There was a lot of hype behind Gears of War months before release, and it was hard to tell if it justified or not. Since Microsoft put a lot of cash behind it, you knew it was going to be a big release. Now that the game has been out for over a month and has sold over 1 million copies in its first two weeks, I’ve had the time to thoroughly play through both the single and multiplayer modes of the game. The good news is that the game lives up to the hype, but with a few hiccups on the multiplayer side.

The campaign mode can either be played with 1 or 2 players locally or with 2 players via online coop mode. You play as the character Marcus Fenix, a disgraced former war hero who is rescued from jail to help with the war against the Locust Horde.

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