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Review When it comes to goodbyes, Gears of War 3 proves that parting truly is the sweetest of sorrows. A swansong of bewildering scope and ambition, it's a near-flawless conclusion to Epic's highly acclaimed series.

Gears of War 3

Fire in the hole

With only a handful of games able to rival it for intensity, action and drama, and even fewer for generosity and personality, Epic's finale effortlessly completes the series' claim for a place in the pantheon of greatest ever videogame trilogies.

GoW 3's single-player campaign alone puts most other games to shame. Set two years after the fall of Jacinto at the end GoW 2, the last remnants of the COG army have been driven onto the high seas in a rag-tag armada of warships. With the Locust locked in a war of mutual destruction with the Lambent, their Imulsion-riddled spawn, all hope of regaining a foothold on Sera's lands appears lost.

Gears of War 3

Call that a television? I asked for 50in, not 50mm...

That is until Marcus Fenix receives word his father is still alive and in possession of a super weapon that will annihilate both races, and so sets out with his Delta Squad on one last, desperate mission to save humanity.

OK, so the macguffin-chasing, humanity-saving premise won't win any awards for originality, but the scripting of events and dialogue deserves special praise. By trimming back the cut-scenes and focusing its narrative on Marcus and the Delta Squad, the game avoids the ponderous interruptions to action which hindered GoW 2.

Gears of War 3

A lot of bang for the jump

That's not to say it dispenses with the series' trademark solemnity - far from it. Delta Squad's ever-engaging ribaldry persists, but the chisel-jawed band of brothers are visibly changed by the loss and suffering they've experienced. Marcus seems less of a loose canon and more at ease with the burden of leadership.

Sir

"but attached to the bottom of the final page and looking like all the other crap attached to Reg pages?"

It [the above notice] also appears to be at the top of the first page. Just sayin'.

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RTFA

"Intensely epic finale to a riveting series. Available on Xbox 360 only."

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Fatties.

Does it end with the space marines giving it all up to finally go on a diet?

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What platform?

I'm guessing Xbox.

Microsoft could at least make the effort to release their own games for Windows.

I still live in forlorn hope of a Halo 3 port.

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Anonymous Coward

A mi no me importa ni un huevo

En castellano decimos mano a mano, pero es una broma en ingles decir mano y mano.

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