oh but they do! They give fanboys something to rave about and boost the page hit count. ;)

yellowtruck: Please stop.

Thanks for stating the bleeding obvious Prawnking! :P

Boy, i'm really sick of these "its-more-than-an-8" and "sony-paid-EG-for-this" guys. They sound embarrising whiny ("mummy, EG killed my toy's metacritic score, baaahh").

Read the fucking review and you know it's a fun game ...

GoW on Xbox360 is what Black was on PS2: A compotent, fun and pretty shooter, but hardly innovative and somewhat short. Guess what, I enyoyed Black very much and undoubtly would get Gears, if i had a 360 (primarily for the multiplayer).

And please wait until the PS3 reviews before declaring "sony-bias".

All this Gear of War Hype has passed me by. I mean, I've been aware of the name and the "look at the Graphics" posts but not what the actual game entailed.

I watched a gameplay vid on Youtube last night and I still can't fathom whats so great about it. The one thing that irked me was how the player's character had 'skating on ice syndrome' when running about. It's all very well have great graphics but if the model doesn't convey the feeling of [i]weight and momentum[/i] it all goes the window in my opinion.

Besides, if a game I was looking forward to recieved an 8/10 I'd still look forward to be playing it.

What's all the melodrama about?

@ Steroyd

Ha! I have no doubt Resistance will be scored better than Gears on EG. Every preview from this site has absolutely gushed over the game. Most other sites I've seen have said the game is "meh" though. Even EG's preview of the PS3 itself trashed the 360 every chance they got.

Lex an Xbot? lol poor truckie.

"Lex_Luthor a 360 bot? Now THAT is LOL"

Like my namesake, no matter how hard I try, I cannot win :/

Honestly, EG should have just waited till all aspects of the game (online & co-op) had been played before making a review.
Releasing a review now and possibly "updating" the score (which I doubt they will, considering they will be playing against americans. I hope that the americans don't find out that Krud is an EG reviewer) just seems like a rush job to match the release of other reviews.

Either way, a game is a game. An a review is a review.

>"I had to make a profile here after seeing your review.
Any respect you had with me as a site is now gone forever and i wonder how much money sony payed to lower your score or if they didnt there is seriously something wrong with you people here because gears realy isnt a game for 8."

So you made an account just for that?

None of you guys have even played it, so how can you say which review is right and which is wrong? My only concern at the moment is how on earth they justify giving this an 8/10, when they have not even played the multiplayer modes. The fact that they have rushed a review of an unfinished game to make forum news is a bit of a let down.

haha, nice one BrokenTruck but I own every single console from the last gen and I'll own every single console from the next gen. I'm a gamer, not a fanboy... what are you?

thank you eurogamer for this legendary thread :D

So, not worth buying a 360 for then?

"Either way, a game is a game. An a review is a review."

And a lollerskate is only half of a pair of lollerskates. Yeah I want the review a week after the game was released just so I could read about the multiplayer. Let me correct that. No I don't.

Good review. Much more balanced than 1Up and some of the others I've seen out there today.

@disc - good guess at an 8/10. However, I guess 9/10 after they review the multiplayer.

Psychotext: You're a rich gamer as well.

Is 8 really that bad a score? Why do people feel like the sky is falling?! Anyone here who actually reads EG regularly will know that not very many games get a 9 or 10, and that's why I trust 'em. I mean, 1up have already had to pull one review this week (NWN2), so it's not like they're the ones to trust, right?

Anyone who is berating the score that EG have given the game, why do you care so much? If they're "so obviously Sony's bitch", why get so wound up? Aren't you going to buy the game anyway? So what do you care what they think? It's pretty goddamn insecure, if you ask me!

This is EXACTLY what I expected from the game, and I will still be buying it. I don't need Krudster to give the game a 10 before I rush out and buy it.

BTW, nice review, Krudster! I understand exactly what you were getting at, so just laugh at the fanboy trolling. That's what I do....

I can't believe the amount of tossers on this thread that consider an 8 'marking it down'? WTF are you ON! You freaks are so insecure it's just incredible...

Personally I've decided to buy it on the strength of this review as I suspect will many others.

I'm finding all the fanboy stuff hilarious! Read a thread a couple of days ago arguing seriously which next-gen console uses the most wattage!

This looks great - it may be a tried-and-tested formula but if it does it so obviously well, then count me in.

EG rates Risatance fall of man on PS3 10/10 SHOCKER!!!!!

Wot Scimarad said ^

Half the tosspots probably haven't even read the flippin review.

BTW, does anyone know how yellowtruck got his name? I can just imagine....

"Look, mummy, yellow truck, yellow truck!!!!"

"Well done son, now if you promise to stop dribbling on your school uniform I'll buy you an ice cream."

Just a guess.... :)

Gamespot gave it 9.6 highest I've seen since RE4. I am looking foward to this and hope it lives up to the hype.

Everyone just STOP STOP STOP.

READ the review. The score is JUST A NUMBER. I am absolutely certain that if there was no score, but the review was exactly the same, there would be no fuss.

"WHATS THIS!? A HYPED GAME, NOT GETTING PRAISED TO HEAVENS!? BIAS! SONY FANBOYS! BOO! HISS!"

Listen to yourselves people!

It's an 8! That means it is a GOOD GAME! So what if one writer on the internet doesn't agree with you! If you like the game, then why the hell does this bother you? It is a fair review, which I doubt half of these whining asstards realise because they looked at the number and were all fire and brimstone because it doesn't conform to expectations/popular opinion.

"Psychotext: You're a rich gamer as well."

Nah, I just don't pick up consoles at release prices. I got an xbox free with a mobile, a PS2 for £120 and a gamecube for £55. Will see how cheap I can get the next gen consoles for. =)

what i want to know is did the programmers use graphical effects such as screen tearing, the 360 seems to be quite good at doing that.

Halo is shi.... oops, wrong thread.

Anyway, this is not a score that should discourage anyone who was already stoked about this game from buying it. It looks like it delivers in a lot of areas except longevity and originality.

After the multiplayer preview the other day I was expecting maybe a 9, but it's certainly never looked a system seller to me (that's meaning I wouldn't buy a 360 on the strength of this game alone).

If you disagree with the review, buy the game, enjoy the game, and laugh it off. The best revenge is living well.

yellowtruck
07-Nov-06 20:10:17

@disc

say "please"
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So you ARE a retard yellowtruck? HE DID SAY PLEASE

The score's not that important anyway surely. If you like this kind of game, you'd happily go out and buy it, even if it scored less. It's much more important to read the review, understand how it plays, and then decide whether you'd like it or not, rather than just looking at a mark out of 10.

I guess people are disappointed that after all the hype this game isn't scoring 10/10 everywhere.

a conclusion i got from this review is that the reviewer didn't enjoy the game but had to give it 8 regardless. the 1 mark less of predicted 9 is of big significance and shouldn't be overlooked. obviously the game is pretty good but not enjoyable

Great review. I can always trust the boys (and girl) at eurogamer to come up with a hype free assessment. Kudos.

For those of you whinging, read 1up's latest piece of crap.

Wow, GoW didn't live up to expectations!

/would never have guessed.

A trustworthy review, as always Krudster.

|o| “Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children !?!"