Thank you, Jeff. After watching the "Ask Me Anything" and hearing you talk about the dire straits that humanity is in at the beginning of Gears of War 3 I was sold.

P.S. I already have this quest.

yay

edit: LOL Dammit. THIS IS THE SECOND TIME THAT THIS HAS HAPPEN TO ME. Being second twice should be a quest dammit!

Haha. Anyway, I already have this quest.

Hell yeah 5 stars!

Partay all night

Definitely playing this. Thanks Jeff! (Time to read >_>)

Dammit

@Nicholas said:

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@thatguy said:

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Pathetic.

Hot damn I'm excited for this game!

as Marcus would say...  "NIIIIIICE!"
  

Damn. Well, no way of holding out on my friends now... College life has made me so damn broke.

I'm glad that we got a pretty nice assessment of Ice-T's performance in this review as well.

There's no way in hell gears 3 could get 5 stars. Did it? It did. Holy crap. Video review coming soon?

Yea mang

Just confirming what I already figured. Can't wait for Tuesday!

@EuanDewar said:

Going to read this review anyway because it's staff content and it would be a shame not to but I am getting this game irrespective of anything in this review.

are you dissappointed it only got 5 stars? :P

this is totally not my kind of game at all, and I really don't get how people find it fun, but it's probably a good version of said game type? I got nothin.

So.. Gameplay still just holding the trigger down and then timing the reload, then?

@cassus: But now you can cry occasionally, if you want.

Just read it.

This sounds literally perfect for my needs.

"Oh, and Ice-T's pretty great in it, too."

YES. As expected Gears3, I am so excited!

LET THE HATE BEGIN!!!!!

Ugh! It's midnight and have work tomorrow. Of course I'm going to watch this right now!

i am now saddened that my epic edition won't arrive till NEXT saturday

I'm sold on this now, can't wait to get back into Gears again.

Meh. I've never liked the Gears of War franchise. Too gray, enemies soak up too many bullets, too macho, and characters control poorly. I'll take Uncharted's cover-based shooting over GeoW any day.

Still, good review, and considering it's the biggest game dropping for another month, I may rent it and give the series another try.

Whoa, whoa there, Marcus! There's a fucking chainsaw on your fucking gun, watch where you put your hands, man.

I think that Gears of War was a pinnacle of the 360. It was a seminal game.

5 stars! I'm shocked. ;D

Can't wait for this to come in the mail

Five stars? Why so low Jeff? Why so low?!?

@Red: Totally agree, but I'm obligated to play this because of Ice-T.

It's good to hear the series is still going strong. I don't own a 360 but I thought the PC port of GoW was a job well done. Too bad there won't be any more since it's pretty clear by now that Games For Windows (for which GoW PC was a flagship title) was a failed initiative.

Glad to hear it came out well. All that time to polish, it would be a shame if it didn't.

I guess I should pre-order? I normally wouldn't, but when I went to get Dead Island a week after release I found it completely sold out... Which is a personal first for a non-instrument based game.

@Red said:

Meh. I've never liked the Gears of War franchise. Too gray, enemies soak up too many bullets, too macho, and characters control poorly. I'll take Uncharted's cover-based shooting over GeoW any day.

Still, good review, and considering it's the biggest game dropping for another month, I may rent it and give the series another try.

I rented the first and second and they were a fine diversion, but I don't see why the series receives so much attention. My Xbox is now busted so I won't be playing this one, but I kind of don't feel like I'll be missing much. I'd take an Uncharted any day as well (if only for the less drab scenery).

Yeah, woo! Bring it on sucker - this' my kind of shit.

Of all the games I can't play due to my visual limitations, the Gears series is the most lamentable as it looks spectacular and fun. I'm hoping to see this one in action, but I doubt I'll ever be picking it up myself.

Welp, time to place that order at Amazon.

I agree about the multiplayer - it's very competitive. In every other FPS scene I've entered, I have initially sucked but have then got a lot better to perhaps even good. Gears 3 was the first time this did not happen. I continued to suck despite practice and this puts me off, because I will only be playing the campaign as well as Horde and Beast mode. Therefore I have to ask myself whether this is worth a purchase at the moment, especially with Battlefield 3 and the Halo: Reach Title Update around the corner.

Great read. Thanks for the review.

Neat!

Oh no. You broke the streak of never ending 4* reviews!

Awesome, I've heard nothing but good things so far.
This will last me long hopefully!

I've never been a huge Gears fan, mostly because I don't like the multiplayer, but if this has a better single player campaign than Gears 2 (which was fucking terrible IMHO) it'll be at least a rent for me.

Seem like such a feature rich game, amazing value compared to many games

Good review Jeff.

I've loved all the gears games, already had this pre-ordered but good too see it got a great review. Can't wait for Tuesday, this is such a great franchise.

damn one of few things leaving me wanting 360...

Awww yeaaah, let's wrap this bitch up

I'll probably play this mostly on normal, I've always felt that the enemies take way too many bullets to make playing the game 'tactically' feel right.

"Scramble 'em 'till they're dry!!!"

\m/ >_< \m/

Sounds neat. All these early reviews have got me excited for a game I was other wise ignoring. My girlfriend and I beat GoW2's campaign in splitscreen (using different difficulties was very nice) and I played horde for a while but that game has been shelved for a long time.

Unfortunately, Jeff's review is a little bit by the numbers without much of his personality showing through. Having a comment about Ice-T at the end is about it. Hopefully if we see a video review we'll see "Jeff's side" but if you read snippets of this review alongside a video it would sound like one of his old Gamespot write-ups. Oh, well. He's probably exhausted from slugging through this game so fast.

Looking forward to this greatly. As a "top" gears 2 player (Was ranked top 250 when I stopped playing) am definitely going to be putting in a lot of time into this. On top of that I've loved the story thus far and can't wait to see how it ends so will be playing through that at least twice (I do my first run on Hardcore then the second on Insane, maybe co-op) like I have done the previous too games.

Jeff just made my day!