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Bugs and repitition

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The first problem with this game is that you need to sign into LIVE to save any progress in single player mode. If anything happens to your Live ID you loose your game. At least when it's saved on your hard drive you have the option of backing up any game progress and can restored it if anything happens.

But most of all it wasn't that good of a game. I was first attracted to it because your blood splattered on the monitor when you got shot. As it turns out, not enough to make the game good. I bought it at a higer price than the $29 but wouldn't pay that if I had to do it again.

Console game, console problems.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: November 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you like console games and can handle things like checkpoint saving then you will like this game. If you hate playing the same sections over and over until you get it right then give this one a pass. To me the frustration level was just too high.

Gears of War, Good luck

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: March 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I also have an alienware system built for gaming. This title won't load and their support is a joke. Stay away, very far away.

Watch your system requirements!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great game, but it really requires a lot of system resources to use. After updating my drivers, I was still not able to use the max performance options from the game.

PC:
2.44 Ghz CPU, 2GB RAM, 256 MB Radeon Video Card.

This Is An Awesome Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I Bought This Game Just Cause The 5 Extra Levels On Campain & It Has All The Downloadeble Contents That U Downloaded On Ur Xbox 360 & If U Have A Controller For Ur PC Or Laptop It Should Work

Great Game, But Not for Windows

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is very fun and really has a lot of non stop action, but it's not for Windows. It is a really sloppy port of the XBOX360. If you have played this on the XBOX360, then this game will waste your money. They added some new content, but not really worth buying. Epic also is very lousy with support for the game. They have released two patches, but this game really stutters pretty badly on my dual core rig, which runs games like Crysis on high settings like water.

Just don't get this for Windows, or if like me, try for another title like Bioshock 2 or Fallout 3. They are better titles and really keep you into the game. They also have better support.

Another Note: This game requires that you sign up for Games for Windows Live to save you progress. That's another reason to consider before buying Gears of Wars

Very Good - Not sure what the complaints are

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I struggled with whether or not to rate the game 5 stars, it's no where near perfect, but at the end of the day, it's a fantastic game.

You can read plenty of reviews about how the game operates, but I just wanted to point out that I had absolutely no issue at all installing this game on my Windows Vista machine. Installed and played fine, and I never came across a single bug...

I also HATE xbox 360, I'm a PS3 guy, but decided to give this game a go and thought it was fantastic. I purchased a wired 360 controller and plugged it into my computer, the game recognized it without any additional hardware/software and it played just like it would with the controller on a console, (I hate keyboard/mouse).

Definately very happy with everything so far. Highly recommend playing the game.

Console Garbage

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: April 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Gears of War has brief moments of fun, punctuated by long periods of boredom and frustration. The game is quite short, but artificially lengthened with obnoxious save "checkpoints" that make you perform the same actions and watch the same cutscenes over and over and over again. Most of the challenge of this game comes from fighting the awkward and imprecise controls.

PURE CRAPOLA! WORSE THAN VISTA!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: March 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

JUST WHAT THE TITLE SAYS! DON'T LIKE ONLINE PLAY! STAY OFF MY COMPUTER! SYSTEM HOG! STICK WITH THE MORE DECENT SINGLE PLAYER GAMES! GRAPHICS ARE THE SAME AND FUNNER SINGLE PLAYER! DON'T WANT TO PLAY WITH MORONS ONLINE! WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER MICROSOFT GAME! GOING STRICTLY PS3 ON THE CONSOLE AND OTHER DEVELOPERS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH MICROSOFT ON THE PC!!!

Gears of War - PC version

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I heard about this game on the X-box and it always looked really cool. I was really excited when a PC version finally came out, since that's what I have. What a frustrating, time consuming, disappointment! DON'T BUY THIS GAME FOR THE PC. First, it takes 40 minutes to install because of the complicated process it uses. After you're finally done, the first thing it does when you run it is to tell you that your Windows drivers for things like your graphics card and processor! aren't good enough and you must go get the latest, otherwise the game may crash. After an hour collecting and installing those, you run it and . . . it continually crashes anyway. The basic problem with this game is that it says Microsoft on the box. With 25 years experience as a software designer, I'm so tired of Microsoft pumping out s*&% and expecting you to take it just because of who they are, I've finally decided that unless I absolutely can't avoid it, I will never buy a Microsoft product again. That goes for this game. The game may be great, but you'll never know because until Microsoft gets around to releasing major rewrites some time in the future, it's not going to run on your PC. DON'T THROW YOUR MONEY AWAY.

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