Gears of War: Judgment Reviews

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I've been a GoW fan since the first game was released back in 2006. When I look at the previous Gears games and then play Judgment, I feel as if they changed too much too fast. They took a lot, now I mean A LOT of things out from the previous games and mixed it up with a ton of different ideas. Only one primary gun, Cog v Cog multi-player, Frag/Ink grenades as starting grenades, no active reload, and so on and so forth. Judgment is a GOOD game just not a great one. I would recommend this to any Gears of War fan, but wait until the price drops. For anyone who has never played a Gears game before, I recommend playing any of the previous games to understand why this game doesn't live up to it's predecessors.

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This is the NTSCJ (Japanese) version of the game. The product I received had been opened, did not contain an instruction manual, and had printed material from within the box insterted into the shipping material. Since the product had been opened I put the game in and it seemed to work just like the normal version, but beware that the cover has japanese writing all over the cover and other related materials and there is no instruction manual. In my opinion this is false advertising since there is no mention of this currently in the ad or in the picture of the game (US version pictured). I have put in a complaint, but figured I would let everyone know before they order the game like I did.

Note: The rating is not related to the game and is only related to this seller. I haven't even played the game other than to see if it worked.

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-Campaign review-

The rest of the review is for the multiplayer but I gave the campaign a try and here's my review.

So far iv really been enjoying the campaign. I hated gears 3 story, didn't find it interesting at all but something is different in this one.

For some reason almost everything missing from multiplayer is in the single player.

You can tag walls with grenades, execute locust, damage boost from drive reload which is all great and I hope they add this stuff back online.

So far iv played a few missions and for the most part iv liked them, but they are very very repedative. It seems they have added a horde type segment to each mission where you have to hold off the locust for a few waves which brings back good memories.

I also very much like these declassified missions which are a extra challenge to each extra xp, for example can only use pistoles, or the map is filled with smoke and you can't see well.

Another thing I like is the voice acting. It reminds me of max Payne 3 for some reason. How your playing and you character is taking in the background. The whole story is kind of weird and cool. Your playing memories and telling the leader of the cog what you did during your mission Ina court since your team disobeyed orders or something. It's new, and and I like how different missions you play as different characters which give a cool insight to your squad.

Overall it's really good and I like it a lot. Took me 6-8 hours to beat(can't really remember exact time)

-Aftermath review-

Anyone who doesn't know aftermath is an additional mission that takes place during gears of war 3. Sounds great, but it doesn't feel like gears 3. New weapons and enemies that are in judgment campaign are in aftermath which is really stupid. But you will see some old locust though. Well after math isn't long, took me about an hour to beat,

-Multiplayer review-

I have been really excited for this game for a while. I loved gears 2 and 3 but this game isn't the same at all.

I guess epic thought since it was a prequel you can take out basically everything that gears is and restart. Well that doesn't work

First I will list what they took out or changed from gears 3.

-active reloads no longer give your bullets more damage if you hit it at the right time-

this was a great thing in the gears franchise. I loved active reload. It was unlike anything in any other games so why take it out?

-no more rifle-shotgun duo-

maybe this is for the better but I don't know. I did like having a shotgun and a rifle in the same set up. When your far away use a rifle, when your up close whip out the shotty but it was overpowered. I won't ever use a shotty anymore

-limited character selection-

You start off with 4 characters to use online, and can only unlock 5 others! So only 9 fricken characters to choose from?

-spawn with frag grenades-

This isn't call of duty! You shouldn't spawn with frags!

-maps are so congested and small now-

I loved the style of gears 3 maps but these maps are not good. Way too many narrow hallways and alleys.

Also there's a map where you fly around the map in a fricken helicopter shooting a mini gun. Who thought this was a good idea?

-no more reviving team mates-

Yup, you no longer fall to the ground and bleed out or get revived. You die automatically.

-only three fricken game modes and four maps!

Team deathmatch, domination and deathmatch and 4 multiplayer maps! That's it! What the heck!

-no more sticking grenades to walls-

Why take this out? I used to get tons of kills with doing this.

-Environment weapons are overpowered-

Can use rifles and shotguns while hiding behind boom shields? Please tell me how that's fair?

-no more locust vs humans-

Why? Just why? I don't want to kill humans. The whole gears of war franchise is based on gears vs locust!!

-it's nothing new-

Besides a few new guns, there's really nothing new at all. Heck even the fricken menu layout is exactly the same, the awards and ribbon system is exactly the same as well.

To me it feels like epic doesn't care what gears fans like or wanted. It really feels like they wanted to please call of duty fans, and make it more like cod. It's sad to say but it's true.

Graphics-8/10

Some people say it looks a ton better than gears3 but it really doesn't.

Gameplay-7.5

They changed gears so much that it doesn't play like gears any more,

Sound-7.5/10

Everything sounds exactly the same as gears 3.

Multiplayer-6/19

Limited modes and reduced functions make online a lot less fun and competitive like older gears were.

Campaign-8/10

Maybe the saving grace of the game. I really loved it and thought it was special.

Overall-6

Its just not true to its roots. It's just plain boring and it already feels old since there's only 4 maps online, and all the features we have come to love are all missing

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I love all gears of war games and this one is a good one, it also ranks with the cods and the other shooter games.

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