

This is to the Gears of War trilogy what Return of the King was to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings. So close, that it’s amongst the most incredible action games we’ve ever seen. While Gears of War 3 is not consistently as awe-inspiring as Epic clearly thinks it is, most of the time it comes awfully close. Say what you like about the heavily-scripted gameplay or the muscle-headed melodrama, there was just no arguing with the magnificent of its big set-pieces.


If Gears of War was the action game that set the benchmark for HD era action games, Gears of War 2 was the game that realised how bold and cinematic this style of game could be. It was hard to imagine how Epic might have topped Gears of War 2.
