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Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  189 reviews
Sales Rank: 770
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: sci-fi-action-games
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 882224260022
UPC: 882224260022
EAN: 0882224260022
ASIN: B000E543MW
Release Date: November 16, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Excellent condition. Ships from the UK.
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| • | The exclusive Xbox 360 game, Gears of War, thrusts gamers into a harrowing battle for humankind's survival against its subterranean enemy, the Locust Horde | | • | In this third-person shooter game, you must lead war hero Marcus Fenix and his team as they face the onslaught of merciless warriors hellbent on destroying the human inhabitants of the fictional planet Sera | | • | With a revolutionary tactical combat system and breathtaking, high-definition visuals from Unreal Engine 3, Gears of War will plunge you into a horrifying story of war and survival |
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Product Description
The exclusive Xbox 360 game, Gears of War, thrusts gamers into a harrowing battle for humankind's survival against its subterranean enemy, the Locust Horde.In this third-person shooter game, you must lead war hero Marcus Fenix and his team as they face the onslaught of merciless warriors hellbent on destroying the human inhabitants of the fictional planet Sera.With a revolutionary tactical combat system and breathtaking, high-definition visuals from Unreal Engine 3, Gears of War will plunge you into a horrifying story of war and survival.
Developer : Epic Games
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Minimum age : 18 years
Game setting : Futuristic
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Violent : Yes
Multiplayer mode : Yes
Network mode : Yes
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In a nutshell:
One of the most highly rated games of E3, Gears of War is looking likely to be the Xbox 360's Christmas blockbuster with the best graphics yet seen on the system and a tactical twist on the usual shoot `em-up gameplay.The lowdown:
With Halo still at least a year out this is currently the Xbox 360's premier exclusive shoot `em-up. Using a third person, over the shoulder, view rather than the usual first person viewpoint the game emphasis the importance of cover and tactics rather than just running and gunning. The question of cover becomes particularly important given the impressively destructible environments you fight in, which create a constantly shifting battlefield for you to navigate. As you'd expect the game also contains an extensive suite of multiplayer and co-op modes for play over Xbox Live. Most exciting moment:
The graphics are stunning, nearly photorealistic, but the greatest guilty pleasure in the game so far is the "chainsaw bayonet" and the OTT spurt of gore it extracts from bad guys. Since you ask:
Gears of War developers Epic Games are also responsible for the Unreal Engine 3 graphics engine which is used in many other games from Assassin's Creed to Lost Odyssey. The bottom line:
Who needs Halo when the Gears of War are turning as smartly as this?
Harrison Dent
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 Best game ever.... November 24, 2006
72 out of 78 found this review helpful
I've got to admit, I never really looked forward to this game. I was more intrested in buying COD3 when it was released but due to all the hype, decided to bankrupt myself by getting this as well. All the reveiws had been amazing and the Americans on my friends list were going mad about it.
Its not often I fall in love with a videogame. It certainly hasn't happened on the 360 up till now. But this just beats everything I've ever played. Its gone straight to the top of my favourite games of all time overtaking classics such as Goldeneye, Legend of Zelda and FFX.
From the moment I turned it on I knew it was going to be good. The first level on games is usually a bit of a chore, trying to teach you everything. Gears of War doesn't. You learn how to play the game without even realising and within minutes, the controls are second nature. The cover system is absolutely fantastic, allowing you to weigh up your options without getting shot. Do you lean out and fire. Do you roll out of cover to gain a better angle? Do you switch cover? Do you just charge out of cover towards the enemy's and try and take them all with the shotgun. Or do you blindfire. Talking of blindfire, I feel it is the first time a game has finally nailed blindfire on the head. For once, its effective without making it too easy to kill everything. I can't think of another game where blindfire works quite so well.
Moving on through the game, you realise just how amazing the graphics are. In game, everything looks so damn realistic, like a war has been going on for more than a decade. The cutscenes are also fantastic, with the lip sync done perfectly so it actually looks like their talking. None of this miming done by several other games where the character speaks but doesn't actually move his mouth.
The storyline is absolutely brilliant as well. Many shooters can't admit to having a good storyline (PDZ i'm looking at you) but GOW keeps you intrested throughout. The interaction between the characters is fantastic and often makes you chuckle as they throw sarcastic and witty comments around like nobody's business. The levels are all amazing as well. Consisting of 5 acts, I can only complain about Act 3, set in a factory/underground caverns. It wasn't a bad act but compared to the rest, it just fell short in my opinion but Act 4 completely redeems it.
The weapons are also absloutely brilliant. The chainsaw on the underneath of the lancer is a masterstroke, the shotgun is unbeleivably powerful from short range, the grenades are fantastic(escpecially when "tagging") and the sniper rifle is also spot on. The reload system for all the guns is also brilliant, adding some skll factor to the game. When reloading, a little bar comes up which you need to stop in a specific area. Getting it right will allow a quick reload whereas failing will cause your gun to jam, gaining the enemy a precious few seconds to move without fire. It works perfectly and may be a future feature that many games in the future use.
Online, GOW is also amazing. Maps such as Gridlock and Mansion are masterpeices with guns scattered in awkward places where breaking out of cover to get them involves an element of risk. Success however can easily swing a game. There are 3 modes, Warzone, Assasination and Execution. Warzone is your standard game mode with everyone with one life. The team that kills all of the other wins. Assassination is a Protect the President style game with each team having a leader they need to protect or they lose the game. Execution is like Warzone except you can only kill enemy's with close range kills. This leads to lots of chainsaw action, curb stomping and grenade tagging. The coop mode over live is also perfectly done, allowing you to invite a mate into your game at any time you need help doing a section, without any pauses or reloading of the game.
Overall, this isn't just the best game on the 360, its the best game on any platform currently. If you've been waiting for a killer game as a reason to buy a 360, this is it. If you've been waiting for a PS3, don't. Resistance:Fall of Man and COD3 may be good games, but compared to this, they're nothing. If Halo 3 is going to take the title of best game on the 360, its going to have one hell of a job beating this.
Mind blowing graphics and game! November 17, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Gears of War follows the story of the humans battle against the Locust Horde. The Locust Horde have, for some reason, come to planet Sera (home of the humans in this game) to take over. It's your job to stop them. To do that, you assume the role of COG soldier Marcus Fenix. When you start the campaign mode, you find that the story begins with fellow COG soldiers breaking Marcus out from prison. Marcus did something wrong, but his battle tested skills are somehow needed. From there the story takes off, carrying you through 5 "acts" and 30 chapters. This is just the way the game is broken down.
When you start the campaign mode, you can select from 3 difficulties. Casual, which the game should take you no more than 8-10 hours to complete. Then there is the Hard mode. Hard mode is a challenge, and can easily add 4-5 hours to the game, making the campaign about 12-14 hours long. Finally, we have the mode "Insanity". Think of Halo's legendary mode. You may not even be able to do this mode on your own.
Which is why Gears features a co op mode, simialr to Halo. Co op allows you to play through Gears with a friend. You can do this over Xbox Live, through system link, or through split screen. It is most fun over Xbox Live. You simply host a campaign "server" and start playing the game. Somone can join, take the role of a computer controlled soldier, and play alongside you, which can be great fun. If they have to go, when they leave, the computer will automatically assume the role of the soldier again, so it doesn't ruin the experience. Of course, you can always invite somone on your friends list to come play through campaign with you.
Aside from the excellent campaign mode, Gears features a robust multiplayer mode. Up to 8 players are split into two teams of 4 people. Doesn't sound like much, but this game is all about cover, flanking, and working with your teammates. The game ships with 10 multiplayer maps: Canals, Clocktower, Escalation, Fuel Depot, Gridlock, Tyro Station, War Machine, Mansion, Mausoleum, and Roof Tops. In multiplayer, there are 3 modes to choose from: Warzone, Assasination, and Execution. Warzone is a standard team deatmact, and like counter strike, once you die, you spectate until the next round. Assasination requires players to kill the other teams "leader". Finally, Execution requires that in order to kil somone, you must curb stomp them (smash their heads into the ground after wounding them), chainsaw them (a chainsaw is attached to the "lancer" machine gun), or kill them with a torque bow (a bow that fires a rocket the explodes on contact.)
The weapons in Gears are very diverse. The Lancer machine gun is most common, and best of all, it has a chainsaw attached to the end of it. So when you come up close to somone, you can press "B" to rev up the chainsaw, and then go in for the kill. Other weapons include a sniper rifle, pistol, magnum, shotgun, grenade launcher, and of course, the hammer of dawn. The hammer of dawn is a gun requiring you to charge a laser beam. Once charged, the gun calls down a laser beam from an orbital satellite, blasting anything in its path.
The sound, of course, is incredible. The music is amazing, and the gun sounds are some of the best you will hear. Like I said, the graphics are some of the best I have ever seen in my life. The amount of detail is scary. For instance, when you shotgun somone up close, you can see individuals parts fly, such as the jawbone, brain, etc. But the graphics don't just excel in a gruesome kind of way. Brick walls, water reflections, blades of grass all look so real, you are going to be stunned. Like I said earlier, the BEST graphics you have ever seen.
The first genuine next-gen game November 18, 2006
22 out of 24 found this review helpful
This is the first item I've ever bought from amazon that inspired me to write a review, that in itself should speak volumes considering the thousands of pounds I've spent on amazon over the past 5 years.
Gears of War is the 6th Xbox 360 game I've purchased, bought Just Cause, Ghost Recon AW, Burnout Revenge, Oblivion, Chromehounds previously. Those 5 games were ok, but left me with this vaguely dissatisfying feeling at having shelled out so much money on the console and the games, and there was always this nagging voice at the back of my head berating me for wasting my money on this console.
Well that voice just got stabbed in the face and torn apart by a Locust grunt.
Gears of War is simply amazing. Every second I play it I am in awe, in terror, on the edge of my seat. Most games I play I take the gung ho approach and just charge in all guns blazing. Not Gears of War. I find myself terrified of open spaces, of dark areas, of anything that looks peaceful and safe. I know that as soon as I'm feeling secure, the Locust will attack and I'll find myself in the middle of a terrifying hail of gunfire, inhuman screams, yells of victory, warnings of enemies flanking me, and that's just from my teammates! Never in my life have I played a game that made me feel so completely immersed in its world. From the jaw dropping visuals to the excellant sound and the fantastic battle music that builds slowly as more and more enemies come charging at you, covering each other, throwing grenades, keeping your heads down while their comrades try and flank you.
Some of the game innovations are wonderful. Dancing from cover to cover is effortless and highly intuitive. Quickly ducking around the corner and capping a grunt with your sniper rifle then ducking back as a hail of gunfire splatters all around where your head was a half second ago... talk about adrenaline pumping. And the reload system, I don't know how they thought of it! Most games you run out of ammo, you reload, and that's it. In GoW you can just let the gun reload normally sure, but that takes time. Instead time it right and pull off a quick reload, or time it perfectly and get a damage boost reload. They took such a simple thing as reloading your gun and turned it into another adrenaline pumping task that needs to be mastered or you risk jamming your gun for several seconds. Simply brilliant.
Beautifully, wonderfully, horridly fantastic. One of the best games I've ever played on any console or on PC. I'm confident saying there wont be anything out to beat this for a long long time, and since I haven't even tried multiplayer or seen it in HD yet, that's a heck of a claim!
I am now happy that paying so much money on my xbox 360 was indeed not a waste. To have never played this game (at night, in the dark, with the volume pumped WAY up) would be a crime against the very spirit of gaming.
the beef November 13, 2006
45 out of 52 found this review helpful
GOW appears to be your standard run-and-gun shooter, but the developers have really broken the boundaries established by the "last gen" shooter titles. There are several new additions to what would seem to be standard gameplay that add extra dimensions to each battle. For example, reloading - has been completely remastered, presenting the possibility of a gun jamming, or a speedy mag-change that lets the fight continue fluently.
The AI you are fighting with is fairly decent, but the majority of enemies will be dispatched by you rather than your team-mates. Co-op is a lot more fun as you really feel you are relying on your friends and encourages you to take the initiative when planning out tactical manouvres. Another great aspect is the revive function; if your matey gets shot down, you can race over and revive him, in a very similar way to the Conflict Desert Storm games. This is great for online multiplayer, as you can set up some great ambushes. Whilst the team AI will not kill as many as you, they will draw the enemies bullets and order you around, whether it be to flank, lob grenades, or move to cover. The orders you are given will tend to be effective, and if your computer buddy yells at you to flank left, then flanking left will produce the best results.
What i liked most about GOW is the gritty feeling, the tense spooky atmosphere punctuated with explicit gore and bloody firefights. GOW most crucial success is creating an immersive world which you can become completely absorbed in.
The characters tend to be of the stocky "Lets Rock!!" variety, but it seems sort of appropriate considering the context of the game. Whilst playing you sometimes feel that there could be a little more background info, but this drifts into insignificance as the next fight begins.
You as a character are fairly easy to kill, and the enemies are fairly good shots. Therefore most firefights tend to be from behind cover, supressing and flanking and flushing the enemy out with nades. Whilst this seems repetetive on paper, the enemy is using the same techniques to try and kill you, so you get a very tense battle sequence and you often have to respond to the enemy attack before you can launch your own offensive.
You will all know that the graphics are amazing, not much to be said here. The frame rate doesnt drop, everything is very smooth, even in multiplayer.
The hardness of the game escalates severely towards the end (10-12 hours gameplay) and you may find it a struggle on the harder setting, but you can change the difficulty at the start of each chapter, so dont worry if you get stuck.
The replay value is all in the multiplayer, and gameplay on xbox live is addictive and fresh.
I love this game, i would reccomend it to anyone.
5 stars all round.
As Good As It Gets!!!!! November 23, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Is the hype true? YOU BETTER BELIVE IT!!!!!!!!
This is one awsome game, I have had many consoles and games over the years and i must say this is possibly the finest shoot em up type game that there is on any console!
The game itself is a great challange, not to easy but challenging enough to keep you interested. The sound, Graphics, Gameplay are all perfect and i have not found any faults yet. The AI of the enemy is realistic and your team mates are even very sensible in the way that they do not run around like idiots getting shot.
Yes, if you own an Xobox 360 buy this game.
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