Gears of War reject
posted by Ravynheart (LOUISVILLE, KY) Oct 4, 2012
Member since Oct 2006
First I want to say that I am not one of the many GoW fanboys that have been accused of giving this game bad reviews. I played the first GoW, so I am familiar with its play style. So when I picked up this game, I fell right in. Because this game truly is nothing more than GoW, with "slight" gravity manipulation.
The controls are simple. A little too simple. There really isn't much you can do aside from shoot and throw grenades for the first little while. You get your gravity manipulation tools in stages... many, many, stages. You wouldn't think that "High Gravity", "Low Gravity", and "GravLink (leash)", could be broken down into many steps. But, you'd be thinking wrong. But, that's not really all that bad, since you can beat this game without using your powers at all, except for the "You must use (insert power) here" type of scenarios they threw in as an after thought.
That leaves you with your basic weapons. Decide for yourself which side of the "GoW, not GoW" fight your on by searching for pics of the weapons. I've only played the first GoW and I recognized the weapons instantly. They are almost exact copies of the GoW weapons.
The enemies, now there's something different. Oh wait. No, that's wrong too. The "grunts" of the game, look an awful lot like characters in GoW. Bulky in the same proportions as those from GoW. Wearing armor similar to those in GoW. And we already discussed the weapons they have. The ones from GoW.
The storyline is, well. Go look up GoW. It's pretty close to that. Except the main character ends up looking for his little girl who has been taken, apparently with every other child on the planet. No one knows why. And yes, looking for your child is a noble cause. But the way this guy goes about it, just feels....cliched. Now even in a good way.
All in all this game is a disappointment. Cool concept. Poor execution. If you have ever played Gears of War, and found it to be...meh. Not to your taste? You probably won't like this game
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