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Utter Rubbish

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: February 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I thought this game would be fun but it has many bugs and past the bugs it's very boring. I reccommend buying WoW or Sims, they are much better and more polished games.

Save your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game took me 2 days to get it to load. I have started and lost my saved games at least half a dozen times. There appears to be no fix coming from anywhere. A loss of $50 for me but a lesson learned: never buy anything that says games for Windows. Your are forced to log on like A Steam account for Halflife 2. I guess they want to hold your hand...god forbid anyone play this game for free!!

Stiff and jerky like a console game...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I haven't played many ports to PC, and this is great example why.

The game looks nice, but the controls and gameplay are stiff and jerky like playing on a console. Too bad this wasn't made for PC first.

annoying game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: April 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

duck.. fire fire fire... game over. RELOAD CHECKPOINT and wait one minute.... run duck fire fire... opps... RELOAD CHECKPOINT and wait some more. run run run... duck... fire... RELOAD...

While this is a fun game for the most part, the checkpoints are few and far between. Unless you've mastered the game, you spend almost an equal amount of time playing as you do for the game to reload. This is on the medium level and from someone who is a pretty good game player. Now if you play it extra careful by frequently ducking and not taking too many risks then you'll stay alive longer and have less restores. For someone who likes to jump out in the middle and kick butt, you're going to be doing a lot of dying, which I guess is the point of this kind of game, but still it would be nice if you could save it at anytime or have an option to pick the checkpoint system or not. This checkpoint system ruins the game if you ask me. One frustrating point is the level where you defend a base, after 10 minutes of fighting a hole opens up and three boomers start attacking. One hit from them and you're dead with no second chances. Some of these levels take wayyy too long to get through as a result. Due to the frustration and boredom of repeating everything again and again, on some of these difficult levels, I have to take a break and play the game later. It shouldn't feel like work to play a game!

Good game, not for windows.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've played the game on xbox 360 and its pretty neat. Unfurtunately the game has become unplayable on my pc, as well as many others according to the forums. I have tried every solution posible and havent been able to play it on my win vista, even though the game claims as a game for Windows. So my recomendation for u is tha u save bur 50 dollars instead on giving it away to microsoft.

Fun and challenging

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great game plat, fairly smart A.I. Good story.
The "LIVE" stuff and achievements are a little irritating.
Can't wait for the second game to come out for PC.

Good game, just not as good as its cracked up to be.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Lets get the obvious out of the way, yes the game is overrated. With all of the hype and hope that went into this game, and with the responsibility of the beginning life of the 360 resting on its shoulders its going to be overrated. Ok, now for some actual reviewing. The graphics are gorgeous, although they did use some cheap tricks like pre-rendered backgrounds and only using three colors to make it look better than it really should, but it still gives the effect of looking good, which is all that really matters. The sound for the guns and explosions was good. For the life of me I can't even remember the music, which can't really be saying a good thing about it now can it? The storyline is kind of a ripoff of the two biggest shooters of our time. It is essentially Killzone meets Halo, but in all honesty its a shooter, story is nice to have, but is not a necessity. Plus these days, it is nearly impossible to come up with an idea that hasn't already been used. The action is pretty fun and the cover system works very well. There are some good deteriorating effects on the cover as well. The multi player is interesting at first, but gets boring fast. All in all I liked this game. If you want a solid, well put together shooter with nice graphics and a fun campaign, then I recommend you at least try it if you have a Xbox 360 or a good PC.

best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

First I had a little problem with this game but after I got Windows Live installed, everything workout just great. I played twice already and did not find anything wrong with the game. The graphic is just fantastic. Can't wait for the GOW2 for PC to come out. Run this game on Intel Q6600 and 2xRadeon HD3870 CrossfireX

great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

the finest shooting game i ever laid my hands on. control is smooth if your not lagging and the experience is phenomenal. if you like the ability to act like your in a real war situation, where you WONT be jumping around like a idiot like how you do in counter strike cuz your gonna get shot!. One of the few things i like about this game is that I can bait enemies and have them come to me, then i flank around them and BAM!(im talking multi player) direct shot in the body with a shot gun sends there body to several dozen pieces on the concrete floor. there is countless strategies, don't just run out and start killing things But this is not a game for campers, since the screen only focus on the area your looking at. now you have a vulnerability to get shot if someone comes from behind you and your camping for the other enemy to fall for your trap. im guessing you can, you just wont be to happy with the results after couple online plays lol.

Console port with a few extras.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Gears of War for PC is basiclly a console port with a few more extra content added onto the 5th act. Just like the console version, this is an amazing game. The cover and shooting system is extremely fun and online play is addicting. The extra content added onto the levels is cool but not amazing. I have not experienced framerate/save game issues unlike what other reviewers said, although when i got the game it did take a long time to update because of the games for windows live bugging out on me so i had to find the update manually on the internet. Other than installation, it's the same solid fun game as it was on the console. The only thing I didn't like is the ranked/social/live playlist crap, theres not really that much people that play the pc version why can't there just be 1 playlist.

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