It steadily ratcheted up the action and drama, with levels that continually looked to one up the last. Everything about Gears 3 fired from all angles and delivered a satisfying conclusion to a generational series for Xbox fans. Gears of War 3 followed in Halo’s footsteps to give us another epic finale to another epic trilogy. It doesn’t include any of the phenomenal blockbuster set-pieces of previous games and its narrative feels inessential to the larger Gears story. These can add some nice variables on classic Gears encounters but most of Judgment’s campaign is a little bit of a slog. There is a good ‘Declassify’ system that ups the difficulty by allowing you to set handicaps on Kilo Squad like restricted vision or limited ammo. The campaign falls slightly short of expectations. It is tactical, frantic and just a welcome change of pace from Gears’ traditional cover-based shooting, and I can’t believe some variation on the mode hasn’t become a mainstay in the series. It’s essentially competitive Horde and what could be better? The Locust side in particular allows you to choose from a series of Locust beasts including the expendable Tickers, generic Grenadiers or imposing Maulers to push enemies back. It’s a PvP mode that pits 5 COG soldiers defending an area against 5 Locusts encroaching on COG territory.

However, Judgment also gets an unfair amount of heat and its contributions to the series shouldn’t be forgotten.įirstly, Overrun is perhaps the funnest multiplayer mode in Gears history. It was the first Gears game developed outside of Epic, the first Gears game after the beloved initial trilogy and the game did have a number of issues itself. Gears of War: Judgment is probably the most openly criticised entry in the series for a number of reasons.

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