Gears of War 3 Review [GameRevolution]

GR: When Gears of War debuted, it used Mad World as marketing. Monsters and rubble and darkness, that was the backdrop used to invoke hopelessness, desertion, war, and sadness in the time of the Coalition of Ordered Governments. Of course, what gamers got was a series about blood, guts, and chainsawing your enemies in half. Massive men impale even more massive monsters on rusty bayonets and spike the left-behind corpses as if they'd just scored a touchdown.

So when Epic Games attempted to make good on Mad World and their marketing in Gears of War 2 by drumming up some hackneyed, piss-poor excuse for a love drama, I laughed it off. Corrupting Dominic Santiago's wife and forcing him to put a teary-eyed bullet in her head was too much, too far. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride, Dominic couldn't drive the Gears plot forward.

Fortunately for everyone involved, Gears of War 3 arrives on the scene to make good on every single wrong turn the series has taken. Marcus Fenix and company are back and they've brought with them a campaign filled with weight, emotion, momentum, and even more death and destruction.

[Sev]

Oh man, I remember those Mad World commercials. I wanted the game just because of that.

[dbjj12088]

Yeah they're definitely classic now.

[doctorstrange]

Easily the best game ad ever made

[gogospeedracer]

That was a killer commercial! I am glad they [Epic] is doing the series right!
This game is awesome!

[antz1104]

The "Rendezvous" ad from Gears 2 was also great, but not close to Mad World.

[BigWoopMagazine]

man gears 1 and 2 always felt sluggish and clunky, so if they actually smoothed that out it's definitely great news

[gogospeedracer]

Something wrong with your controller?

[NukaCola]

Gears 3 lost a lot of that gritty effect. And is now very polished and more vibrant in color. Some parts looks a little clay-like now without the effect. Similiar to playing Mass Effect 2 on PC without the film grain. I think it's the Unreal Engine in general, but the camera work is freaking brilliant. I can't think of too many games that can shaky cam and not give you nausea, like Kane and Lynch 2 did.

EDIT: dbjj12088
It looks great still. This is a dryer clay look tho. Most Unreal games in the past always looked like everything was wet....lol Unless of course the devs didnt know how to master it. Then it looked like Singularity. But you can see this in other games, like Arkham Asylum. Looks good, has a srtstyle to it I can dig.

[dbjj12088]

Clay-like is an excellent way to describe it.

[Cpt_kitten]

yeah thank god they realized there was more colors than brown variants

that pissed me off with gears 1 & 2 because you couldn't tall anything apart because it was all the same

gears 3 is the beast out of all of them

[edureboucas]

Sounds awesome, can't wait to play it!

[Sayai jin]

I'm playing it now and it awesome!

[jetlian]

the splitscreen 3d!! beast mode is tight as hell from what l played

[stormeagle6]

Get ready for Cliffy B to bitch about getting an A- and not an A!

[LostTokens]

If you're taller than 5'8", just hold your palm against his forehead. He's short, isn't he?

Short or no, I wouldn't wanna fight him.

[Oaklnd]

Aw snap, let me go get a copy