GEARS of WAR

[Cowdisease]

I started on Casual so that I could get a feel for it single-player and unlock those achievements (I'm not going to want to go back to easier stuff later on). Figured I'll get to Hardcore and Insane with co-op.

If you beat an Act on a harder difficulty, it will unlock the same achievement for an easier difficulty if you haven't done it yet.

[MechDeus]

If you beat an Act on a harder difficulty, it will unlock the same achievement for an easier difficulty if you haven't done it yet.

News to me. Time to start over on co-op, apparently.

[BioMechanic]

I honestly don't understand how anyone can come in here and praise FEAR over GoW. I mean, if we're going to talk about same-y level design and combat, FEAR is 91783679263 times worse in that regard.

I'm not necessarily praising FEAR over Gears. Building on bloodyarts' comment, I'm saying that the atmosphere of FEAR is more powerful than the atmosphere of Gears, which makes FEAR a more emotional experience for me....which in turn makes its atmosphere and immersion much more effective.

Putting it another way, I never got scared once in Gears, whereas I am in constant dread while playing FEAR.

They're both great games, but deliver very different experiences. I think they're equally excellent in what they're trying to do, and personally, I think FEAR delivers its experience better.

[dave is ok]

Gears isnt trying to scare you, FEAR is.

It's an action game. Not an action/horror hybrid. I think the fact that GoW is using RE4's camera is messing with all of your heads.

[Nash]

They're both great games, but deliver very different experiences. I think they're equally excellent in what they're trying to do, and personally, I think FEAR delivers its experience better.

I can understand if the two games delivered the same experience and you conclude that one is better than the other. However, if they deliver different experiences, why even compare them?

[J2d]

I never got scared once in Gears, whereas I am in constant dread while playing FEAR.

You have some weak nerves if boxes flying of a shelf scares you =P

[Joust Williams]

<3 FEAR

<3 <3 <3 GoW

[Yoshi]

I can understand if the two games delivered the same experience and you conclude that one is better than the other. However, if they deliver different experiences, why even compare them?

Because there can be only one Highlander.

[Advocate]

Because there can be only one Highlander.

I fucking LOL'd. That was funny shit.

[ElCapichan]

What we got is fantastic and mesmerizing, and is up there with Halo as the best cooperative experiences I've had to date, but now that it's done I can think of many ways that the combat itself could have been easily built upon, making Gears a next-generation gameplay experience as well as a next-generation technological experience.

I'm sorry, but are you on fucking crack? Up there with Halo? This game shits all over Halo's co-op, and I loved the co-op in Halo 2. And stop comparing this game to FEAR, they have nothing in common except you shoot and kill people. And FEAR's level design was ass. I got so freaking bored going from office floor to office floor and shooting the same damn group of enemies by going into slo mo every single time that it offered almost no strategy or difficulty.