Campaign is so fucking good. I haven’t even touched Horde Siege or MP yet. The complaints about Mags were insanely exaggerated, she’s a minor side character. Twitter ragebait grifters successfully worked you guys into a shoot.
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Gears of War: E-Day | Review Thread
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It's a fantastic campaign.
A genuinely superb experience and even better in co-op on harder difficulties.
I'm surprised at how meaty the game is. 8 hours in and I am only half way through.
What’s fantastic about it? It’s the same three or four encounters over and over and over and three of those encounters 70% of them are the same enemies with the same brain dead ai. Unless you are popping brains with the sniper or carbine, which becomes 90% of what you are doing, you are left with bullet sponges. There are four mini bosses, the big fatsos that take two headshots and they pop, three when they wear a helmet, the flying squids that are clearly designed to killed quickly in co op because they turn and expose the weak point, again made easy with a sniper, the ones that let the spike things out and they have eyes that also just take three shots and they are dead, oh and the ass up mortar creatures which are just grind fest.
There’s barely any tension created, I just finished 4th act and aside from the airstrip it’s all been very one note. Story is go here go there, same encounters. Side missions are just copy paste free content if you want even more of the same.
If this were a brand new IP, and there was a shock of the new impact going on I would understand the word “fantastic” but since this doesnt even top the campaigns of first two maybe even three, I have to call bullshit on any notion that this is excelling at something. The gameplay changes simply make it more like other cover shooters, but even then it’s barely changing the formula. This isn’t a reinvention either, it’s very much the gears of war you know.
Maybe it’s the right game right time for you, and that’s fair enough.
What are you talking about? It was always a 9.
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Without all those biased Xbox fanboy outlets handing out charity review scores, the score would be even lower.
I dont think retards listening to their asmongolds faking woke crap about the game should affect the score
It's simply not possible that such a brainless cover shooter, which it absolutely is, with a style and fashion that screams lowest common denominator, can have such a difference in scores.
PC gamer for example, gives it a 77. It makes sense. Creatively stagnant they say, correct.
I've finished it, it has really nice graphics. Really nice. Plays like Gears, sure it plays better than the previous one ok sure by a bit, it's basically the same. So what we got is a bunch of people who love gears or love xbox who got review codes for Gears basically. That's it.
This is completely alien to me. Fantastic? It basically just means you love Gears of War vibes, this isn't a fantastic game by any stretch. Combat design, gameplay, story, characters, there's nothing fantastic aside from tech.
Seems like a Wolverine issue then, just Xbox gets padded with fake reviews.
7 out of the 116 reviews are from Xbox fanboys (I counted everything with Xbox in the name + Ryan McCaffrey's IGN review and the Day One review) and most of them are giving it a 9/10, not a 10/10. If you remove those reviews the game would maybe settle around a 83-84.
Gears would score higher than Wolverine even if you remove the fanboy reviews, probably even if Wolverine would have 7 fanboy sites of its own cranking up its score.
Story is good. About as good or better than most gears games. its gears of war lol. its about war.
Characters are fine. The woke characters arent even woke lol. I dont find any of that problematic.
I replayed gears 2 2 days ago and now going through gears 3 (both 4k240fps pc version NICE) and honestly.. I find eday better which surprises me.
For now its 1>eday>3>2 for me but it might be fresh eday bias. I need to replay it many times like other gears games to compare.
but 1 is still goated.
Honestly, what did you expect? Asha Sharma literally admitted to giving her private phone number out to journalists. Just wait and watch how these paid shills hype up Fable while completely ignoring every single flaw and handing out perfect scores, all while picking apart every tiny detail in Laufey with the most absurd double standards imaginable. Anyone expecting honest reviews is delusional at this point, which is exactly why I'm so glad this game completely flopped.
Prometheus
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Absolute nonsense.
It's a fantastic campaign.
A genuinely superb experience and even better in co-op on harder difficulties.
I'm surprised at how meaty the game is. 8 hours in and I am only half way through.
What’s fantastic about it? It’s the same three or four encounters over and over and over and three of those encounters 70% of them are the same enemies with the same brain dead ai. Unless you are popping brains with the sniper or carbine, which becomes 90% of what you are doing, you are left with bullet sponges. There are four mini bosses, the big fatsos that take two headshots and they pop, three when they wear a helmet, the flying squids that are clearly designed to killed quickly in co op because they turn and expose the weak point, again made easy with a sniper, the ones that let the spike things out and they have eyes that also just take three shots and they are dead, oh and the ass up mortar creatures which are just grind fest.
There’s barely any tension created, I just finished 4th act and aside from the airstrip it’s all been very one note. Story is go here go there, same encounters. Side missions are just copy paste free content if you want even more of the same.
If this were a brand new IP, and there was a shock of the new impact going on I would understand the word “fantastic” but since this doesnt even top the campaigns of first two maybe even three, I have to call bullshit on any notion that this is excelling at something. The gameplay changes simply make it more like other cover shooters, but even then it’s barely changing the formula. This isn’t a reinvention either, it’s very much the gears of war you know.
Maybe it’s the right game right time for you, and that’s fair enough.
Prometheus
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The gameplay is not revolutionary however it's done well. I did not expect myself to like the game, especially after trying the beta. The game moves at a good pace and it does not get tiring to shoot the locust. Story and writing is so-so but I'm only half way through so we'll see where it takes us.
What are you talking about? It was always a 9.
Gears of War: E-Day Critic Reviews
Gears of War: E-Day has been reviewed by 116 critics and currently has a 'Mighty' rating. Read and browse them all to learn what the top critics in the video game industry are saying.
opencritic.com
Without all those biased Xbox fanboy outlets handing out charity review scores, the score would be even lower.
huh? The game deserves high scores. it's fantastic.View attachment 9443
Gears of War: E-Day Critic Reviews
Gears of War: E-Day has been reviewed by 116 critics and currently has a 'Mighty' rating. Read and browse them all to learn what the top critics in the video game industry are saying.
Without all those biased Xbox fanboy outlets handing out charity review scores, the score would be even lower.
I dont think retards listening to their asmongolds faking woke crap about the game should affect the score
View attachment 9443
Gears of War: E-Day Critic Reviews
Gears of War: E-Day has been reviewed by 116 critics and currently has a 'Mighty' rating. Read and browse them all to learn what the top critics in the video game industry are saying.
Without all those biased Xbox fanboy outlets handing out charity review scores, the score would be even lower.
It's simply not possible that such a brainless cover shooter, which it absolutely is, with a style and fashion that screams lowest common denominator, can have such a difference in scores.
PC gamer for example, gives it a 77. It makes sense. Creatively stagnant they say, correct.
I've finished it, it has really nice graphics. Really nice. Plays like Gears, sure it plays better than the previous one ok sure by a bit, it's basically the same. So what we got is a bunch of people who love gears or love xbox who got review codes for Gears basically. That's it.
This is completely alien to me. Fantastic? It basically just means you love Gears of War vibes, this isn't a fantastic game by any stretch. Combat design, gameplay, story, characters, there's nothing fantastic aside from tech.
Seems like a Wolverine issue then, just Xbox gets padded with fake reviews.
View attachment 9443
Gears of War: E-Day Critic Reviews
Gears of War: E-Day has been reviewed by 116 critics and currently has a 'Mighty' rating. Read and browse them all to learn what the top critics in the video game industry are saying.
Without all those biased Xbox fanboy outlets handing out charity review scores, the score would be even lower.
7 out of the 116 reviews are from Xbox fanboys (I counted everything with Xbox in the name + Ryan McCaffrey's IGN review and the Day One review) and most of them are giving it a 9/10, not a 10/10. If you remove those reviews the game would maybe settle around a 83-84.
Gears would score higher than Wolverine even if you remove the fanboy reviews, probably even if Wolverine would have 7 fanboy sites of its own cranking up its score.
I find all of that great. Just amazing movement, shooting feeling, great level design and enemies. The combat just flows so well.
Story is good. About as good or better than most gears games. its gears of war lol. its about war.
Characters are fine. The woke characters arent even woke lol. I dont find any of that problematic.
I replayed gears 2 2 days ago and now going through gears 3 (both 4k240fps pc version NICE) and honestly.. I find eday better which surprises me.
For now its 1>eday>3>2 for me but it might be fresh eday bias. I need to replay it many times like other gears games to compare.
but 1 is still goated.
Not played it but after how gow got unfairly slammed, I am withholding my judgement on wolverine lol
Prometheus
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Act 4 is so fucking boring.
This game drags on for too long imo.
This game drags on for too long imo.
Prometheus
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The writing in this game is terrible and none of the characters are likable.
I've just started Act 5 and I cannot wait for this game to finish.
I did enjoy Act 1 to 3 however the game is extremely repetitive. I did not enjoy Act 4 at all except the 'boss fight'.
Started off strongly but unless Act 5 is somehow magical I do not think the game deserves it's high reviews. Did the reviewers finish this game?
This game suffers the same issues as 007 First Light. Starts off very strongly. Then drags and becomes a bore. Doesn't help the rendition of James Bond in First Light was also shit.
I've just started Act 5 and I cannot wait for this game to finish.
I did enjoy Act 1 to 3 however the game is extremely repetitive. I did not enjoy Act 4 at all except the 'boss fight'.
Started off strongly but unless Act 5 is somehow magical I do not think the game deserves it's high reviews. Did the reviewers finish this game?
This game suffers the same issues as 007 First Light. Starts off very strongly. Then drags and becomes a bore. Doesn't help the rendition of James Bond in First Light was also shit.
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finishedthe campaing in coop with two friends,the game starts very good and desinflated as you progress,the history its meh,the graphics are cool,but some levels are boring visually and there is a lot of using the same assets and locales ( been on that bridge 3 times) its a 7,5 game at best,and i have finished every single one of them
Prometheus
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Your one and only sensible post on this forum. Congratulations.
Prometheus
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Finally completed the game.
Single player was enjoyable but marred by a very weak Act 4 - which genuinely hurt the pacing of the game. I also noticed some of the environments were re-used. The game started off very strongly but towards the end I genuinely wouldn't wait for the game to be finished. At least Act 5 was more direct and straight forward.
The plot/story/writing was poor.
The lack of music in the game really is terrible. Good music can really elevate the gaming experience but it was inaudible for 90% of the game.
Overall I feel the reviews are too high for this game. I'd probably give it an 8 max.
Single player was enjoyable but marred by a very weak Act 4 - which genuinely hurt the pacing of the game. I also noticed some of the environments were re-used. The game started off very strongly but towards the end I genuinely wouldn't wait for the game to be finished. At least Act 5 was more direct and straight forward.
The plot/story/writing was poor.
The lack of music in the game really is terrible. Good music can really elevate the gaming experience but it was inaudible for 90% of the game.
Overall I feel the reviews are too high for this game. I'd probably give it an 8 max.