The reto lancer's charge ends up like this, which you'd think would ruin his outfit.īut when Gears 2 launched, something else did need work: the matchmaking. Any veteran of Epic's series will be instantly at home with Gears 3 the default weapons are carried over as-is, their feedback still puts hairs on your chest, the movement and controls are identical and everything living contains a butcher's shop. It's still about beefy blokes shooting each other with shotguns, though. After every game ribbons and medals cascade onto the screen, thousands of points pour into the experience bank and progression towards other goals is soberly noted.
Gears of War 2 had its own progression system but this is in a different league. Gears 3 is a triple-quarter pounder: all the cover-dancing gib fireworks you know and love, smothered in an overhauled progression system with more weapons, characters, unlockables and screen-filling stattage. You shoot the bird explodes with a comical blast.
'That's no chicken, that's a mother****ing Gears chicken!' Roadie-running from our spawn, shotgun cocked, the first thing we see is a chicken. It's impossible to play Gears of War 3's multiplayer beta without hearing an internal narration from Cliff Bleszinski.
