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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.

Lost saved games ruin an otherwise excellent port

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: January 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is an exceptionally good game. The cover mechanic is one of best implemented to date, the enemy AI is decent, it is beautiful, the weapons are interesting and feel solid, the boss battles are jaw-dropping, and most importantly it's a lot of fun. They even managed to make reloading your weapons compelling. The characters are a little over the top and the dialogue reflects that. But the storyline is suitably grand and it serves to move the campaign along well enough. This should have been a slam dunk must-have PC port of the XBox game.

But it's not. Saved games disappear. The save system is not only an offensively straight port of the console check-point system, but you have to create a Windows Live account to save your progress at all. What? Why? Don't answer that. I know why, and it has nothing to do with the gameplay experience.

I knew there was no quicksave feature when I bought the game, but I didn't know that the game would routinely lose all of my saved progress and achievements. There's a 40 page thread on Epic Games forums about this problem that's been around since the PC version's release in November. If there has been an official response from Epic or Microsoft I haven't been able to find it. That is too long for a massive problem like that to go unacknowledged and unresolved. Unless you have the time to finish the game in one sitting, don't buy this game until they fix the vanishing save games. Go play Half-Life 2, Bioshock, or some other game with a quicksave feature instead.

Blame Microsoft... Not Epic

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: November 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Every problem that is happening with this game is directly linked to Windows Live being part of the game. Once players get their game up and running they have ZERO problems. A few in game stuttering problems have already been addressed and solutions have been provided. Other than that, the crashing at boot, and crashing after a few minutes of game play is ALL MICROSOFT'S FAULT.

Do Not Purchase- Epic has not resolved Problems

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: December 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am an experienced and well known on line first person shooter gamer. I have just read over 30 forums and over 200 entries..about the complete incompetence of Epic and Microsoft to release this game without resolving the computer crash problems. I will ask for a complete refund. Clearly if you take the time to read about this situation, this game release may go down as one of the most embarrassing products upon which Microsoft placed its name. Microsoft reps in the forums admit the problem. For example, the computer freezes, including a complete closedown of video cards, after a "checkpoint" has been reached; in other words, when you complete a level. I have a powerful gaming computer, but i read gamers with high end (+$5,000) units freezing up. You have been warned, which these comments only vaguely did for me when I asked for this game as a gift from a good friend.

Average Gamer beware! Worthless game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: January 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Wow, if you are not a techo geek and are not comfortable diving into your config files and registry keys etc... This game is NOT for you. I am somewhat of a computer nerd but I had a very very rough time getting this game to run. I had all the system requirements and then some. 100% guarantee when you install this game out of the box you can NOT play it without going to the Internet to figure it out. Good luck. typical Microsoft.

I spent a lot of time adusting my display, downloading new drivers, reviewing other issue gamers discribed (and there are a lot) only to still having problems. Good luck.

If I had had a clue about the problems that come with this game...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: January 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Brand new PC built just for games, (new Quad processor, 2GB memory, 8800 GTS by Nvidia, 750 GB drive, etc.) Flawlessly loads and runs every game I have except for this dog. What a buggy piece of software.

Other issues:
Must create an online account.
Constant crashes, and freezes.
Save points require unnecessary replay of long segments of game whenever you get killed.
Control over the character is unintuitive, even keyboard play brings with it unnecessarily difficult movement I always associate with console hand controllers. Give me a keyboard and mouse that tap into modern character movement and control (like Far Cry or Crysis, or even Unreal Tournament) any day over this kind of game control approach.

I may pick this up again some day down the road, but this baby is being retired early because its difficulties in operation trump its benefits.

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

Painful because the game is actually cool.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I purposely got the pc version (windows vista) of this game instead of xbox 360 version just b/c I like playing FPS or any shooting games with mouse better than a controller. Also, windows version of GoW has better graphic than xbox version if you have a good graphic card and has more single campaigns.

Anyway, I've had so much expectation for this game. It took about 1 hour for me to install the game, but it wasn't a big problem for me. The problem started when I started playing it. The game crashed every 5 ~ 10 minutes and therefore impossible to progress. I searched for solution by googling and solved the problem by running the game "as administrater." But that wasn't all. I got to Act 3 of 5 after playing a few hours. The next day, I pressed "continue campaign" but it told me that there was no saved games. I was shocked and pissed. Indeed, it was painful to start all over again. I tried to find solutions online but still no luck.. This game could have been a great action-filled shooting game, but those critical flaws killed it. I recommend getting xbox version, or other better FPS games such as Call of Duty 4, etc.

Pure Consolitus

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: January 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I cannot believe Epic shovelled this game onto the PC without customising ANYTHING for the PC player. This is not a shooter, it's a third person action console game with a shaky, epilepsy inducing camera movement that makes you want to puke.

I felt like I was fighting a game controller when trying to play on the mouse/keyboard setup and instead of being in control of the main player, you get the impression you are inside a floating camera trying to keep up with the guy. The viewpoint is warped and stupid.

Sorry Epic, the term "FPS" goes hand in hand with "Shooter". And this game is a 3D overhyped, overrated console jumping game.

Save your money, don't reward console gaming companies for shovelling consolitus over to us.

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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