Rage: 4.0
Slightly below the average. It amazes me how much bad decisions were made on this game.
This whole diversion and "game inside the game" trend has to stop. Who wants to play a dull card game on a gore shooter?
It makes no sense the ammount of work that they´ve put on the car part of this game (customizing and tuning, races, weapons, items, etc) when there´s nothing to explore, all the missions are 30 seconds away and you can boost your way out of any road combat. Who wants to play a racing game on a gore shooter?
Looting is so fucking boring. Why not make like on Mass Effect, where after each battle the goods automatically goes to your stash?
The graphics are bad. Sometimes they´re great, like when you stop on a wide area, but most of the time you´re seeing terrible low definition textures and pop-ins. It doesn´t matter if it is a engine bug, the game was shipped this way.
The story concept is good but the way that it is developed on the missions is pathetic. You basically play only side-quests without ever advance the main story until the very end. I could honestly say that the story development is even worse than the text screens from Doom and Quake, and that last mission is the lamest I´ve seen on this generation.
On the bright side it has a fun gameplay, solid 60 frames per second, nice weapons (sweet mind control crossbow), cool gadgets (wingstick, RC car and sentry bot), great animations and gore (loved how the enemies react when shot). The engine is good, I wonder how good this game could be if they ditched all the stupid stuff and focused on making great levels. This game lacks John Romero.
Gears Of War 3: 7.0
It´s good like the rest of the series: Loads of co-op fun, great graphics, gore and inventive gameplay.
I expected a lot more storytelling during the game as it is the last one of the series - and that Evil Queen might be the worst character decision ever - but I´m ok with how it ended.
What I hated was the tone. On other Gears Of Wars you have this feeling that the entire human race is at the edge, while on this one the team is always cracking wanna-be smartass jokes that pisses me off. Cole Train is a comic relief on a game that should not have a comic relief.
