Having finally gotten my hands on the fabled Gears of War. I installed it expecting much from this game! For starters it took about 30 minutes of Installation time! Having after waited that long and loosing a few hairs from my head, I finally went up and about only having to realize that the game constantly crashes on windows! Apparently microsoft's so called 'live' service running in the background with the game tended to crash pretty much after 2 minutes of game runtime. At times it would just crash while you went through the game menu!. Going through countless forums, the first suggestion I got to fix the live service crash was to install the latest patch! Having done that, microsoft's true color became apparent! They make stubborn programs! Windows Crashes, their other software isn't much helpful! 'Live' didn't feel like being left out! Infact it tried to take the lead and it probably would have but it failed due to some reasons I'll explore soon!.
Second suggestion that I got to fix the crash problem from a forum was to edit my registry and change some specific settings. Having that failed on me as well, I went whole heartedly to the next suggestion! Which was to replace some files in the GoW folder with some files on the Disc! 'Live' being as stubborn as it is came on top! I was beated, like a drunk old fool lying in an alleyway. My soul within me started to fade, as if the devil himself owned Microsoft who first brings down his opponent and then gnaw's away at their soul!
I simply could not stop there! There has to be a way! I kept telling myself and then through another hour of going through forums, I ran into a suggestion which changed my life. It basically stated, "When the live service crashes, don't click the close button. Instead switch to the game and keep playing!" and YURIKA! That is where 'live' failed to be the worst thing ever made by Microsoft!
Finally in the game! I started out, the controls were easy enough to adapt. Learning curve is about half an hour give or take! Starting out in the prison blocks, an old comrade comes to help you get out! The action in the game never tends to get old! The AI is smart! I kept wasting my grenades! Everytime I threw em, everyone just scattered! The PC version of the game has way too many AI bugs especially with your own comrades who follow you! They tend to get stuck in places or just go back and forth on a same spot! So your left to fight most of the fights yourself!
This game is just another one of the great shooter games that I have played. I believe it has been extremely overhyped by the media and the people! I give the game a solid 8/10. For starters it lacked weapons. There were only 5-6 Guns in the whole game! And your pretty much stuck with your first gun if you love the chainsaw that comes along with it! There only exist one type of grenade! The AI failures at time were also ridiculous on the PC version. Enemies stuck at places and just won't move or attack or make noises! Without killing those the mission would not proceed and you had to find angles and openings to get shots at it just to kill it so we could get on with the game!
Having played the game both the 360 version and the PC version, the PC version was more polished, adding much more luster to the enviornment. The great part about this game was that it used the Unreal engine! Having played Rainbow Six, this game did not seem much different from it besides that this was more grusome, there was so much more gore and yeah! there were aliens! why can't there be extra dimensional beings ever?!?! FFS get something new!
I bet the aliens in GOW are just humans who mutated. They pretty much looked like human and they were pissed off at the humans for dumping all their radioactive shit in the seas, rivers, sewage, dumping it underground.
P.S. For all the GOW Fanboys: GO GET LAID!
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