Gears of War is one of Xbox's biggest exclusive franchises, in my opinion this should be Xbox's promotional franchise over Halo, (sorry fanboys) it's good but I think Gears is a better series. Let's see why, shall we?
When I saw the trailer for this game, I had to get it. That eery trailer showing main character, Marcus taking on what looked like a giant spider was jaw dropping. I had to see that thing for myself! You are thrown straight into the game, on planet Sera. Dom, a fellow Gear soldier frees Marcus from prison, in an attempt to recruit him to Delta squad and fight the threat of the Locust. The Locust are a sort of reptilian-human mix, who are savage in their attempts to abolish humanity.
You play as Marcus Fenix, the very serious, angry badass. He's a tough guy and he's not someone you'd like to be up against. The rest of your squad are memorable characters too. Dom, looking for his wife, is the coop player and my personal favourite. He's just so likeable. He's serious and also has some funny remarks. Cole is the eccentric killing machine, nicknamed 'Cole-Train', he's the humouous one and then there's Bird, the sarcastic and often whiny one. All four together make a great group of characters.
GoW is a cover-to-cover shooter and it's easily one of the best around, the movement in cover is fluent and being able to vault and dive to more cover makes it safe to manouver during combat. The gun play is excellent too, you can also do a 'perfect reload', which is a manual, quicker reload. Now, the Lancer. The Lancer is one of the best weapons you will see, it's an assault rifle, with a God damn chainsaw attached. If the Locust get too close, whip out the chainsaw and make him think twice, as you split him in two! If you're not a fan of gore, then this probably won't be for you as it's easily one of the bloodiest games I've played, I think you may be able to turn the gore off.
This game is a perfect coop game, if you have a buddy to play Gears with, it'll make the game so much better. You can revive eachother if you go down and a human player means one less dumb AI to have around. I played through the whole game with a friend on the Insane difficultly and it was a challenge, but a really fun challenge.
There are some boss fights and one is probably the most memorable boss fight in recent years. The Bezerker. Holy shit was I terrified of this dude. A giant, blind reptilian creature, that charges at you if you make too much noise. Never has the term 'tread lightly' been so true. You can't shoot it with regular guns as it's practically bulletproof. The only way to kill it, is to lead it outside and use the Hammer of Dawn which is a satellite gun the reigns fire down upon thee. There's also a massive spider-type creature and also the main villian, General Raam, these two are not meant to be trifled with. But, if you're gonna want humanity to survive, you're gonna have to! There's also a lot of mini-boss Locust, like the Boomer, I can't help but love the Boomers. Mainly because they shout "Boom" as they fire their rockets at you. It's pretty funny in their monstrous voice.
There's a multiplayer mode that is very good and features many game modes and a ranking system that doesn't use experience gained in matches, I'm not really sure how it works, but I don't like the ranking. GoW is a great multiplayer game, but it requires skill to be good, unfortunately for me, I am not a good Gears player online. It feels so rewarding just when I get a kill, but that rarely ever happens.
All in all, there wasn't really many problems with the game. A confusing ranking system probably my main gripe, a couple of texture issues, but nothing major. A pain in the ass on-the-rail section, but when are they ever fun? I also didn't like how big all the characters where, normal people look like ants compared to these massive hench dudes. Everyone was very well voice acted and fitted their characters and a good, lengthy story. The game can not be missed and neither can the following games. Play this game, because for a game that's almost a decade old, it's still very much relevant.
8.4/10
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