4/25/2023 0 Comments Gears of war judgment![]() It took me a bit to dial into Markza’s dark charms, but true love eventually blossomed.Īnd while you still take these beauties on an 8-hour campaign, I didn’t feel the need to hug cover 24/7 this time. I enjoyed planting live grenades on enemy heads with Booshka, a down-and-dirty launcher, but the sniper-lite Markza became my go-to gun. To make up for it, three new additions make it into the Gears arsenal, two of which are standouts. ![]() Less good? The always-reliable Hammerburst lost both its auto-fire and its iron sights aiming, flipping it from best to worst for no reason I can figure out. People Can Fly jettisoned the pistol sidearm nobody ever used in favor of a two-gun package and modified the controls accordingly, also making it far easier to use grenades on the fly without having to select them first. It still works, and a few small tweaks even slims the controls down a bit. Judgment doesn’t stray one inch from the cover-based, grub-killing shenanigans from Gears of War 3, right down to the loading message pop-ups, menu navigation, and visual cues for nailing an active reload (thus boosting your firepower). So yes, it’s a flashback-within-a-prequel, and that largely applies to the gameplay as well. The game then flashes back to explain why the presiding judge, General Loomis, wants to put on this farce just so he can legally kill them. He and his command, Kilo Squad - made up of fan-favorite Augustus “Cole Train” Cole and newcomers Sofia Hendrick and Garron Paduk - arrive already in chains, on their way to an amusingly blunt kangaroo court. Set years before the first Gears of War, Judgment is the heartwarming story of how Baird got his groove taken away. Two secondary players get some time in the spotlight to tell their story … something I generally approve of.īut y’know how “story” has never been Gears’ strong suit? What you’ll like From the outside, it’s an interesting fit. For this entry in their powerhouse franchise, original developer Epic Games kicked things over to a subsidiary, People Can Fly, most recently known for 2011’s amusingly profane but unremarkable shooter Bulletstorm. Gears of War: Judgment (releasing March 19 on the Xbox 360) casts him as the lead protagonist. Fix-It to series heroes Marcus and Dom, but he was comic relief to us. He mixed a solid background in “complaining about everything” with a side of “brag up minor accomplishments” and threw in a hint of “make someone else do it, I’m too smart.” In the brutal, planet-wrecking war between humans and the ruthless subterranean Locust, Baird was the guy people put up with - usually - because they had to, not because they wanted to, and we laughed at his many frustrations. The least meatheady member of Delta Squad in the billion-dollar Gears of War franchise, Baird somehow turned the voice of reason into a non-stop whine.
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