Emergence Day..... again...

Yesterday was finally Emergence Day for me. My Limited Collector's Edition copy of Gears of War arrived in the morning but I only started playing it yesterday evening...... untill now. Just stopped playing now.. at the scene where you need to get the Beserker outside to use the Hammer of Dawn on it. What an annoying, irritating stage... I don't know why they felt they had to put such a stage in the game... it was fun up till then but that stage has me wondering about the rest of the game. Was playing it in split screen coop mode. Lots of fun...untill that scene. Getting a bit late now so will try again tomorrow.

The game is not as impressive as I hoped it would be. The graphics are good... but not THAT good. Then again I am playing it on a monitor at a resolution of 1280x1024, not a widescreen display and the graphics looks a bit squashed. Other games look fine.. its just this one that looks as if the aspect ratio is a bit wonky.

I was impressed by how smoothly the game ran in split screen mode though. It's very playable in this mode even though you only basically see half of what you would see playing full screen. I will start playing the single player campaign after I get some sleep.