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Great Game - Finally Patched

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 37
Date: November 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Amazon rating system does not allow me to change my initial rating, hence the one star... But, today a patch has been released. It resolves all my problems. The game is awesome. Recommend to everyone.

Great Game and Fun to Play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 24 / 33
Date: November 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Do not listen to naysayers. Before you install the game update your Windows Live from Microsoft and you will have no problems. The game runs very smooth and is beautiful to look at. The gameplay should be familiar to most people who have probably seen it on Xbox 360. Highly recommended for any action oriented gamer. Very high production values.

sick game!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: November 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't know what the other reviewer was talking about with the low rating...but this game is sick. I just got it and am not finished yet, But it is easily the best looking game I have ever played. This is not just graphics either, but the look is gritty and realistic (not cartoonish like the Halos) actually adding to game play.

Beautiful to look at, but a console port to the PC, and all that implies

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 54 / 108
Date: November 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have the 360 version of this game. The voice acting, graphics and artwork, and basic pace was pretty decent, but I grew bored of console type checkpoint saves a long time ago, plus the 360 controllers just don't do it for me with this game, so I was waiting for the PC version.

Well, I spent full price the day it came out, and boy am I disappointed. Beyond the fact that price already fell $10 in the first week, the game is not that much fun to play. There is no save system other than arbitrary checkpoints. How bored are we all with replaying the same 10 minute scenes over and over and over and over again. I know I am

Also, its a 3rd person view, which is fine, but you can't really run and aim, nor can you jump or duck. These are some simple basics that all shooters need to allow full range of movement. I don't mind dying in these games, happens all the time. But I do mind playing the same boring passage 100 times without getting anywhere. The atrocious and annoying berserker part comes to mind here, where no matter what you do, you die 100 times before something lucky happens and you get through it.

This is a decent game, don't get me wrong, but for the PC it is a console port, plain and simple. No save system, lousy controls. Nuff said

Great Game! Recommend 2 G's Minimum Memory !!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been waiting for this game every since I saw it on XBOX. I bought the game and the graphics are great if you have the video card to run it. HOWEVER! Problems are happing with this game, first before you can play the game you have to update your video card drivers to a higher version.

This is after my desktop wont even play the game without constant crashes to the desktop runing 1 gig with 512K ATI X1650. However, before it would crash the graphics were set on high and looked awesome.

I then loaded on my laptop with 2 gig of memory and a 256 ATI X700. Graphics had to be lowered to low but at least I was able to play the game. Hopefully they will create a patch to fix all these problems. As I found out this was tough when updating laptop drivers, because sony doesnt have and updated driver. Had to research alternate methods of hacking my video driver to support GOW. If this sounds like your problems look on google website for a video modifier driver.

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.

Underwhelmed

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: November 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is primarily a review of single player.

Its hard to see what the fuss is about. The best I can figure, it was the first real next gen title on xbox 360 and was good enough and had shiny enough graphics to show off the potential of the system. For that, it was Game of the Year according to many critics.

On the PC, though, it is underwhelming. As expected graphics are excellent and silky smooth, as are the controls, so fundamentally its a very solid shooter, and can be recommended if that's all it was hyped as. The cover system is interesting and probably revolutionary on the consoles, where precise movement and aiming speed is limited by controls, but on the PC it feels gimmicky. I can manage my own cover, thank you - just let me sprint and lean around corners and I will expose far less of myself than your system forces me to do. Its useful here as a way to cover ground, and maybe there is a place for it yet in PC shooters, but practically speaking its a novelty for those of us who already studiously exploit cover wherever it is found.

Partly due the cover mechanism and partly do to level design, the game eventually feels like an amusing game of whack-a-mole, where you pop up from cover and shoot your enemy, then he ducks and you duck, then he pops up and shoots you, etc. until one of you is dead. Theres a bit more to combat than that of course, but nothing we haven't seen before.

Story-wise, there isn't much of one, which is a shame since the characters and gameworld are gritty enough to support something truly memorable and fun.

All in all, on the PC Gears of War is a solid shooter, with great graphics and controls, but one cannot help feel it's better suited to the TV than the PC. There's just nothing really standout about it in a world of COD4, Crysis, Portal and all the rest of this season's superb releases. Unless you feel determined to play a third person shooter, that is, which is a pleasure I'm occasionally guilty of too.

PC Users beware ...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 19
Date: November 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First let me say that I have both the Xbox 360 version as well as the PC version. I decided on adding the PC version because I did not wish to fight with the wife over who gets the 50" HD screen at any given time. 3 feet from a 24" wide screen monitor and full surround is just as good. The Xbox 360 version seems to be the same in every respect save 2. The Xbox controller is very cumbersome to use (more so than the mouse on a PC). For an old guy like me, it is very difficult to get used to the controls. Especially the 'one size fits all' A button (SPACE bar on the PC).
Unlike the PC, you do not need to log in to Microsoft to create a character so your games can be saved. Yup ... got to create a character online before you can save your game progress. I found this out a bit late ... I played for about 3 hours in the laid back mode and was half way into the second act when I decided it was time to go to bed and give it a rest. You can imagine my supprise the next morning when I could not start off from where I left off from the night before, but had to start over from the very beginning. Bill Gates really is the Anti-Christ ....
The installation was also quite an ordeal for me. My PC system is not the very top of the line, but it is a smoker. After 45 minutes of waiting for the program to install, I saw the little MS shield saying I had a few upgrades to make ... thinking it was some update to the game (silly me) I said OK. Well, after the system rebooted ... time to play ... NOT! The updates (which had nothing to do with the game) glitched the install. At that point, the only way to recover was to uninstall and reinstall the game. Just about 2 hours after the disk went into the machine for the first time, the game was up and running ... well not quite yet ... Next I had to upgrade my NVidia drivers and another reboot.
The game is a kick to play and the graphics are great, but if this is the future of gaming from Microsoft (or any other game producer)re: install problems, having to go online no mater what ... I think I will stick with finding more productive things to do with my time ... like self surgury.
It is a fun game, however keep in mind you might have problems along the way with the PC installation.

There's my 2 cents ... and you get what you pay for ...

Classic!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great game, love it! It runs pretty smooth on my PC, I have a AMD Sempron 3.4+, 2GB Memory, NVIDIA GeForce 7300GT 256MB, Win XP (Screw Vista) and runs amazing with all the settings on the highest without no problems, I dont know why some people says that the loading time takes forever, i dont have that problem, the game never crashed or freez at all. If you got the system to running : go for it!, great game play, a lot fun, specially on co-op I decided to get this insted of COD4 mostly because it was $10.00 less and boy I hit the jackpot. All those that say that the game have issues, my guess its because they're running it on a system with less than 1GB of memory or some. Its a most!

Fun game but WAY too many bugs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: November 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Gears of War is a very fun game, but for the PC it has way too many bugs. The most annoying is an unexplained deletion of your save games. This happened to me twice both at random times and is fairly widespread, according to the forums which have hundred upon hundreds of post on this. The PC community has attributed this to problems with the Windows Live system, which is horribly conceived. There is some random stuttering in framerates even on a fairly high end rig (I have an AMD X2 6000+ with a Radeon 2900XT and 4 gigs of ram) that is due to poor optimization, since it IS a port after all. Before buying this game, I suggest you check the Epic forums if they've release some patches. At the current time they have not even addressed the save game problem (which is one of the worst errors that can possibly happen) much less offered a fix. This lack of service has caused me to return this game. I will be VERY wary about buying a Windows LIVE game from now on

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