Review of Gears of War

Recently, more and more often games have been created with an sight for some kind of pretentiousness.
I'm not saying that this is bad, but personally I was already tired of this.
Whether it is either God of WAR of the 2018 model with its problems of fathers and children, or unjustifiably serious Mirror’s Edge (I don’t know why she).

I am not saying that this is bad, but sooner or later you get tired and a desire to play a game where there is ultra violence and a simple plot about how you need to destroy all the bad sake of all the best. And now I'm talking about GEARS of WAR, namely about the first part of this game.

I have very warm feelings to the GEARS of War series, the game throughout its existence remained true to its roots and received uniform development of its ideas. The characters received their logical and systematic development from each part, depth was added to them, but never overdo it with this.
Well, one cannot help but remember that this was the game of Cliff Blazhinsky, thanks to which he got his worldwide recognition and now, unfortunately, quietly Cliffi Bi goes into oblivion as a result of the release of unsuccessful Lawbreakers and Radical Heights.

But let's not talk about sad, back at the time when the grass was greener, and the locust was the size of a person.

It is worth immediately making a reservation that I will only tell you about a single campaign, I will not cover the multiplayer aspects.

Plot
And we will start with the plot. The plot in the game, although it is seriously seriously served, is done absolutely everything on such serious faces that you yourself begin to frown. But unlike the rest of the games that I brought earlier, the game is not trying to dramatize, does not try to instruct the player on the true path and instruct him to something. The game simply tells the story and shows the war that it does not look somehow pretentious and claiming more than it claims.
The plot in the first part of the game is like two pennies. It all starts with the fact that we find ourselves in the skin of a former soldier of the coalition-a pumped, huge and brutal Marcus Phoenix, now convicted and serving his term in prison, due to the fact that he loves to be stronger than orders. Despite the fact that it is interesting, the soldier here is called GEARS’AMI, T.e. gears.

Our old friend, the most deeply designed nogamstop-casinos.co.uk/ character of the Dominic Santiago series, saves us from prison. He tells us that while we were cooling in prison, everything has changed, everything became very bad, gives in our hands the armor of the coalition, the bandana and gun. In addition, we learn that everything except us actually pardoned us, so you should not be surprised by an empty prison.

But since everything has changed, the excess barrel will not hurt and we are heading to destroy the locusts, this is the name of the race of villains.

But we will not be thoughtlessly crazy, but very meaningful, because for starters we are given the task of intercepting an alpha detachment, which is located in the resonator, then go down to the Caves of the locusts and this very resonator enlighten all the caves, then successfully blow them up and won the war, go to sunset.
Along the way, we slightly more than completely recruiting our detachment with: Marcus, House, Karmain and Kim on Marcus, House, Beard and Cole.
And it would seem that the reasons for the change of the team are quite dramatic, but there is no emotionally response. In other things, there is also no chemistry between other brothers in arms. These are just blanks with guns at the ready, like the main character himself, besides the fact that each of the characters has some kind of background.
-Marcus Phoenix - Former coalition soldier, a military criminal, loves a family, sharp as a sickle with a sickle and a principled.
-Dominic Santiago - Just a good guy, sincere, lost his family and is trying in every possible way to find her. There is a tattoo on the wife on the shoulder.
-Damon Beard - Technician, the most technically saved man in the company. Can build candy from shit and sticks.
-August Cole Train - The star of the local game - Treshbol. Now a soldier of the coalition.
And this is all that we will learn about the characters in this game. In other things, more and not necessary, t.To. We play not in the snot, but in the war.
On our way, we walk along the streets, home, day, night, in caves, ride a car, killing locusts along the train along the train along the train along the train. Along the way, we will learn that there is a fuel on the planet called - an emulsion, everything holds on it on this planet. And this same emulsion infects locusts, turning it into an unguided explosive evil.
And all, we do, we do in order to achieve the goal that we, of course, achieve, but with the nuance, which is natural, since later there will be continued.

The plot in the game is simple, but if you understand it, you can find that it is actually deeper than you want to seem. But he clings, there is the main villain, the enormous larva of Raam, who will constantly remember in the subsequent games of the series, there is a consistent development of the plot itself, the heroes are constantly found some obstacles on the path that they decide, sometimes very elegant, for example, the moment when you need to destroy the floor to destroy the giant spider. Either memorable moments, like the descent into the caves of the locust, or the launch of the resonatted directly, the murder of Brumak, etc.p. These moments are epic and they are remembered and postponed in memory.

Gameplay + visual
In principle, with the plot at this place you can finish and go directly to the gameplay.
If we talk about gameplay, I immediately want to make a reservation ... In my modest opinion, you need to play only on the gamepad, despite the fact that the game is a third -person shooter, and it could be said that it is convenient to shoot only from clavy and t.p., But still, what to play. NEED TO. ONLY. On. Gamepad.
And I say this, as a person who has passed GEARS of War on a gamepad several times and played in them on a PC. I say, in particular, because the game contains such a chip as an active reloading, and it is possible to get full satisfaction from it only with the implementation of vibration, which, alas and ah, but there is no keyboard.
Throughout the passage of all parts of the game, and there are no less than 5 of them today, I received some kind of psychological pleasure from those moments when active reloading was carried out. I can't share such a high when playing clavysh.
Also, do not forget about Lancer with a chainsaw, because vibration supplements the effect of sawing and only allows you to get carried away with a game.

Otherwise, the game is the most classic shooter from a third person with shelters, rolling and regeniring, where you can shoot, throw grenades, you can do this aimed, but you can from the shoulder. Both behind shelters, never behind them.
At the same time, it would seem that the game is absolutely typical and can easily get lost among billions of other similar things. But the game has one distinctive and very cool feature, it is previously agreed brutality and ultra cruelty. You play for a huge brutal square cabinet, which cuts the enemy into two parts of a chainsaw, shoots his head, and then simply tears the carcass into pieces with a grenade.
I’ll make a reservation that no, I'm not trying to justify violence, do not think, but you really get some satisfaction from the chainsaw.

And most importantly, it is nice to do it, it does not bother all the games, and is still complemented by a rather pleasant and juicy picture.
Unfortunately, only the Ultimate Edition can boast with the juicy of the picture.To. The original game has a brown gamut that was familiar to the games of those years, to remember at least Bayonetta. Therefore, if I advised to play, then immediately in the Ultimate Edition, t.To. This is a worthy remister, where the picture, sounds were renewed, remoded the Katsets, making them kinemotagropichny, while not touching the main gameplay of the game.

Although I said that this is a game with rolling and shelters and no matter how easily it sounds, the game remains pretty hardcore, because they kill you quickly, the locust is massive and crushes quite a bit brazenly, even on normal complexity. Artificial intelligence is quite smart, you throw a grenade, the locust of the time runs away from it, sit out in the shelter-they try to smoke you from it. And accordingly, you need to quickly think through your actions, evaluating the battlefields and the balance of power.
In the course of the plot, sometimes the game offers us to divide, go right or left, but such episodes are extremely rare and, they are quite short, so there is nothing to say about them, although sometimes they offer interesting solutions, for example, covering their partner while the latter is besieged by larvae.
Also separately, the hunt to note the sound accompaniment of the game, and I am not talking about the musical component, which is beautiful, but about how the game itself sounds. Sounds of walking, shooting, etc.p. They are great here, t.To. You really feel that you are a healthy man with a huge cannon that sounds like it should sound, the saw sounds like a real saw, the war is felt by war, and not colofduate.
And for the "nice" of Marcus, I am ready to forgive the game.
Well, a few words about localization:

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I generally noticed that the sound design has for me one of the most important meanings in the game, T.To. The hunt still plunges into the world, but not only the picture and gameplay is very contributed to the immersion, but also the sound. He must involve you in the world, create his atmosphere, show that all this is a little more than a set of graphone.
And, for example, this is one of the reasons why I have already abandoned a long time to play in Kolofduti. Since there is a disgusting sound design, the sound of walking is always the same, the sounds of a shot, as if the peas are thrown on the wall (comparison of sounds at 10:34 video reviews).

Well, I seemed to have spoiled, and you can, I think, summarize some result

Result
As a result, it is difficult for me to evaluate this game badly. There are certain disadvantages in it, namely, the shortness of the plot, it is very short and passes on average in 5 hours. At the same time, despite the short plot and the fact that the game wants to be diverse, it is quite monotonous and begins to get a little bored by the end.
Someone may not like the simplicity of the plot, although despite his simple tie, the ENT game is quite deep and worked out.
Also, in a certain minus, you can record a rather meager arsenal of weapons, several guns, a couple of pistols and grenades, although each weapon is felt in its own way and has its own character. Moreover, I noticed that although the weapons are very peculiar and it is constantly necessary to change it depending on the situation, for example, if the creatures attack you, then you need a shotgun, if the enemies are relatively far, it is better to find a sniper rifle. But despite all the situations, you always have one weapon - Lancer with a chainsaw, you change the other weapon depending on the situation. Well, the pistol in the sight is purely situational weapons, I can’t say that I constantly used it during the passage of the game. Ah, yes, I forgot to say about the grenades ... Grenades are cool, their implementation is one of the best in games, because you use them constantly, it was very rare for me to have a full pack of grenades, because the reptiles need to be smoked from shelters, but what not to do it, if not grenades?

Well, as you can understand, I love this game with all my heart, it is really cool, it not only set a certain direction for the development of the genre of third -person jackets with shelters, but also showed that the game about huge cabinets of chopping larvae can be cruel, steep and protracting.
And, accordingly, 9 points out of 10 possible.