Good game with a few annoying bits missed by hype.

User Rating: 7.5 | Gears of War X360
I'm a fan of "First Person View" shooters not this "Gears of Wars third person over-the-shoulder crap view", because when you play a video game with a 3rd person view the parts of the player that are NOT covered by clothes or gear doesn't look very realistic at all, (I don't understand why boxing games recreate body parts and faces so well but when it comes to other video games, characters look like dead mummies). I mean, everything looks perfect, the body movements and everything but when you look at the face of the players they look like zombies; also in 1st person view the experience is more immersive or whatever and it makes you think that you are really there, when its third person is not that… well that immersive, also I don't like aliens or monsters or any of this unrealistic crap from outer space, I prefer recreations of real war scenarios (COD MOH BBC etc. etc.). Anyways, I knew the game was in 3rd person view and that it was full of fake aliens and monsters and all that crap but I bought it anyways cause I'm running low on cash and at 9.99 it was a good deal until I get the cash flowing.

So with all that off my chest, here's my review. This game sucks, nah I'm kidding; this game is pretty good, here I go.

The "right on the money" camera view:
The thing I like the most of this game is the way the camera moves as you walk or run, when you walk instead of the camera moving in a straight line like in most games, it shakes a little bit and when you run it looks even better like if there was a real camera following the main character giving the game a sense of action and realism like no other game.

The "Is that water?" graphics:
The graphics are really good but some things are not well done like the water that looked more like a beam of light than anything else or some kind of glowing thing on the ground. I like that they didn't use vivid colors for the environment like in other games where you find an almost "fluorescent green tree" on a graveyard, I don't like the way the main characters look, like I said before, they look more like zombies on steroids with tiny feet and extra long fingers. The splashes of blood for me it's unnecessary, exaggerated and unrealistic, like if it was drawn with a cartoon effect.

The clipper sound of the guns:
The sound is ok but the sound of the main gun feels like if you were shooting clips and I hate that.

The useless selection of weapons:
The selection of weapons are useless cause you find yourself using the same weapon over and over, either the one with the chainsaw (the chainsaw being useless cause you have to get face to face to the enemy and you died before getting there or as soon as you get there) or the other one. The pistol or the shotgun or any other weapon only shoots 1 shot at a time and it takes forever to re-load and it does nothing to the enemy unless you're really close to them, which could get you killed. The grenades are also useless and you have to expose yourself to be able to throw a grenade which does very little harm to your enemies.

The "you HAVE to duck before jumping" Gameplay and controls:
Controls are easy and well done but the fact that you HAVE to duck behind an object to be able to jump over it kills the action and it's stupid. Also the command controls are completely useless because your teammates don't wait for you to get into action they are always doing something or shooting so it's unnecessary and you don't have to use it at all. Also they keep getting killed over and over and you find yourself fighting almost every single battle by yourself cause your teammates are always dying (you can proof this by watching some youtube videos, there's this big red circle on the side of the screen telling you that one or more of your teammates are down), you can revive your teammates by getting close to them and press the x button but this means that you will have to get close to where the action is and you either get hit or get killed attempting to revive one of your dumbass teammates.

The "annoying checkpoints" and difficulty of the game:
There's CASUAL (easy), HARDCORE (normal) and INSANE (hard); I've being playing the game in HARDCORE thinking is more like NORMAL and I think it is but the checkpoints is what makes the game a little annoying, you could spent 10-12 minutes on a battle, kill everyone, walk a little bit, open a couple of doors here and there, advance a little more and BAM you get killed by some wretches and there you go right back to the beginning of the battle that you just won… all… over… again, and this happens too many times throughout the game, it sucks.

Well, that's it, the game is really good, I've enjoyed it, little bit annoying, but is good is good, oh and the characters looks ridiculous, I don't like that.