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JDR13

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Anyone familiar with Gears of War? I see the PC port was just released last week and I was thinking of getting it. I've heard a lot of good things about the game and the PC version is supposed to be even better than the Xbox version. It has 5 extra levels in the single-player campaign, as well as the ability to play in higher resolution than the original.


*edit* Online reviews are very high. Gamespot gives it a 9.0 while IGN says 8.7 and pcgamezone says 9.3.
 
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Well, my boyfriend enjoyed this game on 360. I don't know how things look like with pc version but it seems good entertain from what I hear.
 
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I have it but haven't started playing yet ... I have heard that it is very buggy, which makes seeing those scores surprising (I try to avoid too much info on stuff I have to review). I'll play it in the next week ... along with every other shooter out now ...
 
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txa1265 said:
I... I have heard that it is very buggy, which makes seeing those scores surprising
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Well, it seems that for some companies critics don't score so strict (less optmisitic version) or the pleasure from the game is greater than bugs which can be fixed (more optimistic version) :).
 
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I'm enjoying it atm it does have a few problems though Live being the main one - achievements I like it really helps you want to play through again on harder settings to acquire those. I think your save games are tied to Live as well and some people are having trouble with that (M$ are saying something about supported graphics drivers for this - don't ask me me why that is). I really don't like Live and the saving system but with; single player campaign, co-op campaign, and multi-player it's a fairly decent package.
 
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It has plenty of faults but it's still fun however you play it.
 
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zima98 said:
Well, it seems that for some companies critics don't score so strict (less optmisitic version) or the pleasure from the game is greater than bugs which can be fixed (more optimistic version) :).
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Or ... very cynical version ... the sites feel the need to avoid questions about their scoring by making sure the PC version is pretty close to the X360 score.
 
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I'll wait till the day after Thanksgiving and see if I can grab it real cheap, last year I got a newly released NWN 2 for only $24.99 at one of those post Thanksgiving day sales.
 
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JDR13 said:
I'll wait till the day after Thanksgiving and see if I can grab it real cheap, last year I got a newly released NWN 2 for only $24.99 at one of those post Thanksgiving day sales.
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Haven't seen specifics yet, but the stores are already pushing deals ... so you might get lucky.
 
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