{"id":784,"date":"2006-12-04T08:51:33","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T16:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/443a4a8ad84b6c6a1ed26677e7265207"},"modified":"2006-12-04T08:51:33","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T16:51:33","slug":"gears-of-war-gameplay-post-mortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Gears of War gameplay post mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/3905\">just shortly before its release<\/a><\/b>, Christmas is coming up and many kids (and their parents) will be hoping for Gears of War in their stockings. <\/p>\n<p>Before it was released there was a huge amount of hype about the game, its visuals and gameplay. Having now been playing it for a couple of weeks, I thought it worth passing on some of my experiences so you can decide whether GoW is worth playing. <\/p>\n<p>First, the good stuff: <\/p>\n<ul >\n<li >Visuals are gorgeous. There's no denying that the work done to produce the superb visuals in the game is all worth it. (Although see my counter comments below)<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=cSM0vI\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=cSM0vI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/57132158\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/3905\">just shortly before its release<\/a><\/b>, Christmas is coming up and many kids (and their parents) will be hoping for Gears of War in their stockings. <\/p>\n<p>Before it was released there was a huge amount of hype about the game, its visuals and gameplay. Having now been playing it for a couple of weeks, I thought it worth passing on some of my experiences so you can decide whether GoW is worth playing. <\/p>\n<p>First, the good stuff: <\/p>\n<ul >\n<li >Visuals are gorgeous. There&#8217;s no denying that the work done to produce the superb visuals in the game is all worth it. (Although see my counter comments below)<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=cSM0vI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=cSM0vI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/57132158\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}