Its trash-talk fueled lobbies are a harbinger of bad things to come they’re foreboding. The multiplayer is unique in its close-combat configuration and brooding ambiance and environments.
If the delay and the tremendous visual clarity are related, Microsoft should start delaying more games.Īlong with its iconic “destroyed beauty” art style, Gears of War 3 brings polished gameplay in spades. Any criticism aimed at the game’s visuals is hard to take seriously the game looks so good, it makes you wonder how much of its fidelity came about due to the delay from last April. Gears passes Ugly on the street and purposefully avoids her, and when Gears goes to the club, he has a velvet rope that delineates his territory: no Ugly allowed.
The title for this piece originally read “Gears of War 3: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” but Gears of War 3 doesn’t do Ugly.