Pure action from the beggining to the end.
Many were afraid of another bad conversion, was microsoft capable of doing a good conversion?
Graphics:
The game already proved on the Xbox 360 that the graphics are great and in the PC they continue great, the unreal 3 graphics engine its trully impressive and has a great relation graphics - performance. The graphics are slight better on the PC with some Direct X10 effects and higher resolutions, so if they were great on the Xbox 360 they are even better on the PC.
10.
Sound:
Gears of war its pure action and nothing more, many explosions and shots will be heard and all sounds good, the chainsaw sound its pretty cool and cutting down enemies with it listening them suffering its outstanding.
9.
Gameplay:
The gameplay centers in the cover, you just move around from cover to cover and sneaking to shoot at the enemies, you can also shoot without looking, of course you'll fail most of the shots if not everyshot. This cover to cover gameplay system works pretty well and its a lot fun but doing this the whole game can get very repetitive. You can also instruct your team to regroup and other few options, but you won't use this to much since its not really necessary, more work on the tactical aspects of the game would help a lot in the gameplay.
8.
Value:
The game its pretty short, you take the whole game shooting locust and in no time the game its finished. If you are an hardcore player maybe you would like to play the game in the Insane dificulty, its a really hard mode that offers you quite a challenge and its only unlocked when you finish the game.
Gears of war doesn't have many replay value but its great while it lasts.
7.
Overall:
Gears of war its a great great shooter and will appeal to the most of the players, casual or hardcore you should definetly own this, unlike other console convertions to the PC gears of war its pretty well optimized and will run great and look great on mid range computers, it was really worth the wait to play such a good game, lets just hope that gears of war 2 will have a bigger campaign and will have a not so repetitive gameplay.
8.5.