Gears of War: It Should've Been Better

[The Wooster]

I did. Read the review and quit your bitching.

That's a bit much. I think he meant that you shouldn't give an opinion in the title, instead say something like:

"Blizzardwolf reviews Gears of War."

I don't mind hearing that if he'd said it as much. But he came to me with rude words in a rude manner, so I responded thusly. I don't go into anyone else's threads and gripe at them, then tell them what to do with them.

Then your feedback is piss poor. This section is just as much about improving people's review technique as it is discussing the games in question.

The title is problematic, it makes your review look more like a rant. Especially when you have your criticisms about the story taking up a lot of space at the beginning of your piece. For the record your criticisms were valid, but far too drawn out. You do, in fact, make the same point several times over.

Aside from that your piece was good if marred with a confusing layout. Your dependence on section headers instead of free flowing prose is lazy and makes the whole review kind of stop/start which is a shame because your writing actually flows quite well.

In short. This is promising work but you've limited yourself in your choice of format.

In my opinion.

 

[Strafe Mcgee]

Thing is with the graphics for Gears, is that it was the first game on a console to be running under the Unreal 3 engine, so it's not really fair to rag on it for that. When the game came out it surpassed nearly everything else available in terms of looks. Sure, the colour palette's got more than a little Quake 2 in it, but it does suit the dark and gritty aspects of the game.

It's a good review and you do make a lot of good points but I'd say tone back on the rantiness of the whole thing. That said, I completely agree with you about the story. It pisses me off too and I also don't believe that you should have to know to wait at the 'Press Start' screen to get background info on the story. I found out of somewhere on the web that apparently Marcus was chucked in jail because he left the front lines to go and protect his father on E-Day. Fair enough, but why weren't we told this in the main game?

And for all the people that say the game's part of a trilogy, the first part of a trilogy actually needs to tell a story in itself, not replacing story development with smack talk and gunplay.

 

[Kimozabi]

Damn, I'm pleased to see this sort of review, encompassing pretty much my feelings about GoW, although in a less angry tone

First thing about the colors, the being the first 360-game to run in the Unreal 3 engine etc: How does being the first game of it's kind, make it impossible to use more than 3 colors? Since when does the colors purple, blue, yellow or orange not exist anymore? It doesn't seem to get any better in GoW2, judging by this crap-fest [http://www.gametrailers.com/player/39373.html] that is multiplayer. Everything is grey - why do they do this?
Take a game like Mass Effect: Do you see how pretty it is, even when you use color?

Weapon-wise, GoW was terrible as well. I basically boiled down to either Machinegun or shotgun. The Hammer of Dawn might as well have been a button, since you only found it on isolated occasions, when a boss-type creature had to be destroyed and the sattelite was plot-conveniently online. Strange how that always fit together.
How about a futuristic and useful weapon that isn't limited by when a big monster is near?

GoW2 looks to be continuing Epic Games complete lack of creativity in flavor of sharper graphics (with less color if possible). I can't understand why so many people want to play this game (GoW 1 or 2) - what do they get from it?

 

[-Seraph-]

The BIGGEST problem I ever had with the game is that the weapon lack consistency. I mean I am online pumping an enemy with like 5 shogun shells, and then he kills me in 2 from the SAME distance. I loved the game and gameplay to the fullest, but when I go online i want to explode because most of the kills seem like nothing but luck.

 

[HuntingWolf_01]

yep