Well, I continued playing Gears, and I was mildly impressed.
The action was smooth, the story line was entertaining, and the difficulty curve kept me engaged. So even with its gore, it is still a solid game.
The multiplayer however was less appealing.  The maps as beautiful as they are, feel cluttered and confined.
The amount of damage that characters can take is insane.  It took an entire clip to drop an opponent.  I know I was scoring head shots because they were dug in behind a car, and the only thing I could aim at was their head.
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Are you kidding me?  I was playing Gears of War 2 with my brother in law today and watched as an alien invader was chainsawed in half.
I almost lost my lunch.
I am not a prude or old woman, but this is too much for me.  I won’t play COD4 in front of my daughter, and it has a tame gore rating compared to most other games.
Now, I watch Tom and Jerry and the Looney Toons gang with her.  The act of a cat getting his head slammed in a door is violent, but it is not graphic, and that is …read more