#Gears of war 2 executions Pc#
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It could be a time limit, tougher enemies, fewer and/or weaker weapons you can utilize, and others IвЂ™ll leave you to discover yourself. These вЂњdeclassifiedвЂќ mission variants add a constraint to the upcoming section.

As you play through each gearвЂ™s testimony, youвЂ™re offered several chances to set the record straight with Colonel Loomis who doesnвЂ™t quite have all the facts. This testimony framing device leads directly to JudgmentвЂ™s one real contribution to the Great Pool of Game Ideas. For the majority of the game, the levels play out as each gearвЂ™s respective testimony as itвЂ™s told to the Colonel. Hopefully when you play it yourself, youвЂ™ll see what I mean.ДЄs the game begins, set all those years ago, a fresh-faced Lieutenant Baird and the rest of Kilo squad are in shackles and being forced to testify for the overly-eager-to-execute-everyone Colonel Loomis.

#Gears of war 2 executions series#

And now that IвЂ™ve finished the game, IвЂ™m still left to wonder exactly why I needed to know what Baird was up to during the early days of the war against the Locust - especially since, without revealing any spoilers, it seems to tread on ground the series has already tread on. ItвЂ™s for those reasons that I was initially confused as to why Epic and Microsoft felt like we needed a game starring the awesomely-whiney tech-specialist Damon Baird. I donвЂ™t need or want to know Carmine 3вЂ™s back-story, or what Cole was doing before Marcus and Dom showed up to save him in the original. IвЂ™d hate to see the life get stomped out of the franchise by spinning off every character thatвЂ™s ever appeared into their own game. So I really hope Gears of War Judgment is the final piece of the story for Marcus, Baird, Cole, Dom, Anya, and all the Carmines. There really hadnвЂ™t been a sticky-cover action-shooter to penetrate the market like Gears of War did, but now sticky-cover has been done to death and other, arguably better, ways to integrate cover into shooters have began popping up.

ThereвЂ™s only so much more that can be done with four people shooting guns in urban ruins at not-humans hiding behind chest high walls.

#Gears of war 2 executions Pc#

As the fifth Gears of War game in six and half years (including the PC version of the original), Judgment will hopefully be the final one for a while and hopefully Epic and Microsoft will see that the series has gone as far as it can go in its current form. The original came out in the systemвЂ™s early days, and after the completion of that trilogy, Gears of War Judgment acts as a cap stone of sorts as the Xbox 360 slides toward retirement. The Gears of War franchise practically defines the Xbox 360.