Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I just can't get over the fact that my favorite game franchise has gone down the drain. Where's the love for all the faithful fans that made this franchise successful? It's lost everything that made it unique and it's been replaced with halo and call of duty gimmicks. What it has that it should not have: -Blue and Red teams like HALO(Replacing COG vs LOCUSTS) -Health Grenades Like HALO -Multi-Shot Snipers like HALO & COD -Still has the NOOB weapons since Gears 3(Retro & Sawed Off) -They Changed the Controls to be More Halo and COD Like with "Y" Swapping and Bumper Grenade Tossing. It's awful, I've tossed like 1000 grenades pressing the left bumper trying to see the position of my team like I used to. -Team Deathmatch is now played to 50 Points instead of the Spawn system where people didn't spawn once spawns were depleted -Grenades now stick on you like HALO. What they Completely Ruined: -The Melee, my God people are back to two piecing, it's Frustrating!!! -The flamer is just completely overpowered. It's instant Death in any Scrub's hands. -Only one primary weapon when you spawn. It's retarded. -The gnasher has been turned into garbage. Not enough power for a close range weapon. -Tweeking down the gnasher was not enough. Now it only has 8 bullets when you spawn. It Sucks. -There are no "Downs" and "revives" anymore you just die like COD and HALO. -There are no "Executions". Remember that guy that pissed you off the whole game and you downed him last and you just beat the crap out of him when the game ended. Well kiss that goodbye! -There is no execution mode in the game. It's what made gears!! Why toss it out? -No grenade tagging as proximity weapons. -Now this is the worst part. The servers suck even worse than gears 3 after the servers were downsized. The HOST player can eat it like a champ. There is a whole lot of "Sponging" and wall bouncing is useless!!! The character movement is the lousiest out of all gears games. -Only 4 multi-player maps upon release? Really? That's just Cheap!! -Where is the active reload???? Well my conclusion is that 29% of the times EPIC and People Can Fly sat down to plan this game they talked about how to make it more HALO and COD like. 1% of the time they talked about how to make it better(even the menus are carried over from gears 3, not even that's new), and the other 70% of the time they just talked about how they could MILK the COW! This game is just insulting. My expectations for it were not even high, but this is just HORRIBLE. It's sad when a game franchise with so much potential becomes broken because they just want to make money off it, the developer targets other franchises with success and tries copy their gameplay with hope of attracting their fanbase. I loved GOW. I even played 2 years through the laggy Gears 2 with no dedicated servers. Why? Because I loved the gameplay, the controls, COG vs Locust Execution, destroying people with my gnasher and my hammy, tagging grenades strategically when I was the last man standing against a bunch of people, wallbouncing like a madman and killing 2 or 3 guys in a row, and bashing the last guys brain in with an execution. Now that's what made gears of war successful, that's why I've spent more than $700 in games, DLC and the gears 3 Console. I even bought Bulletstorm for the gears 3 BETA, and payed $65 for one of the worst games I've ever seen. And this is the thanks we loyal fans get? Shame on you! I will tell every soul that I know not to buy this trashy game. I'm sending mine back and I'm never wasting another buck on your releases. Bunch of copycat gold-diggers killed off everything unique about the game!!! Update 3/27/2013 New turn of events. Best buy's 30 day policy does not cover video games, so I'm stuck with this unless I do a $30 trade in at gamestop. Tried giving it another go the past few days. The campaign is short and a little too hordelike for me, but it's not that bad. My review is based on the multiplayer which is why I buy shooters in the first place. I tried playing online again and I was pissed beyond belief. Every corner I encountered a two piecing scrub. The melee and shotty people just suck, there is no excuse for those, but then there are the players who like to be able to spawn with a rifle, they only have one weapon when they spawn now. What are they to do in a close quarters battle? I'm getting two pieced in a variety of ways, Melee/Markza, Melee/Hammerburst, Melee/Classic Hammerburst. This is really epics fault for eliminating the secondary weapon upon spawn. I don't think the multiplayer can be saved with an update, there's just too much wrong to it, specially the way it feels connection wise(It Sucks). I've popped a few heads with the sniper after people get in cover, I try to wallbounce and it feels like the character is on roller skates, the torquebow has to be held for like 5 seconds or it just bounces off. I personally like the fact that you can now jump off relatively low places like "RIG", but it's not cool that people can jump off buildings like in "Streets", "Gondola" and "Library". Also, I really hate how the frag grenade has lost it's worth and it's power. The kill radius is like a Foot. I loved how grenades where a map based weapon in the past, you had to engage people to get a hold of grenades instead of spawning with the firecracker they give you now. Update 4/2/2013 Downloaded the Haven DLC on Friday 3/29/2013. My updated review is aimed at the newly added Execution Mode because the update didn't apply any changes to the other game modes(That I have Noticed). PROS 1. One new map - Haven 2. Down But Not Out is Back in Execution Mode(obviously needed for performing executions). 3. Meatshields are back in Execution Mode. 4. No Frag grenades upon Spawn in Execution Mode. CONS 1. No updates were performed for other modes. 2. Still No Frag Planting Available for Multiplayer. 3. Same weapon layout for Execution Game mode (only one primary weapon). 4. The death count for players is not displayed in the match summary. 5. Have seen no difference in the so called "Dedicated Server Improvements" , Mr. Host AllMighty is still running around in every Match. Adding execution is much appreciated, but should have been included from day one. Adding 1 more map and calling it a "free download" does not make up for the lack in content upon release. Overall I find this a horrible strategy by the developer. Withholding this content from initial release made the game feel even more lacking "Out of the Box". This DLC does not change my initial Rating of 1 Star.