Gears of War: Judgment review-in-progress update

Is this game still being reviewed! craziness this is now becoming a good joke.

Worst GOW ever, people can screw did a terrible job ruining this franchise. Loved the previous ones especially Gow3, still playing now.

Let me finish the review for this guy. I bought the game at launch. I'm a diehard Gears fan, Here is a little background, I hated Gears 1, Liked Gears 2, Loved Gears 3. Gears three has been out for what 3 years and I still play it almost every weekend. So based on all of that I think I have a good basis for an opinion. First , I n some ways its very different to the previous games. The controls changed some, There is only Executions in some game modes and in multiplayer the only time you can fight the locusts is in Overrun mode. Overrun mode is a new mode that lets teams battle over E-holes. This is definitely worth playing. Other new game types are Free for all(everybody against everybody). I like this mode a lot more than what I thought I would. And Domination has replaced King of the Hill Having 3 locations to take and defend vs one that relocates. I personally like this better than KOTH because it makes it harder for a team to dominate. They can and still do, but it makes them move around giving opportunities for kills. Campaign was ok. With Gears games I always prefer the multiplayer stuff over the story stuff. Over all after playing it since release I would give it a 7.9. Its not Gears 3 , but its worth buying and worth playing and an excellent game if you want to experience Gears for the first time.

I think it's time to pull the plug on this blog, Chris.

Couldn't care less about the game, just had to click on the article since it was still under review. I could have sworn that Epic pumped out a few Gears of War this year already so I had to see what's up.

I guess that J_Dangerously got it right - this must be one hell of a boring game to not have finished it yet. Still though it was a Gears of War game, what was there that was so daunting in the challenge of reviewing it? Learning some new names? It certainly couldn't have been the gameplay, since that hasn't changed since the first damn game.

It's clear the reviewer came to the same conclusion I did.... the game is just too boring to care about finishing.

Why the **** is this STILL in the "under review" section on the reviews page? Get your shit together Gamespot!

Seriously, just slap a score on it and be done. This "review in progress" has been going since the 17th. Pathetic...

my bets on a 85 score review..
..been playing it, its good but i miss the original controls with the extra hand gun weapon, weapon swapping and i really miss horde mode sad face :(

It is a concern for me that Gamespot is still silent on the review. I guess the money spent on advertising (on Gamespot) also buys your silence. IGN and the other guys hesitated not, making Gamespot look like a paid critic. Just Sayin.

Played first few levels and think they have done a great job at making the game feel fresh. You can tell people can fly had a lot to do with the scoring system (think bullet storm). Where I think the bread and butter is tho is in the multiplayer, the new overrun mode is awesome to play (think beast mode vs horde mode) and with the new addition of classes I reckon this game is well worth the price. Only thing I'm disappointed with is the microtransactions. I really hope the devs stop doing this or make the game a budget title and let the consumers choose what they buy afterward instead of bleeding people for money. Don't let that put you off buying tho as you can still unlock some seriously cool looking skins for both guns and characters. 9/10

sounds good to me so far. Always loved gears, like the sound of the mp and classified missions. Just got it on dinner break but got 24 hour guard duty so gotta wait til tomorrow after relief takes over.

Is Sophia a playable character in this game? I'm a lil confused because I thought EPIC just railed against female characters in this brofranchise.

Brilliant games.

@queuing_for_PS4 Hey! I've never given a 10! But yeah, I did really love Gears of War 3. Judgment though, well, tune in tomorrow to find out.

This isn't Gears of War. It's watered down garbage. Throwing sticky grenades, falling off ledges, always on reticule, no execution mode out of the gate (rumor has it it came back due to popular demand), and no DBNO feature, which is iconic to the game series. Sorry this isn't GoW. They pussified the hell out of this. Oh, and welcome to micro transaction city too. Funny how they neglected that fact as well, huh?

This series has been on the decline since the release of the first one.

Gears of Yawn

According to metacritics, the scores are widespread and really mixed. Most are positive but they range currently from 60 - 96. Very interesting. User score on here is a bit lower than expected so far but its obviously too early to say.

Big fan of the others however I'm just not too sure what to think based on what I have seen so far and what others have said. Probably would be something fun to pick up when it gets near half price, but definitely not full price.

I don't know about it's online mode, but the campaign is little dull with nothing new to show

Already played a few hours of campaign.

- It has some strategy missions (Like "Orcs Must Die!" if you have seen that!)

- Also it gives the player some stars at the end of every objective.

These two new mechanics are really annyoing and prevent us from enjoying the pure intense action of GeoW we've had before.

additionally story is not as good as GeoW 3 and characters are not so interesting.

It's hard to predict Gamespot's ratings (with MGR: 8.5 , Crysis 3: 7.5 !!!) but It would be an 8 or optimistically an 8.5.

getting it. I'm a gears head from day 1.

@queuing_for_PS4 1% woopdy doooooooo.

Enjoy the gears game but not a fan of Baird at all so can't imagine the campaign having the same feel as the previous one's but deffinitely going to rent.

@queuing_for_PS4 Oh stop it. You are a Sony fanboy, go to a Sony circle jerk if you want to be loved.

I think the film and television franchise The Highlander is to blame.

This looks better than the last GOW game

I wonder if it will be an 8 or an 8.5.

My console is better than your console! If you own the one i don't then you;re just a stupid fanboy. I have a completely rational and justified hard-on for my company of choice and they provide way better services than yours.

Going to get it today after I read the reviews...