Gears of War -- Initial Impression.

Next up for me will finally be Gears of War for the Xbox 360. I say finally because I've actually owned the special edition of the game since its launch in November of 2006. And well, here we are in February of 2008. Something else took precedence at the time and then it just fell by the wayside. Magus and I intended to start it with the co-op mode numerous times but for whatever reason of he was in the middle of another game or I was when he was wrapping one up it just never worked out. Tonight we finally got it going. I'll be playing through Gears of War exclusively as a co-op experience. And we've started in on the hardcore difficulty. We'll at least be playing through it once more to get all the collectibles and the reasonable achievements. From what I seen so far we're in for a graphically impressive title with some serious camp value in the voice acting and story. I was rather impressed by the fun first boss battle as well. The controls seem functional with a slight learning curve in leaving cover in a controlled fashion. It seems like we're in for a fun time. Time will tell.