Review: Gears of War 3 Is a Triumphant Threequel | GameLife | Wired.com
Review: Gears of War 3 Is a Triumphant Threequel | GameLife | Wired.com:
"Gears of War 3 begins as the series did five years ago — with series protagonist Marcus Fenix in a jail cell. This time, though, we find out why Fenix was imprisoned. Gears 3 completes the story that began back in 2006, and it does so definitively. Not everyone will survive."
Endings are important, and how a game ends can change how you look at the entire experience that took you to that point, or even about the whole series of games that came before. The final scenes we share with these characters are telling, and the question the game asks is important: When you give everything, what do you do with all the nothing left to you?
It may have been years since you played the last Gears of War title, but don’t worry about getting caught up with the story; it’s almost superfluous at this point. What matters is that the characters in Gears 3 are at war. It feels like they have always been at war.
The game’s huge, muscular characters in heavy armor have not changed, nor has the action. You will be fighting a variety of enemies and using the cover system to gain a better position to take them out. Melee attacks spice things up, and the combat itself remains loud, layered, and often captivating. Between Space Marine and Gears of War 3, the third-person action game has been all but perfected.
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"Gears of War 3 begins as the series did five years ago — with series protagonist Marcus Fenix in a jail cell. This time, though, we find out why Fenix was imprisoned. Gears 3 completes the story that began back in 2006, and it does so definitively. Not everyone will survive."
Endings are important, and how a game ends can change how you look at the entire experience that took you to that point, or even about the whole series of games that came before. The final scenes we share with these characters are telling, and the question the game asks is important: When you give everything, what do you do with all the nothing left to you?
It may have been years since you played the last Gears of War title, but don’t worry about getting caught up with the story; it’s almost superfluous at this point. What matters is that the characters in Gears 3 are at war. It feels like they have always been at war.
The game’s huge, muscular characters in heavy armor have not changed, nor has the action. You will be fighting a variety of enemies and using the cover system to gain a better position to take them out. Melee attacks spice things up, and the combat itself remains loud, layered, and often captivating. Between Space Marine and Gears of War 3, the third-person action game has been all but perfected.
Click here for full article.
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