Oh, and you can play through it with three other friends. Between the pacing and the attention to detail visually, auditorially, and narratively, it's also the best campaign Epic's ever done, and one of the most exciting, consistent campaign experiences on the Xbox 360, or any other system for that matter. You'll lose hours and not realize where the time went, and you won't want to stop playing вЂ“ save for that moment I alluded to before, perhaps.Д®pic has gone on record saying Gears of War 3 is the longest campaign it's ever done (and it is, at about 11 to 13 hours, first time through), but it isn't just that. Gears 3 uses scenes like this to hammer the point home, but it skillfully manages to keep things moving, to keep you playing the game. There's not much bravado left when you see the celebrity Cole, in so many words, beg for food in trade for whatever the former COGs have left. From the very start, it explores what the characters of its universe have lost, and what they still might вЂ“ and sometimes do вЂ“ lose. That world is unforgiving, and it's going to knock you on your ass.'ДЄnd Gears of War 3 isn't afraid of damage. 'Gears of War 3 is tuned to four Gears against the world. thing that was unfolding in front of me, that I wasn't thinking about how long it was. There's only one moment in the entire campaign where a cutscene exceeds more than about 45 seconds, and I was so transfixed by the. Marcus and friends' mission in Gears of War 3 hinges on the last bit of hope left, and it propels the game forward fantastically.Д¬utscenes are only as expository as they need to be, well used, and never get in the way. The old lines of war have been blurred, and the threeway battle between humans, the displaced Locust (after the climactic sinking of Jacinto in Gears of War 2), and the wildly unpredictable Lambent makes for a more interesting fight, and takes place in a world that's falling apart. The missteps of past games (poorly executed vehicle sequences, moments of spectacle that prioritize explosions over gameplay) are gone. Epic knows what it has with Gears of War 3, and the pacing feels deliberate.Д¬onfidence might seem like hubris without the execution to back it up, but Gears of War 3 never falters. It doesn't pander to fears of a limited audience attention span. From chapter to chapter, it takes its time when it needs to, breathes when it has to, when you have to. The battle is always moving, and there are more tactical options than ever.Д«ut Gears of War 3 knows when to pull back. Smaller battles lead to bigger areas which flow into massive arenas with hordes of Locust or Lambent. Combat in Gears of War 3 moves like a symphony. The narrow conflict that defined wide swaths of Gears of War 2 has been dialed up for a wider, more open killing field. The campaign alternates deftly between easy triumph and hard-fought survival. The urgent desire to please and impress is absent. 'Epic doesn't feel like it's desperate to prove anything this time. Gears of War 3 never feels like a sales pitch. %Gallery-133846%Epic doesn't feel like it's desperate to prove anything this time вЂ“ not that it can do a campaign-based game, and not that its tech should be the standard for the current console generation, issues that haunted the first and second Gears titles to varying degrees. Nothing in Gears of War 3 feels like an afterthought. But it isn't just those meat and potatoes aspects вЂ“ or the beautiful, colorful visual palette on display, a marked departure from Gears 1 and 2 вЂ“ it's the entire package. Weapons feel and sound fantastic and pack the punch that previous iterations struggled with.

From a mechanical standpoint, the third-person, cover-based shooting in Gears has never been as fluid, as responsive to player input. Anyone who played this spring's multiplayer beta has an inkling of this. The word polish is bestowed often, but Gears of War 3 is embarrassingly well assembled. Gears of War 3, on the other hand, is the most confident release this year. A lot of high profile sequels are exceedingly self-conscious exercises in trying to manage player expectation, to change just enough, but throw in enough of the same to keep things familiar.

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