OXCGN’s Gears of War 3 Beta Play

A great leap forward, not just over chest-high walls

by exterminat

©2011 Nicholas Laborde

The Gears of War series has become synonymous with the current generation of consoles.

Let’s face it: much or at least part of the reason we noticed Gears in the first place was the fact that it looked so darn beautiful when the first iteration started making news.

Never before had an entry in the interactive medium reached such a high level of graphical fidelity!

Here we are nearly half a decade later (can you really believe it’s been that long?), and Epic‘s space marine chainsawfest has reached its third and final entry [in the main series].

For the first time in the history of the company, Epic has decided to throw out a beta, undoubtedly a product of the delayed title. But how exactly does the end of the trilogy fare so far? Come see if it’s a good third iteration…

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