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| Gears of War | 
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| From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $21.95
You Save: $8.04 (27%)
New (34) Used (10) from $12.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 428
Platform: Windows Xp
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1.2
nv:Software Type: Games
MPN: U3100015
UPC: 882224531900
EAN: 0882224531900
ASIN: B000VBFW7E
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Opened by browsing store customer. Verified all contents, resealed and selling at lowest new price. Contains game booklet and 1 disc. Keycode on yellow label inside case. Ships same day in most cases.
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| Customer Reviews:
Underwhelmed November 16, 2007
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
Console game, console problems. November 15, 2007
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
 Great Game! Recommend 2 G's Minimum Memory !!! November 14, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
Beautiful to look at, but a console port to the PC, and all that implies November 11, 2007
54 out of 108 found this review helpful
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 and Fun to Play November 10, 2007
24 out of 33 found this review helpful
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.
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