Hi, Today I'm writing a review for Gears of War 1. Gears of War 1 is a third-person Action Shooter. This game was published in 2006 for Microsoft Xbox 360 and in 2007 for Microsoft Windows. The Game focuses on Delta Squad, as they fight with an unstoppable enemy, the Locust Horde, which dig out from insinde the ground. They could be the last hope of the humanity on the planet "Sera".You controll Marcus Fenix, a former prisoner that is now fighting to destroy the Locust.
Gameplay
Gears of war is a third-person action shooter. For combat you mostly use your guns to kill enemies. But you can also melee using your chainsaw, or even it them with the back of your weapon. Chainsaw is a little bit laggy as you have to use 2 buttons to cut the head of your enemy. But when it works, it's awesome. You see blood splatering all over the screen. Your gun is mostly the Lancer that has a chainsaw attached to it. You can also use grenades but it's hard to throw a grenade and actually kill someone. The grenades always go where you don't want them to. You can use grenades to block the Locust drilling zones. You can also use a variety of other weapons such as Pistols, Normal Rifle, Sniper, or Hammer of Dawn that uses satelites to unleash a strong force on the enemy.
You can do Active reloading by pressing the right button at the right time. That saves you a lot of time. The Game uses cover system for approaching the enemies without being shot. You can take cover behind most objects. It usually works but it's sometimes over defensive. You can blind shoot from a cover or sneak out from sides or top if you can. You have diffrent options to move from a cover , like if there is a cover beside your with a little bit of distance, you can easily move between them. You can also jump over low covers. In the game, you can roadi run. When you do this, you are half crouched so it's harder for enemies to shoot you. You can also evade and dodge grenades. When the player takes damage, the "Crimson Omen", a red cog representing the player's health gauge, will fade into the screen, becoming more defined with larger amounts of damage. The player can seek cover to recover their health, but if they take too much damage, they will become incapacitated. Once this occurs, a skull will fill the center void of the omen. Depending on the game type being played, the consequences will vary. If single-player career mode is being played, instant death will follow. If there is a second player, they will have to revive their fallen teammate. In multiplayer, the player will fall and be rendered useless until either revived by a teammate, executed by an enemy, or until they "bleed out", die from blood loss.
The game is consisted of 5 acts for campaign. You control Marcus Fenix and you are fighting to destroy the Locust from their inside. The game doesn't feature almost any background story of how locust came, and etc. The producers probably left it out for the sequel, Gears of War 2. You don't know anything about any players and you just start fighting and doing missions that you don't know why you're doing them. The game has 3 difficulties. I played in Hardcore(normal) difficulty. The game was chalenging at some points but it only had like 3 boss fights that were really easy. The final boss was the easiest. You can kill him in 1 minute by just shooting him. The other boss fights were easy too. Normal enemies were sometimes harder than bosses.
The game has CO-OP mode and you can finish the campaign using co-op. It also has Multiplayer that has vaiety of modes. Co-op is really fun.
Overall, the gameplay is good. Epic introduced something new and fun. It lacks story, background history and good boos fights but everything else is perfect. The combat is amazing, the missions are cool, and enemies are fun to melee. Gameplay deserves an 8.5 out of 10.
Graphics
The graphics in this game are amazing. It uses Unreal Engine 3 and it works. The explostions, details of the people or buildings and the blood, they are all greatly made and perfect. Frame Rate is mostly good except in some parts it had an slow rate when it got crowded. But everything else works great.
It deserves a 9 out of 10.
Overall
Game was really fun and cool. Story was missing a lot, and the gamelay had few problems and it brings the game down. But still the game is brutal and full of blood. It's a good start for the series.
8.7/10
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