{"id":237,"date":"2006-11-13T08:53:40","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T14:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2006-11-13T08:53:40","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T14:53:40","slug":"gears-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Gears of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought Gears of War last Thursday, Nov 9th.\u00c2\u00a0 This is an amazing game, and I&#8217;m sure it will be just what the Xbox360 needs right before the PS3 and Wii launches.\u00c2\u00a0 The game itself doesn&#8217;t really have a great story but the gameplay is phenominal.\u00c2\u00a0 The interaction with taking cover behind objects is very nice.\u00c2\u00a0 The game has a generally dark feel to it and really tries to give the player a scare.\u00c2\u00a0 It kind of feels like the Quake series in a way with the dark atmosphere along with what appears to be demons coming out of the ground.\u00c2\u00a0 The single player game is broken down into 5 Acts and each Act has multiple chapters, with each chapter breaking down into smaller checkpoints.\u00c2\u00a0 The game has smooth flow and it always feels like you know what you have to do.\u00c2\u00a0 You are constantly moving and trying to get to the next goal, killing everything on the way.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Coop has been fun in the limited amount of time I have played it.\u00c2\u00a0 Quickly after the invite you are in a game and rolling along.\u00c2\u00a0 To be really successful in the coop game it requires some interaction and teamwork.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 With pretty much everyone buying the game there shouldn&#8217;t be any trouble finding people to play against.\u00c2\u00a0 As always achievements there are plenty of achievements that really reward hard work and time spent.\u00c2\u00a0 If I were to rate the game out of 5 I would give it a 5.\u00c2\u00a0 If I were to rate it with a letter, A+.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone go buy this game now, and show off to everyone who buys their PS3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought Gears of War last Thursday, Nov 9th.\u00c2\u00a0 This is an amazing game, and I&#8217;m sure it will be just what the Xbox360 needs right before the PS3 and Wii launches.\u00c2\u00a0 The game itself doesn&#8217;t really have a great story but the gameplay is phenominal.\u00c2\u00a0 The interaction with taking cover behind objects is very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gears of War<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}