Gears of War 3
2011
Audio: Spanish, Japanese
- shooter
- action
- science fiction
- horror
- single player
- multiplayer
- co-operative
- split screen
The story
Gears of War 3 is the spectacular conclusion to one of the most memorable and celebrated sagas in videogames. Gears of War 3 plunges players into a harrowing tale of hope, survival and brotherhood. In Gears of War 3, players fight on as Marcus Fenix, the grizzled war hero and leader of Delta Squad. Eighteen months after the fall of the last human city, the war against the Locust rages on. Meanwhile, deep beneath the surface, a fearsome new threat is infecting the planet from within. With survivors scattered and civilization in ruins, time is running out for Marcus and his comrades as they fight to save the human race.
What it’s like
Grimy, saturated war-zone palette: sickly olive and rust, ash-grey skies, and the orange bloom of muzzle flashes and burning cities lighting up dank tunnels and ruined boulevards. The camera lives over the shoulder, close and heavy, with chunky cover-to-cover movement and wide sweeping vistas of devastated landscapes that feel scale-heavy rather than empty. The score swells with brass and pounding percussion during firefights and drops into eerie, sparse tension in the echo-lit underground passages, where a sonar-like ping replaces sight. Gunfire is loud, meaty, and mechanical, and the chainsaw-bayonet kills are gruesome, with blood spraying across the screen. Its vibe is gritty, bombastic camaraderie in a ruined world, suited to a weekend session with friends, a late-night co-op push, or a split-screen evening. The pace is relentless, with long set-piece battles punctuated by quieter banter between soldiers. Violence is constant, graphic, and gory, with aliens and war horror throughout, but the emotional core is loyalty and found family. It is for players who want big, cathartic shooting, bromance-tinged teamwork, and a finale that earns its noise.
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