"Gears Of War: Judgement" Game review by Ben Treloar.

 "Gears Of War: Judgement" (18)

Director: Chris Borders.

Starring (voices only):Brian Bloom, Ali Hillis and Brian Kimmet.

Out now for XBOX-360.

Blood, Guts and Gore. If you don’t like these words, you won`t like "Gears Of War".I have been a massive fan of the "Gears Of War" franchise, every since the first one came out in 2006. The company behind the game (Epic Games) has made three sequels and one prequel. I have now played all of them.

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When  "Gears Of War: Judgement" was announced, I wasn't very excited for it, this was mainly because of the newly released "Bioshock Infinite" and the latest "Call of Duty". However, a couple of months after its release, I decided to finally buy it. 

My first impressions of the game were pretty good, I thought that the game was amazing, this was purely because of how good the graphics and the game play was. 

Epic games have always made a game with amazing graphics, this is important in the "Gears Of War" franchise  because of the way it is played in 3rd person.

 Another aspect which makes the game enjoyable is the new game modes, such as `overrun` which is a survival  based game mode, but you can fight against your friends as either the locusts or the cogs.

 The only down side of this mode, is that you only have custom classes to use. With the previous "Gears Of Wars", you could create a class. Another downside is that you need to protect an e-hole cover, from the locust horde, this means that you can’t just fight your way through wave after wave of locusts because you need to protect the e-hole. 

They have also added in  the new `Free For All` mode. In other games this is when you play aainst other opponents who are trying to kill each other. In  "Gears Of War" there isn't much difference. This means that when you see something move, KILL IT.  

​The campaign isn't your average killing routine, but you play as four different characters who are Braid, Cole, Sofia and Paduk. The idea of this campaign, is that they have been arrested by a man called Loomis and put into court, this is because they fired a weapon without permission. Each character has an interesting story to tell. With all the  "Gears Of War" campaign’s it has the same sort of story line. 

​The new leveling up system is much better than  "Gears Of War 3" because in the last game, it took forever to get through the levels, but now everything is shortened so you can reach the top level very easily.  

​The overall look of the whole game isn't for the faint hearted,but for people who want to enjoy them self whilst playing a game. All "Gears Of War" games are full of blood, guts and gore, therefore deserving of its 18 age rating.

4 STARS


Written by Ben Treloar.