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Okay so now that thats out of the way and those who don't want to know anything about what happens have left I can get on with it!.
So if you remember, last week I kinda covered what happened in Gears 1 and 2 for all those who either couldn't/too high to remember or who were too lazy to go play it through themselves. Well it turns out that most of those events were deemed "unimportant" by Epic seeing as they didn't end up in their "Previously on Gears.." video. So eh, be glad I posted it or hate me for wasting your time.
Gears 3 on the other hand starts off with a flashback, Marcus in prison, only this time Anya releases him. After going out side tou fight Locust in a dream about how Marcus' father, Adam, "died". Waking from the dream Delta squad is called to action stations, this is where we meet Jace. We go outside to see Labment stalks surrounding the ship. Prescott lands, after a mere 18 months of being on vacation from saving humanity, and brings with him news of Adam. The Lambent attack, people die and remember that GIANT FISH? Well this time its back, only now it glows in the dark. Needless to say you gotta kill it, so lets take these things called Silverbacks, exosuits with a machine gun and rocket launcher, or in other words: fun. You serve fish Medium Rare and cut to Cole and Baird.
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| Samantha Byrne |
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| Jace Stratton |
Cole and Baird were sent to look for supplies along with Clayton Carmine, the badass older brother, and Sam Byrne, some badass female gear who tries to act like she's not a girl. They visit Coles home city of Hanover, and eventually his old stadium where he has a cinematic moment of famedom for old times. Then onto the bridge to see Stranded Locust, and Tickers in crates, which is how they kill the Lambent Leviathan. Act 2 goes through some clean up of the wreckage to find Delta squad and get to Prescotts dying ass to see why he came back. Turns out there is a research base called Azura where Adam Fenix is working on a Lambent killer so we set off to a place called Anvil Gate. And on the way we dodge Locust attacks and Queen Myrrah and here skank ass as Cole so adeptly puts it.
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| Queen Myrrah |
After picking up Dizzy and getting to Anivl gate to meet up with Hoffman and Bernie, and Islander with a few screws loose in her head. The locust attack, followed by Lambent and oh joy our favorite thing in the world: a Lambent Berserker. If you thought the Berserkers had some bad mood swings the Zerker makes them look like a well behaved child in 16th Century England. After the Zerker blows up we see what is going on with Azura, and how to get there: by submarine. Delta goes off to get fuel from Mercy, where Dom's wife Maria is from, and Char, the first place to be destroyed by the Hammer of Dawn. In Mercy some bad shit happened and we now have Lambent humans, oh the humanity. Something else happens that I won't tell you as to not ruin the moment. Next door in Char we meet up with some Griffin guy, voiced by the one and only Ice T, who runs a Immulsion factory there, needless to say he doesn't like the COG. Myrrah attacks and everyone gets pissed and leaves to find a submarine to take to Azura.
After fixing the sub up and having a nice fun little moment of fishing with rocket launchers we get to Azura, and let the revelations hit the fan. I won't ruin all of them so don't worry. Delta proceeds to turn off the Malestorm generator that protects the island in order to land some backup from former enemies UIR state Goryasna. You climb a tower to get to Adam Fenix where our favorite Queen tries to stop you while she bitches that despite working on the Lambent problem for twenty years he has had no success and she wont let her "people" die. After wiping out the Locust guarding Adam you reach the top of the tower and proceed to turn on the "Weapon" which is like a giant microwave emitter that combusts Lambent cells all over the planet. Turns out the Lambent are actually a parasitic mushroom that kills its host because its not a very good parasite. Long and short you stab the Queen, watch Adam die and see Carmine Live/Die (come on, did you really think that I was going to ruin this one?).
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| Clayton Carmine: Professional Badass |
The only downsides to the campaign is that they figured that you would have read the books before playing the game, which makes sense but not everyone is a reader (Insert plea for a Gears movie here). They also seem to forget that killing Lambent takes up a lot of ammo and that more ammo boxes would really help. Also if anyone seems to recall your favorite non pistol/Lancer/Gnasher weapon and you decide to pick it up, just be smart and conserve ammo, or you will run out. The large ammo boxes no longer fully restore your ammo to max, or even give you ammo on all guns so it forces you to play smart. The Retro Lancer makes its debut in Gears 3 and its does give itself a good showing. While its melee is really good and powerful, aiming with it while shooting feels like trying to steer a charging Rhino while being attacked by a chimpanzee. The Hammerburst and Longshot also both take on a new feature; The Hammerburst shows off its Iron Sights while the Longshot brags a non zoomed focus where you click RS to zoom on in.
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| Delta fighting the Lambent. |
The Silverback and Civilian Loader both control rather similarly but the both boast a melee attack that can hardly be called effective, or at least under fire. Two new "turret" weapons make an appearance: the One Shot and the Vulcan. The One Shot is just that, a high powered sniper rifle that probably shoots bowling balls where the Leveler is a 2 man gun that is fast on the feet but needs a second person to load.
Now, no matter what you thought of the campaign you do have to give them props for everything else, more multiplayer based achievements, community events, 4 player Co-Op, and Berserkes in Horde mode. Thats right, Berserkers in Horde mode, also did I mention that they come in the Lambent variety too? Overall all of the multiplayer is really good, people just need to learn how to not leave the damn game after dying one time.
As I said before Horde mode had a total overhaul where you can build barriers and turrets to help defend yourself against attack, or you can save your in game money to buy ammo and weapons, unless the enemies are being generous and drop theirs on the ground for you to loot. You get money for every point you earn and thats how you get upgrades to your turrets and weapons, and even a second life. Every 10 waves there is a boss fight that can range from anything from a Brumak to a Zerker (fun). Every so often you'll get some Lambent and Locust and then its a 3 way fight where you still want to get in close and personal just so you don't loose any chances to make money. Now opposite to Horde is a mode called Beast mode. In Beast mode you play as the Locust to kill humans. Now thats an interesting twist, you play as the underdogs for once, wait, wait, in the whole campaign don't they always complain that Locust are so much "more powerful" and "better equipped" than humans? Well Beast mode doesn't feel that way. This may be because you're timed, and all the barricades are pretty much fully built with auto-turrets. Its pretty fun, but its also pretty hard, yet again making you think.
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| Lambent Berserker |
Overall Gears 3 is a great way to end a great series. Going out on a high note on almost every aspect of the game, with stress on the almost part. The graphics and sound keep up from the last games and like I said the gameplay is almost the same. However I do thoroughly enjoy it and will keep playing it for a while yet to come. Gears of War 3 gets a blood-gushing 9 curbstomps, out of 10.
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