If you’re taking a nostalgic trek down the history of shooters, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is an excellent place to stop for a while and mow down some gun-toting, subterranean monsters. The ally AI is poor and it’s infuriating fighting with a squad that can’t be controlled or commanded, and the dearth of objectives beyond killing everything the area threatens to make things repetitive long before the game’s end. It’s perhaps less impressive now, but Gears of War’s cover system and co-op campaign add this hint of tactical combat that remains a surprise in a game filled with burly armour-clad men wielding chainsaw guns. More importantly, it boasts solid level design.
The shiny skin and radioactive murk from the original game have been replaced by skin that looks like it maybe belongs on a person and an overall sharper image quality that makes the grimy battlefields pop more than they did in 2006. It’s a world of grey and granite ruins that, even in their dilapidated state, remain imposing, and it’s saturated in an atmosphere of dread and hopelessness.
Everything from the cutscenes to the faces of the shouty, shooty macho men has been updated, but nothing has been fundamentally changed.Īnd it looks good! After three Gears of Wars and a general over-saturation of brown-grey battlefields, the series became synonymous with gloomy, boring warzones, but – despite the dearth of colour and glut of waist-high concrete slabs – Gears actually has some decent art. The Ultimate Edtion looks a lot like I remember Gears of War, but that’s because my memories have upscaled it after almost ten years. Indeed, upon returning to my early days of my battle with the Locust, I almost didn’t notice any differences at all. If you don't think any of the above situations apply, you can use this feedback form to request a review of this block.Gears of War: Ultimate Edition’s improvements are sprawling but often subtle. Contact your IT department and let them know that they've gotten banned, and to have them let us know when they've addressed the issue.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from an area that filters all traffic through a single proxy server (like Singapore or Malaysia), or are you on a mobile connection that seems to be randomly blocked every few pages? Then we'll definitely want to look into it - please let us know about it here. You'll need to disable that add-on in order to use GameFAQs.Īre you browsing GameFAQs from work, school, a library, or another shared IP? Unfortunately, if this school or place of business doesn't stop people from abusing our resources, we don't have any other way to put an end to it. When we get more abuse from a single IP address than we do legitimate traffic, we really have no choice but to block it.
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