Gears Of War - A personal look-back

                      Some of the gears in the third installment.

I'm a big fan of the Gears of war-games. They're lots of fun, deep in story, have awesome soundtracks, characters, gameplay, just everything! I recently bought the last one (of this saga anyway), the third, about a month ago. Played it some hours here and there for a couple of days until I was done. I have to say, after having played through all three of them, the one thing about this series that surprise me the most is that it got better with each game. I think that's kinda rare among games, that they only get better and better? Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not THAT much of a gaming nerd really, I just play now and then when I'm bored and so on. But anyway. When I bought and played through the first one (in 2009) I thought it was fun, epic and quite varying (I hate games where you do the same fucking thing over and over again. Examples: Assassins Creed (1, the others were much better), Crackdown, etc.).

Maybe a year later, my ex (miss you...) bought me the second GoW and while I have forgot much of it (only played it through once so far), I do remember that I liked it even better than the first one. I do think I even liked it quite a bit more, to be precise. The one thing I hated with the first one was that there were THREE fucking beserkers. Well, I was fucking happy that they were sleeping or doing homo-erotic lesbian shit or whatever during the second, because there were no beserkers in it. As I said, I've forgotten much from the second by now, so I can't really remember what / if there was anything in compensation for the beserkers.

Well, now 1,5 years later I got on with the third and last one. It's the last game, but I've heard rumors (or fact, don't remember, too fucking lazy to look it up again) that there will be new GoW-games, just another story, characters and so on. If this is the case, and I can well imagine that since GoW brings in a lotta cash, I'd think it'd be cool if they showed how it all started. Maybe be playing as Dizzy or someone in his squad when they were young, I don't know. It would be cool, but that's one of my opinions and potential requests. Anyway back to the third game now. I think there were more gears in this that were close to you during missions compared to the other installments. As you see in the top picture, that are nine gears, and that's excluding Dizzy and that general or whatever he is and his name was (don't remember...). The third is also best story-wise among the games if you ask me. I really liked it, it was good action and the environments were also nicer, I think. Well, it's a destroyed world in decay, but still it's an environment and the third one's got the nicest. I also think there are more weapons which, of course, is always cool like hellfire. Liked the ending too, yap yap yap.

In conclusion: one of the best game-series I've ever seen and certainly one of the best I've personally played. I'm very happy that each game got better and better and I hope too see a new Gears-saga take form in the future. I sure as hell will play them all.

Gears of War:       8.5/10
Gears of War 2:    9/10
Gears of War 3:    9.5/10

            Clayton Carmine (GoW 3), one of my fave characters. Bad-ass dude.